LIBROS DEL AUTOR: Michael O'Sullivan

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  • Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Narrative, Digitality, Well-Being Narrative, Digitality, Wellbeing adopts a transdisciplinary approach in exploring new forms of narrative that have emerged in a digital age, an age of new online practices that are both associated with increased risk and enhanced sense of identity. The book examines new literary narratives, new philosophies of digitality, and new approaches to ...
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    180,65 €

  • Buying and Selling the Poor
    Mark Considine / Michael McGann / Siobhan O’Sullivan
    Buying and Selling the Poor ventures behind the scenes of the multibillion-dollar welfare-to-work system, offering new insights into how Australia responds to unemployment and disadvantage. As the authors tell the story of four local employment offices, they paint a vivid picture of a critically important social service which many people are aware of but which few properly unde...
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    23,64 €

  • Cloneliness
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities. Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context o...
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    52,35 €

  • Cloneliness
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Recent posthuman philosophies, human-computer interface studies, and technology-inspired biopolitical discourses and practices are reinventing and reimagining loneliness in different communities. Cloneliness: The Reproduction of Loneliness takes a cross-cultural approach to loneliness by examining 20th-century artistic expressions and examinations of loneliness in the context ...
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    173,87 €

  • Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature
    Michael O’Sullivan
    This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood ’from a distance’. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by the experiences of an Irish diaspora predominantly working in English, while also reminding Irish people ’at home’ that Irish is the ’national tongue’. In returning t...
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    66,55 €

  • Irish Expatriatism, Language and Literature
    Michael O’Sullivan
    This book examines how Irishness as national narrative is consistently understood ’from a distance’. Irish Presidents, critics, and media initiatives focus on how Irishness is a global resource chiefly informed by the experiences of an Irish diaspora predominantly working in English, while also reminding Irish people ’at home’ that Irish is the ’national tongue’. In returning t...
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    101,75 €

  • You Are a Godsend!
    D. Michael O’Sullivan / DMichael O'Sullivan / DMichael O’Sullivan
    Author D. Michael O’Sullivan, in his gift book You Are a Godsend! Rediscovering the Magnificent God-Given Mission You Were Born Remembering, wants to remind you that you are a Godsend. God, in His wisdom, placed you on earth to fulfill your spiritual purpose. You are a Godsend to your loved ones and those in your life. You have a God-given mission that you were born with, and y...
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    16,00 €

  • Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
    Michael O’Sullivan
    The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists’ representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality. ...
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    66,79 €

  • An Analysis of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
    Michael O’ Sullivan
    In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out a startlingly fresh conception of philosophy itself. Wittgenstein begins from the insight that most philosophical problems trace back to incorrect assumptions about the nature of language. While previous works typically described a problem and...
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    11,48 €

  • An Analysis of David Hume’s An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
    Michael O’Sullivan
    David Hume’s 1748 Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a modern philosophical classic that helped reshape epistemology - the philosophy of knowledge. It is also a classic of the critical thinking skills of analysis and reasoning. Analysis is all about understanding how arguments work and fit together. Having strong analytical skills helps to break down arguments, pull out ...
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    11,37 €

  • An Analysis of Gilbert Ryle’s The Concept of Mind
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Gilbert Ryle’s 1949 The Concept of Mind is now famous above all as the origin of the phrase 'the ghost in the machine' - a phrase Ryle used to attack the popular idea that our bodies and minds are separate. His own position was that mental acts are not at all distinct from bodily actions. Indeed, they are the same thing, merely described in different ways - and if one cuts thro...
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    11,48 €

  • An Analysis of Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most influential works in the history of philosophy - not to mention one of the most challenging. Its topic is the nature of human knowledge, and the question of whether or not it is possible to have knowledge of the world at all. Over two centuries later, Kant’s treatise remains a subject of fierce debate among philosophers...
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    11,48 €

  • The humanities and the Irish university
    Michael O'Sullivan / Michael O’Sullivan
    This is the first book-length study of the humanities and the Irish university. Ireland was a deeply religious country throughout the twentieth century but the colleges of its National University never established a religion or theology department. The official first language of Ireland is Irish but the vast majority of teaching in the arts and humanities is in English. These a...
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    33,51 €

  • Academic Barbarism, Universities and Inequality
    Michael O’Sullivan
    The image of the university is tarnished: this book examines how recent philosophies of education, new readings of its economics, new technologies affecting research and access, and contemporary novelists’ representations of university life all describe a global university that has given up on its promise of greater educational equality. ...
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    65,44 €

  • Weakness
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O’Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the conc...
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    66,85 €

  • The Incarnation of Language
    Michael O’Sullivan
    The Incarnation of Language investigates how the notion of incarnation has been employed in phenomenology and how this has influenced literary criticism. It then examines the interest that Joyce and Proust share in the concept of incarnation. By examining the themes of synthesis and embodiment that incarnation connotes for these writers, it offers a new reading of their work de...
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    67,02 €

  • Weakness
    Michael O’Sullivan
    Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O’Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the conce...
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    226,25 €

  • Freight Flows and Spatial Aspects of the British Economy
    Michael Chisholm / Patrick O'Sullivan / Patrick O’Sullivan
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    51,05 €

  • The Incarnation of Language
    Michael O’Sullivan
    The Incarnation of Language investigates how the notion of incarnation has been employed in phenomenology and how this has influenced literary criticism. It then examines the interest that Joyce and Proust share in the concept of incarnation. By examining the themes of synthesis and embodiment that incarnation connotes for these writers, it offers a new reading of their work de...
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    259,07 €