Miscellaneous kategória termékei

Affizierungs- und Teilhabeprozesse zwischen Organismen und Maschinen

Der Band reflektiert Forschungspraktiken, die für das Projekt der Biokybernetik wie der aktuellen bionischen Prothetik und Medienökologie...

Pierre Musso and the Network Society - From Saint-Simonianism to the Internet

This book is devoted to discussion of the views of Pierre Musso and starts with a central chapter written by Musso, entitled Network Ideo...

Companion to Intrinsic Properties

what makes a property intrinsic? What exactly does the intrinsic/extrinsic distinction rest upon, and how can we reasonably justify this ...

Synthetic Biology - Metaphors, Worldviews, Ethics, and Law

Assessing synthetic biology from a societal and ethical perspective is not only a matter of determining possible harms and benefits of sy...

The Reach of Empire

How could an empire stretching from the Hindukush to the Atlantic be governed for about 300 years, from ca. 650 to the 950s? How far did ...

The Active Image - Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling

The ¿active image¿ refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of ¿actions¿ that images perform. This volume ...

Vitalism and the Scientific Image in Post-Enlightenment Life Science, 1800-2010

Vitalism is understood as impacting the history of the life sciences, medicine and philosophy, representing an epistemological challenge ...

New Approaches to Social Contract Theory - Liberty, Equality, Diversity, and the Open Society

This book discusses new directions in social contract theory. While social contract theory has a long history in moral and political phil...

Minority Rights and Social Change - Norms, Actors and Strategies

Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally guaranteed but rather co...

Greening Philosophy of Religion - Process, Ecology, and Ethics

Greening Philosophy of Religion: Process, Ecology, and Ethics imagines ecological democracy as an ideal horizon for facing climate catast...

Confronting the Irish Past - The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

Building peace in Northern Ireland today, which involves Ireland as a whole, requires confronting the violence and intolerance of Ireland...

Talmud and Philosophy - Conjunctions, Disjunctions, Continuities

"Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud /and/ Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problemat...

La Version Arabo-Latine de la Rhétorique d'Aristote - Édition, Introduction, Apparats Critiques

Cette toute première édition critique de la version arabo-latine de la Rhétorique d'Aristote réalisée par Hermann l'Allemand est accompag...

Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Practice

Continental philosophers and contemporary artists transform the classics into living practices.

Erotics of Deconstruction - Auto-Affection After Derrida

Cultivates erotics in the common ground between deconstruction, psychoanalysis and continental feminist philosophy.

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism

Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy provides crucial insights for assessing the post-neoliberal era in this cutting-edge volume of anti-capital...

Political Jouissance

When we oppose or disagree with something important, do we ever really do it dispassionately? Isn't setting the world to rights or condem...

More Posthuman Glossary

The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures a...

The Philosophy of Philip Rieff - Cultural Conflict, Religion and the Self

Philip Rieff's social theory is at once a crucial tool in understanding the movements of contemporary culture, and a challenging body of ...

The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Language

This Handbook introduces key issues in the philosophy of language as currently practised. Topics include: the nature of language; the nat...

Reimagining Europe - Thinking in Crisis

Essays addressing, from various angles, the relationship between Europe and philosophy in today's crisis-ridden contexts such as xenophob...

Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19 - How the Pandemic Has Changed the World

Lessons for Implementing Human Rights from COVID-19 explores the effect of the pandemic on human rights, civil and political rights (CPR)...

The Cambridge Handbook of Constitutional Theory

The book is aimed at students and scholars of law, politics and philosophy. Of unprecedented breadth, it offers both a survey of, and an ...

Resilience of Democracy - Responses to Illiberal and Authoritarian Challenges

This book posits three potential reactions of democratic regimes: to withstand without changes, to adapt through internal changes, and to...

The Far-Right in World Politics

This book addresses the reasons why the contemporary far-right has gained political resonance in a variety of states across both the Glob...

Pink Tides, Right Turns in Latin America

This book presents case studies around issues of national development, right wing populism and use of social media, left wing authoritari...

Transversal Democracy Projection in the Mediterranean - A De-Centred Practice Analysis

This book expands on the existing literature on the international dimension of democratization by introducing the concept of democracy pr...

The Feminist Legislation Project - Rewriting Laws for Gender-Based Justice

In this book, leading law academics along with lawyers, activists and others demonstrate what legislation could look like if its concern ...

