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Gateway - Inglês - Nível B2 - Workbook - 2nd Edition

by Frances Treloar e Gill Holley

34,60€

 The Workbook mirrors the Student's Book in its organisation, providing a wealth of extra grammar and vocabulary exercises and opportunities to practise reading, listening, speaking and writing. It also offers higher-level material in the form of Grammar challenge and Vocabulary extension exercises, particularly useful for mixed ability classes.
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After God

by Mark C. Taylor

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Argues that religion is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. This book redefines religion for our contemporary age. It presents a radical reconceptualization of religion.
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Sensible Ecstasy - Mysticism, Sexual Difference, And The Demands Of History

by Amy Hollywood

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 <div><i>Sensible Ecstasy</i> investigates the attraction to excessive forms of mysticism among twentieth-century French intellectuals and demonstrates the work that the figure of the mystic does for these thinkers. With special attention to Georges Bataille, Simone de Beauvoir, Jacques Lacan, and Luce Irigaray, Amy Hollywood asks why resolutely secular, even anti-Christian intellectuals are drawn to affective, bodily, and widely denigrated forms of mysticism.<br> <br> What is particular to these thinkers, Hollywood reveals, is their attention to forms of mysticism associated with women. They regard mystics such as Angela of Foligno, Hadewijch, and Teresa of Avila not as emotionally excessive or escapist, but as unique in their ability to think outside of the restrictive oppositions that continue to afflict our understanding of subjectivity, the body, and sexual difference. Mystics such as these, like their twentieth-century descendants, bridge the gaps between action and contemplation, emotion and reason, and body and soul, offering new ways of thinking about language and the limits of representation.</div>
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Figural Jew - Politics And Identity In Postwar French Thought

by Sarah Hammerschlag

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 The rootless Jew, wandering disconnected from history, homeland, and nature, was often the target of early twentieth-century nationalist rhetoric aimed against modern culture. But following World War II, a number of prominent French philosophers recast this maligned figure in positive terms, and in so doing transformed postwar conceptions of politics and identity. Sarah Hammerschlag explores this figure of the Jew from its prewar usage to its resuscitation by Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Maurice Blanchot, and Jacques Derrida. Sartre and Levinas idealized the Jew's rootlessness in order to rethink the foundations of political identity. Blanchot and Derrida, in turn, used the figure of the Jew to call into question the very nature of group identification. By chronicling this evolution in thinking, Hammerschlag ultimately reveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. Both an intellectual history and a philosophical argument, The Figural Jew will set the agenda for all further consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.
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Islam And The West - A Conversation With Jacques Derrida

by Mustapha Cherif

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 In the spring of 2003, Jacques Derrida sat down for a public debate in Paris with Algerian intellectual Mustapha Cherif. The eminent philosopher arrived at the event directly from the hospital where he had just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, the illness that would take his life just over a year later. That he still participated in the exchange testifies to the magnitude of the subject at hand: the increasingly distressed relationship between Islam and the West, and the questions of freedom, justice, and democracy that surround it. As Cherif relates in this account of their dialogue, the topic of Islam held special resonance for Derrida-perhaps it is to be expected that near the end of his life his thoughts would return to Algeria, the country where he was born in 1930. Indeed, these roots served as the impetus for their conversation, which first centers on the ways in which Derrida's Algerian-Jewish identity has shaped his thinking. From there, the two men move to broader questions of secularism and democracy; to politics and religion and how the former manipulates the latter; and to the parallels between xenophobia in the West and fanaticism among Islamists. Ultimately, the discussion is an attempt to tear down the notion that Islam and the West are two civilizations locked in a bitter struggle for supremacy and to reconsider them as the two shores of the Mediterranean-two halves of the same geographical, religious, and cultural sphere. Islam and the West is a crucial opportunity to further our understanding of Derrida's views on the key political and religious divisions of our time and an often moving testament to the power of friendship and solidarity to surmount them.
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Displacing Christian Origins - Philosophy, Secularity, And The New Testament

