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  • Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock
    Mark William Padilla
    This book explores the themes and symbols of classical myth and literature reflected in Alfred Hitchcock’s films. Mark W. Padilla examines the classical resonances of four movies, one from each of the filmmaker’s first decades. ...
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    67,83 €

  • Strength of Mind
    Brad Andrews / Jacob L. Goodson / Jacob LGoodson
    Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions for cultivating courage and hope within one’s ordinary life. More specifica...
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    32,94 €

  • Strength of Mind
    Brad Andrews / Jacob L. Goodson / Jacob LGoodson
    Higher education in the twenty-first century should bring together freedom and knowledge with courage and hope. Why these four concepts? As Goodson argues in Strength of Mind, higher education in the twenty-first century offers preparation for ordinary life. Freedom and knowledge serve as the conditions for cultivating courage and hope within one’s ordinary life. More specifica...
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    54,64 €

  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Made Simple
    Seth J. Gillihan / Seth JGillihan
    Cognitive behavior therapy strategies to help you manage anxiety and depression, whether you struggle with an anxiety disorder or are just feeling uneasy in life.Get lasting relief from anger, panic, stress, and other mood-related conditions by applying the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy to your daily life. From writing down your goals to addressing negative thought...
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    15,65 €

  • Livestock
    Erin McKenna
    Most livestock in America currently live in cramped and unhealthy confinement, have few stable social relationships with humans or others of their species, and finish their lives by being transported and killed under stressful conditions. In Livestock, Erin McKenna allows us to see this situation and presents alternatives. She interweaves stories from visits to farms, interview...
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    122,06 €

  • Two Existential Theories of Knowledge
    Joseph W. Long
    In chapter 1 of this book, I explore four paradigms of justification: epistemic foundationalism and coherentism (which I call the traditional paradigms) and pragmatism and contextualism (the existential paradigms). I argue that the existential paradigms are pragmatically superior. In chapter 2, I build a bridge between pragmatist thinkers like James and Dewey, contextualists ...
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    10,15 €

  • Ejercicios espirituales para materialistas
    Luis Roca Jusmet
    Pierre Hadot y Michel Foucault, dos de los más importantes representantes de la filosofía contemporánea de la segunda mitad del siglo XX, son autores de culto.Pero, aunque comparten la pertenencia a un mismo país y a una misma generación, tienen trayectorias vitales y filosóficas diametralmente opuestas. Será a principios de los años ochenta cuando Foucault, interesado por las ...
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    13,52 €

  • Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations
    Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations bridges the gap between philosophical pragmatism and international relations, two disciplinary perspectives that together shed light on how to advance the study and conduct of foreign affairs. Authors in this collection discuss a broad range of issues, from policy relevance to peacekeeping operations, with an eye to understan...
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    64,08 €

  • George Herbert Mead in the Twenty-first Century
    While rooted in careful study of Mead’s original writings and transcribed lectures and the historical context in which that work was carried out, the papers in this volume have brought Mead’s work to bear on contemporary issues in metaphysics, epistemology, cognitive science, and social and political philosophy. ...
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    63,74 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion
    Michael R. Slater / Michael RSlater
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    42,05 €

  • Evolutionary Pragmatism and Ethics
    Beth Eddy / Beth L. Eddy / Beth LEddy
    This book details a pragmatic approach to the ethical and religious implications of a Darwinian perspective, drawing on the work of thinkers both secular and religious. The approach taken by James, Santayana, Addams, and Dewey should be of interest to scholars of religious naturalism and humanistic ethics. ...
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    125,32 €

  • Building a Social Democracy
    Robert Danisch
    Building a Social Democracy examines the various types of communication practices that are necessary to build a social democracy. Danisch contends that rhetorical pragmatism improves our sociopolitical circumstances by turning questions about epistemology into questions about communication practices. ...
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    157,76 €

  • Pragmatist Neurophilosophy
    John R. Shook
    Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. Discussing how Charles Peirce, ...
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    64,05 €

  • Cognitive Complications
    Nicholas Rescher
    Cognitive Complications examines fundamental issues in the theory of knowledge from the perspective of philosophical pragmatism. Rescher seeks to show how a pragmatic, user-oriented approach to knowledge can elucidate key issues of the field. ...
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    141,65 €

