Télécharger le livre :  Keeping the Red Flag Flying

Labour leader Harold Wilson was once asked how difficult he found being prime minister of the United Kingdom. ‘Not half as difficult as being Leader of the Opposition’, he replied.  Sadly for theLabour Party, much of the last century has been spent in shadow government....
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Parution : 2024-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Ethics of the Climate Crisis

The planet is in crisis. Time is short, but it is still possible to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions before disaster overtakes us all. Renowned philosopher Robin Attfield explains the moral reasons for urgent action based on current harms, threats to future...
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Télécharger le livre :  The Triumph of the Slippers

Since the beginning of the 21st century, global warming, terrorism, the pandemic and now the war in Ukraine have created a widespread feeling that the world is an increasingly dangerous place.  In response to this situation, it is understandable that many people are...
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Parution : 2024-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  First Philosophy Last Philosophy

What is at stake in that form of inquiry that the western philosophical tradition has called “first philosophy” or “metaphysics”? Is it an abstract, now outmoded branch of philosophy, or does it address a problem that is still of great interest – namely the unity of...
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Parution : 2024-04-08

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Télécharger le livre :  Resonance

The pace of modern life is undoubtedly speeding up, yet this acceleration does not seem to have made us any happier or more content. If acceleration is the problem, then the solution, argues Hartmut Rosa in this major new work, lies in “resonance.”The quality of a human...
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Parution : 2024-04-04

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Télécharger le livre :  Six in a Bed

Love is the most important and intense experience of our life. It pushes us to elation, to heartbreak, to sing for joy and sob in disappointment. Connecting in this way to others is an essential quality of being human: without love, we don’t learn and develop properly...
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Parution : 2024-04-02

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Télécharger le livre :  Trans Figured

‘I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy …’ In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection, open...
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Parution : 2024-03-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Sad Planets

“Everything is sad,” wrote the Ancient poets. But is this sadness merely a human experience, projected onto the world, or is there a gloom attributable to the world itself? Could the universe be forever weeping the “tears of things”? In this series of meditations,...
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Parution : 2024-03-28

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Télécharger le livre :  Spectacles of Waste

The modern bathroom is an ingenious compilation of locked doors, smooth porcelain, 4-ply tissue and antibacterial hand soap, but despite this miracle of indoor plumbing, we still can’t bear the thought that anyone else should know that our bodies produce waste. Why must...
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Parution : 2024-03-13

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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions

From ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction...
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Parution : 2024-03-12

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Télécharger le livre :  Sustainability

The quest for sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe, transformations within the arts, sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture, innovative policies and laws, and historic international agreements. Yet the means...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-03-12
Collection : Key Concepts
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Télécharger le livre :  How Nietzsche Came in From the Cold

Nietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shadow. It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli...
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Parution : 2024-03-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Why AI Undermines Democracy and What To Do About It

Across the world, AI is used as a tool for political manipulation and totalitarian repression. Stories about AI are often stories of polarization, discrimination, surveillance, and oppression. Is democracy in danger? And can we do anything about it?    In this...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-02-15

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Télécharger le livre :  Self-Esteem

By the end of the twentieth century, the idea of self-esteem had become enormously influential. A staggering amount of psychological research and self-help literature was being published and, before long, devoured by readers. Self-esteem initiatives permeated American...
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Parution : 2024-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Homo Numericus

From Amazon to Tinder, from Google to Deliveroo, there is no facet of human life that the digital revolution has not streamlined and dematerialized. Its objective was to reduce costs by forgoing face-to-face interactions, and it was a direct result of the free-market...
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Parution : 2024-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Familiar Violence

Child abuse casts a long shadow over the history of childhood. Across the centuries there are numerous accounts of children being beaten, neglected, sexually assaulted, or even killed by those closest to them. This book explores this darker side of childhood history,...
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Parution : 2024-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Uncertain Times

The global triumph of democracy was announced thirty years ago, promising an age of consensus in which the dispassionate consideration of objective problems would give birth to a world at peace. Today, these grand hopes lie in ruins, and the era touted as new has turned...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-02-02

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Télécharger le livre :  If we lose the Earth, we lose our souls

In this book Bruno Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe.  First and foremost, Christians need to overcome their lack of interest in “earthly things” and pay attention to the Earth at a time when it is being neglected. He also...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-01-22

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Télécharger le livre :  The Crisis of Narration

Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their...
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Parution : 2024-01-19

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Télécharger le livre :  China's Environmental Challenges

China’s huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book, noted scholar of Chinese environmentalism Judith Shapiro exploresChina’s...
Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-01-17

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