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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Being Wrong
Book SynopsisThe bestselling history of and investigation into human error by beloved New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”—Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetIn the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational, Being Wrong explores what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz argues that error is the fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc A Brief History of Thought
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLERThe most succinct and accessible overview of philosophy I have come across, and perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toe into the waters of philosophy without drowning in intimidating prose. ―Matt Haig, Washington PostFrom the timeless wisdom of the ancient Greeks to Christianity, the Enlightenment, existentialism, and postmodernism, Luc Ferry’s instant classic brilliantly and accessibly explains the enduring teachings of philosophy—including its profound relevance to modern daily life and its essential role in achieving happiness and living a meaningful life. This lively journey through the great thinkers will enlighten every reader, young and old.
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McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Beyond Feelings A Guide to Critical Thinking
Book SynopsisThis succinct, interdisciplinary introduction to critical thinking successfully dares students to question their own assumptions and to enlarge their thinking through the analysis of the most common problems associated with everyday reasoning. The text offers a unique and effective organization: Part I explains the fundamental concepts; Part II describes the most common barriers to critical thinking; Part III offers strategies for overcoming those barriers.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction PART I. THE CONTEXT 1. Who Are You?The Influence of Time and PlaceThe Influence of IdeasThe Influence of Mass CultureThe "Science" of ManipulationThe Influence of PsychologyBecoming an Individual 2. What Is Critical Thinking?Mind, Brain, or Both?Critical Thinking DefinedCharacteristics of Critical ThinkersThe Role of IntuitionThe Basic Activities of Critical ThinkingCritical Thinking and WritingCritical Thinking and DiscussionAvoiding Plagiarism 3. What Is Truth?Where Does It All Begin?Imperfect PerceptionImperfect MemoryDeficient InformationEven the Wisest Can ErrTruth Is Discovered, Not Created 4. What Does It Mean to Know?Requirements of KnowingTesting Your Own KnowledgeHow We Come to KnowWhy Knowing is DifficultA Cautionary TailIs Faith a Form of KnowledgeObstacles to Knowledge 5. How Good Are Your Opinions?Opinions Can Be MistakenOpinions on Moral IssuesEven Experts Can Be WrongKinds of ErrorsInformed Versus Uninformed OpinionForming Opinions Responsibly 6. What Is Evidence?Kinds of EvidenceEvaluating EvidenceWhat Constitutes "Sufficient" Evidence? 7. What Is Argument?The Parts of an ArgumentEvaluating ArgumentsMore Difficult Arguments PART II. THE PITFALLS 8. The Basic Problem: "Mine Is Better"Egocentric PeopleEthnocentric PeopleControlling "Mine-Is-Better" Thinking 9. Errors of PerspectivePoverty of AspectUnwarranted AssumptionsThe Either/Or OutlookMindless ConformityAbsolutismRelativismBias For or Against Change 10. Errors of ProcedureBiased Consideration of EvidenceDouble StandardHasty ConclusionOvergeneralization and StereotypingOversimplificationThe Post Hoc Fallacy 11. Errors of ExpressionContradictionArguing in a CircleMeaningless StatementMistaken AuthorityFalse AnalogyIrrational Appeal 12. Errors of ReactionAutomatic RejectionChanging the SubjectShifting the Burden of Proof"Straw Man"Attacking the Critic 13. The Errors in CombinationErrors of PerspectiveErrors of ProcedureErrors of ExpressionErrors of ReactionSample Combinations of ErrorsA Sensible View of Terminology PART III. A STRATEGY 14. Knowing YourselfCritical Thinking InventoryUsing Your InventoryChallenge and Reward 15. Being ObservantObserving PeopleObservation in Science and MedicineThe Range of ApplicationBecoming More ObservantReflecting Your Observations 16. Selecting an IssueThe Basic Rule: Less Is MoreHow to Limit an IssueSample Issue: PornographySample Issue: BoxingSample Issue: Juvenile CrimeNarrowing the Issue Further 17. Conducting InquiryWorking with Inconclusive ResultsWhere to Look for InformationKeeping FocusedHow Much Inquiry is Enough?Managing Lengthy Material 18. Forming a JudgmentEvaluating EvidenceEvaluating Your Sources' ArgumentsMaking Important DistinctionsExpressing Judgments 19. Persuading OthersGuidelines for PersuasionAn Unpersuasive PresentationA Persuasive Presentation Notes Index
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Penguin Books Ltd Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Book SynopsisFriedrich Nietzsche''s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influentialNietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how the ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from his solitude in the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that the Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche''s utterance ''God is dead'', his insistence that the meaning of life is to be found in purely human terms, and his doctrine of the Superman and the will to power were all later seized upon and unrecognisably twisted by, among others, Nazi intellectuals. With blazing intensity and poetic brilliance, Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not to be found in religious pieties or meek submission to authority, but in an all-powerful life fo
