LIBROS DEL AUTOR: d c schindler

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  • Retrieving Freedom
    D. C. Schindler
    Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the 'rise and fall' of the classical understanding of freedom.In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of freedom that dominates contemporary discourse, Retrieving Freedom seeks to return to the sources of the Western tradition to recover a more adequate understanding. This book begins by ...
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    63,51 €

  • Retrieving Freedom
    D. C. Schindler
    Retrieving Freedom is a provocative, big-picture book, taking a long view of the 'rise and fall' of the classical understanding of freedom.In response to the evident shortcomings of the notion of freedom that dominates contemporary discourse, Retrieving Freedom seeks to return to the sources of the Western tradition to recover a more adequate understanding. This book begins by ...
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    84,06 €

  • Freedom from Reality
    D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications. Freedom from Reality presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting cha...
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    38,38 €

  • Love and the Postmodern Predicament
    D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of ''reality'' is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim it makes on us, a claim that Iris Murdoch once described as the essence of love. In respo...
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    41,26 €

  • Love and the Postmodern Predicament
    D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    The computer has increasingly become the principal model for the mind, which means our most basic experience of ''reality'' is as mediated through a screen, or stored in a cloud. As a result, we are losing a sense of the concrete and imposing presence of the real, and the fundamental claim it makes on us, a claim that Iris Murdoch once described as the essence of love. In respo...
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    24,17 €

  • Freedom from Reality
    D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    It is commonly observed that behind many of the political and cultural issues that we face today there are impoverished conceptions of freedom, which, according to D. C. Schindler, we have inherited from the classical liberal tradition without a sufficient awareness of its implications. Freedom from Reality presents a critique of the deceptive and ultimately self-subverting cha...
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    169,59 €

  • The Catholicity of Reason
    D C Schindler / D. C. Schindler
    An original argument for the recovery of a robust notion of reason and truth in response to modern rationalism and postmodern skepticismThe Catholicity of Reason explains the "grandeur of reason," the recollection of which Benedict XVI has presented as one of the primary tasks in Christian engagement with the contemporary world. While postmodern thinkers -- religious and secula...
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    41,17 €

  • The Perfection of Freedom
    D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways in the German thinkers Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, connects freedom, not exclusively with power and possib...
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    69,74 €

  • The Perfection of Freedom
    D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought. This understanding, developed in different but complementary ways in the German thinkers Schiller, Schelling, and Hegel, connects freedom, not exclusively with power and possib...
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    45,29 €

  • A Philosophy of Hope
    Bernard Schumacher / D. C. Schindler / DCSchindler
    Josef Pieper was one of this century's most influential thinkers. A leading Catholic philosopher, he won a wide audience through such books as The Four Cardinal Virtues and About Love.This book is one of few extended studies of Pieper's thought--in particular, of the concept of hope. Pieper was one of the first modern philosophers to explore the idea of hope, and Schuma...
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    107,81 €