  • Recovering Integrity
    Stuart Rosenbaum
    This book brings integrity to the center of philosophical conversations about morality and traces its roots as a philosophical idea to the American pragmatist tradition. ...
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    125,22 €

  • The Indispensable Excess of the Aesthetic
    Katya Mandoki
    This book offers a compelling account of the evolution of sensibility, weaving together Darwinian and biosemiotic theory. It works along non-anthropomorphic aesthetics of the appreciation and creation of beauty in nature as an end in itself which has practical benefit. ...
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    141,51 €

  • Humanity at the Crossroads
    Garth J. Hallett / Garth JHallett
    Humanity at the Crossroads attempts to answer questions regarding the effect of technological progress on our lives. This book concludes that the very technology which threatens to destroy us, not merely its more favorable offshoots, is itself the catalyst for that better world we may yet hope to inhabit. ...
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    32,18 €

  • Thinking with Whitehead and the American Pragmatists
    This collection of original essays explores the connections between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead and the classical American pragmatists. ...
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    133,14 €

  • American Philosophy
    Erin McKenna
    American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work o...
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    54,08 €

  • American Philosophy
    Erin McKenna / Scott L. Pratt
    American Philosophy offers the first historically framed introduction to the tradition of American philosophy and its contemporary engagement with the world.Born out of the social and political turmoil of the Civil War, American philosophy was a means of dealing with conflict and change. In the turbulence of the 21st century, this remains as relevant as ever. Placing the work o...
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    225,24 €

  • Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy
    The book presents a variety of philosophical and socio-political perspectives related to the relationship between persuasion and compulsion in democracy. It meets the need of the present time, in America and in Europe, to re-read and discuss the basic assumptions of democracy and the role of individual within it in the context of institutional persuasions that can become factua...
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    63,90 €

  • The Priority of Democracy
    Jack Knight / James Johnson
    Why democracy is the best way of deciding how decisions should be madePragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars rarely examine in detail the relationship between pragmatism and politics. In The Priority of Democracy, Jack Knight and James Johnson systematically explore the subject and make a strong case for adopting a pragmatist...
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    40,09 €

  • Richard Rorty
    Richard Rorty was one of the most important philosophers of the last half of the twentieth century. His work helped effect global transformations in the way philosophy thinks about its work and role midst contemporary culture. He was influential across a diversity of disciplines in perturbing our inherited self-understandings of the place of intellectuals in culture and the rol...
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    64,26 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport
    The contributors to Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport argue that American pragmatism is particularly well suited analyze the experience and development of sport activities. This volume will be a valuable resource in any philosophy of sport class (undergraduate or graduate) or in a course on pragmatism; it will also be appropriate for kinesiology students. It will give read...
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    66,97 €

  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz
    Brandon C. Look
    The Bloomsbury Companion to Leibniz presents a comprehensive and authoritative introduction to the life, thought and work of one of the great polymaths of the modern world, G.W. Leibniz.This guide enriches the reader’s understanding of Leibniz by establishing the philosophies of, and Leibniz’s reactions to, his most important philosophical contemporaries from Descartes to Maleb...
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    61,08 €

  • Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Religion
    Michael R. Slater
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    124,32 €

  • Pragmatist Neurophilosophy
    Pragmatist Neurophilosophy:American Philosophy and the Brain explains why the broad tradition of pragmatism is needed now more than ever. Bringing pragmatist philosophers together with cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists, this volume explores topics of urgent interest across neuroscience and philosophy from the perspective of pragmatism. Discussing how Charles Peirce, ...
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    206,44 €

  • The Great War and the Death of God
    Charles a. O'Connor III
    This book attributes the success of the atheistic cosmology in displacing the deeply rooted belief in nature's divine governance to the First World War and its effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing human...
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    39,16 €

  • Evolution of Immortality
    Adam Stanczyk
    Humans have long wondered whether we might be able to cure to all diseases and put a stop aging. But what if we were able to revive the dead to achieve an even more universal version of immortality? In this study, Adam Stanczyk, an architect, considers various aspects of the debate on immortality and all of its possibilities, arguing that humanity can achieve more than we ever ...
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    15,17 €

  • Pragmatism
    William James
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    49,10 €


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