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Pragmatism and the Reflective lifestyles explains the ethical viewpoint embedded within the American pragmatist culture and gives pragmatist ethical suggestion as a substitute to analytic ethical idea. Following the lead of John Dewey, Rosenbaum explores what it skill to make the fitting of the reflective lifestyles implicit in pragmatism valuable to an figuring out of morality.

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Flesh and physique, initially published in French in 1981, is a pioneering examine that gives either a detailed studying of Husserl's phenomenology of courting among flesh and physique in addition to Didier Franck's personal hugely unique account of flesh. Husserl's paintings at the physique stimulated many phenomenologists, together with Merleau-Ponty, Ricoeur, Henry, and Levinas, to call quite a few.

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Michel Foucault’s thought of “biopower” has been a hugely fertile idea in contemporary conception, influencing thinkers around the globe throughout a number of disciplines and matters. within the historical past of Sexuality: An advent, Foucault famously hired the time period to explain “a energy bent on producing forces, making them develop, and ordering them, instead of one devoted to impeding them, making them publish, or destroying them.

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Es conflict René Descartes, der die Welt im 17. Jahrhundert auf den Kurs steuerte, dessen Stationen bald seine kühnsten Träume übersteigen sollten: die Rationalisierung der Welt, ihre Erkundung und Beherrschung durch die Methoden der Messung, des Zählens, Quantifizierens und Analysierens. Philip J. Davis und Reuben Hersh fahren diese direction erneut ab und stellen in ihrem »Kursbuch«, das erstmals 1986 erschien, eine Reihe wichtiger Fragen: Wie beeinflußt die Computerisierung der Welt die materiellen und intellektuellen Bausteine unserer Zivilisation?