An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection to others? While many forms of leisure meet these needs, Zena Hitz writes, few experiences are so fulfilling as the inner life, whether that of a bookworm, an amateur astronomer, a birdwatcher, or someone who takes a deep interest in one of countless other subjects. Drawing on inspiring examples, from Socrates and Augustine to Malcolm X and Elena Ferrante, and from films to Hitz's own experiences as someone who walked away from elite university life in search of greater fulfillment, Lost in Thought is a passionate and timely reminder that a rich life is a life rich in thought.
Today, when even the humanities are often defended only for their economic or political usefulness, Hitz says our intellectual lives are valuable not despite but because of their practical uselessness. And while anyone can have an intellectual life, she encourages academics in particular to get back in touch with the desire to learn for its own sake, and calls on universities to return to the person-to-person transmission of the habits of mind and heart that bring out the best in us.
Reminding us of who we once were and who we might become, Lost in Thought is a moving account of why renewing our inner lives is fundamental to preserving our humanity.
Автор: Musto Marcello Название: The Last Years of Karl Marx: An Intellectual Biography ISBN: 150361252X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503612525 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 20900.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
An innovative reassessment of the last writings and final years of Karl Marx.
In the last years of his life, Karl Marx expanded his research in new directions--studying recent anthropological discoveries, analyzing communal forms of ownership in precapitalist societies, supporting the populist movement in Russia, and expressing critiques of colonial oppression in India, Ireland, Algeria, and Egypt. Between 1881 and 1883, he also traveled beyond Europe for the first and only time. Focusing on these last years of Marx's life, this book dispels two key misrepresentations of his work: that Marx ceased to write late in life, and that he was a Eurocentric and economic thinker fixated on class conflict alone.
With The Last Years of Karl Marx, Marcello Musto claims a renewed relevance for the late work of Marx, highlighting unpublished or previously neglected writings, many of which remain unavailable in English. Readers are invited to reconsider Marx's critique of European colonialism, his ideas on non-Western societies, and his theories on the possibility of revolution in noncapitalist countries. From Marx's late manuscripts, notebooks, and letters emerge an author markedly different from the one represented by many of his contemporary critics and followers alike. As Marx currently experiences a significant rediscovery, this volume fills a gap in the popularly accepted biography and suggests an innovative reassessment of some of his key concepts.
Автор: Andrea Robitzsch Название: An Externalist Approach to Epistemic Responsibility ISBN: 3030190765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030190767 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 74530.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This monograph provides a novel reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment. The author presents unique arguments for the epistemic significance of belief-influencing actions and omissions. She grounds her proposal in indirect doxastic control.The book consists of four chapters. The first two chapters look at the different ways in which an agent might control the revision, retention, or rejection of her beliefs. They provide a systematic overview of the different approaches to doxastic control and contain a thorough study of reasons-responsive approaches to direct and indirect doxastic control.The third chapter provides a reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment which is based on indirect doxastic control.In the fourth chapter, the author examines epistemic peer disagreement and applies her reliabilist approach to epistemic responsibility assessment to this debate. She argues that the epistemic significance of peer disagreement does not only rely on the way in which an agent should revise her belief in the face of disagreement, it also relies on the way in which an agent should act.This book deals with questions of meliorative epistemology in general and with questions concerning doxastic responsibility and epistemic responsibility assessment in particular. It will appeal to graduate students and researchers with an interest in epistemology.
Название: Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet ISBN: 1642593400 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781642593402 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Цена: 68640.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Available in English for the first time, this masterwork is widely regarded as the single most important book on Nietzsche.
