Philosophie

History and Freedom

Theodor W. Adorno

Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the fact...

Lectures on Negative Dialectics

Theodor W. Adorno

This volume comprises one of the key lecture courses leading up to the publication in 1966 of Adorno's major work, <i>Negative Dialectics</i>. These lectures focus on developing th...

The I in We

Axel Honneth

In this volume Axel Honneth deepens and develops his highly influential theory of recognition, showing how it enables us both to rethink the concept of justice and to offer a compelling account of...

The Physics of Theism

Jeffrey Koperski

<p><i>The Physics of Theism</i> provides a timely, critical analysis of the ways in which physics intertwines with religion. Koperski brings clarity to a range of arguments inclu...

The Physics of Theism

Jeffrey Koperski

The Physics of Theism provides a timely, critical analysis of the ways in which physics intertwines with religion. Koperski brings clarity to a range of arguments including the fine-tuning argumen...

Correspondence 1943-1955

Thomas Mann / Theodor W. Adorno

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to co...

Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction

Theodor W. Adorno

At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but neve...

Towards a Theory of Musical Reproduction

Theodor W. Adorno

At the beginning of his career in the 1920s, Adorno sketched a plan to write a major work on the theory of musical reproduction, a task he returned to time and again throughout his career but neve...

Correspondence 1943-1955

Thomas Mann / Theodor W. Adorno

In December 1945 Thomas Mann wrote a famous letter to Adorno in which he formulated the principle of montage adopted in his novel Doctor Faustus. The writer expressly invited the philosopher to co...

Europe

Jürgen Habermas

<p>The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a decade ago has now faded but the stakes ...

Europe

Jürgen Habermas

<p>The future of Europe and the role it will play in the 21st century are among the most important political questions of our time. The optimism of a decade ago has now faded but the stakes ...

Societal Equilibrium

Brandon Zimmerman

Prelude (Chapter 1): Introduces the fundamental problem in our society, individualism, along with many aspects of our lives that amplify its effects such as drugs, cosmetics, and money. The follow...

Public Management as Corporate Social Responsibility

<p>This collection of case studies in public management bridges the gap between mainstream CSR - confined to the for-profit corporations -and the vast bodies of workers and organizations th...

Jean-Paul Sartre

René Marill-Albérès

Professor Albérès in this well-ordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialism—anguish, nausea, hypocrisy, lucidity, cons...

"Verwilderte Selbsterhaltung"

Karsten Fischer

In seiner theoriegeschichtlichen Untersuchung rekonstruiert Karsten Fischer Entwicklungslinien zivilisationstheoretischer Kulturkritik von Nietzsche, Freud und Max Weber zu Adorno. Dies dient ihm ...

Martin Heidegger on Technology, Ecology, and the Arts

A. Lack

Lack begins with a discussion of Max Weber's analysis of the disenchantment of the world and proceeds to develop Heidegger's philosophy in a way that suggests a &quot;re-enchantment&am...

Chiaroscuro

Sumit Datta

An artist can animate the inanimate, delight with light, sooth with shadows. His brush wails with blue, dances with green, ignites with red and flies with yellow. Nature speaks through him her age...

When "I" Might Be, Where "We" Are, or What You Will

Rudolph McNair

Rudolph McNair is a National Merit Scholar who focused on philosophy and became convinced that a clear understanding of what the concept of person and of the self is meant to stand for is essentia...

Las ideas políticas en la era romántica

Isaiah Berlin

Morgenröthe. Nachgelassene Fragmente Anfang 1880 - Frühjahr 1881

Friedrich Nietzsche