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The Transformation of Global Higher Education, 1945-2015
This book explores some of the major forces and changes in higher education across the world between 1945 and 2015. This includes the explosions of higher education institutions and enrollments, a development captured by the notion of massification. There were also profound shifts in the financing and economic role of higher education reflected in the processes of privatization of universities …
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- 978-1-137-52869-8
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Feeling and Value, Willing and Action Essays in the Context of a Phenomenolo…
This volume explores the role and status of phenomena such as feelings, values, willing, and action in the domain of perception and (social) cognition, as well as the way in which they are related. In its exploration, the book takes Husserl’s lifelong project Studien zur Struktur des Bewusstseins (1909-1930) as its point of departure, and investigates these phenomena with Husserl but also bey…
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- 978-3-319-10326-6
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- VIII, 291
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Vladimir Solov’ëv's Justification of the Moral Good Moral Philosophy
This new English translation of Solov’ëv’s principal ethical treatise, written in his later years, presents Solov’ëv’s mature views on a host of topics ranging from a critique of individualistic ethical systems to the death penalty, the meaning of war, animal rights, and environmentalism. Written for the educated public rather than for a narrow circle of specialists, Solov’ëv’s w…
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- 978-3-319-12775-0
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- LXX, 435
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Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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The Vienna Circle : Studies in the Origins, Development, and Influence of Log…
This abridged and revised edition of the original book (Springer-Wien-New York: 2001) offers the only comprehensive history and documentation of the Vienna Circle based on new sources with an innovative historiographical approach to the study of science. With reference to previously unpublished archival material and more recent literature, it refutes a number of widespread clichés about "neo-p…
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- 978-3-319-16561-5
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Models of the History of Philosophy:Vol. III: The Second Enlightenment and th…
This is the third volume of Models of the History of Philosophy, a collaborative work on the history of the history of philosophy dating from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. The volume covers a decisive period in the history of modern thought, from Voltaire and the great “Encyclopédie” of Diderot and d'Alembert to the age of Kant, i.e. from the histoire de l'esprit hu…
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- 978-94-017-9965-2
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- XXXII, 1000
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- International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Engaged Humanities Rethinking Art, Culture, and Public Life
What is the role of the humanities at the start of 21st century? In the last few decades, the various disciplines of the humanities (history, linguistics, literary studies, art history, media studies) have encountered a broad range of challenges, related to the future of print culture, to shifts in funding strategies, and to the changing contours of culture and society. Several publications hav…
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- 9789048550401
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A Critical History of Poverty Finance : Colonial Roots and Neoliberal Failures
'The definitive account of the history of poverty finance' - Susanne Soederberg Finance, mobile and digital technologies - or 'fintech' - are being heralded in the world of development by the likes of the IMF and World Bank as a silver bullet in the fight against poverty. But should we believe the hype? A Critical History of Poverty Finance demonstrates how newfangled 'digital financial …
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- 9780745344867
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Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940; Opening New Archives, Revisiting a Global City
In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion.
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- Vol. 1.
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- 9789004375741
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- T 956.9442034 LEM o c
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