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- Columbia, 2015
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 22,75 €
ISBN 978-0-231-17241-7
EAN 9780231172417
How should we evaluate the success of each person's life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the view that our well-being is dependent not on particular activities, accomplishments, or awards but on finding personal satisfaction while treating others with due concern.The authors suggest that moral behavior ...
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- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 29,05 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15201-3
EAN 9780231152013
The idea of "culture" has become central to intellectual debates since at least the end of the 1970s, with the reemergence of longstanding cultural issues becoming an indispensible part of moral and political critique. Additionally, the meaning of culture has expanded beyond its earlier, anthropological meaning to include issues of ethnicity, race, religion, gender, and ...
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- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 10,00 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16954-7
EAN 9780231169547
The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and-finally-the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling ...
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Modernism at the Barricades
Aesthetics, Politics, Utopia
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 26,80 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15823-7
EAN 9780231158237
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Greenwald, Bruce C.; Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Creating a Learning Society
A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 560 páginas
PVP: 39,65 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15214-3
EAN 9780231152143
It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact, the pace ...
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Derrida/ Searle
Deconstruction and Ordinary Language
- Columbia, 2014
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 144 páginas
ISBN 978-0-231-16670-6
EAN 9780231166706
Raoul Moati intervenes in the critical debate that divided two prominent philosophers in the mid-twentieth century. In the 1950s, the British philosopher J. L. Austin advanced a theory of speech acts, or the "performative," that Jacques Derrida and John R. Searle interpreted in fundamentally different ways. Their disagreement centered on the issue of intentionality, which ...
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- Columbia, 2013
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 29,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-16284-5
EAN 9780231162845
Howard Marks's The Most Important Thing distilled the investing insight of his celebrated client memos into a single volume and, for the first time, made his time-tested philosophy available to general readers. In this edition, Marks's wisdom is joined by the comments, insights, and counterpoints of four renowned investors and investment educators: Christopher C. Davis ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 28,70 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15319-5
EAN 9780231153195
From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal neighbors, Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. These four territorial and centralized states have otherwise fostered peaceful and long-lasting relationships with one another, and as they have grown ...
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- Columbia, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 605 páginas
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-231-15731-5
EAN 9780231157315
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genji, The Tales of the Heike, The Pillow Book, the Man'yoshu, and ...
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- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 36,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-05347-1
EAN 9780231053471
Powers of Horror is an excellent introduction to an aspect of contemporary French literature which has been allowed to become somewhat neglected in the current emphasis on para-philosophical modes of discourse.
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- Columbia, 2008
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 136 páginas
PVP: 34,95 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14518-3
EAN 9780231145183
Instead of treating art as a unique creation that requires reason and refined taste to appreciate, Elizabeth Grosz argues that art-especially architecture, music, and painting-is born from the disruptive forces of sexual selection. She approaches art as a form of erotic expression connecting sensory richness with primal desire, and in doing so, finds that the ...
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- Columbia, 2005
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 576 páginas
PVP: 44,60 €
ISBN 978-0-231-13089-9
EAN 9780231130899
Rawls continues and revises the idea of justice as fairness that he presented in "A Theory of Justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way. Annotation: Rawls continues and revises the idea of justice as fairness that he presented in "A Theory of Justice" but changes its philosophical interpretation in a fundamental way.
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Post-Soviet Russia
A Journey Through the Yeltsin Era
- Columbia, 2002
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 394 páginas
PVP: 82,25 €
ISBN 978-0-231-10607-8
EAN 9780231106078
Roy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to both Gorbachev and Yeltsin analyzes the main events that have transpired in the Russian federation since late August 1991. He looks at the plans that were meant to restructure a society in crisis but-for reasons both complex and obvious-were destined to ...
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Sources of Korean Tradition
From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Centuries
- Columbia, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 55,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-12031-9
EAN 9780231120319
Modeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for understanding Korean civilization and demonstrates how leading intellectuals and public figures ...
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Sources of Korean Tradition
From Early Times Through The Sixteenth Century
- Columbia, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 55,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-10567-5
EAN 9780231105675
Drawn from Peter H. Lee's Sourcebook of Korean Civilization, Volume I, this abridged introductory collection offers students and general readers primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from ancient times through the sixteenth century. Sources of Korean Tradition is arranged according to the major epochs of Korean history, including sections on: ...
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- Columbia, 1991
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 625 páginas
PVP: 47,10 €
ISBN 978-0-231-06659-4
EAN 9780231066594
Jacques Derrida is one of the most prolific and influential contemporary French intellectuals. Twenty-two essays and excerpts from Derrida's writings over the last twenty-five years are gathered in this accessible introduction, A Derrida Reader. The book's five sections are carefully introduced by the editor, and each selection of Derrida's work is presented succinctly in context.A ...
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