Confessions, The Social Contract, Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy & Discourse on the Effect of the Arts and Sciences on Morali

A collection of the essential works of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, one of leading thinkers of the Enlightenment. "The Confessions", regarded as the firs...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: G. D. H. ColeJean-Jacques Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chai...

This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Ec...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Jean-Jacques RousseauTranslator: Donald A. CressNumber of pages: 112Publication date: 1992Dimension...

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If ineq...

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creati...

Reducere. Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Discourse on the Origin and the Foundations of Inequality Among Men. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the very famous Fre...

Reducere. A scholarly and thought-provoking work that places Jewish humor at the center of a discourse about Jewish and German relations through most of the ...

The only student edition of Calhoun's writings available, this volume offers the Disquisition in its entirety along with two key selections from th...

Several of Descarte's most ground-breaking essays and philosophic treatises are contained in this quality edition. Written by Ren Descartes in the ...

Reducere. Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian ...

Contributor(s): Author: Aime Cesaire"C saire's essay stands as an important document in the development of third world consciousness--a process in ...

Reducere. Noted German polymath Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was one of the most important philosophers of the Enlightenment era. A contemporary of Isaac Ne...

Reducere. This sutta is the primary discourse in which the Buddha describes the practice of meditation in detail. This translation of the Mahāsatipaṭṭhāna Su...

Reducere. In TROLLRÚN: A Discourse on Trolldom and Runes in the Northern Tradition, Nicholaj de Mattos Frisvold opens the door to landscapes little known ou...

Publisher: University of Minnesota PressAuthor(s): Michel De CerteauNumber of pages: 302Collection: Theory and History of LiteraturePublication dat...

This edited collection combines quantitative content and critical discourse analysis to reveal a shift in the rhetoric used as part of the neoliber...

Descartes is considered the father of modern philosophy, and these two works capture the essence of his thinking. In A Discourse on Method, he expl...

Reducere. This is a difficult book, and to minimize the difficulties, we must try to give as many definitions as possible. Discourse is a language unit, anal...

Reducere. ... a moving, deep series of insights into the suicide's world... " --Kirkus ReviewsJean Am ry (Auschwitz survivor and author of At the Mind's Limi...

Publisher: Shambhala Publications IncAuthor(s): Nakae ChominNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 1992Dimensions: 152 x 209 x 12Cover type: Paperba...

DescriptionDiscourse on Africana Studies: James Turner and Paradigms of Knowledge is both a reader and an introspective tribute, comprised of writi...

Offers a concise presentation and defense of Rene Descartes' method of intellectual inquiry - a method that greatly influenced both philosophical a...

The works of many early critics of the Christian church were burned by ruling emperors or otherwise destroyed in the second and third centuries, bu...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium "Academic Voices in Contrast", organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 200...

This book represents the physical outcome of the symposium "Academic Voices in Contrast", organised at the University of Bergen, Norway, in May 200...

Reducere. Discours de la m thode is a philosophical and autobiographical treatise published by Ren Descartes in 1637.It is one of the most influential works ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis new edition of George A. Kennedy's highly acclaimed translation and commentary offers the most faithful English version ever publis...

Reducere. Desiderius Eramsus (1466/9-1536) was the most renowned scholar of his age, a celebrated humanist and Classicist, and the first teacher of Greek at ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Rene DescartesTranslator: Richard KenningtonNumber of pages: 58Publication date: 1998Dimensions: 21...

This book explores the influence of ubuntu on South Africa's post-apartheid transitional justice mechanism, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission...

This book provides an accessible and highly engaging discussion of customary international law. It employs an original theoretical perspective to u...

Publisher: De GruyterIllustration(s): 6 Tables, black and white; 19 Illustrations, color; 20 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 380Coll...

Reducere. Discourse on Thinking questions that must occur to us the moment we manage to see a familiar situation in unfamiliar light.

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizTranslator: Daniel GarberNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 1991Dimensio...

DescriptionSocial network sites are dynamic online socio-cultural arenas which give users ample and unprecedented opportunities for self-presentati...

Essays on Philosophical Pragmatism.Publisher: CENTRAL BOOKSAuthor(s): LUDWIG NAGLNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 170 x 243 x ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A regional, intersectional, and transnational perspective of psychoanalysis in Latin America and the Caribbean that illuminates psychoanalysis's ro...

Reducere. DescriptionThis wonderful and remarkable book by Wang Fengyi (1864-1937) is a true testament to the benefits of Daoist spiritual cultivation. At ag...

Reducere. While short in words, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude speaks volumes to all those who value liberty on all levels, but who are currently trapped i...

Drawing inspiration from the works of those such as Jacques Derrida, Michael Foucault and Jacques Lacan, the contributors address particular questi...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Craig (St Thomas Aquinas College, USA) MartinNumber of pages: 296Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 1...

Reducere. Contained here in this volume are two of the most influential works of philosophy ever written, Descartes' "Discourse on Method" and "Meditations o...

The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the potentialities of texts ...