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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2010; US$ 24.79Hauptbeschreibung Grenzerfahrung ist eine der grundsätzlichen Kategorien, die das Leben und Arbeiten zwischen Sterben und Tod kennzeichnen. Auch wenn vieles dessen, was an Lebenswissen verloren gegangen war, durch die Hospizbewegung in den Horizont der Lebenserfahrung zurückgeholt werden konnte, zeigt es sich, dass immer neue Facetten des Sterbens... more...
"Anerkennung" als Prinzip der Kritischen Theorie
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 154.00The author shows why implementing the project of a critical social theory in the tradition of the Frankfurt School based on recognition theory can yield promising results. In this context, the category of recognition is of special value because by using recognition theory, social relationships can be both analyzed and criticized. This is shown in the... more...
"Einige werden posthum geboren"
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 154.00Nietzsche?s thinking is unparalleled in its contradictory effects and it continues to be relevant. Even today, opinions on him diverge strongly. Throughout the 20th century, philosophies, art movements and political ideologies have oscillated between euphoria and condemnation, affirmation and an ignoring silence. Incorrect and abusive readings in fascist... more...
'It is a New Kind of Diaspora'
Karnac Books 2000; US$ 31.95This book examines the effects of the emigration of German and Austrian analysts during the Nazi persecutions, especially to London. In particular it draws upon the correspondence between Ernest Jones and Anna Freud to illuminate the attitudes of those two central figures to 'the politics of emigration'. more...
"Mom, Jason's Breathing on Me!"
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00AT LAST?SOUND, PRACTICAL RELIEF FOR PARENTS WITH BATTLING KIDS! Imagine. You might never again have to hear the words: ?Mommy, Ann drooled on me on purpose.? You could have the answer for every ?It?s not fair!? your kids have ever whined at you. Constant sibling squabbling?and the ensuing demand that you pick a side, quick ?can wear parents... more...
"Rasse" und "Züchtung" bei Nietzsche
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 168.00In this text, the author takes issue with the contention that Nietzsche was a precursor of Nazi ideology: Nietzsche sees race and breeding rather as a cultivation, meaning the development of European peoples and people to supranational Europeans. more...
'Schuld' im Kontext der Handlungslehre Hegels
Felix Meiner Verlag 2012; US$ 138.03Hauptbeschreibung Die philosophische Rede von der Schuld umgreift ein breites Bedeutungsspektrum, von der Existenz- und Religionsphilosophie bis zur Ästhetik. Hegel bestimmt den Begriff der Schuld jedoch vornehmlich im Zusammenhang seiner Lehre von der Handlung als einem konstitutiven Bestandteil seiner Moralitätskonzeption. Zentraler Gegenstand... more...
'Since at least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths
Palgrave Macmillan 1997; US$ 159.00'Since at Least Plato...' and Other Postmodernist Myths surveys the fields of theories of postmodernism and criticizes some of the most common claims found in them about philosophy, science, and the relationship and literary techniques to metaphysics, epistemology, and political ideologies. Devaney finds the accounts offered by these theories of concepts... more...
"The Great Ocean of Knowledge"
BRILL 2010; US$ 147.00This book explores the way in which, working within the investigative tradition associated with the Royal Society, the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704) used travellers' reports to develop a form of comparative social anthropology which was to inform his major philosophical works. more...









