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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison - Paperback

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by Michel Foucault (Author)A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.Author BiographyMichel Foucault was born in Poitiers, France, in 1926. He lecturerd in universities throughout the world; served as director at the Institut Francai...

The Book of Life: Daily Meditations with Krishnamurti - Hardcover

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by Jiddu Krishnamurti (Author)365 Daily Meditations on Freedom, Personal Transformation, Living Fully, and Much More, from the Man the Dalai Lama Described as "One of the Greatest Thinkers of the Age" Number of Pages: 400 Dimensions: 0.93 x 7.42 x 5.1 IN Publication Date: May 12, 1995

Talking about: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference - Hardcover

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by Elmar Unnsteinsson (Author)Combining new insights from cognitive science and speech art theory, Unnsteinsson develops a compelling theory of singular reference which avoids well-known puzzles and objections. The theory, called Edenic intentionalism, is grounded in a mechanistic perspective on explanation in cognitive science and a new Gricean account of speaker meaning and speaker reference. Talking About: An Intentionalist Theory of Reference develops an account of the mental state of i...

Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up - Hardcover

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by Marie Kondo (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The star of the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo and author of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up helps you visualize your ideal lifestyle. Japanese decluttering guru Marie Kondo has revolutionized homes--and lives--across the world. Now, Kondo presents an illustrated guide to usingher acclaimed KonMari Method to create a joy-filled home that works the way you need it to. Spark Joy features step-by-step folding illustrations ...

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...

How to Say No: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Cynicism - Hardcover

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by Diogenes (Author), M. D. Usher (Commentaries by), M. D. Usher (Translator)An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered "No!" Diogenes, the most famous Cynic, wasn't shy about literally extending his middle finger to the w...

The Book of Five Rings: A Classic Text on the Japanese Way of the Sword - Paperback

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by Miyamoto Musashi (Author), Thomas Cleary (Translator)The Book of Five Rings is one of the most insightful texts on the subtle arts of confrontation and victory to emerge from Asian culture. Written not only for martial artists but for anyone who wants to apply the timeless principles of this text to their life, the book analyzes the process of struggle and mastery over conflict that underlies every level of human interaction. The Book of Five Rings was composed in 1643 by the famed duel...

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander - Paperback

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by Thomas Merton (Author)In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic forcefulness and candor, he brings the reader face-to-face with such provocative and controversial issues as the "death of God," politics, modern life and values, and racial strife-issues that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is Merton at his best-detached but ...

Romanticism: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Ferber (Author)In this Very Short Introduction, Michael Ferber explores Romanticism during the period of its incubation, birth, and growth, covering the years roughly from 1760 to 1860. This is the only introduction to Romanticism that incorporates not only the English but the Continental movements, and not only literature but music, art, religion, and philosophy. Balancing lively details with intriguing topics, it sheds light on such subjects as the "Sensibility" movement, which p...

Identity: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Florian Coulmas (Author)Identity has become one of the most widely used terms today, appearing in many different contexts. Anything and everything has an identity, and identity crises have become almost equally pervasive. Yet "identity" is extremely versatile, meaning different things to different people and in different scientific disciplines. To many its meaning seems self-evident, since its various uses share common features, so often the term is used without a definition of what, exact...

Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by A. C. Grayling (Author)Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. Grayling makes Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general reader by explaining the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences and connections between them, and gives a fresh assessment of Wittgenstein...

The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius - Paperback

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by David Hinton (Translator)Discover four seminal masterworks of Chinese thought--Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius, the Chuang Tzu, and the Mencius--presented in one volume for the first time in nearly two centuries.Award-winning translator David Hinton offers fresh insights on the most influential texts on Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Chinese philosophy, and more. Hinton's award-winning experience translating a wide range of ancient Chinese poets makes these books sing in English a...

