Elinizdeki kitapta Nietzsche'nin düsüncelerinin hemen hepsinin tohum halindeki serpintilerini bulabilirsiniz. Antik Greklerden 19.yy'a uzanan zaman diliminde felsefenin pek çok problemini elealan filozof, kendi görüs ve yorumlarini siralamis, kendi çözümlerini sunmustur. Dilin çogu kez bizleri yaniltan çokanlamli ve bulanik, yanlis ve yanli kullanimindan hakikat kavraminin...

Bu kitap esas olarak Ilkçag'dan XIX. Yüzyila kadar materyalizmin, materyalist diye bilinen veya adlandirilan filozoflarin materyalist tezleri, görüsleri, ögretilerinin tarihi bir sergilemesi ve açiklamasidir. Ama materyalizme, materyalist tez ve görüslere çesitli rakip veya hasim cephelerdeb yapilan elestiriler, hücumlar vesilesiyle ayni zamanda dogal olarak genel,...

Günümüzün gelismis kitle iletisim araçlari, gündelik yasamimizin vazgeçilmezleridir. Hayatimizi çok yönlü etkileyen bu araçlar, getirdikleri olumlu katkilarla birlikte, ayni zamanda yarattiklari olumsuz toplumsal ve bireysel etkilerle de en fazla tartisilan konularin basinda gelmektedir. Bu tartismalarin odaginda da iletisim ve medya etigi yer almaktadir.Iletisimin, medyanin,...

Elinizdeki kitap Bulgaristan, Rusya, Belarus ve Polonya'dan olusan dört Dogu Avrupa ülkesinin karsi karsiya kaldigi karmasik sorunlarin ve uluslarin ödedigi agir bedellerin pek bilinmeyen, çok tartisilmayan bilimsel hikâyesidir; özünden, felsefesinden, ilkelerinden saptirilarak içi bosaltilan ve anlamsizlastirilan, daha da önemlisi hiçbir zaman dogru uygulanmayan sözde...

Iktisadi ögrenmek isteyenler için hazirlanan bu kitabin temel amaci sadece kavramlarin ne ifade ettigini ögretmek degil, ayni zamanda akademik yetenegin gelismesine yardimci en önemli faktör olan elestirel ve yaratici düsüncenin gelistirilmesidir. Iktisadi analiz araçlari, sosyal bilimlerin genel kapsaminin gerektirdigi degerlendirmeleri yapma yolunu ögretmede oldukça...

Modern Bati düsüncesinin bir tür tekrara düsmesini, onun yeni ufuklar açamamasini dahasi neredeyse bir tünel bakisina duçar olusunu onmaz bir yara olarak okuyan Heidegger, "içinde bulundugumuz durumdan bizi ancak bir Tanri kurtarabilir demisti ". Sonuçta moderni-tenin bilançosunu, telafi veya rehabilite etmek mucizeye kalmisti.V. Frankl'in...

Bilgi sosyolojisi bilginin toplumsal boyutlarini anlama çabasidir. Bati'da Durkheim, Weber, Marx, Scheler, Mannheim, Sorokin, Gurvitch, Mills, Bourdieu, Berger ve Thomas Luckmann gibi birçok sosyolog bilgi olgusuyla ilgilenmislerdir. Türkiye'de Gökalp, "Türk Mantik Yapisi" ve Ülgener "Zihniyet Meselesi" kapsaminda Konuyu tartismislardir.Bu çalisma öncelikle sosyologlarin katkilarinin ürünü...

Ütopya modernitenin dogusuyla merkeze yerlesen insanin kendi kurdugu bir mekânda mutlu olma arzusunu ve hayalini ifade eder. Ama bu mekân yasalarla düzenlendigi için ütopya ayni zamanda kapali bir bütüne ve homojeniteye dönüsme riskini tasir. Bu durumun isaret ettigi iki sey vardir. Birincisi ütopyanin önemi...

Bu eser Family Dynamics and the Runaway Problem: An Assessment on the Impact of Family Dynamics on the Runaway Problem adiyla önce Ingilizce olarak Almanya'da basimi yapilmis ve pek çok ülkede satisa sunulmustur. Çocuklarin evden kaçma olgusu bu eser kapsaminda odaklanilan tema olmakla birlikte,...

