Social Aspects category: 6049 books
Interpreting Gödel
Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The logician Kurt Gödel (1906–1978) published a paper in 1931 formulating what have come to be known as his 'incompleteness theorems', which prove, among other things, that within any formal system with resources sufficient to code arithmetic, questions exist which are neither provable nor disprovable...
by Martin Packer
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
This book is a unique examination of qualitative research in the social sciences, raising and answering the question of why we do this kind of investigation. Rather than offering advice on how to conduct qualitative research, it explores the multiple roots of qualitative research – including phenomenology,...
by Rudolf Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1996
As early as 1884, while tutoring a boy with special needs, Steiner began a lifelong interest in applying spiritual knowledge to the practical aspects of life. Steiner originally published the essay at the core of this book in 1907. It represents his earliest ideas on education, in which he lays out the...
Software Theory
A Cultural and Philosophical Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The cultural and philosophical study of software is crucial, both within and outside of the university, at an international level and across disciplines. Software is increasingly considered the focus of digital media studies because of the perceived need to address the invisibility, ubiquity, and...
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education
Nine Modern European Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2017
Philosophy, Dialogue, and Education is an advanced introduction to nine key European social philosophers: Martin Buber, Mikhail Bakhtin, Lev Vygotsky, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Simone Weil, Michael Oakeshott, and Jürgen Habermas. This detailed yet highly readable work...
by John Allison
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
We usually think of imagination as a fanciful, whimsical faculty that has little to do with reality and truth. This beautifully written book by the Australian poet John Allison shows how ordinary imagination can be intensified to become an organ of cognitiona path of development to real knowing. Allison...
by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one...
Rituals and Student Identity in Education
Ritual Critique for a New Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
An exploration of how the nonrational aspects of schooling, especially ritual(s), have been harnessed to construct a commonsense which serves the interests of transnational corporations, leaving those educators committed to democracy to develop a new pedagogy that rejects the technical solutions that present reforms demand.
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Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
Education is a controversial subject in which difficult and contested discourses are the norm. Individuals in education experience multiple inequalities and have diverse identifications that cannot necessarily be captured by one theoretical perspective alone. This edited collection draws on empirical...
Generation Z
What It's Like to Grow up in the Age of Likes, LOLs, and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From the Washington Post comes a fascinating profile of the digital native generation. For the generation after Millennials, technology has been the only way of life since birth. These children are the first group to have their formative moments chronicled on Facebook, to grow up surrounded by the ubiquity...
Cybersexism
Sex, Gender and Power on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
'The Internet was supposed to be for everyone... Millions found their voices in this brave new online world; it gave unheard masses the space to speak to each other without limits, across borders, both physical and social. It was supposed to liberate us from gender. But as more and more of our daily...
The Romantic Conception of Life
Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that...
Leviathan and the Air-Pump
Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
Leviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise Leviathan and vehement critic of systematic experimentation in natural philosophy, and Robert Boyle,...
Summary of Modern Romance
by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Summary of Modern Romance: by Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg | Includes Analysis Preview: Modern Romance is a nonfiction book by the comedian Aziz Ansari and New York University sociologist Eric Klinenberg. For years, Ansari has been doing comedy on the absurdities...