Philosophy

Disease, pestilence and contagion have been an integral component of human lives and stories.

Identification of the phenomenon of marginality in The Marginal Self-the failure to become one's authentic, best self, by refusing to actualize this potential that is inherent in us all-turns on recognizing that freedom, and its misuse, underlie most human behavior, normal and pathological.

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is considered the father of modern logic and one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy.

Mapping Paradigms in Modern and Contemporary Art defines a new cartographic aesthetic, or what Simonetta Moro calls carto-aesthetics, as a key to interpreting specific phenomena in modern and contemporary art, through the concept of poetic cartography.

Themistius ran his philosophical school in Constantinople in the middle of the fourth century A.

This collection of new essays explores the implications of semantic externalism for self-knowledge and skepticism.

Andrew Janiak presents Newton as an original and sophisticated contributor to natural philosophy.

Liberal defences of nationalism have become prevalent since the mid-1980's.

Chastity and lust, charity and greed, humility and pride, are but some of the virtues and vices that have been in tension since Prudentius' Psychomachia, written in the fifth century.

This book explores why animals, at some point, disappeared from the realm and scope of sociology.

Most comparisons of science and religion are really comparisons of science and Christianity, or science and Islam, and so forth.

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This volume explores the scope and limits of Mahatma Gandhi's moral politics and its implications for Indian and other freedom movements.

In The Brain from 25,000 Feet, Mark A.

This series is directed to health care professionals who are leading the tra- formation of health care by using information and knowledge.

Originally published in 1973, this volume documents Bertrand Russell's travels in America covering the period 1896-1945.

A bold new interpretation of Augustine's virtue of hope and its place in political lifeWhen it comes to politics, Augustine of Hippo is renowned as one of history's great pessimists, with his sights set firmly on the heavenly city rather than the public square.

Hannah Arendt's work inspires many to stand in solidarity against authoritarianism, racial or gender-based violence, climate change, and right-wing populism.

This book provides the first comprehensive and critical examination of Maki's realist philosophy of economics.

Originally published in 1984.

This book argues that the science of reasoning will prove most useful if focused on studying what human reasoning does best - understanding people.

Without of course adopting a Platonic metaphysics, the eighteenth-century philosophes were Grecophiles who regarded the Athenian philosophers as their intellectual forbearers and mentors.

Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's 2013 Critics Choice Award!

This book presents a set of historical recollections on the work of Martin Davis and his role in advancing our understanding of the connections between logic, computing, and unsolvability.

»Kaum ein anderer Denker veranschaulicht die Widersprüche des heutigen Kapitalismus besser als Slavoj Žižek.

This is the first English translation of Proclus' commentary on Plato'sParmenides.

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After the collapse of the Soviet world, North Korea alone has continued on the rigid communist way, in spite of its economic consequences leading the state beyond ruin to famine.

An intellectual or a thinker is a person who primarily uses intelligence in either a professional or an individual capacity.

The book examines some of the most important forms of normativity and the relation between facts and values in the context of criminological investigation.

Charting new directions for cultural theory and practice and offering alternatives to the project of neoliberal class restoration.

An Instant Sunday Times Bestseller'A profoundly urgent intervention' Naomi KleinFrom one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how a fear of gender is fuelling reactionary politics around the world Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to right-wing movements today.

A revisionist interpretation of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century political ideas, including novel readings of canonical authors such as Burke and Mill.

This is a major study of the theological thought of John Calvin, which examines his central theological ideas through a philosophical lens, looking at issues in Metaphysics, Epistemology, and Ethics.

More than a mere overview, the book offers readers a strong grounding in the basic principles of Jung's analytical psychology in addition to illuminating insights.

This volume provides a definitive assessment of the historiography of the life sciences and medicine in Latin America.

Following up on his previous book, Violence and Phenomenology, James Dodd presents here an expanded and deepened reflection on the problem of violence.

Originally published in English in 1973.

Less than a year after the assassination of President Kennedy brought Lyndon B.

Gadamer's Path to Plato investigates the formative years of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Plato studies, while studying with Martin Heidegger at Marburg University.

This book offers a new perspective on sociological studies of the consumer society, introducing neglected normative questions relating to the good life and human flourishing - subjects more commonly discussed in fields of moral, political, and social philosophy.

This Element discusses the relationship between Christianity and evolutionary theory.

This book is the fruit of a critical inquiry into the nature and scope of Marcel's philosophie achievement.

Janko Lavrin's influential biography of Friedrich Nietzsche, originally published in 1948, analyses the bond between Nietzsche's personal fate on the one hand and the trend of his thought on the other, set against the background of contemporary crisis typical of mankind in general.

This book advances an integrative approach to understanding the phenomenon of psychosocial maturation.

This reference contains more than 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on utopian thought and experimentation that span the centuries from ancient times to the present.