A Letter Concerning Toleration: Latin and English Texts by John Locke,Mario Montuori

The Boundaries of Babel: The Brain and the Enigma of Impossible Languages (Current Studies in Linguistics Book 46)

Within the barriers of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the tale of an stumble upon among cultures: modern theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The research of language inside a organic context has been ongoing for greater than fifty years. the advance of neuroimaging know-how bargains new possibilities to complement the "biolinguistic point of view" and expand it past an summary framework for inquiry.

The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

Fromm’s uncomplicated thought was once to examine the person as a social being and to examine society as an ensemble of many people who've not just universal rules and convictions in keeping with a standard perform of existence but additionally a typical psychic constitution. together with his thought of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary considering provided during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This ebook is split into 3 major components: an advent to theories of tradition, a piece on chinese language tradition, and one on cultural building. the 1st half might be interpreted as an try to discover the meta-theoretical process of tradition on the philosophical point. in response to the idea that of “culture as methods of living,” the booklet extra defines “culture” as “the training of people,” together with the methods through which humans adapt to neighborhood cultural and social customs.

Foucault and the Government of Disability (Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability)

Foucault and the govt. of incapacity is the 1st book-length research of the relevance and significance of the guidelines of Michel Foucault to the sphere of incapacity studies-and vice versa. over the past thirty years, politicized conceptions of incapacity have caused major social switch, together with the landmark americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the redecorate of city landscapes, the looks of closed-captioning on televisions, and the transforming into acceptance that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.