Tag: Explaining

December 24, 2024

Explaining Postmodernism Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault

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Free Download Stephen R. C. Hicks, "Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault"
English | 2004 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 1549509934, 0983258406 | PDF | 5,9 mb
Tracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provocative account of why postmodernism has been the most vigorous intellectual movement of the late 20th century. Why do skeptical and relativistic arguments have such power in the contemporary intellectual world? Why do they have that power in the humanities but not in the sciences? Why has a significant portion of the political Left – the same Left that traditionally promoted reason, science, equality for all, and optimism – now switched to themes of anti-reason, anti-science, double standards, and cynicism? Explaining Postmodernism is intellectual history with a polemical twist, providing fresh insights into the debates underlying the furor over political correctness, multiculturalism, and the future of liberal democracy. This Expanded Edition includes two additional essays by Stephen Hicks: *Free Speech and Postmodernism* and *From Modern to Postmodern Art: Why Art Became Ugly*.

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November 30, 2024

The Dark Side of Democracy Explaining Ethnic Cleansing

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Free Download Michael Mann, "The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing"
English | 2004 | pages: 590 | ISBN: 052183130X, 0521538548 | PDF | 2,9 mb
This comprehensive study of international ethnic cleansing provides in-depth coverage of its occurrences in Armenia, Nazi Germany, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and Rwanda, as well as cases of lesser violence in early modern Europe and in contemporary India and Indonesia. After presenting a general theory of why serious conflict emerges and how it escalates into mass murder, Michael Mann offers suggestions on how to avoid such escalation in the future. Michael Mann is the author of Fascists (Cambridge, 2004) and The Sources of Social Power (Cambridge 1986).

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November 24, 2024

Explaining Global Poverty A Critical Realist Approach

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Free Download Branwen Gruffydd Jones, "Explaining Global Poverty: A Critical Realist Approach"
English | 2006 | pages: 251 | ISBN: 0415392128, 0415568692 | PDF | 1,3 mb
The twenty-first century is characterized by extremes of poverty and wealth, of scarcity and abundance. The vast inequalties of wealth distribution between the developed west and the impoverished developing world is a complex problem. This book recognises that Africa in particular has manifested this global disgrace and symbolizes the nature of poverty to the western world.

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September 17, 2024

Expert Witnessing Explaining and Understanding Science

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Free Download Carl Meyer, "Expert Witnessing: Explaining and Understanding Science"
English | 1999 | pages: 256 | ASIN: B01JXPQWZE, B08FF55MHJ | PDF | 13,5 mb
Expert Explaining and Understanding Science results from the first-hand experience of the contributors-who include scientists, expert witnesses, litigators, and a judge-that the cultural and interdisciplinary communications barriers between science and the law can be greatly reduced to everybody’s advantage if the parties understand and respect each other’s needs and positions.

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January 21, 2024

Brain, Self and Consciousness Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience (2024)

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Free Download Sangeetha Menon, "Brain, Self and Consciousness: Explaining the Conspiracy of Experience (Studies in Neuroscience, Consciousness and Spirituality, 3)"
English | 2013 | pages: 218 | ISBN: 813221580X, 813223488X | PDF | 2,0 mb
This book discusses consciousness from the perspectives of neuroscience, neuropsychiatry and philosophy. It develops a novel approach in consciousness studies by charting the pathways in which the brain challenges the self and the self challenges the brain. The author argues that the central issue in brain studies is to explain the unity, continuity, and adherence of experience, whether it is sensory or mental awareness, phenomenal- or self-consciousness. To address such a unity is to understand mutual challenges that the brain and the self pose for each other. The fascinating discussions that this book presents are: How do the brain and self create the conspiracy of experience where the physicality of the brain is lost in the subjectivity of the self?

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January 7, 2024

Why Explaining the Holocaust

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Free Download Why?: Explaining the Holocaust by Peter Hayes, Don Hagen, Gildan Media, LLC
English | 2017 | ISBN: B0735XG2K1 | Format: M4B / Bitrate: 32 Kbps / 13 hours and 21 minutes + EPUB | 186 Mb
Featured in the PBS documentary The US and the Holocaust by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein
A bold new exploration that answers the most commonly asked questions about the Holocaust.
Despite the outpouring of books, movies, museums, memorials, and courses devoted to the Holocaust, a coherent explanation of why such ghastly carnage erupted from the heart of civilized Europe in the 20th century still seems elusive even 70 years later. Numerous theories have sprouted in an attempt to console ourselves and to point the blame in emotionally satisfying directions-yet none of them are fully convincing. As witnesses to the Holocaust near the ends of their lives, it becomes that much more important to unravel what happened and to educate a new generation about the horrors inflicted by the Nazi regime on Jews and non-Jews alike.

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