Ethics

Singer Peter

• Paperback | Engels | Oxford Readers
• What is ethics? Where does it come from? Can we really hope to find any rational way of deciding how we ought to live? If we can, what would it be lik... Lees meer

Aesthetics

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• Can we ever claim to understand a work of art or be objective about it? Why have cultures thought it important to separate out a group of objects and ... Lees meer

Oxford Readers

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• In recent years, the concept of class has come under increasing scrutiny, as a means of explaining both the present and the past. The post-industrial ... Lees meer

Feminisms

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• Spanning nearly two decades, from 1980 to 1996, this Reader investigates the debates which have best characterized feminist theory. Including such art... Lees meer

Evolution

Mark (, Lecturer at Somerville College, and member of the Zoolog

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• This anthology contains extracts from more than 60 scientific papers, by authors such as Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Dawkins, Francis Crick and Jacques... Lees meer

The British Empire

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• The phenomenon of imperialism has never been under such intense scrutiny, by such a wide range of academic disciplines, as it is today. From cultural ... Lees meer

Nazism

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• This unique collection brings together extracts from the most innovative and stimulating studies of Nazism, including many forgotten or ignored older ... Lees meer

Slavery

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• This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the econ... Lees meer

Racism

Martin Bulmer

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• W. E. B. DuBois wrote in 1903 that "the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line--the relation of the darker to the lighter r... Lees meer

War

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• War, despite its indisputably horrific nature, has shaped the international system, prompted social and technological change, and inspired the arts. T... Lees meer

Jesus (Oxford Readers)

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• This Oxford Reader brings together an extensive range of ancient and modern documents to convey the many ways in which the figure of Jesus has stimula... Lees meer

Faith & Reason

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• The philosophy of religion is an intrinsic part of the richness of Western philosophy. Faith and Reason displays in historical perspective some of the... Lees meer

Sexuality

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• Sexuality has always been a rather obsessive human concern. Although it has been the true subject of countless past cultural, religious, and political... Lees meer

Ethnicity

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• Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical rec... Lees meer

Political Thought

Rosen Michael

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• Human beings live together in societies which, by their very nature, give rise to institutions governing the behavior and freedom of individuals. This... Lees meer

Fascism

Roger Griffin

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• No political ideology has had a greater impact on modern history, or caused more intellectual controversy, than fascism. It has been identified with t... Lees meer

Classical Philosophy

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• Classical Philosophy introduces students to several of the essential philosophical questions raised by the Greek and Roman philosophers of classical a... Lees meer

Nationalism

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• Achieving prevalence as an ideology in the political and social ferment of late 18th-century Europe and America, nationalism first found expression du... Lees meer