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  • The Construction of Value Philosophy in Contemporary China

    by Deshun Li ...
    Translated by Linan Tian, Min Wang, Xiuming Chi ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book approaches humanism in the new era in China by discussing the nature of value philosophy and by analyzing in depth the significance of value research for China’s modernization and future development. The author expounds his own point of view on the value of human beings as the foundation of value philosophy and subsequently applies it to understanding conflicting values between China and ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Values of Our Times

    Contemporary Axiological Research in China

    Edited by Deshun Li ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Philosophers have gradually accepted axiology as one branch of philosophy. As a basic category belonging to axiology and philosophy, "value" is the general abstraction of concrete value formation in various fields including utility, ethics and appreciation of the beauty. The problem of value is essentially a problem of historical activities of practice in human society. The axiology based on the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • Encountering China

    Michael Sandel and Chinese Philosophy

    Edited by Michael J. Sandel, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    In the West, Harvard philosopher Michael Sandel is a thinker of unusual prominence. In China, he’s a phenomenon, greeted by vast crowds. China Daily reports that he has acquired a popularity “usually reserved for Hollywood movie stars.” China Newsweek declared him the “most influential foreign figure” of the year. In Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by the ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • John Dewey, Liang Shuming, and China's Education Reform

    Cultivating Individuality

    by Huajun Zhang ...
    This book explores the central question of how to cultivate a continued sense of self in the radically changing Chinese society, a question that is highly related to the current ongoing educational reform. If education cannot respond to the problem of students’ disconnection from the changing society, learning cannot truly happen in school and the reform will fail. Zhang suggests a philosophy of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Moral China in the Age of Reform

    by Jiwei Ci ...
    Three decades of dizzying change in China's economy and society have left a tangible record of successes and failures. Less readily accessible but of no less consequence is the story, as illuminated in this book, of what China's reform has done to its people as moral and spiritual beings. Jiwei Ci examines the moral crisis in post-Mao China as a mirror of deep contradictions in the new self as ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • International Relations and Identity

    A Dialogical Approach

    by Xavier Guillaume ...
    Series series New International Relations
    International Relations and Identity examines the issue of collective political identity formation and expands the concept of the international beyond the notion of states.Providing a dialogical approach to questions of identity and alterity in International Relations, the author considers how identity is formed, maintained and transformed in continuous processes with alterity. This innovative ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • A Relational Theory of World Politics

    by Yaqing Qin ...
    Drawing on Chinese cultural and philosophical traditions, this book offers a ground breaking reinterpretation of world politics from Yaqing Qin, one of China's leading scholars of international relations. Qin has pioneered the study of constructivism in China and developed a variant of this approach, arguing that culture defined in terms of background knowledge nurtures social theory and enables ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Unlearning

    or 'How NOT To Be Governed?'

    by Nader N. Chokr ...
    Series Book 11 - Societas
    One view of education (appealing to the Latin root "educare" "to train or mold") aims to fill students' heads with knowledge and turn them into disciplined, normalized and potentially productive members of the workforce.An alternative (appealing to the Latin root "educere" "to lead out or draw out") wants to produce well-trained minds and create individuals capable of questioning, critical ... Read more

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Radical Imagination

    Social Movement Research in the Age of Austerity

    by Doctor Alex Khasnabish, Max Haiven ...
    The idea of the imagination is as evocative as it is elusive. Not only does the imagination allow us to project ourselves beyond our own immediate space and time, it also allows us to envision the future, as individuals and as collectives. The radical imagination, then, is that spark of difference, desire and discontent that can be fanned into the flames of social change. Yet what precisely is the ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Objectivism

    The Philosophy of Ayn Rand

    by Leonard Peikoff ...
    Series series Ayn Rand Library
    THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—The definitive statement of Ayn Rand’s philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir.This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s classic text on the abstract principles and practical applications of Objectivism, based on his lecture series “The Philosophy of Objectivism.” Ayn Rand said of these lectures: “Until or unless I ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Objectivity & Diversity

    Another Logic of Scientific Research

    by Sandra Harding ...
    An examination of how to establish truely objective scientific research methods, including knowledge derived from diverse cultures.Worries about scientific objectivity seem never-ending. Social critics and philosophers of science have argued that invocations of objectivity are often little more than attempts to boost the status of a claim, while calls for value neutrality may be used to suppress ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus