Mackinger Barbara Mackinger & Gmainer-Pranzl Franz Gmainer-Pranzl 
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Zumutungen fuer Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft

Thought experiments are performed in the laboratory of the mind. Beyond this metaphor it is difficult to say just what these remarkable devices for investigating nature are or how they work. Though m …

This important book seeks to place questions of morality and justice at the heart of social theory. By exploring the works of Marx, Durkheim and Weber it shows the hidden complexities of a modernity …

This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine the influence of Bauman”s recent works on social theory of law and s …

Spinoza”s political thought has been subject to a significant revival of interest in recent years. As a response to difficult times, students and scholars have returned to this founding figure of mo …

This volume presents the concepts of schizoanalysis and ecosophy as Felix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze understood them, in interviews and analyses by their contemporaries and followers. This accessibl …

First published in 1999, this volume explores the nature of adjudication in the common law tradition from a feminist postmodernist perspective. The author accepts and celebrates the ‘choices’ open to …

The contributors set out to demonstrate the influence of the computer – not just in the philosophy of mind, where the influence has been enormous, but also in epistemology, metaphysics, logic and the …

Shedding new light on the theme of ‘crisis’ in Husserl”s phenomenology, this book reflects on the experience of awakening to one”s own naïveté. Beginning from everyday examples, Knies examines how …

Jesuit engagement with natural philosophy during the late 16th and early 17th centuries transformed the status of the mathematical disciplines and propelled members of the Order into key areas of con …

This book critically examines the relationship between civility, citizenship and democracy. It engages with the oft-neglected idea of civility (as a Western concept) to explore the paradox of high de …