Axel: 472 books

In these original and imaginative essays, delivered as the Tanner Lectures at the University of California, Berkeley in 2005, the distinguished third-generation Frankfurt School philosopher Axel Honneth attempts to rescue the concept of reification by recasting it in terms of the philosophy of recognition he has been developing over the past two decades.

Tall tales of weird wonder and ten-gallon terror, from grizzled outlaws Jackson Lowry (Great West Detective Agency), C, Courtney Joyner (Shotgun), Scott S. Phillips (Squirrel Eyes) and Axel Howerton (Hot Sinatra), alongside furious fiction from young guns like R. Overwater, Allan Williams, Grady Cole and Craig Garrett. TALL TALES OF THE WEIRD WEST only from Coffin Hop Press!

What does it mean for poetry and music to turn to each other, in the shadow of the Holocaust, as a means of aesthetic self-reflection? How can their mutual mirroring, of such paramount importance to German Romanticism, be reconfigured to retain its validity after the Second World War? These are the...

How has the German image of the Nazi past changed since the reunification of East and West Germany? And what role have cinema and television played in this process? This intriguing study argues that since 1990, the two media have turned toward inner German experiences of the Third Reich. From intimate...

In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of the relationship between social reproduction and individual identity formation. Drawing on his...

Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the tradition of critical theory, his writings have been central to the revitalization of critical theory and have become increasingly influential. His theory...

In this book Axel Honneth re-examines arguments put forward by Hegel and claims that the 'struggle for recognition' should be at the centre of social conflicts.

“Recognition” has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to “redistribution” remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly...

Mobile applications are now part of our personal daily life. Imagine how many times you spend per day running applications on your smartphone or tablet. Day-to-day applications such as your calendar, your email client or your browser; social networking apps that allow you to connect to friends and colleagues,...

Axel Kahn marcheur ? On le savait généticien, médecin, humaniste. On le découvre ici en randonneur de haut niveau, capable d’avaler deux mille kilomètres en parcourant « sa » France de la frontière belge dans les Ardennes à la frontière espagnole sur la côte atlantique, au Pays basque....

The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores...

Ein kaltblütiger Serienmörder. Eine verstümmelte Frauenleiche in einem Plastiksack. Ein erschossener US-Amerikaner im Zug. Kriminalhauptkommissar Axel Petermann ist Deutschlands bekanntester Profiler. Er beschreibt seine schwierigsten Fälle. Dabei gewährt er Einblicke in die Methoden der Profiler...

Arthur Ellis award nominee Axel Howerton weaves a dark tale of memory, family, murder-for-hire, coffee, and the cost of redemption.  A dark Noir fable that pulls you into a thrilling whirlpool of gangland violence, ghostly memories,  one boy's terrifying past, and the glimmer of hope inside an unknown...

In this exciting book, the author reveals the basics of Taoist Alchemical Transformation: Turning Shit Into Gold! Instead of rationalizing and labeling 'bad feelings' and 'depression' in Psychotherapy, the 8 Lucky Saints here provide us with the proven formula of 'Red Blood Becomes Milk'. Thereby...