Philosophy
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On the Trail of Liberation V2Amma is a wonder; everything about her is wondrous. This is the experience of the countless people who have met her. What is the secret of her charisma? Her abidance in the Divine and her ability to strike an instant motherly rapport with her...
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Engaging Violence: Civility and the Reach of LiteratureRecent thinking has resuscitated civility as an important paradigm for engaging with a violence that must be deemed endemic to our lives. But, while it is widely acknowledged that civility works against violence, and that literature generates or accompanies civility and engenders tolerance, civility...
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Mi Mayor Esfuerzo (Trying My Best)No siempre debemos ser los mejores para pasarla bien. Hacer nuestro mayor esfuerzo hará que el juego sea más divertido! Este libro se combina con el título de ficción Dev hace su mayor esfuerzo. You don't have to be the best to have a...
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Felicitous Underspecification: Contextually Sensitive Expressions Lacking Unique Semantic Values in ContextFelicitous uses of contextually sensitive expressions generally have unique semantic values in context. For example, a felicitous use of the singular pronoun 'she' generally has a single female as its unique semantic value in context. In the present work, Jeffrey C. King argues thatcontextually...
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On the Concept of Power: Possibility, Necessity, PoliticsPower is the central organizing concept for politics. However, despite decades of debate across political science, sociology, and philosophy, scholars have not yet settled on a proper definition of power. Existing definitions fail because they are either circular or so far removed from theordinary,...
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Markets without Limits: Moral Virtues and Commercial InterestsMay you sell your spare kidney? May gay men pay surrogates to bear them children? Should we allow betting markets on terrorist attacks and natural disasters? May spouses pay each other to do the dishes, watch the kids, or have sex? Should we allow...
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The Communist Manifesto'Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!' - Karl Marx The Communist Manifesto came to be a widely read and the most...
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Expired Mindsets: Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You WellThere is a wealth of potential trapped within our hidden and unresolved places of pain. Yet, without conscious participation, we can become stuck in a cycle of repetitive patterns that leaves us feeling like an imposter in our own lives.In Expired Mindsets, Charryse Johnson,...
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Pride, Politics, and Humility in Augustine's City of GodThis book is the first to interpret and reflect on Augustine's seminal argument concerning humility and pride, especially in politics and philosophy, in The City of God. Mary Keys shows how contemporary readers have much to gain from engaging Augustine's lengthy argument on behalf...
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Free Will and Human Agency: 50 Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Thought ExperimentsIn this new kind of entrée to contemporary discussions of free will and human agency, Garrett Pendergraft collects and illuminates 50 of the most relevant puzzles, paradoxes, and thought experiments. Assuming no familiarity with the philosophical literature on free will, each chapter describes a...
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Survival of the Virtuous: The Evolution of Moral PsychologyDo good guys finish last? Did we evolve to look out for number one? Are we bad by nature? At first glance, the theory of evolution seems to imply that all organisms are evolved to be selfish. In this book, evolutionary psychologist Dennis Krebs...
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Ice Humanities: Living, Working, and Thinking in a Melting WorldIce humanities is a pioneering collection of essays that tackles the existential crisis posed by the planet's diminishing ice reserves. By the end of this century, we will likely be facing a world where sea ice no longer reliably forms in large areas of...
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Divining Chaos: The Autobiography of an IdeaA spirited memoir by artist Aviva Rahmani, offering a relatable narrative to discuss trigger point theory and the importance of eco-art activism. Divining Chaos is an intimate personal memoir of unparalleled transparency into the moments in Rahmani's life that shaped her as an artist...
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National Memories: Constructing Identity in Populist TimesThis volume brings together distinguished scholars to address broad societal claims about the surge in populist nationalism in the scholarly literature on collective memory. The book sets the stage by examining historical origins and case studies of populism and nationalism in the UnitedStates before...
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The Switch Image: Television PhilosophyTelevision is the most powerful system of images in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Nonetheless, TV has attained only little philosophical attention so far, especially compared to other (visual) media such as film. This book looks at TV as what happens on...
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The Awakened Winners: We Already WonIt is not a coincidence that when looking at the word winner, you see "inner" and when you see the word winning, you see the word "in" twice, because the result of a winner winning is established from the INside. To look inside means...
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The Prague Circle: Franz Kafka, Egon Erwin Kisch, Max Brod, Franz Werfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Their LegaciesA group of mostly Jewish German-speakingwriters, the Prague Circle included some of the most significant figures inmodern Western literature. Its core members, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, FranzWerfel, Paul Kornfeld, and Egon Erwin Kisch, are renowned for their seminaldramas, lyric poetry, novels, short stories, and...
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Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social FormA new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber's thought, career, and activism. Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and monologic relations, Martin Buber (1878-1965) was also an anthologist, translator, and author of some seven...
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Nietzsche's VoicesNietzsche's Voices, a much-anticipated volume of the Collected Writings of John Sallis, presents his two-semester lecture course on Nietzsche offered in the Philosophy Department of Duquesne University during the school year 1971-72.Nietzsche is easy to read; his is apparently the easiest of all the...
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Bergson's Philosophy of Biology: Virtuality, Tendency and TimeTano S. Posteraro contributes to the increasingly serious study of Bergson's philosophy with a tight focus on Bergson's theory of evolution. He presents an alternative Bergson: not a phenomenologist whose central datum is the conscious experience of lived time or the lived body in...
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