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Queer Theory and Social Change argues that there is a crisis within Queer theory over whether or not its theories can actually deliver change. Max Kirsch presents a challenging alternative to the current fascination with post-modern analyses of identity, culture, and difference. It emphasizes the...

Toleration, Respect and Recognition in Education brings together a collection of papers examining the complexity of different interpretations of toleration, respect and recognition in education. Discusses different theories of toleration and shows how it lies at the centre of a liberal pluralistic...

From Balewa's declaration, 'Today is Independence Day,' to Azikiwe's impassioned plea, 'Let us bind the nation's wound and let us heal the breaches of the past so that in forging our nation there shall emerge on this continent a hate-free, fear-free, and greed-free people,' to Buhari's patriotic fervor,...

Extrait : "Le matérialisme est une erreur, une maladie de l'esprit humain ; considérée comme une forme de l'incrédulité dont il est l'expression extrême, on en trouve des traces dans les temps les plus anciens. Il est alors l'effet du dérèglement qui cherche à secouer d'un témoin et d'un juge...

Nouvelle édition 2019 sans DRM de Projet concernant de nouveaux signes pour la musique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau augmentée d'annexes (Biographie). ERGONOMIE AMÉLIORÉE : L'ouvrage a été spécifiquement mis en forme pour votre liseuse. - Naviguez par simple clic de chapitre à chapitre ou...

Georg Simmel: Zur Psychologie der Frauen / Zur Psychologie des Geldes. Zwei Essays Zur Psychologie der Frauen: Erstdruck: Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Sprachwissenschaft; hrsg. von M. Lazarus und H. Steinthal, 20. Bd. 1890; S. 6-46; Leipzig. Zur Psychologie des Geldes: Erstdruck: Jahrbuch...

Being Shaken is a multifaceted meditation by leading philosophers from Europe and North America on ways in which events disrupt the complacency of the ontological paradigm at the personal, ethical, theological, aesthetic, and political levels.

According to Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche's only value is the flourishing of the exceptional individual. The well-being of ordinary people is, in itself, without value. Yet there are passages in Nietzsche that appear to regard the flourishing of the community as a whole alongside, perhaps even above,...

Nietzsche's The Gay Science (1882/1887) is a deeply personal book, yet also an important work of philosophy. Nietzsche conceives it as a philosophical autobiography, a record of his own self-transformation. In beautifully composed aphorisms he communicates his central experience of overcoming pessimism...

A humorous philosophical investigation into the existence of Santa—from a co–executive producer of The Big Bang Theory Emmy award–winning comedy writer and philosophy scholar Eric Kaplan brilliantly turns a search for the truth about Santa into a laugh-out-loud metaphysical romp. Surveying...

Roger Crisp presents a comprehensive study of Henry Sidgwick's The Methods of Ethics, a landmark work first published in 1874. Crisp argues that Sidgwick is largely right about many central issues in moral philosophy: the metaphysics and epistemology of ethics, consequentialism, hedonism about well-being,...

This handy guide provides detailed coverage of all the key movements of the last 100 years of French though and gives short but readable accounts of the life, works and influence of famous philosophers and eccentric personalities.

Using the example of prehistoric paintings discovered in the late 19th century in Spain and France Cave Art, Perception and Knowledge inquires into epistemic questions related to images, depicting and perception that this rich material has given rise to. The book traces the outline of the doxa of cave art studies.

Sartre is surely one of the most important philosophers of the 20th Century. His “philosophy of existence” influenced not just academic debate but the whole of Western civilization, especially European youth. In France, from the end of WW2 on into the 1960s, a certain “youth culture” milieu composed...