Télécharger le livre :  Toleration
In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration? What should be tolerated? Why is toleration important? Beginning with some key insights into what we mean...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Hegel
This accessible and highly readable book is the first full-length biography of Hegel to be published since the largely outdated treatments of the nineteenth century. Althaus draws on new historical material and scholarly sources about the life and times of this most...

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Télécharger le livre :  Archaeological Theory Today
Now in a revised and updated second edition, this volume provides an authoritative account of the current status of archaeological theory, as presented by some of its major exponents and innovators over recent decades. It summarizes the latest developments in the...

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Parution : 2014-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Metaethics
This new edition of Alexander Miller’s highly readable introduction to contemporary metaethics provides a critical overview of the main arguments and themes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century contemporary metaethics. Miller traces the development of contemporary...

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Parution : 2014-02-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Foucault Now
Michel Foucault is recognized as one of the twentieth century's most influential thinkers, however the authors in this volume contend that more use can be made of Foucault than has yet been done and that some of the uses to which Foucault has so far been put run the...

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Télécharger le livre :  Pragmatism
Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the classical pragmatists...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Financial Crisis
There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic...

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Parution : 2014-02-25
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Télécharger le livre :  How Much Globalization Can We Bear?
According to current deabtes, ’individualization’ has frequently been proposed as the conceptual counterpart to ’globalization’. It has often seemed that nothing would be left once these processes have fully unfolded, other than individual human atoms dispersed on a...

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Parution : 2014-02-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Religio Duplex
In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Protest Inc.
Mass protests have raged since the global financial crisis of 2008. Across the world students and workers and environmentalists are taking to the streets. Discontent is seething even in the wealthiest countries, as the world saw with Occupy Wall Street in 2011. Protest...

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Parution : 2014-02-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The New French Philosophy
This book gives a critical assessment of key developments in contemporary French philosophy, highlighting the diverse ways in which recent French thought has moved beyond the philosophical positions and arguments which have been widely associated with the terms...

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Parution : 2014-02-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Life Transitions in America
We celebrate, talk about, and worry a great deal about transitions in life. Going to college, having a first child, losing a job, and retiring constitute just a few of the pivotal moments in the lives of many. Sociologists and psychologists have devoted considerable...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Experimental Philosophy
Experimental philosophy uses experimental research methods from psychology and cognitive science in order to investigate both philosophical and metaphilosophical questions. It explores philosophical questions about the nature of the psychological world - the very...

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Parution : 2014-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Common Good
In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without a shared obligation to “the common good.” Rejecting claims made by some liberal thinkers that it is not possible to...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Global Development Crisis
The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty. Liberal theory explains the relationship between capitalism and poverty as one based around the dichotomy of inclusion (into capitalism) vs...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Empires and Colonies
Empires and Colonies provides a thoroughgoing and lively exploration of the expansion of the seaborne empires of western Europe from the fifteenth century and how that process of expansion affected the world, including its successor, the United States. Whilst providing...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-06
Collection : Themes in History PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre :  Demanding the Impossible
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book.  Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring, the global...

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Parution : 2014-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  What Use is Sociology?
What's the use of sociology? The question has been asked often enough and it leaves a lingering doubt in the minds of many. At a time when there is widespread scepticism about the value of sociology and of the social sciences generally, this short book by one of the...

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Parution : 2014-02-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Rejoicing
Bruno Latour’s long term project is to compare the felicity and infelicity conditions of the different values dearest to the heart of those who have ‘never been modern’. According to him, this is the only way to develop an anthropology of the Moderns. After his work on...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  China's Legal System
China’s struggle for the rule of law is at a critical juncture. As a key element of governance in the PRC today,China’s legal system affects not only domestic affairs but alsoChina’s engagement with the world. But can a credible legal system emerge which protects the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-01-30
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