Автор: Jan Toporowski Название: Micha? Kalecki: An Intellectual Biography ISBN: 3030099067 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030099060 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 107130.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: This volume of intellectual biography records the work of Micha? Kalecki’s maturity: his work on monetary economics and the theory of profits; his work on the problems of socialism and developing countries; and the extension of his theory of capitalism to define his work in relation to Keynes and previous political economic principles. Kalecki had, by 1939, laid out the essential elements of his theory of the business cycle in capitalism. This book begins at Oxford where, at the Institute of Statistics, he worked on the economic planning and financing of World War Two, as well as extending and detailing the particulars of his theory and examining the conditions for full employment in the post-War international monetary and financial system. Kalecki would then work for the United Nations on full employment, inflation, and developing countries. He departed from the United Nations in 1955, and returned to Poland to extend two new directions of his ideas – on the economics of developing countries and his theory of growth in the socialist economy, alongside further work on business cycles.This book is essential reading for all those who want to understand Kalecki’s lasting contribution to economic theory and policy.
Автор: Robbins, Derek Название: Bourdieu paradigm ISBN: 0719099390 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719099397 Издательство: NBN International Рейтинг: Цена: 119680.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu`s sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social research and political action. -- .
Автор: Jonathan Eburne Название: Outsider Theory: Intellectual Histories of Questionable Ideas ISBN: 1517905540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517905545 Издательство: Marston Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 130680.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A vital and timely reminder that modern life owes as much to outlandish thinking as to dominant ideologies What do the Nag Hammadi library, Dan Brown\u2019s The Da Vinci Code, speculative feminist historiography, Marcus Garvey\u2019s finances, and maps drawn by asylum patients have in common? Jonathan P. Eburne explores this question as never before in Outsider Theory, a timely book about outlandish ideas. Eburne brings readers on an adventure in intellectual history that stresses the urgency of taking seriously—especially in an era of fake news—ideas that might otherwise be discarded or regarded as errant, unfashionable, or even unreasonable. Examining the role of such thinking in contemporary intellectual history, Eburne challenges the categorical demarcation of good ideas from flawed, wild, or bad ones, addressing the surprising extent to which speculative inquiry extends beyond the work of professional intellectuals to include that of nonprofessionals as well, whether amateurs, unfashionable observers, or the clinically insane. Considering the work of a variety of such figures—from popular occult writers and gnostics to so-called outsider artists and pseudoscientists—Eburne argues that an understanding of its circulation and recirculation is indispensable to the history of ideas. He devotes close attention to ideas and texts usually omitted from or marginalized within orthodox histories of literary modernism, critical theory, and continental philosophy, yet which have long garnered the critical attention of specialists in religion, science studies, critical race theory, and the history of the occult. In doing so he not only sheds new light on a fascinating body of creative thought but also proposes new approaches for situating contemporary humanities scholarship within the history of ideas. However important it might be to protect ourselves from \u201cbad\u201d ideas, Outsider Theory shows how crucial it is for us to know how and why such ideas have left their impression on modern-day thinking and continue to shape its evolution.
Автор: Benn Piers Название: Intellectual Freedom and the Culture Wars ISBN: 3030571092 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030571092 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 60550.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book offers a sustained and vigorous defence of free expression and objective enquiry situated in the context of the current culture wars.
Автор: Hashemi Название: Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran ISBN: 1138385395 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138385399 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran is an original historiographic examination of the idea of freedom in early modern Iran within a larger context of the formation of modern Muslim thought.
Автор: Hashemi, Ahmad Название: Rival Conceptions of Freedom in Modern Iran ISBN: 0367663090 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367663094 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 44910.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Carlton Название: Revival: Militarism (2001) ISBN: 1138725331 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138725331 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 117390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This title was first published in 2001. Militarism connotes more than unadulterated aggression. It encapsulates a way of life and involves the inculcation of military values as an end in itself.
Название: Intellectual Virtues and Education ISBN: 1138098698 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138098695 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 51030.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This volume is devoted to exploring the intersection between virtue epistemology and education. With its focus on intellectual virtues and their role in the acquisition and transmission of knowledge and related epistemic goods, virtue epistemology provides a rich set of tools for educational theory and practice.
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