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The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology

By: Petr Kouba

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The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology

By: Petr Kouba

This book provides a critical introduction to Heidegger’s impact on psychiatry and psychology, and has a focus on the application of his philosophy to psychiatry. This is a complete revision of Heidegger’s existential philosophy in the light of psychopathological phenomena. Readers will find here a philosophical inquiry into the problem of mental disorder, which shows Heidegger’s own philosophy in a new light, uncovering both its strengths and its weak points. The author maps not only Heidegger’s interaction with psychiatric thought, as depicted in his Zollikon Seminars, but also his influence on Swiss phenomenological psychiatry. The work treats Heidegger in a critical way, taking the phenomenon of mental disorder as a touchstone on which Heidegger’s thought is tested. The results of such a critical examination are important, not only for a better understanding of psychopathological phenomena, but also for a new understanding of Heidegger’s approach to human existence. This work treats the phenomenon of mental disorder as a philosophical problem that reflects the ontological character of human existence. Heidegger’s approach to mental disorder is confronted with the conceptions of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari in a novel way. The book is more than just an historical overview as it highlights the limits of phenomenological thought in the area of psychiatry and it shows a possible way of moving beyond them. This is a philosophical work with an interdisciplinary range. Scholars of philosophy and those in the growing field of philosophy of psychiatry, as well as those with an interest in Heidegger Studies will be particularly interested in this work.

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3319103237

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Margins of Phenomenology

libri nigri Band 55

By: Petr Kouba

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Margins of Phenomenology

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By: Petr Kouba

Aus dem Klappentext The studies of this book reflect, from various perspectives, upon a set of phenomenological issues and confront them with positions beyond the framework of phenomenology. A common thread running through is their contemplation of the differences between phenomenology and philosophy, which transcends phenomenological tradition by means of non-phenomenological approaches. Phenomenological themes like worldhood, life, individuality, temporality, corporality, emotionality, disease, suffering and our relationships with others are considered from both phenomenological stances and non-phenomenological perspectives that are mainly opened by philosophical concepts of Deleuze and Guattari. The Author:Petr Kouba studied philosophy at Charles University in Prague. He continued his studies at Universität Zurich, Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, and Université de Lausanne. Then he lectured philosophy at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. At present he holds a position of Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences. He is an author of the Phenomenon of Mental Disorder. Perspectives of Heidegger´s Thought in Psychopathology (2012 in German, and 2015 in English). He co-edited Dynamic Structure: Language as Open System (2007), and Franz Kafka: Minority Report (2010).

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Verlag Traugott Bautz

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3959487800

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Sovereign wealth funds in theory and practice

By: Jan Ander,Petr Teplý

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Sovereign wealth funds in theory and practice

By: Jan Ander,Petr Teplý

Suverénní fondy (Sovereign Wealth Funds, SWF) se v posledních letech stávají významnou součástí globálního finančního systému. Tyto instituce spravovaly ke konci roku 2013 více než 6 bilionů USD. SWF jsou státem vlastněné fondy založené za různým makroekonomickým účelem. Obvykle jsou financovány cizoměnovými příjmy států, které jsou následně investovány v zahraničí. Tato monografie se zabývá globální SWF z teoretického i praktického pohledu. Dále je zde diskutována teoretická možnost založení SWF v České republice. Autoři však dospívají k závěru, že po vzniku SWF není v naší zemi dostatečná poptávka ani ze strany politiků, ani ze strany voličů. Kniha je psána srozumitelným jazykem, a tudíž vhodná pro odbornou i širší veřejnost

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Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press

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8024624206

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9788024624204

Transparent Lobbying and Democracy

By: Šárka Laboutková,Vít Šimral,Petr Vymětal

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Transparent Lobbying and Democracy

