Creating Consilience: Integrating the Sciences and the by Edward Slingerland,Mark Collard

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 research of language inside a organic context has been ongoing for greater than fifty years. the improvement of neuroimaging know-how bargains new possibilities to counterpoint the "biolinguistic viewpoint" and expand it past an summary framework for inquiry.

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

Fromm’s easy notion 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 accordance with a standard perform of existence but in addition a standard psychic constitution. along with his notion of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary pondering provided during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This booklet is split into 3 major components: an creation to theories of tradition, a bit on chinese language tradition, and one on cultural development. the 1st half could be interpreted as an try to discover the meta-theoretical process of tradition on the philosophical point. in line with the idea that of “culture as methods of living,” the e-book additional defines “culture” as “the guidance of people,” together with the techniques during 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 brought on major social swap, together with the landmark american citizens with Disabilities Act in 1990, the redecorate of city landscapes, the looks of closed-captioning on televisions, and the transforming into attractiveness that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.