This edited volume serves as an overview and introduction to the conceptual apparatus of Norbert Elias for newcomers, while also outlining current research within the Eliasian school of sociology.
A passionate defense of the humanities from one of today's foremost public intellectualsIn this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha C.
First published in 1989, Overcoming Foundations offers a challenge to both postmodernism and traditional doctrines of knowledge and value by undertaking a systematic philosophy without foundations.
Despite immediate appearances, this book is not primarily a hermeneutical exercise in which the superiority of one interpretation of canonical texts is championed against others.
Al pan, pan y al vino, vino 6 se presenta como la sexta y —solo por ahora— última obra de la saga de textos que promueve la explicación de la existencia de Dios.
A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self.
Wie können wir uns mit Leidenschaft für Menschen einsetzen und mit Herzblut für Projekte und Themen brennen, ohne unsere Leichtigkeit und Heiterkeit zu verlieren und auszubrennen?
Beyond Civility in Social Conflict develops a moral approach to persuasive communication that compellingly brings together effectiveness, integrity, and nonviolence.
Wie können wir uns mit Leidenschaft für Menschen einsetzen und mit Herzblut für Projekte und Themen brennen, ohne unsere Leichtigkeit und Heiterkeit zu verlieren und auszubrennen?
Success is a Journey, Not a DestinationThe Way of The Karma Yogi is based on the principle that the key to unlocking personal and professional mastery and living an extraordinary life lies in taking simple and small daily aligned actions and cultivating a detachment towards the outcomes that we get.
A consciousness-shifting collection of poetic reflections and meditations These powerful meditations and poetic reflections will comfort, inspire, and gently bring you out of the hectic day-to-day and back to the bedrock of peace, and even joy, of your true, essential, and authentic self.
In this book, Benjamin Strosberg explores difficulties and anxieties inherent in studying, defining, and defending against anti-Semitism by tracing a concurrent difficulty in thinking about Jewishness, which has historically served as a limit case for central social categories such as outsider, religion, race, gender, and nation.
"e;To abandon the struggle for private happiness, to expel all eagerness of temporary desire, to burn with passion for eternal things - this is emancipation, and this is the free man's worship.
This book argues why Critical Theory – as first developed in the Zeitschrift für Sozialforschung – must be updated to help us tackling today’s capitalist polycrisis, from economic via political to ecological crises.
"e;Council democracy"e; is a particular form of democratic socialism that strives towards democratic self-governance on the basis of active, free, and associated individuals working cooperatively within a federated council system.
Deconstructing Transhumanism: A Religion Without Religion challenges the widely held view that transhumanism-a movement advocating for the enhancement of human life through technology-is purely secular and scientific.
Our extraordinary capacity to reason and solve problems sets us aside from other animals, but our evolved thinking processes also leave us susceptibile to bias and error.
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.
Music Under the Soviets (1955) examines the concept of Soviet music, its special characteristics and its differences from the musical tradition of the West.
