This selection of articles is organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France ('Absolutism'); the political crisis of the mid-17th-century (the 'Fronde'); and the development of royal finance.
Für alle, die das Christentum noch nicht abgeschrieben habenHäufig schon hat der Philosoph Slavoj Žižek die christliche Theologie kommentiert und kritisiert, aber bislang eher verstreut über sein ganzes Werk.
Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice identifies a novel kind of forced action, yet one that is relatively neglected in ethics and moral philosophy.
Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.
Während in der Öffentlichkeit intensiv darüber diskutiert wird, ob man ‚mit Rechten reden‘ sollte, geht dieses Buch einen Schritt weiter und untersucht die Perspektiven jener, die sich von solchen Debatten persönlich angegriffen fühlen.
La tradición teológica cristiana ha adoptado la filosofía griega, la filosofía y la ciencia modernas a tal punto que el pensamiento cristiano está condicionado por esos saberes.
This book argues that Freud’s theory of the traumatic neuroses can provide a ‘conceptual bridge’ between the Lacanian idea of an ‘inaugural’ or ‘founding’ trauma that constitutes the human subject and the more popular idea that trauma is brought about by external events, for example, war or sexual violence.
Der verbreitete zeitgenössische Anti-Realismus in den Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, in Kulturinstitutionen, in den Feuilletons und den gebildeten Kreisen ist Ausdruck einer intellektuellen Krise.
How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine.
How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine.
One of the most prominent philosophers and activists of the 20th century, Bertrand Russell is known not only for his fundamental contributions on the scope of human knowledge and on mathematical logic, but also for his often-controversial views on ethical and linguistic topics.
In How to be multiple, Helena de Bres - a twin herself - argues that twinhood is a unique lens for examining our place in the world and how we relate to other people.
Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
A provocative and timely look at how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends.
This book critiques conventional parapsychological viewpoints about extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK), collectively referred to as 'psi'.
