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Bondage: Anti-Blackness and Ancestrality

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Report copyright infringementby Osmundo Pinho (Author), Ayala Tude (Translator)In this groundbreaking book Osmundo Pinho makes an important contribution to Black Studies transnationally through placing Afro-pessimism in conversation with "Ancestrality," an important theoretical concept emerging from the field of Black Studies in Brazil. In the book, Pinho argues that social death and ancestry coexist, are in tension, and are both transformations. In the case of Pinho's work, which some schola...

The Consolations of Philosophy - Paperback

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by Alain de Botton (Author)From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes a remarkable book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. "A fine introduction the world of philosophy." --Newsweek Solace for the broken heart can be found in the words of Schopenhauer. The ancient Greek Epicurus has the wisest, and most affordable, solution to cash flow problems. A remedy for impotence lies in Mon...

Messengers of Infinity: On the Pictorial Logic of Leonardo da Vinci

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Report copyright infringementby Eyal Peretz (Author)The first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole.Presented here is the first philosophical engagement with the pictorial work of Leonardo, seen as a systematic whole. It is not written from the point of view of an art historian, even as it tries to benefit from art historical insights and procedures, but that of contemporary continental philosophy and theories of modern artistic media. Author...

How is Architecture Political?: Engaging Chantal Mouffe

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Report copyright infringementby Joseph Bedford (Editor)Chantal Mouffe has transformed the contemporary understanding of politics through her re-reading of political theory inspired by anti-foundationalist philosophy-based on Saussure's linguistics, Freud's psychoanalysis and Derrida's deconstruction. Her writings have challenged the centrist, post-political ideology of the 1990s and presciently diagnosed the emergence of right-wing populism seen today with Trump and Brexit. For Mouffe, such p...

Greatness and Ruin: Self-Reflection and Universalism within European Civilization

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Report copyright infringementby Ricardo Duchesne (Author)Of all the noteworthy advances and accomplishments in every area of human endeavor, the overwhelming majority have come from one part of the world: Europe and its New World offshoots, collectively referred to as the West. This troublesome fact may be downplayed or deconstructed by the politically correct establishment, but it cannot be credibly denied. The question, then, is why.In Greatness and Ruin, maverick scholar Ricardo Duchesne s...

How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly - Hardcover

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by Seneca (Author), Robert Kaster (Translator)How ancient Stoicism can help teach us to treat others--and ourselves--more fairly and mercifully There are times when we've all felt that we haven't been treated as we deserve--that we've been misjudged, shortchanged, or given a raw deal. And, at one time or another, other people have probably felt that we've treated them just as unfairly. How to Do the Right Thing draws on the principles of ancient Stoicism as articulated by the Roman statesman...

The Quantum Revelation: Awakening to the Dreamlike Nature of Reality - Paperback

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by Paul Levy (Author), Jean Houston (Foreword by)Reveals quantum physics as a modern-day spiritual path for awakening and expanding consciousness - Shows how the revelations emerging from quantum physics can wake us up from the disempowering spell of the scientific materialist worldview and help dispel the collective madness that has befallen our species - Explains for readers with no physics background why quantum physics is, in the words of Albert Einstein, so "uncommonly important" that "i...

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Report copyright infringementby James Norbury (Author)"It's hard to imagine there's light when we are so deep in the darkness. But it's there, so let's keep walking."Sometimes, to find The Most Beautiful Place in the World, we must traverse foreboding terrain.As beloved friends Big Panda and Tiny Dragon journey to find the lost land, there are moments when the dense forests, hazardous mountains, derelict ruins, and dark caves, and the feelings they bring, threaten to overwhelm them. But, toge...

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Report copyright infringementby Timothy Snyder (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A "visionary" (The Guardian) exploration of freedom--what it is, how it's been misunderstood, and why it's our only chance for survival--by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of On Tyranny "[Snyder's] deep political and philosophical examination of how to . . . create and sustain freedom provides a hopeful view for the future."--Los Angeles Times Timothy Snyder has been called "the leading interpreter of o...

Understanding Scientific Understanding - Paperback

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by Henk de Regt (Author)It is widely acknowledged that a central aim of science is to achieve understanding of the world around us, and that possessing such understanding is highly important in our present-day society. But what does it mean to achieve this understanding? What precisely is scientific understanding? These are philosophical questions that have not yet received satisfactory answers. While there has been an ongoing debate about the nature of scientific explanation since Carl Hempe...

