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  • Postmodernism, Reason and Religion

    par Ernest Gellner ...
    First Published in 1992. On questions of faith, Ernest Gellner believes, three ideological options are available to us today. One is the return to a genuine and firm faith in a religious tradition. The other is a form of relativism which abandons the notion of unique truth altogether and resigns itself to treating truth as relative to the society or culture in question. The third, which Gellner ... En savoir plus

    $76.99 CAD

  • Cause and Meaning in the Social Sciences

    par Ernest Gellner ...
    This volume focuses on key conceptual issues in the social sciences, such as Winch's idea of a social science, structuralism, Malinowski and Evans-Pritchard, and the concept of kinship. In particular it deals with such problems as the relationship of nature and culture, the relevance of concepts drawn from within a given society to its understanding, and the relation of theory to time. ... En savoir plus

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Devil in Modern Philosophy

    par Ernest Gellner ...
    The essays in this volume gather together Gellner's thinking on the connection between philosophy and life and they approach the topic from a number of directions: philosophy of morals, history of ideas, a discussion of individuals including R. G. Collingwood, Noam Chomsky, Piaget and Eysenck and discussions on the setting of philosophy in the general culture of England and America. ... En savoir plus

    $114.04 CAD

  • Contemporary Thought and Politics

    par Ernest Gellner ...
    Gellner's political philosophy in these volumes combines the down-to-earth realism of political sociology with a rational treatment of the normative issues of traditional political thought. In these essays Gellner strives to understand the religions of nationalism, communism and democracy, returning again and again to the basic values of the liberal: social tolerance, rational criticism, human ... En savoir plus

    $94.81 CAD

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  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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    par Paulo Freire ...
    First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. Paulo Freire's work has helped to empower countless people throughout the world and has taken on special urgency in the United States and Western Europe, where the creation of a permanent underclass among the underprivileged and minorities in cities and urban centers is ongoing.This ... En savoir plus

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  • Violence

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  • The Quest for Meaning

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  • Understand Ethics: Teach Yourself

    Making Sense of the Morals of Everyday Living

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  • The Uses of Pessimism

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