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Penguin Books Ltd Maxims Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisThe philosophy of La Rochefoucauld, which influenced French intellectuals as diverse as Voltaire and the Jansenists, is captured here in more than 600 penetrating and pithy aphorisms.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Table of ContentsMaxims - La Rochefoucauld Translated by Leonard TancockIntroductionPortraitsSelf-Portrait of the Duc de la RochefoucauldPortrait of the Duc de la Rochefoucauld by Cardinal de RetzPortrait of Cardinal de Retz by La RochefoucauldMaximsReflections or Aphorisms and Moral MaximsPosthumous MaximsMaxims withdrawn by the AuthorNotes
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Penguin Putnam Inc Nature
Book SynopsisThrough his writing and his own personal philosophy, the famed philosopher unburdened his young country of Europe's traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own circumstances. His mandate, which called for harmony with, rather than domestication of, nature, and for a reliance on individual integrity, rather than on materialistic institutions, is echoed in many of the great American philosophical and literary works of his time and ours, and has given an impetus to modern political and social activism.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Why I Am So Wise
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Penguin Putnam Inc Fear and Trembling
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Penguin Putnam Inc I Think Therefore I Draw
Book SynopsisA hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New York Times bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar...Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klien have been thinking deep thoughts and writing jokes for decades, and now they are here to help us understand Philosophy through cartoons, and cartoons through Philosophy. Covering topics as diverse as religion, gender, knowledge, morality, and the meaning of life (or the lack thereof), I Think, Therefore I Draw gives a thorough introduction to all of the major debates in philosophy through history and the present. And since they explain with the help of a selection of some of the smartest cartoonists working today, you''ll breeze through these weighty topics as you guffaw and slap your knee. Cathcart and Klein''s Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar... and Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates have been a favorite of philosoph
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Penguin Putnam Inc Does Santa Exist
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The University of Chicago Press The Powers of Pure Reason Kant and the Idea of
Book Synopsis9780226243153.Trade Review"Ferrarin has written a remarkable study of Kant's philosophy as a unified whole. It is challenging, daring, complex, erudite, detailed, and carefully argued, opening up new vistas on the meaning of Kant's critical enterprise. It is a major contribution to the scholarship." (Richard Velkley, author of Freedom and the End of Reason)
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsches New Seas Explorations in Philosophy
Book SynopsisNietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplinesphilosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicologyand from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributorsKarsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselvestake a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.
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The University of Chicago Press Rousseau as Author Consecrating Ones Life to the
Book SynopsisFor Rousseau 'consecrating one's life to the truth' meant taking responsibility for what one publishes. Christopher Kelly argues that this commitment is central to understanding the relationship between Rousseau's writings and his political philosophy.Trade Review"A wide-ranging and thoughtful study of Rousseau as an author who deeply considered the responsibilities of authorship. Kelly's study covers Rousseau's entire corpus with impressive familiarity and insight, offering fresh looks at the thinker's most famous philosophical works and novels, as well as explorations of the very nooks and crannies of his vast oeuvre." - John T. Scott, University of California, Davis
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University of Chicago Press Not by Reason Alone Religion History Identity
Book SynopsisInterweaving political, religious, and historical themes this book reinterprets early modern thought. Mitchell argues that the thought of Luther, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau is an attempt to locate politics within an authoritative history that cannot be grasped by reason alone.
