• Rok vydání 2021

Fifty years before its golden age, Athens was just another city-state in Sparta’s shadow. David Stuttard tells the story of…

A landmark reinterpretation of the civil rights movement that challenges reductive heroic narratives of the 1950s and 1960s…

Stanley Fish is one of America's most stimulating literary theorists. In this book, he undertakes a reexamination of some of…

Management experts Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev sift through decades of data to show why workplace diversity training…

Nearly all the works Aristotle (384 322 BCE) prepared for publication are lost; the priceless ones extant are…

We know more of Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 43 BCE), lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, than of any other Roman.…

Philosophers-professionals and the armchair variety-are given to defending comprehensive world views. Raymond Geuss, one of…

Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps and an international group of economists argue that economic health depends on the widespread…

A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the…

Cutting a path from the Atlantic to the Pacific, the Panama Canal set a new course for the development of Central…

• Rok vydání 1999

Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's "A Theory of Justice" has become a classic. The author has now revised the original…

• Rok vydání 2006

More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, "The Open Work" remains significant for its powerful…

• Rok vydání 2020

After tracking the lives of thousands of people from birth to midlife, four of the world's preeminent psychologists reveal…

\nGrounded in the legacies of two pioneering scholars of oral literature, Milman Parry and Albert Lord, Singers and Tales in…

Contains forty lessons designed to introduce beginning students to the basic patterns and structures of Classical Chinese,…

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• Rok vydání 2016

Political theorists focus on the nature of justice, liberty, and equality while ignoring the institutions through which…

\nThe sense of reading as an intimate act of self-discovery—and of communion between authors and book lovers—has a long…

A book which should appeal to both literary theorists and to readers of the novel, this study invites the reader to consider…

Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old…

This first volume shows that even as a young man Walter Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His…

\nCollected here are \"Franz Kafka,\" \"Karl Kraus,\" and \"The Author as Producer,\" the meditation \"A Berlin Chronicle,\"…

• Rok vydání 2024

Organizations now measure and rank nearly every aspect of our lives, using data to make predictions about our purchasing…

• Rok vydání 1990

Modern theories of meaning usually culminate in a critique of science. Philosophy in a New Key presents a study of human…

Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois's thought, Robert…

• Rok vydání 2016

From Sources of the Self to A Secular Age, Charles Taylor has shown how we create ways of being, as individuals and as a…

In countries with officially egalitarian property law, women still accumulate less wealth than men. Combining quantitative,…

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• Rok vydání 2005

Key contemporary discussions of distributive justice have formulated egalitarian approaches in terms of responsibility. But…

Tracing the structure and evolution of Idealism as a doctrine, this title exposes an objective, or realist, strain running…

Nicole Fleetwood enters American prisons to explore the creativity flourishing there. Though isolated and degraded,…

• Rok vydání 2021

Does globalization help everyone or just the rich? Is it the enemy of sustainability or the only hope against climate…

• Rok vydání 1992

achieved. "Sources of the Self" provides a decisive defense of the modern order and a sharp rebuff to its critics. Kniha…

• Latina

This volume presents the visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino. His Platonic evangelizing was…

• Rok vydání 2002

Marsilion Ficino's Platonic evangelising was eminently successful and widely influential, and his Platonic Theology,…

Nozick analyzes fundamental issues, such as the identity of the self, knowledge and skepticism, free will, the foundations…

\nDoes class determine economic options, or is class in our heads-a matter of interpreting symbols and meanings? Cultural…

• Rok vydání 2014

What are the grand dynamics that drive the accumulation and distribution of capital? Questions about the long-term evolution…

Faced with government's ineptitude, people are attracted to strong leaders and bold action. As Pierre Rosanvallon…

\nFrom Booker T. Washington to a neighbor who speaks up at a city council meeting, many of the people who represent us were…

\nDuring his long career, Hilary Putnam repeatedly revised his philosophical positions. This unique volume is a window into…

\nPhilosophers have spent millennia accumulating knowledge about knowledge. But negative epistemological phenomena, such as…

Derided as simple, dismissed as inferior to film, characterized as a vast wasteland, television nonetheless exerts an…

Pasteur's success depended upon a whole network of forces, including the public hygiene movement, the medical profession and…

A study of what it means to play. The book explores play theory as elaborated and debated in disciplines from biology and…

Many books have been written about strategy, tactics, and great commanders. This is the first book to deal exclusively with…

• Rok vydání 1998

Drawing on a dozen years of research among managers, officers and politicians in the public realm and the private sector,…

Babyn Yar brings together the responses to the tragic events of September 1941. Presented here in the original and in…