Assumption – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 4

Hadar Aviram
Behind Ancient Bars

In Behind Ancient Bars, law professor and rabbinical student Hadar Aviram challenges the conventional assumption that incarceration is an artifact of modernity by looking back to depictions of detention a…

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Lennard J Davis
Enforcing Normalcy

In this highly original study of the cultural assumptions governing our conception of people with disabilities, Lennard J. Davis argues forcefully against "ableist" discourse and for a complete …

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Éric Brian
Are Statistics Only Made of Data?

This book examines several epistemological regimes in studies of numerical data over the last four centuries. It distinguishes these regimes and mobilises questions present in the philosophy of science, s…

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Rebecca Zorach
Spontaneous Objects

In the late medieval and early modern periods, European artists, theorists, and natural philosophers imagined Nature not simply as a force of reproduction but as an artist in its own right--a creative pow…

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David P. Succi Junior
Legitimating Violence: Military Operations Within Brazilian Borders

The book challenges the main theoretical assumption on the military-police distinction, grounding works on contemporary military missions and security policies, and provides tools to overcome the analytic…

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Patricia H. Werhane, David J. Bevan
Moral Imagination in the Twenty-first Century

What role could or should moral imagination play in managerial and corporate decision-making? This book focuses on three simple questions: why do ordinary, decent managers engage in questionable behavior?…

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Emma Stapely
Afterlives of the American Revolution

This book challenges the historical common sense that the American Revolution terminated in the birth of the United States. Prevailing narratives of the Revolutionary period rest on the assumption that th…

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Lantz Miller
The Rationality Project

Rationality has been philosophers' concern stretching back to ancient times. But just what is rationality? In trying to answer this question, rationality is found to be more complex than supposed. This bo…

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Sunaura Taylor
Beasts of Burden

A bold and beautifully written inquiry into the intertwined struggles for animal and disability justice--challenging what it means to be humanIn this provocative and original work, artist, activist, and s…

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The Black Reparations Project

"Excellent scholarship that is at once thorough and accessible. This volume painstakingly connects the justification for and the implementation of reparations across the various facets of life, from …

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Late Stage

Late Stage: Theatrical Perspectives on Age and Aging represents the first comprehensive anthology to critically interrogate the intersection of age studies with theater and performance studies. Undoing th…

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Amie Thomasson
Thomasson, A: Rethinking Metaphysics

In Rethinking Metaphysics, Amie Thomasson aims to change how we think about metaphysics: what it can do, and why it matters. Traditional metaphysics has aimed to discover deep truths about the world. But …

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Laura Rademaker, Sally K. May, Gabriel Maralngurra
Aboriginal Rock Art and the Telling of History

The rock art of Australia is among the oldest, most complex, and most fascinating manifestations of human creativity and imagination in the world. Aboriginal people used art to record their experiences, c…

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Pramod K Nayar
Vulnerable Earth

Vulnerable Earth is a study of the literature of climate crisis. Building on the assumption that the crisis is planetary in scope even if differential and unequal in effects, it examines literary fiction,…

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Peter Jackson Rova
Devotion and Artifice

How have humans sought to prevent viable assumptions about themselves and their world from being in force, how does this propensity manifest itself, and in what terms has it been theorized and criticized …

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Dongxian Jiang
Why China Needs Democracy

A realist defense of constitutional democracy in China that challenges the assumptions of the so-called China ModelWith liberal democracies under strain and the Chinese government delivering stability and…

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Zack Reed
Same Bag, Different Bunk

A candid look at the hostel industry in America, told from the perspective of a backpacker who spent more than a year cycling through various hostels, living out of the same bag while swapping out bunks a…

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Sue Donaldson, Will Kymlicka
Animals and the Right to Politics

The assumption that only humans can engage in politics - that only humans are 'zoon politikon' - is foundational to the Western tradition of political philosophy. While there is increasing recognition of …

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Paul Eastwick
Bonded by Evolution

A groundbreaking look at the science of attraction and compatibility, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about how human mating evolved---to demonstrate the real keys to romantic attachment.Over…

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Nuria Scapin
The Flower of Suffering

Greek tragedy occupies a prominent place in the development of early Greek thought. However, even within the partial renaissance of debates about tragedy's roots in the popular thought of archaic Greece, …

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