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- Fordham University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 314 páginas
PVP: 51,05 €
ISBN 978-0-8232-7053-8
EAN 9780823270538
Frontier: the border between two countries; the limits of civilization; the bounds of established knowledge; a new field of activity. At a time when all frontiers (borders, boundaries, margins, limits) are being-often violently-challenged, crossed, erased or on the contrary reinforced, fenced and walled, perhaps it is urgent to rethink the very concept of frontier itself. ...
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Leo Strauss is one of the foremost political thinkers of the twentieth century, known primarily for reviving the study of classical political philosophy. Strauss recovered that tradition of thought largely lost to the West because he did not emphasize its metaphysical teachings but its teaching on politics. What brought Strauss to his reading of the ...
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- Columbia, 2016
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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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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2016
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PVP: 16,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-198036-2
EAN 9780141980362
The No. 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good life. We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status ...
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Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies. This volume also includes a preface ...
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A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, but so have countless characters in literature: that the modern age places us squarely before the reflection of our own tragic condition, our existence characterized by utmost contingency, homelessness, instability, unredeemed suffering, and broken morality.Christopher Hamilton examines the works of ...
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Controversies in Digital Ethics explores ethical frameworks within digital culture. Through a combination of theoretical examination and specific case studies, the essays in this volume provide a vigorous examination of ethics in a highly individualistic and mediated world. Focusing on specific controversies ' privacy, surveillance, identity politics, participatory culture ' the authors in this volume ...
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How to be Good
The Possibility of Moral Enhancement
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 39,30 €
ISBN 978-0-19-870759-2
EAN 9780198707592
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ISBN 978-1-4438-8830-1
EAN 9781443888301
The contributions to this book offer a broad vision of the relationships that were established between Greek Philosophy and the Mystery Cults. The authors centre their attention on such thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and the Neoplatonist philosophers, who used-and in some cases criticised-doctrinal elements from Mystery Cults, adapting them to their own ...
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How to Grow Old
Ancient Wisdom for the Second Half of Life
- Princeton, 2016
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PVP: 20,60 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16770-1
EAN 9780691167701
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In "How to Grow Old," the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all--and why you might ...
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- Princeton, 2016
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PVP: 23,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16928-6
EAN 9780691169286
In "The Soul of the World," renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To be fully alive--and to understand what ...
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- Princeton, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 13,10 €
ISBN 978-0-691-16934-7
EAN 9780691169347
One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition--introduced by noted American writer John Updike--celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material ...
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- Columbia, 2016
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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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- Columbia, 2016
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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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Classical Philosophy
A history of philosophy without any gaps
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 368 páginas
PVP: 15,10 €
ISBN 978-0-19-876703-9
EAN 9780198767039
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One True Life
The Stoics and Early Christians as Rival Traditions
- Yale University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 34,05 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18012-1
EAN 9780300180121
In this groundbreaking, cross-disciplinary work of philosophy and biblical studies, New Testament scholar C. Kavin Rowe explores the promise and problems inherent in engaging rival philosophical claims to what is true. Juxtaposing the Roman Stoics Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius with the Christian saints Paul, Luke, and Justin Martyr, and incorporating the contemporary views of ...
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- Harvard University Press, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 37,45 €
ISBN 978-0-674-50495-0
EAN 9780674504950
One of political philosophys most trenchant and inventive critics challenges the fields normative turn, arguing that the study of politics should focus on real politics, where normative judgments arise from concrete configurations of power. Raymond Geuss shows how this can be done without succumbing to a toxic relativism or abandoning utopianism.Raymond Geuss is one of ...
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- Penguin UK, 2016
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7181-9350-8
EAN 9780718193508
Philosopher, dramatist, rhetorician, Stoic and pragmatist, Seneca was one of the most contradictory figures in ancient Rome, embracing a stern ascetic morality while amassing a fortune under Nero and eventually committing suicide. This definitive biography reveals a life lived perilously in the gap between ideals and reality.
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- Atlantic Books, 2016
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PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84887-129-8
EAN 9781848871298
Inspired by E. M. Forster's thought that 'Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him', The Black Mirror takes death as an external viewpoint from which we may see our lives more clearly.Raymond Tallis looks back on his world from the standpoint of his future corpse. He reflects on the senses that ...
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- Granta Books, 2016
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PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84708-718-8
EAN 9781847087188
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fixed early on by a mixture ...
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