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by Ralph Waldo Emerson (Author)Ralph Waldo Emerson's essays and poems on the transcendental movement in the United States became some of the most important literary pieces in American History. In this culmination of essays, Emerson takes the reader through different forms of philosophies that attempt to explain the world and man's purpose within it.Heavily vested in the philosophy of transcendentalism, though not one to label himself a true follower of the movement, Emerson believed that spir...

Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Dana Villa (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she was a student of the two major exponents of Existenz philosophy in Germany, Karl Jaspers and Martin Heidegger. Arendt escaped Nazi Germany in 1933, traveling first to Paris and then in 1940 to the United States, where she gained citizenship in 1951. As director of the Jewish C...

Ontology and Oppression: Race, Gender, and Social Reality - Paperback

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by Katharine Jenkins (Author)The way society is organized means that we all get made into members of various types of people, such as judges, wives, or women. These 'human social kinds' may be brought into being by oppressive social arrangements, and people may suffer oppression in virtue of being made into a member of a certain human social kind; this much is obvious. In Ontology and Oppression, Katharine Jenkins goes further, arguing that we should pay attention to the ways in which the ver...

Erotism: Death and Sensuality - Paperback

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by Georges Bataille (Author), Mary Dalwood (Translator)Taboo and sacrifice, transgression and language, death and sensuality--Georges Bataille pursues these themes with an original, often startling perspective. Bataille challenges any single discourse on the erotic. The scope of his inquiry ranges from Emily Bronte to Sade, from St. Therese to Claude Levi-Strauss and Dr. Kinsey. The subjects he covers include prostitution, mythical ecstasy, cruelty, and organized war. Investigating desire pri...

A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age - Paperback

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by Steven Nadler (Author)The story of one of the most important--and incendiary--books in Western history When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--"godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally regarded as a relig...

No Exit and Three Other Plays - Paperback

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by Jean-Paul Sartre (Author)NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, thought-provoking works: the reworking of the Electra-Orestes story, the conflict of a young intellectual torn between theory and conflict, and an arresting attack on American racism.Front Jacket4 plays about an existential portrayal of Hell, the reworking of the Electr...

Discourses, Fragments, Handbook - Paperback

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by Epictetus (Author), Robin Hard (Author), Christopher Gill (Author)'About things that are within our power and those that are not.' Epictetus' Discourses have been the most widely read and influential of all writings of Stoic philosophy, from antiquity onwards. They set out the core ethical principles of Stoicism in a form designed to help people put them into practice and to use them as a basis for leading a good human life. Epictetus was a teacher, and a freed slave, whose discourses have...

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by Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), R. Kevin Hill (Translator), Michael A. Scarpitti (Translator)New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power contains some of Nietzsche's most fascinating and combative writings on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe. Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death, The Will to Power is a collection of the philosopher's reflections and theories taken from his unpublished notebooks. Covering topics such as nihilism, Christianity, morality, and the famous...

Big Panda and Tiny Dragon Book Collection: Heartwarming Stories of Courage and Friendship for All Ages - Hardcover

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by James Norbury (Author)An uplifting gift for readers of all ages, this keepsake collection includes both heartwarming books in the internationally best-selling series: Big Panda and Tiny Dragon and The Journey. "While the drawings have the charm of Winnie-the-Pooh, the captions have the depth of ancient proverbs." -- The Guardian "Food for the soul." - CBS Mornings Filled with delightful illustrations, timeless wisdom, and a tale of extraordinary friendship, the Big Panda and Tiny Dragon...

New Age Bible of Mother Africa: Genetic Engineering, Human Phylogeny, Lost Civilizations, Ancient Knowledge, The Metu Neter & the Anunnaki Gods of Nib - Paperback

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by T. Lindsey-Bilingsley (Author)(Volume 1): The African Origins of Race and Skin Color. A scientific exploration into OUR prehistoric extraterrestrial ancestors and their creation of all mankind. Number of Pages: 402 Dimensions: 0.82 x 10 x 8 IN Publication Date: January 12, 2018

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by Joseph Campbell (Author), Bill Moyers (Author)NATIONAL BESTSELLER - An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people--including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the "song of the...

The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment - Paperback

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by Roshi P. Kapleau (Author)Exploring the three pillars of Zen--teaching, practice, and enlightenment--the founder of one of the most influential Zen centers in the U.S. gives readers invaluable advice on how to develop their own practices. "The Three Pillars of Zen has been the wellspring of Zen teachings for practitioners in the West, remaining as vital and fresh today as it was when it was originally published. It truly ranks among the timeless classics of Zen Buddhism." --Roshi John Daido...

