“…The philosophy of mind, Crane believes, has become too narrow in its purely conceptual focus on the logical and linguistic formulas that structure thought. …”

“…"Every day, more and more kinds of historical data become available, opening exciting new avenues of inquiry but also new challenges. …”

“…This publication uncovers Hoppé as a pivotal figure in the history of twentieth-century photography, who introduced for the first time elements of typology, seriality and sequence, which have become key elements of contemporary photographic practice. …”

“…This powerful book shows how history is increasingly becoming an element of political technology in Russia, with the systematic destruction of independent institutions setting the very future of History as an academic discipline in Russia in doubt -- Contracubierta…”

“…Icelanders wanted to stop fishing and become investment bankers. The Greeks wanted to turn their country into a piñata stuffed with cash and allow as many citizens as possible to take a whack at it. …”

“…As comprehensive and authoritative as it is eloquent and provocative, this book will become an indispensable study for social and cultural historians and delightful reading for anyone interested in taking a close look at sex and gender in eighteenth-century London…”
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“…The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. …”

“…"The period leading up to the Great Depression witnessed the rise of the economic forecasters, pioneers who sought to use the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. This book chronicles the lives and careers of the men who defined this first wave of economic fortune tellers, men such as Roger Babson, Irving Fisher, John Moody, C. …”

“…In the summer of 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest of the time), a semi-crazed sculptor with a mad plan to carve four giant heads into an inaccessible mountain called Rushmore, a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and a youthful aviator named Charles Lindbergh who started the summer wholly unknown and finished it as the most famous man on earth. …”

“…And he shows us that in cities like Rio, squatter settlements have become decent places to live for formerly landless people. …”

“…This philosophy, arguably the first distinctively Christian theory of being, soon becomes near-universally shared in Eastern Christianity. …”

“…The inclusion of so many foreign elements posed difficulties for defining a sense of Romanness at the very moment when a territorial definition was becoming obsolete. Using models drawn from anthropology, this book demonstrates that Roman religious activity beginning in the middle Republic (early third century B.C.E.) contributed to redrawing the boundaries of Romanness. …”

“…As he points out, both James and Dewey shared a wish to eliminate 'insignificant questions' from philosophy, and both harbored suspicion of 'timeless' philosophical problems handed down generation after generation. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…List of Illustrations Preface Work Together for a Bright Future of China-Iran Relations, Xi Jinping, January 2016 Chapter 1. From Camels and Sails to Highways and Refineries Belt and Road The Dream of an Integrated Eurasia Heritage Diplomacy Chapter 2. …”

Materias:

“…Presentación del editor: "What does Brazil's lurch to the hard right under Jair Bolsonaro portend for Latin America's largest country, and how has it come about? Always something of a world unto itself, under the Workers' Party between 2003 and 2016, Brazil was 'the theatre of a socio-political drama without equivalent in any other major state'. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Abbreviations Introduction: The Decisive Decade from 1936 to 1946 PART I: Back to the 1780sChapter 1 Philosophical Anthropology: Herder's Pantheism as a Subtext for Heidegger's First Schelling LectureChapter 2 Revelation: Heidegger's Second Schelling Lecture vis-à-vis Scheler and Simmel Chapter 3 'The Origin of the Work of Art': A Critique of Schiller Incognito and the Beginning of Artisan Thinking PART II: Battleground NietzscheChapter 4 Heidegger's Nietzsche Volumes: Nihilism, Physiological Aesthetics, and Volitional MetaphysicsChapter 5 Hegel and Nietzsche in Holzwege: Religious Skepticism, Witnessing, and 'Subjectity' PART III: Poeticsat the 'Zero Hour'Chapter 6 'Why Poets?'…”

“…The first group of readers are the Christian writers from the early centuries, some of whom (such as Irenaeus of Lyons) stood in direct continuity, through Polycarp of Smyrna, with John himself. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Louis : dilemmas of the knowledge economy -- Reluctant innovators : change from the margins -- An "aristocracy of excellence" : the rise of the professions -- Carnegie, capital, and the Kaiser -- World War I and the invention of academic freedom -- The "hour for experiment" in New York and Frankfurt -- 1933 : annus horribilis -- 1933 : annus mirabilis -- Conclusion : old dilemmas, new contracts…”