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On the Socratic Education: An Introduction to the Shorter Platonic Dialogues - Paperback

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by Christopher Bruell (Author)The aim of the book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to serious contemporary readers.Author BiographyChristopher Bruell is professor of political science at Boston College. Number of Pages: 240 Dimensions: 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN Publication Date: April 08, 2003

Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought - Paperback

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by Peter Augustine Lawler (Author)Postmodernism Rightly Understood is a dramatic return to realism-a poetic attempt to attain a true understanding of the capabilities and limitations of the postmodern predicament. Prominent political theorist Peter Augustine Lawler reflects on the flaws of postmodern thought, the futility of pragmatism, and the spiritual emptiness of existentialism.Author BiographyPeter Augustine Lawler is professor of government at Berry College and associate editor of Persp...

The A to Z of Leibniz's Philosophy - Paperback

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by N. J. Fox (Author)The A to Z of Leibniz's Philosophy sheds light not only on his philosophical thought but also the impact it had on the thinking of his contemporaries. They, and he, are described in numerous cross-referenced dictionary entries. Also included are other entries that present his writings, explain his concepts, and trace his action in specific fields. The introduction sums much of this up and-along with the bibliography-provides a strong foundation for further study.Author Bi...

Goddess Durga and Sacred Female Power - Paperback

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by Laura Amazzone (Author)This book takes us on a pilgrimage to explore the Goddess Durga in ancient and contemporary culture. The mythology, rituals, philosophy, and spiritual practices of this distinctly female-centered and millennia-old tradition of Durga offer female potential and empowerment, focusing on peace, healing, spiritual liberation, and realization of inherent divinity.Author BiographyLaura Amazzone is an author, teacher, jewelry artist, and Yogini. She completed her master's de...

Embodied Collective Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature - Paperback

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by Rafael F. Narváez (Author)The human body is not a given fact--it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew.Author BiographyRafael F. Narváez is a sociologist. He was educated in Lima, Peru, and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is assistant professor of so...

Why Are the Japanese Non-Religious?: Japanese Spirituality: Being Non-Religious in a Religious Culture - Paperback

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by Toshimaro AMA (Author)Why Are the Japanese Non-Religious?: Japanese Spirituality: Being Non-Religious in a Religious Culture, translated here for the first time in English, was first published in Japan in 1996. It has also been translated into Korean and German. Author Toshimaro Ama examines the concept of mushukyo, or lack of specific religious beliefs. According to Ama, the Japanese generally lack an understanding of or desire to commit to a particular organized religion, oftentimes fusi...

We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition - Paperback

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by Sj John Courtney Murray (Author), Peter Augustine Lawler (Introduction by)The 1960 publication of We Hold These Truths marked a significant event in the history of modern American thought. Since that time, Sheed & Ward has kept the book in print and has published several studies of John Courtney Murray's life and work. We are proud to present a new edition of this classic text, which features a comprehensive introduction by Peter Lawler that places Murray in the context of Catholic and...

Libertarianism: For and Against - Paperback

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by Craig Duncan (Author), Tibor R. Machan (Author), Martha Nussbaum (Foreword by)Libertarianism: For and Against offers dueling perspectives on the scope of legitimate government. Tibor R. Machan, a well-known libertarian philosopher, argues for a minimal government devoted solely to protecting individual rights to life, liberty, and property. Against this view, philosopher Craig Duncan defends democratic liberalism, which aims to ensure that all citizens have fair access to a life of dignity...

Chiasmatic Encounters: Art, Ethics, Politics - Hardcover

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by Kuisma Korhonen (Editor), Arto Haapala (Editor), Sara Heinämaa (Editor)In this book, fourteen international authors across various fields analyze the concept of chiasm and its role in human perception and experience, discussing the work of major philosophers like Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, and Deleuze, and adapting their ideas to cultural analysis.Author BiographyKuisma Korhonen is professor of literature at the University of Oulu. Arto Haapala is professor of aesthetics at the Unive...

The Ethics of Waste: How We Relate to Rubbish - Paperback

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by Gay Hawkins (Author)Gay Hawkins explores the ethical significance of waste in everyday life_from the broadest conceptions of waste and loss to how the environmental movement has affected the ways we think about garbage. Do we feel virtuous for reusing plastic bags and disdain those who don't? At what point does personal waste become public responsibility? How does this 'public conscience' affect policy? Placing these ideas into historical, social, and cultural perspective, this thoughtful ...

Alexandre Kojeve: Wisdom at the End of History - Paperback

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by James H. Nichols Jr. (Author)Nichols examines the major writings of Alexandre Koj_ve, and clarifies the character and brings to light the importance of his political philosophy. While emphasizing the political dimension of Koj_ve's thought, Nichols treats all his major published writings and shows how the remarkably varied parts of Koj_ve's intellectual endeavor go together. This is an essential assessment of Koj_ve which considers the works that preceded his turn to Hegel, seeks to artic...