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The University of Chicago Press Americas Philosopher
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Arcenas has done valuable work in documenting Americans’ affection for an empiricist philosopher. Her discussion of twentieth-century scholarly debates over Locke’s significance, from Leo Strauss to J.G.A. Pocock, are accurate and well-expressed." * Wall Street Journal *“As Arcenas [shows], with detailed documentation and persuasive narrative . . . Americans deformed and truncated [Locke into] the alleged father of liberalism . . . With regard to ‘Locke’s polyvalent influence,’ Arcenas argues that for two centuries after his death he was almost omnipresent in colonial libraries, college reading lists, and periodical polemics, and almost as well known for counsel on card-playing and commonplacing as for epistemology or educational prescriptions.” * Times Literary Supplement *“Original and surprising.” * London Review of Books *“Clearly argued and written. . . . Arcenas convincingly demonstrates that colonists looked to Locke for guidance on matters involving child rearing and self-development, knowledge and its foundation, ways to read the Bible, and moral education, not so much as a guide to political principles. The text that early and mid-twentieth-century historians and political theorists such as Merle Curti, Carl Becker and Louis Hartz defined as the core of Lockean philosophy, the Two Treatises of Government, was not unknown to colonists, but it took a decided backseat to the Locke who reinvented the human mind, and when colonists went looking for political principles, Locke also took a backseat to Montesquieu and many others.” * Modern Intellectual History *"Arcenas’s thesis in this book is that John Locke 'stands—and has always stood—at the center of American intellectual life' (p.1), and that, paradoxically, his true significance to America has often been mischaracterized. . . . The book is enhanced with copious notes and an extensive bibliography. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Remarkable. . . In America’s Philosopher, Professor Arcenas has produced an entertaining and insightful book of political historiography that enlivens America’s intellectual past and stimulates thinking about its present." * Montana The Magazine of Western History *"Arcenas’s work is eye-opening. She unveils the true role of Locke, a popular figure since colonial times, in shaping American society. Arcenas’s investigation takes us on a journey through archives, newspapers, syllabi, diaries, philosophy, history, theology, and so on, to illustrate the undeniable influence that Locke had on America’s identity." -- Mario I. Juarez-Garcia * The Independent Review *"Groundbreaking. . . we can and should value this book for making an impressive case for how each generation of Americans has read [Locke] with its own politically distorting lenses." * Chronicles Magazine *“A wonderfully wide-ranging and insightful history of John Locke’s changing reputation in America, moving from the early eighteenth century to the present with terrific scholarly command and authority. Locke’s invention, more than a century after the fact, as the key political theorist of the American Revolution is only the most striking of its findings. This book will surprise and inform every reader invested in the history of American political culture. There is simply nothing comparable in the existing literature.” * Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University *“If you thought you understood John Locke’s vital role in American thought, Arcenas’s fascinating book will make your jaw drop. Make no mistake, Locke has indeed been ‘America’s philosopher’ since his ideas first arrived in the early eighteenth century. But as readers will discover in her meticulously researched and absorbing study, Locke has mattered to Americans in ways wholly unexpected.” * Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen, University of Wisconsin–Madison *“America’s Philosopher accomplishes two tasks at once: it brings to life the fullness of John Locke’s thought and tracks the multiple ways a dynamic and changing America engaged with varying aspects of that thought. Arcenas shows how the early modern British philosopher’s place in American thought and culture shifted over three centuries, from a cherished guide to child-rearing, education, and toleration in the eighteenth century to a one-dimensional libertarian hero in our own day. Drawing on common-place books and college curricula, the work of mid-century scholars and the speeches of senators, Arcenas tells this fascinating story with clarity and verve.” * Leslie A. Butler, Dartmouth College *Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Locke’s Legacy in Early America Chapter 2: Locke’s Authority in the Revolutionary and Founding Eras Chapter 3: Problematizing Locke as Exemplar in the Early United States Chapter 4: Locke Becomes Historical Chapter 5: Making Locke Relevant Chapter 6: Locke and the Invention of the American Political Tradition Chapter 7: Lockean “-isms” Epilogue Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Altered Reading Levinas Literature Levinas and
Book SynopsisExamining Levinas's texts and readings by Derrida, Blanchot, and Bataille, this text shows how the thread of the literary leads to the internal tensions of Levinas's ethical discourse. It provides a critical account of Levinas's early and mature philosophy as well as later transitional essays.
