The volume develops the concepts of the self and its reflexive nature as they are linked to modern thought from Hegel to Luhmann. The moderns are reflexive in a double sense: they create themselves by self-reflexivity and make their world – society – in their own image. That the social world is reflexive means that it is made up of non-subjective (or supra-subjective) communication. The vol…
Whilst happiness usually comes from how we think and feel about our life (eventbased wellbeing), enlightenment is an internal experience not sourced from this process (inner wellbeing). In this volume, we look from a scientific point of view at the different approaches to enlightenment and the practices that trigger it. This includes classical Western approaches to contemplation and aesthetics,…
Individuals’ behaviours at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments. In this pioneering work, …
The nature of olfaction; its importance for understanding perennial issues of philosophy of mind, perception, and consciousness; and its implications for cognitive neuroscience.What are smells? Despite the best efforts of philosophy and the chemosciences, the question remains vexing—but no more perplexing than the historical lapse of the past few centuries to seriously consider a sense that h…
How are artificial intelligence (AI) and the strong claims made by their philosophical representatives to be understood and evaluated from a Kantian perspective? Conversely, what can we learn from AI and its functions about Kantian philosophy’s claims to validity? This volume focuses on various aspects, such as the self, the spirit, self-consciousness, ethics, law, and aesthetics to answer th…
'Artifacts of Thinking: Reading Arendt’s 'Denktagebuch'' offers a path through Hannah Arendt’s recently published 'Denktagebuch', or 'Book of Thoughts.' In this book a number of innovative Arendt scholars come together to ask how we should think about these remarkable writings in the context of Arendt’s published writing and broader political thinking. Unique in its form, the 'Denktagebuc…
Despite the increasing concern for the issue of respect for persons displayed over the last decades by political philosophers, human-right thinkers, social and ethical theorists, a comprehensive treatment of the problem from a historical-philosophical perspective is conspicuously absent. The present collection of essays aims to contribute to the fulfillment of this gap by offering a reconstruct…
Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Plessner’s philosophical anthropology in English, not only setting it in context wi…
[Given, If, Then] attempts to conceive a possibility of reading, through a set of readings: reading being understood as the relation to an Other that occurs prior to any semantic or formal identification, and, therefore, prior to any attempt at assimilating, or appropriating, what is being read to the one who reads. As such, it is an encounter with an indeterminable Other, an Other who is other…
This book, in the form of a classical philosophical treatise, presents a large-scale theoretical project: It uses a metaphilosophical perspective to present the framework for postmetaphysical thinking, situating it in the domain of the metaphysics of morality. It offers an innovative defence of scepticism based on a critical and radical analysis of the concepts of knowledge and truth. Metaphysi…
Provides an account of the nature of philosophy which is rooted in the question of the meaning of life. It makes a powerful and vivid case for believing that this question is neither obscure nor obsolete, but reflects a quintessentially human concern to which other traditional philosophical problems can be readily related; allowing them to be reconnected with natural interest, and providing a d…
Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable—brought down from the heavens to t…
What is a problem? What’s asked in that question, and how does one even begin to take its measure? How else could one begin, except as one does with any other problem—by way of its impulsion. Of Learned Ignorance: Idea of a Treatise in Philosophy is about philosophy because philosophy is about problems: philosophy, in a word, is where problems become a problem. After Anti-Oedipus, in the Ka…
"Why do we think differently from one another? Why do religious people adhere to their faith even against reason, whilst atheist thinkers label it “nonsense”? Why do some judges turn more to moral values and others less? Why do we attach different meanings to the same words? These questions can be tackled on psychological or sociological levels, but we can also analyze the subjects on the e…
The Presocratic philosophers, writing in Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE, invented new ways of thinking about human life, the natural world, and structures of reality. They also developed novel ways of using language to express their thought. In this book, Victoria Wohl examines these innovations and the productive relation between them in the work of five figures: Parmenides, Herac…
“Every written work,” Giorgio Agamben opens the preface to Infancy and History, “can be regarded as the prologue (or rather, the broken cast) of a work never penned, and destined to remain so.” Although that observation applies to any work of writing, the exemplary case is that of a work of philosophy. While every written work is put to work in its nonexistent successor, a work of philo…
Topik kepemimpinan ini selalu relevan dan dibutuhkan di berbagai bidang: bisnis, pemerintahan, organisasi sosial, pendidikan, dan kehidupan keluarga walaupun dalam skala yang berbeda-beda, tetapi umumnya orang ingin menjadi pemimpin yang baik. Seseorang menjadi pemimpin melalui proses, pemimpin yang kuat tidak lahir begitu saja. Kepemimpinan itu dikembangkan, dasar-dasarnya mungkin telah ditana…
This book includes information about astrology and astrologys ystem; Hindu, Chinese and Western.In addition,it is mostly focused on the features of zodiac signs and elements of zodiacs.