by Ward Blanton

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 Traces the critical engagement of Agamben, Derrida, and Zizek, among others, back to nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century philosophers of early Christianity. This work offers a different way for critical theory to construe the relationship between the modern past and the biblical traditions to which we seem to be drawn once again.
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Negative Certainties

by Jean-Luc Marion

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Rivalry And Reform - Presidents, Social Movements, And The Transformation Of American Politics

by Daniel J. Tichenor e Sidney M. Milkis

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Philosophy Writing & The Character Of Th

by John T. Lysaker

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 Lysaker argues here that philosophy needs to attend to the language it uses-rather than inaccessible, academic prose, philosophers should remember the full range of voices available to them and find ways to write that will enable them to communicate more broadly.
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Abiding Grace - Time, Modernity, Death

by Mark C. Taylor

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 A magnum opus from Tayler that traces the currents of our thought about time, modernity, and death from Martin Luther through Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Derrida.
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The Socratic Way Of Life

by Thomas Pangle

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 The first book-length analysis of Xenephon's most important work, which Pangle argues presents Socratic thought more accurately than any of Plato's works.
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John Kenneth Galbraith - His Life, His Politics, His Economics

by Richard Parker

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 In the first full-length biography of Galbraith and his times, Parker provides not only a nuanced portrait of this extraordinary man, but also an important reinterpretation of 20th-century public policy and economic practices.
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The Origins Of Cool In Postwar America

by Joel Dinerstein

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 Dinerstein sketches nuanced definitions of cool that unite concepts from African-American and Euro-American culture: the stylish stoicism of the ethical rebel loner; the relaxed intensity of the improvising jazz musician; the effortless, physical grace of the Method actor. To be cool is not to be hip and to be hot is definitely not to be cool.
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Insights In The Economics Of Aging

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Reason In Law - Ninth Edition

by Lief H. Carter e Thomas F. Burke

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Jazz Worlds/World Jazz

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Historic Firsts - How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics

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 This book looks at the way that "historic firsts" in presidential campaigns, specifically with regard to a candidate's gender and race, have affected not just who runs and why they run, but also mass political behavior.
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Historic Firsts - How Symbolic Empowerment Changes U.S. Politics

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 This book looks at the way that "historic firsts" in presidential campaigns, specifically with regard to a candidate's gender and race, have affected not just who runs and why they run, but also mass political behavior.
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An Ecology Of Happiness

by Éric Lambin

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 Could it be that the natural environment is an essential part of our happiness? Yes, says the author emphatically. Using a very different strategy in addressing environmental concerns, he asks us to consider that there may be no better reason to value and protect the health of the planet than for our own personal well-being.
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Authors Of The Impossible - The Paranormal And The Sacred

by Jeffrey J. Kripal

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 Looks at how the paranormal bridges the sacred and the scientific. This title deals with: the cultural history of telepathy, teleportation, and UFOs; a ghostly love story; the occult dimensions of science fiction; Cold War psychic espionage; galactic colonialism; and, the intimate relationship between consciousness and culture.
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Multiple Exposures (Paper Only) - Chronicles Of The Radiation Age/301088

by Catherine Caufield

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The Economy Of Glory - From Ancien Regime France To The Fall Of Napoleon

by Robert Morrissey

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 Presents a literary and cultural history of glory and its development in France and explores the "economy of glory" Napoleon sought to implement in an attempt to heal the divide between the Old Regime and the Revolution.
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The Mystic Fable, Volume One Â€“ The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries - The Sixteenth And Seventeenth Centuries

by Michael B. Smith e Michel De Certeau

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 This volume provides an analysis of Christian mysticism during the 16th and 17th centuries, along with an application of the author's transdisciplinary historiography. It aims to reveal the "mystical" aspect of postmodernism's movement of perpetual departure.
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How Animals Grieve

by Barbara J. King

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 From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. The author argues that we can - and should - attend to animal emotions. She draws our attention to the specific case of grief, and relates story after story of animals mourning lost companions, mates, or friends.
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