Known as the Father of the American Revolution, English-American author Thomas Paine became famous for two pamphlets that inspired the colonists to fight for their independence.
Los trabajos que se reúnen en esta obra abordan, desde referentes teóricos y herramientas metodológicas diversas, algún elemento o faceta de una de las transformaciones sociales más importantes de la historia contemporánea.
En 1971 se publicaba Teoría de la justicia, una obra destinada a convertirse en el gran clásico contemporáneo de la filosofía política y que convertiría a su autor, el filósofo norteamericano John Rawls (1921-2002) en uno de los pensadores más influyentes del último medio siglo.
First published in 1968, The Language of Time clarifies certain large-scale features of ordinary or common-sense concept of time by using linguistic analysis or ordinary language philosophy.
Over the last 200 years, a paradoxical fear of deception has grown in the fields of art and popular culture modes of expression that are traditionally dedicated to creating illusory, artificial worlds.
Rabbi Sacks argues that preoccupation with self is a mistake and that ethics are concerned with the life we live together, talking with as much authority about Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx as he does about the Bible.
Das Buch behandelt die Aspekte der Andersheit in seiner ganzen Breite von der Intersubjektivität über das Ich in seiner Andersheit bis zur Andersheit Gottes und dem prärationalen und hyperrationalen Anderen.
The book presents a description of the phenomenon of organising street performances, both informal and within formalised structures, as well as its interpretation from the point of view of humanistic management.
First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is necessary to show both how the logical relation theory of probability can be given a formulation sufficiently objective for the purposes of science, and how other attempts to explain the objective character of probability judgements are unsatisfactory.
First published in 1984, in Probability, Objectivity and Evidence the author claims that the theory of probability provides a single, correct, analysis of probability and that the concept of probability employed in science can best be understood as that of inductive probability; to do so, it is necessary to show both how the logical relation theory of probability can be given a formulation sufficiently objective for the purposes of science, and how other attempts to explain the objective character of probability judgements are unsatisfactory.
This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.
Being a salvage of cancellations and hallucinations, and for the forgotten and misbegotten, a preservation of things muddied, made washed and laid bare against bleached white, seeking far and nearby in an ever'flowing effervescent stream of thoughts and treatments of dream, this spell is something like blowing wind into one's sails, but into those sails memories past, impel themselves and become more romancing than real.
Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book delves into the thriving industry of religious infrastructure in Romania, where 4,000 Orthodox churches and cathedrals have been built in three decades.
This book delves into the core of representative democracy in order to explain its main features - institutional and imaginary - and to show the reasons for its increasing dysfunctionality.
Directly challenging the prevailing interpretation, Corey Beals explores the ideas of twentieth-century philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's concept of love, love's relation to wisdom, and how love makes the Other visible to us.