The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition, Paperback - Maurizio Lazzarato

``The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination indiscriminately, since, in ...

Reducere. Humans have long turned to gardens-both real and imaginary-for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens may be as fa...

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...

DescriptionHumans have long turned to gardens--both real and imaginary--for sanctuary from the frenzy and tumult that surrounds them. Those gardens...

DescriptionThe Italian philosopher Maurizio Lazzarato has earned international acclaim for his analysis of contemporary capitalism, in particular h...

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

A comprehensive new study that uncovers the real story of working-class struggle in TurkeyPublisher: Pluto PressIllustration(s): 16 figuresNumber o...

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...

``Capital is a semiotic operator`` this assertion by Felix Guattari is at the heart of Maurizio Lazzarato's Signs and Machines, which asks us to le...

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

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

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Marc CreponTranslator: Tyler WilliamsNumber of pages: 288Collection: IncitementsPublication date: 2...

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:...

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

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...

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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...

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

Description" Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim w...

Reducere. Why we must reject the illusory consolations of technology and choose revolution over fascism. We are living in apocalyptic times. In Capital Hates...

* 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...

Reducere. This beautiful essay details the hidden causes of War and Lawlessness that is the ruin of great nations. Arthur's Essay is profound in its though a...

Reducere. St. Gregory of Nyssa (335 - 395 AD), the great theologian and bishop Nyssa, turned his considerable skill to finishing the work that his brother St...

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...

We may think of video games as being "fun, " but in The Art of Failure, Jesper Juul claims that this is almost entirely mistaken. When we play vide...

With inspiration from the non-violence resistance movements of Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Jr., Crepon reveals how philos...

Reducere. After passing through deism, pantheism, and sundry atheistic visions of life, Vladimir Solovyov emerged as a Christian thinker of irrepressible con...

The Treatise on Musical Objects is regarded as Pierre Schaeffer's most important work on music and its relationship with technology. Schaeffer expa...

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

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 ...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gaston BachelardTranslator: Edith And Frederick FarrellAir and Dreams: An Essay on the Imagination of Movement - by Gaston ...

Two prominent thinkers argue for the possibility of a theory of concepts that takes reference to be concepts' sole semantic property.

How is scientific knowledge of social life possible? If there are social sciences, must they employ methods different from those of the natural sci...