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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...

Errant Affirmations: On the Philosophical Meaning of Kierkegaard's Religious Discourses - Paperback

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by David J. Kangas (Author)Kierkegaard's religious discourses - his writings which have explicitly dealt with religion - have historically been given scant attention by philosophers. They have generally been considered to be of less philosophical interest than his 'proper' philosophy. Errant Affirmations radically questions this claim and considers Kierkegaard's religious writings as absolutely central to his philosophical vision. Through close and clear readings of Kierkegaard's work, David ...

The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy - Paperback

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by Raquel Bouso Garcia (Contribution by), Ching-Yuen Cheugn (Contribution by), Bret W. Davis (Contribution by)The Bloomsbury Research Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Philosophy examines the current vibrant trends in Japanese philosophical thinking.Situating Japanese philosophy within the larger context of global intercultural philosophical discourse and pointing to new topics of research, this Handbook covers philosophy of science, philosophy of peace, philosophy of social justice and heali...

Common Sense for the 21st Century: A Call to Reinvest in American Democracy - Paperback

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by Paul J. McKenney (Author)The state of affairs for America in 1776 was a divided public regarding how to move forward with respect to Great Britain. Many colonists wanted to stay loyal to King George and work things out, even though they had experienced many insults to their dignity. A growing number of colonists believed that independence was a necessity. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine argued that independence was the only way to gain true freedom and escape the subservient position to the...

No Path to Enlightenment: The I before I am - exposing the illusion of your Self - Paperback

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by Colin McMorran (Author)The illusion of the Self is the belief that you are your thoughts, in other words, the personal identification with the voice in your head, when in reality you are the awareness beneath that constant mind chatter. Noticing the thoughts rather than attaching to them may seem a subtle change in perspective, but in fact, it is a huge paradigm shift.Once you have taken a step back from your thoughts by not attaching to them, they become like clouds passing across a clear...

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law - Paperback

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by John Deigh (Author)This is the first comprehensive handbook in the philosophy of criminal law. It contains seventeen original essays by leading thinkers in the field and covers the field's major topics including limits to criminalization, obscenity and hate speech, blackmail, the law of rape, attempts, accomplice liability, causation, responsibility, justification and excuse, duress, provocation and self-defense, insanity, punishment, the death penalty, mercy, and preventive detention and ...

An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments: Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense - Hardcover

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by Ali Almossawi (Author), Alejandro Giraldo (Illustrator)"This short book makes you smarter than 99% of the population. . . . The concepts within it will increase your company's 'organizational intelligence.'. . . It's more than just a must-read, it's a 'have-to-read-or-you're-fired' book"--Geoffrey James, INC.com From the author of An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language, here's the antidote to fuzzy thinking, with furry animals!Have you read (or stumbled into) one too many irrational online...

On Borders: Territories, Legitimacy, and the Rights of Place - Paperback

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by Paulina Ochoa Espejo (Author)When are borders justified? Who has a right to control them? Where should they be drawn? Today people think of borders as an island's shores. Just as beaches delimit a castaway's realm, so borders define the edges of a territory, occupied by a unified people, to whom the land legitimately belongs. Hence a territory is legitimate only if it belongs to a people unified by a civic identity. Sadly, this Desert Island Model of territorial politics forces us to choos...

Augustine: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Henry Chadwick (Author)Augustine was arguably the greatest early Christian philosopher. His teachings had a profound effect on Medieval scholarship, Renaissance humanism, and the religious controversies of both the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation. Here, Henry Chadwick places Augustine in his philosophical and religious context and traces the history of his influence on Western thought, both within and beyond the Christian tradition. A handy account to one of the greatest religious ...

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by Harold Toliver (Author)Some books aren't what they seem at first, but this one is more devious than most in following up, in personal, episodic terms, what Mythic Worlds and Scanning and Sizing the Universe find true of natural history's powers and incredible extent. Number of Pages: 324 Dimensions: 0.73 x 9 x 6 IN Publication Date: August 16, 2024

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Buddhist Ethics: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Damien Keown (Author)With over 520 million followers, Buddhism is now the world's fourth largest religion. Over the last seventy years or so there has been a growing interest in Buddhism, and it continues to capture the imagination of many in the West, who see it as either an alternative or a supplement to their own religious beliefs. For complex cultural and historical reasons, ethics has not received as much attention in traditional Buddhist thought as it has in the West. In this Very Sh...

Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Julia Annas (Author)Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach of lively discussion and argument. Getting away from the presentation of ancient philosophy as a succession of Great Thinkers, the book gives readers a sense of the freshness and liveliness of ancient philosophy, a...

Sexual Desire: A Philosophical Investigation - Paperback

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by Roger Scruton (Author)When John desires Mary or Mary desires John, what does either of them want? What is meant by innocence, passion, love and arousal, desire, perversion and shame? These are just a few of the questions Roger Scruton addresses in this thought-provoking intellectual adventure. Beginning from purely philosophical premises, and ranging over human life, art and institutions, he surveys the entire field of sexuality; equally dissatisfied with puritanism and permissiveness, he ...

Mind: Key Concepts in Philosophy - Paperback

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by Eric Matthews (Author)Key Concepts in Philosophy is a series of concise, accessible and engaging introductions to the core ideas and subjects encountered in the study of philosophy. Specially written to meet the needs of students and those with an interest in, but little prior knowledge of, philosophy, these books open up fascinating, yet sometimes difficult ideas. The series builds to give a solid grounding in philosophy and each book is also ideal as a companion to further study. The phi...

