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  • Maximum Power and its Philosophical Roots

    The Critical Importance Today of the Ideas of Howard Odum and Friedrich Nietzsche

    de Timothy McWhirter ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This Briefs volume focuses on the maximum power principle, which was created by the mathematician and physical chemist Alfred Lotka, and further developed and utilized most prominently by the systems ecologist H. T. Odum, who applied it to different physical, biological, ecological and economic systems. They both described this principle providing a thermodynamic framework for evolutionary theory. ... Leer más

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  • Social Acceleration

    A New Theory of Modernity

    de Hartmut Rosa ...
    Traducido por Jonathan Trejo-Mathys ...
    Series Libro 32 - New Directions in Critical Theory
    Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation, communication, and production; the acceleration of social change, reflected in cultural knowledge, social institutions, and personal relationships; and ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • You Matter More Than You Think

    Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

    de Karen O'Brien ...
    Every single one of us matters in the process of transforming our future - but do we really believe that? What if we are underestimating our individual and collective capacity to change ourselves, our cultures, and our systems to create a thriving future for all? Through the lens of quantum social change, Karen O'Brien presents a radically different way of thinking about how we address climate ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life

    How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Thought You Knew

    de Steve Stewart-Williams ...
    If you accept evolutionary theory, can you also believe in God? Are human beings superior to other animals, or is this just a human prejudice? Does Darwin have implications for heated issues like euthanasia and animal rights? Does evolution tell us the purpose of life, or does it imply that life has no ultimate purpose? Does evolution tell us what is morally right and wrong, or does it imply that ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • More Heat than Light

    Economics as Social Physics, Physics as Nature's Economics

    de Philip Mirowski ...
    Series series Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics
    More Heat Than Light is a history of how physics has drawn some inspiration from economics and also how economics has sought to emulate physics, especially with regard to the theory of value. It traces the development of the energy concept in Western physics and its subsequent effect upon the invention and promulgation of neoclassical economics. Any discussion of the standing of economics as a ... Leer más

    $57.39 USD

  • The Evolution of Knowledge

    Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

    de Jürgen Renn ...
    A fundamentally new approach to the history of science and technologyThis book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offers a grand narrative of human history in which knowledge serves as a critical factor of cultural evolution. Jürgen Renn examines the role of knowledge in global transformations going back to the dawn of civilization while providing ... Leer más

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  • From Bioeconomics to Degrowth

    Georgescu-Roegen's 'New Economics' in Eight Essays

    de Nicolas Georgescu-Roegen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
    Nicolae Georgescu-Roegen (1906-1994) is considered today as perhaps the chief founder of the transdisciplinary field today known as Ecological Economics, but that he defined himself as Bioeconomics. In his later years Georgescu-Roegen intended to write a book of this title that would systematize what he considered to be the most significant results of his work. This project intends to resume this ... Leer más

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  • Continental Philosophy of Technoscience

    de Hub Zwart ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The key objective of this volume is to allow philosophy students and early-stage researchers to become practicing philosophers in technoscientific settings. Zwart focuses on the methodological issue of how to practice continental philosophy of technoscience today.This text draws upon continental authors such as Hegel, Engels, Heidegger, Bachelard and Lacan (and their fields of dialectics, ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

    de Jo Hedesan, Joseph Tendler ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions can be seen, without exaggeration, as a landmark text in intellectual history.In his analysis of shifts in scientific thinking, Kuhn questioned the prevailing view that science was an unbroken progression towards the truth. Progress was actually made, he argued, via "paradigm shifts", meaning that evidence that existing scientific models are ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Government of Things

    Foucault and the New Materialisms

    de Thomas Lemke ...
    Examines the theoretical achievements and the political impact of the new materialismsMaterialism, a rich philosophical tradition that goes back to antiquity, is currently undergoing a renaissance. In The Government of Things, Thomas Lemke provides a comprehensive overview and critical assessment of this "new materialism". In analyzing the work of Graham Harman, Jane Bennett, and Karen Barad, ... Leer más

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  • Working Nature

    A History of the Energy Economy

    de Daniela Russ ...
    A CRITICAL HISTORY OF ENERGYDaniela Russ argues that the category of ‘energy’ is best understood not in terms of particular material things but as a social relation to nature forged over 200 years of capitalist industrialization. Working Nature examines how engineers, scientists, and economists harnessed and circulated the products of nature despite social and natural resistance. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Late Modernity in Crisis

    Why We Need a Theory of Society

    de Andreas Reckwitz, Hartmut Rosa ...
    Traducido por Valentine A. Pakis ...
    In times of entrenched social upheaval and multiple crises, we need the kind of social theory that is prepared to look at the big picture, analyze the broad developmental features of modern societies, their structural conditions and dynamics, and point to possible ways out of the crises we face. Over the last couple of decades, two German sociologists, Andreas Reckwitz and Hartmut Rosa, have ... Leer más

    $20.00 USD