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Analysis of Franz Boas's Race, Language and Culture(2017) SEIFERLE-VALENCIA, ANNABorn in 1858, Franz Boas permanently changed the standards and practices of anthropology. His 1940 work Race, Language and Culture brings together a half-century’s worth of ground-breaking scholarship in one volume.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Friedrich Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality(2017) BERRY, DONWritten in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of Morality criticizes the idea that there is just one acceptable moral code.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Friedrich Schleiermacher's On Religion(2018) JACKSON, RUTHOn Religion is a major text for the development of modern religious thought in the West and its author, German theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher, is remembered as the Father of Modern Protestant Theology, as well as for his contributions to philosophy,Vezava: Mehka12,36 € -
Analysis of G.E.M. Anscombe's Modern Moral Philosophy(2017) BLAMEY, JONNY,THOMPSON, JON W.Anscombe’s 1958 paper challenged the very foundations of moral philosophy, the discipline that tries to understand and differentiate between actions, right and wrong. It argues that moral philosophy should not be explored until a philosophy of psychologyVezava: Mehka11,59 €
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Analysis of G.W.F. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit(2017) JACKSON, IANHegel’s 1807 Phenomenology of Spirit is renowned for being one of the most challenging and important books in Western philosophy. Above all, it is famous for laying out a new approach to reasoning and philosophical argument, an approach that has been credVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?(2017) RIACH, GRAHAMA critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) have no platform or voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Prejudices in Erasmus's Adagia and Other Writings(2025) RON, NATHANVezava: Trda59,86 € -
Analysis of Geoffrey Parker's Global Crisis(2017) JACKSON, IANGeoffrey Parker spent 15 years writing this ambitious history of the tumultuous 17th century, a period in the grip of what historians term the General Crisis (2013).Vezava: Mehka11,59 €
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Analysis of Georges Lefebvre's The Coming of the French Revolution(2017) STAMMERS, TOMLefebvre, renowned as a pioneer of ‘history from below,’ believed that the origins of the revolution had to be sought not just in the maneuvering of the elites, but in the unpredictable actions of the common people.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gilbert Ryle's The Concept of Mind(2017) O'SULLIVAN, MICHAELIn this provocative 1949 work, Ryle proposes that what we think of as the "mind" is little more than an illusion. Rene Descartes, one of the fathers of philosophy, imagined the mind and body as separate entities, a concept known as "mind-body dualism."Vezava: Mehka11,59 €
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Analysis of Gordon W. Allport's The Nature of Prejudice(2017) O’CONNOR, ALEXANDERGordon W. Allport’s 1954 book The Nature of Prejudice not only helped mold the ways in which psychologists investigate prejudice – it also shaped US society as a whole, making a substantial contribution to the Civil Rights Movement and America’s anti-discVezava: Mehka11,59 €
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Analysis of Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation(2017) HESSELMANS, MARTHEGutiérrez’s 1971 book provides an inspiring argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should support the poor. The Catholic Church had traditionally seen itself as politically neutral but in the 1960s and 70s reformers, such as GutiérrezVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Ha-Joon Chang's Kicking Away the Ladder(2017) HAKEMY, SULAIMANEver since the nineteenth century, people have claimed that the prosperity enjoyed by the First World was the result of its devotion to unconstrained economic freedoms. Chang claims that, in fact, First World success was due to exactly the kinds of stateVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Hanna Batatu's The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq(2018) STAHL, DALE J.First published in 1978, Batatu’s extraordinarily detailed text is considered the definitive social history of twentieth century Iraq. It uses both unique primary sources and detailed oral histories to examine the changing cultural, social, economic and pVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Hans J. Morgenthau's Politics Among Nations(2017) PARDO, RAMON PACHECOMorgenthau’s classic text, published in 1948, not only introduced the concept of political realism, but also established it as the dominant approach in international relations and the guiding philosophy of US foreign policy during the Cold War.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Henry Kissinger's World Order(2017) GIBSON, BRYANHenry Kissinger’s 2014 book World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History not only offers a summary of thinking developed throughout a long and highly influential career–it is also an intervention in international relationVezava: Mehka12,36 €
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Analysis of Homi K. Bhabha's The Location of Culture(2017) FAY, STEPHEN,HAYDON, LIAMHomi K. Bhabha's 1994 The Location of Culture is one of the founding texts of the branch of literary theory called postcolonialism. While postcolonialism has many strands, at its heart lies the question of interpreting and understanding encounters betweenVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The "Hitler Myth"(2017) ROCHE, HELENThe ‘Hitler Myth’ is recognized as one of the most important books yet written about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi State. Focusing on what he called the ‘history of everyday life,’ Kershaw investigated the attitude of the German people toward Hitler, rather tVezava: Mehka11,59 €
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Analysis of Ian Kershaw's The "Hitler Myth"(2017) ROCHE, HELENThe ‘Hitler Myth’ is recognized as one of the most important books yet written about Adolf Hitler and the Nazi State. Focusing on what he called the ‘history of everyday life,’ Kershaw investigated the attitude of the German people toward Hitler, rather tVezava: Trda38,00 €
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Analysis of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason(2017) O'SULLIVAN, MICHAELImmanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy – not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have kVezava: Mehka11,59 €
