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Trivium: The Classical Liberal Arts of Grammar, Logic, & Rhetoric - Hardcover

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by John Michell (Author), Rachel Grenon (Author), Earl Fontainelle (Author)Following the success of Quadrivium, Sciencia, and Designa in the acclaimed Wooden Books series, Trivium is a compendium of writings on the classical subjects at the heart of a liberal education, bringing the wisdom of the past into the twenty-first century. The trivium refers to the three liberal arts considered in classical Greece to be the pillars of critical thought: grammar, logic, and rhetoric. Following on the s...

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Report copyright infringementby Keith Ward (Author)Denying the existence of the human soul has devastating effects on our valuation of human beings and human endeavour, maintains the author. He counters such denials, the result of the recent popularization of secular and materialist views of human development, with a detailed examination of philosophical, anthropological and scientific attacks on God and the reality of the human soul. Taking current scientific arguments back to their essentia...

Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Michael Inwood (Author)Martin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of "philosopher," by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental philosophy, is probably the most divisive thinker of the twentieth century. In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Michael Inwood focuses on Heidegger's most important work, Being and Time, to explore its major themes of existence in the world, inauthentic...

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by Vanessa Christina Wills (Author)"The communists do not preach morality at all"; this line from The Communist Manifesto might seem to settle the question of whether Marxism has anything to offer moral philosophy. Yet, Marx issued both trenchant critiques of "bourgeois" morality and thundering condemnations of capitalism's "vampire-like" destructiveness. He decried commodity-exchange for corroding our ability to value one another for who we are, not how much our lives could be traded away fo...

Nonviolent Resistance as a Philosophy of Life: Gandhi's Enduring Relevance - Hardcover

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by Ramin Jahanbegloo (Author)What do we mean by nonviolence? What can nonviolence achieve? Are there limits to nonviolence and, if so, what are they? These are the questions the Iranian political philosopher and activist Ramin Jahanbegloo tackles in his journey though the major political advocates of nonviolence during the 20th century. While nonviolent resistance has accompanied human culture from its earliest beginnings, and representations of nonviolence in Eastern religions like Jainism, ...

Lila: An Inquiry Into Morals - Paperback

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by Robert Pirsig (Author)The author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance examines life's essential issues as he recounts the journey down the Hudson River in a sailboat of his philosopher-narrator Phaedrus.Author BiographyRobert Pirsig was born in 1928 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He held degrees in chemistry, philosophy, and journalism and also studied at Benares Hindu University in India. He was the author of the classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and its sequel, Lila. ...

Philosophy of Science and the Kyoto School: An Introduction to Nishida Kitaro, Tanabe Hajime and Tosaka Jun - Hardcover

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by Dean Anthony Brink (Author), Georgina Stewart (Editor), James Madaio (Editor)This book offers the first introduction to a major Japanese philosophical movement through the interests and arguments of its founder, Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), his successor, Tanabe Hajime (1885-1962), and student-turned-critic, Tosaka Jun (1900-1945). Focusing on their contributions to thinking about place, space, and dialectics, this concise introduction brings these influential thinkers to life by connecting...

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen - Paperback

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by David Brooks (Author)NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives--from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain As David Brooks observes, "There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen--to accurately know...

Tintoretto's Difference: Deleuze, Diagrammatics and Art History - Paperback

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by Kamini Vellodi (Author)A provocative account of the philosophical problem of 'difference' in art history, Tintoretto's Difference offers a new reading of this pioneering 16th century painter, drawing upon the work of the 20th century philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Bringing together philosophical, art historical, art theoretical and art historiographical analysis, it is the first book-length study in English of Tintoretto for nearly two decades and the first in-depth exploration of the implica...

Insurgent Truth: Chelsea Manning and the Politics of Outsider Truth-Telling - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Maxwell (Author)Challenging depictions of Chelsea Manning as a failed whistleblower, Insurgent Truth argues that Manning's act should be seen as what the book terms "outsider truth-telling." Lida Maxwell develops this argument through an examination of Manning's prison writings, the lengthy chat logs between Manning and the hacker who eventually turned her in, various journalistic, artistic, and academic responses to Manning. Comparing Manning's example and wr...

Lacan Contra Foucault: Subjectivity, Sex, and Politics - Paperback

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by Nadia Bou Ali (Editor), Rohit Goel (Editor)Lacan Contra Foucault seeks to ground the divergences and confluences between these two key thinkers in relation to contemporary philosophy and criticism. Specifically the topics of sexuality, the theory of the subject, history and historicism, scientific formalization, and ultimately politics. In doing so, the authors in this volume open up new connections between Lacan and Foucault and shine a light on their contemporary relevance to politics an...

