A Tether Tied to Space: Epigrams and Subversions by John Veen

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

Within the obstacles of Babel, Andrea Moro tells the tale of an come across among cultures: modern theoretical linguistics and the cognitive neurosciences. The learn of language inside a organic context has been ongoing for greater than fifty years. the improvement of neuroimaging expertise 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 simple notion used to be to examine the person as a social being and to examine society as an ensemble of many people who've not just universal principles and convictions in line with a typical perform of lifestyles but in addition a standard psychic constitution. together with his notion of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary considering offered during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This publication is split into 3 major elements: an advent to theories of tradition, a bit on chinese language tradition, and one on cultural building. the 1st half may be interpreted as an try to discover the meta-theoretical approach of tradition on the philosophical point. in keeping with the concept that of “culture as methods of living,” the ebook extra defines “culture” as “the training of people,” together with the approaches 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 information of Michel Foucault to the sphere of incapacity studies-and vice versa. over the past thirty years, politicized conceptions of incapacity have brought about major social swap, together with the landmark americans with Disabilities Act in 1990, the redecorate of city landscapes, the looks of closed-captioning on televisions, and the becoming acceptance that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.