Philosopher's Plant. An Intellectual Herbarium, Paperback - Michael Marder

Reducere. A secret history of philosophy grafting theory onto science, combining art and storytelling to bring Western thought back to its roots.

Reducere. We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images - one for each year that has passed since the explo...

A unique collaboration to map the ontology and epistemology of the human-plant relationship.

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Hegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit has been one of the most important works of philosophy since the nineteenth century, while the question of ener...

Reducere. A musical and philosophical meditation on twelfth-century mystic and Saint Hildegard of Bingen and her vegetal vision of creation.About author(s): ...

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Publisher: Anthem PressAuthor(s): Michael MarderNumber of pages: 168Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 146 x 223 x 19Cover type: HardbackRedescopera...

Michael Marder proposes a new methodology for political science and philosophy, one which he terms "categorial thinking." Under this lens, the poli...

Freud: An Intellectual Biography - Joel Whitebook

Reducere. This practical and concise language guide for English-speaking travellers to Mongolia allows one to navigate with ease and confidence through what ...

Best known as the author of the classic "Darkness at Noon", Koestler was one of the most influential and controversial intellectuals, involved in a...

Leibniz: An Intellectual Biography - Maria Rosa Antognazza

DescriptionAt the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his fath...

Reducere. The life and work of Sigmund Freud continue to fascinate general and professional readers alike. Joel Whitebook here presents the first major biogr...

Reducere. No Arab historical figure is more demonized than the Egyptian literati-turned-Islamist Sayyid Qutb. A poet and literary critic in his youth, Qutb i...

Georges Bataille (1897-1962) was a philosopher, writer and literary critic who had an enormous impact on the thinking of Foucault, Derrida and Baud...

An accelerated introduction into the life and work of the first female Nobel Laureate for Economics, Elinor Ostrom.

Carl Gustav Jung merged Eastern mysticism with Western psychology, brought scientific respectability to religion, laid the foundation for 'the New ...

Reducere. An engrossing account of the remarkable twentieth-century philosopher-sociologist who has been called the Catholic Nietzsche. John Raphael Staude e...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin is among the most enigmatic and influential figures of the twentieth century. While his life and work are crucial to any unde...

Reducere. The writings of Carl Schmitt form what is arguably the most disconcerting, original, and yet still unfamiliar body of twentieth-century political t...

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DescriptionWhen Mustafa Kemal Atat rk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming his country into a secular republic w...

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DescriptionIn this ambitious work David T. Byrne analyzes the ideas that informed Ronald Reagan's political philosophy and policies. Rather than ap...

Reducere. For women, maintaining appropriate estrogen levels is emphasized and a surprisingly large portion of this book is devoted to its effects on all asp...

At the Risk of Thinking is the first biography of Julia Kristeva--one of the most celebrated intellectuals in the world. Alice Jardine brings Krist...

Herbs are all about living well, from enriching a meal to treating an illness. Sacred, almost mystical qualities have often been associated with th...

Addressing modern process plant operations in an easy-to-understand format, this text reveals the important role technicians play in the function o...

In this intellectual biography, the economic historian Michele Alacevich explores the development and trajectory of Albert O. Hirschman's approach ...

Publisher: Univocal Publishing LLCAuthor(s): Vilem FlusserNumber of pages: 496Collection: UnivocalPublication date: 2015Dimensions: 295 x 173 x 32C...

A cultural and intellectual balance-sheet of the twentieth century's age of revolutionsPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Enzo TraversoNumber of page...

Reducere. "Layla's struggles at school and home are authentically depicted, and readers who face their own challenges will relate." -School Library JournalAn...

Reducere. Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen schol...

Reducere. From Freud to Babbitt, from Animal Farm to Sartre to the Great Society, from the Theory of Relativity to counterculture to Kosovo, The Modern Mind ...

As intimate and meticulous as his revered portraits, Lucian Freud's magnificent paintings and drawings of plant life are gathered for the first tim...

Publisher: WILDGuidesAuthor(s): Michael ChineryNumber of pages: 96Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 208 x 150 x 6Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

Reducere. When one encounters a metaphor in the Humanities, the interpretation of that metaphor is dominated by either cognitive linguistics or post-Kantian ...

Reducere. An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning In an overloaded, superficial, techn...

This new fourth edition has been completely updated, with over 500 new entries increasing the coverage of botanical terms, key drugs derived from p...

Postmodern, postcolonial, and post-truth are broadly used terms. But where do they come from? When and why did the habit of interpreting the world ...

Reducere. Mongolian vocabulary and phrases are given in both the Roman alphabet and the Mongolian Cyrillic script, enabling the user to pronounce words easil...