Philosophy and Leadership is an ambitious exploration of leadership's philosophical underpinnings from antiquity to the AI-driven future. The book journeys through history, gleaning insights from eminent philosophers and contextualizing their teachings to leadership. The book's foundational premise lies in the symbiosis of philosophy and leadership. Philosophy provides the "why""that drives the…
For more than four decades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim—descendants of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African communities—have continuously supported right-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists tend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more crudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locat…
In this book the author argues for a groundbreaking perspective that knowledge is inherently interest-relative. This means that what one knows is influenced not just by belief, evidence, and truth, but crucially by the purposes those beliefs serve. Drawing from classical Ny?ya epistemologies, the book asserts that knowledge rationalizes action: if you know something, it is sensible to act on it…
What does it mean to you when I say, “These are my parents”? What would you want to know in order to figure out whether they are, in fact, my parents? Whether they are my genetic progenitors? Whether the woman on the right gestated me? Whether they raised me?We all know that the relationships captured by these questions— the ge-netic relationship, the gestational relationship, and the soc…
'When will you get married?' 'Why does your child behave that way?' 'You haven't joined any pilates class yet?' 'Beyonce also has 24 hours in a day, you know?' As women, we have all been asked these questions. They insidiously creep into our minds and make us feel guilty. We start doing so much out of the fear of missing out, simply because everybody is doing it (that's how it seems on soci…
Orang-orang bilang, anak bungsu itu paling disayang, paling dimanja, dan yang paling diperhatikan. Padahal, anak bungsu juga adalah anak yang mudah merasa kesepian dan dilupakan, terlebih lagi di saat orang tua sudah menua dan kakak sudah sibuk dengan kehidupan masing-masing. Terkadang, anak bungsu juga harus menyimpan mimpi-mimpinya sendiri untuk mewujudkan mimpi-mimpi keluarga. "Jika bisa me…
Fokus Menghadapi Psikotes hadir sebagai solusi bagi Anda yang ingin sukses dalam menghadapi bergabai jenis Psikotes. Buku ini disusun oleh tim yang sudah berpengalaman; beranggotakan praktisi-praktisi Psikometri. Anda akan mendapatkan berbagai macam pembahasan Psikotes yang terdiri atas Penalaran Verbal, Penalaran Kuantitatif, Penalaran Figural, dan Tes Psikometri.
Buku ini tidak hanya bertujuan untuk memberikan panduan praktis dalam membangun personal branding yang kuat, tetapi juga untuk mengajak kita merenung, menggali, dan mengembangkan potensi diri yang mungkin belum kita sadari.
