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Towards Corporeal Cosmopolitanism(2017) RAGHAVAN, ANJANAThis book explores the ways in which existing narratives of cosmopolitanism are often organized around European and American discourses of human rights and universalism, which allow little room for the articulation of an affective, embodied and subalternVezava: Trda24,12 €
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Lucretius I(2018) NAIL, THOMAS (DISTINGUISHED SCHOLAR AND PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF DENVER)Thomas Nail argues convincingly and systematically that Lucretius was not an atomist, but a thinker of kinetic flux. In doing so, he completely overthrows the interpretive foundations of modern scientific materialism, whose philosophical origins lie in thVezava: Mehka35,51 €
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Reclaiming Wonder(2018) LLOYD, GENEVIEVE (EMERITUS PROFESSOR IN PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA)Genevieve Lloyd illuminates and challenges some perplexing aspects of contemporary attitudes to wonder. She draws especially on Flaubert, who influenced the thought of Jean-Paul Sartre, Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida. She also reaches into contemporarVezava: Mehka38,60 €
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Understanding the Rights of Nature(2022) TANASESCU, MIHNEAAn exhaustive critical engagement with the idea and practice of giving nature rights.Vezava: Mehka68,89 €
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Lions' Den(2020) LINFIELD, SUSIEA lively intellectual history that explores how prominent midcentury public intellectuals approached Zionism and then the State of Israel itself and its conflicts with the Arab worldVezava: Mehka42,78 €
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Equality Beyond Debate(2018) JACKSON, JEFF (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)This book is for students of politics who want to understand what democracy should mean in a structurally unequal society. Much current discussion of democracy focuses on encouraging individuals to debate more civilly and respectfully, but this book showsVezava: Trda145,92 €
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Orthodox Passions(2019) EPSTEIN, MARAMIn this groundbreaking study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new undersVezava: Trda87,87 €
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Philosopher Looks at Sport(2021) MUMFORD, STEPHEN (DURHAM UNIVERSITY)Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, arguing that sport reflects diverse human experiences, including values that we continue to contest. His book is written for anyone who is thoughtful, a sportsVezava: Mehka17,81 €
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Beyond Nature and Culture(2014) DESCOLA, PHILIPPEDeals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemisVezava: Mehka58,93 €
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Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity(2016) MACINTYRE, ALASDAIR (UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME, INDIANA)MacIntyre explores the central philosophical, political and moral claims of modernity and argues that a proper understanding of human goods requires a rejection of these claims. This significant book by a distinguished philosopher will interest a wide reaVezava: Trda73,50 €
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Clipped Coins, Abused Words, and Civil Government(2021) CAFFENTZIS, GEORGEA classic examination of John Locke's philosophy of economics, language and historyVezava: Mehka40,97 €
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Gentlemen Revolutionaries(2017) CUTTERHAM, TOMIn the years between the Revolutionary War and the drafting of the Constitution, American gentlemen--the merchants, lawyers, planters, and landowners who comprised the independent republic's elite--worked hard to maintain their positions of power. GentlemVezava: Trda74,37 €