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The Drama of Atheist Humanism - Paperback

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by Henri de Lubac (Author)De Lubac traces the origin of 19th century attempts to construct a humanism apart from God, the sources of contemporary atheism which purports to have "moved beyond God." The three persons he focuses on are Feuerbach, who greatly influenced Marx; Nietzsche, who represents nihilism; and Comte, who is the father of all forms of positivism. He then shows that the only one who really responded to this ideology was Dostoevsky, a kind of prophet who criticizes in his novel...

Picasso, the Formative Years; a Study of His Sources

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony 1907-1983 Blunt (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is im...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Karasik (Author)Getting High on Leadership is an invitation to explore the dynamics of your inner world and how it expresses itself in your external reality as a leader. As your consciousness expands your everyday behavior and mindset are transformed resulting in a deeper sense of purpose, commitment, and satisfaction, for both you and the members of your team. Elevated consciousness within a group or organization results in more creativity, innovation, ha...

Liberalism: A Counter-History - Paperback

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by Domenico Losurdo (Author), Gregory Elliott (Translator)One of Europe's leading intellectual historians deconstructs the dark side of liberalism, sifting through 3 centuries of liberal writings by John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, and others. In this definitive historical investigation, Italian author and philosopher Domenico Losurdo argues that from the outset liberalism, as a philosophical position and ideology, has been bound up with the most illiberal of policies: slavery, colonialis...

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path - Paperback

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by Jack Kornfield (Author)"Enlightenment does exist," internationally renowned author and meditation master Jack Kornfield assures us. "Unbounded freedom and joy, oneness with the divine . . . these experiences are more common than you know, and not far away." But even after achieving such realization--after the ecstasy--we are faced with the day--to-day task of translating that freedom into our imperfect lives. We are faced with the laundry. Drawing on the experiences and insights of leade...

The Perennial Philosophy Reloaded: A Guide for the Mystically Inclined - Paperback

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by Dana Sawyer (Author)Dana Sawyer unpacks the philosophy-spirituality of Huxley, Watts, and Ram Dass (as well as our contemporaries, including Mirabai Starr and Richard Rohr) in ways readers will find intriguing, creating an original view of human nature, revealing why this mystical understanding of our world is called "perennial."During the 1960s and 70s, "Perennial Philosophy" was the most popular theory regarding what the world's mystical traditions held in common, and it was touted as th...

Knowing Being Acting: A Transpersonal Psychology Inquiry into The Meaning of Acting From Action to Text to Action, A Phenomenological Unveiling - Paperback

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by Jiawei Liu (Author)Dr. Jiawei Liu, who holds degrees in both theatre performance and psychology, reveals in his study how acting can serve as a pathway to self-discovery and foster a deeper sense of presence."A landmark contribution to the intersection of transpersonal psychology, phenomenology, and the performing arts"! -- Marilyn Mandala Schlitz, Ph.D."Both theoretically rigorous and deeply insightful, this work is an essential read for anyone seeking to delve into the philosophical dime...

The Obstacle Is the Way Expanded 10th Anniversary Edition: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials Into Triumph - Hardcover

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by Ryan Holiday (Author)An updated and expanded edition of the book that launched a global phenomenon, The Obstacle Is the Way presents an infinitely elastic formula for turning our toughest trials into our greatest triumphs. Since bestselling author Ryan Holiday introduced Stoicism to the world with The Obstacle Is the Way in 2014, this simple but powerful philosophy for life has taken the world by storm. This brilliant and engaging book is an invaluable source of wisdom for anyone who wants...

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond - Paperback

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by Nancy Fraser (Author)Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake? The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown--symbolized by Trump's election--has destroyed faith that neoliberal capitalism is beneficial to the majority. Nancy Fraser explores how this faith was built through the late twentieth century by balancing two central tenets: recognition (who deserves rights) and distribution (who deserves income). When these begin to fray, new forms of outsid...

Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World

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Report copyright infringementby Nick Bostrom (Author)Bostrom's last book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), sparked a global conversation on AI that continues and widens to this day. That book, which despite its academic style became a New York Times bestseller, focused on what would happen if AI goes wrong. But what if AI goes right? Suppose we succeed in developing superintelligence safely and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this unlocks. We woul...

