Bibliophobia is a book about material books, how they are cared for, and how they are damaged, throughout the 5000-year history of writing from Sumeria to the smartphone. Its starting point is the contemporary idea of 'the death of the book' implied by the replacement of physical books by digital media, with accompa...

Religion, Emotion, Sensation asks what affect theory has to say about God or gods, religion or religions, scriptures, theologies, and liturgies. Contributors explore the crossings and crisscrossings between affect theory and theology and the study of religion more broadly, as well as the political and social import ...

Cooperatives are traditionally recognized as marginal players in the economic sector, but their role in policymaking and in social arenas has garnered even less attention. Over the past two decades, an extensive body of literature in management science and economics has arisen, designating non-capitalistic enterpris...

Marx and the Politics of Need challenges one of the most pervasive habits in contemporary political theory and practice: treating needs as moral facts that sit outside of our politics, and which can be used to judge it. Against this depoliticising impulse, George Boss offers a provocative re-reading of Marx’s writin...

Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-...

如果你不再試圖左右自身命運的走向，而是讓生命掌舵，會怎麼樣？ **　　 紐約時報暢銷作家的真實故事，亞馬遜讀者4.5顆星好評！** 　　 透過長達40年的親身實驗， 辛格帶你看到一個人的痛苦、糾結、探尋、發現，以及最終的綻放！ 你將發現，當一個人選擇「放手」之後，人生可能出現的種種奇蹟。 　 一個原本只想獨自在森林裡靜心靈修的經濟學...

Elizabeth Anscombe (1919-2001) est l’une des grandes philosophes britanniques du XXe siècle. Influencée par Aristote et la scolastique médiévale, mais surtout par son maître Ludwig Wittgenstein, elle a renouvelé les débats en philosophie de l’action et en philosophie morale. L’action est un sujet de perplexité pour ...

The Routledge Handbook of Autocratization in Southeast Asia examines how global and domestic forces of autocratization affect regional and local politics. It analyzes how the interactions of international and domestic factors affect actors and institutions in both democracies and autocracies in the region. Bringing ...

John Dewey s’attache à reconstruire radicalement l’idée selon laquelle l’esthétique n’est pas une propriété ésotérique de l’expérience, mais ce par quoi toute expérience humaine tend à s’unifier. Cela implique pour lui de ne plus séparer l’esthétique et l’artistique, la contemplation et la pratique, la réception et ...

The immediate reward of honey is its sweet taste. But honey also has incredible health benefits. Similarly, God’s Word has both instant and lasting advantages. The wisdom found within its pages requires time spent searching and meditating. True understanding happens through prayer and an intimate relationship with G...

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...

From the Pilgrims who settled at Plymouth Rock to Christian Coalition canvassers working for George W. Bush, Americans have long sought to integrate faith with politics. Few have been as successful as Hollywood evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. During the years between the two world wars, McPherson was the most fla...

Explore the fascinating, strange world of paradoxesーand the strategies used to solve them! Thinkers have been fascinated by paradox since long before Aristotle grappled with Zeno’s. In this volume in The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Margaret Cuonzo finds that paradoxes are more than mere puzzles but can pr...

An account of the emergence of the mind: how the brain acquired self-awareness, functional autonomy, the ability to think, and the power of speech. How did the human mind emerge from the collection of neurons that makes up the brain? How did the brain acquire self-awareness, functional autonomy, language, and the ab...

Ces essais brossent un tableau historique et critique de la philosophie française contemporaine. Ils montrent comment, à travers la fluctuation des modes, une conception héroïque et sacralisante de la philosophie particulièrement mystificatrice continue de régner sur notre vie intellectuelle, de l’académie aux avant...

老莊大家陳鼓應第一部普及經典讀本 以現代生活角度解讀《道徳經》 原典、導讀、白話翻譯、注釋、賞析與點評 5大方向闡述《道徳經》的微言真義 中國哲學的開山祖師、樸素的自然主義者ーー老子， 從「人」的角度，關心生活的幸福安寧，企圖消弭社會的紛爭。 作者陳鼓應以淺白、簡明的語言，逐字逐句解析老子，並汲取中西哲學的思想精華， 在紛...