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.
En un mundo marcado por la incertidumbre y las transformaciones aceleradas, la búsqueda de la paz interior ha llevado a millones de individuos a golpear las puertas de la autoayuda, el autoconocimiento y la meditación, que acaban fomentando la pasividad y el conformismo, perpetuando las injusticias sociopolíticas.
This book provides a coherent and unifying view for logic and representation learning to contribute to knowledge graph (KG) reasoning and produce better computational tools for integrating both worlds.
El autor, convencido de que la Deontologia no tiene sentido sin la etica, nos propone, con realismo, una mirada al pasado (la tradicion juridica), a las estructuras profesionales (contexto) y a la sociedad a la que sirven estos profesionales (marco global), abordando temas como el secreto profesional, la publicidad, la relacion con el cliente, los colegios profesionales, la independencia, la imparcialidad, el pacto quoto litis, etc.
This book calls for the institution of an African feminist philosophy of language, challenging existing debates and encouraging a move away from the Western gaze.
Indagar en la esencia misma de la experiencia humana para hallar su sentido más profundo nos dota de libertad y de la posibilidad de trazar un camino real y verdadero de plenitud para, de este modo, dejar de caer en brazos del ciego azar del que no somos más que una irónica expresión.
Making the claim that reality is more like memory than a permanent substance, this original work draws on Derrida and Malabou to suggest a picture of the world as an assemblage of spectral resonances and disseminations.
In einer Welt, die von Volatilität, Unsicherheit, Komplexität und Ambiguität (VUCA) geprägt ist, stehen Führungskräfte vor der Herausforderung, rasch auf Veränderungen zu reagieren und gleichzeitig strategische Klarheit zu bewahren.
"Blaise Pascal: pensar sin límites", de Alicia Villar Ezcurra, es una obra que profundiza en el legado intelectual de Blaise Pascal, abarcando sus múltiples facetas como matemático, filósofo y místico.
The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia.
The subject of this volume is the social and political history of East-Central Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries, with particular emphasis on Polish society in the interwar period (1918-1939) and the role of the intelligentsia.
A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to todayWhile the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE.
Culinary Man and the Kitchen Brigade offers an exploration of the field of normative subjectivity circulated within western fine dining traditions, presenting a theoretical analysis of the governing relationship between the chef, who embodies the Culinary Man, and the fine dining brigade.
La presente recopilación busca constituirse en el cimiento de lo que, según el autor, podría denominarse una percepción alternativa de las diferentes temáticas que aborda, como lo son la prevalencia de la ideología en la ciencia y el Estado, el carácter autopoiético y homogeneizante del Estado Moderno y la incidencia del multiculturalismo y de la participación ciudadana en las formaciones políticas de la América Latina contemporánea.
'One of the best books ever written on the power and practicality of philosophy for building a good and successful life' - Tom Morris, bestselling author of Plato's Lemonade Stand and Stoicism for Dummies-------How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?
A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity.
A landmark work from one of our leading political theoristsA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, States of Injury explores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity.
