Offers a critique about but not for intellectuals that explores their impact on public opinion policy and society at large. This title not only examines the track record of intellectuals in the things they have advocated but also analyzes the incentives and constrai... Lees meer.

The purpose of this book is to present some general and major themes of the theological formulation of the Franciscan Intellectual Tradition as these themes intersect with contemporary perspectives. It provides a fine starting point for further reflection and a solid fo... Lees meer.

This text is about intellectual life its spirit conditions and methods. This is above all a practical book. It discusses with a wealth of illustration and insight such subjects as the organization of the intellectual worker s time materials and his life the inte... Lees meer.

This is a condensed edition of The Road to Serfdom republished in this edition with The Intellectuals and Socialism originally published in 1949 . In The Road to Serfdom F. A. Hayek set out the danger posed to freedom by attempts to apply the principles of warti... Lees meer.

The Cold War roots of liberalism s present crisis The Cold War roots of liberalism s present crisis A daring new book. Becca Rothfeld Washington Post A fascinating and combative intellectual history. Gideon Rachman Financial Times By the middle of the twe... Lees meer.

When Intellectual Impostures was published in France it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment. When it was published in Britain it provoked impassioned debate. Sokal and Bricmont examine the canon of French postmodernists - Lacan Kristeva Baudrillard... Lees meer.

A church history text that integrates the events and development of the church with the social economic and intellectual history of the world around it. Church History Volume One offers a unique contextual view of how the Christian church spread and grew from its... Lees meer.

An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970s For eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europ... Lees meer.

Elgar Advanced Introductions are stimulating and thoughtful introductions to major fields in the social sciences and law expertly written by the world s leading scholars. Designed to be accessible yet rigorous they offer concise and lucid surveys of the substantive an... Lees meer.

Celebrates twelve Black feminists who have made an indelible mark not just on Black women s intellectual history but on American intellectual history in general. The volume calls attention to the creativity of Black women who galvanized their readers listeners and fel... Lees meer.

This book uncovers practices surrounding acts of collecting surveying and antiquarianism during British colonial rule in India. By examining these practices this book traces the colonial conditions of the production of sources the forging of a new historical method... Lees meer.

This book will equip clinical psychologists in training with the skills to complete a clinical placement in the field of intellectual disability. The Handbook of Intellectual Disability and Clinical Psychology Practice will equip clinical psychologists in training... Lees meer.

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D ID ESThe French. serious and frivolous charming and infuriating rational and mystical pessimistic pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what make... Lees meer.

In an era when intellectual and artistic life is increasingly being distorted by political dogmatism Julien Benda s Treason of the Intellectuals is a classic that speaks with a new and extraordinary urgency. Benda s essay published by ERIS in a new translation by Davi... Lees meer.

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