Dignity, Rank, and Rights (The Berkeley Tanner Lectures) by Jeremy Waldron,Meir Dan-Cohen

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 know-how bargains new possibilities to complement the "biolinguistic standpoint" and expand it past an summary framework for inquiry.

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

Fromm’s simple proposal 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 according to a typical perform of lifestyles but in addition a standard psychic constitution. along with his inspiration of “social personality” he created a brand new interdisciplinary pondering provided during this reader.

On Chinese Culture

This e-book is split into 3 major components: an creation to theories of tradition, a piece on chinese language tradition, and one on cultural development. the 1st half will be interpreted as an try to discover the meta-theoretical process of tradition on the philosophical point. in accordance with the concept that of “culture as methods of living,” the e-book extra defines “culture” as “the practise of people,” together with the strategies in 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 prompted 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 becoming popularity that disabled humans represent a marginalized and disenfranchised constituency.