In Vienna in the 1920s a group of brilliant philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists - led by figures such as Moritz Schlick, Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, and Hans Hahn - gathered to discuss the foundations of science and mathematics.
This books traces the rise to prominence in the twentieth-century of a sub-genre of gothic fiction that is, emphatically, a horror of enlightenment rationality rather than gothic darkness, examining post-modern revisions of Modernist "e;Promethean"e; tropes in an eclectic range of gothic, fantasy and SF writing.
The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes the poet's travels through hell, purgatory, and paradise, exploring the state of the human soul after death.
First published in 1927, National Character is based upon a course of ten lectures on citizenship, delivered, under the terms of the Stevenson Foundation, in the University and the City of Glasgow during the latter part of 1925 and the beginning of 1926.
Dieses Buch ist eigentlich kein Buch, sondern eine Zusammenstellung von Vortragsmanuskripten für eine am Buddhismus interessierte Gruppe in einer Justizvollzugsanstalt.
Interdisciplinary in approach, this book employs the key concepts of fragmentation and reconfiguration to consider the ways in which human experience and artistic practice can engage with and respond to the disintegration that characterises modern cities.
This book argues for reform of the convention that, when politicians decide on a course of action, the general in supreme command obeys without question.
La manera en la cual se construye conocimiento desde el Cono Sur evidencia sus inherentes disputas políticas, de manera que analizarlas puede contribuir en la transformación de la realidad.
Aesthetics and Video Games introduces current issues and ideas in philosophical aesthetics that help us to better understand why video games are different from cinema, animation and other types of fiction.
Based on award-winning research, Love and revolution brings classical and contemporary anarchist thought into a mutually beneficial dialogue with a global cross-section of ecological, anti-capitalist, feminist and anti-racist activists - discussing real-life examples of the loving-caring relations that underpin many contemporary struggles.
Es ist weithin bekannt, dass Georg Büchner im Frühjahr und Sommer 1834 den Hessischen Landboten, eine der radikalsten Flugschriften des Vormärz, verfasste, druckte und verteilte.
This book critiques conventional parapsychological viewpoints about extrasensory perception (ESP) and psychokinesis (PK), collectively referred to as 'psi'.
This book draws on an interdisciplinary approach to investigate the impact of codes of ethics as prescribed in translator organizations, proposing alternative ethical pathways grounded in self-care ethics to enhance translators' symbolic recognition and ethical agency.
Este libro analiza qué atributos poseen esta clase de personalidades; la distinción que podemos realizar con respecto a los «hacedores del mal» —aquellos quienes, sin ser malévolos, cometen malas acciones—; cómo las instituciones malvadas buscan albergar ambos tipos en su seno; y, en último término, el papel que juegan la filosofía y el pensamiento crítico en la confrontación del mal.
In this classic study, now available in English for the first time, the late Spanish philosopher Gonzalo Fernndez de la Mora reconsiders the antithesis of pathos and logos in the political realm.
