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The room was completely darkened, his image appeared on the screen. At this moment my perception of space and time disappeared. My body felt like a thunder went through it. Everything around me b…

Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that ‘all men are created equal’. This declaration of equal rights is a fundamen…

Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unit…

[b]The expanded new edition of one of the most influential and controversial books about the nature of philosophy published in the past several decades [/b]  [i]The Philosophy of Philosophy[/i] p…

In summer 1960, Adorno gave the first of a series of lectures devoted to the relation between sociology and philosophy. One of his central concerns was to dispel the notion, erroneous in his view…

The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to live together in the [i]polis[/i], were a constant preoccupatio…

New Book by International Bestselling Author Rhonda Byrne.Once you know, freedom is yours.The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a jou…

Voltaire, der «geistreiche Spötter» – kaum ein Klischee über große Literaten ist so verbreitet. Doch das lässt den französischen Denker weit zu harmlos erscheinen. Geistreich und ironiebegabt war…

La importancia de la vida y escritos de Tomás Moro no deja de crecer con el paso de los años. Nacido en 1478 en Londres, fue un importante pensador, abogado, político y humanista, y llegó a ser g…

Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction – but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield. Should we be worried, or is this a normal development in the technology o…

Los bríos revolucionarios apenas se calmaban en el país, los constitucionalistas consiguieron promulgar una nueva Carta Magna para el país el 5 de febrero de 1917; apenas doce días después de que…

A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental…

Esta biografía de José Félix Estigarribia escrita por la historiadora Anahí Soto Vera pretende, como ella misma lo dice, destacar algunos aspectos de la vida de quien fuera el conductor victorios…

What is knowledge? Why is it valuable? How much of it do we have (if any at all), and what ways of thinking are good ways to use to get more of it? These are just a few questions that are asked i…

Los brasileros tienen más poesía que todos nosotros juntos. Y no es cosa de Pelé o Neymar sino es algo de su propia lengua. Tampoco es el cantito o la musicalización que llevan consigo, aunque en…

As people throughout the world react to globalization and revert to nationalism, they are proclaiming distinct cultural identities for themselves. Cultural identity seems to offer a defensive wal…

Der Geist Gottes in den Gläubigen wirkt nach der ihm eigenen Gesetzmäßigkeit und Kraft. Es ist das Gesetz des Geistes des Lebens, das uns frei machen kann von dem Gesetz der Sünde und des Todes (…

Amb lúcida metàfora i amb una llengua clara i expressiva, Miquel-Lluís Muntané convida el lector a compartir a Frontisses. Mirades a una primavera les seves experiències i peripècies, viscudes e…

"Ocupo la cel·la 16 d'un bloc en què hi ha divuit presos polítics més. Aquí jo no tinc nom. Només soc un número en un expedient: K6,77" Així comença Lluitar amb el diable, de Ngũgĩ wa T…

The virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears? In this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to …