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Serie: Modernity in question
GebondenEngels9783631626771
29-12-2014
The grand narrative of capitalism continues at the beginning of the 21st century, though in a different (postmodern) key from its previous forms. In such circumstances, the New Leftist predilection for colourful peripheries – something it has unwittingly shared with postmodernism – must give way to a tendency for ethically responsible reflection. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631626788
29-3-2015
The book deals with contemporary French philosophy from Bataille to Derrida (Sartre, Aron, Levinas, Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard etc.). Meer
GebondenEngels9783631632253
16-10-2013
This book is an analysis of contemporary life, seen under the perspective of immutable, ancient myths. It researches into the field of philosophical anthropology, where different moods of today’s life are analyzed. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631831823
28-8-2020
“Insane run“ focuses on European culture of the late nineteenth century and the Polish contribution to it. The word “dark“ is understood as a metaphor of gradual devaluation of the idea of progress. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631629246
15-12-2014
Post-communist Polish culture faced a problem: how to reconcile a growing demand for individual autonomy with a growing need for interpersonal and interspecies solidarity. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631640401
29-12-2014
Strangers by Choice explores voluntary otherness as a philosophy of life. This philosophy is asocial in the sense that its followers tend to privilege separateness over belonging, and yet it does not lead to alienation or isolation from society. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631840351
10-2-2021
The book deals with manifestations and relics of magical thinking in narrative folklore of Cieszyn Silesia (Teschen Silesia, Tìšínské Slezsko). The author focuses on the cognitive dimension of socially shared narratives and demonstrates how they re-produce the magical picture of the world. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631797198
7-2-2020
The aim of this book is the analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s meta-epistemological project of the semantic theory of knowledge and its implementations to solve certain traditional epistemological problems and their metaphysical consequences. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631672631
12-10-2018
The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanislaw Lem. It contains an analysis of one of his early works, The Dialogues, as well as of his essay, Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631845073
31-3-2021
The book is a reflection over how art functions in late modernity. It emphasizes processes of fictionalizing reality and exposes, how phenomenology can be used to extract this problem on a foundation of aesthetics. Meer
GebondenSpaans9783631898888
24-5-2023
GebondenEngels9783631863343
22-10-2021
Reevaluating neoliberalism’s temporal regimes of growth and decline, the book invites us to think about temporality experimentally. Focusing on works by Brink, Coetzee and Mda, it studies South African revisioning of time and alterity. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631626726
29-12-2014
The book presents new metaphysical tendencies in 20th century French philosophy (1930s-1960s). Particular attention is given to the writings of Louis Lavelle, Ferdinand Alquié, Jean Wahl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Emmanuel Lévinas. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631846094
2-7-2021
Based on the ethnographic method, this volume offers analytical insights into the workings of agency in late industrialism, revealed in interactions between a power plant and a local community in Opole, Silesia, in southwestern Poland. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631674345
30-7-2019
The book examines the philosophy of Jacques Derrida not only as the creator of a specific mode of interpretation called "deconstruction" but also as an initiator of recent ethical and political reflection, a pioneer of performatics, and a precursor of current research on experience. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631712689
17-2-2017
Award winning essay in philosophical anthropology reflecting on who, in terms of history of ideas, modern western man was, is, and will perhaps become. Meer
GebondenEngels9783631640524
3-4-2014
This book aims to present trompe-l’oeil painting as an ambigous aesthetic ideal offered by early modern theory of art. It embodies the idea of an image identical to what it represents. Meer