Tabla de Contenidos: “…The reality of the world and the intrigues of solipsism -- Acceptance and nonacceptance of the world -- Things in themselves and their cognizability -- Space and time -- Mediated knowledge -- The abstract and the concrete -- Perception, image, concept -- Living nature and the artistic attitude toward it -- Rational thought, dialectical thought, and direct contemplation -- Practice in general and the place of practice in the theory of knowledge -- Practical, theoretical and aesthetic attitudes toward the world, and their unity -- The fundamental positions of materialism and idealism -- Hylozoism and panpsychism -- Hindu mysticism and western European philosophy -- The so-called philosophy of identity -- The sins of mechanistic materialism -- The general laws and relations of being -- Teleology -- Freedom and necessity -- The organism -- Modern science and dialectical materialism -- The sociology of thought: labor and thought as social-historical categories -- The sociology of thought: mode of production and mode of representation -- On so-called racial thought -- Social position, thought, and "experience" -- The object of philosophy -- The subject of philosophy -- The interaction of subject and object -- Society as the object and subject of mastering -- Truth: the concept of truth and the criterion of the truthful -- Truth: absolute and relative truth -- The good -- Hegel's dialectical idealism as a system -- The dialectics of Hegel and the dialectics of Marx -- Dialectics as science and dialectics as art -- Science and philosophy -- Evolution -- Theory and history -- The social ideal -- Lenin as a philosopher…”

“…Presentación del editor: "Access to Western modern and postmodern art requires the mastery of specific cultural codes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: On arts and artists -- Strange beginnings : prehistoric and primitive peoples; Ancient America -- Art for eternity : Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete -- The great awakening : Greece, seventh to fifth century BC -- The realm of beauty : Greece and the Greek world, fourth century BC to first century AD -- World conquerors : Romans, Buddhists, Jews and Christians, first to fourth century AD -- A parting of ways : Rome and Byzantium, fifth to thirteenth century -- Looking eastwards : Islam, China, second to thirteenth century -- Western art in the melting pot : Europe, sixth to eleventh century -- The church militant : the twelfth century -- The church triumphant : the thirteenth century -- Courtiers and burghers : the fourteenth century -- The conquest of reality : the early fifteenth century -- Tradition and innovation I : the later fifteenth century in Italy -- Traditions and innovation II : the fifteenth century in the North -- Harmony attained : Tuscany and Rome, early sixteenth century -- Light and colour : Venice and northern Italy, early sixteenth century -- The new learning spreads : Germany and the Netherlands, early sixteenth century -- A crisis of art : Europe, later sixteenth century -- Vision and visions : Catholic Europe, first half of the seventeenth century -- The mirror of nature : Holland, seventeenth century -- Power and glory I : Italy, later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Power and glory II : France, Germany and Austria, late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- The age of reason : England and France, eighteenth century -- The break in tradition : England, America and France, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries -- Permanent revolution : The nineteenth century -- In search of new standards : the late nineteenth century -- Experimental art : the first half of the twentieth century -- A story without end: The triumph of modernism ; Another turning of the tide ; The changing past…”

“…In The Eastern Christian Tradition in Modern Russian Thought and Beyond, Teresa Obolevitch reflects on the ontology and anthropology of neo-patristic synthesis and its connection to Western philosophy, with a focus on the work of Georges Florovsky and Vladimir Lossky. …”

“…But how did it influence Western thought after Greek and Roman antiquity? The question is a difficult one to answer because the most important Stoic texts have been lost since the end of the classical period, though not before early Christian thinkers had borrowed their ideas and applied them to discussions ranging from dialectic to moral theology. …”

“…The Druids first came into focus in Western Europe - Gaul, Britain, and Ireland - in the second century BC. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Roma as homines educandi: a collective subject between educational provision -- Social control and humanism / Sevasti Trubeta -- Educating against the cultural politics and complicities of containment / Cathryn Teasley -- Scapegoated in schools: reading a collective Roma narrative / Alexandra Fidyk -- The Roma people: problem or mirror for Western European society? An exploration of educational possibilities / Elias Hemelsoet -- Beyond numbers: education and policy in the decade of Roma inclusion / Svjetlana Curcic and Shayna Plaut -- The schooling of Romani Americans: an overview / Ian Hancock (o Yanko le Redjosko) -- Integration of Gypsy/ Roma/Traveller children in English schools: Trojan or pantomime horse? …”

“…The specialty traditionally draws on the successes of the Western medical model in developing innovative means of controlling pain where cure is not possible. …”
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“…He examines the institutional settings of art education throughout Western history, the social forces that have shaped it and the evolution and impact of alternate streams of influence on present practice. …”

“…It explores one of the most innovative periods in the history of Western philosophy, extending from Montaigne, Bacon and Descartes through Hume and Kant. …”
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“…In discussions of such films as "Come and See", "Das Boot", "Apocalypse Now", "All Quiet on the Western Front" and "Saving Private Ryan", the book appraises their dominant narrative themes, ranging from war as a pointless tragedy to combat as an exciting and heroic adventure. …”

“…In this light, fashion has represented an important piece of material culture in modern industrial urban societies and in postcolonial and non-western contexts. Today, we are witnessing a turn in this imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. …”

“…After convincing General Groves of his new method, Cohen and his team of scientists work at Oak Ridge preparing to have a nuclear bomb ready to drop by the summer of 1944 in an effort to stop the war on the western front What ensues is an altered account of World War II in this taut thriller. …”

“…Over the last two hundred years the theories and ideals of the Enlightenment have come to be viewed as the foundation of modern Western political and intellectual culture. Particularly in France they have played a fundamental role in the development of national identity. …”

“…This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker's insightful critique of commercial republicanism. The western democracies' muted response to victory in the Cold War signaled the presence of a pervasive discontent, a sense that despite this victory liberal democracy itself was deeply flawed. …”

“…Western art has long sought to find a perfect method of representing the body. …”

“…this is the first book to examine the medieval Muslim answers to questions crucial to any Western understanding of Middle Eastern politics today, such as why states are necessary, what functions they are meant to fulfill, and whether or why they must be based on religious law…”

“…This book contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition: Machiavelli, whose name is a byword for duplicity, Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, Mill, liberal thinker and champion of individual liberty, and Marx, whose legacy has affected the lives of millions. …”

“…Focusing on the representation of sea journeys in the Western world from the early sixteenth century to the present, Sara Caputo argues that the depiction of these lines is inextricable from European imperialism, the rise of modernity, and processes of globalization. …”

“…Proclus was the most important philosopher of late antiquity, a dominant (albeit controversial) voice in Byzantine thought, the second most influential Greek philosopher in the later western Middle Ages (after Aristotle), and a major figure (together with Plotinus) in the revival of Greek philosophy in the Renaissance. …”