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This title offers a new way to look at life in the twenty-first century. Today's brightest minds present ten bold new ideas to change the world, brought to life through Andrew Park's dynamic, thought-provoking illustrations. Slavoj Zizek exposes the surprising ethical implications of charity; David Harvey looks beyond capitalism towards a new social order; Barbara ...
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- Random House USA, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
ISBN 978-0-385-53565-6
EAN 9780385535656
What is it for someone to be an asshole? The answer is not obvious, despite the fact that we are often personally stuck dealing with people for whom there is no better name. Try as we might to avoid them, assholes are found everywhere-at work, at home, and in the public sphere. Encountering one causes ...
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Libro · 224 páginas
PVP: 29,10 €
ISBN 978-0-7486-5509-0
EAN 9780748655090
This book collects 10 years of Peggy Kamuf's writing on the work and friendship of Jacques Derrida. This study discusses the key aspects of Derrida's thought, either from a single work or across several texts. Kamuf engages with a broad array of his work, from the 1960s to the posthumous publication of his teaching seminars.She ...
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- Penguin UK, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-144243-3
EAN 9780141442433
An authoritative new translation of Plato's The Republic by Christopher Rowe, with notes and an introduction. 'We set about founding the best city we could, because we could be confident that if it was good we would find justice in it' The Republic, Plato's masterwork, was first enjoyed 2,400 years ago and remains one of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-18779-3
EAN 9780300187793
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging book introduces the great thinkers in Western philosophy ...
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- Harper Collins, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 10,15 €
ISBN 978-0-586-20892-2
EAN 9780586208922
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 496 páginas
ISBN 978-0-300-18640-6
EAN 9780300186406
Renowned moral philosopher Jonathan Glover confronts the brutal history of the twentieth century to unravel the mystery of why so many atrocities occurred. In a new preface, Glover brings the book through the post-September 11 era and into our own time-and asks whether humankind can "weaken the grip war has on us." Praise for the ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 656 páginas
PVP: 19,75 €
ISBN 978-0-14-310650-0
EAN 9780143106500
Self-described as 'a mystic, a transcendentalist, and a natural philosopher to boot', Henry David Thoreau dedicated his life to preserving his freedom as a man and as an artist. Nature was the fountainhead of his inspiration and his refuge from what he considered the follies of society. Heedless of his friends' advice to live in ...
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- Penguin Books Ltd, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-045556-4
EAN 9780140455564
In the first century BCE, Marcus Tullius Cicero, orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse topics as friendship, religion, death, fate and scientific inquiry. A pragmatist at heart, Cicero's philosophies were frequently personal and ethical, drawn not from abstract reasoning but through careful observation of the world. The ...
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- Signet, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 6,75 €
ISBN 978-0-451-53216-9
EAN 9780451532169
Henry David Thoreau reflects on life, politics, and society in these two inspiring masterworks: Walden and Civil Disobedience.In 1845, Thoreau moved to a cabin that he built with his own hands along the shores of Walden Pond in Massachusetts. Shedding the trivial ties that he felt bound much of humanity, Thoreau reaped from the land ...
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- Wiley & Sons, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 112 páginas
PVP: 15,20 €
ISBN 978-0-7456-5261-0
EAN 9780745652610
In the usual order of things, lives run their course and eventually one becomes who one is. Bodily and psychic transformations do nothing but reinforce the permanence of identity. But as a result of serious trauma, or sometimes for no reason at all, a subject s history splits and a new, unprecedented persona comes to ...
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- Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 20,65 €
ISBN 978-0-230-29662-6
EAN 9780230296626
Designed for complete beginners, Philosophy: Key Texts is an introduction to philosophy and gives a clear, readable overview of some of the major texts of Plato, Descartes, Hume, Mill and Nietzsche. As well as providing help in how to analyze these sources, the authors encourage the reader to question the argumentsand positions presented.
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Why Democracy Needs the Humanities
- Princeton, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-691-15448-0
EAN 9780691154480
In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education.Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education ...
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- Transworld, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-552-77638-7
EAN 9780552776387
Sam Harris' first book, "The End of Faith", ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people - from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists - agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of ...
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- Yale University Press, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
ISBN 978-0-300-18166-1
EAN 9780300181661
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- Quercus Publishing, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78087-145-5
EAN 9781780871455
100 ILLUSTRATIONS Big Ideas in Brief provides an accessible and easily understood tour of 200 key concepts that really matter. The ideas covered come from a wide range of subjects - Philosophy, Religion, Science, Politics, Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology and the Arts. A series of short and lively articles accompanied by 100 illustrations, introduce a ...
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- Fordham University Press, 2012
Libro · 428 páginas
PVP: 52,45 €
ISBN 978-0-8232-3998-6
EAN 9780823239986
Miracle and Machine is a sort of "reader's guide" to Jacques Derrida's 1994-95 essay "faith and knowledge," his most important work on the nature of religion in general and on the unprecedented forms it is taking today through science and the media. It provides essential background for understanding Derrida's essay, commentary on its unique style ...
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- Verso Books, 2012
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 26,25 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-787-0
EAN 9781844677870
The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more 'humane' light, and to turn Kant into our contemporary someone who ...
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- MIT Press, 2011
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 644 páginas
PVP: 34,90 €
ISBN 978-1-58435-104-7
EAN 9781584351047
The first volume in Peter Sloterdijk's monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity's engagement with intimate spaces.An epic project in both size and purview, Peter Sloterdijk's three-volume, 2,500-page Spheres is the late-twentieth-century bookend to Heidegger's Being and Time. Rejecting the century's predominant philosophical focus on temporality, Sloterdijk, a self-described "student of the air," reinterprets the ...
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The theorists of art and film commonly depict the modern audience as aesthetically and politically passive. In response, both artists and thinkers have sought to transform the spectator into an active agent and the spectacle into a communal performance. In this follow-up to the acclaimed The Future of the Image, Ranciere takes a radically different ...
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