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Metaphors in philosophy
2013 || Paperback || Arthur Cools e.a. || Academic & Scientific publishers
Since Hans Blumenberg developed his metaphorology, there has been a constantly growing interest among philosophers in the function of metaphorical language in philosophy. In this tradition of a positive approach to philosophical metaphors, the publication of Ralf Konersmann's Wörterbuch der philosophischen Metaphern (2007, third edition 2011) is a landmark, that testifies to the actuality and importance of the problem of the relationship between philosophical rationality and its roots in pre...
The Philosophy of Language
2013 || Paperback || A.P. Martinich e.a. || Oxford University Press
What is meaning? How is linguistic communication possible? What is the nature of language? What is the relationship between language and the world? How do metaphors work? The Philosophy of Language, considered the essential text in its field, is an excellent introduction to such fundamental questions. This revised edition collects forty-eight of the most important articles in the field, making it the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the subject. Revised toaddress changing trends an...
The light at the end of the tunnel / druk 1
reflections on love and life
2013 || Paperback || Elena Mara || Brave New Books
What is Love?
How do we experience it?
And how do we deal with the beauty, the difficulties and the impossibilities of Life?
In her bundle "The Light at the end of the tunnel" Elena Mara reflects on different, recognisable situations in Love and Life and discovers that in many cases there are still more questions than answers..
A Concise Introduction to Existential Counselling
2013 || Paperback || Martin Adams || SAGE
Addressing everything a new trainee needs to know and do in a way that is entirely accessible and jargon-free, this book: provides a short history of the existential tradition; puts key concepts into contexts, showing how theory translates into practice; discusses issues in the therapeutic process.
Imagining Europe
Myth, Memory, and Identity
2013 || Paperback || Chiara Bottici e.a. || Cambridge University Press
In Imagining Europe, Chiara Bottici and Benoit Challand explore the formation of modern European identity. Europe has not always been there, although we have been imagining it for quite some time. Even after the birth of a polity called the European Union, the meaning of Europe remained a very much contested topic.
What is Europe? What are its boundaries? Is there a specific European identity or is the EU just the name for a group of institutions? This book answers these questions, showing th...