For many immigrants, the move from Sicily to a New York tenement was accompanied by rapid, significant, and often surprisingly satisfactory changes in a wide variety of social relationships. Ma...więcej »
What makes something funny? This book shows how humor can be analyzed without killing the joke. Alex Clayton argues that the brevity of a sketch or skit and its typical rejection of narrative devel...więcej »
Brings together all of Gadamer's published writings on Celan's poetry, and makes them available in English for the first time. This is accessible commentary on a notoriously difficult poet.więcej »
Women today are faced with the difficult choice between gaining success in a career or successfully become a family care giver. There are numerous social factors which affect the career decisions o...więcej »
Presents a historical and philosophical overview of the twentieth-century German debates on secularization and their significance for contemporary discussions about the relationship between theo...więcej »
This book offers the reader an introduction to the writings of Hildegard of Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Nicholas of Cusa, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Angelus Silesius, Novalis and includes the m...więcej »
This book is a brief approximation between the philosopher Michel Foucault and university education, using the concept of Gnothi Seauton (know yourself) in which the philosopher analyses during his...więcej »
Human life is a labyrinth of fortunes and misfortunes that are tightly interwoven. It is characterized by a complex network of ambivalent experiences that can be likened to a sharp machete. You hol...więcej »
This book explores how government agencies in Thailand and Australia, two countries with long and rich history and culture that draw millions of tourists around the world preserve and promote their...więcej »
Brain tumors are the second commonest tumors after leukemia and the commonest solid tumors in children. Childhood brain tumors (CBT) are the commonest cause of cancer related deaths in children and...więcej »
This book provides an understanding of the content and aims of Habermas's critical theory of society — the theory that analyzes the causes of our cultural lack of direction, polical apathy, and the...więcej »
Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century woman, describes her relationship with God as a mutual loving in which God and she affect each other personally and profoundly. This book presents in detail the acc...więcej »
As the title indicates, Faith and Knowledge deals with the relation between religious faith and cognitive beliefs, between the truth of religion and the truths of philosophy and science. Hegel is ...więcej »
Presents three generations of German, French, and Anglo-American thinking on the Hegelian narrative of desire, recognition, and alienation in life, labor, and language.więcej »