Gestalt Therapy: Perspectives and Applications is a classic text which, when it was first released in 1992, signaled a renaissance of Gestalt scholarship throughout the world. In this volume, Edwin Nevis, one of the foremost Gestalt writers, thinkers, and practitioners of the last 40 years, skillfu[...]
In this provocative new book, respected Canadian journalist David Cayley compiles and reflects upon the thoughts of Ivan Illich, one of the 20th century's most visionary cultural critics. Illich believed that the West could only be understood as a corruption of the Christian New Testament. Cayley pr[...]
The author uses the work of the eminent Canadian philosopher, Charles Taylor, to develop a critique of those political perspectives that are based on instrumental ways to reason about the world, claiming that such perspectives invariably sever the connections between the social and natural worlds.[...]
This book provides a comprehensive critical account of the philosophy of Charles Taylor. The author engages with the secondary literature on Taylor's work and suggests that some interpretations and criticisms have been based on misunderstandings of the ontological dimension of strong evaluation, whi[...]
Campaigner, insurgent, arms dealer, warlord, commodity trafficker, elected president, international fugitive and finally prisoner, Charles Taylor sought to lead his native Liberia to change but instead destroyed it in a frenzy of violence, greed and uncontrolled personal ambition. In the process he [...]
Charles Taylor is one of the most influential and prolific philosophers in the English-speaking world today. The breadth of his writings is unique, ranging from reflections on artificial intelligence to analyses of contemporary multicultural societies. This thought-provoking introduction to Taylor's[...]
Charles Taylor geh rt zu den international renommiertesten Philosophen der Gegenwart. Sein Werk vereinigt auf der Grundlage einer philosophischen Anthropologie starker Wertungen Sprach-, Sozial- und politische Philosophie zu einer umfassenden G tertheorie der Moderne, die in Taylors Opus Magnum A Se[...]
This book examines "Taylorean social theory," its sources, main characteristics and impact. Charles Taylor's meta-narrative of secularization in the West, prominently contained in his major work A Secular Age (2007), has brought new insight on the social and cultural factors that intervened in such [...]
This book provides a timely, compelling, multidisciplinary critique of the largely tacit set of assumptions funding Modernity in the West. A partnership between Michael Polanyi and Charles Taylor's thought promises to cast the errors of the past in a new light, to graciously show how these errors [...]
Man finner ikke frem til hva som er verdifullt ved å rote på soveværelset, derimot finner man det ved å analysere de historisk frembragte, kollektive forestillinger det moderne selvet har om seg selv. Charles Taylor er professor ved McGill University, Canada og leverer med Autentisitetens etikk [...]
Identitet, frihet och gemenskap syftar till att ge en inblick i Charles taylors politiska filosofi. Men för att förstå den måste man förstå centrala element i hans antropologi, samhällsontologi och moralfilosofi. Samlingen innehåller därför två artiklar där han presenterar grunddragen i [...]
Kan man bygga en politisk filosofi på människors beroenden och sårbarhet istället för på deras självständighet, socialitet eller förnuftskapacitet? I sin analys och omformulering av den politisk-filosofiska frågan om erkännande lyfter Victoria Fareld fram Hegels aktualitet, via en diskuss[...]
Kan man bygga en politisk filosofi på människors beroenden och sårbarhet istället för på deras självständighet, socialitet eller förnuftskapacitet? I sin analys och omformulering av den politisk-filosofiska frågan om erkännande lyfter Victoria Fareld fram Hegels aktualitet, fram för allt[...]
The history, myth and romance of the medieval knight on crusade, with over 500 stunning images of the battles, adventures, sieges, fortresses, triumphs and defeats[...]
From the fourteenth-century king consorts of Navarre to the modern European prince consorts of the twentieth century, the male consort has been a peculiar yet recurrent historical figure. In this impressively broad collection of essays on male partners of female monarchical rulers, leading historian[...]
The history, myth and romance of the medieval knight on crusade, with over 400 stunning images of the battles, adventures, sieges, fortresses, triumphs and defeats. The world of the crusading knight, the lands they lost and won, and the inspiration that motivated them. It covers the poignant failure[...]