On Ethics and Character Traits: An Arabic Critical Edition and English Translation of Epistle 9 - Hardcover

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by Omar Al?-de Unzaga (Author)This volume presents the original Arabic text of Epistle 9 of the Brethren of Purity, with a clear English translation, introduction, and notes. This epistle is a major medieval treatise on ethics and character traits, which drinks from two sources: the Greek tradition, especially Plato, Aristotle, and Galen; and Islamic revelation.- Presents the original text with a clear new English translation- Includes notes to technical concepts and obscure passages- Provide...

How Things Are: An Introduction to Buddhist Metaphysics - Paperback

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by Mark Siderits (Author)It is widely known that Buddhists deny the existence of the self. However, Buddhist philosophers defend interesting positions on a variety of other issues in fundamental ontology. In particular, they have important things to say about ontological reduction and the nature of the causalrelation. Amidst the prolonged debate over global anti-realism, Buddhist philosophers devised an innovative approach to the radical nominalist denial of all universals and real resemblanc...

Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts - Hardcover

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by Daniel McInerny (Author) The human person is a truth seeker, and one of the most compelling ways human beings pursue truth is through the arts. In Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflection on the Arts, Daniel McInerny argues for an understanding of art as a form of inquiry into truth that proceeds by way of sensible beauty. Drawing upon the thought of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, McInerny argues for the unfashionable yet philosophically compelling view that art is essentially ...

The Exchange of Words: Speech, Testimony, and Intersubjectivity - Paperback

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by Richard Moran (Author)The capacity to speak is not only the ability to pronounce words, but the socially-recognized capacity to make one's words count in various ways. We rely on this capacity whenever we tell another person something and expect to be believed, and what we learn from others in this way is the basis for most of what we take ourselves to know about the world. In The Exchange of Words, Richard Moran provides a philosophical exploration of human testimony as a form of intersub...

Analytic Philosophy and Human Life - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nagel (Author)This book collects Thomas Nagel's recent philosophical reflections on topics of fundamental interest: ethics, moral psychology, science and religion, death, the holocaust, and the metaphysics of mind. Among the figures discussed are Peter Singer, Alvin Plantinga, Christine Korsgaard, Tony Judt, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Iris Murdoch, T. M. Scanlon, Ronald Dworkin, Samuel Scheffler, Daniel Kahneman, Jonathan Haidt, Joshua Greene, and Daniel Dennett. Nagel consi...

The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel - Hardcover

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by Richard Cross (Author)The late middle ages was a period of great speculative innovation in Christology, within the framework of a standard Christological opinion established by the Franciscan John Duns Scotus and the Dominican Hervaeus Natalis. According to this view, the Incarnation consists in some kind of dependence relationship between an individual human nature and a divine person. The Metaphysics of Christology in the Late Middle Ages: William of Ockham to Gabriel Biel explores ways ...

Meditations: Gilded Pocket Edition - Hardcover

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by Marcus Aurelius (Author), George Long (Translator)Marcus Aurelius's classic work Meditations is presented in a handsome hardback edition featuring gold embossing and gilded page edges. Meditations is a collection of personal writings and spiritual reflections by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, translated by eminent Classical scholar George Long. His thoughts on how to lead a virtuous life, the importance of tranquillity and his ideas on how to reconcile the challenges of public and pri...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing - Hardcover

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by Marie Kondo (Author)#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The book that sparked a revolution and inspired the hit Netflix series Tidying Up with Marie Kondo the original guide to decluttering your home once and for all. ONE OF THE MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE--CNN Despite constant efforts to declutter your home, do papers still accumulate like snowdrifts and clothes pile up like a tangled mess of noodles? Japanese cleaning consultant Marie Kondo takes tidying to a whole new level, promisi...

How to Have a Life: An Ancient Guide to Using Our Time Wisely - Hardcover

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by Seneca (Author), James S. Romm (Editor)A vibrant new translation of Seneca's "On the Shortness of Life," a pointed reminder to make the most of our time Who doesn't worry sometimes that smart phones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the Stoic philosopher Seneca the Younger offered one of the most famous answers to that question in his essay "On the Shortness of Life"--a ...

