In this classic study, now available in English for the first time, the late Spanish philosopher Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora reconsiders the antithesis of pathos and logos in the political realm. In real life, he postulates, ideology has mostly undesirable effects: social tension, extremism, pugnacity, and the substitution of myths for facts. ......
Twelve Essays on the Resolution of East-West Conflict and the Errors ofPositive Knowledge in Ancient Greece
In our contemporary world, the competing narratives of nation states bypass their common origins in antiquity - not only those fought over between Greece and Rome but the cohesion of evolution's first community recorded in the myth of Gilgamesh and its Biblical equivalent. As far as philosophy is concerned, David Kuhrt argues in this incisive ......
Dr Al-Zubeidy brings an insider's knowledge and an outsider's eye to one of the key issues in Anglo-American poetry: the transformative aspects of change based on science and technology, its relentlessness and its disruptive tendencies. As a poet and a survivor of an ongoing conflict that has seen the death of hundreds of thousands of his fellow ......
"Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true... think on these things," St. Paul tells us. But today, too many of our institutions command otherwise. You must accept that there are more than two genders. You must trust the legacy media. You must reject your history, hate your culture, and accept American decline. You must obey the absurd ......
The Greek notion of the "sophist" might seem antiquated or meaningless, until we look at the world we are living in: a world of images, counterfeits, and false appearances, starting even with our own, a world where money has become the criterion for all other values and deceptive advertisement the pinnacle of commercial astuteness, where ......
The phrase "solidarity of the shaken" was introduced into the today's political vocabulary by Jan Patocka, one of the last students of the philosopher Edmund Husserl and undoubtedly the most important Czech philosopher of the twentieth century. In January 1977, Patocka became - together with Vaclav Havel and Jiri Hajek -- one of the first three ......
Sunni and Shi'a Identity Conflicts in the Age of Web 2.0 and the Arab Spring
This monograph evaluates the role of the social media in strengthening and transforming religious identities in the aftermath of the Arab Spring. Focusing specifically on Bahrain, this study assesses how the sectarian interpretation of the protests exacerbated social divisions and reverberated around the Middle East intensifying sectarian ......
In his latest work Professor Alper explores how his innovative concept of narcissistic giving that is, the dysfunctional art in which one gives without actually giving manifests itself all too often in the social transactions and interactions that compose everyday existence. This sense of grandiosely promising a world of happiness and satisfaction ......
In his latest work Professor Alper explores how his innovative concept of narcissistic giving that is, the dysfunctional art in which one gives without actually giving---manifests itself all too often in the social transactions and interactions that compose everyay existence. This sense of grandiosely promising a world of happiness and ......
