Bücher der Reihe Dia-Logos

The book discusses how "objectivity" is used in the judicial discourse. Through critical discourse analysis of Polish jurisprudence, the book presents a taxonomy of the objectivity's uses by judges, highlighting that objectivity has a special meaning in the legal discourse based on legal authority.

Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies or cognitive skills? Are doomed to disintegration and an episodic self? This book examines how technologies affect our selves from the perspective of health humanities (e.g., transplantology, bionics, disability studies), phenomenology, philosophy of mind and posthumanism

The book examines the Master Argument (MA) of Diodorus Cronus in the context of the Sea-Battle Tomorrow of Aristotle. The author investigates problems of sentences about the future, time and determinism. He shows that certain reconstructions of the MA do not assume a linear time structure. Thus, the MA is not an argument in favour of determinism.

This book analyzes the main problems of Friedrich Nietzsche's critical philosophy, such as the theory of being, the theory of knowledge and the theory of values. It also addresses his positive program which is based on fundamental conceptions, namely the will to power, the UEbermensch, bestowing virtue and the notion of the eternal recurrence.

This collection of essays discusses the role of objectivity in legal discourse. The analysis focuses on objectivity at the macro and micro levels, which are objectivity of law and in law. Results show that the Cartesian paradigm of objectivity is not relevant to the current legal discourse, and new forms of legal objectivity are revealed instead.

The book offers a transnational perspective in research on history of communism in East-Central Europe. It analyzes the political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the communist systems and focuses on different aspects of lives in different countries (consumerism, economical management), forms of resistance, and ways of its remembering.

The book deals with the relevance of community-based philosophical practices to individual and social empowerment. The methodological focus is on "Philosophy for Communities", an application of Lipman and Sharp's "Philosophy for Children" to non-formal and informal education contexts with adults. The book shows how to assess community practices.

This publication focuses on the power forms identified by Joseph Nye: hard, soft, and smart, and evaluates education as a resource of power. Education is a smart power resource since it has both hard and soft power characteristics. The study of Kazakhstan reveals international educational programs allow education to become a power resource.

The authors conduct theoretical and jurisprudential research on the interrelations between the sense of individual identity and the sense of national identity. Their aim is to find a common European legal culture.

The subject of the book is a reconsideration of the internalistic model of composition of the Platonic type, and its application in the ontology of quantum theory. Nonseparability is at the centre of quantum ontology. Quantum wholes are atemporal wholes governed by internalistic logic, requiring a relativization of fundamental notions of mechanics.

The book discusses a democratic legitimation for modern law. Debates on Europeanisation are taken into account. Ronald Dworkin's, Neil MacCormick's and Jurgen Habermas's standpoints on relations between the law and the public sphere are investigated. Concepts of self-reflexive polity, self-constitutionalisation, constitutional patriotism are analysed.

This book presents the discussion of scholars from China and Central and Eastern European countries about issues of identities and modernization. To what extent and by what means should traditional identities be modified so that they ensure the permanence and effectiveness of the modernization process?

The book tackles significant problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western civilization. The issues discussed in the book manifest themselves in the question whether the "democratic turn" is a real or just a virtue one.

Provides relationship between discursively shaped social relations, entrenched in principle of mutual recognition, and need to punish perpetrators of communication disruption, involving commission of an offence in multicultural societies. This title analyses problem of intercultural nature of legal discourse about universality of human rights.