Philosophy

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by William Rory Dickson (Author)Dissolving into Being is an introduction to Sufi philosophy, a tradition based on theteachings of Ibn 'Arabi (d.1240), Sufism's most influential master. His voluminouswritings offer a treasury of wisdom, yet their vintage and complexity can limit theirpurview to experts. To help bridge the gap between specialized studies of Sufiphilosophy and a broader readership, Dissolving into Being offers a moderncommentary on key passages of Ibn 'Arabi's foremost work, The...

Ordinary Goodness: The Surprisingly Effortless Path to Creating a Life of Meaning and Beauty - Paperback

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by Edward Viljoen (Author)A call to action to live a life full of goodness and purpose People often struggle to find a life filled with passion, happiness--and just plain goodness. This struggle drives many to depression and addictive tendencies. Author and New Thought minister Edward Viljoen argues that the struggle need not be an arduous or painful one--that through everyday acts of kindness, faith, and compassion we can create peaceful and contented lives. Using personal stories, practica...

What Do You Want Out of Life?: A Philosophical Guide to Figuring Out What Matters - Paperback

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by Valerie Tiberius (Author)A short guide to living well by understanding better what you really value--and what to do when your goals conflict What do you want out of life? To make a lot of money--or work for justice? To run marathons--or sing in a choir? To have children--or travel the world? The things we care about in life--family, friendship, leisure activities, work, our moral ideals--often conflict, preventing us from doing what matters most to us. Even worse, we don't always know what...

The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic ACT - Paperback

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by Fredric Jameson (Author)In this ground-breaking and influential study Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. At the time Jameson was actually writing the book, in the mid to late seventies, there was a major reaction against deconstruction and poststructuralism. As one of the most significant literary theorists, Jameson found himself in the unenviable position of wanting to defend his intellectual past yet keep an eye on the future. With this ...

Classical Indian Philosophy: A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps, Volume 5 - Hardcover

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by Peter Adamson (Author), Jonardon Ganeri (Author)Peter Adamson and Jonardon Ganeri present a lively introduction to one of the world's richest intellectual traditions: the philosophy of classical India. They begin with the earliest extant literature, the Vedas, and the explanatory works that these inspired, known as Upaniṣads. They also discuss other famous texts of classical Vedic culture, especially the Mahābhārata and its most notable section, the Bhagavad-Gīta, alongside the rise of Bud...

The Aesthetics of Collective Agency: Corporations, Communities and Crowds in the Twenty-First Century - Paperback

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by Simone Knewitz (Editor), Stefanie Mueller (Editor)Twenty-first-century Western culture is characterized by profound transformations in its forms of collective organization. While traditional institutions of Western liberal democracies still wield significant political power, new forms of collective agency - most visible in progressive social protest movements, but also in the global rise of populism - have increasingly put pressure on established systems of collective organization. The con...

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by Julia Kristeva (Author), Constance Borde (Translator), Sheila Malovany-Chevallier (Translator)Julia Kristeva is a true polymath, an intellectual of astonishingly wide range whose erudition and insight have been brought to bear on psychoanalysis, literary criticism, gender and sex, and cultural critique. Passions of Our Time showcases recent essays of Kristeva's that demonstrate the scope of her capacious intellect, her gifts as a stylist, and the profound contribution of her thought to the...

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by Julia Kristeva (Author), Jeanine Herman (Translator)Julia Kristeva refracts the impulse to hate (and our attempts to subvert, sublimate, and otherwise process it) through psychoanalysis and text, exploring worlds, women, religion, portraits, and the act of writing. Her inquiry spans themes, topics, and figures central to her writing, and her paths of discovery advance the theoretical innovations that are so characteristic of her thought. Kristeva rearticulates and extends her analysis of l...

This Incredible Need to Believe - Paperback

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by Julia Kristeva (Author), Beverley Bie Brahic (Translator)"Unlike Freud, I do not claim that religion is just an illusion and a source of neurosis. The time has come to recognize, without being afraid of 'frightening' either the faithful or the agnostics, that the history of Christianity prepared the world for humanism." So writes Julia Kristeva in this provocative work, which skillfully upends our entrenched ideas about religion, belief, and the thought and work of a renowned psychoanalys...

