With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions.
Strategic Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (1986) examines the consequences for particular states should India and Pakistan decide to deploy nuclear weapons.
El concepto de Horror, nunca adecuadamente clarificado, es uno de los hilos conductores de este recorrido que abarca tematicas que van desde una teoria del poder pasando por una disruptiva interpretacion de los suenos y el sentido de lo real asi como propone una inedita cuanto rigurosa analitica del sujeto.
In its first edition, Religion and the Domestication of Dissent focused on the representations of Islam that circulated in the wake of the 9/11 attacks-representations that scholars, pundits, and politicians alike used either to essentialize and demonize it or, instead, to isolate specific aspects as apolitical and thus tolerable faith.
Discover all the essential wisdom of the stoics with this engaging, informative, and easy-to-understand guide to all the key philosophers, concepts, and principles of the stoic philosophy.
En un momento en que se están descuidando las virtudes de las grandes tradiciones en beneficio de las exigencias de la «comunicación» o de un nuevo positivismo, el libro de Catherine Chalier aparece como una lección de sabiduría.
Selbstauslöschung der Menschheit – die atomare GefahrSeitdem die Supermächte große Kernwaffenarsenale besitzen, ist die Menschheit bedroht: Wir können unsere gesamte Zivilisation in kürzester Zeit auslöschen und den Planeten in eine radioaktive Ödnis verwandeln.
Siniestro, unheimlich, uncanny y otros términos, en otras lenguas, nombran un fenómeno especialmente evasivo en sus características y modos, reacio a ser circunscrito en una acepción unívoca y un concepto.
Wenn die Soziologie sich als Wirklichkeitswissenschaft versteht, so setzt sie sich unweigerlich der grundlegenden Frage aus, was sie unter dem Begriff Wirklichkeit versteht und welche methodischen Zugänge sie zu ihr legt.
The South Seas in the Modern World (1942) surveys the economic, social, educational and strategic problems facing the islands of the Pacific dependencies on the eve of the Second World War.
This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of the interplay between protest and institutions during an era of multiple crises in Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the UK.
Wenn die Soziologie sich als Wirklichkeitswissenschaft versteht, so setzt sie sich unweigerlich der grundlegenden Frage aus, was sie unter dem Begriff Wirklichkeit versteht und welche methodischen Zugänge sie zu ihr legt.
First published in 1978, Philosophy and Human Movement examines the major philosophical issues in the rapidly growing field of the study of human movement, physical education, and sport and dance.
This book explores John Webster's contribution to one of the most important and contested topics in Christian theology: the relationship between divine and human agency.
In this book, Alberto Castelli, Giunia Gatta, Micaela Latini, and Francesco Raschi examine how four prominent intellectuals of the 20th century (Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Raymond Aron, and Gunther Anders) understood atomic warfare.
This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the origin and development of the concept of physical continuity in ancient thought before Aristotle, combining a thorough study of Presocratic philosophy with Aristotle's perspective.
