Anatomies of Modern Discontent. Visions from the Human Sciences, Paperback - Thomas S. Henricks

This book provides an overview and analysis of the thought of forty figures across the human and social sciences on the character, causes, and cons...

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From where do we speak? This collection of essays questions the processes of globalization in terms of how they have transformed the theoretical to...

Reducere. Charles Taylor has been one of the most original and influential figures in contemporary philosophy: his 'philosophical anthropology' spans an unus...

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A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason Ā. Jo...

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Jacques Derrida's Structure, Sign, and Play is one of the most controversial and influential philosophical texts of the 20th century. Delivered at ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe social contract that has underpinned growth and political stability in the Western world since World War II has broken down. Houses,...

Reducere. Collected and translated by John B. Thompson, this collection of essays by Paul Ricoeur includes many that had never appeared in English before the...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas SowellThomas Sowell's classic analysis of the opposing visions behind today's ethical and ideological disputesContro...

Reducere. Essays by a founder of the Borderland Foundation in East-Central Europe explore the meanings of community in a fractured world. How do we build civ...

Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter's questioning of modern/colonial descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine of Man interrogate ...

Reducere. Birds of Peru is the most complete and authoritative field guide to this diverse, neotropical landscape. It features every one of Peru's 1, 817 bir...

The essays in this volume interrogate the problem of modern/colonial definitions of the human person and take up the struggle to decolonize such de...

Haraway's discussions of how scientists have perceived the sexual nature of female primates opens a new chapter in feminist theory, raising unsettl...

Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighti...

In a book as illuminating as it is captivating, Thomas E. Drabek presents an in-depth analysis of the emotional impacts of disaster events and the ...

A sweeping history of the full range of human labor Few authors are able to write cogently in both the scientific and the economic spheres. Even fe...

DescriptionThis book investigates the troubled relationship between medieval studies and medievalism, asking what the term 'medievalist' means in t...

Guides ministers and trainee ministers towards a way of integrating theology, pastoral activity and personal faith.Publisher: SPCK PublishingAuthor...

Reducere. 'Dreams in Islam' is a subject which is located in knowledge internally received, and its supreme importance for the believer continually increases...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Derek C. (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) BriggsIllustration(s): 40 Line drawings, black and white; ...

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Reducere. Many people, at one time or another, struggle with faith issues about sin, guilt, punishment, and hell. But a small few, particularly Catholics, so...

DescriptionThe modern and contemporary art of Iran has often been understood, and positioned by commercial institutions, as decorative or ethnic - ...

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Reducere. "The world is at a loss for a way out. Parliamentarism and democracy are on the decline. Salvation is being sought in Fascism and other forms of "s...

The Puritans called Baptists "the troublers of churches in all places" and hounded them out of Massachusetts Bay Colony. Four hundred years later, ...

Reducere. The comic strip "Old Glory at the Crossroads 1861-1865" told the story of the Civil War during its centennial years from January 8, 1961 - June 6, ...

Reducere. In this combined edition, the full content of volumes 1 and 2 of Thomas Kidd's American History are brought together in a single, accessible textbo...