Chosen by the American Horticultural Society as one of the seventy-five greatest books ever written about gardening, Second Nature has become a manifesto for rethinking our relationship with nature. With chapter ranging from a reconsideration of the Great American Lawn and a dispatch from one man's war with a woodchuck to reflections on the sexual politics of roses, Pollan captures the rhythms of our everyday engagement with the outdoors in all its...

"How to enhance well-being by reconnecting to sacred womanhood"--

Volume 8 of this landmark edition follows Peirce from May 1890 through July 1892-a period of turmoil as his career unraveled at the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. The loss of his principal source of income meant the beginning of permanent penury and a lifelong struggle to find gainful employment. His key achievement during these years is his celebrated Monist metaphysical project, which consists of five classic articles on evolutionary cosmology....

Disclosure of Martin Heidegger's complicity with the National Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger's philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did his support of the Nazis betray a fundamental lack of loyalty to living things? David Farrell Krell traces Heidegger's political authoritarianism...

This volume gathers fourteen contributions written by Italian philosophers within the context of the precariousness and vulnerability revealed by the Covid-19 pandemic. The pandemic compels us to rethink what is affected most by this global occurrence yet does not end with it-that is, life. Beyond the geographical, socio-political, and medical contexts in which the reflections originate, Rethinking Life is deeply utopian, presenting aspirations toward...

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law gives the reader a pragmatic glimpse of the history of legal philosophy—from early Greek and Roman codification to the juridical analysts of the nineteenth century—and shows how this history relates to modern legal concepts.

Esta obra ofrece una aproximación al Ensayo sobre el entendimiento humano del filósofo inglés John Locke (1623-1704). A lo largo de sus páginas, el lector podrá percibir, desde una perspectiva fresca, diferente a las convencionales, la riqueza, originalidad y audacia del autor para abordar cuestiones controvertidas de su época, algunas de las cuales siguen siendo tema de debate y reflexión dentro y fuera de la filosofía. La doctora Silva muestra...

"¡Ama a Dios!". ¿Qué significa eso? ¿Acaso un personaje que está afuera, allá, y que me atisba? Eso no puede significar, sino que aceptes y vivas tu verdad, que te aceptes íntegramente, con la negación que conlleva tu afirmación, como lleva germen destructor todo fruto. Que vivas así: incierto, con auges afirmativos y podredumbres llenas de auroras. Sé humilde aceptante, aun de tu vanidad. Aceptarse y representarse (confesarse) es estar...

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