Exploring Ethics: An Introductory Anthology - Paperback

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by Steven M. Cahn (Author)In this remarkably accessible, concise, and engaging introduction to moral philosophy, Steven M. Cahn brings together a rich, balanced, and wide-ranging collection of fifty-two readings on ethical theory and contemporary moral issues. He has carefully edited all the articles to ensure that they will be exceptionally clear and understandable to undergraduate students. The selections are organized into three parts--Challenges to Morality, Moral Theories, and Moral Prob...

You Say You Want a Revolution?: Radical Idealism and Its Tragic Consequences - Paperback

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by Daniel Chirot (Author)Author BiographyDaniel Chirot is the Herbert J. Ellison Professor of Russian and Eurasian Studies at the Henry Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of many books, most recently, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World (with Scott L. Montgomery) (Princeton), which was named one of the New York Times Book Review's 100 Notable Books of the Year. Number of Pages: 192 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x...

Vegetal Sex: Philosophy of Plants - Hardcover

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by Stella Sandford (Author)This book introduces the reader to the exciting new field of plant philosophy and takes it in a new direction to ask: what does it mean to say that plants are sexed? Do 'male' and 'female' really mean the same when applied to humans, trees, fungi and algae? Are the zoological categories of sex really adequate for understanding the - uniquely 'dibiontic' - life cycle of plants?Vegetal Sexaddresses these questions through a detailed analysis of major moments in the hi...

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by Sun-Tzu (Author), Thomas Cleary (Translator)Compiled more than two thousand years ago by a mysterious warrior-philosopher, The Art of War is still perhaps the most prestigious and influential book of strategy in the world today, as eagerly studied in Asia by modern politicians and executives as it as been by military leaders since ancient times. As a study of the anatomy of organizations in conflict, The Art of War applies to competition and conflict in general, on every level from the int...

Strange New World: How Thinkers and Activists Redefined Identity and Sparked the Sexual Revolution - Paperback

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by Carl R. Trueman (Author), Ryan T. Anderson (Foreword by)From Philosophy to Technology, Tracing the Origin of Identity Politics How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how should the church respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman shows how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of "expressive individualism." Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde...

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by Walt Whitman (Author), Ken Mondschein (Introduction by)A timeless collection of hundreds of poems that resonate to the American spirit. Leaves of Grass is a timeless collection of poems and essays penned by influential nineteenth-century writer Walt Whitman. This profound compilation explores topics such as nature, mysticism, mortality, transcendentalism, and democracy. Inspired by personal experiences and observations, Whitman spent almost four decades piecing together the complete work,...

The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy - Leather

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by Sun Tzu (Author), Lao-Tzu (Author), Confucius (Author)The words of the ancient Chinese sages are as timeless as they are wise. IBPA Benjamin Franklin Gold Award Winner 2017! The words of ancient Chinese philosophers have influenced other thinkers across the world for more than 2,000 years, and continue to shape our ideas today. The Art of War & Other Classics of Eastern Philosophy includes translations of Sun Tzu's Art of War, Lao-Tzu's Tao Te Ching, the teachings of the master sage Co...

Inside the Yoga Sutras: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for the Study & Practice of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras - Paperback

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by Jaganath Carrera (Author)Inside the Yoga Sutras presents a clear, up-to-date perspective on this classic text of Yoga theory and practice.. This comprehensive sourcebook includes: commentary for each sutra, extensive cross referencing, a sutras-by-subject index, a study guide for both teachers and students, a word-for-word dictionary, hints for daily practice, and an enhanced glossary.Author BiographyReverend Jaganath Carrera is the founder and spiritual head of the Yoga Life Society. He h...

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets - Paperback

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by Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Author)Fooled by Randomness 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 The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin in the Game, and The Bed of Procrustes. Fooled by Randomness is the word-of-mouth sensation that will change the way you think about business and the world. Nassim Nichol...

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt - Paperback

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by Albert Camus (Author)By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout hist...

Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life - Hardcover

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by Héctor García (Author), Francesc Miralles (Author)INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - 1.5 MILLION+ COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE "Workers looking for more fulfilling positions should start by identifying their ikigai." ―Business Insider "One of the unintended--yet positive--consequences of the [pandemic] is that it is forcing people to reevaluate their jobs, careers, and lives. Use this time wisely, find your personal ikigai, and live your best life." ―Forbes Find your ikigai (pronounced ee-key-guy) to li...