The role of religious identity in social communities has gained importance in the past few years, as many questions about individual and collective identity have been brought up in the fields of science and everyday life.
An all-in-one resource for understanding the issue of torture and enhanced interrogations, including their history as an instrument of state power and warfare, debates over the morality of their use in different contexts, and efforts by human rights organizations and nations to end torture and enhanced interrogation techniques worldwide.
Lejos de ser una historia de la estética al uso, este descomunal libro de Terry Eagleton debería entenderse como una peculiar genealogía de la idea de lo estético, una contundente regresión a sus orígenes, un recorrido extremo desde el siglo de las Luces a la era del neón, desde las esperanzas burguesas a las ilusiones posmodernas.
El Discurso de la servidumbre voluntaria de Étienne de La Boétie (1530-1563) sale a luz en el convulso universo intelectual del protestantismo francés del siglo XVI, que ve en él un panfleto contra la tiranía y la opresión.
Con Las dos fuentes de la moral y de la religión, obra de madurez, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) trata de responder, en plena crisis de la conciencia europea, al problema del malestar en la vida social.
Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona.
Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona.
AS HEARD ON RADIO 4'S WOMEN'S HOUR'A stunning mosaic of contemporary America' Fintan O'Toole'Essential reading, with quick insights and bomblets of surprise' TLS A panoptical vision of modern America, from the brilliant mind of Jill Lepore.
How society can shape individual actions in times of uncertaintyWhen we make decisions, our thinking is informed by societal norms, ';guardrails' that guide our decisions, like the laws and rules that govern us.
Während die in GW 26,1 veröffentlichten Rechtsphilosophie-Vorlesungen Hegels aus Heidelberg und seinen ersten Berliner Jahren die 'Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts' (GW 14,1) vorbereiten, trägt Hegel in der ersten Hälfte der 1820er Jahre seine Rechtsphilosophie auf der Grundlage dieses Vorlesungskompendiums vor.
Part travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today.
Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy-based on Saussure's linguistics, Freud's psychoanalysis and Derrida's deconstruction.
Democracy's Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative.
This book develops Marcuse's critique of advanced industrial society and deploys it as a lens to critically analyze contemporary neoliberalism and its structural failures.
