With the rise of 'identity politics' both in right-wing extremism as well as in activist academia, arts and feuilleton, major differences between the traditional left and the right have become blurred.
The years covered by this volume of the Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell were among the most productive, philosophically speaking, of Russell's entire career.
This Handbook provides a state-of-the-art survey of the study of the rule of law across law, the humanities, and social sciences, as well as insights into the practice of building the rule of law within and among states.
In diesem Buch zeige ich, dass die Annahme von Menschen, sie würden in ihrem Handeln und damit auch in ihrem Willen zu handeln frei sein in dem Sinne, dass sie zwischen verschiedenen Handlungsmöglichkeiten wählen können, auf einem Trugschluss und einem Denkfehler beruht.
Interpreting Music, Engaging Culture: An Introduction to Music Criticism offers a clear, hands-on guide for emerging music critics that brings together aesthetics, critical theory, and practical music criticism in an accessible format.
Using George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four as a guide for interpreting the role of the American state in the twenty-first century - paying particular attention to how the government responded to the life and death issues of terrorism, COVID-19, and climate change - this book presents eye-opening and compelling documentary evidence that suggests Orwellian policies have already been implemented by Republicans and Democrats.
Discover the rich diversity of non-religious thought today in this inspiring collection of interviews with over thirty different humanists in the public eye, including Stephen Fry, Sandi Toksvig and Alice Roberts.
This selection of articles is organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France ('Absolutism'); the political crisis of the mid-17th-century (the 'Fronde'); and the development of royal finance.
Für alle, die das Christentum noch nicht abgeschrieben habenHäufig schon hat der Philosoph Slavoj Žižek die christliche Theologie kommentiert und kritisiert, aber bislang eher verstreut über sein ganzes Werk.
Moral Blackmail: Coercion, Responsibility, and Global Justice identifies a novel kind of forced action, yet one that is relatively neglected in ethics and moral philosophy.
Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.
With the rise of populist governments and corresponding popular protests, this book turns renewed focus on Baruch Spinoza's idea of the political multitude.
Während in der Öffentlichkeit intensiv darüber diskutiert wird, ob man ‚mit Rechten reden‘ sollte, geht dieses Buch einen Schritt weiter und untersucht die Perspektiven jener, die sich von solchen Debatten persönlich angegriffen fühlen.
In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.
How does a regime, whose members have been actively involved in the previous one, appropriate and deploy religious ideas and rhetoric to cast itself as 'born-again' and attractive?
La tradición teológica cristiana ha adoptado la filosofía griega, la filosofía y la ciencia modernas a tal punto que el pensamiento cristiano está condicionado por esos saberes.
This book argues that Freud’s theory of the traumatic neuroses can provide a ‘conceptual bridge’ between the Lacanian idea of an ‘inaugural’ or ‘founding’ trauma that constitutes the human subject and the more popular idea that trauma is brought about by external events, for example, war or sexual violence.
Der verbreitete zeitgenössische Anti-Realismus in den Geistes-, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften, in Kulturinstitutionen, in den Feuilletons und den gebildeten Kreisen ist Ausdruck einer intellektuellen Krise.
How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine.
