Esta serie profundiza en las ideas fundamentales y los conceptos centrales de filósofos y teóricos sociales influyentes. Cada volumen se estructura en torno a estos conceptos clave, y los capítulos individuales explican y exploran su aplicación. Sirve como una introducción accesible al pensamiento de grandes pensadores para una nueva generación. La colección ofrece una exploración clara y perspicaz de complejos marcos intelectuales.
Wittgenstein's complex and demanding work challenges much that is taken for granted in philosophical thinking as well as in the theorizing of art, theology, science and culture. This title includes essays that explore a key concept involved in Wittgenstein's thinking, relating it to his understanding of philosophy.
Michel Foucault's work on freedom, subjectivity, and power is now central to thinking across a range of disciplines, including philosophy, history, education, psychology, politics, anthropology, sociology, and criminology. This title explores his central ideas, such as disciplinary power, biopower, bodies, spirituality, and practices of the self.
'Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts' highlights his most important concepts and examines them in detail. This new edition of the leading text is entirely revised and updated and includes new essays on Methodology, Politics and Social Space.
Heidegger's writings are among the most formidable in the philosophy. The pivotal concepts of his thought are for many the source of both fascination and frustration. This title includes chapters that introduce and explain a key Heideggerian concept, or a cluster of closely related concepts.
Immanuel Kant is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. His revolutionary ideas are systematically interconnected and he presents them using a forbidding technical vocabulary. This book provides an introduction to Kant by explaining each of the key concepts of his philosophy.