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by T. C. Monk (Author)The Ties That Bind is a metaphysical exposition of nonfiction. The author takes great care in weaving the defining characteristics of each subject matter into his writing. It is not only an element crafted to breathe new life into each principal notion but a method compelling one to feel that each line was drawn from a fresh perspective and solely meant for contemplation. Such actuation creates a more appetible source of information any reader can draw from and verily st...

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), Peter Baehr (Introduction by)A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers among them. After the rise of the Nazis, she emigrated to America where she proceeded to write some of the most searching, hard-hitting refl...

Limerositus: An Anapestic Journey through Western Philosophy - Paperback

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by Stephen Evans (Author)An anapestic journey through western philosophy. Limerositus is a collection of limericks inspired by famous philosophers, including: Arendt, Aristotle, Aurelius, Bentham, Bergson, Berkeley, Camus, Chomsky, Confucius, de Beauvoir, Derrida, Dewey, Emerson, Epictetus, Epimenides, Evans, Foucault, Gödel, Hegel, Hume, Husserl, Langer, Leibniz, Kant, Locke, James, Kierkegaard, Mill, Nietzsche, Parmenides, Pierce, Plato, Pythagoras, Rand, Rousseau, Ryle, Russell, Sartre, Sc...

Silence: In the Age of Noise - Paperback

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by Erling Kagge (Author), Becky L. Crook (Translator)"A joyful celebration" (NPR) that shows us why silence is essential to our sanity and happiness--and how it can open doors to wonder and gratitude--from a renowned explorer and acclaimed author. In this astonishing and transformative meditation, Erling Kagge, famed Norwegian explorer and the first person to reach the South Pole alone, explores the silence around us, the silence within us, and the silence we must create. By recounting his o...

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life - Hardcover

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by David Brooks (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive."--The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy--who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for thes...

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by Slavoj Zizek (Author)To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, which have never seemed worse, get better? What would a better world be? And how, when we are constantly besieged by doomers, degrowthers and disorienting relativisms can we make any headway at all in the face of unprecedented ecological, social and political crises?In thir...

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Report copyright infringementby Slavoj Zizek (Author)The celebrated political philosopher analyzes the end of global capitalism in this "part philosophical tightrope-walk, part performance-art marathon, part intellectual roller-coaster ride" (Observer) There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Zizek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; th...

Meat Market: Female Flesh Under Capitalism - Paperback

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by Laurie Penny (Author)'Meat Market' is a thin, bloody sliver of feminist dialectic, dissecting women's bodies as the fleshy fulcrum of capitalist cannibalism. Number of Pages: 79 Dimensions: 0.3 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: May 16, 2011

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by Roland H. Bainton (Author) Number of Pages: 328 Dimensions: 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: November 07, 2008

Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the World

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Report copyright infringementby Priya Vulchi (Author)From the co-author of Tell Me Who You Are and a TED speaker, a book that reveals the importance of friendship as a tool of social justice. Friendship is good for your health. Studies show that loneliness is as deadly as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. Still, we are not taught how to be good friends to one another. We cancel plans, lose touch, blame technology, and neglect our non-romantic loved ones. In Good Friends, author Priya Vulchi ...

Theory and Methods in Political Science - Paperback

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by Vivien Lowndes (Editor), David Marsh (Editor), Gerry Stoker (Editor)A broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Written by an international team of experts, this fully revised fourth edition offers cutting-edge coverage from fundamental to contemporary issues. Integrating guides to further reading and clear examples of how research methods can be applied, it enables readers to feel confident about taking their study of poli...

The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1: Volume 1 - Paperback

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by Arthur Schopenhauer (Author)Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought.Back JacketArthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the nineteenth century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It is without question Schopenhauer's greatest work. Conceived and p...

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Jabari (Author)ONCE AND FOR ALL MANKIND-VOLUME 1: MY ROCK & ROLL DREAM is the detailed account of my tumultuous childhood and raucous coming of age, spiritual awakening, and the events leading up to my attempted suicide at age nineteen, untold in its entirety, even to my closest loved ones, until now. The reader journeys with me and the music, which was guiding me, to previously uncharted reaches of the psyche, collective consciousness, inter-dimensi...

