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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2012
Transitional Justice and Civil Society in the Balkans covers civil society engagements with transitional justice processes in the Balkans. The Balkans are a region marked by the post-communist and post-conflict transitional turmoil through which its countries are going through.
This volume...
A Social Psychology Perspective on The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Celebrating the Legacy of Daniel Bar-Tal, Vol II.
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Due to its intensity and extensive effects both locally and globally, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has drawn the attention of scholars from numerous disciplines, who attempt to explain the causes of the conflict and the reasons for the difficulties in resolving it. Among these one can find historians,...
by C. Neill
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
A readable and advanced introductory-level text focusing on the ethical dimensions and impact of Lacan's thinking. This book argues that a rethinking of the subject necessitates a rethinking of our relation to law, tradition and morality, as well as our understanding of guilt, responsibility and desire.
by Jacob Needleman
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Seeking to reconcile the split between our inner child and our adult self, eminent philosopher and religious scholar Jacob Needleman evokes the ancient spiritual tradition of a deep dialogue between a guiding wisdom figure and a seeker. The elder offers an initiation to a younger self, an initiation...
by Raymond Angelo Belliotti
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Happiness Is Overrated begins with an historical overview of the development of the concept of 'happiness' from Plato to contemporary writers, highlighting the best scholarship emerging from philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Belliotti includes practical advice on how to attain happiness and addresses...
by Harold F. Searles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994
This text contains descriptions of how to work with borderline patients.
The Belief in a Just World
A Fundamental Delusion
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The "belief in a just world" is an attempt to capmre in a phrase one of the ways, if not the way, that people come to terms with-make sense out of-find meaning in, their experiences. We do not believe that things just happen in our world; there is a pattern to events which conveys not only...
Sleep Around the World
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects of sleep in various countries and contexts.
by Stephen Frosh
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.
Diamond Heart: Book Five
Inexhaustible Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2011
From one perspective, we can see ourselves merely as human beings struggling in a crowded and chaotic world of suffering. This book opens our eyes to a different reality, one that turns our familiar world inside out. We need only explore—with curiosity and love—our true potential as human beings...
by Owen West
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
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Institutions, Emotions, and Group Agents
Contributions to Social Ontology
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
The contributions gathered in this volume present the state of the art in key areas of current social ontology. They focus on the role of collective intentional states in creating social facts, and on the nature of intentional properties of groups that allow characterizing them as responsible agents,...
Theoretical Issues in Psychology
Proceedings of the International Society for Theoretical Psychology 1999 Conference
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Theoretical Issues in Psychology is published as the discipline of psychology enters its (at least) third century. The year 2001 brings with it millennial reflections, as well as the strange sense of deja vu that we derive from the Kubrick movie. As to the former, a glance at the contents list of...
Macrostructures
An Interdisciplinary Study of Global Structures in Discourse, Interaction, and Cognition
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2019
Macrostructures are higher-level semantic or conceptual structures that organize the ‘local’ microstructures of discourse, interaction, and their cognitive processing. They are distinguished from other global structures of a more schematic nature, which we call superstructures. Originally published...