Ernst Cassirer. The Last Philosopher of Culture, Paperback - Edward Skidelsky

A biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and ...

«Marii ganditori, care au descris omul ca animal rational, nu au fost niste empiristi, si nu au avut intentia de a oferi o reprezentare empirica de...

One of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers presents the results of his lifetime study of man's cultural achievements An Essay on Man is a...

Presents an analysis of one of history's greatest intellectual epochs: the Enlightenment. Arguing that there was a common foundation beneath the di...

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Reducere. Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.

Reducere. THE DEFINITIVE SINGLE-VOLUME BIOGRAPHY Robert Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes has been acclaimed as the authoritative acc...

Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity...

Hubert Nowak, who lived and worked in Salzburg for many years, sets out to find the lesser-known side of the city. Through the stories of those who...

Homi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolon...

This authoritative but concise guide describes the most significant cultural theories from the 19th to the 21st century and their originators, as w...

Reducere. Facsimile of 1935 Edition. The essential idea in Patterns of Culture is, according to Margaret Mead, "her view of human cultures as 'personality wr...

Reducere. In A Philosophical Defense of Culture, Shuchen Xiang draws on the Confucian philosophy of culture and Ernst Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms...

Reducere. In the debris of the financial crash of 2008, the principles of John Maynard Keynes--that economic storms are a normal part of the market system, t...

Derby Day, Henley Regatta, Cowes, the twelfth of August, a cup final, the dog races, the pin table, the dart board, Wensleydale cheese, boiled cabb...

Bulwer-Lytton's story of fictional events in Pompeii in the days leading up to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which destroyed the city. Classics I...

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

The gospel of Jesus Christ is always situated within a particular cultural context. But how should Christians approach the complex relationship bet...

Reducere. Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and...

Reducere. The Last Gentleman Adventurer: Coming of Age in the Arctic, Paperback

An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066Publisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Tom L...

Reducere. In this book, Philipp von Wussow argues that the philosophical project of Leo Strauss must be located in the intersection of culture, religion, and...

Arguing that humans are, in a fundamental sense, social beings, this book articulates that this can be grasped from understanding the complex socia...

"Pop Icons and Business Legends" compresses 200 years of Houston history through the prism of business, entrepreneurship and innovation, a beacon t...

Reducere. Culture is a continuing, forward process-the gradual unveiling of truth as life. But often we get ensnarled. We can only imagine culture as a war, ...

Within corporate media industries, adults produce children's entertainment. Yet children, presumed to exist outside the professional adult world, m...

Reducere. Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of CultureYuri M. LotmanIntroduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann ShukmanA major book by one of the init...

Explores how ancient and late antique Christianity traveled through Asia by examining the social networks that connected the ancient and late antiq...

Reducere. In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weave...

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from Sout...

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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 ...

Reducere. Professor Edward Feser argues here that Richard Dawkins has it all wrong. God is not a hypothesis, to be replaced if a more satisfactory theory com...

It's Plato, it's Hume, Baudrillard and the concept of the Nietzschean superman!' Keanu Reeves on The MatrixThe Philosopher at the End of the Univer...

DescriptionA Mexican State of Mind: New York City and the New Borderlands of Culture explores the cultural and creative lives of the largely young ...

Subtitled, }How Our Greatest Invention Made Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier & Happier{. A readable account of how and why cities function as...

Reducere. The Last Party is Anthony Haden-Guest's account of Studio 54 and the legendary New York nightlife scene of the '70s and '80s, now available as an I...

Classic and evocative account of a First World War Ace of Aces. Contains a new Introduction by aviation expert RICHARD OVERY which describes, in fa...

This profusely illustrated archive of more than 200 flowers, plants, and trees was compiled by Ernst and Johanna Lehner -- two of the world's forem...

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Reducere. A graphic novel based on the life and death of Robert 'Yummy' Sandifer, an 11-year-old gang member from Chicago's Southside who was killed by his o...

Interpreting the Death of Edward VI is an exploration into the life, illness and unusually early death of Henry VIII's overshadowed son.Publisher: ...

A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...

From a renowned American anthropologist comes a proud celebration of human capacities. For too long, people have taken their own ways of life for g...

The answer is a tale of operatic proportions, sweeping across continents from the 1848 European revolutions to the civil wars in Mexico and the USA...