SANS DIEU – Pourquoi Dieu n'existe pas est une réflexion philosophique et critique sur l'une des plus anciennes questions de l'humanité : pourquoi les hommes croient-ils en Dieu — et que reste-t-il lorsque cette croyance est examinée avec lucidité ?
Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it.
Einer der wichtigsten Klassiker der Soziologie in der neuen Reihe »Great Papers Soziologie«Mit dem wahrscheinlich wichtigsten Aufsatz von Jürgen Habermas lässt sich leicht ein Zugang zu seinem gesamten Denken öffnen.
How to understand a long-standing puzzle in political philosophy: the relationship between justice and legitimacyCan laws be unjust and yet remain, in some sense, morally legitimate?
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties.
A leading philosopher explains how risk-taking can help us live authentic and flourishing livesWe take risks every dayperhaps not the extreme, dangling-off-the-side-of-a-mountain kind of risks, but risks nonetheless, in decisions about careers, marriage, children, moving house, and other matters.
The final volume of Princeton's Kierkegaard's Writings series, the Cumulative Index provides wide-ranging navigation to the preceding twenty-five volumes.
The Book of Light is an accessible guide for readers seeking a deeper understanding of spiritual light, ascensions, the Ascended Masters, Archangels, Divine Rays, and Etheric Temples.
Zen and Japanese Culture is a classic that has influenced generations of readers and played a major role in shaping conceptions of Zen's influence on Japanese traditional arts.
The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culturefrom the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlackfavorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascistshas always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad.
In a world drowning in comforting illusions, self-help optimism, and recycled spiritual promises, The Nihilist's Manifesto delivers a clear-eyed, unflinching assessment of reality: the universe has no purpose, no moral arc, and no interest in human concerns.
This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.
This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.
The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spirala vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media.
The story of the color black in art, fashion, and culturefrom the beginning of history to the twenty-first centuryBlackfavorite color of priests and penitents, artists and ascetics, fashion designers and fascistshas always stood for powerfully opposed ideas: authority and humility, sin and holiness, rebellion and conformity, wealth and poverty, good and bad.
Exploring the question of what exactly makes good people good, Protagoras and Meno are two of the most enjoyable and accessible of all of Plato's dialogues.
When the mundane reality of paying taxes takes on moral significanceIn My Tax Dollars, Ruth Braunstein maps the contested moral landscape in which Americans experience and make sense of the tax system.
Hegels geschichtsphilosophische Vorlesungen sind fast nur durch die Mit- und Nachschriften seiner Schüler und Hörer zugänglich – ein Faktum, das frühere Ausgaben, die aus verschiedenen Nachschriften und einigen unveröffentlichten Manuskripten kompiliert wurden, überdeckt haben.
»Ueber das Recht des Volks zu einer Revolution« des Nürnberger Arztes und Kantianers Johann Benjamin Erhard ist ein Schlüsseltext der deutschen Revolutionstheorie um 1800 und ein Werk von besonderer ideengeschichtlicher Bedeutung.
El argumento central del "Nuevo Ateísmo" de Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris y Christopher Hitchens es que durante varios siglos ha habido una guerra entre la ciencia y la religión, que la religión ha estado perdiendo constantemente esa guerra, y que en este momento de la historia de la humanidad se ha elaborado un relato científico completamente secular del mundo con un detalle tan exhaustivo y convincente que ya no hay ninguna razón por la que una persona racional y educada deba considerar las afirmaciones de cualquier religión como algo digno de atención.
