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There are no men so dull and stupid, not even idiots, as to be incapable of joining together different words, and thereby constructing a declaration by which to make their thoughts understood...On the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect or happily circumstanced which can do the like.-Descartes Language is more like a ...
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Animals fall in love, establish rules for fair play, exchange valued goods and services, hold "funerals" for fallen comrades, deploy sex as a weapon, and communicate with one another using rich vocabularies. Animals also get jealous and violent or greedy and callous and develop irrational phobias and prejudices, just like us. Monkeys address inequality, wolves ...
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Honneth, Axel; Rancière, Jacques
Recognition or Disagreement : A Critical Encounter on the Politics of Freedom, Equality, and Identity
Axel Honneth is best known for his critique of modern society centered on a concept of recognition. Jacques Ranci re has advanced an influential theory of modern politics based on disagreement. Underpinning their thought is a concern for the logics of exclusion and domination that structure contemporary societies.In a rare dialogue, these two philosophers explore ...
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Badiou, Alain; Bourdieu, Pierre; Butler, Judith; Didi-Huberman, Georges; Rancière, Jacques
What is a People?
These outspoken intellectuals seek to reclaim "people" as an effective political concept by revisiting its uses and abuses over time. Alain Badiou surveys the idea of a people as a productive force of solidarity and emancipation and a negative tool of categorization and suppression. Pierre Bourdieu follows with a sociolinguistic analysis of "popular" and its ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17589-0
EAN 9780231175890
"We are awash in time, savoring a few moments of it; we project ourselves into it, reinvent it, play with it; we take our time or let it slip away: it is the raw material of our imagination. Age, on the other hand, is the detailed account of the days that pass, the one-way view ...
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Reza Zia-Ebrahimi revisits the work of Fath?ali Akhundzadeh and Mirza Aqa Khan Kermani, two Qajar-era intellectuals who founded modern Iranian nationalism. In their efforts to make sense of a difficult historical situation, these thinkers advanced an appealing ideology Zia-Ebrahimi calls "dislocative nationalism," in which pre-Islamic Iran is cast as a golden age, Islam is reinterpreted ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 28,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17068-0
EAN 9780231170680
On Christmas Eve 1951, Santa Claus was hanged and then publicly burned outside of the Cathedral of Dijon in France. That same decade, ethnologists began to study the indigenous cultures of central New Guinea, and found men and women affectionately consuming the flesh of the ones they loved. "Everyone calls what is not their own ...
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Being insulated by two immense oceans makes it hard for Americans to appreciate the concerns of more exposed countries. American democracy's rapid rise also fools many into thinking the same liberal system can flourish anywhere, and having populated a vast continent with relative ease impedes Americans' understanding of conflicts between different peoples over other lands. ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16696-6
EAN 9780231166966
We think it is wise to accept reality, rather than fight for something that does not exist or might never be. But in Of Reality, Gianni Vattimo condemns this complacency, with its implicit support of the status quo. Instead he urges us to never stop questioning, contrasting, or overcoming reality, which is not natural, inevitable, ...
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First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in Ireland, Shapiro's work delves deeply into the cultural insecurities of Elizabethans while illuminating ...
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- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17425-1
EAN 9780231174251
A sensation upon its publication in 1970, Sexual Politics documents the subjugation of women in great literature and art. Kate Millett's analysis targets four revered authors-D. H.Lawrence, Henry Miller, Norman Mailer, and Jean Genet-and builds a damning profile of literature's patriarchal myths and their extension into psychology, philosophy, and politics. Her eloquence and popular examples ...
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What is Relativity?
An Intuitive Introduction to Einstein's Ideas, and Why They Matter
- Columbia, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 25,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16727-7
EAN 9780231167277
It is commonly assumed that if the Sun suddenly turned into a black hole, it would suck Earth and the rest of the planets into oblivion. Yet, as prominent author and astrophysicist Jeffrey Bennett points out, black holes don't suck. With that simple idea in mind, Bennett begins an entertaining introduction to Einstein's theories of ...
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- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 21,15 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17017-8
EAN 9780231170178
Monopolies, mismanagement, app development, Google delivery drones, trouble in the retail sector--2015 was another year of profound changes in the world of business and finance. Featuring articles that range from clear-eyed assessments of new developments in business and finance to muckraking reports on corruption, these incisive stories are a must-read for those interested in the ...
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Reimagining the Sacred
Richard Kearney debates God with James Wood, Catherine Keller, Charles Taylor, Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, John Caputo, Da
- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 31,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16103-9
EAN 9780231161039
Leading philosopher Richard Kearney engages Julia Kristeva, Gianni Vattimo, James Wood, Charles Taylor, Catherine Keller, Simon Critchley, Jean-Luc Marion, and John Caputo on the place of religion in a secular world.Contemporary conversations about religion and culture are framed by two reductive definitions of secularity. In one, multiple faiths and nonfaiths coexist free from a dominant ...
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- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 176 páginas
PVP: 24,40 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17596-8
EAN 9780231175968
Addressing the most fundamental themes defining our humanity: the uniquely human capacity for language, the nature and limits of the human mind, and the possibilities for the common good in human society and politics.Noam Chomsky is widely known and deeply admired for being the founder of modern linguistics, one of the founders of the field ...
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Worlds without Ends
The Many Lives of the Multiverse
- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 360 páginas
PVP: 28,85 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15663-9
EAN 9780231156639
"Multiverse" cosmologies imagine our universe as just one of a vast number of others. While this idea has captivated philosophy, religion, and literature for millennia, it is now being considered as a scientific hypothesis--with different models emerging from cosmology, quantum mechanics, and string theory.Beginning with ancient Atomist and Stoic philosophies, Mary-Jane Rubenstein links contemporary models ...
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Marx after Marx
History and Time in the Expansion of Capitalism
- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 39,20 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17480-0
EAN 9780231174800
Revisiting Marx's seminal conception of capital and production to better critique our diverse global economies.Harry Harootunian questions the claims of "Western Marxism" and its presumption of the final completion of capitalism. If this shift in Marxism reflected the recognition that the expected revolutions were not forthcoming in the years before World War II, its Cold ...
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Greenwald, Bruce C.; Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17549-4
EAN 9780231175494
Creating a Learning Society explains how the countries of the world went from centuries of stagnation to the enormous increases in standards of living that have marked the last two hundred and fifty years: they have learned how to learn. Yet, as Stiglitz and Greenwald make clear, markets won't succeed on their own in creating ...
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Inventing English
A Portable History of the English Language
- Columbia, 2015
Encuadernación en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 21,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17447-3
EAN 9780231174473
Seth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Lerer situates these developments within the larger history of English, America, and literature. This edition features a new chapter on the influence ...
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- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17098-7
EAN 9780231170987
This book presents the essential steps of Munger's investing strategy, condensed here for the first time from interviews, speeches, writings, and shareholder letters, and paired with commentary from fund managers, value investors, and business-case historians. Munger's approach is straightforward enough that ordinary investors can apply it to their portfolios. This book is not simply about ...
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