"Olmak ya da olmamak" Shakespeare'in bu ünlü sözleri varolus filozoflarinda sahici varolus ya da sahici olmayan varolus kavramlan içinde ele alinarak, gerçek içerigine kavustu.Bu çalismanin amaci, varolus felsefesini ve filozoflarini tanitmaktir. 20. yy'in en önemli felsefi akimlarindan biri olan varolusçuluk, çagin insan sorununu ele...

Bu çalisma çagdas felsefenin en önde gelen düsünürlerinden Gilles Deleuze'ün 'sinema sanati felsefesi'ni, düsünürün ortaya koydugu temel kavramlar çerçevesinde tanitmaya çalismaktadir. Deleuze gibi, fazlasiyla kendine özgü bir düsünürün Türkçe'de ele alinmamis bir yönünü bize sunma amaci, ?lozofun adeta bir jargon sayilabilecek çetre?l terminolojosinin içinden...

Kent Sosyolojisi kentteki çesitli sosyal gruplara, kurumlara, iliski aglarina, toplumsallasmis mekânlara kisacasi kent toplumuna ait sosyolojik çalismalari kapsamaktadir. Bu haliyle sosyolojinin bir alt disiplini olarak artan bir öneme sahiptir. Kent sosyolojisi, ayni zamanda içinde bulundugu ekonomik-politik sistemle birlikte modernlesme ve küresellesme süreçleri içinde kenti...

Ernst von Aster'e göre; felsefede derinlesmek isteyen, felsefe tarihi ile ugrasmak zorundadir. 'Felsefe Tarih' siz Felsefe Olmaz. Felsefe tarihi, bir takim olaylari, bir takim hayat hikayelerini, bir takim görüsleri artarda siralamak degildir. Felsefe tarihi, felsefe problematiginin gelismesini gösterir ve bu gelismenin mantiksal düzenini kavrar....

Bu kitap, Türkiye'de son yillarda entelektüel ve akademik çevrelerin dolayli veya dolaysiz en fazla tartistigi üç meseleyi, postmodernite, sivil toplum ve Islâm'i elestirel bir yaklasimla ele aliyor, onlarin arasinda teorik bir bag kurmaya girisiyor. Bununla beraber, söz konusu üç mesele, genellikle yapilageldigi gibi, birer...

Genelde kitle iletisim araçlari, özelde yazili basinin birinci görevi halki bilgilendirmek ve yanisira, bunu dogru biçimde yapmaktir. Bu islev ayni zamanda gazetecilik etiginin ve haber etiginin de geregi olarak belirmektedir. Bu iki islevin olmasi gerektigi gibi yerine getirilmesi demokrasi bilincinin olusumuna ve yerlesmesine yardim...

Königsberg Üniversitesi'nde tanribilim ve felsefe okuyan ünlü Alman düsünürü Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), tüm ömrünü yine ayni kentte dersler vermeye ve eserlerini yazmaya adamistir. Kant; Rousseau ve Hume'un da etkisiyle kendi sistemini olusturmak üzere, eserlerinde insan aklinin sinirlari, bilimin kesinligi, metafizigin yapisi ve niteligi gibi...

"I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic—with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale...

In March, 1912, when a big mail-boat was unloading at Naples, there was an accident about which extremely inaccurate reports appeared in the newspapers. I myself saw nothing of the affair, for (in common with many of the passengers), wishing to escape the noise...

Although the light of almost four centuries has been focused on The Prince, its problems are still debatable and interesting, because they are the eternal problems between the ruled and their rulers. Such as they are, its ethics are those of Machiavelli’s contemporaries; yet...

It is true, we are but faint-hearted crusaders, even the walkers, nowadays, who undertake no persevering, never-ending enterprises. Our expeditions are but tours, and come round again at evening to the old hearth-side from which we set out. Half the walk is but retracing...

This story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history, a time when one might have walked dryshod from France (as we call it now) to England, and when a broad and sluggish Thames flowed through its marshes...

A farm is taken over by its overworked, mistreated animals. With flaming idealism and stirring slogans, they set out to create a paradise of progress, justice, and equality. Thus the stage is set for one of the most telling satiric fables ever penned –a...

Burmese Days is set in 1920's imperial Burma, in the fictional district of Kyauktada, a town where Orwell served. Like the fictional town, it is the head of a branch railway line above Mandalay on the Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy) River. As the story opens, U...

Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance...

