Amid a devastating economic crisis, two tragic events coming from the outside the wave of immigration and Islamic terrorism have radically changed the profile and significance of the space we call Europe.
In this highly original book, Markus Gabriel offers an account of the human self that overcomes the deadlocks inherent in the standard positions of contemporary philosophy of mind.
Less than a century old, the concept of totalitarianism is one of the most controversial in political theory, with some proposing to abandon it altogether.
Pierre Bourdieu is arguably the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century, especially since the once common criticisms of his determinism and reproductionism have receded.
What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common?
In July 2014 the Belgian newspaper Le Soir claimed that France, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Italy, Poland and the United States may lose between 43 and 50 per cent of their jobs within ten to fifteen years.
This the first of a new three-part series in which Antonio Negri, a leading political thinker of our time, explores key ideas that have animated radical thought and examines some of the social and economic forces that are shaping our world today.
This second volume of a new three-part series of Antonio Negri's work is focussed on the consequences of the rapid process of deindustrialisation that has occurred across the West in recent years.
Most people would agree that a small child, or a cognitively impaired adult, is less responsible for their actions, good or bad, than an unimpaired adult.
When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean?
Ein Buch, das Fragen stellt, die wir uns kaum noch zu stellen wagen: Warum scheint das Denken in einer Zeit, die von Wissen und Technologie dominiert wird, in einen Stillstand zu verfallen?
Explore the mysteries of morality and the concept of right and wrong with this accessible, engaging guide featuring basic facts along with an overview of modern-day issues ranging from business ethics and bioethics to political and social ethics.
America in Italy examines the influence of the American political experience on the imagination of Italian political thinkers between the late eighteenth century and the unification of Italy in the 1860s.
Mostrar formas de atención, distancias y contactos, configuraciones de la sensibilidad, fuerzas de las ordenaciones que arrastran y prosiguen arrastrando desde atrás; y buscar señas de libertad en movimientos del pensar, en imágenes, detenciones que se desplazan, acciones que irrumpen y se secan.
How a hybrid Confucian-engendered form of governance might solve today's political problemsWhat might a viable political alternative to liberal democracy look like?
Why philosophers have advocated simple living for 2,500 years-and why we ignore them at our perilFrom Socrates to Thoreau, most philosophers, moralists, and religious leaders have seen frugality as a virtue and have associated simple living with wisdom, integrity, and happiness.
From a millennial media maker and award-winning social critic, an accessible, straightforward, and remarkable guide that ';invites us beyond the old stories we've told about ourselves, and into the wonder of our dreams, hopes, and loveso we can find our truth and purpose' (Glennon Doyle, New York Times bestselling author) for a generation paralyzed by the pressures of life.
Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil-commonly referred to as Leviathan-is a book written by Thomas Hobbes.
The Critique of Judgment, also translated as the Critique of the Power of Judgment and more commonly referred to as the third Critique, is a philosophical work by Immanuel Kant.
Plato's most famous work and the bedrock of Western philosophyWritten in the form of a Socratic dialogue, The Republic is an investigation into the nature of an ideal society.
En los diversos articulos recopilados en este libro, Eugenio Bulygin muestra que una clara distincion entre normas y proposiciones normativas es esencial no solo para comprender el discurso normativo sino tambien para elaborar una justificacion adecuada a uno de los desafios centrales de la logica deontica: la posibilidad de una genuina logica de normas.
