Gerhard Gamm 
Die Macht der Metapher [PDF ebook] 
Im Labyrinth der modernen Welt. Bibliothek Metzler, Band 8

This collection of chapters advances critical psychology by incorporating praxis (theory and practice) and decolonial streams of thought. They are united around a theme of psychosocial non-alignment …

This volume of original work comprises a modest challenge, sometimes direct, sometimes implicit, to the mainstream Anglo-American conception of the discipline of medical ethics. It does so not by try …

Most of us care about certain people and things, and some of these concerns become personal commitments, involving our values, our relationships, our work and our religious or political stances. But …

Eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct perennial problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs, origins, and potential fu …

Badiou“s Deleuze presents the first thorough analysis of one of the most significant encounters in contemporary thought: Alain Badiou“s summary interpretation and rejection of the philosophy of Gil …

What is beauty, and what is truth? These are some of the questions which aesthetics tries to answer. In our everyday life, we talk about the “aesthetics“ of an artwork or a piece of design. But aes …

Philosophical Propositions is a fresh, up to date, and reliable introduction to philosophical problems. It takes seriously the need for philosophy to deal with definitive and statable propositions, s …

José Luis Bermúdez introduces the philosophy of psychology as an interdisciplinary exploration of the nature and mechanisms of cognition. Philosophy of Psychology charts out four influential “pictur …

Revealing flaws in both “green“ and market-based approaches to environmental policy, O“Neill develops an Aristotolian account of well-being. He examines the implications for wider issues involving …

Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was hailed by Claude Lévi-Strauss as ‚the founder of the sciences of man‘. This collection of fourteen classic papers devoted to his work addresses the points of int …