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Contemporary Confucianism in thought and action
This volume focuses on contemporary Confucianism, and collects essays by famous sinologists such as Guy Alitto, John Makeham, Tse-ki Hon and others. The content is divided into three sections - addressing the "theory" and "practice" of contemporary Confucianism, as well as how the two relate to each other - to provide readers a more meaningful understanding of contemporary Confucianism and Chin…
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- 9783662477502
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- 181.112
Applying Critical Social Theories to Family Therapy Practice
This volume applies critical social theories to family therapy practice, using sociopolitical context for a clearer focus on the power dynamics of couple and family relationships. Its decolonizing approach to therapy is shown countering the pervasive cultural themes that grant privilege to specific groups over others, feeding unequal and oppressive relationships that bring families and couples …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-15633-0
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- XV, 75
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- AFTA SpringerBriefs in Family Therapy
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- 159 MCD a
Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy
This is the first comprehensive companion to the study of Daoism as a philosophical tradition. It provides a general overview of Daoist philosophy in various thinkers and texts from 6th century BCE to 5th century CE and reflects the latest academic developments in the field. It discusses theoretical and philosophical issues based on rigorous textual and historical investigations and examination…
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- 9789048129263
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- VII, 569
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- Dao Companions to Chinese Philosophy
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- 118.114
Cultural Revolutions: Reason Versus Culture In Philosophy, Politics, And Jihad
Cultural Revolutions argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. Lawrence Cahoone systematically defines culture and gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism. Cahoone offers a definition of culture as teleologically organized practices, artifacts, and narratives and analyzes the…
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- 9780271030241
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- 121.8
Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Critic…
Identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous Middle English recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century.Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers' stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association…
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- 9789004254848
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- 101
Memory: Histories, Theories, Debates
The volume reconstructs the work of the great philosophical and literary figures of the last two centuries who recast the concept of memory and brought it into the forefront of the modernist and postmodernist imagination—among them, Bergson, Halbwachs, Freud, Proust, Benjamin, Adorno, Derrida, and Deleuze. Drawing on recent advances in the sciences and in the humanities, the contributors addr…
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- 9780823232611
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- 100
Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dial…
"This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber`s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The volume critically evaluates the methodological purchase to be gained by the introduction of Buber`s conception of dialogue in political theory, psychology and psychiatry, and religious studies."
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- 9783110402377
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- 100
Emotion, Reason and Action in Kant
This book explores how, in Kant’s world view, our actions are informed, contextualized and dependent on the tension between emotion and reason. Arguing that affects and passions are illnesses of the mind, because both hinder the sovereignty of reason, Borges demonstrates Kant’s recognition of the malleability of reason. To this end, the book explores the full range of negative and positive …
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- 9781350078376
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- 160
Blackfoot ways of knowing : the worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi
Blackfoot Ways of Knowing is a journey into the heart and soul of Blackfoot culture. As a scholar and researcher, Betty Bastien places Blackfoot tradition within a historical context of precarious survival amid colonial displacement and cultural genocide. In sharing her personal story of reclaimed identity, Bastien offers a gateway into traditional Blackfoot ways of understanding and experienci…
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- 1-55238-109-9
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- 191.089 973 52 BAS b
Gender and the Work-Family Experience: An Intersection of Two Domains
Conflict between work and family has been a topic of discussion since the beginning of the women's movement, but recent changes in family structures and workforce demographics have made it clear that the issues impact both women and men. While employers and policymakers struggle to navigate this new terrain, critics charge that the research sector, too, has been slow to respond. Gender and t…
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- 978-3-319-08890-7
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- XXIII, 358
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- 158.2
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