What is the object of comedy? What makes us laugh and why? Is comedy subversive, restorative or reparative? What is at stake politically, socially and metaphysically when it comes to comedic performances? This book investigates not only the obj...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226673264)
In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying aff...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226673127)
In Mood and Trope, John Brenkman introduces two provocative propositions to affect theory: that human emotion is intimately connected to persuasion and figurative language; and that literature, especially poetry, lends precision to studying aff...Lasīt vairāk
Joshua Ben David Nichols, John Borrows, James Tully
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Jan-2020, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487521875)
Providing a clear, critical analysis of the history of Aboriginal law, A Reconciliation without Recollection? exposes the limitations of the current constitutional framework of reconciliation by following the lines of descent underlying the...Lasīt vairāk
This volume contains essays that examine the work and legacy of the Cambridge Platonists. The essays reappraise the ideas of this key group of English thinkers who served as a key link between the Renaissance and the modern era. The contri...Lasīt vairāk
This monograph proposes a new (dialogical) way of studying the different forms of correlational inference, known in the Islamic jurisprudence as qiyas. According to the authors view, qiyas represents an innovative and sophisticated form of dia...Lasīt vairāk
The book provides a historical (with an outline of the history of the concept of truth from antiquity to our time) and systematic exposition of the semantic theory of truth formulated by Alfred Tarski in the 1930s. This theory became famous v...Lasīt vairāk
According to dispositional realism, or dispositionalism, the entities inhabiting our world possess irreducibly dispositional properties - often called powers - by means of which they are sources of change....Lasīt vairāk
This book deals with the complexity of art by focusing on the singularity of the work of art. Gathering a selection of writings in art theory and semiotics, it explores the question of apprehending art from its perceptual aspects to ae...Lasīt vairāk
This book develops a systematic approach to the role of failure in innovation, using the laboratory notebooks of Americas most successful inventor, Thomas Edison....Lasīt vairāk
This book bridges the gaps between logic, mathematics and computer science by delving into the theory of well-quasi orders, also known as wqos. This highly active branch of combinatorics is deeply rooted in and between many fields of mathematics a...Lasīt vairāk
Heroes, villains, victims, and minions are more important than ever before in our politics and culture. In the era of television, Twitter, and Facebook, groups and individuals constantly battle over their reputations. One of the best ways to ga...Lasīt vairāk
This volume is the first of a trilogy which investigates, from a broadly realist perspective, the place, and challenges, of the human in contemporary social orders. The authors, all members of the Centre for Social Ontology, ask what is specifi...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a side-by-side consideration of two competing interpretations of Confucius ethical teachings in the Analects, ultimately arguing that Confucius’ ethics has i...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings together a group of top scholars on ethics and moral neuroeducation to cover the specific field of moral learning. Although there are many studies on neural bases of human learning and the application processes in different fields...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198851806)
A study of the philosophical thought of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, with a focus on the central philosophical views and their underlying metaphysic that Coleridge strove to achieve and refine over the last three decades of his life....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526142917)
The provides in-depth analysis of Arab liberalism, which, although lacking public appeal and a compelling political underpinning, still sustained viability over time and remained a constant part of the Arab landscape. The book provides...Lasīt vairāk
This monograph explores the logical systems of early logicians in the Arabic tradition from a theoretical perspective, providing a complete panorama of early Arabic logic and centering it within an expansive historical context. By thoroughly exami...Lasīt vairāk