Setelah bertahun-tahun merasa bahwa cinta selalu berada di luar jangkauan, jurnalis Natasha Lunn mencoba memahami bagaimana cinta bekerja dan berkembang sepanjang hidup. Dia menemui para penulis, terapis, tokok budaya, dan pakar untuk mempelajari pengalaman mereka, mulai mendalami kompleksitas cinta? Bagaimana kita mempertahankannya? dan bagaimana kita bisa bertahan ketika kehilangannya? Mel…
Riwayat ini mengandung banyak paham. Bias Prasangka hadir melengkapi desus. Remuk rendam menjadi sorakan. Bimbang. Barangkali Jenaka? Atma lunglai rasa tak menapak. Kosong termanipulasi gelagatnya sendiri. Piala " penderitan terbaik" tergenggam erat. Enggan lepas. Hingga sebuah utas melingkupi. Yang istimewa bukan hanya kamu. Dirimu jauh dari satu-satunya. Allah mencintai semua. Berikut g…
Jawab dengan cepat: Seandainya terlahir kembali di kehidupan berikutnya, kamu ingin menjadi apa? Berikut beberapa jawaban unik yang pernah kudengar baik dalam ruang praktik maupun ketika ngobrol santai dengan teman-teman: "Aku ingin menjadi ubur-ubur, melayang bebas tanpa tekanan atasan dan ekspektasi sosial." "Aku ingin menjadi pohon pinus, karena tinggi dan keren." "Aku ingin menjadi ikan …
Ibu, aku nggak sekuat itu. Ada banyak hal yang aku sembunyikan dari ibu. Tentang aku yang sering menangis di kamar sendirian, menangis di perjalanan pulang. Juga menangis karena beratnya hidup ketika harus jadi tulang punggung keluarga sejak sekecil ini. Ternyata jadi dewasa nggak enak, ya, bu? Aku kangen ibu. Aku pengin jadi anak kecil aja, pengin balik ke masa lalu aja, pengin main sepeda sa…
Lebih dari 2000 tahun lalu, sebuah mazhab filsafat menemukan akar masalah dan juga solusi dari banyak emosi negatif. Stoisisme atau Filosofi Teras adalah filsafat Yunani-Romawi kuno yang bisa membantu kita mengatasi emosi negatif dan menghasilkan mental yang tangguh dalam menghadapi naik turunnya kehidupan. Jauh dari kesan filsafat sebagai topik berat dan mengawang-awang, Filosofi Teras justru …
Buku ini adalah gabungan mengesankan dari penelitian dan contoh-contoh praktis bahwa memiliki sedikit informasi yang tepat, pada waktu dan konteks yang tepat, secara cukup memadai ke depan adalah kunci utama kesuksesan dalam bisnis dan dalam bidang-bidang usaha manusia yang lainnya. Penulis memberikan perspektif menarik soal bagaimana kemampuan peramalan yang tersedia bisa membantu kita menjadi…
Kita hidup di dunia yang terobsesi dengan bakat. Kita memuja-muja siswa berbakat di sekolah, atlet genius dalam olahraga, dan anak ajaib dalam musik. Namun, mengagumi orang-orang yang memulai sesuatu dengan keunggulan bawaan lahir membuat kita mengabaikan jarak yang bisa kita tempuh untuk mencapai kejayaan. Kita meremehkan berbagai keterampilan yang bisa kita pelajari dan seberapa jauh kita bis…
Berani hidup atau hidup yang berani mengandaikan kesediaan menghadapi tantangan kehidupan serta menjawab tantangan tersebut dengan berbagai sarana yang disediakan kehidupan. Berani hidup juga berarti kesiapan untuk menerima realita yang tidak sesuai dengan harapan seseorang disertai dengan semangat untuk mengubahnya melalui sarana dan berdasarkan prinsip-prinsip yang benar. Hidup berani adalah …
Sebentar lagi Gonzaga mencapai usianya yang ke-30. Usia yang seharusnya sebuah manusia atau lembaga sudah memiliki karakter dan ciri khas. Usia dimana ia sudah memberikan sumbangan nyata bagi lingkungan dan bangsa dimana ia berdiri.Kolose Gonzaga memiliki fokus perhatian pada 3 arah programatik, yaitu: Kemiskinan, Kerusakan Lingkungan, dan fundamentalisme agama.Atas dasar tiga latar belakang te…
Tahukan Anda bahwa untuk hidup sukses Anda tidak cukup hanya bekerja keras, namun harus pula menemukan faktor-faktor penentu kesuksesan dan kemudian menyelaraskan dengan kehidupan? Faktor takdir, nasib, bakat, kemampuan memanfaatkan momentum (waktu dan tempat yang tepat), dukungan orang-orang di sekitar, pengembangan internal (diri sendiri), pemanfaatan faktor kali (leverage) serta teknologi…
Buku ini dilengkapi dengan penjelasan yang akan membantu anda dalam memahami materi psikotes verbal dan non verbal untuk seleksi masuk BUMN, BUMD, Swasta, dan Umum. Latihan soal disajikan dengan jawaban, pembahasan, tips dan trik mengerjakan soal yang mudah dipahami pembaca.