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The University of Chicago Press Crossings Nietzsche and the Space of Tragedy
Book SynopsisBoldly contesting recent scholarship, Sallis argues that The Birth of Tragedy is a rethinking of art at the limit of metaphysics. His close reading focuses on the complexity of the Apollinian/Dionysian dyad and on the crossing of these basic art impulses in tragedy. Sallis effectively calls into question some commonly accepted and simplistic ideas about Nietzsche's early thinking and its debt to Schopenhauer, and proposes alternatives that are worth considering.--Richard Schacht, Times Literary Supplement
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The University of Chicago Press Pragmatism Feminism Reweaving the Social Fabric
Book SynopsisThis work effectively reunites two major social and philosophical movements, arguing that pragmatism, because of its focus on the emancipatory potential of everyday experiences, offers feminism its most viable and powerful philosophical foundation.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations 1: The Theory of Practice 2: The Missing Perspectives: Where Are All the Pragmatist Feminists and Feminist Pragmatists? 3: Reclaiming a Heritage: Women Pragmatists 4: Acknowledging Mutual Influences: The Chicago Years 5: Educational Experiments in Cooperation 6: The Feminine-Mystical Threat to Scientific-Masculine Order 7: Who Experiences? Genderizing Pluralistic Experiences 8: What's Wrong with Instrumental Reasoning? Realizing the Emancipatory Potential of Science 9: Who Cares? Pluralizing Gendered Experiences 10: Social Ethics 11: Cooperative Intelligence Notes Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Reading Leo Strauss Politics Philosophy Judaism
Book SynopsisDepicting Leo Strauss as a friend of liberal democracy - perhaps the best defender democracy has ever had, this title shows that his defense of liberal democracy was closely connected to his skepticism of the extreme Left and the extreme Right. Addressing Strauss's views on religion, it examines his thought on philosophical and political issues.Trade Review"This is the best book so far on Strauss. Approachable, instructive, and profound." - Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University"
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The University of Chicago Press A Woman Who Defends All the Persons of Her Sex
Book SynopsisDuring the oppressive reign of Louis XIV, Gabrielle Suchon (1623-1703) was the most forceful female voice in France, advocating women's freedom and self-determination. This volume collects Suchon's writing from two works - Treatise on Ethics and Politics (1693) and On the Celibate Life Freely Chosen; or, Life without Commitments (1700).
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The University of Chicago Press After Life
Book SynopsisLife is one of our most basic concepts, yet when examined directly it proves remarkably contradictory and elusive, encompassing both the broadest and the most specific phenomena. This book clears the ground for a new philosophy of life by recovering the twists and turns in its philosophical history.Trade Review"This is a timely, significant, and original work that deepens and enlarges the terms of contemporary philosophical debate over the nature of 'life.' After Life promises to become an indispensable point of reference for future discussions of this topic." - Ray Brassier, American University of Beirut"
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The University of Chicago Press Being after Rousseau Philosophy Culture in
Book SynopsisRichard Velkley traces the relation of philosophy to culture from Rousseau to Kant and Heidegger. The work shows late modern philosophy as a series of ultimately unsuccessful attempts to resolve the dichotomies between nature and society that Rousseau brought to the fore.Trade Review"I know of no more perceptive and learned commentator on the infrastructure of the development from Rousseau through Kant and German Idealism to Nietzsche and Heidegger than Richard Velkley. This integrated collection of essays is essential reading for everyone who is interested in the ramifications of Rousseau's distinction between culture and civilization as well as in his grounding contribution to the modern conception of the historical nature of reason." - Stanley Rosen, Boston University
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University of Illinois Press Nietzsche
