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  • Academic Life

    My Point of View

    by Zbigniew Drozdowicz ...
    Series Book 44 - Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
    In this book, the author presents his observations and thoughts related to academic life in Poland and in Western countries. For over 50 years, he was its participant, going from a student at Adam Mickiewicz University to a full professor. In this book, he refers to those problems that have appeared in academic life in recent decades. However, not only to them, because they were related in various ... Read more

    $74.79 CAD

  • Academic Culture

    Traditions and the Present Days

    by Zbigniew Drozdowicz ...
    Series Book 33 - Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
    The author of this book formulates a general thesis that in the academic culture, since the emergence of the first universities until this very day, two types of that culture have competed with each other, i.e., a corporate and templar one. In his remarks, the author tries to highlight it through the presentation of:The functioning of academia in different time periods, 2. The beliefs of scholars, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Cartesian Rationalism

    Understanding Descartes

    by Zbigniew Drozdowicz ...
    Series Book 3 - Warsaw Studies in Philosophy and Social Sciences
    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 all of them, he still adopted some of their elements: not even such a self-directed and critical ... Read more

    $60.99 CAD

  • Faces of the Enlightenment

    Philosophical sketches

    by Zbigniew Drozdowicz ...
    Series Book 26 - Studies in Social Sciences, Philosophy and History of Ideas
    The author of this book speaks out again in regard to the Enlightenment. His inspiration comes not only from new observations occasioned by own studies, but also from the recently read material as well as opinions and appraisals of the era articulated lately at academic conferences. Although they have not led the author to perform a fundamental revision of his views in regard to the nature of ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

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  • Ideas That Matter

    A Personal Guide for the 21st Century

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    The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century

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