This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space—a first in the field of Machiavellian studies.
This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space—a first in the field of Machiavellian studies.
This book breaks new ground in sociological theory, presenting a process-oriented practice theory for conceptualising and studying the dynamism, interconnectedness, and ongoing transformation of everyday social life.
While the impacts of climate change become increasingly severe, efforts to prevent them suffer one blow after the other, as seen in the rise of far-right populist parties in Western democracies.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Susan Sontag beschäftigten sich intensiv mit Fragen der Selbstsorge und Lebenskunst – teils im direkten Bezug aufeinander.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Susan Sontag beschäftigten sich intensiv mit Fragen der Selbstsorge und Lebenskunst – teils im direkten Bezug aufeinander.
Von der Antike bis an die Schwelle der Moderne wurden politische Ordnungen immer wieder im Rückgriff auf die schillernde Semantik von ›Natur‹ bestimmt.
Subjectivity and Neonihilism examines the current Western sociopolitical climate, revealing how it shapes who we are, how we think of ourselves, and how we create meaning in a seemingly meaningless world.
Nicht ob die katholische Kirche das Recht auf Religionsfreiheit anzuerkennen hat, ist seit der bahnbrechenden Erklärung Dignitatis humanae des Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzils die Frage, sondern was für sie aus der Anerkennung dieses Menschenrechts folgt.
Soon after the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the Thirteen Colonies proclaimed their independence from British rule and became the United States of America.
Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire in its many forms.
Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible.
This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the Kantian worldview.
Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence.
Los trabajos que se reúnen en esta obra abordan, desde referentes teóricos y herramientas metodológicas diversas, algún elemento o faceta de una de las transformaciones sociales más importantes de la historia contemporánea.
En 1971 se publicaba Teoría de la justicia, una obra destinada a convertirse en el gran clásico contemporáneo de la filosofía política y que convertiría a su autor, el filósofo norteamericano John Rawls (1921-2002) en uno de los pensadores más influyentes del último medio siglo.
Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible.
Die jungst publizierten Schwarzen Hefte Heideggers und auch der Neufund des Heftes von 1945/46 machen deutlich: Heidegger entwickelt hier eine Theorie der Globalisierung.
In einer Zeit, in der die Demokratie als Staats- und Gesellschaftsform weltweit auf dem Rückzug ist, bietet Julian Nida-Rümelin in diesem Buch notwendige Orientierung.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.
This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features institutional and imaginary and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality.
Montesquieu and the Old Regime offers a bold reinterpretation of Montesquieu's intellectual and ideological legacy, challenging conventional views that label him as a conservative apologist.
From the fashion label Dior being accused of cultural appropriation after using American Indian imagery in an ad campaign for its a Sauvagea fragrance, to the backlash against Kendall Jenners afro-esque hairstyle in Vogue, debates about cultural appropriation have reached a fever pitch.
Montesquieu and the Old Regime offers a bold reinterpretation of Montesquieu's intellectual and ideological legacy, challenging conventional views that label him as a conservative apologist.
Legitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates.
