Central European Value Studies – serie
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Debating Cognitive Existentialism
Values and Orientations in Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science
Häftad, 2015
888 kr
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Cognitive existentialism is a version of hermeneutic philosophy. The volume provides a summation of the critical approaches to this version. All essays are engaged in probing the value of universal hermeneutics. Drawing on various conceptions developed in analytical and Continental traditions, the …
Confines of Democracy
Essays on the Philosophy of Richard J. Bernstein
Av Ramón del Castillo, Ángel M. Faerna m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
1265 kr
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The topics addressed by Richard J. Bernstein in his extensive and illuminating work span the stream of contemporary thought in several directions: ethics, politics, epistemology, philosophy of history, and social theory. In reflecting on them Bernstein has played an intermediary role between the …
Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism
Häftad, 2015
1292 kr
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Practicing Philosophy as Experiencing Life: Essays on American Pragmatism is a collection of texts written by top international experts on American philosophy. They consider various strands of American pragmatism from the viewpoint of practical philosophy, and provide the historical background and …
Political Thought of Václav Havel
Philosophical Influences and Contemporary Applications
Häftad, 2016
1088 kr
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The book considers Václav Havel’s body of writing as a cohesive whole offering a consistent political philosophy. This bold claim is backed up through a close examination of Havel’s plays, letters, essays and aphorisms. The political philosophy that a close reading of Havel reveals is a liberal …
How to Make Our Signs Clear
C. S. Peirce and Semiotics
Av Martin Švantner, Vít Gvoždiak
Häftad, 2017
927 kr
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How to Make Our Signs Clear is the result of an international cooperation between European and Brazilian Peircean scholars (I. A. Ibri, E. Višňovský, C. Paolucci and others) and strives to dispel simplifications of Peirce´s semiotic as well as to collect various insights into it and into its …
Care of the Self
Ancient Problematizations of Life and Contemporary Thought
Av Vladislav Suvák, Lívia Flachbartová m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
895 kr
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The studies included in the Care of the Self: Ancient Problematizations of Life and Contemporary Thought focus on different manifestations of “taking care of the self” present in ancient and contemporary thought. Each of these studies approaches the issue of taking care of the self from a different …
John Lachs's Practical Philosophy
Critical Essays on His Thought with Replies and Bibliography
Häftad, 2018
1566 kr
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John Lachs (1934-) has been one of the most interesting American philosophers for nearly sixty years. His philosophical, educational, and public activity has been an attempt to show the relevance of philosophy to life. This is the first book dedicated to his thought. International scholars have …
Contingency and Normativity: The Challenges of Richard Rorty
Häftad, 2019
1084 kr
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Richard Rorty’s “neo-pragmatism” launched a powerful challenge to entrenched philosophical certainties of modernity, articulating a powerful picture of normativity as a distinctive activity of human beings. This “contingentism,” with its emphasis on indeterminacy, ambiguity, uncertainty, and …
Europe Thirty Years After 1989
Transformations of Values, Memory, and Identity
Inbunden, 2020
2022 kr
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For the last thirty years the year 1989 has symbolized a European annus mirabilis, standing for such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall and the impending collapse of the Soviet Union. Cultural and political transformations in Western Europe due to the rise of the migrant crisis are now echoed in …
Interpreting Globalization
Polish Perspectives on Culture in the Globalized World
Av Leszek Koczanowicz, Piotr Jakub Fereński m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1827 kr
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The main hypothesis of the volume is that globalization is a cultural phenomenon. Therefore, the book offers an explanation of how globalization emerged from cultural exchange between groups, nations, and religions. The articles in this volume register the thematically multi-dimensional and …
Aesthetics of Taste: Eating within the Realm of Art
Inbunden, 2023
780 kr
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When does eating become art? The Aesthetics of Taste answers this question by exploring the position of taste in contemporary culture and the manner in which taste meanders its way into the realm of art. The argument identifies aesthetic values not only in artistic practices, where they are …
Towards a New Research Era
A Global Comparison of Research Distortions
Av Marek Hrubec
Inbunden, 2023
2257 kr
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The book is focused on distorted research and university education in recent decades, and on alternatives for a new research era. It deals with the critique, explanation and normativity of bureaucratically, commercially and ideologically shaped humanities and social sciences. The authors analyse it …
Living according to Nature. Volume One: Myths, Insights, and Perspectives
Inbunden, 2025
2746 kr
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This edited collection is the first of two volumes offering critical philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary and historic accounts of living in accordance with the broad natural world as at the center of a good and wise life. It also explores the meaning and idea of nature …
Living according to Nature. Volume Two: Nature and Culture
Inbunden, 2025
2746 kr
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This edited collection is the second of two volumes offering critical philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary and historic accounts of living in accordance with the broad natural world as at the center of a good and wise life. It also explores the meaning and idea of nature …
Radical Liberalism: The Political Philosophy of John Dewey
Inbunden, 2026
2119 kr
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This book presents a novel interpretation of John Dewey’s political thought as a form of radical liberalism. In the course of the argument, Dewey’s political views are compared to similar ideas put forward by Karl Polanyi, Karl Mannheim, and Bertrand Russell. As a result, the book offers an …
