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- Icon Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 175 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-1-84831-060-5
EAN 9781848310605
Michel Foucault's work was described at his death as 'the most important event of thought in our century'. As a philosopher, historian and political activist, he certainly left behind an enduring and influential body of work, but is this acclaim justified? "Introducing Foucault" places his work in its turbulent philosophical and political context, and critically ...
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Liberty in the Age of Terror
A Defence of Civil Society and Enlightenment Values
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 11,75 €
ISBN 978-1-4088-0307-3
EAN 9781408803073
Our societies, says Anthony Grayling, are under attack not only from the threat of terrorism, but also from our governments' attempts to fight that threat by reducing freedom in our own societies think the 42-day detention controversy, CCTV surveillance, increasing invasion of privacy, ID Cards, not to mention Abu Ghraib, rendition, Guantanamo... As Grayling says: ...
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The Moral Fool
A Case for Amorality
- Columbia, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 25,50 €
ISBN 978-0-231-14509-1
EAN 9780231145091
Justice, equality, and righteousness these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as a pathology a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused like a weapon. An expert ...
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In the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the "New Left" emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced "flower-power" and psychedelic "consciousness-expansion," that lionized Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro and launched the Black Panthers and the Theater of ...
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Like her strong-selling "Choosing Happiness," Stoddard's newest book illuminates simple, profound truths for joyful living. By turns wise, controversial, affirming, and humorous, these short pieces cut to the essence of what's important and are oases of clarity amid life's chaos
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Sacrifice - ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued - is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason? Why are sacrifice and numerous other religious rituals and concepts shared by so many different cultures? In this book, the author explores the possibility ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 12,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7475-9871-8
EAN 9780747598718
In this wide-ranging history of debt Margaret Atwood investigates its many meanings through the ages, from ancient times to the current global financial meltdown. Many of us wonder: how could we have let such a collapse happen? How old or inevitable is this human pattern of debt? Imaginative, topical and insightful, Payback urges us to ...
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Pessimism
Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,69 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14112-1
EAN 9780691141121
Pessimism claims an impressive following--from Rousseau, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, to Freud, Camus, and Foucault. Yet "pessimist" remains a term of abuse--an accusation of a bad attitude--or the diagnosis of an unhappy psychological state. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation or despair. Even when pessimism looks like utter ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 9,10 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-347-6
EAN 9781844673476
A landmark of French thought, Reading Capital is no less than an attempt to topple the edifice of Western Marxism and rebuild it from the original foundations. Establishing a rigorous programme of symptomatic reading that cuts through the silences and lacunae of Capital to reveal its philosophical core, Louis Althusser interprets Marx's structural analysis of ...
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Ethics - Politics - Subjectivity
. essays on Derrida, Levinas, x{0026} Contemporary French Thought
- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 319 páginas
PVP: 10,49 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-351-3
EAN 9781844673513
In Ethics Politics Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? Through spirited confrontations with major thinkers, such as Lacan, Nancy, Rorty, and, ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-354-4
EAN 9781844673544
Gillian Rose is among the twentieth century's most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative thought. Demonstrating how, in his criticisms of Kant and Fichte, Hegel supplies a preemptive critique of Weber, Durkheim, and all of the sociological traditions that stem from ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 104 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-352-0
EAN 9781844673520
Out of the chaos following Lenin's death and the mounting fury against Lukács and his freshly penned History and Class Consciousness (1923), this book bears an assessment of Lenin as the only theoretical equal to Marx. Lukács shows, with unprecedented clarity, how Lenin's historical interventions from his vanguard politics and repurposing of the state to ...
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- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-344-5
EAN 9781844673445
Written in exile from Germany, this potent study of Europe's most controversial composer explodes the frontiers of musical and cultural analysis. Measuring key elements of Wagner's oeuvre with patent musical dexterity, Adorno sheds light on a nineteenth-century bourgeois figure whose operas betray the social gestures and high-culture fantasies that helped plant the seeds of the ...
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War and Cinema
The Logistics of Perception
- Verso Books, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 128 páginas
PVP: 10,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84467-346-9
EAN 9781844673469
In this seminal work, Paul Virilio conducts a sweeping analysis of perception in an age of astounding visual impact. Through a technical history of weaponry, photography, and cinematography, an account of key war strategists and movie directors, and a narrative that places pin-up girls alongside satellite feeds and ranges from Hollywood to Hitler's bunker, Virilio ...
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The Therapy of Desire
Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
- Princeton, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 600 páginas
PVP: 52,30 €
ISBN 978-0-691-14131-2
EAN 9780691141312
The Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline, but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance: the fear of death, love and sexuality, anger and aggression. Like medicine, philosophy to them was a rigorous science aimed both at understanding and at producing the ...
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- Hill & Wang, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 11,65 €
ISBN 978-0-8090-5918-8
EAN 9780809059188
A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing ...
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- Acumen, 2009
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
ISBN 978-1-84465-149-8
EAN 9781844651498
Sex can be a source of intense life-affirming pleasure when it is present and going well, frustration or misery when it is absent or unsatisfying. It can bond our most important and intimate unions, but it can also make us feel degraded or used, or indeed utterly abandoned or betrayed. It is one of the ...
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