Book SynopsisThe only English translation of a crucial interpretation of Nietzsche First published in 1918, Ernst Bertram''s Nietzsche: Attempt at a Mythology substantially shaped the image of Nietzsche for the generation between the wars. It won the Nietzsche Society''s first prize and was admired by luminous contemporaries including André Gide, Hermann Hesse, Gottfried Benn, and Thomas Mann. Although translated into French in 1932, the book was never translated into English following the decline of Nietzsche''s and Bertram''s reputations after 1945. Now, with Nietzsche''s importance for twentieth-century thought undisputed, the work by one of his most influential interpreters can at last be read in English. Employing a perspectival technique inspired by Nietzsche himself, Bertram constructs a densely layered portrait of the thinker that shows him riven by deep and ultimately irresolvable cultural, historical, and psychological conflicts. At once lyrical and intenseTrade ReviewWinner of the American Translators Association's Ungar German Translation Award, 2011. “Ernst Bertram’s seminal work ... not only highlighted Nietzsche’s own revival of the mythical dimension as essential to creative human activity but also sought, in the heroizing of spirit of the Stephan George circle (with which Bertram was associated) to render Nietzsche himself into a latter-day prophet—a dynamic, living national myth.”--Times Literary Supplement"A major contribution to Nietzsche-research and scholarship."--Journal of Nietzsche Studies "An important book and a masterful translation."--German Quarterly“An imaginative and robust reading of Nietzsche; the great value of this English translation is the book’s historical role in consequential cultural developments provoked by figurations of Nietzsche. A significant contribution to Anglophone readers who are interested in Nietzsche’s philosophy generally, and particularly in the historical reception of his writings.”--Lawrence J. Hatab, author of Nietzsche’s Life Sentence: Coming to Terms with Eternal Recurrence“Robert E. Norton has done an admirable job in preparing this English translation of a provocative critical study of Nietzsche. An important link between Nietzsche’s reception in the Weimar Period and the philosopher’s cooptation by the Nazis in the 1930s. This translation is simply splendid--flowing, precise, and sensitive to nuance.”--Marion Faber, translator of Human, All Too Human and Beyond Good and EvilTable of ContentsTranslator's Introduction: Attempt at a Demythologization xi A Comment on the Notes xxxvii Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Legend 1 1. Ancestry 11 2. Knight, Death, and Devil 37 3. The German Becoming 56 4. Justice 79 5. Arion 88 6. Illness 107 7. Judas 121 8. Mask 134 9. Weimar 154 10. Napoleon 171 11. Jest, Cunning, and Vengeance 183 12. Anecdote 194 13. Indian Summer 203 14. Claude Lorrain 213 15. Venice 223 16. Portofino 231 17. Prophecy 231 18. Socrates 262 19. Eleusis 289 Notes 309 Chronology 365 Index 369
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MIT Press Ltd Being in the World Commentary on Heideggers Being
Book SynopsisBeing-in-the-World is a guide to one of the most influential philosophical works of this century: Division I of Part One of Being and Time, where Martin Heidegger works out an original and powerful account of being-in-the-world which he then uses to ground a profound critique of traditional ontology and epistemology. Hubert Dreyfus's commentary opens the way for a new appreciation of this difficult philosopher, revealing a rigorous and illuminating vocabulary that is indispensable for talking about the phenomenon of world.The publication of Being and Time in 1927 turned the academic world on its head. Since then it has become a touchstone for philosophers as diverse as Marcuse, Sartre, Foucault, and Derrida who seek an alternative to the rationalist Cartesian tradition of western philosophy. But Heidegger's text is notoriously dense, and his language seems to consist of unnecessarily barbaric neologisms; to the neophyte and even to those schooled in Heidegger thought,
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Random House USA Inc Basic Writings of Kant
Book SynopsisPresents the essential works of the philosopher, including Critique of Pure Reason and Eternal Peace.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Birth of Tragedy The Genealogy of Morals
Book SynopsisSkillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central to his thinking.The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book, The Geneology of Morals (1887) one of his last. Though they span the career of this controversial genius, both address the problems such as the conflict between the moral versus aesthetic approaches to life, the effect of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, and the famous dichotomy between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, among many themes which Nietzsche struggled throughout his tortured life.