Relational Hermeneutics: Essays in Comparative Philosophy - Paperback

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by Paul Fairfield (Editor), Saulius Geniusas (Editor)Investigating connections between philosophical hermeneutics and neighbouring traditions of thought, this volume considers the question of how post-Heideggerian hermeneutics, as represented by Gadamer, Ricoeur and recent scholars following in their wake, relate to these traditions, both in general terms and bearing upon specific questions. The traditions covered in this volume-existentialism, pragmatism, poststructuralism, Eastern philosoph...

Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind - Paperback

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by Shaun Gallagher (Author)Enactivist Interventions is an interdisciplinary work that explores how theories of embodied cognition illuminate many aspects of the mind, including intentionality, representation, the affect, perception, action and free will, higher-order cognition, and intersubjectivity. Gallagher argues for a rethinking of the concept of mind, drawing on pragmatism, phenomenology and cognitive science. Enactivism is presented as a philosophy of nature that has significant method...

45 Great Philosophers and What They Mean for Judaism - Hardcover

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by Shmuly Yanklowitz (Author)In this new forty-five-chapter series, Rabbi Shmuly explores forty-five of the most influential philosophers throughout history and how Jewish ideas might engage with each of the philosophers and their philosophical projects. At times, Judaism may need to reject harmful, foreign ideas. Other times, Judaism may need to adapt, integrate, and expand. There are many other approaches we'll see of how Jewish thought can engage with other philosophies as well. In this ex...

Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll - Paperback

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by David Carrier (Author), David Carrier (Editor), Tiziana Andina (Editor)Boldly developing the central traditions of American modernist abstraction, Lawrence Carroll's paintings engage with a fundamental issue of aesthetic theory, the nature of the medium of painting, in highly original, frequently extraordinarily successful ways. Aesthetic Theory, Abstract Art, and Lawrence Carroll explains how he understands the medium of painting; shows what his art says about the identity of painting as ...

45 Great Philosophers and What They Mean for Judaism - Paperback

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How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality - Hardcover

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by Sarah Nooter (Commentaries by), Sarah Nooter (Translator)An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again, that bittersweet, implacable creature.--Sappho The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and l...

Moral Feelings, Moral Reality, and Moral Progress - Hardcover

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by Thomas Nagel (Author)This volume presents two closely related essays by Thomas Nagel: "Gut Feelings and Moral Knowledge" and "Moral Reality and Moral Progress." Both essays are concerned with moral epistemology and our means of access to moral truth; both are concerned with moral realism and with the resistance to subjectivist and reductionist accounts of morality; and both are concerned with the historical development of moral knowledge. The second essay also proposes an account of the hi...

The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy - Hardcover

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by Karl Sigmund (Author)"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly) "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees. In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our understanding of space, chance, logic, cooperation, voting, and the social contract. Sigmund shows how game theory is integral to moral ph...

The Buddha-Womb and the Way to Liberation (Vol. 3 of a Treatise on Mind) - Paperback

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by Bodo Balsys (Author)This volume resolves the ontology from the two previous volumes concerning the concept of a 'subtle self'. First a commentary of the Tantra Great Gates of Diamond Liberation, that presents detailed information concerning the nature of some important chakras: the Heart, Throat, Diaphragm, and Splenic centres I and II. This adds to what was earlier provided on the Solar Plexus, Sacral and Base of Spine centres. However the focus of the book concerns the attributes of the ...

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by E. M. Cioran (Author), Richard Howard (Translator)"A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning"--The Washington Post This collection of eleven essays, when originally published in France, created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant E...

The Last Chance: Roads of Freedom IV - Paperback

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by Jean-Paul Sartre (Author), Craig Vasey (Translator)The first English translation of Sartre's unfinished fourth volume of Roads of Freedom, exploring themes central to Sartrean existentialism. Based on the French Pleiade edition, published by Gallimard in 1981, the book also includes an interview with Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir's account of his plans for the unfinished work, and introductory material by the editor of the French edition.Author BiographyJean-Paul Sartre (1904-1980) was a Fre...

The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World - Paperback

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by David Deutsch (Author)The New York Times bestseller: A provocative, imaginative exploration of the nature and progress of knowledge"Dazzling." - Steven Pinker, The Guardian In this groundbreaking book, award-winning physicist David Deutsch argues that explanations have a fundamental place in the universe--and that improving them is the basic regulating principle of all successful human endeavor. Taking us on a journey through every fundamental field of science, as well as the history of ci...