By: Šárka Laboutková,Vít Šimral,Petr Vymětal

The authors come up with some innovative tools, namely the “Catalogue of transparent lobbying”. They look at and evaluate the impact on both key stakeholders (lobbyists and targets of lobbying), monitoring of lobbying activities and sanctioning for breaches of rules. This tool holds out benchmarking capacity of sound framework for understanding of lobbying in the context of democracy, legitimacy of decision-making and accountability."David Ondráčka, member of global Board of Transparency International, head of Transparency International, Czech Republic "Transparent Lobbying and Democracy provides a comprehensive view into the phenomenon of lobbying... As a well-established scientist specializing in democracy, civil society and the public sphere, I see it as a useful and enriching contribution to the debate on lobbying, its necessary transparency and its role in the democratization process. This book has the potential to reach an international audience of experts and interested lay persons, and both complement and compete with publications on similar issues."Karel B. Müller, University of Economics in Prague, Czech Republic This book deals with the current, as yet unsolved, problem of transparency of lobbying. In the current theories and prevalent models that deal with lobbying activities, there is no reflection of the degree of transparency of lobbying, mainly due to the unclear distinction between corruption, lobbying in general, and transparent lobbying. This book provides a perspective on transparency in lobbying in a comprehensive and structured manner. It delivers an interdisciplinary approach to the topic and creates a methodology for assessing the transparency of lobbying, its role in the democratization process and a methodology for evaluating the main consequences of transparency. The new approach is applied to assess lobbying regulations in the countries of Central Eastern Europe and shows a method for how lobbying in other regions of the world may also be assessed.

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Springer Nature

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303036044X

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9783030360443

Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding, Volume 1

By: Petr Pokorn

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Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding, Volume 1

By: Petr Pokorn

Walk with Peter Pkorny in and around his beloved field of hermeneutics as he explores a number of basic issues in understanding-from language in general to the interpretation of the Bible in particular. --

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802827217

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9780802827210

Social Cohesion Contested

By: Dan Swain,Petr Urban

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Social Cohesion Contested

By: Dan Swain,Petr Urban

Oversimplification of the concept of social cohesion as a singularly identifiable marker of social growth has lead to obscured understanding of the nuances necessary for achievement of the term’s true potential. This book thus provides a critique of a popular concept and an example of engaged philosophical criticism of social research and policy.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538176645

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The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology

By: Petr Kouba

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Perspectives of Heidegger’s Thought in Psychopathology

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A View from the Outside

Reflections on Social Ontology - Band 104 der Schriftenreihe: libri nigri

By: Petr Kouba

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A View from the Outside

Reflections on Social Ontology - Band 104 der Schriftenreihe: libri nigri

By: Petr Kouba

What the studies collected in this book have in common is a belief that we cannot recognise ourselves from the inside by some form of social introspection. Rather, in order to realise who we are, we need to view ourselves from the outside. If there is a phenomenological approach to society, it involves an exocentric rather than endocentric view of ourselves. However, what makes such an exocentric view of ourselves possible is a construction of the outside that allows us to keep a distance from ourselves. The essays collected in this book attempt to demonstrate the various forms of the outside and to examine their efficiency: there are strangers, terrestrial or cosmic voyagers, there are women and other sexual minorities in a patriarchal society, there is boredom and silent insomnia that expel us from the world, there is sacrifice as the ultimate renunciation of life, there is love as capacity for nonviolence and self-sacrifice, and finally there is the event as an outside to all political projects. All these forms of the outside enable and fuel social criticism that uncovers phenomena that remain invisible under normal circumstances. It is a way of thinking about culture and society that highlights such themes as boundaries, cultural differences, and social changes, which can be constructive or destructive, liberating as well as oppressing. About the author: Petr Kouba is researcher at the Department of Contemporary Continental Philosophy of the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, and lecturer at the Faculty of Letters of Charles University. He has published Phenomenon of Mental Disorder (2006 in Czech, 2011 in German, 2015 in English), L’exode sans Moïse. L’émigration rom comme problème politique (2015 in Czech, 2020 in French), and Margins of Phenomenology (in English 2020). He also coedited Dynamic Structure: Language as Open System (2007 in English), Medicine in the context of Western thought (2008 in Czech),and Franz Kafka: Minority Report (2010 in English, 2011 in Czech).

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Verlag Traugott Bautz

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3689119804

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Margins of Phenomenology

libri nigri Band 55

By: Petr Kouba

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The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

Margins of Phenomenology

Margins of Phenomenology

Sovereign wealth funds in theory and practice

Sovereign wealth funds in theory and practice

Transparent Lobbying and Democracy

Transparent Lobbying and Democracy

Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding, Volume 1

Hermeneutics as a Theory of Understanding, Volume 1

Social Cohesion Contested

Social Cohesion Contested

The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

The Phenomenon of Mental Disorder

A View from the Outside

A View from the Outside

Margins of Phenomenology

Margins of Phenomenology

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