Orwell was commissioned to write this book by his publisher Victor Gollancz, a campaigner for left-wing causes and the founder of the Left Book Club. It comprises two journeys. The first finds Orwell in investigative journalist mode, as he embarks on a physical journey...

According to Mary, in December 1878, her father had telegraphed her upon his safe return from India and requested her to meet him at the Langham Hotel in London. When Mary arrived at the hotel, she was told her father had gone out the...

Dr James Mortimer asks Sherlock Holmes for advice after his friend Sir Charles Baskerville was found dead in the park surrounding his manor, in the moors of Devon. The death was attributed to a heart attack, but according to Mortimer, Sir Charles's face retained...

In this famous 1897 novel by H.G. Wells, a reclusive man, swathed in layers of clothing, moves into an English inn. He's unfriendly and angry, and when a burglary occurs, people start to wonder. As well they might! The Invisible Man is a classic...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth...

Jack London's post-apocalyptic vision takes place in 2072, sixty years after an uncontrollable plague epidemic has depopulated the planet. James Howard Smith, one of the few survivalists left alive in the San Francisco area, tries to impart the value of wisdom of a world...

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, relates that Kafka actually gave the letter to his mother to hand to his father, hoping it might renew a relationship that had lost itself in...

In September of 1884, Robert Louis Stevenson, then in his mid-thirties, moved with his family to Bournemouth, a resort on the southern coast of England, where in the brief span of 23 months he revised A Child's Garden of Verses and wrote the novels...

'...a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!'A group of passengers on a cruise...

"If you were to say to the grown-ups: 'I saw a beautiful house made of rosy brick, with geraniums in the windows and doves on the roof,' they would not be able to get any idea of that house at all. You would have...

Disdainful of America’s booming commercialism and industrialism, Henry David Thoreau left Concord, Massachusetts, in 1845 to live in solitude in the woods near Walden Pond. Walden, the account of his stay, conveys at once a naturalist’s wonder at the commonplace and a Transcendentalist’s yearning...

Jane Austen has won legions of devoted fans in the 200 years since her death with her masterful parody of courtship and lightly moralizing critique of social mores in the early 19th century. Northanger Abbey was the first of her major novels to be...

The Time Machine is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells, published in 1895. Wells is generally credited with the popularisation of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle that allows an operator to travel purposefully and selectively. The term "time...

The Metamorphosis, first published in 1915, is the most famous of Kafka's works, along with The Trial and The Castle. The story begins when a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, wakes up to find himself transformed into a giant insect. Curiously, his condition does not...

Beautiful, flirtatious, and recently widowed, Lady Susan Vernon seeks a new and advantageous marriage for herself, and at the same time attempts to push her daughter into marriage with a man she detests. Through a series of crafty maneuvers, she fills her calendar with...

Jack London cut a mythic figure across the American landscape of the early twentieth century. But throughout his colorful life –from his teenage years as an oyster pirate to his various incarnations as a well-traveled seaman, Yukon gold prospector, waterfront brawler, unemployed vagrant, impassioned...

Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a boating holiday on the Thames between Kingston and Oxford. The book was initially intended to be a serious...

The first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize, for her novel "The Age of Innocence", Edith Wharton was discouraged by her mother from pursuing her writing at an early age. Despite this she would go on to produce a prolific body of work which...

Is there a mystery connected with the life of Francis Bacon? The average student of history or literature will unhesitatingly reply in the negative, perhaps qualifying his answer by adding:-Unless it be a mystery that a man with such magnificent intellectual attain-ments could have...

The story A Haunted House by Virginia Woolf is a short story full of symbolism, imagery, and irony. The story is narrated in the third-person limited or the limited omniscience point of view which helps the reader to get a more in-depth perception of...

In the history of English literature, Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, which has benn continuously in print since it was fist published in the winter of 1843, stands out as the quintessential Christmas story."I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the...

Futility, or The Wreck of the Titan is Morgan Robertson's 1898 novelle about the unsinkable ship Titan, which goes down after striking an iceberg in the North Atlantic. Disgraced former naval lieutenant John Rowland is working as a deckhand on the Titan when it...

White Fang is the titular character and a novel by American author Jack London. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the Klondike Gold Rush at the end of the 19th-century, and...

While being treated for asthma at a country spa, an American diplomat's lonely 12-year-old son is befriended and infatuated by a suave, mysterious baron. But soon his adored friend heartlessly brushes him aside and turns his seductive attentions to his mother. The boy's jealousy...