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  • The Point of Philosophy

    An Introduction for the Human Sciences

    de Ludo Abicht, Hendrik Opdebeeck ...
    Series Libro 28 - Philosophie et Politique / Philosophy and Politics
    The core questions of philosophy about the origin of the world and people, the distinction between good and evil, and the meaning of life – these questions keep us all busy. In this introduction to philosophy, these three questions lead our journey. You want to understand the world and man. Then you try to acquire an outlook on the proper course of action. Perhaps you especially hope to gain ... Leer más

    $46.99 USD

  • The Economy and Meaningfulness. A Utopia?

    With a foreword by Herman Van Rompuy, former President of the European Council and an afterword by Ludo Abicht, philosopher

    de Hendrik Opdebeeck ...
    Series Libro 30 - Philosophie et Politique / Philosophy and Politics
    It is utopian to represent the economy as a place in which human happiness is as paramount as profit. That is the opinion of many who might pick up this book. This truism, analogous to the argument that Gross National Happiness is utopian, is, however, confronted by the actual situation of our economy today. Our globalized society, with its Gross National Product, turns out to be a dystopia. Our ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD

  • Redesigning Life

    Eugenics, Biopolitics, and the Challenge of the Techno-Human Condition

    de Gabriel Fragnière, Hendrik Opdebeeck, Nathan Van Camp ...
    Series Libro 27 - Philosophie et Politique / Philosophy and Politics
    The emerging development of genetic enhancement technologies has recently become the focus of a public and philosophical debate between proponents and opponents of a liberal eugenics – that is, the use of these technologies without any overall direction or governmental control. Inspired by Foucault’s, Agamben’s and Esposito’s writings about biopower and biopolitics, the author sees both positions ... Leer más

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  • The Unconscious Civilization

    de John Ralston Saul ...
    From the author of Voltaire's Bastards comes a philosophical examination of how corporatism has become so deeply ingrained into our society, how it's destroying democracy, and how we can fight against it.In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Perspectives on Our Age: Jacques Ellul Speaks on his Life and Work

    de Willem Vanderburg, Jacques Ellul ...
    Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight into Ellul's life, his work, and the origins and development of his beliefs and theories. Jacques Ellul, historian, theologian, and sociologist, was one of the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • How Much Globalization Can We Bear?

    Traducido por Patrick Camiller ...
    de Rüdiger Safranski ...
    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 globe without any political, economic or cultural structures.Regardless of whether this description is based on any good and valid ... Leer más

    $17.00 USD

  • On Love

    A Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

    de Luc Ferry ...
    All the great ideals that gave life meaning in earlier societies - God, the nation, revolution, freedom, democracy - are in disarray today, questioned by many and rejected by those who have lost faith in them. But there is another value, rooted in the birth of the modern family and in the passage from traditional to modern marriage, that has transformed our lives in profound and often unrecognized ... Leer más

    $10.00 USD

  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    de Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Traducido por Howard Scott ...
    Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are in fact powerful, pervasive forces.In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Capitalism and Desire

    The Psychic Cost of Free Markets

    de Todd McGowan ...
    Despite creating vast inequalities and propping up reactionary world regimes, capitalism has many passionate defenders—but not because of what it withholds from some and gives to others. Capitalism dominates, Todd McGowan argues, because it mimics the structure of our desire while hiding the trauma that the system inflicts upon it. People from all backgrounds enjoy what capitalism provides, but at ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Peace by Peaceful Means

    Peace and Conflict, Development and Civilization

    de Johan Galtung ...
    Series series International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO)
    Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based.The book is organized in four parts, each examining the one of the four major theoretical approaches to peace. The first part covers peace theory, exploring the epistemological assumptions of peace. In Part Two conflict theory is ... Leer más

    $78.99 USD

  • Risk and Blame

    Essays in Cultural Theory

    de Professor Mary Douglas ...
    Risk and danger are culturally conditioned ideas. They are shaped by pressures of social life and accepted notions of accountability. The risk analyses that are increasingly being utilised by politicians, aid programmes and business ignore the insights to be gained from social anthropology which can be applied to modern industrial society.In this collection of recent essays, Mary Douglas develops ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Sociology

    An Introductory Textbook and Reader

    de Daniel Nehring, Ken Plummer ...
    This groundbreaking new introduction to sociology is an innovative hybrid textbook and reader. Combining seminal scholarly works, contextual narrative and in-text didactic materials, it presents a rich, layered and comprehensive introduction to the discipline. Its unique approach will help inspire a creative, critical, and analytically sophisticated sociological imagination, making sense of ... Leer más

    $91.99 USD