Surveys category: 1940 books
The Little Book of Big Ideas
150 Concepts and Breakthroughs that Transformed History
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
An exploration of some of the most important and enduring ideas in human history – from religion, science, philosophy, medicine, psychology, politics, economics and art – each presented in brief, accessible form. ‘Big’ ideas are those concepts and theories that have radically transformed our...
by Stacey Keltner
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Julia Kristeva is one of the most creative and prolific writers to address the personal, social, and political trials of our times. Linguist, psychoanalyst, social and cultural theorist, and novelist, Kristeva's broad interdisciplinary appeal has impacted areas across the humanities and social sciences.
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A History of Psychology
From Antiquity to Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
A History of Psychology places social, economic, and political forces of change alongside psychology’s internal theoretical and empirical arguments, illuminating how the external world has shaped psychology’s development, and, in turn, how the late twentieth century’s psychology has shaped society....
Cartesian Theodicy
Descartes’ Quest for Certitude
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Almost all interpreters of Cartesian philosophy have hitherto focused on the epistemological aspect of Descartes' thought. In his Cartesian Theodicy, Janowski demonstrates that Descartes' epistemological problems are merely rearticulations of theological questions. For example, Descartes' attempt...
Irish Voices from the Spanish Inquisition
Migrants, Converts and Brokers in Early Modern Iberia
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book explores the activities of early modern Irish migrants in Spain, particularly their rather surprising association with the Spanish Inquisition. Pushed from home by political, economic and religious instability, and attracted to Spain by the wealth and opportunities of its burgeoning economy...
Revolution and History in Walter Benjamin
A Conceptual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
This book places Benjamin’s writing on revolution in the context of his conception of historical knowledge. The fundamental problem that faces any analysis of Benjamin’s approach to revolution is that he deploys notions that belong to the domain of individual experience. His theory of modernity...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This handbook investigates the current state and future possibilities of African Philosophy, as a discipline and as a practice, vis-à-vis the challenge of African development and Africa’s place in a globalized, neoliberal capitalist economy. The volume offers a comprehensive survey of the philosophical...
Kant and the Philosophy of Mind
Perception, Reason, and the Self
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The essays in this volume explore those aspects of Kant's writings which concern issues in the philosophy of mind. These issues are central to any understanding of Kant's critical philosophy and they bear upon contemporary discussions in the philosophy of mind. Fourteen specially written essays address...
Counterfactuals
Paths of the Might have Been
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
What are counterfactuals and what is their point? In many cases, none at all. It may be true that if kangaroos didn't have tails, they would fall over, but they do have tails and if they didn't they wouldn't be kangaroos (or would they?). This is the sort of thing that can give counterfactuals a bad...
Narcocapitalism
Life in the Age of Anaesthesia
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
What do the invention of anaesthetics in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Nazis' use of cocaine, and the development of Prozac have in common? The answer is that they're all products of the same logic that defines our contemporary era: 'the age of anaesthesia'. Laurent de Sutter shows how...
Counter-Memorial Aesthetics
Refugee Histories and the Politics of Contemporary Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Restrictive border protection policies directed toward managing the flow of refugees coming into neoliberal democracies (and out of failing nation-states) are a defining feature of contemporary politics. In this book, Verónica Tello analyses how contemporary artists-such as Tania Bruguera, Isaac...
Paul’s Gentile-Jews
Neither Jew nor Gentile, but Both
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
Drawing upon the concepts of cultural and linguistic hybridity developed by Homi Bhabha, Salman Rushdie, Mikhail Bakhtin, and others, Garroway suggests that the first generation of Gentile converts were uncertain whether they had become Jews or remained Gentiles in the wake of their baptism into Christ.
by Willie Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2000
This original study explores the development of the postmodern turn in history, brought on by the social, political and cultural changes of the 1970s and 1980s. Challenging notions of certainty and objectivity, postmodernism has questioned traditional models and methods in studying history. A timely...
El lugar de los poetas
Un ensayo sobre estética y política
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 20, 2017
En las situaciones de crisis de régimen, cuando las convicciones más sólidas se erosionan, es posible ver y pensar lo que de ordinario nos resulta invisible; no es de extrañar, pues, que sea entonces cuando la filosofía cobre un papel especialmente destacado. Son estos los momentos en los que...