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  • Superstition supérieure

    La gauche universitaire et ses querelles avec la science

    de Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt, Alan Sokal (préface) ...
    Superstition supérieure : La gauche universitaire et ses querelles avec la science est l’œuvre de deux scientifiques de gauche inquiets de la direction prise par la vie intellectuelle américaine dans les années 1990. Une frange d’universitaires enclins à la transformation sociale radicale s’en prenait alors à la science, lui refusant notamment tout statut particulier en matière de connaissance. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Impostures intellectuelles

    de Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ...
    Au printemps 1996, une revue américaine fort respectée -- Social Text -- publiait un article au titre étrange : " Transgresser les frontières : vers une herméneutique transformative de la gravitation quantique. " Son auteur, Alan Sokal, étayait ses divagations par des citations d'intellectuels célèbres, français et américains. Peu après, il révélait qu'il s'agissait d'une parodie. Son but était de ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Beyond the Hoax

    Science, Philosophy and Culture

    de Alan Sokal ...
    In 1996, Alan Sokal, a Professor of Physics at New York University, wrote a paper for the cultural-studies journal Social Text, entitled 'Transgressing the Boundaries: Towards a transformative hermeneutics of quantum gravity'. It was reviewed, accepted and published. Sokal immediately confessed that the whole article was a hoax - a cunningly worded paper designed to expose and parody the style of ... Leer más

    $18.09 USD

  • Fashionable Nonsense

    Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science

    de Alan Sokal, Jean Bricmont ...
    In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy.Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • The Moral Landscape

    How Science Can Determine Human Values

    de Sam Harris ...
    New York Times bestselling author Sam Harris’s first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to non-believing scientists—agree on one point: science has nothing to say on the subject of human values. Indeed, our failure to address questions of meaning and morality through ... Leer más

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  • Evermore Shall Be So

    de Ficino .. ...
    Featuring philosophical commentary from Marsilio Ficino-a leading scholar of the Italian Renaissance who translated all the works of Plato into Latin-this work is the first English translation of Ficino's commentary of Plato's dialogue between the philosopher Parmenides and the youthful Socrates. In the scene, the older man instructs his student on the use of dialectic to draw the mind away from ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs von Balthasar

    Edición de Edward T. Oakes, S. J., David Moss ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905–1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his own daring speculations about the meaning of Christ's descent into hell after the crucifixion, about the uniqueness of Christ as savior of a pluralistic world, and because he draws so many of his resources for his ... Leer más

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  • Tao and Trinity: Notes on Self-Reference and the Unity of Opposites in Philosophy

    de S. Austin ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The Chinese Tao and the Western Trinity have a fundamental unity of theme: the unity of opposites. Both are connected with problems as broad and diverse as how to describe the entire universe, how a system can talk about itself, the relationship between symbols and realities, and the nature of signs and sacraments. ... Leer más

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  • Does Anything Really Matter?

    Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

    Edición de Peter Singer ...
    In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • The Music of the Republic

    Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings

    de Eva Brann ...
    “This collection of Eva Brann’s is one of the most valuable aids a lover of Plato could have.”—Walter Nicgorski, University of Notre DameIn fourteen essays, Eva Brann talks with readers about the conversations Socrates engages in with his fellow Athenians. In doing so, she shows how Plato’s dialogues and the timeless matters they address remain important to us today.The Music of the Republic “will ... Leer más

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  • A Critical Introduction to Properties

    de Dr Sophie Allen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Contemporary Metaphysics
    What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, exploring how their formulation is shaped by the explanatory demands placed upon them.This accessible introduction begins ... Leer más

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  • The British Aesthetic Tradition

    From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

    de Timothy M. Costelloe ...
    The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first ... Leer más

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