harvard university press mär 2004 (20 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A 'magisterial mappa mundi' of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious work revises our view of ancient philosophy--and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Hadot takes ancient philosophy out of its customary realm of names, dates, and arid abstractions and plants it squarely in the thick of life. Through a meticulous historical reading, he shows how the various schools, trends, and ideas of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy all tended toward one goal: to provide a means for achieving happiness in this life, by transforming the individual's mode of perceiving and being in the world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Ethics of Memory draws on the resources of millennia of Western philosophy and religion to provide us with healing ideas that will engage all of us who care about the nature of our relations to others. '[A] thought-provoking book . For Margalit . the paradigm is Jewish memories of the Holocaust, not Muslim memories of humiliation. Still, his sensitive meditations show how these two strains of hurt might be overcome . Margalit is an astonishingly humane thinker. His philosophy is always tied to making sense of us humans in all our complexity. And yet he is committed to making sense of us in ways that will make us better.' --Jonathan Lear, New York Times Book Review 'The richness of Margalit's approach lies in its avidity, in the author's respect for every facet of existence; he can draw, in just a few paragraphs, examples from ordinary life and from momentous events.' --Lee Siegel, Los Angeles Times Book Review.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book proposes a new science of self-control based on the principles of behavioral psychology and economics. Claiming that insight and self-knowledge are insufficient for controlling one's behavior, Howard Rachlin argues that the only way to achieve such control--and ultimately happiness--is through the development of harmonious patterns of behavior. Most personal problems with self-control arise because people have difficulty delaying immediate gratification for a better future reward. To avoid those problems, the author presents a strategy of 'soft commitment,' consisting of the development of valuable patterns of behavior that bridge over individual temptations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Moving between philosophy and history, Arnold Davidson elaborates a powerful new method for considering the history of concepts and the nature of scientific knowledge, a method he calls 'historical epistemology.' He applies this method to the history of sexuality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's superlative work, written over the course of a decade, gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts--and by 'magic,' During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows--affect people.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In a powerful challenge to conventional wisdom, Philip Hamburger argues that the separation of church and state has no historical foundation in the First Amendment. The detailed evidence assembled here shows that eighteenth-century Americans almost never invoked this principle. Although Thomas Jefferson and others retrospectively claimed that the First Amendment separated church and state, separation became part of American constitutional law only much later.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this compelling account of the decisive World War II battle of El Alamein, Jon Latimer brings to life the harsh desert conflict in North Africa. This is the story of two of the most intriguing commanders of the war and the story of the infantry soldiers who fought in a scorched wilderness.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, freedom, and justice, the distinguished economist and philosopher Amartya Sen brings clarity and insight to these difficult issues. This volume--the first of the two--is principally concerned with rationality and freedom.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - nation toward war even as it strove to vanquish slavery and preserve the peace.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Multiethnic Japan challenges the received view of Japanese society as ethnically homogeneous. Employing a wide array of arguments and evidence--historical and comparative, interviews and observations, high literature and popular culture--John Lie recasts modern Japan as a thoroughly multiethnic society.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - anthropologists, curators, and literary critics, his book utterly reorients our understanding of how we make sense of our world.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Brown takes us through the various engagements in the science wars--from the infamous 'Sokal affair' to angry confrontations over the nature of evidence, the possibility of objectivity, and the methods of science--to show how the contested terrain may be science, but the prize is political: Whoever wins the science wars will have an unprecedented influence on how we are governed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From the bookTo my mind the most striking development in ethical theory since the 1970s has been an attempt to reactivate the Platonic-Aristotelian ethical tradition and to provide an updated account of its leading idea--namely, that moral virtue is the outcome of a successful process of formation.The notion of form can be replaced by that of order, the kind of order that we try to impose on our own behavior insofar as we take ourselves to be answerable to norms of correctness; and this change of perspective can open up our conception of the virtuous person to the influence of modern discussions about norm-governed practices, thus helping us to a more complete acceptance of the phenomenon of morality as 'part of our natural history.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The angry emotions, and the problems they presented, were an ancient Greek preoccupation from Homer to late antiquity. From the first lines of the 'Iliad' to the church fathers of the fourth century A.D., the control or elimination of rage was an obsessive concern. From the Greek world it passed to the Romans.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - of the role of Lutheran private confession in the German Reformation, this book is a welcome contribution to early modern European and religious history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents both a critique of mainstream macroeconomics from a structuralist perspective and an exposition of modern structuralist approaches. The fundamental assumption of structuralism is that it is impossible to understand a macroeconomy without understanding its major institutions and distributive relationships across productive sectors and social groups.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - breadth, analytical clarity, and general accessibility, it is likely to serve as a definitive work in the economic analysis of law.