From 'Carbon Democracy' to 'Climate Democracy'?

This book examines these requirements. It debates the political constituencies, agendas and institutions that are emerging from climate c...

John Dewey and Contemporary Challenges to Democratic Education

This volume reconsiders pragmatist conceptions of democratic education, especially John Dewey's. It addresses what democratic education c...

Perspectives on Spiritual Intelligence

The topic of intelligence involves questions that cut deep into ultimate concerns and human identity, and the study of intelligence is id...

Divine Revelation and the Sciences - Essays in the History and Philosophy of Revelation

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between the sciences and the concept of divine revelation. It includes a hist...

Ideals and Ideologies - A Reader

Presenting key selections from an array of original sources and a wide range of ideological visions, Ideals and Ideologies puts students ...

Religion, Death and the Senses

"The uniqueness of this collection lies in two areas, firstly its deep engagement with a range of physical and socio-cultural sensual res...

Progress in Theology - Does the Queen of the Sciences Advance?

This volume explores the intriguing relationship between theology, science and the ideal of progress from a variety of perspectives.

Decolonial Pluriversalism

This book explores how decolonial epistemologies are concretely translated in thinking and theorizing about cultural and political practi...

Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought

This volume includes a range of disciplinary responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, demonstrating the way...

Recovering Economic and Environmental Traditions in Islamic World

Recovering Economic and Environmental Philosophies in the Muslim World offers interdisciplinary approaches to environmental and economic ...

Han Feizi, a Complete Translation - The Art of Statecraft in Early China

This translation introduces the reader to Han Feizi, one of the masterpieces of early Chinese political thought. Deplored for its cynicis...

An Introduction to Modern Political Thought - Machiavelli to Foucault

This book is an excellent critical introduction to modern political thought. It studies the ideas and contributions of sixteen major poli...

Lawless Zones, Rightless Subjects - Migration, Asylum, and Shifting Borders

Focusing on the hot-button issues of migration and sovereignty, this volume highlights the radical reconfiguration of territory, rights, ...

Sovereignism and Populism - Citizens, Voters and Parties in Western European Democracies

This volume proposes a new research agenda in political science that focuses on the linkages between populist and sovereignism in Europe.

The life and ideas of Robert Owen

The Prison before the Panopticon - Incarceration in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy

A groundbreaking history of philosophy and punishment, The Prison before the Panopticon traces the influence of ancient political philoso...

Kritik(en) des Leidens

"Das leibhafte Moment meldet der Erkenntnis an, daß Leiden nicht sein, daß es anders werden solle" - ausgehend von diesem Diktum Theodor ...

The pennial philosophy

Logic I-II.

Evolution of the Idea of God - An Inquiry Into the Origin of Religions

Originally published in 1897, The Evolution of the Idea of God is a study of humans' belief in God from primitive tribal religions to wha...

Foundations of tibetan mysticism

On the Sovereignty of Mothers - The Political as Maternal

Paternal, patriarchal, and fraternal concepts, metaphors, and images have long dominated thinking about politics. But the political, Gil ...

Introducing existencialism

Metaphysica

Ethics

Democratic Backsliding in Post-Mubarak Egypt

Arshad examines the phenomenon of 'democratic backsliding' in post-2011 Egypt. Capturing a critical juncture in Egyptian politics, this b...

Earthborn Democracy - A Political Theory of Entangled Life

This book offers a new vision of ecological and participatory democratic life for a time of crisis, allying visionary political theory wi...

Migration, Cosmopolitanism and Civil Society - Fostering Cultural Pluralism through Citizenship Politics

This book discusses the ways civil society initiatives open communities to newcomers and why, how,and under what circumstances some are m...

Same Difference - Feminism and Sexual Difference

Are women the same as or different from men? Should women seek 'equality' with men or admit their 'difference'? First published in 1990, ...

How Life Works - A User's Guide to the New Biology

Drawing on recent discoveries and insights, How Life Works outlines a new vision of our understanding of life for the 21st century.

How We Walk - Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body

HOW RACE, CLASS, AND POLITICS INFLUENCE THE WAY WE MOVE

For the People? - Democratic Representation in America

Many observers of American politics believe that representative government, particularly in the Congress, is failing. This book examines ...