This title shows that a focus on uncertainty and doubt is indispensible for grasping the role of ideas in social action. Drawing on a wide-range of cases, it analyses the ways in which doubt is overcome and, conversely, how belief-systems collapse.
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"Explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for peop…
Forfatteren, en amerikansk biolog, bringer en kontroversiel teori, som afsæt for en forestilling om, at vores biologi og dermed fx vores helbred delvis er underlagt tankens kraft
Resiliens er et psykologisk begreb, som har været svært at definere klart eller måle troværdigt. Hvorfor nogle mennesker er ukuelige og klarer modgang bedre end andre, måske endda trives bedst sådan, kan have mange årsager, fra personlige egenskaber til sociale netværk og andre …
Heidegger has often been considered as the proponent of the end of metaphysics in the post-Hegelian philosophy, due to his persistent attempts to overcome the onto-theological framework of traditional metaphysics. Yet, this dismissal of metaphysical, theological, and religious m…
