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The Case for Vegetarianism
Philosophy for a Small Planet
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2000
This clear and elegantly argued book examines from various philosophical perspectives the many reasons for adopting a vegetarian diet, from animal interests and rights, to health benefits, global ecology, and world hunger. Hill's careful working through of different moral philosophies makes the book...
The Hegel Variations
On the Phenomenology of Spirit
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
Master philosopher and cultural theorist tackles the founder of modern dialectics
In this major new study, the philosopher and cultural theorist Fredric Jameson offers a new reading of Hegel’s foundational text Phenomenology of Spirit.
In contrast to those who see the Phenomenology...
by Giacomo Leopardi
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 15, 2016
I Pensieri di Giacomo Leopardi, una raccolta di centoundici riflessioni sull'uomo e la società, uscirono postumi nel 1845 a cura dell'amico Antonio Ranieri. Molti progetti leopardiani vennero via via abbandonati dall'autore stesso, sopraffatto dall'insorgere di nuove idee; i Pensieri tuttavia appartengono...
Lectures de Michel Foucault. Volume 1
À propos de « Il faut défendre la société »
Language: French
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Les contributions réunies dans ce volume constituent une des premières tentatives pour prendre en compte la nouveauté qu’entraîne la mise à la disposition du public des cours de Foucault au Collège de France. Dans « Il faut défendre la société», Foucault envisage les questions du pouvoir,...
In God's Garden (Illustrated)
Stories Of The Saints For Little Children
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2012
In God's garden there is every kind of flower, each differing from the other in beauty. Some are tall and stately like the lilies, growing where all may see them in their dress of white and gold; some are half concealed like the violets, and known only by the fragrance of kind deeds and gentle words...
by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions,...
Lettres morales – suivi d'annexes
Nouvelle édition 2019
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2019
Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Lettres morales de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie).
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A Sneetch is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries
Finding Wisdom in Children's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Taking Picture Books Seriously: What can we learn about philosophy through children's books?
This warm and charming volume casts a spell on adult readers as it unveils the surprisingly profound philosophical wisdom contained in children's picture books, from Dr Seuss's Sneetches to William...
Retrieving the Radical Tillich
His Legacy and Contemporary Importance
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016
Paul Tillich is best known today as a theologian of mediation. Many have come to view him as an out-of-date thinker a safe exemplar of a mid-twentieth-century theological liberalism. The way he has come to be viewed contrasts sharply with the current theological landscape one dominated by the notion...
by Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.
Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soul
Addresses the essential issues, including...
The Fragility of Goodness
Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made...
Phenomenology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
This comprehensive new book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. From critiques of artificial intelligence research programs to ongoing work on embodiment and enactivism, the authors trace how...
Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity
From Static and Genetic Phenomenology
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
In Husserl on Ethics and Intersubjectivity, Janet Donohoe offers a compelling look into Husserl’s shift from a "static" to a "genetic" approach in his analysis of consciousness. Rather than view consciousness as an abstract unity, Husserl began investigating consciousness by...
by Shinichi Nagao
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
This volume illustrates the way political and social philosophers of 18th-century Scotland tried to answer the following question: 'What is, and what ought to be, the relationship between the modern market and stable, desirable social order?' The essays belong to the second half of the century and...