On Desire: Why We Want What We Want - Paperback

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by William B. Irvine (Author)A married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted, and they can have a dramatic impact, sometimes changing the course of our lives. In On Desire, William B. Irvine takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our impulses, wants, and needs, showing us where these feelings come...

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Report copyright infringementby Daniel B. Klein (Author) Number of Pages: 334 Dimensions: 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 11, 2025

Art Seeking Understanding: Conceptual, Empirical, and Experimental Approaches

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher R. Brewer (Editor)A groundbreaking volume that brings together art, philosophy, theology, and the sciences to explore a new research area: art seeking understanding In this cutting-edge collection, scholars working in the fields of philosophical aesthetics, religious and theological aesthetics, and empirical and neuroaesthetics come together to investigate aesthetic cognitivism, a theory about the value of the arts. According to this theory, art isn...

Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey by Amy Jacques Garvey - Paperback

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by Marcus Garvey (Author)Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. (1887-1940) was a Jamaican political activist, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator. This is the first volume in the classic work, The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey (originally published in 1923). It is a collection of his speeches and essays compiled by his widow, Amy Jacques Garvey, setting out a vision to unite Africa and Africans. As an early proponent of the Back-to-Africa movement, Garvey encouraged a sense of pride...

The Books Sānk and Pātanğal: A Socio-Cultural History of Al-Bīrūnī's Interpretations of Sāṅkhya and Yoga - Hardcover

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by No駑ie Verdon (Author)The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Al-Bīrūnī (ca. 973-1050) was an innovative encyclopaedist thinker. He is particularly known to have investigated into India of his time. Yet, his life and the circumstances of his encounter with Indian languages, culture and sciences are still shrouded in mystery and legends. This research brings to light elements of his intellectual journey based on w...

Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Simon Blackburn (Author)Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for "anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how toapproach them," Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major philosophers have tackled the questions that have pressed themselves most forcefully on human consciousness. Sim...

Between Existentialism and Marxism - Paperback

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by Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)This book presents a full decade of Sartre's work, from the publication of the Critique of Dialectical Reason in 1960, the basic philosophical turning-point in his postwar development, to the inception of his major study on Flaubert, the first volumes of which appeared in 1971. The essays and interviews collected here form a vivid panorama of the range and unity of Sartre's interests, since his deliberate attempt to wed his original existentialism to a rethought Ma...

Feminist Animal and Multispecies Studies: Critical Perspectives on Food and Eating - Hardcover

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by Kadri Aavik (Volume Editor), Kuura Irni (Volume Editor), Milla-Maria Joki (Volume Editor)This book develops critical feminist animal and multispecies studies across various societal and environmental contexts. The chapters discuss timely questions broadly related to food and eating, stemming from connections drawn between critical animal studies, feminist theory, and multispecies studies. The themes explored include trans-inclusive ecofeminism, decolonial perspectives to veganism, links be...

The Ideology of Work: Theoretical Humanism, Work and Labour - Hardcover

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by Samuel Mercer (Author)In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed. This appendix was titled 'the Ideology of Work'. This book takes inspiration from this appendix, to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analysing work from an Althusserian perspective today. The dominant form of this ideology of work today is theoretical humanism. This book demonstrates how theoretical humanism has un...

The Fate of Choice: Freedom and Imputability in Kant and His Early Successors - Hardcover

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by J?rg Noller (Author)This book reconstructs the intense early post-Kantian debate on freedom of the will, choice, and moral imputability for the first time. It addresses the following questions: How is freedom of choice possible given the causal predetermination of the world? How can we escape skepticism about freedom of the will? What are the characteristics of moral freedom? Are we free to act immorally, and if so, how exactly? And finally: How can we conceive of our individual freedom as...

Aesthetics in Arabic Thought: From Pre-Islamic Arabia Through Al-Andalus - Paperback

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by José Miguel Puerta-Vilchez (Author)In Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn K...

