Books published by Pertinent Press

This book encompasses a specified review of welfare state theories, starting with the tradition established by Gosta Esping-Andersen, but following an additional line of interpretation. Dr Ciprian I. Badescu re-evaluates the theories of welfare state developments based on the idea of the fourth type of capitalism. The previous historical types of capitalism were based on the strategy of the world's homogenization not on its differentiation.The fourth capitalism is able to reconstruct the world economy in full harmony with different regional worlds. Dr Badescu's idea is that the stakeholders are by now interested in supporting the welfare regimes in a regional style despite the globalized profile of the world. Capital is motivated to accept regional differences and sometimes even national differences, since these are the main factor of local prosperity. Dr Badescu suggests the key concept of quasi-rent, that is to say the rent of regional identity, of what the new global theories used to call the "globalization" phenomenon.

Soulless clones will arrive in the near future and change everything. A clone without a soul will reveal, once and for all, that we humans have souls. Dualism is true - we are body and soul. Materialism is false - we are not just a body. Soulless clones can't tell time because souls tell time. The mega theory in this book also reveals the schools of Philosophy, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Science, Judaism, Christianism, Islamism, and Taoism share a core belief in Trinitarianism. Trinitarianism tells us things come in threes. These great schools teach us that we follow three drives in life: creation - we let the truth be known; worship - we are good for goodness sake; and survival - we live and let live. The schools say we must balance creation, worship, and survival to advance on our coiled path in life to the perfection of God - The Divine Providence, Spirit, and Physique. Previous authors have already provided an assortment of mega theories including Plato, Aquinas, Maimonides, Hume, and Kant, but their theories routinely exclude significant portions of our longstanding Theologies, Philosophies, and Sciences. The mega theory within is more inclusive. No stones go unturned. Who is God? What are we doing? And why are we doing it? This theory includes Evolution, The Three Wise Men, The EPR Effect in Quantum Mechanics, The Divine Ratio, and Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man - he plays a role in presenting the coiled path before us. Other authors including Descartes, Kirk, Searle, Chalmers, and more recently Hauser have proposed hypothetical soulless creatures in the likes of computerized humans and philosophical zombies to help delineate Dualism from Materialism, but their creatures are far too hypothetical to be taken seriously. Soulless clones of humans, however, must be taken seriously because they will arrive in just a few decades, and they are true counterexamples of materialisms claims. So, we should be prepared, and this book helps prepare us.It is a relaxed narrative written with the excitement of discovery. The young and old will find it's easy to read whether atheist, deist, or theist. It should appeal to not only Catholics, my religion, but all theologians, philosophers, and scientists will find it's hard to put down. Parents will love it, along with those in Business, Medicine, Law, Education, Politics and more. It's comparable to Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Tipping Point, The World's Religions, and the recent Pulitzer Prize winner, The Swerve. Like Orwell's 1984, everyone loves a book that predicts future trends.

Malta, 16 ottobre 2017. Daphne Caruana Galizia, 53enne, tra le più coraggiose giornaliste europee dei nostri tempi, viene assassinata da un'autobomba. Avendo già pubblicato attraverso il proprio blog i loschi intrecci dei politici maltesi coinvolti nei Panama Papers, Daphne s'accingeva a svelare altre notizie altrettanto scottanti sulla corruzione nel mondo politico maltese e i suoi nessi con società offshore, regimi dittatoriali post-sovietici e commercio di passaporti europei, e poi sul contrabbando di petrolio dalla Libia, e sui rapporti tra la 'Ndrangheta e Malta... Quel fatidico giorno, l'esplosione-improvvisa violenta spietata-ha stroncato la vita non solo di una madre, moglie e giornalista, ma anche di un'investigatrice senza paura che credeva nello stato di diritto e lo difendeva senza tregua. Questa raccolta di saggi intende far conoscere Daphne Caruana Galizia al pubblico italiano.

Two books in one volume: The Vocation of the Scholar (1794) and The Vocation of Man (1800)

Among the many thinkers belonging to the modern tradition, Hegel is the most incompatible with today's post-1989 absolute capitalism. His thematisation of historicity in the time of the end of history, his conception of communitarian subjectivity in the time of individualistic anomie, and, furthermore, his valorisation of the ethical State with the primacy of the political in the age of the deregulated market, prove to be prolifically irreconcilable with today's liberalist order. Diego Fusaro's book sets out to examine some of the main theoretical points in Hegel's work so as to bring them face to face with today's spiritual animal kingdom of global economic fanaticism.

Diego Fusaro's monograph on the influence of Epicurus on Marx's thought is multilayered. It not only explains Epicurean thought and how it impacted the young Marx, but also manages to do unto Marx what Marx did unto Epicurus.Marx employed Epicurus' critical stance toward Plato and Aristotle as an excuse, as it were, to drop not-so-subtle hints about the philosophy and politics of the Germany of his day.Fusaro, described by the influential paper La Repubblica (July 2013) as possibly the "brightest star in the Italian philosophical firmament of our times", employs Marx's critique of the German present of Marx's time to propose a critique of our own times, a critique of economic libertarianism and moral libertinism.Fusaro's underlying argument seems to be that we live in times that are nothing but Epicurean, in which dogmatic and hedonistic liberalism dominates our lives, as pensée unique.This monograph combines a twofold approach: the exoteric and the esoteric. Exoterically, it analyses of the long-ignored University dissertation of the young Karl Marx and the influences of Greek Atomism on the molding of Marx's thought system. Esoterically, or by implication, it analyses our contemporary world.