Das vormalig stark auf die philosophische und theologische Idealismusforschung begrenzte Interesse an Baader hat sich gegenwärtig in den Kontext kulturtheoretischer, ideen- und wissenschaftsgeschichtlicher Forschung hinein ausgeweitet.
This book explores the opportunities and epistemological and structural challenges facing higher education in postcolonial South Africa and argues for a fundamental transformation to meet the needs of the 21st century.
Je inflationärer die Rede von den Menschenrechten - desto dringlicher eine Vergewisserung, wofür die für Ethik wie Recht und Politik zentrale Kategorie sinnvollerweise steht.
How Feminist Writing Shapes Personal and Political Narratives delves into the profound influence of female writers on the author's craft and worldview.
Bridging the gap between two distinct philosophical traditions, Eleni Lorandou finds consonance in the philosophies of Merleau-Ponty and Utpaladeva to articulate a radically phenomenal view of embodiment.
En se mettant à l’écoute de « la vérité que le prophète Tirésias porte en son sein », cet essai propose une approche du sens de l’être de l’homme que transmet L’Œdipe-Roi de Sophocle, mais qui est inaccessible à la compréhension et au dire du « roi connaissant » Œdipe.
Cawdron's book explores the applications of cosmopsychism, the idea that the universe is conscious, to contemporary discussions of original sin in Christian analytic theology.
Soon after the start of the American Revolutionary War in 1775, the Thirteen Colonies proclaimed their independence from British rule and became the United States of America.
First published in 1989, Mind and the Body Politic is a collection of Elisabeth Young-Bruehl's twelve essays and lectures on political theory, psychoanalysis, feminism, and the theory of biography.
This book uses Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutic phenomenology of suspicion and naivete to shift the focus of the ideology of humanitarian intervention from the distorting (Marxism, realism) and legitimizing (social constructivism) to the integrating function of this ideology.
Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire in its many forms.
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.
Bringing together contributions from North America, UK, Europe and Asia into a single volume, this book advances scholarship in Buddhist studies and celebrates Rupert Gethin's immense contribution to the field.
Vivons-nous aujourd’hui face à la volonté hégémonique des populismes, des nationalismes identitaires et des autocraties guerrières totalitaires, dans une époque de l’éclipse totale des utopies ?
A renowned Buddhist teacher turns to two of the most influential figures in history for guidance on how to face the ethical challenges of our time The Buddha's revolutionary teachings transformed Asia, and his contemporary Socrates laid the foundations of Western philosophy.
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.
Politics and Religion: The Basics provides a concise introduction to the complex interactions between politics and religion in both domestic and international contexts.
This comprehensive reframing of Gilles Deleuze as a transcendental empiricist delves into his seminal Difference and Repetition to unearth a system that inverts the Kantian worldview.
