Humans are justificatory beingsthey offer, demand, and require justifications. The rules and
institutions they follow rest on justification narratives that have evolved over time and, taken …

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the
settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the …

It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are
constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two …

Inspired by Heidegger's concept of the clearing of being, and by Wittgenstein's ideas on
human practice, Theodore Schatzki offers a novel approach to understanding the …

In Relationship Thinking, NJ Enfield outlines a framework for analyzing social interaction
and its linguistic, cultural, and cognitive underpinnings by focusing on human relationships …

In this important new book, Jürgen Habermas takes up certain fundamental questions of
philosophy. While much of his recent work has been concerned with issues of morality and …

Sammelband mit wissenschaftlichen Aufsätzen zu Grundfragen der theoretischen
Philosophie unter den nachmetaphysischen Bedingungen. In diesen Aufsätzen, die in den …

Hermeneutics and phenomenology represent two inter-nested research traditions in
continental philosophy that have been rather absent in philosophy of medicine and medical …

How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in
language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create …

Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of
the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This …