Existentialists and Mystics: Writings on Philosophy and Literature - Paperback

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by Iris Murdoch (Author)Best known as the author of twenty-six novels, Iris Murdoch has also made significant contributions to the fields of ethics and aesthetics. Collected here for the first time in one volume are her most influential literary and philosophical essays. Tracing Murdoch's journey to a modern Platonism, this volume includes incisive evaluations of the thought and writings of T. S. Eliot, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvior, and Elias Canetti, as well as key text...

Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step - Paperback

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by Michael Wheeler (Author)In Reconstructing the Cognitive World, Michael Wheeler argues that we should turn away from the generically Cartesian philosophical foundations of much contemporary cognitive science research and proposes instead a Heideggerian approach. Wheeler begins with an interpretation of Descartes. He defines Cartesian psychology as a conceptual framework of explanatory principles and shows how each of these principles is part of the deep assumptions of orthodox cognitive sci...

Karma: A Yogi's Guide to Crafting Your Destiny - Hardcover

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by Sadhguru (Author)NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER "Full of valuable insights to guide you."--WILL SMITH"Thoughtful and life-affirming . . . a must-read."--TONY ROBBINS"This book will put you back in charge of your own life."--TOM BRADY A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of "karma" that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the world-renowned spiritual master Sadhguru. What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance ...

Metaphysical Meditations: Universal Prayers, Affirmations, and Visualizations - Paperback

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by Paramahansa Yogananda (Author)In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul.Includes introductory instructions on how to meditate. An encouraging guide that teaches us through our own experience how to spiritually enrich our everyday life. Number of Pages: 123 Dimensions: 0.4 x 5.2 x 3.5 IN Publication Date: September 01, 1979

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction - Paperback

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by Ursula K. Le Guin (Author), Donna J. Haraway (Introduction by), Lee Bul (Illustrator)In The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction, visionary author Ursula K. Le Guin retells the story of human origin by redefining technology as a cultural carrier bag rather than a weapon of domination. Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: 'before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.' Prior to the pr...

The Capitalist Unconscious: Marx and Lacan - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Samo Tomsic (Author)A major systematic study of the connection between Marx and Lacan's work Finalist for the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis Book Prize Despite a resurgence of interest in Lacanian psychoanalysis, particularly in terms of the light it casts on capitalist ideology--as witnessed by the work of Slavoj iek--there remain remarkably few systematic accounts of the role of Marx in Lacan's work. A major, comprehensive study of the connec...

Tao Te Ching: With Over 150 Photographs by Jane English - Paperback

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by Lao Tzu (Author), Gia-Fu Feng (Translator), Jane English (Translator)For nearly two generations, this bestselling translation of the Tao Te Ching has been the standard for those seeking access to the wisdom of Taoist thought. Now Jane English and her long-time editor, Toinette Lippe, have refreshed and revised the translation, so that it more faithfully reflects the Classical Chinese in which it was first written, while taking into account changes in our own language and eliminating any li...

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by Plato (Author), Robin Waterfield (Translator)Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus and its ostensible subject is love, especially homoerotic love. Socrates reveals it to be a kind of divine madness that can allow our souls to grow wings and soar to their greatest heights. Then the conversation changes direction and turns to a discussion of rhetoric, which must be based on truth passio...

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia - Paperback

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by Gilles Deleuze (Author), Felix Guattari (Author), Michel Foucault (Preface by)An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari set forth the following theory: Western society's innate herd instinct has allowed the government, the media, and even the principles of economics to take advantage of ea...

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by Plato (Author), Robin Waterfield (Editor), Robin Waterfield (Translator)One of Plato's most widely read dialogues, Gorgias treats the temptations of worldly success and the rewards of the genuinely moral life. Appealing to philosophers as a classic text of moral philosophy--and to everyone for its vividness, clarity, and occassional bitter humor--this new translation is accompanied by explanatory notes and an illuminating and accessible introduction. About the Series: For over 100 years Ox...

Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs - Paperback

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by Soren Kierkegaard (Author), M. G. Piety (Author), Edward F. Mooney (Author)"The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love." So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard's Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard's pseudonymous narrator, is a repetition, and in the course of this witty, playful work Constantius explores the nature of love and happiness, the passing of time and the importance of moving forward (and backward). The ironically entitled Phil...

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by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Author), Ulrich Baer (Editor), Ulrich Baer (Translator)Friedrich Nietzsche presented many of his greatest insights in pithy, well-turned short phrases that do not follow any philosophical dogma. Instead, his chastening but ultimately life-affirming philosophy puts forth true love and friendship as our best hope in dark times. Here are Nietzsche's key sayings about love from the vast body of his philosophical writings, which have influenced politics, philosophy,...

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by Henk Barendregt (Author), Giulio Manzonetto (Author)In 1936 the notion of intuitive computability was operationalized in two different ways: via Turing machines and via lambda-calculus. The difference consisted in manipulating beads (bits) for the former approach versus manipulating trees (rewriting lambda-terms) for the latter. Both proposals turned out to formalize the same notion of computability, and led to the Church-Turing Thesis, claiming that intuitive computability is captured in ...

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by Aristotle (Author), David Ross (Translator), Lesley Brown (Editor)A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physics, biology, poetry, politics, morality, metaphysics, and ethics. In the Nicomachean Ethics, which he is said to have dedicated to his son Nicomachus, Aristotle's guiding question is what is the best thing for a human being? Hi...

Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing - Paperback

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by Hannah Arendt (Author), Mary McCarthy (Author)The most intriguing...and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker.This fascinating book investigates thought itself as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from Arendt's previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this is an exploration of the mind's activities she conside...

The American Transcendentalists: Essential Writings - Paperback

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by Lawrence Buell (Editor), Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author), Henry David Thoreau (Author)Transcendentalism was the first major intellectual movement in U.S. history, championing the inherent divinity of each individual, as well as the value of collective social action. In the mid-nineteenth century, the movement took off, changing how Americans thought about religion, literature, the natural world, class distinctions, the role of women, and the existence of slavery.Edited by the eminent scholar ...

The Virtue of Selfishness: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition - Paperback

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by Ayn Rand (Author)A collection of essays that sets forth the moral principles of Objectivism, Ayn Rand's controversial, groundbreaking philosophy. Since their initial publication, Rand's fictional works--Anthem, The Fountainhead, and Atlas Shrugged--have had a major impact on the intellectual scene. The underlying theme of her famous novels is her philosophy, a new morality--the ethics of rational self-interest--that offers a robust challenge to altruist-collectivist thought. Known as Objec...

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by Sun Tzu (Author)The Art of War, the world's oldest treatise on warfare, has been studied by leaders for centuries. Dated to about fifth century BCE, The Art of War is considered the oldest treatise on war in the world. Attributed to Sun Tzu of the Zhou dynasty, the book is composed of thirteen chapters, each addressing a particular aspect of warfare, such as planning offenses, military combat, and the employment of spies. Influential in Eastern civilization for millennia and in Western cul...

Lsb MacArthur Study Bible 2nd Edition: Unleashing God's Truth One Verse at a Time (Hardcover, Comfort Print) - Hardcover

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by John F. MacArthur (Author)John MacArthur's extensive and trusted study notes provide access to over 50 years of ministry to aid in a better understanding of God's word.Over four million readers around the world have had their spiritual lives enriched and their understanding of God's Word expanded by The MacArthur Study Bible. Drawing on more than 50 years of dedicated pastoral and scholarly work, Pastor John MacArthur's verse-by-verse study notes, book introductions, and articles display a...

Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back - Hardcover

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by Li Zhichang (Author), Ruth W. Dunnell (Editor), Ruth W. Dunnell (Translator)The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. In the early years of the Mongol empire, the Quanzhen Daoist master Qiu Chuji (1148-1227, religious name Changchun) made an arduous three-year round-trip journey from north China to the Hindu Kush in 1221-23 in response t...