Paszynska Elzbieta Paszynska & Steger Florian Steger 
Ethics and the Law in Medicine – in Research and Healthcare [EPUB ebook] 

Cognitive therapies are often biased in their assessment of clinical problems by their emphasis on the role of verbally-mediated thought in shaping our emotions, and in stressing the influence of tho …

Hegel’s philosophy  has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book …

After an introduction to the major issues confronting intellectuals, this book explores the various aspects of the intellectual”s role including: * philosophers and academics who have tried to defin …

Marxism as an intellectual movement has been one of the most important and fertile contributions to twentieth-century thought. No social theory or political philosophy today can be taken seriously un …

Slavoj Š ZiŠzek is not alone in thinking that Alain Badiou”s recent work is ‘the event of contemporary philosophy.’ Think Again, the first publication of its kind, goes a long way towards justifying …

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 …

Turkish Islamic leader Fethullah Gülen offers a distinctive view of responsibility, which is explored here for the first time. Simon Robinson shows how Gülen”s writings, influenced by both orthodox …

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 …