Jacob Brucker, Critical History of Philosophy: 'Preliminary Discourse' and 'on the Socratic School' - Hardcover

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by Leo Catana (Author)It is well known that philosophy has a history that spans over more than two thousand years. It is less known, however, that the discipline narrating philosophy's past emerged much later, namely in the 18th century. That new discipline was called 'history of philosophy'. The German historian and theologian Johann Jacob Brucker (1696-1770) had a decisive influence upon the formation of this new discipline through his Latin work Historia critica philosophiae (Critical hist...

Context Collapse: A Poem Containing a History of Poetry - Paperback

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by Ryan Ruby (Author)Literary critic Ryan Ruby uncovers the secret history of poetry in a mock-academic verse essay filled with wit and wisdom. Prophet. Entertainer. Courtier. Criminal. Revolutionary. Critic. Scholar. Nobody. Epic in sweep, Context Collapse is the secret history of the poet--from Bronze Age Greece and Renaissance Italy to the cafés of Grub Street and the Latin Quarter, from the creative writing departments of the American Midwest to the boardrooms of Silicon Valley. Cheekily ...

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by Joan Duncan Oliver (Author)A modern guide to the teachings of Buddhism Buddhism: An Introduction to the Buddha's Life, Teachings, and Practices is an indispensable guide to a 2,600-year-old wisdom tradition that has transformed the lives of millions across centuries and around the world. Readers will learn how Siddhartha Gautama became the Buddha, one of the most influential spiritual leaders of all time, and discover how they too can follow his revolutionary methods to attain happiness a...

The Proverbs of Solomon (Deluxe Hardcover Book) - Hardcover

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by King Solomon (Author) Number of Pages: 120 Dimensions: 0.44 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: November 11, 2024

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by Epictetus Epictetus (Author)No writings of Epictetus himself are really known. His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri). The main work is The Discourses, four books of which have been preserved (out of an original eight). Arrian also compiled a popular digest, entitled the Enchiridion, or Handbook. In a preface to the Discourses, addressed to Lucius Gellius, Arrian states that "whatever I heard him say I used to write down, word fo...

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by David Edward Liggins (Author)In the context of debates about truth, nihilism is the view that nothing is true. This is a very striking and (at first) implausible thesis, which is perhaps why it is seldom discussed. Truth without Truths applies nihilism to the philosophical debates on truth and paradox, and explores how a nihilist approach to truth is a serious contender. David Liggins demonstrates that a strong case for nihilism about truth is available. The main grounds for taking nihilis...

Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770-1900 - Hardcover

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by Alison Stone (Author)Women on Philosophy of Art is the first study of women's philosophies of art in long nineteenth-century Britain. It looks at seven women spanning the time from the Enlightenment to the beginning of modernism. They are Anna Barbauld, Joanna Baillie, Harriet Martineau, Anna Jameson, Frances Power Cobbe, Emilia Dilke, and Vernon Lee. The central issue that concerned them was how art related to morality and religion. Baillie and Martineau treated art as an agency of moral ...

Readings of the Gateless Barrier - Paperback

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by Jimmy Yu (Editor)The Gateless Barrier is one of the most cherished yet also one of the most enigmatic Chan or Zen texts of East Asian Buddhism. Compiled by the Chinese Chan master Wumen Huikai in 1228, it contains forty-eight Zen stories of spiritual awakening called "public cases" or gong'ans (known as kōans in Japanese and kongans in Korean). This book presents a new English translation with close readings and creative analyses of the Gateless Barrier from both scholarly and practitioner...

The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy - Hardcover

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by Jonathan Elmore (Editor), Rick Elmore (Editor), Vernon W. Cisney (Contribution by)The Evolving Project of Cormac McCarthy presents eleven essays of original scholarship that undertake a programmatic reassessment of McCarthy's literary and philosophical worldview. Examining issues of race, morality, history, metaphysics, law, economics, and ecology in McCarthy's writing reveals how these themes intersect in an overarching, positive gesture that characterizes his work. Taken together, the es...

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by Michael Printy (Author) Number of Pages: 284 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: December 05, 2024

Secrets: On the Ethics of Concealment and Revelation - Paperback

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by Sissela Bok (Author)The author of Lying shows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.Front JacketShows how the ethical issues raised by secrets and secrecy in our careers or private lives take us to the heart of the critical questions of private and public morality.Back JacketWe live in a society where almost every person and institution has closely guarded secrets. W...

