Philosophy
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Reason Within the Bounds of ReligionWidely acclaimed as a seminal work on the relationship between reason and religion, this book probes the role of faith in responsible scholarship. Philosophical in nature yet highly accessible, this volume will inform all readers interested in integrating faith and learning.Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff, Reformed...
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The Success and Failure of Fredric Jameson: Writing, the Sublime, and the Dialectic of CritiqueThis is the first book to provide a critical overview of the work and career, as a whole, of the Marxist culture-critic Fredric Jameson, foremost among American intellectuals and a vanguard figure in the theory movement of the past three decades. Steven Helmling identifies...
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Imagination and Meaning in Calvin and HobbesFrom 1985 to 1995, the syndicated comic strip Calvin and Hobbes followed the antics of a precocious six-year-old boy and his sardonic stuffed tiger. At the height of its popularity, the strip ran in more than 2,400 newspapers and generated a fan base that...
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Time and Philosophy: A History of Continental ThoughtLooking at the development of continental philosophy in both Europe and America, McCumber discusses philosophers ranging from Hegel, Marx, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Arendt, Adorno and Horkheimer, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Foucault, and Derrida to the most influential thinkers of today - Agamben, Badiou, Bulter,...
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We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American PropositionThe 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...
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Crimes Against Humanity Birth of a ConceptThis book tells the story of the emergence of the concept of crimes against humanity. It examines its origins, the ethical assumptions underpinning it, its legal and philosophical boundaries, and some of the controversies connected with it. A brief historical introduction is followed by...
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Emotions, un Regalo por Abrir: Introducción a la Alfabetización EmocionalTe sientes inc modo con tus emociones? A veces desear as que desaparecieran? Te gustar a vivir m s aliviado y entender aquello que sientes? "Emociones: Un Regalo por Abrir" cambiar tu relaci n con las emociones para siempre."Alfabetizaci n emocional" es un t...
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The Philosopher: A History in Six TypesHow the role of the philosopher has changed over time and across cultures--and what it reveals about philosophy today What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job...
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A New Stoicism: Revised EditionWhat would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within...
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The World Philosophy Made: From Plato to the Digital AgeHow philosophy transformed human knowledge and the world we live in Philosophical investigation is the root of all human knowledge. Developing new concepts, reinterpreting old truths, and reconceptualizing fundamental questions, philosophy has progressed--and driven human progress--for more than two millennia. In short, we live...
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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History - Updated EditionThe classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can't make sense of contemporary art A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the End of Art continues to generate heated debate for its radical and...
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Concepts and Categories: Philosophical Essays - Second Edition"The goal of philosophy is always the same, to assist men to understand themselves and thus to operate in the open, not wildly in the dark."--Isaiah Berlin This volume of Isaiah Berlin's essays presents the sweep of his contributions to philosophy from his early...
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Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI, Volume 16: Works of LoveThe various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love,...
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Kierkegaard's Writings, XX, Volume 20: Practice in ChristianityOf the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest and most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as "the most perfect and truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of...
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Kierkegaard's Writings, VIII, Volume 8: Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary SinThis edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of view S ren Kierkegaard's longstanding concern with the Socratic maxim, "Know yourself."...
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Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume 2: The High Tide of Prophecy: Hegel, Marx, and the AftermathPopper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Austria until 1937, when he emigrated to New Zealand in anticipation of the Nazi annexation of Austria the following year, and he settled in England in 1949. Before the...
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The Republic: Introduction by Alexander NehamasToward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote The Republic, his discussion of the nature and meaning of justice and of the ideal state and...
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Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and SellarsThis is a decisive volume that seeks to heal the divisions in contemporary philosophy.Author: John McDowellPublisher: Harvard University PressPublished: 09/02/2013Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.77lbsSize: 9.26h x 6.15w x 0.84dISBN: 9780674725805About the AuthorMcDowell, John: - John McDowell is University Professor of Philosophy at the University...
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Plato's Four Muses: The Phaedrus and the Poetics of PhilosophyPlato's Four Muses reconstructs Plato's authorial self-portrait through a fresh reading of the Phaedrus, with an Introduction and Conclusion that contextualize the construction more broadly. The Phaedrus, it is argued, is Plato's most self-referential dialogue, and Plato's reference to four Muses in Phaedrus 259c-d...
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The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other EssaysIf philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent...
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