Contemporary aesthetic studies

Berdyev's life was nothing but a triangular struggle against the aristocratic environment in which his family belonged and lived in it, against the revolutionary Marxist environment in which he lived during his first youth and against the orthodox environment in which he lived a mature period in a certain sense.

Kitcher elaborates a comprehensive vision of the evolution of human morality...For serious students of ethics, this is the indispensable book.--H. C. Byerly"Choice" (04/01/2012)

This magnificent book promises to be a heavyweight contribution to the field of moral philosophy. Kitcher is one of the most elegant writers in the business; his thinking is subtle and profound.--Richard Joyce, Victoria University Of Wellington

Paul Tillich was a German theologian and philosopher who moved to the United States after having to flee from Nazis in the 1930s. He became a lecturer at Yale University in Connecticut

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus is considered one of the oldest philosophers. Despite the loss of his writings, the scientist did not marginalize his philosophy and his perspective on life, but on the contrary, it was taken from them re-assembled fragments as he did in this book, Mujahid Mujahid Abdel Moneim Mujahid. The awakening of souls from slavery to sovereignty by searching for common ground between the awakened souls.

The Ancient Greek philosophers have played a pivotal role in the shaping of the western philosophical tradition. This book surveys the seminal works and ideas of key figures in the Ancient Greek philosophical tradition from the Presocratics to the Neoplatonists. It highlights their main philosophical concerns and the evolution in their thought from the sixth century BCE to the sixth century CE.

What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it’s an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagner’s ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of knowledge.