This book provides a lucid, rigorous and critical account of the commons, its history and its political potentialities as well as its limitations and ambiguities.
All life on Earth has the right to exist, but as we teeter on the verge of a sixth extinction this book discusses why biodiversity matters and why we should care if species go extinct.
"The world, the soul, Egypt, the memory" is mobile in time and the place roams the "code", and it has exceeded fifty years of age of these four major spaces.
The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh addresses the complex intersection of global politics and local dynamics in Bangladesh, particularly in relation to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat).
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.
Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity's relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset, and an animal of sport and leisure.
'Jung's Philosophy' explores some of the controversial philosophical ideas that are both explicit and implicit within Jung's psychology, comparing the philosophical assumptions between this and other psychotherapeutic traditions.
Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe.
This edited volume breaks new ground for understanding peripheries and peripherality by providing a multidisciplinary cross-exposure through a collection of chapters and visual essays by researchers and artists.
Anti-Fascism and Ethnic Minorities explores how, and to what extent, fascist ultranationalism elicited an anti-fascist response among ethnic minority communities in Eastern and Central Europe.
'Jung's Philosophy' explores some of the controversial philosophical ideas that are both explicit and implicit within Jung's psychology, comparing the philosophical assumptions between this and other psychotherapeutic traditions.
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.
The Jamaat Question in Bangladesh addresses the complex intersection of global politics and local dynamics in Bangladesh, particularly in relation to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Jamaat).
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.
A través de los escritos de Bonhoeffer es posible constatar con gran facilidad que la preocupación por lo ético puede detectarse a lo largo y ancho de su pensamiento, tal vez como consecuencia directa de su inagotable «instinto» de interrogación, que le permitía leer con atención y espíritu crítico su propio presente y la tradición religioso-cultural en la que se encontraba anclado.
Verdadera acta fundacional de una nueva época del pensamiento, en el Discurso del método, primer escrito publicado por René Descartes (1596-1650), se forjan los tópicos en torno a los cuales girará la reflexión filosófica hasta que la Modernidad entre en una crisis definitiva.
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.
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusionand why giving it up can free us from sufferingFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed.
This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century.
This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.
This book explores the complex assemblage of biopolitics, citizenship, ethics and human rights concerns in South Asia focusing specifically on women poets, writers and artists and their explorations on marginalisation, violence and protest.
This comparative attempt, intended for postgraduates and scholars of Eastern-Central Europe, investigates the political, economic, and cultural landscape of Habsburg Galicia and the Romanian Kingdom in the second half of the 19th century.
This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Kang Youwei, one of the most famous intellectuals and modernisers of late 19th-century China.