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent from Ideology - Paperback

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by Daniel J. Mahoney (Author)In Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Daniel Mahoney presents a philosophical perspective on the political condition of modern man through an exegesis and analysis of Solzhenitsyn's work. Mahoney demonstrates the tremendous, yet often unappreciated, impact of Sozhenitsyn's writing on twentieth century thinking through an examination of the writer's profoundly important critique of communist totalitarianism in a judicious and original mix of western and Russian, Christian and...

Four Essays on Aesthetics: Toward a Global Perspective - Hardcover

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by Zehou Li (Author), Jane Cauvel (Author)Available for the first time in English, Li Zehou's philosophical aesthetics interpret the historical origins and evolution of aesthetic experience and their significance to the intellectual, emotional, and spiritual growth of human beings. Although LI's ideas have been debated in China for more than two decades, his conversations with Jane Cauvel will now allow Western students and philosophers to re-encounter Chinese and Western conceptions of aesth...

Comprehending Care: Problems and Possibilities in The Ethics of Care - Paperback

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by Tove Pettersen (Author)In Comprehending Care, Tove Pettersen subjects the ethics of care, as advanced by Carol Gilligan, to a moral-philosophical examination. More precisely, she extracts the philosophical foundation in this ethics, probes its possible implications for moral theory of a more traditional stamp, and explores its normative plausibility. Pettersen exposes several misconceptions of Gilligan's work.Author BiographyTove Pettersen is an assistant professor in the Department of Phi...

House Committee on Ethics: Motivating Factors for Members of Congress - Hardcover

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by Michael J. Gordon (Author), Christopher Stream (Author)The authors examine the internal and external motivating factors behind the actions of the House Committee on Ethics members by looking at the procedural efficiency of the Committee on Ethics (or lack thereof), as a natural consequence of the committee members' implicit public policy actions.Author BiographyMichael J. Gordon is visiting assistant professor of the School of Public Policy and Leadership at the University of Nevada, Las V...

Contingent Computation: Abstraction, Experience, and Indeterminacy in Computational Aesthetics - Paperback

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by M. Beatrice Fazi (Author)Contingent Computation offers a new theoretical perspective through which we can engage philosophically with computing. The book proves that aesthetics is a viable mode of investigating contemporary computational systems.Author BiographyM. Beatrice Fazi is Lecturer in the School of Media, Film and Music at the University of Sussex. Her primary areas of expertise are the philosophy of computation, the philosophy of technology and the emerging field of media philosop...

An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism - Paperback

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by Karolin Mirzakhan (Author)An Ironic Approach to the Absolute: Schlegel's Poetic Mysticism brings Friedrich Schlegel's ironic fragments in dialogue with the Dao De Jing and John Ashbery's Flow Chart to argue that poetic texts offer an intuition of the whole because they resist the reader's desire to comprehend them fully.Author BiographyKarolin Mirzakhan is a lecturer of philosophy at Kennesaw State University. Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.33 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: May 17, 2022

Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being - Hardcover

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by Elyse Purcell (Author)Advances in biotechnologies for human enhancement and designer babies appear to offer us new hope in medicine, but capitalism may incentivize the selection of traits for profit. Engineering Perfection: Solidarity, Disability, and Well-being offers an opposing Marxist view, one that embraces human vulnerability and embodied difference.Author BiographyElyse Purcell is assistant professor of philosophy at the State University of New York College at Oneonta. Number of Pag...

Paul Ricoeur's Renewal of Philosophical Anthropology: Vulnerability, Capability, Justice - Hardcover

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by Marc De Leeuw (Author)This book contextualizes Paul Ricoeur's philosophy through the lens of philosophical anthropology. It shows how Ricoeur renews this tradition by developing a hermeneutic of human self-expression, a phenomenology of the capable human, and an ethics of life lived "with and for others in just institutions."Author BiographyMarc de Leeuw is senior lecturer in legal philosophy at the University of New South Wales. Number of Pages: 216 Dimensions: 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN Publication...

Heidegger's Phenomenology of Perception: Learning to See and Hear Hermeneutically - Paperback

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by David Kleinberg-Levin (Author)This second volume of David Kleinberg-Levin's study of Heidegger's phenomenology of perception sheds light on how Heidegger works, both critically and constructively, with seeing and hearing. The author explores how these capacities address the ills illuminated by Heidegger's critique of metaphysics and the nihilism devastating the Western world.Author BiographyDavid Kleinberg-Levin is professor emeritus of philosophy at Northwestern University. Books: The Bod...

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by Nathalie Etoke (Author)The history of slavery, colonization, subjugation, gratuitous violence, and the denial of basic human rights to people of African descent has led Afro-Pessimists to look at black existence through the lens of white supremacy and anti-blackness. Against this trend, Black Existential Freedom argues that Blackness is not inherently synonymous with victimhood. Rather, it is inextricable from existential freedom and the struggle for political liberation. This book present...

The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance - Paperback

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by Alison Bailey (Author)"Check your privilege" is not a request for a simple favor. It asks white people to consider the painful dimensions of what they have been socialized to ignore. Alison Bailey's The Weight of Whiteness: A Feminist Engagement with Privilege, Race, and Ignorance examines how whiteness misshapes our humanity, measuring the weight of whiteness in terms of its costs and losses to collective humanity. People of color feel the weight of whiteness daily. The resistant habits o...

