Topics in philosophy

The book aims to provide a contemporary individual with an extensive but focused set of examples of kitsch in non-artistic spheres to create theoretical and practical backgrounds for conscious recognition of kitsch in fields like psychology, education, politics, law, religion, terrorism, television, or journalism.

Are we able to do everything we ought to do?

An edition of Hume''s profoundly influential work together with some of his other writings.

First published in 1933.

Während "das gute Leben" in der antiken Ethik noch im Zentrum des Philosophierens steht, erfolgt mit der Moralphilosophie Kants eine Abkehr der philosophischen Ethik vom Glück des Individuums – zugunsten einer reinen über-individuellen Moralität.

While abundant research has investigated time use, much less attention has been given to the cultural meanings attached to free time and what these may express with regard to conceptions of freedom and the self.

Modern philosophy has been vexed by the question "e;Why should I be moral?

Between the two world wars, thousands of European antifascists were pushed to act by the political circumstances of the time.

The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally.

Engineers designing technologies and systems produce problems when they do not account for existing biases in society.

Here is an insightful volume on the integration of women in the modernization process of developing countries, with research studies on women and development in Guatemala, Tanzania, Indonesia, and several other countries.

One of the most far-reaching transformations in our era is the wave of digital technologies rolling over-and upending-nearly every aspect of life.

The Routledge Handbook for Global South Studies on Subjectivities provides a series of exemplary studies conjoining perspectives from Asian, African, and Latin American Studies on subjectivity in the Global South as a central category of social and cultural analysis.

Democracy is the apparent motor of globalization, binding together ideas and institutions such as citizenship, human rights, race, the free market, multiculturalism, development, politics and the economy.

In Remembering Genocide an international group of scholars draw on current research from a range of disciplines to explore how communities throughout the world remember genocide.

Robert Brandom's rationalist philosophy of language, expounded in his highly influential Making It Explicit, has been the subject of intense scrutiny and debate, establishing him as one of the leading philosophers of his generation.

When confronted by the concerns of human sexual function or dys- function, American medicine finds itself well impaled on the horns of a dilemma.

This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy.

First published in 1986.

Bodily pain and distress come in many forms.

The US led programme of extraordinary rendition created profound challenges for the international system of human rights protection and rule of law.

This book provides a fresh look at one of the most enduring, absorbing, and universal questions human beings face: What happens to us after we die?

On the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, feminists are at a critical juncture to re-envision and re-engage in a politics of human rights.

That Kant's ideas remain vitally present in ethical thinking today is as impossible to deny as it is to overlook their less persisting aspects and sometimes outdated idiom.

Hume's Enquiry: Expanded and Explained includes the entire classical text of David Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding in bold font, a running commentary blended seamlessly into the text in regular font, and analytic summaries of each section.

What do psychedelics reveal about consciousness?

There has been an upsurge in scholarship concerned with theories of social practices in various fields including sociology, geography and management studies.

By drawing on Jungs and Marxs opposing ideas, James Driscolls Carl versus Karl: Jung and Marx, Two Icons for our Age develops fresh perspectives on urgent contemporary problems.

The French philosophe Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1755) was a political and social thinker of enormous depth, range, originality, and influence.

What roles do different kinds of knowledge play in medicine?

Dieses Buch erprobt eine neue Form philosophischen Schreibens: In sechs abwechselnd verfassten Kapiteln bringen die beiden Autoren, jeder in differenten Perspektiven und auf seine Weise, die sie gemeinsam berührende Frage zur Sprache: Kann man sich an Alterität, an Andersheit orientieren?

Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s.

This book reflects on the significance of duties in creating an egalitarian society by collating and contextualizing the relevant literature.

This volume brings together an international team of authors to investigate a wide range of issues concerning the fundamental role of media technologies in shaping contemporary emotional life.

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments.

Draws on the thought of Thomas Aquinas to provide an innovative approach to the ethics of lying and truthfulness.

This book presents a substantial collection of essays from a wide range of well respected scholars addressing several aspects of Piero Sraffa's economics in light of continuing controversies over the interpretation that should be placed on his work.

This book outlines a theory of rationality in which logical law emerges as an intrinsic aspect of evolutionary biology.

Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need.

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift's political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works.

Financial Ethics presents an exploration of this relatively new subject.

This volume examines to what extent the positive atmosphere created by the Helsinki Accords contributed to the change in political circumstances seen in the countries of Central Europe, under Soviet domination.

While applied epistemology has been neglected for much of the twentieth century, it has seen emerging interest in recent years, with key thinkers in the field helping to put it on the philosophical map.

This volume brings together a collection of essays by contemporary thinker and social scientist S.

The Soviet Way of Life (1948) is an objective description of the Soviet Russian political and economic systems.

At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse).

Erstmalig in der Geschichte betrifft ein Ereignis – in Form einer Seuche und ihrer Folgen – unmittelbar die gesamte Menschheit.