Ketika menyambut pasien yang sedang berduka, seorang psikiater akan menggali keilmuan yang dimiliki. Dia akan mengulik semua teori duka yang pernah dipelajari di masa kuliah dulu dan mengingat pengalaman dari pasien-pasien sebelumnya. Kemudian, dia menyintesis itu untuk membantu pasien yang sedang berduka di hadapannya. Tapi, ketika Andreas - seorang psikiater - kehilangan anaknya, dia melakuka…
Psikotes sering kali dianggap "monster" menakutkan bagi sebagian besar orang, terutama tes gambar dan angka. Betapa tidak, hasil penilaian tes ini tidak berdasarkan siapa yang paling pintar, karena bisa saja orang yang secara akademik tidak begitu pintar justru mampu mengalahkan orang yang lebih pintar. Akibatnya, banyak orang yang sebenarnya pintar namun gagal berulang kali dalam psikotes. Su…
Inilah buku luar biasa yang merekam rahasia-rahasia prestasi puncak manusia di era pergantian milenium. Bagian kedua ini menyajikan terobosan-terobosan mutakhir di bidang pendidikan, yang memadukan dunia sekolah, bisnis, dan komunikasi instan dari internet. Ditulis dengan ketekunan akademis dan kegairahan yang luarbiasa, berdasarkan penelitian doktoral Jeanette Vos dan rekaman berbagai terobosa…
This book offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their student's performance. This book also is based not on fad or fashion but on the…
This book discusses the 12 business principles of Tao Zhu-gong and relates them to today's corporate setting. They state 12 vital abilities that one will need in order to succeed in business. Ranging from handling customers and employees to managing a company and its products to making business decisions, the principles cover most of the areas necessary for a business to develop. The 12 princip…
This book clearly shows how to school leadership improves student achievement. The book based on an ambitious five-year study on educational leadership that was sponsored by The Wallace Foundation. The authors studied 43 districts, across 9 states and 180 elementary, middle, and secondary schools. In this book, the author report on what they found. The results within will have significant impli…
Anda bisa menjadi pemimpin. Lebih dari lima juta kopi buku karya John Maxwell, 21 Hukum Kepemimpinan Sejati, laris terjual, memberdayakan pria wanita dalam keterampilan memimpin. Dalam 21 Hukum Kepemimpinan Sejati Teruji oleh Waktu, Jim Garlow menelaah bagaimana orang biasa sepanjang zaman telah menggunakan ke-21 hukum ini untuk menjadi pemimpin yang paling besar kuasanya, disegani, dan berpeng…
The human is a source of trouble for posthumanism. Committed to dis-turbing the opposition between human and nonhuman, posthumanist theory has tended to sideline the human from the scene of its theoretical engagements with otherness. The human has become akin to the “Invisible Gorilla” made famous by psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons. Seeking to establish …
The subject of my book is a Portuguese Cistercian nun, Joana de Jesus (1617–1681),whowroteanautobiographicalmysticaltext.However,themostfamousPortuguesenun is still Mariana Alcoforado (1640–1723),probably the fictional author of theLet-tresPortugaises.1Thisbook–anardentcorrespondencebetweenacloisterednunanda French aristocrat – had wide appeal in the European literary scene of its time.…
From subtle discrimination in everyday life, to horrors like lynching in the Old South, cultural imperialism, and "ethnic cleansing", racism exists in many different forms, in almost every facet of society. Despite civil rights movements and other attempts at progress, racial prejudices and stereotypes remain deeply embedded in Western culture. Racism takes a frank and objective look at why the…
Psychotherapy and counselling are now widely available to help people overcome emotional and psychological difficulties in their lives. They involve spending time with a professional in an emotionally safe and structured relationship to explore and express the issues that cause distress and difficulty, such as long term self-doubts, relationship problems, or the impact of a trauma or crisis. As…
It is widely recognized that our privacy is under threat. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, encryption, the interception of email, the monitoring of employees--all raise fundamental questions about privacy. Legal expert Raymond Wacks here provides a compact introduction to this complex and controversial concept. He explores the tension between fre…
Generations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here Osborne invites her readers to dip their toes into the fragmentary remains of thinkers from Thales to Pythagoras, Heraclitus to Protagoras, and to try to reconstruct the moves that they were making…