Durante su transcurso, las ciencias sociales se han visto cautivadas, una y otra vez, por la pregunta acerca del sujeto y la subjetividad. Ya sea que esta fascinación fuera motivada por un afán de comprensión, de diferenciación, de liberación o de intervención, diversas autoras y autores se han detenido en la pregunta por el sujeto y los efectos que sus diversas composiciones provocan en la vida social. De variados movimientos intelectuales...

Includes The Americans in the First World War Illustration Pack - 57 photos/illustrations and 10 maps. The analysis of the impact of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) in the Great War has fallen into two competing camps. The first believes that the AEF was the war winning factor in coalition warfare. The opposite view holds that the AEF itself had no true impact, but rather it was the industrial might and the manpower potential of the United...

Designed for undergraduate and graduate study, this anthology provides a history of the systemization and canonization of existentialism, a quintessentially antisystemic mode of thought. Situating existentialism within the history of ideas, it features new readings on the most influential works in the existential canon, exploring their formative contexts and the cultural dialogue of which they were part. Emphasizing the multidisciplinary and global...

Hegel is most often mentioned — and not without good reason — as one of the paradigmatic exponents of Eurocentrism and racism in Western philosophy. But his thought also played a crucial and formative role in the work of one of the iconic thinkers of the 'decolonial turn', Frantz Fanon. This would be inexplicable if it were not for the much-quoted 'lord-bondsman' dialectic — frequently referred to as the 'master-slave dialectic' — described...