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by Wilhelm Wundt (Author)Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Number of Pages: 208 Dimensions: 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 04, 2008

Private Notebooks: 1914-1916 - Paperback

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by Ludwig Wittgenstein (Author), Marjorie Perloff (Translator)During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early stages of his magnum opus, the Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus, had never before been published in English, the Vie...

The French Art of Living Well: Finding Joie de Vivre in the Everyday World - Paperback

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by Cathy Yandell (Author)In the tradition of French Toast, a delightful look at French culture, from literature to cuisine to humor and more, showing how the French have captured that magic elixir known as joie de vivre. What is joie de vivre, and why is it a fundamentally French concept? In search of those ineffable qualities that make up the joy of living, this lively book takes readers on a voyage to France through forays into literature, history, and culture. How does art contribute to da...

Revolution in Poetic Language Fifty Years Later: New Directions in Kristeva Studies - Paperback

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by Emilia Angelova (Editor)Revisits Julia Kristeva's magnum opus on the fiftieth anniversary of its original publication to open up new paths of interdisciplinary inquiry.In her 1974 Revolution in Poetic Language, Julia Kristeva resisted the abstract use of language, with its aim of totalization and finality, in all its colonizing and alienating forms. A major thinker and critic, Kristeva reappropriated Hegel's concepts of desire and negativity, in conjunction with the thought of Heidegger, A...

Be Prepared: Doomsday Prepping in the United States - Paperback

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by Robert E. Kirsch (Author), Emily Ray (Author)Doomsday prepping has gone mainstream. Survivalists star in reality TV shows; celebrities hawk emergency gear; and ordinary people stockpile essentials in the hope that they can outlast a slew of threats, real and imagined. The ideology behind prepping, however, is no passing fad but a persistent feature of American life. Be Prepared reveals the surprising ways prepping is woven into the fabric of American institutions--and shows its significanc...

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by Stephanie Strickland (Author)This collection of poems explores wayfaring, both in a spiritual sense and in the sense of knowledge navigation in an information age. It explores American history, encompassing writing and identity in the figures of Emily Dickinson and Willard Gibbs, the country's first mathematical physicist.Author BiographyStephanie Strickland is a poet living in New York City. She has published eight volumes of print poetry and co-authored eleven digital poems. Number of Pa...

First Principles of Theosophy - Hardcover

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by C. Jinarajadasa (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 504 Dimensions: 1.25 x 9 x 6 IN ...

Poor Doubting Christian Drawn Unto Christ - Paperback

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by Thomas Hooker (Author)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work. Number of Pages: 48 Dimensions: 0.18 x 11.12 x 8.3 ...

The Good Girl Revolution: Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards - Paperback

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by Wendy Shalit (Author)Across the country, there's a youth-led rebellion challenging the status quo. In Seattle and Pittsburgh, teenage girls protest against companies that sell sleazy clothing. Online, a nineteen-year-old describes her struggles with her mother, who she feels is pressuring her to lose her virginity. In a small town outside Philadelphia, an eleventh-grade girl, upset over a "dirty book" read aloud in English class, takes her case to the school board. These are not your mothe...

William Blake: His Philosophy And Symbols - Hardcover

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by S. Foster Damon (Author)William Blake: His Philosophy and Symbols is a book written by S. Foster Damon that explores the life and work of the English poet, artist, and visionary William Blake. The book provides a comprehensive analysis of Blake's philosophy, symbolism, and artistic style, and examines his major works, including Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem.Damon delves into Blake's religious and political beliefs, as well as his views...

The Holy Grail Of The Celtic Church - Paperback

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by Arthur Edward Waite (Author)The Holy Grail of the Celtic Church is a book written by Arthur Edward Waite that explores the history and mythology surrounding the Holy Grail in Celtic Christianity. Waite delves into the origins of the Grail legend, tracing its roots back to pre-Christian Celtic mythology and its transformation into a Christian symbol of divine grace and redemption. He examines the various interpretations of the Grail story throughout history, including its connections to the...

The Path We Must Follow Leads Neither to Right, Nor Left - Hardcover

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by William O. Douglas (Author)""The Path We Must Follow Leads Neither To Right, Nor Left"" is a book written by William O. Douglas, an American jurist and politician who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. The book is a collection of essays and speeches delivered by Douglas on various topics such as the Constitution, the environment, civil liberties, and the role of the judiciary in American society. The title of the book reflects Douglas' belief that the...