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Remembrance and reconciliation envision intentional pathways out of conflict and toward peace. Remembrance retraces the junctures in the past that determined what a nation has become. Probing accountability for past actions establishes accountability for...

The essays collected in The Peace of Nature and the Nature of Peace consider connections between ecology, environmental ethics, nonviolence, and philosophy of peace. Edited by Andrew Fiala, this book includes essays written by important scholars in the...

The authors of these papers vary in age, nationality and professional background. They share a belief that all too often older people are not treated justly or fairly, and also a belief that this is particularly true with regard to a proper respect for...

SS ideology was the expression of an apparently philosophical self-containing system of thought, articulated around a systematic body of knowledge claiming to integrate humanity inside a global vision of Being. Using ontology and anthropology as...

In this book, Camila Loew analyzes four women's testimonial literary writings on the Holocaust to examine and question some of the tenets of the fields of Holocaust studies, gender studies, and testimony. Through a close reading of the works of Charlotte...

This work is about the deceptive nature of psychotherapy. In particular, it is about those therapies that claim to provide the client with insight and self-knowledge when in practice they are a means of social control absorbing clients into socially...

This book makes compassionate caring and connectedness the central themes. Imbedded in the human psyche we find a deep yearning for connection. This book explores the many roadblocks that human beings put in the way of a healthy and respectful dialogue...

Are C. S. Lewis’s major arguments in defense of Christian belief sound? In C. S. Lewis’s Christian Apologetics: Pro and Con, defenders and critics of Lewis’s apologetics square off and debate the merits of Lewis’s arguments from desire, from reason, from...

The topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein...

In Machiavelli’s Art of Politics Alejandro Bárcenas offers a reexamination of Niccolò Machiavelli’s political thought in order to propose a concise and historically accurate portrayal of his ideas and intellectual context. This study provides a nuanced...

This book is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Simone de Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It reveals previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir's work by exposing her as a significant and inspiring humanist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorYves R. Simon is author of several books, including The Definition of Moral Virtue and The Tradition of Natural Law available from Fordham University Press...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223566267Author Ali AhmadFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Ali AhmadPublisher Ali AhmadWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916188068Author Juvens NsabimanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint So It IsPublisher So It IsWeight(grams) 154g

Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason is a seminal text in modern philosophy, ethics, and the philosophy of religion. It is a complex and challenging work, which students and scholars often find difficult to penetrate. This...

Ernst Bloch and His Contemporaries is a much needed concise yet comprehensive overview of Ernst Bloch's early and later thought. It fills an important gap in research on the history of German thought in the 20th century by reconstructing the contexts of...

This volume is a revised and improved edition of the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard's private library. The catalogue has long served as one of the most valuable tools in Kierkegaard studies and has been actively used by commentators, translators and...

Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Agon of Interpretations explores the challenges and possibilities of critical intercultural hermeneutics in a globalized world. Editor Ming Xie and writers from eight countries on five continents...

Feminist Theory After Deleuze addresses the encounter between one of the 20th century's most important philosophers, Gilles Deleuze, and one of its most significant political and intellectual movements, feminism. Feminist theory is a broad,...

Dewey's students at Columbia saw him as "an Aristotelian more Aristotelian than Aristotle himself." However, until now, there has been little consideration of the influence Greek thought had on the intellectual development of this key American...

Both a unique witness of transformative events in the late 20th century, and a prescient analysis of our present economic crises from a major French philosopher, Michel Henry's From Communism to Capitalism adds an important economic dimension to his...

This series features philosophical, interdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary research on the analysis and application of dynamic categories.It presents cutting-edge research in process ontology and process metaphysics, but also interdisciplinary studies...

To what extent can we doubt certainties? How are certainties expressed in words? Which language games convey certainty? To answer these questions we have to recall the method Wittgenstein used in his investigations. When we look at language games and...

Philosophical Deliberations continues for the 2011/12 biennium Rescher longstanding practice of publishing groups of philosophical essays. Notwithstanding their thematic diversity, these discussions exhibit a uniformity of method in addressing...

This volume gathers papers, which were read at the congress held at the University of Castilla-La Mancha in Toledo (Spain), in September 2007, under the general subject of phenomenology. The book is devoted to Wittgenstein's thoughts on phenomenology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223778745Author Ertugrul OdabasiFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Ertugrul OdabasiPublisher Ertugrul OdabasiWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227510471Author Eduardo Delatorre QFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Chevallier Champollion PublishingPublisher Chevallier Champollion...

The book discusses recent developments in philosophy with regards to how historical events can be explained causally and introduces perspectives from the philosophy of science into the philosophy of history. The book covers the main approaches to causal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781949845181Author Andrew FialaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Tibidabo Publishing, Inc.Publisher Tibidabo Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 181g

James Doull's remarkable legacy as a teacher, scholar, and thinker has left behind a profound and challenging examination of the philosophical and historical roots of contemporary thought and politics. His life's work was devoted to a reflection on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227665157Author Matthew DeweyFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Matthew DeweyPublisher Matthew DeweyWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227626400Author Pierre PetiotFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Sulfur Editions and La Belle InutilePublisher Sulfur Editions and La Belle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789361445385Author Edward SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Neelkanth PrakashanPublisher Neelkanth PrakashanWeight(grams) 209g

This series features philosophical, interdisciplinary, and cross-disciplinary research on the analysis and application of dynamic categories.It presents cutting-edge research in process ontology and process metaphysics, but also interdisciplinary studies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786560951334Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Camelot EditoraPublisher Camelot EditoraWeight(grams) 154g

This is the second of two volumes of the proceedings from the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, August 2007. It contains selected contributions on the Philosophy of media, Philosophy of the Internet, on Ethics and the political...

Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings inspired contemporary philosophical thinking and advanced many issues that had been addressed by traditional philosophy. The questions raised by the Viennese philosopher initiated debates on a reconsideration of...

What can systematic philosophy contribute to come from conflict between cultures to a substantial dialogue? - This question was the general theme of the 29th international symposium of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society in Kirchberg. Worldwide...

The series is devoted to monographs and anthologies on Austrian philosophy (Bolzano, Brentano, Meinong and others) as well as on phenomenology and its history in general. Moreover, the series is open to a wide variety of different approaches in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390852659Author Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint True Sign Publishing HousePublisher True Sign Publishing...