My Elders Taught Me: Aspects of Western Great Lakes American Indian Philosophy - Paperback

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by John F. Boatman (Author)In this book the author examines various aspects of a selection of Western Great Lakes American Indian philosophical traditions and beliefs. He combines over forty years of stories, anecdotes, and observations learned from Western Great Lakes tribal elders into a coherent and thought-provoking philosophy text which challenges readers to look beyond their own cultural prepossessions and discover a method of asking questions where the answers come from within.Author B...

The Ways of Naysaying: No, Not, Nothing, and Nonbeing - Hardcover

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by Eva Brann (Author)No, that diminutive but independent vocable, begins its great role early in human life and never loses it. For not only can it head a negative sentence, announcing its judgement, or answer a question, implying its negated content, it can, and mostly does, in the beginning of speech, express an assertion of the resistant will-sometimes just that and nothing more. Eva Brann explores nothingness in the third book of her trilogy, which has treated imagination, time and now na...

Hope, Not Fear: A Guide to Changing the Way We View Death - Paperback

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by Benjamin Blech (Author)In Hope, Not Fear Benjamin Blech helps readers approach the end of life with calm. More than six years ago Blech was diagnosed with a fatal illness and given six months to live. Over the course of his career Rabbi Blech had counseled hundreds of people through the losses of loved ones and their own end of life, but when confronted with his own unexpected diagnosis he struggled with mortality in a new way. This personal and heartfelt book shares the answers people gra...

The Goldilocks God: Searching for the via media - Paperback

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by Guy Collins (Author)The Goldilocks God explores the fertile middle ground between toxic Christianity and militant atheism. Illuminating ancient Christian practice with cutting-edge philosophy and theology, Guy Collins reveals the lifelong habits that are "just right" for encountering the mystery of God.Author BiographyGuy Collins is rector of St. Thomas Church, Hanover, and the Episcopal Chaplain to Dartmouth College. Number of Pages: 272 Dimensions: 0.6 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: Februa...

Navigating Postmodern Theology: Insights from Jean-Luc Marion and Gianni Vattimo's Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Michael J. McGravey (Author)Navigating Postmodern Theology: Insights from Jean-Luc Marion and Gianni Vattimo's Philosophy provides an introduction to these two authors in relation to theology and metaphysics. This book invites the reader to consider new ways of thinking about theology in a postmetaphysical way, grounded in Marion's phenomenology and Vattimo's philosophy.Author BiographyMichael J. McGravey is assistant professor of religious studies and director of the Institute for Theolog...

The Morality Wars: The Ongoing Debate Over The Origin Of Human Goodness - Hardcover

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by Louise Mabille (Editor), Henk Stoker (Editor), Paul Copan (Contribution by)In this book, contributors who are atheists, believers, and anything in between debate the origins and nature of morality and the human impulse for good. Author BiographyLouise Mabille is a Nietzsche scholar currently engaging in postdoctoral research at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.. Henk Stoker is professor of Christian apologetics and ethics at the North-West University, Potchefstroom, S...

The Holy Spirit and Moral Action in Thomas Aquinas - Hardcover

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by Sj Jack Mahoney (Author)This book is a detailed study of how, according to Thomas Aquinas and his works, God's Holy Spirit is continuously at work in and through human moral activity. Author BiographyJack Mahoney, SJ, has written and spoken extensively on ethics and theology. He is currently based at the London Jesuit Centre. Number of Pages: 194 Dimensions: 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: February 15, 2021

Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence - Hardcover

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by Christopher B. Barnett (Author)S ren Kierkegaard is well known for his claim that human life is marked by three existential spheres -- the aesthetic, the ethical, and the religious. In Bob Dylan and the Spheres of Existence, Christopher B. Barnett argues that Kierkegaard's theory provides a key interpretative lens through which to evaluate the songwriting of Bob Dylan.Author BiographyChristopher B. Barnett is professor of theology and religious studies at Villanova University. Number of Pa...

Deconstructing Undecidability: Derrida, Justice, and Religious Discourse - Paperback

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by Michael Oliver (Author)This book critically advances readings of Jacques Derrida to offer a renewed understanding of the problem of decision and its inherent exclusivity. Michael Oliver applies this deconstructive insight to the contexts of justice pursuits and theological negotiations of divine decision, arguing for the necessity of reckoning with difficult decisions.Author BiographyMichael Oliver is a departmental lecturer in the faculty of theology and religion at the University of Oxfo...

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by David Lawrence Coe (Author)Kierkegaard and Luther reveals what Kierkegaard lauded, lanced, missed, and misjudged of Luther and spotlights the concord the two actually shared, namely, the negative yet necessary role that Christian suffering (Anfechtung) plays in Christian life.Author BiographyDavid Lawrence Coe is assistant professor of theology and philosophy at Concordia University, Nebraska. Number of Pages: 274 Dimensions: 0.62 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: January 15, 2022