Mqup imprint: 803 books
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The mobility of people, objects, information, ideas, services, and capital has reached levels unprecedented in human history. Such forms of mobility are manifested in continued advances in communication and transportation capacities, in the growing use of digital and biometric technologies, in the...
by Raffaele Milani
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In The Art of the City Raffaele Milani reflects on the ways in which inhabitants of the cityscape have interacted on a spiritual, psychological, and philosophical level with the architecture that surrounds them. Working with the premise that the city has a “soul,” which is externalized in the...
Surface Imaginations
Cosmetic Surgery, Photography, and Skin
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Versatile, trendy, and resilient, the global cosmetic surgery industry shows no signs of decline, especially with its promises, not just of aesthetic improvement, but of absolute transformation. Introducing the concept of "surface imagination," Rachel Hurst discusses the fantasy that a change...
The Circle of Rights Expands
Modern Political Thought after the Reformation, 1521 (Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau)
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2007
Monahan's reading of individual philosophers, including the work of Spinoza, sixteenth-century advocates of religious toleration, and the radical Diggers and Levellers of England in the mid- seventeenth century, constitutes a convincing overview of the political theory of the period.
by John W. Burbidge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Do concepts exist independently of the mind? Where does objective reality diverge from subjective experience? John Burbidge calls upon the work of some of the foremost thinkers in philosophy to address these questions, developing a nuanced account of the relationship between the mind and the external...
Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the Canadian Regime
Past Principles and Present Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Shortly after Canadian confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee proclaimed that education was "an essential condition of our political independence" and that its role was to form citizens for the new regime. Comparing this idea of education for citizenship, or civic education, to the modern goals of education,...
Weariness of the Self
Diagnosing the History of Depression in the Contemporary Age
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2009
Drawing on the accumulated knowledge of a lifetime devoted to the study of the individual in modern democratic society, Ehrenberg shows that the phenomenon of modern depression is not a construction of the pharmaceutical industry but a pathology arising from inadequacy in a social context where success...
by Louis Roy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Bernard Lonergan (1904–1984) was a Canadian Jesuit philosopher, theologian, and humanist who taught in Montreal, Toronto, Rome, and Boston. His groundbreaking works Insight: A Study of Human Understanding (1957) and Method in Theology (1972) attempt to discern how knowledge is advanced in the natural...
Catholic Philosophy of Education
The Church and Two Philosophers
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Today’s pluralist and multicultural society raises questions about how to teach religiously and ethnically diverse students in Catholic schools. A Catholic Philosophy of Education addresses these challenges by examining the documents from the Roman Congregation for Catholic Education alongside the...
Dawn of the Neuron
The Early Struggles to Trace the Origin of Nervous Systems
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In science, sometimes it is best to keep things simple. Initially discrediting the discovery of neurons in jellyfish, mid-nineteenth-century scientists grouped jellyfish, comb-jellies, hydra, and sea anemones together under one term - "coelenterates" - and deemed these animals too similar to plants to...
In Praise of Natural Philosophy
A Revolution for Thought and Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
In Praise of Natural Philosophy argues for a transformation of both science and philosophy, so that these two distinct domains of thought become one: natural philosophy. This in turn has far-reaching consequences for the whole academic enterprise. It transpires that universities need to be reorganized...
From India to Israel
Identity, Immigration, and the Struggle for Religious Equality
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Between May 1948 and December 1951, Israel received approximately 684,000 immigrants from across the globe. The arrival of so many ethnic, linguistic, and cultural groups to such a small place in such a short time was unprecedented and the new country was ill-prepared to absorb its new citizens. The...
Network Democracy
Conservative Politics and the Violence of the Liberal Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Network Democracy uses the contemporary tools of ecology and network thinking to unearth the ancient, intellectual ruins of traditional conservative thought. Questioning the West’s veneration of freedom, equality, contractual citizenship, economic progress, cosmopolitanism, secular institutionalism,...
by Lawrence E. Schmidt, Scott Marratto
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2008
They examine established ethical approaches to such urgent contemporary concerns as environmental degradation, nuclear energy, high tech militarism, and fetal genetic testing, showing that the prevailing viewpoint valorizes autonomy above all other goods and considers technological advances as mere...