In this concise and powerful book, one of the world's leading historians of the Enlightenment provides a bracing and clarifying new interpretation of this watershed period. Arguing that philosophical and historical interpretations of the era have long been hopelessly confused, Vincenzo Ferrone makes the case that it is only by separating these views and taking an approach grounded in social and…
What should we believe, and why should we believe it? This book addresses these questions through a critical exposition of the work of the contemporary philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre and of the theologian George Lindbeck, the father of postliberal theology. The book argues that MacIntyre's philosophical development can be seen as a response to the question of how belief in a comprehensive metap…
Written with clarity, wit, and rigor, The Philosophy of Art provides an incisive account of the core topics in the field. The first volume in the new Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts series, designed to provide crisp introductions to the fundamental general questions about art, as well as to questions about the several arts (such as literature, music or painting). Present…
Inilah buku tuntunan yang sangat bagus untuk memasuki 20 karya filsafat terbesar, terutama bagi Anda yang sama sekali yang tidak punya waktu untuk membaca karya-karyanya. James Garvey memberikan catatan pendahuluan dari buku-buku yang harus dibaca dari seluruh sejarah tulisan filsafat. Dari dialog-dialog Plato, melalui karya-karya Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, dan Hume, sampai ke tulisan-tulis…
Buku ini diberi judul “Kebatalan Perkawinan” dan bukan “Pembatalan Perkawinan”, sebagaimana lazim didengar dalam pembicaraan atau didapati dalam tulisan tentang perkara perkawinan. Judul ini bermaksud untuk mengungkapkan hakikat arti tugas hakim Gereja dalam mengadili sebuah kasus perkawinan dalam proses untuk menyatakan kebatalan perkawinan. Dalam perkara menyatakan kebatalan perkawina…
In this, the first of a three-volume paperback version of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, editors Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln survey the field of qualitative research from a wide-ranging theoretical perspective. Part One locates the field, providing historical context as well as background on applied qualitative research, the `self′ and the `other′, and the politics …