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Transformational Ethics of Film = Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philo…
What is ‘the good’ of the film experience? And how does the budding field of ‘film as philosophy’ answer this question? Charting new routes for film ethics, Martin P. Rossouw develops a critical account of the transformational ethics at work within the ‘film as philosophy’ debate. Whenever philosophers claim that films can do philosophy, they also persistently put forward edifying p…
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- 9789004460874
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- 334 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 365 Philosophy of Film, Volume: 365
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Key Concepts in the Study of Religions in Contact
There is no religion lest there are two religions. Therefore, it is only possible to examine the history of religions by taking the crucial situations of contact into account. Contact needs concepts. Not only scholars but also participants in situations of contact are forced to conceptualize themselves and the other. Taking its point of departure from the contact-based approach to the study of …
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- 978-90-04-71490-8
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- xiv, 598 pp.
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- Dynamics in the History of Religions, Volume: 15
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Expert Consensus in Science
This Open Access book shows how expert consensus pervades all areas of science. It explores, in particular, the role of consensus in establishing scientific truth, in guiding professional practice and policy and agreeing on what are acceptable scientific methodologies. For some scientific issues, a consensus forms spontaneously among scientists working on a topic, while for others, where the is…
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- 9789819792221
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- XVII, 231 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Renewal of Medieval Metaphysics = Berthold of Moosburg’s Expositio on P…
This is the first volume exclusively devoted to the Expositio by Berthold of Moosburg (c.1295-c.1361) on Proclus’ Elements of Theology. The breadth of its vision surpasses every other known commentary on the Elements of Theology, for it seeks to present a coherent account of the Platonic tradition as such (unified through the concord of Proclus and Dionysius) and at the same time to consolida…
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- 9789004471023
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- 520 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- History of Metaphysics: Ancient, Medieval, Modern, Volume: 2
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New Music and Institutional Critique
While institutional critique has long been an important part of artistic practice and theoretical debate in the visual arts, it has long escaped attention in the field of music. This open access volume assembles for the first time an array of theoretical approaches and practical examples dealing with New Music’s institutions, their critique, and their transformations. For scholars, leaders, a…
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- 1
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- 9783662671313
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- XIV, 205 ill; hlm
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The Khōjā of Tanzania - Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity
The Khōjā of Tanzania: Discontinuities of a Postcolonial Religious Identity attempts to reconstruct the development of Khōjā religious identity from their arrival to the Swahili coast in the late 18th century until the turn of the 21st century. This multidisciplinary study incorporates Gujarati, Kacchī, Swahili, and Arabic sources to examine the formation of an Afro-Asian Islamic identity …
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- 9789004292888
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- 244 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Becoming Human: Li Zehou's Ethics
The book Becoming Human: Li Zehou’s Ethics offers a critical introduction and in-depth analysis of Li Zehou’s moral philosophy and ethics. Li Zehou, who is one of the most influential contemporary Chinese philosophers, believes that ethics is the most important philosophical discipline. He aims to revive, modernize, develop, and complement Chinese traditional ethics through what he calls …
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- Volume: 20
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- 978-90-04-42366-4
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Beauvoir in Time
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in m…
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- Volume: 348
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- 978-90-04-43121-8
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Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism
The Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) is famous for polemic against Islamic philosophy, theology and rationalizing mysticism, but his positive theological contribution has not been well understood. This comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s theodicy helps to rectify this lack. Exposition and analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s writings on God’s justice and wise purpose, divine determination and…
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- 978-90-47-42019-4
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- xii, 276 pp
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- Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, Volume: 73
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Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation : A Study of Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql…
In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers the first comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation). In his colossal riposte to the Muslim philosophers and rationalist theologians, the towering Ḥanbalī polymath rejects the call to prioritize reason over reve…
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- 978-90-04-41286-6
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- xiv, 444 pp
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- Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies, Volume: 111
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