History & Surveys
epub |eng | 2010-06-09 | Author:Bowie, Andrew;

Ideology and commodity Marx’s mature work in Capital (first volume published 1867) seeks to analyse the mechanisms of 19th-century capitalism which lead to the impoverishment of the many in economies ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic June 10,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Niccolò Machiavelli

28 How Dangerous It Is for a Republic or a Prince Not to Avenge an Injury Done against the Public or against a Private Person1 [1] What indignation makes men ...
( Category: Renaissance May 30,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Trombley [Trombley, Stephen]

Jaspers’s ‘pre-philosophical’ period Jaspers studied law, then took PhDs in both medicine and psychology at Heidelberg, where he eventually became Professor of Philosophy. His early influences were Kant, Nietzsche and ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2001-05-04 | Author:Christopher Phillips

SO OLD? It is early spring and a group of thirty-six seniors and children are gathered around a long rectangular table in a well-lit and spacious seminar room in Montclair, ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-08 | Author:Inna Semetsky

The Psychoeducational Practices of a Transformative Political Psychologist Currently the field of political psychology is a subfield of the discipline of political science. The research completed in this field supports ...
( Category: History & Surveys May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hewson, Mark; Coelen, Marcus;

Notes 1 Unless specified otherwise, translations of Bataille’s quotations from his Complete Works in French are mine. Where possible, I have used the English translation available. 2 On this topic, ...
( Category: Modern May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-05-02 | Author:Christopher Phillips

NOT-SO-ORDINARY VIRTUES AND HUMAN GOOD Scholar Robert Gordon writes that Primo Levi enumerated over his writing life a “category of virtues” that were unique in their “rather stubborn ordinariness”—virtues that ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality May 3,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2015-11-09 | Author:Michel Onfray

A Dialectic of Politeness Hedonism thus entails a perpetual calculus that considers the pleasures one can expect from a given situation, as well as the possible pains. We make a ...
( Category: Modern May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sim, Stuart;

Television is Old and New: Modern and Postmodern A constructive way to theorize television’s uniqueness in the broadcast/post-broadcast era, which at the same time allows for a discussion of postmodernity, ...
( Category: Postmodernism April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-23 | Author:Vandenabeele, Bart;

14 Schopenhauer on Tragedy and the Sublime ALEX NEILL At its best, Schopenhauer suggests, tragic drama: shows us the greatest misfortune not as an exception, not as something brought about ...
( Category: Modern April 20,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cohen, Martin;

Problems 29–30: Problems and More Problems Buying Stamps and Potatoes The value of things is often artificially separated into a ‘hard’ economic or monetary value and a more shifting and ...
( Category: History & Surveys April 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Dave Robinson

This means that any kind of argument between people about a moral issue is utterly futile, unsolveable and irrational. Euthanasia, Boo! How on earth could we decide who was right ...
( Category: Humanism April 11,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-13 | Author:Paul Johnson [Johnson, Paul]

Adenauer, Adenauer, show us your hand For thirty pieces of silver you sell our land, etc. This won him the GDR’s National Prize for Literature (First Class). He made himself ...
( Category: History & Surveys April 9,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Alexander Rosenberg [Rosenberg, Alexander]

CHAPTER NINE Holism and Antireductionism in Sociology and Psychology Among social scientists there is a long tradition of insisting that the distinctive subject matter of their sciences are facts that ...
( Category: Methodology April 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-10 | Author:Tom Morris [Morris, Tom]

But if the materialist insists that, in the last analysis, we can’t explain how any mental event could cause any physical event to happen, a simple response is available to ...
( Category: History & Surveys April 8,2016 )