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by Friedrich Schiller (Author), J. Friedrich Von Schiller (Author), Walter Hinderer (Editor)Author BiographyDaniel O. Dahlstrom is Professor of Philosophy at Boston University, USA. His previous publications include Interpreting Heidegger: Critical Essays (CUP, 2011), Heidegger's Concept of Truth (CUP, 2001) and Philosophical Legacies: Essays on the Thought of Kant, Hegel and their Contemporaries (Catholic University of America Press, 2008). Number of Pages: 296 Dimensions: 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN...

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by Michel Foucault (Author), James Faubion (Editor), Charles Ruas (Translator) Death and the Labyrinth is unique, being Foucault's only work on literature. For Foucault this was ""by far the book I wrote most easily and with the greatest pleasure"". Here, Foucault explores theory, criticism and psychology through the texts of Raymond Roussel, one of the fathers of experimental writing, whose work has been celebrated by the likes of Cocteau, Duchamp, Breton, Robbe Grillet, Gide and Giacometti....

Henri Lefebvre: Key Writings - Paperback

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by Henri Lefebvre (Author), Stuart Elden (Editor), Elizabeth Lebas (Editor)Henri Lefebvre is now recognized as one of the most influential social theorists of the Twentieth Century. In English, his writings on cities, everyday life, and the production of space have become hugely influential across Cultural Studies, Sociology, Geography and Architecture. Henri Lefebve: Key Writings presents for the first time the full range of Lefebvre's thought. The selection reinforces the centrality of Lef...

French Feminist Theory: An Introduction - Paperback

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by Dani Cavallaro (Author)French Feminist Theory offers an introduction to the key concepts and themes in French feminist thought, both the materialist and the linguistic/psychoanalytic traditions. These are explored through the work of a wide range of theorists. The book outlines the philosophical and political diversity of French feminism, setting developments in the field in the particular cultural and social contexts in which they have emerged and unfolded. The principal areas covered are...

Love in the Void: Where God Finds Us - Paperback

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by Simone Weil (Author)Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today's spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor with the ardor of a mystic?Albert Camus called Simone Weil "the only great s...

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by Immanuel Kant (Author), Nicholas Walker (Editor), James Creed Meredith (Translator)In the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation, and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerni...

Wisdom: Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate - Hardcover

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by Paul Dunion (Author)Wisdom: Apprenticing to the Unknown and Befriending Fate is a lucid account of such an apprenticeship. The work's major theme is: You can't get life right; and if you allow, life may get you right. Efforts to get life right-including the Spiritual Bypass, the Intellectual Bypass, the Psychological Processing Bypass, and the Trivia Bypass-are debunked as alleged detours around life's mystery, unpredictability, and insecurity. The work offers a unique developmental model ...

The Zen Teaching of Huang-Po: On the Transmission of Mind - Paperback

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by John Eaton Calthorpe Blofeld (Translator), P'Ei Hsiu (Preface by)This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang Po, the illustrious Chinese master of the Tang Dynasty, allows the Western reader to gain an understanding of Zen from the original source, one of the key works in its teachings; it also offers deep and often startling insights into the rich treasures of Eastern thought. Nowhere is the use of paradox in Zen illustrated better th...

Deaths in Venice: The Cases of Gustav Von Aschenbach - Hardcover

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by Philip Kitcher (Author)Published in 1913, Thomas Mann's Death in Venice is one of the most widely read novellas in any language. In the 1970s, Benjamin Britten adapted it into an opera, and Luchino Visconti turned it into a successful film. Reading these works from a philosophical perspective, Philip Kitcher connects the predicament of the novella's central character to Western thought's most compelling questions. In Mann's story, the author Gustav von Aschenbach becomes captivated by an a...

Schopenhauer: A Very Short Introduction - Paperback

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by Christopher Janaway (Author)Schopenhauer is considered to be the most readable of German philosophers. This book gives a succinct explanation of his metaphysical system, concentrating on the original aspects of his thought, which inspired many artists and thinkers including Nietzsche, Wagner, Freud, and Wittgenstein. Schopenhauer's central notion is that of the will--a blind, irrational force that he uses to interpret both the human mind and the whole of nature. Seeing human behavior as th...

The Five Ages of Humanity: The Psychology of Human History - Paperback

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by Gerald Heard (Author), Thomas Armstrong (Foreword by), John Roger Barrie (Editor)Back in print after nearly 60 years!The Five Ages of Humanity (a revised and retitled edition of The Five Ages of Man) is the 1964 masterwork by influential author, historian, and philosopher Gerald Heard (1889-1971). Heard explores many parallels between the historical development of human consciousness and the life of an individual. He maintains there are five stages through which human consciousness evolves...

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by Theodor Lessing (Author) A seminal text in Jewish thought accessible to English readers for the first time. The diagnosis of Jewish self-hatred has become almost commonplace in contemporary cultural and political debates, but the concept's origins are not widely appreciated. In its modern form, it received its earliest and fullest expression in Theodor Lessing's 1930 book Der j?dische Selbstha . Written on the eve of Hitler's ascent to power, Lessing's hotly contested work has been vario...

Old Dutch Houses of Brooklyn - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Maud Esther Dilliard (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is impor...

The Best of Friedrich Nietzsche - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Friedrich Nietzsche (Author), Original Thinkers Institute (Author)This collection contains the most famous novels written by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One, Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Anti-Christ: A Criticism of Christianity, and The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs. This collection of five novels c...

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Report copyright infringementby Christopher A. Snyder (Author)A response to our fractured political discourse, Hobbit Virtues speaks to the importance of "virtue ethics" by examining the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien-with particular attention to his hobbits.Tolkien's works resonate with so many readers in part because Bilbo, Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin demonstrate Classical, Judeo-Christian, Medieval, and even Hindu and Confucian virtues.Tolkien ennobles the small, the humble, and the margina...

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Report copyright infringementby Paul 1868-1955 Claudel (Author)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is imp...