Equality by Default: An Essay on Modernity as Confinement, Paperback - Philippe Beneton

Reducere. For most of our contemporaries, to speak of modernity is to think immediately of liberty, equality, and democracy—and to assume that all is well. B...

Reducere. Claude Lefort, one of the most prominent political philosophers of the twentieth century, reads Dante's Monarchia and demonstrates the surprising r...

Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity: An Essay on Desire, Practical Reasoning, and Narrative - Alasdair MacIntyre

Reducere. MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods require...

'. . . the Days immediately associated with the Manifestation of God possess a unique distinction and occupy a station which no mind can ever compr...

Contributor(s): Author: Alasdair MacIntyreAlasdair MacIntyre explores some central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argue...

Malthus's Essay looks at the perennial tendency of humans to outstrip their resources: reproduction always exceeds food production. Today Malthus r...

Paperback. Pub Date : 2013-02-28 Pages: 144 Language: English Publisher: Penguin PressClassics Reading Brodskys essays is like a conversation with ...

'A dazzling tour de force. A rhetorical masterpiece, an intellectual firework display by a modern master' Robert McCrum, GuardianIsaiah Berlin's cl...

Reducere. TO THE READER How can I sell my company for more money? How do I prepare to sell my company and what do I need to know? How do I not get clobbered ...

God, Sexuality, and the Self: An Essay 'On the Trinity' - Sarah Coakley

Reducere. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Bardo Thodol) is considered one of the great wisdom books of mankind. Since its metaphorical language is hard to unde...

Who but the Marquis de Sade would write, not of the pain, tragedy, and joy of love but of its crimes? Murder, seduction, and incest are among the c...

Reducere. A punishment may not be an act of violence, of one or of many, against a private member of society, it should be public, immediate and necessary; t...

Reducere. SSOTBME was originally commissioned by Christopher McIntosh (author of Eliphas levi and the French Occult Revival and other works on Hermetic and M...

'Anyone who has ever tried to do something well, anyone who has ever made personal sacrifices for an art or an idea, will have no trouble understan...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ramsey DukesSSOTBME was originally commissioned by Christopher McIntosh (author of Eliphas levi and the French Occult Reviv...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carl Philipp Emanuel BachTranslator: William J. MitchellEditor: William J. MitchellThe many ramifications of Bach's compreh...

Reducere. The relationship between Christian symbols and those of ancient religions is storied and complex; in this illustrated work, surgeon and mythologist...

DescriptionAs the world's population continues to grow at a frighteningly rapid rate, Malthus's classic warning against overpopulation gains increa...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PlcAuthor(s): Professor Eckart (University of Tubingen, Germany) GoebelTranslator: James C. WagnerNumber of pages:...

Metals, Culture and Capitalism: An Essay on the Origins of the Modern World - Jack Goody

Reducere. Written in the course of his conversion to Catholicism, Newman's "Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine" ranks among the most decisive bre...

* Catherine Malabou is a rising star of French philosophy and has a high reputation in the English speaking world. This is the second of several bo...

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 ...

Moving commandingly between pop cultural references such as Roald Dahl's 'Matilda' to observations about motherhood in the ancient world, from and ...

Reducere. Alexander Pope was a gifted poet, literary critic and translator of the Augustan Age, whose powerful poetic satire and perfection of the English he...

In this volume, Mises argued that economics is a science because human action is a natural order of life and that it is the actions of humans that ...

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement i...

A defense of aesthetic personalism that affirms an inclusive God's eye or ideal observer view of goodness and beauty, the reality and integrity of ...

Homer recounts how, trapped inside a monster's cave, with nothing but his wits to call upon, Ulysses once saved himself by twisting his name. He ca...

The book An Essay on the Principle of Population was first published anonymously in 1798, but the author was soon identified as Thomas Robert Malth...

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Malthus was a mild-mannered economist who set the world afire in 1798 with this essay on the 'principle of population.' Prompted ...

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 ...

New edition of Judt's Essay on Europe to celebrate his life and works.Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Tony JudtNumber of pages: 149P...

Reducere. Get Ready To Experience True Time Freedom, Be Fully Present, Increase Productivity and Live Your Best Life Do you ever feel disorganized and overwh...

Reducere. The book "That's Not Fair, " explains what it means to be equitable through the simplest demonstration.Two classmates who are close friends and ver...

Reducere. First published in France In 1947, Merleau-Ponty's essay was in part a response to Arthur Koestler's novel, Darkness at Noon, and in a larger sense...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Peter (Tutor and Musician in Residence, St. John's College) PesicIllustration(s): 46 illus.; 46 Illustrations, u...

In precarious and tumultuous times, schemes of social support, including cash transfers, are increasingly indispensable. Yet the inadequacy of the ...

Literary Nonfiction. Film. Essay. Jean Eustache came of age as a director in the aftermath of the French New Wave, and made La maman et la putain (...