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The Years of Theory: Lectures on Modern French Thought - Paperback

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by Fredric Jameson (Author)Magisterial lectures on the major figures of French theory from 'America's leading Marxist critic' Fredric Jameson introduces here the major themes of French theory: existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places this effervescent period of thought in the context of its most significant political conjunctures, including the Liberation of Paris, the Algerian War, t...

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Hardcover

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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author)Antifragile is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the bestselling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, reveals how to thriv...

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope - Hardcover

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by Sarah Bakewell (Author)The instant New York Times bestseller! "A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important, readable and worth reading. . . Bakewell is wide-ranging, witty and compassionate." -Wall Street Journal"Sweeping... linking philosophical reflections with vibrant anecdotes." -- The New York Times The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artist...

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), Martin Hammond (Translator), Martin Hammond (Editor)A new translation of the philosophical journey that has inspired luminaries from Matthew Arnold to Bill Clinton in a beautiful hardcover gift edition, with a cover designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith World-changing ideas meet eye-catching design: the best titles of the extraordinarily successful Great Ideas series are now packaged in Coralie Bickford-Smith's distinctive, award-winning covers. Whether on a well-cur...

Encounter With Nothingness: an Essay on Existentialism - Paperback

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by Helmut 1899- Kuhn (Created by)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 important enough to be preserved,...

Shadowed Paths. [Edited by Philippa Hentges. Translated From the Russian by Olga Shartse] - Hardcover

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by Ivan Alekseevich 1870-1953 Bunin (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 important enough to be...

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by Sun Tzu (Author), Lionel Giles (Translator)The Art of War by Sun Tzu is a timeless masterpiece on military strategy and tactics. Packed with wisdom, it offers profound insights into warfare, leadership, and conflict resolution. A must-read for anyone seeking to understand the dynamics of power and to achieve success in any competitive arena. Number of Pages: 58 Dimensions: 0.14 x 8 x 5 IN Publication Date: February 13, 2024

Hegel: Lectures on Natural Right and Political Science: The First Philosophy of Right - Paperback

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by J. Michael Stewart (Author), Peter C. Hodgson (Author), Otto Poggeler (Author)These lectures constitute the earliest version of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, one of the most influential works in Western political theory. They introduce a notion of civil society that has proven of inestimable importance to diverse philosophical and social agendas. This transcription of the lectures, which remained in obscurity until 1982, presents the philosopher's social thought with clarity and boldness. I...

The History of King Richard the Third: A Reading Edition - Paperback

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by George M. Logan (Editor)The History of King Richard the Third is Thomas More's English masterpiece. With the help of Shakespeare, whose Richard the Third took More's work as its principal model, the History determined the historical reputation of an English king and spawned a seemingly endless controversy about the justness of that reputation. George M. Logan has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of the History, designed to make More's exhilarating work fully accessible to 21st-c...

The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity: Twelve Lectures - Paperback

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by Jurgen Habermas (Author), Frederick G. Lawrence (Translator)This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibility of the lecture form and the excitement of an encounter across national cultural boundaries as Habermas takes up the challenge posed by the radical critique of reason in contemporary French postmodernism.The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity is a tour de force that has the immediacy and accessibilit...

A World of Ideas: A Dictionary of Important Theories, Concepts, Beliefs, and Thinkers - Paperback

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by Chris Rohmann (Author)THE THINKERS, THE THOUGHTS, AND THE THEORIES YOU NEED TO KNOW TO UNDERSTAND THE WORLD WE LIVE IN. With A World of Ideas, you can get to the bottom of the big bang theory; find out where Freud's ideas were coming from, and where Einstein's might take us; demystify surrealism and structuralism, communism and capitalism. Prepared with the assistance of an academic board of leading scholars, this invaluable reference includes - Hundreds of entries, alphabetically arranged...

