From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic Life

From Metaphysical Representations to Aesthetic LifeReevaluates Western and Chinese philosophical traditions to question the boundaries of entrenched conceptual frameworks. What is "Chinese philosophy?" What is "philosophy" itself? How can one understand unfamiliar philosophical stances? How can comparison become a prominent philosophical tool? In this book, Massimiliano Lacertosa examines these questions by proposing an ethical understanding of the aesthetic encounter with the other and the world.

Joanna Clapps Herman neatly describes the two worlds she inhabited while growing up as the child of Italian American immigrants in Waterbury

Efficient artificial insemination (AI) is essential for future challenges in the pig industry

offering a contextualised exploration of the discourses they adopted to shape their identity as a female spiritual elite in a male-dominated church and society

Peter Hacker’s Insight and Illusion is a thoroughly comprehensive examination of the evolution of Wittgenstein’s thought from the Tractatus to his later ‘mature’ phase

Addresses issues concerning the survival and preservation of traditional culture by examining Japan's folk performing arts and the public policies that affect them

We use research from the 1990s to the present to discuss the presence of incidental compounds in roasted coffee

some of them in handwritten form (ruq‘a)

This book suggests ways to see both thinkers anew

It also covers application of synthesis biology to produce alternative proteins

although slow

With a foreword from Boy George

This chapter focuses on the use of three classes of enzymes: NSP’ases