Die Entschlüsselung des menschlichen Bewusstseins: Vom by Michael Prost

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 deals 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 easy thought used to be to examine the person as a social being and to examine society as an ensemble of a lot of persons who've not just universal principles and convictions in response to a standard perform of existence but additionally a typical psychic constitution. along with his notion of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary considering awarded during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This ebook 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 might be interpreted as an try to discover the meta-theoretical procedure of tradition on the philosophical point. in response to the concept that of “culture as methods of living,” the publication 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. during the last thirty years, politicized conceptions of incapacity have caused major social switch, 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 growing to be reputation that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.