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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 2
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Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 2


Jürgen Habermas


In this second volume of his groundbreaking new work on the history of philosophy, Jürgen Habermas traces the development of Western thought from the reception of Platonism by early Christian thought, through the revolution in medieval philosophy and theology triggered...

Parution : 2024-09-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Resonance
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Resonance


Hartmut Rosa


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...

Parution : 2024-04-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Fictions
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Fictions


Markus Gabriel


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...

Parution : 2024-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1
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Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1


Jürgen Habermas


This is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy.   In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the history of Western philosophy as a genealogy of postmetaphysical...

Parution : 2023-08-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Metaphysics and Nihilism
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Metaphysics and Nihilism


Arun Iyer , Martin Heidegger


The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The Essence of Nihilism (1946–1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different...

Parution : 2022-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  History of the Adriatic
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History of the Adriatic


Egidio Ivetic


The Adriatic is ‘the small Mediterranean’ – a sea within a sea, part of the Mediterranean and at the same time detached from it, a largely enclosed sea with stunning coastlines and a long history of commercial, political and cultural exchange. Silent witness to the flow...

Parution : 2022-05-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Slum Acts
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Slum Acts


Veena Das


This book examines the ways in which knowledge that is inordinate, excessive, and overwhelming comes to mark everyday life in low-income, poor neighborhoods in Delhi with crumbling infrastructures and pervasive violence. Based on long-term ethnography in these spaces,...

Parution : 2022-02-01
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Collection : After the Postcolonial
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Télécharger le livre :  The Soviet Passport
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The Soviet Passport


Albert Baiburin


In this remarkable book, Albert Baiburin provides the first in-depth study of the development and uses of the passport, or state identity card, in the former Soviet Union.  First introduced in 1932, the Soviet passport took on an exceptional range of functions,...

Parution : 2021-11-03
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Collection : New Russian Thought
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Télécharger le livre :  The Metaphysics of German Idealism
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The Metaphysics of German Idealism


Martin Heidegger , Ian Alexander Moore , Rodrigo Therezo


This volume comprises the lecture course that Heidegger gave in 1941 on the metaphysics of German Idealism. The first part of the lecture course contains a preliminary consideration of the distinction between ground and existence. The elucidation of the conceptual...

Parution : 2021-07-16
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Télécharger le livre :  The New Music
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The New Music


Theodor W. Adorno


A year after the end of the Second World War, the first International Summer Course for New Music took place in the Kranichstein Hunting Lodge, near the city of Darmstadt in Germany. The course, commonly referred to later as the Darmstadt course, was intended to...

Parution : 2021-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Contemporary Health Studies
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Contemporary Health Studies


Ruth Cross , Diane Lowcock , Louise Warwick-Booth


Contemporary Health Studies provides an accessible introduction to current issues and key debates in understanding and promoting health. Its up-to-date, global focus places a strong emphasis on the social, political and environmental dimensions of health. Part One sets...

Parution : 2021-04-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Planetary Social Thought
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Planetary Social Thought


Nigel Clark , Bronislaw Szerszynski


The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with...

Parution : 2020-10-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Enrichment
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Enrichment


Luc Boltanski , Arnaud Esquerre


This book offers a major new account of modern capitalism and of the ways in which value and wealth are created today. Boltanski and Esquerre argue that capitalism in the West has recently undergone a fundamental transformation characterized by de-industrialization, on...

Parution : 2020-04-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Society of Singularities
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Society of Singularities


Andreas Reckwitz


Our contemporary societies place more and more emphasis on the singular and the unique.  The industrial societies of the early 20th century produced standardized products, cities, subjects and organizations which tended to look the same, but in our late-modern...

Parution : 2020-04-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Troublemakers
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Troublemakers


Dieter Thomä


The political crises and upheavals of our age often originate from the periphery rather than the center of power. Figures like Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Chelsea Manning acted in ways that disrupted power, revealing truths that those in power wanted to keep...

Parution : 2019-07-12
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Télécharger le livre :  This is Not Just a Painting
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This is Not Just a Painting


Bernard Lahire


In 2008, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon acquired a painting called The Flight into Egypt which was attributed to the French artist Nicolas Poussin. Thought to have been painted in 1657, the painting had gone missing for more than three centuries. Several versions were...

Parution : 2019-04-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Lévi-Strauss
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Lévi-Strauss


Emmanuelle Loyer


Academic, writer, figure of melancholy, aesthete – Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) not only transformed his academic discipline, he also profoundly changed the way that we view ourselves and the world around us. In this award-winning biography, historian Emmanuelle...

Parution : 2019-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  The Poetics of Digital Media
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The Poetics of Digital Media


Paul Frosh


Media are poetic forces. They produce and reveal worlds, representing them to our senses and connecting them to our lives. While the poetic powers of media are perceptual, symbolic, social and technical, they are also profoundly moral and existential. They matter for...

Parution : 2018-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  History and Social Theory
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History and Social Theory


Peter Burke


What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a pre-eminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. In this classic text, now revised and updated in...

Parution : 2018-07-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Exploring Disability
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Exploring Disability


Colin Barnes , Geof Mercer


The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability in the social...

Parution : 2018-05-21
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