Philosophical Embarrassment SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies

Philosophical Embarrassment SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African StudiesThis book explores moments of philosophical embarrassment, focusing on Hume and Wittgenstein, who recognized how their critiques challenged the very foundations of philosophy. It examines how figures like the Vienna Circle and Quine redefined philosophys aims and how the later Wittgenstein warned against the pitfalls of scientism and self deception.

Jean Lescure’s General and Periodic Crises of Overproduction is a pioneering study of the causes and consequences of industrial crises in capitalist economies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

the front pages of the tabloids

Septoria tritici blotch (STB) is one of the most common and economically important diseases of wheat worldwide

to queer autobiographical accounts

and describes in detail how carbon footprint performances can be used to upgrade coffee value chains

and to test hypotheses concerning the origins

and improving cultivation practices are also covered

Argues that the recent history of maverick mannerist and baroque auteurs

Yvette Guilbert

theatrical provenance and staging

and its ambiguous place in American national memory

with the yield per cow more than doubling