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Bu çalışma, 20. yüzyılın önemli düşünürlerinden biri olmasına rağmen çağdaşlarının çoğuna nispetle ülkemizde neredeyse hiç tanınmayan bir Alman filozofun, Eric Voegelin’in (1901-1985) politika teorisini, moderniteye yaptığı eleştiri çerçevesinde ele alıyor. Geçtiğimiz yüzyılın en tartışmalı filozoflarından biri olan Voegelin, “aşkın tecrübe”yi politik teorinin dışında bırakan yahut hiçe sayan modern politika teorilerini radikal bir tarzda eleştirir. Onun politika teorisi, politik eylemde bulunan insanın, varlığının asli “temeli”yle tekrar buluşmasını, moralite ile politikayı bir arada düşünebilmemizi ve ideoloji ile politi...
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Robert Nisbet, Batı’nın refah toplumunda yazmış bir “kriz” sosyoloğudur. Onu kriz sosyoloğu yapan, 20. yüzyılda içinde yaşadığı modern Batı toplumunun bunalımıdır. Bu bunalım 19. yüzyılda yaşanan tarihsel-toplumsal krizin sonucunda ortaya çıkmıştır. Bu kriz ise Fransız ve Endüstri devrimleriyle başlayan tarihsel ve toplumsal bir sürecin, geleneksel aracı kurumların çöküşünün, gücün merkezileşmesinin ve sekülerleşmenin ürünüdür. Başka bir deyişle, gelenekçilik ve modernizm arasındaki çatışmanın neticesidir. Nisbet’i kriz sosyoloğu yapan diğer husus, sosyolojinin doğuşunu modern toplumu doğuran krizle açıklamasıdır. Sosyol...
This is a second edition of an English for Academic Purposes title first published in 1992. It is designed to imporve the reading skills of EFL students at intermediate level or above who are preparing for a university course in EnglishStudy Reading is a course for learners of intermediate level or above who need to develop their reading skills for study or work purposes. The book is divided into three parts. Part 1 introduces basic reading skills. Part 2 is theme based, with texts from a variety of disciplines, and aims to extend the skills introduced in Part 1. Part 3 covers the reading skills required for project, dissertation and thesis work. Study Reading encourages learners to reflect ...
"Nelson Mbizi returns to southern Africa after studying in Britain. He is going to work in his father's hotel. In a different part of the city a poor mother dies, leaving her children alone. Nelson's desire to help them coincides with the arrival of Viki, a TV presenter. The story unfolds against a background of HIV/AIDS and government corruption on the one hand, and great humour and wonderful music on the other. A life-affirming story dealing with one of the greatest challenges of our age."--Page 4 of cover.
A complete revision of customized Corneal Ablation: The Quest For Super Vision, this "wavefront bible" incorporates additional forms of customized diagnosis and correction, including intraocular lens correction, presbyopic issues, and contact lenses. It goes beyond just corneal ablation to include other forms of vision correction, expanding the scope of its impact.
Introduce your learners to creative writing and writing for a purpose. They'll write an urban myth and a report of a school play, helping build their extended writing skills as they progress through the units. Each unit focuses on a different text type such as dialogue, reports or instructions. Model texts in each chapter show learners good examples of each writing type and specific activities help them practise grammar typical of the genre. Learners work individually and collaboratively, developing skills such as creative thinking, planning, drafting, peer evaluation and editing.
The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics, Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life.
This book represents the first major engagement with Sloterdijk's thought in the English language, and will provoke new debates across the humanities. The collection ranges across the full breadth of Sloterdijk's work, covering such key topics as cynicism, ressentiment, posthumanism and the role of the public intellectual.