In matters such as affirmative action or home schooling, rights of ethnic and other minority groups often come into conflict with those of society in a culturally diverse population such as ours.
"e;Mas alla de la coyuntura politica marcada por el ascenso y el declive de unos gobiernos, que les permitio a algunos intelectuales hace algunos anos hablar de una "e;"e;nueva izquierda latinoamericana"e;"e;, se puede constatar la existencia de un proceso que coincide con esa coyuntura politica y que si trasciende en el tiempo porque, a diferencia de los gobiernos y de algunos intelectuales que proclamaban esa "e;"e;nueva izquierda"e;"e;, este proceso tiene sentido historico, raigambre popular y, en consecuencia, una capacidad de transformar la sociedad.
In Tasso, Goethe crafts a human tragedy fraught with contradictions, where dreams of lofty ideals meet the harshness of reality, and the hero is caught between the desire for spiritual transcendence and the indulgence of his whims.
Frege et la guerre contre les langues naturelles s'impose dans l'univers logico-mathematique et au c ur des debats logico-philosophiques contemporains.
La dynamique revolutionnaire considere l'unite indissoluble de la pratique et de la connaissance comme des categories qui portent le projet d'emancipation de la majorite pauvre.
This edited volume challenges the hegemonic ideologies that underpin contemporary planning thought and practice, building on and extending the pioneering work of Michael Gunder.
"e;Al-Durra Al-Yatima"e; (The Orphan Pearl) is one of the most magnificent treatises of Abdullah ibn al-Muqaffa, the encyclopedic writer who combined the cultures of the Arabs, Persians, Greeks, and Indians, crafting an enduring literary masterpiece that blends profound wisdom with beautiful expression.
Comprising two volumes, this is a pioneering study which examines how the United States has deployed public diplomacy with Japan to confront Japanese sexual and labour trafficking, while also charting the successes and failures of the US's own record on anti-trafficking practices at home and abroad.
This book employs an interdisciplinary lens to help readers understand why Russia invaded Ukraine, as well as why and by what means it continues to wage war against the Ukrainian people, state, nation, culture, and the country's environmental well-being.
Winner of the 2024 Prix Emile Girardeau prize, rewarding exceptional work in the economic or sociological sciences, this book examines afresh our relationships of dominance with and affection for animals.
While authoritarianism continues to gain ground globally, this book offers a global and nuanced perspective into how, when, and where autocratisation may be contested and sometimes reversed.
This book provides a detailed view of the author's conception of 'apocalyptic phenomenology', referring to the revelatory and self-disclosing nature of phenomenological thinking, a thinking that is central to our philosophical traditions today.
What kinds of conversations might take place when two intelligent and informed young people - one a strong believer in free will and the other just as certain that we don't have it - get together to discuss their viewpoints?
Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump offers a series of sketches of what it means to live within a new Zeitgeist where ideas of the radical right are once again attractive to young minds.
On his deathbed, Adam Smith ordered the burning of two unfinished works on epistemology and politics, fearing that his image as a philosopher would be tarnished and his ideas misinterpreted.
A New Pluralistic Paradigm for Research: Diverse Methods for Researching Analytic and Other Groups is a comprehensive resource that equips a diverse audience with essential research knowledge.
Radical Right Ideologues in the Age of Trump offers a series of sketches of what it means to live within a new Zeitgeist where ideas of the radical right are once again attractive to young minds.
This book looks at the intersection where languages "e;meet"e;, where literary studies connect with other domains of knowledge such as translation, modern linguistics, philosophy of language, the teaching of languages, and cultural studies.
This book looks at the intersection where languages "e;meet"e;, where literary studies connect with other domains of knowledge such as translation, modern linguistics, philosophy of language, the teaching of languages, and cultural studies.
This book analyzes the concept of likelihood of success in just war thinking and argues that if the concept should be retained, it must be reconsidered within the overall whole of the tradition of just war.
Winner of the 2024 Prix Emile Girardeau prize, rewarding exceptional work in the economic or sociological sciences, this book examines afresh our relationships of dominance with and affection for animals.
This book explores Greenpeace's efforts to expand its engagement in the Circumpolar North in the 21st century and how this work is affected and informed by the organization's controversial legacy of anti-sealing campaigning in the 1970s and 1980s.
This book takes the relationship between physics and sociology as its subject, focusing on the philosophical dispute between emergentism and reductionism.
On his deathbed, Adam Smith ordered the burning of two unfinished works on epistemology and politics, fearing that his image as a philosopher would be tarnished and his ideas misinterpreted.
This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosophy and science, namely the Traite de l'homme by Rene Descartes, completed in 1633 but published in printed form only in 1662 and 1664.
This book offers the first thorough-going account of the covert manuscript dissemination of a pivotal text in the history of early modern philosophy and science, namely the Traite de l'homme by Rene Descartes, completed in 1633 but published in printed form only in 1662 and 1664.
