A thoughtful spy novel cum love story set during the days of the dying Soviet Union in Estonia, as a group of young dissidents smuggle copies of KGB files out of the country, with security services never far behind, and their fates entangled....Lasīt vairāk
Discusses the relations between linguistic structures and the practice of philosophizing-with examples from across the world-and argues that the latter is always influenced by the former. The Linguistic Carnival of Thought: Comparative...Lasīt vairāk
Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation. Written by a...Lasīt vairāk
J.I. Hans Bakker, Wayne Brekhus, Todd Madigan, Paul McLean, Rein Raud, Eunkyung Song, Elizabeth Wissinger, Andrea Cossu, Jorge Fontdevila
Sērija : Interpretive Lenses in Sociology
(Izdošanas datums: 25-May-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529211740)
Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation. Written by a...Lasīt vairāk
A cutting-edge contribution to the philosophical debate about how to conceptualize reality-- Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so: according to th...Lasīt vairāk
Reality exists independently of human observers, but does the same apply to its structure? Realist ontologies usually assume so: according to them, the world consists of objects, these have properties and enter into relations with each other, more...Lasīt vairāk
The aim of this book is to acquaint its reader with the rich thought traditions of Asia (India, China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and South-East Asia), which have mutually influenced each other throughout history and consequently share large parts of their...Lasīt vairāk
A thoughtful spy novel cum love story set during the days of the dying Soviet Union in Estonia, as a group of young dissidents smuggle copies of KGB files out of the country, with security services never far behind, and their fates entangled....Lasīt vairāk
For five years, Enn Padrik has postponed the investigation into the apparently religiously inspired suicide of his daughter and her friends at a commune near Viljandi, but now he cannot do it any longer. He has to travel all over Estonia and eve...Lasīt vairāk
The Brother is a spaghetti western told in poetic prose, simultaneously paying tribute to both Clint Eastwood and Alessandro Baricco. It opens with a mysterious stranger arriving in a small town controlled by a group of menmen who recentl...Lasīt vairāk
In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life...Lasīt vairāk
In this important new book Rein Raud develops an original theory of culture understood as a loose and internally contradictory system of texts and practices that are shared by intermittent groups of people and used by them to make sense of their life...Lasīt vairāk
This is a new book from two of the world s leading social thinkers The book is a wide-ranging analysis of the way in which social practices shape our sense of selfhood in the modern world The authors argue that the world in which we live t...Lasīt vairāk
This is a new book from two of the worlds leading social thinkers The book is a wide-ranging analysis of the way in which social practices shape our sense of selfhood in the modern world The authors argue that the world in which we live today...Lasīt vairāk