Europeanization of Europe: Europe’s Cultural Identity in the Context of the Integration Processes
Inbunden, 2025
3702 kr
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A Bolivian, working in Warsaw for many years, decided to apply for Polish citizenship. He was asked only one question at the migration office: whether he ate sauerkraut hunters’ stew and fermented dill cucumbers in brine. "You know,” he said later, "for many years I was not able to swallow it, but …
Aesthetics of Populism: Political Struggle and the Aesthetics Experience in Poland after 1989
Inbunden, 2025
3226 kr
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Do populists and liberal democrats recognizably differ in their lifestyles, clothes, eating habits, or reading preferences? Do the supporters of populism and liberal democracy look at the past from different perspectives? How do their aesthetic choices influence their political engagement? You will …
Social and Political Experiments: Latin America in the 21st Century
Inbunden, 2025
2600 kr
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This book focuses on innovative transformations and demands for social and political justice in 21st-century Latin America. The volume surveys how these ongoing shifts have motivated two recent emancipatory tides in several Latin American countries, further developing and giving new momentum to …
Narratives, Political Representation, and Extremism in Polish Anti-Science Movements
"Plandemic," "Depopulation," and "The Free People"
Inbunden, 2025
1988 kr
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Based on a wide range of empirical material, the book examines the narratives, political activity and extremist connections of Polish movements challenging the scientific consensus (anti-vaccination and 5G movements) and their connections with Russia. The author traces the roots of the conspiracy …
Evolutionary Ontology
Reclaiming the Value of Nature by Transforming Culture
Av Josef Šmajs
Häftad, 2008
1279 kr
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This book examines new concept of evolutionary ontology based on the idea of radically different “ontic orders” – natural and cultural being. It explains how culture evolved out of nature and how it became “anti-natural”. The remedy is seen in the global biophilous reconstruction of culture. The …
Self and Society
The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Four
Häftad, 2009
1475 kr
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This book is the fourth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). It deals with the general question of self and society, and the papers are organized into sections on Self and History, Self and Society, Self and Politics, Self and Neopragmatism, and an Interview …
Values and Powers
Re-reading the Philosophical Tradition of American Pragmatism
Häftad, 2009
1175 kr
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This book shows how much and in what sense values are related to powers and powers are related to values in American pragmatism. The proposed re-reading of American pragmatism will facilitate a novel understanding of it as a philosophical movement and, by showing its truly humanistic, democratic, …
Continuing Relevance of John Dewey
Reflections on Aesthetics, Morality, Science, and Society
Häftad, 2011
1801 kr
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The present volume encapsulates the contemporary scholarship on John Dewey and shows the place of Dewey’s thought on the philosophical arena. The authors are among the leading specialists in the philosophy of John Dewey from universities across the US and in Europe.
Reburial of Nonexistents
Reconsidering the Meinong-Russell Debate
Häftad, 2011
784 kr
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Alexius Meinong claimed to uncover a brave new world of nonexistent objects. He contended that unreal objects, such as the golden mountain and the round square, genuinely had properties (such as nonexistence itself) and therefore, deserved a place in an all-inclusive science. Meinong’s notion of …
Identity and Social Transformation
The Central European Pragmatist Forum, Volume Five
Av John Ryder
Häftad, 2011
1596 kr
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This book is the fifth volume of selected papers from the Central European Pragmatist Forum (CEPF). The CEPF was founded in 2000 to provide an opportunity for American and European specialists in American philosophy to share their work with one another and to develop an understanding of the …
Shusterman’s Pragmatism
Between Literature and Somaesthetics
Häftad, 2012
1341 kr
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This book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. The 12 essays, which cover the wide-ranging scope of Shusterman’s pragmatist thought, …
Discussing Modernity
A Dialogue with Martin Jay
Häftad, 2013
953 kr
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Martin Jay is one of America's leading intellectual historians. His work spans almost all important questions concerning the subject of modernity. Outstanding Polish scholars engage in a dialogue with Jay’s work, discussing significant problems of modernity and postmodernity. The book offers a …
Beyond Aesthetics and Politics
Philosophical and Axiological Studies on the Avant-Garde, Pragmatism, and Postmodernism
Häftad, 2013
1016 kr
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The book presents five philosophical and axiological studies devoted to the relationship between aesthetics and politics. It shows this relationship throughout the works of some avant-gardists, pragmatists, and postmodernists. It is also a voice in the discussion about the meaning of the fine arts …
Ancients and Shakespeare on Time
Some Remarks on the War of Generations
Av Piotr Nowak
Häftad, 2014
615 kr
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In The Ancients and Shakespeare on Time Piotr Nowak depicts a world where tradition – devoid of gravity, “Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything” – attempts to curb the young and new, while youth resists with all its power, vitality and characteristic insolence. The wars of generations, …
Beauty, Responsibility, and Power
Ethical and Political Consequences of Pragmatist Aesthetics
Av Leszek Koczanowicz, Katarzyna Liszka
Häftad, 2014
1010 kr
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This book addresses the interrelations between aesthetics, ethics, and politics in the framework of pragmatist aesthetics, offering a comprehensive panorama of the ways and fields in which pragmatist aesthetics ties in with vital social and ethical problems of modernity. Most of the contributors …