The Death of God and the Meaning of Life - Paperback

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by Julian Young (Author)What is the meaning of life? In today's secular, post-religious scientific world, this question has become a serious preoccupation. But it also has a long history: many major philosophers have thought deeply about it, as Julian Young so vividly illustrates in this thought-provoking second edition of The Death of God and the Meaning of Life. Three new chapters explore S ren Kierkegaard's attempts to preserve a Christian answer to the question of the meaning of life, Ka...

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by Michel Foucault (Author)In this remarkable book Michel Foucault, one of the most influential thinkers of recent times, calls us to look critically at specific historical events in order to uncover new layers of significance. In doing so, he challenges our assumptions not only about history, but also about the nature of language and reason, even of truth. The scope of such an undertaking is vast, but by means of his uniquely engaging narrative style, Foucault's penetrating gaze is skilfully...

An Ethic of Care: Feminist and Interdisciplinary Perspectives - Paperback

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by Mary Jeanne Larrabee (Editor)Published in 1982, Carol Gilligan's In a Different Voice proposed a new model of moral reasoning based on care, arguing that it better described the moral life of women. An Ethic of Care is the first volume to bring together key contributions to the extensive debate engaging Gilligan's work. It provides the highlights of the often impassioned discussion of the ethic of care, drawing on the literature of the wide range of disciplines that have entered into the d...

Schopenhauer: Prize Essay on the Freedom of the Will - Paperback

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by Arthur Schopenhauer (Author), Gunter Zoller (Editor), Eric F. J. Payne (Translator)Schopenhauer's Prize Essay is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant and elegant treatments of free will and determinism. He distinguishes the freedom of acting from the freedom of willing, affirming the former while denying the latter. This volume offers the text in a previously unpublished translation by Eric F.J. Payne, the leading twentieth-century translator of Schopenhauer into English, together ...

The Origins of European Thought: About the Body, the Mind, the Soul, the World, Time and Fate - Paperback

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by Richard Broxton Onians (Author), R. B. Onians (Author)Onians' remarkable work of scholarship sought to deal with the very roots of European civilization and thought: the fundamental beliefs about life, mind, body, soul, and human destiny that are embodied in the myths and legends of the ancients. The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans. Number of Pages...

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Predicting the Future: An Introduction to the Theory of Forecasting - Paperback

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by Nicholas Rescher (Author)Develops a general theory of prediction that encompasses its fundamental principles, methodology, and practice and gives an overview of its promises and problems. Number of Pages: 224 Dimensions: 0.71 x 8.97 x 5.95 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 02, 2003

Ibn al-ʿArabī's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World - Paperback

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by Salman H. Bashier (Author)This book explores how Ibn al-'Arabi (1165-1240) used the concept of barzakh (the Limit) to deal with the philosophical problem of the relationship between God and the world, a major concept disputed in ancient and medieval Islamic thought. The term "barzakh" indicates the activity or actor that differentiates between things and that, paradoxically, then provides the context of their unity. Author Salman H. Bashier looks at early thinkers and shows how the synthet...

Christian Faith and the Problem of Evil - Paperback

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by Peter Van Inwagen (Author)This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.Back JacketThe problem of evil has challenged religious minds and hearts throughout the ages. Just how can the presence of suffering, tragedy, and wrongdoing be squared with the all-powerful, all-loving God of faith? This book gathers some of the best, most meaningful recent reflections on the problem of evil, with contributions by shrewd thinkers in the areas of philosophy, theology, literature, ling...

Shouts and Whispers: Twenty-One Writers Speak about Their Writing and Their Faith - Paperback

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by Jennifer L. Holberg (Author)Flannery O'Connor once wrote that "to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures." Some of the twenty-one well-known writers included in this book prefer to "shout," as O'Connor did, while others offer what Doris Betts calls "whispering hope." Shouts and Whispers contains a fascinating array of reflections on topics surrounding the often-perilous intersection of writing and faith. The authors all agree that lite...