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The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieu's sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social research and political action. -- .

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The book discusses relations between philosophy and empirical social sciences through detailed analyses of the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch and Merleau-Ponty, and then explores the development of Bourdieus sociological reflexivity as his attempt to reconcile this intellectualist legacy with social research and political action.

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The nuclear family is under siege as never before. In this strong and vigorous, but sophisticated and informed defense of the traditional nuclear family, Bennett argues that people urgently need to reestablish the idea of marriage and that marital permanence must once again become a normative, high ideal.

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The Carol J. Adams Reader gathers together Adams's foundational and recent writings as well as relevant interviews and conversations identifying key concepts and new developments in her work.

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The Carol J. Adams Reader gathers together Adams's foundational and recent writings as well as relevant interviews and conversations identifying key concepts and new developments in her work.

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Offering a comprehensive overview and introduction to the concept of relativism and relativistic arguments, this book investigates the reasons that contribute to the 'evergreen' status of relativism and asks: why does relativism remain a constant occurrence in the writings of the humanities and what accounts for its popular appeal

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This book provides a post-positivist theory of deterministic and probabilistic causality that supports both quantitative and qualitative explanations. Features of particular interest include the ability to provide true explanations in contexts where our knowledge is incomplete, a systematic interpretation of causal modeling techniques in the social

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Argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. This book contends that, in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. It offers an analysis of the confusions and contradictions at the heart of the modern condition.

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Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, this book challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. It offers insight to those who strive to bridge the gap between the theory and practice of cultural politics in the twenty-first century.

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Just before and during the English Civil War of the 1640s, Thomas Hobbes wrote in defence of the monarchy, his aim being to eliminate the root causes of civil war and internal strife. This book examines Hobbes's arguments for how best to achieve this aim, taking into account the political, philosophical, and religious context of Hobbes's time.

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Argues for a new theory of ordinary justice in opposition to historically rooted conceptions of "social" justice.

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Arguing that our notions of justice have been made incoherent by the radical incompatibility between instinctive notions of ordinary justice and theoretical conceptions of social justice, this book goes on to explore the historical roots of these ideas of social justice.

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Provides an insight into Heidegger's Phenomenology. This book demonstrates Heidegger's indebtedness to Wilhelm Dilthey and Count Yorck von Wartenburg. It agrees with them that historicity must be at the centre of the new philosophy to come. It gives evidence to the view that thought about history is the germ cell of "Being and Time".

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A guide to contemporary aesthetics. It explores the issues pertaining to contemporary art forms, as well as tackles traditional questions in well-established art forms with insights of disciplines such as pragmatics and other areas of cognitive science.

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A reference guide to the research and future directions in Epistemology. It covers all the fundamental questions asked by epistemology - areas that have continued to attract interest historically. It reveals where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the directions the field is taking.

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Provides a reference tool for those working in contemporary philosophical ethics. This title offers a guide to a key area of contemporary philosophy.

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Covers the fundamental areas of philosophical logic. This guide explores issues pertaining to classical logic and its rivals, extensional and intensional extensions of classical logic, semantics for parts of natural language, and the application of logic in the theory of rationality.