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Questo è un libro sull’Etica che può salvare il mondo e rifondare una nuova società umana illuminata e più felice. La rovinosa crisi che il mondo sta attraversando non è affatto una crisi semplicemente economica, ma è qualcosa di molto più complesso e radicale: la fine dei miti e degli ideali...

Attraverso questi racconti l’autore affronta le grandi domande esistenziali su cui la filosofia si interroga dai tempi dei tempi. Il primo racconto s’incentra sulla morte e su ciò che accade dopo la morte; il secondo affronta la nascita, il coraggio e il destino; il terzo racconta un’esperienza...

In questo saggio provocatorio ed estremamente attuale per le forti implicazioni nell’ambito della bioetica, David Benatar oppone all’ottimismo ormai radicato delle teorie evoluzionistiche la cinica consapevolezza che la vita è assai più tragica di quanto vorremmo ammettere. “Ognuno di noi...

Nell’attuale società globale, dominata dalla massimizzazione dell’agire funzionale e dal conseguente paradosso antropologico dell’autofinalizzazione dei media (tecnica, denaro, informazione, consenso, successo, potere), la risorsa sempre più scarsa è diventata il senso con la conseguente...

L'expérimentation animale passe généralement pour être indispensable au progrès de la science et, par conséquent, au bonheur de l'humanité. Aussi a-t-elle été abandonnée, jusqu'en 1968, à la liberté la plus absolue. Cependant le droit, poussé par l'évolution des moeurs et des idées,...

International Advances in Education: Global Initiatives for Equity and Social Justice is an international research monograph series of scholarly works that primarily focus on empowering students (children, adolescents, and young adults) from diverse current circumstances and historic beliefs and traditions...

Paul Goodman’s Growing Up Absurd was a runaway best seller when it was first published in 1960, and it became one of the defining texts of the New Left. Goodman was a writer and thinker who broke every mold and did it brilliantly—he was a novelist, poet, and a social theorist, among a host of...

The six lectures in this volume were given one month before the opening of the first Waldorf School in Stuttgart in September 1919, in the context of Germany's post-war social ferment. Steiner points to negative tendencies present in modern social life as inner drowsiness, mechanization, and animalization....

In these exciting lectures, Rudolf Steiner shows that today's political, economic, and social problems are symptoms of our faulty thinking. His convincing analysis of economic crises, unemployment, and political uprisings unmasks such problems as signs of our desperate need for new thinking. In a very...

This volume addresses questions that lie at the core of research into education. It examines the way in which the institutional embeddedness and the social and ethnic composition of students affect educational performance, skill formation, and behavioral outcomes. It discusses the manner in which...

Teaching Justice explores the role that teaching and learning in higher education can play in solving problems of social injustice. Examining a range of approaches to education, it considers the challenges that exist in teaching about justice, drawing on extensive empirical data gathered amongst college...

A pioneering neuroscientist reveals the reasons for loneliness and what to do about it. John T. Cacioppo’s groundbreaking research topples one of the pillars of modern medicine and psychology: the focus on the individual as the unit of inquiry. By employing brain scans, monitoring blood pressure,...

‘This highly accessible book weaves together discussion of recent research findings, policy developments and theoretical perspectives. It provides a thought-provoking and at times contentious introduction that will challenge students and teachers to look beyond the easy and glib rhetoric, helping...

American by Paper reveals how two groups of immigrants who share a primary language nevertheless have very different experiences of literacy in the United States. It describes the social realities facing documented and undocumented immigrants who use everyday acts of writing to negotiate papers—the...