Idols of the Mind: How Systems Shape Our Thoughts, Beliefs, and Behaviors

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Report copyright infringementby Randy M. Herring (Author)We like to believe our thoughts are our own.But what if many of our beliefs-about science, ideology, religion, education, health care, agriculture, language, identity, and human nature-are quietly shaped by systems we hardly ever notice?Drawing on Bacon's insight that "knowledge is power," Idols of the Mind offers a contemporary extension of Bacon's idols, showing how false mental constructs distort human thought through modern systems ...

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Report copyright infringementby D. Archard (Author)An account of the nature and value of the family within a liberal society. It defines 'family', and assesses the right to have a family, whether the family promotes injustice, and what future there is for the family in the face of significant changes.Author BiographyDAVID ARCHARD is Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Lancaster, UK. He has published widely in applied ethics, political and legal philosophy. He is a m...

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Report copyright infringementby Mildred Redd (Author)Married Women Without a Cover! is a powerful and thought-provoking exploration of the hidden realities many married women face behind closed doors. Beneath the surface of seemingly stable lives lie unspoken struggles, emotional conflicts, and the quiet battle between societal expectations and personal identity. This book dives deep into themes of vulnerability, resilience, and the courage it takes to live authentically in a world that often...

This Life So Brief Between Eternities: Poems

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Report copyright infringementby Edward L. Alban (Author)The very title of this book is a sigh, evoking a lament for the briefness of life. To extend existence, man invented the afterlife. But this author does not believe in that and, instead, he looks to the past, to history. This rearview will not elongate longevity, but it will enrich the quality of his brief existence, it will broaden it and give it depth. Time is also evoked for its invisible and yet ubiquitous presence in these poems. ...

Tantric Mothering: A Path of Practical Love, Spiritual Growth and Planetary Change

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Report copyright infringementby Didi Ananda Uttama (Author), Iris Heddes (Cover Design by)Tantric Mothering: A Path of Practical Love, Spiritual Growth, and Planetary Change, embarks on a journey that redefines the mother-child relationship as a profound spiritual partnership. It explores this partnership from pregnancy through infancy and beyond, rooted in a mutual exchange of deep, innate love. The incomparable synchronization between mother and infant of bodies, minds, hearts and souls is ...

Renewing Dialogues in Marxism and Education: Openings

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Report copyright infringementby A. Green (Editor), G. Rikowski (Editor), H. Raduntz (Editor)In the first book in their series on Marxism and Education, Rikowski and Green use Marxist theory to examine the dialectic between race and power in education. The series is aimed at educationalists - teachers, researchers, policy-makers or administrators, as well as activists who consider the Marxist tradition a valuable and important resource.Author BiographyGLENN RIKOWSKI teaches at the University C...

The Indefinite Article: Anxiety and the Essence of Artificial Intelligence - Paperback

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by Michael Roth (Author)The Indefinite Article: Anxiety and the Essence of Artificial Intelligence focuses on the implications of technological surveillance for human being and ethics. It shows that human privacy is fragile and susceptible to coercion by both visible and invisible social forces realized by any artificial intelligence that formalizes and universalizes human behavioral characteristics in order to construct personalities. These patterns cannot be resisted with traditional notion...

The Philosophy of Time: Time before Times

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Report copyright infringementby Roger McLure (Author)This book constructs a contrastive analysis of phenomenologies of time from the perspective of the problematics of the visibility of time.Author BiographyRoger McClure is Lecturer in French at Keele University, Staffordshire. He has published widely on the subjects of linguistics, literature and philosophy. Number of Pages: 230 Dimensions: 0.49 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication...

Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism in Latin America: The Role of Radical Education

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Report copyright infringementby S. Motta (Author), M. Cole (Author)In Constructing Twenty-First Century Socialism: The Role of Radical Education, Motta and Cole explore the role of the politics of knowledge and pedagogy in the reinvention of socialism for the twenty-first century. Through a critical analysis of Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela they deconstruct the mechanisms of neoliberal control as an epistemological project of monologue, closure, and violence against all 'others'. The authors...