How Nonviolence Protects the State - Paperback

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by Peter Gelderloos (Author)Since the civil rights era, the doctrine of nonviolence has enjoyed near-universal acceptance by the US Left. Today protest is often shaped by cooperation with state authorities--even organizers of rallies against police brutality apply for police permits, and anti-imperialists usually stop short of supporting self-defense and armed resistance. How Nonviolence Protects the State challenges the belief that nonviolence is the only way to fight for a better world. In ...

Repair Revolution: How Fixers Are Transforming Our Throwaway Culture - Paperback

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by John Wackman (Author), Elizabeth Knight (Author)Every year, millions of people throw away countless items because they don't know how to fix them. Some products are manufactured in a way that makes it hard, if not impossible, for people to repair them themselves. This throwaway lifestyle depletes Earth's resources and adds to overflowing landfills. Now there's a better way. Repair Revolution chronicles the rise of Repair Cafes, Fixit Clinics, and other volunteer-run organizations devoted t...

Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love - Hardcover

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by Lida Maxwell (Author)How Silent Spring stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics After the success of her first bestseller, The Sea Around Us, Rachel Carson settled in Southport, Maine. The married couple Dorothy and Stanley Freeman had a cottage nearby, and the trio quickly became friends. Their extensive and evocative correspondence shows that Dorothy and Rachel did something m...

Assume the Worst: The Graduation Speech You'll Never Hear - Hardcover

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by Carl Hiaasen (Author), Roz Chast (Illustrator)This is Oh, the Places You'll Never Go--the ultimate hilarious, cynical, but absolutely realistic view of a college graduate's future. And what he or she can or can't do about it. "This commencement address will never be given, because graduation speakers are supposed to offer encouragement and inspiration. That's not what you need. You need a warning." So begins Carl Hiaasen's attempt to prepare young men and women for their future. And who be...

A Concise Encyclopedia of the Philosophy of Religion - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Anthony C. Thiselton (Author)Covering thinkers from Plato to Freud, offering detailed explanations of key themes such as evil, and outlining clear definitions of complex ideas like'the doctrine of analogy, ' this is a comprehensive reference tool for all those studying, or interested in, the philosophy of religion.Author BiographyAnthony C. Thiselton is Professor Emeritus in Residence at the University of Nottingham, England. He is internationally known for his...

Ideas Against Ideocracy: Non-Marxist Thought of the Late Soviet Period (1953-1991) - Paperback

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by Mikhail Epstein (Author)This groundbreaking work by one of the world's foremost theoreticians of culture and scholars of Russian philosophy gives for the first time a systematic examination of the development of Russian philosophy during the late Soviet period.Countering the traditional view of an intellectual wilderness under the Soviet regime, Mikhail Epstein provides a comprehensive account of Russian thought of the second half of the 20th century that is highly sophisticated without lo...

Advaita Vedanta and Zen Buddhism: Deconstructive Modes of Spiritual Inquiry - Paperback

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by Leesa S. Davis (Author)This fascinating and innovative book explores the relationship between the philosophical underpinnings of Advaita Vedanta, Zen Buddhism and the experiential journey of spiritual practitioners. Taking the perspective of the questioning student, the author highlights the experiential deconstructive processes that are ignited when students' "everyday" dualistic thought structures are challenged by the non-dual nature of these teachings and practices. Although Advaita Ve...

Mythology, Madness, and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism - Hardcover

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by Markus Gabriel (Author), Slavoj Zizek (Author)Mythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German idealism. Markus Gabriel, one of the most exciting young voices in contemporary philosophy, and Slavoj Zizek, the celebrated contemporary philosopher and cultural critic, show how these themes impact on the problematic relations between being and appearance, reflection and the absolute, insight and ideology, contingency and...

Thinking Between Deleuze and Kant: A Strange Encounter - Paperback

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by Edward Willatt (Editor), Matt Lee (Editor), Edward Willatt (Editor)In the wake of much previous work on Gilles Deleuze's relations to other thinkers (including Bergson, Spinoza and Leibniz), his relation to Kant is now of great and active interest and a thriving area of research. In the context of the wider debate between 'naturalism' and 'transcendental philosophy', the implicit dispute between Deleuze's 'transcendental empiricism' and Kant's 'transcendental idealism' is of prime philosop...