This volume brings together distinguished scholars from all over the world to present an authoritative, thorough, and yet accessible state-of-the-art survey of current issues in pragmatics. Following an introduction by the editor, ... Zobraziť viac
Combining a scholar’s understanding with hard data and razor-sharp cultural commentary, White Feminism is a witty, intelligent and profoundly eye-opening book that will challenge long-accepted conventions and completely upend the way we understand... Zobraziť viac
To be forever looking beyond is to remain blind to what is here... Zobraziť viac
For millennia, Stoicism has been the ancient philosophy that attracts those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. And no wonder: its embrace of self-mastery, virtue and indifference to that which we cannot control... Zobraziť viac
1001 Ideas That Changed The Way We Think is a comprehensive guide to the most interesting and imaginative thoughts from the finest minds of the past 3,000 years. Ranging from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Plato to today's cutting-edge thinkers, it o Zobraziť viac
In this ambitious and original study, Stathis Kouvelakis paints a rich panorama of the key intellectual and political figures in the effervescence of German thought before the 1848 revolutions. He shows how the attempt to chart a moderate, reformist... Zobraziť viac
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As our civilization careens towards a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings... Zobraziť viac
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A young theoretical physicist's guide to how the radical new science of counterfactuals can reveal the full scope of our universe... Zobraziť viac
The Prince is generally labelled as a cynical and overly pragmatic account of gaining and retaining political power... Zobraziť viac
Why can it sometimes feel as though half the population is living in a different moral universe? Why do ideas such as 'fairness' and 'freedom' mean such different things to different people? ... Zobraziť viac
Penguin Books Ltd: This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes'... Zobraziť viac
This title presents a new introduction to Mill, guiding the student through the key concepts of his work by examining the overall development of his ideas. Zobraziť viac
David Foster Wallace probes the challenges of daily living and offers advice that renews us with every reading. How does one keep from going through their comfortable, prosperous adult life unconsciously? ... Zobraziť viac
In the wake of the Enlightenment, Europe in the nineteenth century was left in a deep religious crisis, which called into... Zobraziť viac
As plants see it, humans are not the masters of the Earth but only one of its most unpleasant and irksome residents. They have been on the planet for only about 300,000 years ago (nothing compared to the three billon years of plant evolution), yet... Zobraziť viac
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER. Harvard's most popular professor explains how thinkers from Confucius to Zhuangzi can transform our lives. The first book of its kind, The Path draws on the work of the great but largely unknown... Zobraziť viac
In the last years of his life, from 1949 to 1951, Wittgensteina s writings focused upon knowledge and certainty (collected together in On Certainty), upon colour concepts (in Remarks on Colour) and upon the relation between the "inner" and "outer"... Zobraziť viac
Recent political thought has grappled with a crisis in philosophical foundations: how do we justify the explicit and implicit normative claims and assumptions that guide political decisions and social criticism? ... Zobraziť viac
