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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4725-7633-0
EAN 9781472576330
Helen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy. Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco's dictatorship; and the 'history wars' that have since taken ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-3533-4
EAN 9781474235334
A lively yet substantial biography of the French Existentialist Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean-Paul Sartre is one of the undisputed giants of 20th-century philosophy. His intellectual writings popularizing existentialism combined with his creative and artistic flair have made him a legend of French thought. His tumultuous personal life - so inextricably bound up with his philosophical ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-5013-0744-7
EAN 9781501307447
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Bread is an object that is always in process of becoming something else: flower to grain, grain to dough, dough to loaf, loaf to crumb. Bread is also often a figure or vehicle of social cohesion: from the ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 248 páginas
PVP: 41,45 €
ISBN 978-1-5013-1325-7
EAN 9781501313257
This significant new study is concerned with the role of interpreting in Nazi concentration camps, where prisoners were of 30 to 40 different nationalities. With German as the only official language in the lager, communication was vital to the prisoners' survival. While in the last few decades there has been extensive research on the language ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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PVP: 54,00 €
ISBN 978-1-4725-8989-7
EAN 9781472589897
This book provides an overview of current theories of and methods for analysing spoken discourse. It includes discussions of both the more traditional approaches of pragmatics, conversation analysis, interactional sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology and critical discourse analysis, and more recently developed approaches such as multimodal discourse analysis and critical sociolinguistics. Rather than treating these perspectives as ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-62892-286-8
EAN 9781628922868
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-5013-1487-2
EAN 9781501314872
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Where does a password end and an identity begin? A person might be more than his chosen ten-character combination, but does a bank know that? Or an email provider? What's an 'identity theft' in the digital age if ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-9599-4
EAN 9781474295994
Despite his critical role in the western Roman Empire during the early fifth century AD, Bonifatius remains a neglected figure in the history of the late Empire. The Last of the Romans presents a new political and military biography of Bonifatius, analysing his rise through the higher echelons of imperial power and examining themes such ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-3755-0
EAN 9781474237550
How might we reinvent the humanities? This is the question at the heart of this provocative volume. It is a difficult mission and definitely one which needs to be addressed with increasing urgency. There is no better cast to confront and problematize this question than the contributors to Conflicting Humanities. They are world-renowned thinkers who ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-5013-2216-7
EAN 9781501322167
Critical Theory and Disability explores social and ontological issues encountered by presentday disabled people, applying ideas from disability studies and phenomenology. It focuses on disabling contexts in order to highlight and criticize the ontological assumptions of contemporary society, particularly those related to the meaning of human being. In empirical terms, the book explores critically social ...
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Harding, Brian; Kelly, Michael
Early phenomenology. Metaphysics, ethics, and the philosophy of religion
Taking the term 'phenomenologist' in a fairly broad sense, Early Phenomenology focuses on those early exponents of the intellectual discipline, such as Buber, Ortega and Scheler rather than those thinkers that would later eclipse them; indeed the volume precisely means to bring into question what it means to be a phenomenologist, a category that becomes ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-9564-2
EAN 9781474295642
Olympiodorus (AD c. 500-570), possibly the last non-Christian teacher of philosophy in Alexandria, delivered these lectures as an introduction to Plato with a biography. For us, they can serve as an accessible introduction to late Neoplatonism.Olympiodorus locates the First Alcibiades at the start of the curriculum on Plato, because it is about self-knowledge. His pupils ...
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Harris, John; King, Daniel; Sirkel, Riin; Tweedale, Martin M.
Philoponus: on Aristotle Categories 1-5 with Philoponus: A Treatise Concerning the Whole and the Parts
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-9570-3
EAN 9781474295703
Philoponus' On Aristotle Categories 1-5 discusses the nature of universals, preserving the views of Philoponus' teacher Ammonius, as well as presenting a Neoplatonist interpretation of Aristotle's Categories. Philoponus treats universals as concepts in the human mind produced by abstracting a form or nature from the material individual in which it has its being. The work ...
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Herck, Walter van; Latre, Stijn; Vanheeswijck, Guido
Radical Secularization? : An Inquiry into the Religious Roots of Secular Culture
- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-5013-2268-6
EAN 9781501322686
What does it mean for a society to be secular? Answering this question from a philosophical angle, Radical Secularization? delves into the philosophical presuppositions of secularization. Which cultural evolutions made secularization possible? International scholars from different disciplines assess the answers given by many leading philosophers such as, among others, Lowith, Blumenberg and Habermas (Germany), Gauchet ...
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This book presents a radical new picture of natural order. The Newtonian idea of a cosmos ruled by universal and exceptionless laws has been superseded; replaced by a conception of nature as a realm of diverse powers, potencies, and dispositions, a 'dappled world. There is order in nature, but it is more local, diverse, piecemeal, ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-4510-4
EAN 9781474245104
Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers, and now also one of the most contentious as revelations of the extent of his Nazism continue to surface. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-5597-4
EAN 9781474255974
The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Eighteenth-Century German Philosophers is a landmark work. Covering one of the most innovative centuries for philosophical investigation, it features more than 650 entries on the eighteenth-century philosophers, theologians, jurists, physicians, scholars, writers, literary critics and historians whose work has had lasting philosophical significance. Alongside well-known German philosophers of that era-Gottfried Wilhelm ...
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- Bloomsbury Academic, 2016
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ISBN 978-1-4742-1618-0
EAN 9781474216180
Assuming no prior knowledge, The Qur'an: A Philosophical Guide is an introduction to the Qur'an from a philosophical point of view. Oliver Leaman's guide begins by familiarizing the readers with the core theories and controversies surrounding the text. Covering key theoretical approaches and focusing on its style and language, Leaman introduces the Qur'an as an ...
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Language not only expresses identities but also constructs them. Starting from that point, Language and Identity examines the interrelationships between language and identities. It finds that they are so closely interwoven, that words themselves are inscribed with ideological meanings.Words and language constitute meanings within discourses and discourses vary in power. The powerful ones reproduce more ...
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Rohmer is one of the most popular French directors of the second half of the 20th century, one of the members of the famous Nouvelle Vague that reconstituted French cinema based on the theoretical principles articulated in the Cahiers du Cinema - from whose editorship he was fired when the conservative Catholic opposed its turn ...
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