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Status of Legal Ethics
Inbunden, 2013
859 kr
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The basic aim of the study is to describe the ambiguity of the term legal ethics in the context of different traditions and conceptions. The three most important traditions of legal ethics are: the French, with the categories of virtue and independence, the American, with the ideas of loyalty and …
Grammar and Glamour of Cooperation
Lectures on the Philosophy of Mind, Language and Action
Inbunden, 2014
772 kr
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This book is a collection of essays, weaving together cognitive psychology, psycho-linguistics, developmental psychology, modern philosophy and behavioural sciences. It raises the question: how does grammar relate to our remarkable ability to cooperate for future needs? The author investigates the …
Quaternion of the Examples of a Philosophical Influence: Schopenhauer-Dostoevsky-Nietzsche-Cioran
Inbunden, 2015
549 kr
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The philosophical influence is a concept, a methodological tool and a process worth inquiring, because it sets the frame for the philosopher’s contribution into tradition. This study takes a close look at the philosophical influence on the dependence and inter-dependence between ideas and concepts, …
Cartesian Rationalism
Understanding Descartes
Inbunden, 2015
512 kr
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Descartes gave the human intellect the central role in rationalism, his system therefore is a variant of intellectual rationalism. Other forms of rationalism had emerged in scholastic philosophy and the ancient philosophies of Plato and Aristotle. While Descartes had reservations with respect to …
City and Power – Postmodern Urban Spaces in Contemporary Poland
Av Katarzyna Kajdanek, Igor Pietraszewski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
423 kr
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This book is an empirical study of a central European city focused on the political process. The authors use the example of the city of Wroclaw to present a condition of the urban public sphere in the context of local governance. Contemporary specificity of the public sphere is a result of a long …
Civil Society, Democracy and Democratization
Inbunden, 2016
853 kr
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The book contributes to the ongoing discussion and research on civil society in the context of democracy and democratization. It provides a theoretical analysis of civil society, participation, the public sphere and democratic consolidation in light of normative democratic theory and the challenges …
Social Spaces and Social Relations
Introduction by Anthony Giddens
Av Małgorzata Bogunia-Borowska
Inbunden, 2016
482 kr
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The human world is an area of countless places and spaces. This book focuses on the variety of places, on their genuine features, and on their specific form of creating social relations. It discusses spaces inside or outside ourselves and the social relations we are able to find and create …
Paternalism
Moral Theory and Legal Practice
Inbunden, 2015
788 kr
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This book explores and critically evaluates conceptual and justificatory models related to paternalism in the context of moral philosophy. Paternalistic interventions promoting someone’s good or protecting the person from self-harming actions raise controversial questions from a legal and an …
Anthropological Paradox
The Sociology of Knowledge as Perspective of the General Theory of Society
Av Radosław Sojak, Tadeusz Szawiel
Inbunden, 2018
704 kr
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This book seeks to analyse the categorial structure of sociological theory. The analysis is based on three assumptions: first, sociological theory is in a state of structural crisis; second, one of the symptoms of the crisis is the existence of many theoretical dichotomies which hinder the …
Limits of Juristic Power from the Perspective of the Polish Sociological Tradition
Av Paweł Jabłoński, Przemysław Kaczmarek m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
743 kr
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The aim of the book is to outline and discuss a way of thinking about the limits of juristic power. In terms of research methodology, the authors’ approach entails relating the topography of such limits to selected theoretical frameworks developed within the Polish sociological tradition. The …
Variability in Perspectives on Current Issues in Social Sciences
Av Daniel Bešina, Tadeusz Szawiel
Inbunden, 2019
424 kr
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Social and human sciences are currently in a special position. On the one hand, they are subject to frequent doubts and mistrust while on the other hand, there is a view that the 21st century will be a century of social and human sciences, addressing their importance in solving key cultural and …
Post-communist Cleavage.
Social Bases of Politics in Poland after 1989
Av Mirosława Grabowska, Tadeusz Szawiel
Inbunden, 2021
745 kr
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The book begins with a discussion of Lipset-Rokkan's theory of cleavages and its continuations. The author's interpretation of this theory is applied to a historical context: the communist system that divided society into communist and anti-communist sides. They survived the fall of communism, …
