Flow theory, conceptualized by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, describes the subjective state of full engagement and deep absorption in intrinsically-motivated activities. In flow, individuals feel they are merging with what they are doing and lose track of time--colloquially referred to as "being in the z...

Flourishing Fasts is the first book in any language to explore the history of the Zhaijiao, commonly translated as “vegetarian sects,” that originated in southeastern China during the Ming and Qing dynasties and are still active in contemporary Taiwan. Combining historical analysis and ethnographic fieldwork, Nikola...

En posant le problème de la puissance à partir de la perspective de son abandon et du courage si singulier qu’implique un tel geste, Simone Weil parvient à éviter l’écueil de l’absolutisme politique. L’étude anthropologique d’une vie politique et sociale en son essence profondément violente dans la mesure où elle es...

Long celebrated for her heroic feat of endurance in escaping slavery and subsequent activism, Harriet Jacobs was also an astute political thinker. Her book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is a remarkable philosophical text. It is one of the most insightful reflections, both on the nature of life as a slave, a...

A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleologi...

Die Autorin untersucht die Predigten Johannes Taulers in Bezug auf konzeptionelle Mündlichkeit und unter Berücksichtigung der handschriftlichen Überlieferungen seit dem 14. bis zu den Drucken aus dem frühen 17. Jahrhundert. Ihre Ergebnisse zeigen, dass konzeptionelle Schriftlichkeit das Ergebnis prozesshaften Wandel...

The book gives current and future business leaders an introduction to some of the common intellectual and ethical challenges managers in volatile and complex environments face in satisfying the competing needs of their global stakeholders. It does this by letting readers experience real-world situations based on cas...

Modern theological engagements on deification have undergone two major paradigm shifts. First, the study of deification shifted from the periphery of theological discourse to its center. For Adolf von Harnack, deification was a pagan import that fatally corrupted and distorted the Gospel message of salvation. In res...

Dans les années 1570, une série d’appels à des activités de recensement des personnes et des richesses se fait entendre. Si leur première finalité semble purement administrative ー fiscale, militaire, statistique ー, ils apparaissent immédiatement aussi comme porteurs d’un projet moral et d’une capacité à agir sur l...

Ce volume rassemble des inédits de Jean-Louis Chrétien, des articles de grands philosophes actuels (J.-L. Marion, M. Foessel, C. Riquier, O. Boulnois, E. Cattin, J. Greisch, C. Chalier) mais aussi des photographies et des lettres du philosophe.

A patient, genealogical investigation of the dichotomies that are foundational to the Western philosophical tradition. We are so used to distinguishing between the possible and the real, between essence and existence that we do not realize that these distinctions, which seem so obvious to us, are the result of a lon...

More than ever, as the Christian Church wrestles with issues of relevance and reform, it needs to listen the voices of its giants of faith. For the fifth centenary of Luther's birth, Fr Yves Congar OP-himself an unparalleled Catholic scholar-committed to print the fruits of a lifetime's study of the great reformer's...

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in both Marxism and German Idealism across the humanities, but the discourse around the two traditions has grown stagnant and is still defined by the same century-old debatesーmaterialism versus idealism, history versus logic, revolution versus reform. With th...

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Wittgenstein's critique of private language in the Philosophical Investigations does not attempt to refute the possibility of a private sensation-language, let alone in any one argument, as has often been thought. Nor does it aim to establish that language is intrinsically social. Instead, PI §§243–315 presents a se...

In The Meekness and Humility of Jesus Christ, Conor Gallagher invites readers on a deeply personal and prayerful journey through the Gospels, uncovering the quiet power and divine restraint of Christ in moments both familiar and overlooked. With poetic prose and raw vulnerability, Gallagher meditates on 40 events in...