Gregory Palamas' Metaphysics of Light: The 'Absorption' of the Body by the Spirit - Hardcover

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by Patr?cia Calv?rio (Author)This book examines Gregory Palamas' perspective on light, applying the 'metaphysics of light' framework introduced by Clemens Baeumker and adapting it to propose a new theoretical approach to Palamas' thought. It explores Palamas' understanding of light, addressing its ontological, epistemological, and transformative aspects, which he articulates through the integration of scriptural exegesis and the direct experiences of monastic prayer. The analysis covers Palam...

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by Hynek Bartos (Volume Editor), Vojtěch Linka (Volume Editor)Despite Aristotle's family background and his undeniable impact on ancient Greek medicine, the influence of medicine on Aristotle's philosophy is controversial and far from universally acknowledged. The aim of this volume is to re-examine the influence of medical knowledge and literature on Aristotle's work, in particular to explore the connections with the Hippocratic writings. The volume encourages further exploration of this int...

Shusterman's Somaesthetics: From Hip Hop Philosophy to Politics and Performance Art - Paperback

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by Jerold J. Abrams (Volume Editor)This edited collection provides an in-depth and wide-ranging exploration of pragmatist philosopher Richard Shusterman's distinctive project of "somaesthetics," devoted not only to better understanding bodily experience but also to greater mastery of somatic perception, performance, and presentation. Against contemporary trends that focus narrowly on conceptual and computational thinking, Shusterman returns philosophy to what is most fundamental--the sentient...

Marxian Totality: Inverting Hegel to Expound Worldly Matters - Hardcover

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by Kaveh Boveiri (Author)The present volume represents the first book-length monograph on the Marxian concept of totality as seen from a philosophical and sociopolitical perspective. Drawing on a large number of classical and contemporary works, Boveiri elucidates the distinctive features of Marxian totality with a particular focus on its methodology. The work has four fundamental elements, or moments. First, it develops arguments against undialectical conceptions of totality. Then it present...

Machiavelliana: The Living Machiavelli in Modern Mythologies - Paperback

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by Michael Jackson (Author), Damian Grace (Author)In Machiavelliana Michael Jackson and Damian Grace offer a comprehensive study of the uses and abuses of Niccolò Machiavelli's name in society generally and in academic fields distant from his intellectual origins. It assesses the appropriation of Machiavelli in didactic works in management, social psychology, and primatology, scholarly texts in leaderships studies, as well as novels, plays, commercial enterprises, television dramas, operas, r...

Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation: A Study of Darʾ Taʿāruḍ Al-ʿaql Wa-L-Naql - Paperback

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by Carl Sharif El-Tobgui (Author)In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers the first comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya's ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation). In his colossal riposte to the Muslim philosophers and rationalist theologians, the towering Ḥanbalī polymath rejects the call to prioritize reason over revelation in cases of alleged conflict, interrogating instead the very conception...

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by Michel Foucault (Author)Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's ...

Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice: A Critical Edition - Paperback

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by Carol Newsom (Author) Number of Pages: 508 Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1985

Discovering Black Existentialism - Paperback

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by E. Anthony Muhammad (Author)In the post-Trump era, the Black lived experience continues to come under assault. Emerging from the suffering imposed on Black bodies comes Black Existential Philosophy, an umbrella term encompassing the multiple depictions of Black life under White subjugation. Whether taking the form of first hand narratives of the lives of enslaved Blacks, the racialized theological discourse of the Nation of Islam, or the writings of W.E.B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon, the wor...

Alienation. Recuperating the Classical Discussion of Marx Et Al. - Paperback

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by Asger Sørensen (Author)Nowadays alienation is naturally discussed as an existential condition of human beings, but in the 20th century, a strong Marxist current claimed alienation to be implied by capitalism, in particular by private property and the social division of labor. Alienation should therefore be criticized as part of the critique of capitalism and political economy, and might therefore also possibly be overcome. Today, under the hegemony of neo-liberal capitalism, the basic logi...

Mimetic Posthumanism: Homo Mimeticus 2.0 in Art, Philosophy and Technics - Hardcover

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by Nidesh Lawtoo (Volume Editor)It is tempting to affirm that on and about November 2022 (post)human character changed. The revolution in A.I. simulations certainly calls for an update of the ancient realization that humans are imitative animals, or homo mimeticus. But the mimetic turn in posthuman studies is not limited to A.I.: from simulation to identification, affective contagion to viral mimesis, robotics to hypermimesis, the essays collected in this volume articulate the multiple facets...