The Idea of Political Representation and Its Paradoxes

Andrzej Waśkiewicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 24
• The book presents the principal functions of representative institutions, which are necessary in every political order: legitimising power, creating s... Lees meer

Heidegger and the Problem of Evil

Cezary Wodzinski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 15
• An encompassing and thorough study of Martin Heidegger's thought. It is not only a presentation but also a profound critique of the thinker's beliefs.... Lees meer

El ethos" del republicanismo cosmopolita

• Hardcover | Spaans | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 32
• Este volumen enfoca el carácter inacabado de la teoría cosmopolita de Kant, con el propósito de propiciar nuevas vías de construcción política multila... Lees meer

La république des savants

Zbigniew Drozdowicz

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 23
• La république des savants L'auteur du présent ouvrage est lié professionnellement au milieu universitaire polonais depuis de nombreuses années. Il a g... Lees meer

From Medicine to Sociology. Health and Illness in Magdalena Sokolowska's Research Conceptions

Wlodzimierz Piątkowski

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 27
• This monograph is the first book in medical sociology that comprehensively describes the research conceptions of the co-founder of the European medica... Lees meer

The Relational Theory Of Society

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 29
• In Archerian Studies focus on the critical realism paradigm, especially the notion of agency and the subject's reflexivity. This publication also cons... Lees meer

The Labyrinths of Leibniz's Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 35
• The volume explores the various 'labyrinths' of Leibniz's philosophy, i.e. hard-to-solve problems in which the human mind in entangled. In addition to... Lees meer

The Transformations of Contemporary Culture and Their Social Consequences

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 37
• Volume III of Archerian Studies , which we now deliver to our readers, focuses on the question of culture. Despite the numerous motifs which were intr... Lees meer

Academic Culture

Zbigniew Drozdowicz

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 33
• 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, t... Lees meer

Antarctic Winter-Over Syndrome

Jan Felicjan Terelak

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 31
• The book is a journal that presents narrations and factual accounts of events covering 144 days the author spent during the Third Scientific Expeditio... Lees meer

Hopes and Anxieties in Europe

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 10
• In the first part relations between legitimization, subjective well-being, voting patterns, and the role of social cohesion in determination of politi... Lees meer

Psychology of the Operator of Technical Devices

Jan Felicjan Terelak

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 21
• The author of the book discusses the essence and social consequences of the postmodern era in the field of psychology of work and technology. He descr... Lees meer

Imagination - Art, Science and Social World

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 25
• The book contains analyses and interpretations of multidimensional perspectives in philosophical, economical and psychological research on imagination... Lees meer

Antarctic Isolation as a Mars Habitat Analogue

Jan Felicjan Terelak

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 34
• The book is a scientific monograph, based on a natural experiment on cognitive, emotional and social functioning during the year-long isolation of 21 ... Lees meer

Tying Micro and Macro

Mikolaj Pawlak

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 18
• The study critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum formulated by Stefan Nowak. The author presents the sociological vacuum in the co... Lees meer

Inclusive Education of Learners with Disability - The Theory versus Reality

Zenon Gajdzica, Robin McWilliam

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 30
• The book familiarises readers with the historical and cultural conditions for the development of inclusive education. It presents concepts and everyda... Lees meer

Beauty in Architecture

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 36
• The harmony of a place is a state of the dynamic balance of mutual local interactions of the natural, socio-cultural, and constructed environment. Suc... Lees meer

Deferring the Self

Szymon Wróbel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society | nr. 2
• The book is a collection of essays, weaving together psychoanalysis, political theory and art. Ranging from the discussion of Freud, Foucault, Zizek a... Lees meer