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WW Norton & Co Jonathan Swift
Book SynopsisA rich and riveting portrait of the man behind Gulliver’s Travels, by a “vivid, ardent, and engaging” (New York Times Book Review) author.Trade Review"Stubbs’s in-depth analysis of the vast cultural impact of Swift’s many works is impressive, as are his portraits of Swift’s literary acquaintances… This astute portrait of a complicated man who wanted to defend his homeland…is truly masterful. A rich and sweeping story superbly told." -- Kirkus Reviews, starred review"Vivid…exacting and thought-provoking… Stubbs excels at showing how Swift became ‘the most notorious writer of his day.’" -- Publishers Weekly"One of the many virtues of John Stubb’s compendious, deeply researched and absorbing biography is that it illuminates the events not just of Swift’s life but of the world before and around him....In this superb biography, Stubbs succeeds in enabling us to understand the complexities and character of this greatest of writers." -- The Times
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Penguin Publishing Group tengreatworksofphilosophy
Book SynopsisIn its vast scope, this book presents the continuum of Western philosophy. Ranging from ancient Greece to nineteenth-century America, it traces the history of our civilization through the seminal works of its most influential thinkers. Each philosopher in this volume made intellectual history; each created a revolution in ideas; each reaffirmed man’s view of himself as a sentient being capable of creating order out of the baffling contradictions of existence. And the most powerful reflections and speculations of each are represented here. Plato: Apology, Crito and the Death of Socrates, from Phado Aristotle: Poetics St. Ansem: The ontological Proof of St. Ansem, from Proslogium St. Thomas Aquinas: St. Thomas’ Proofs of God’s Existence, from the SummaTheologica René Descartes: Meditations on the First Philosophy David Hume: An Inquiry Concerning Human Understanding Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism William James: The Will to Believe
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The University of Michigan Press An Utterly Dark Spot
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Random House USA Inc The Communist Manifesto
Book SynopsisThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848 by two young men in their twenties, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and its impact reverberated across the globe and through the next century. Foreshadowing globalization 150 years before it happened, the Manifesto brims with prescient insights into the crisis facing capitalism today. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand the modern political landscape. This edition includes a new introduction by the bestselling author of And the Weak Suffer What They Must? and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy, Yanis Varoufakis.
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Random House USA Inc What Doesnt Kill Us Makes Us
Book Synopsis“A bold and intricate exploration of catastrophe as not just a transformative experience or a test case for resilience, but something that completely reinvents us—a reincarnation.”—Robert Kolker, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road “A masterpiece—a book that truly captures what it means to be changed by tragedy, and a necessary salve for our troubled times.”—Ed Yong, New York Times bestselling author of An Immense World and I Contain Multitudes“What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger,” the adage—adapted from Nietzsche’s famous maxim—goes. But how much truth is there to that ubiquitous, inexhaustible saying? Tracing the lives of six people who have experienced profoundly life-changing events, journalist Mike Mariani explores the nuances and largely uncharted territory of what happens after one’s life is severed i
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Random House USA Inc Tao TE Ching Everymans Library Classics
Book SynopsisWritten during the golden age of Chinese philosophy, and composed partly in prose and partly in verse, the Tao Te Ching is surely the most terse and economical of the world’s great religious texts. In a series of short, profound chapters it elucidates the idea of the Tao, or the Way–an idea that in its ethical, practical, and spiritual dimensions has become essential to the life of China’s enormously powerful civilization. In the process of this elucidation, Lao-tzu both clarifies and deepens those central religious mysteries around which our life on earth revolves.Translation of the Ma Wang Tui Manuscripts by D. C. Lau
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Random House USA Inc The Analects of Confucius
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State University Press of New York (SUNY) The Japanese Arts and SelfCultivation
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Johns Hopkins University Press Gilles Deleuze Cinema and Philosophy Parallax
Book SynopsisHumanities, film studies, and social science scholars will find this book a valuable contribution to the philosophical literature on cinema and its pertinence in contemporary life.Trade ReviewMarrati's slender but incisive treatment of Deleuze's unification of philosophy with the art of cinema is an indispensable work for new and advanced Deleuze scholars grappling with the thick weave of film analyses cum philosophical expositions... Essential. Choice Beautifully written and expertly translated, Paola Marrati's Gilles Deleuze: Cinema and Philosophy brings much needed clarity to Deleuze's two monumental works on cinema. -- Joe Hughes Rain Taxi Review of Books Readers looking for an introduction to Deleuze's work on cinema will find it in Marrati's evident commitment to precision and her remarkable clarity in the face of a series of notoriously complex texts. -- Alexander Thimons Scope A surprising, rewarding, and insightful text that breaks new ground, Cinema and Philosophy does a great service: it helps us believe in a 'new' and compelling future for Deleuzian studies of film and philosophy. -- Meredith C. Ward MLN Marrati's highly informative and carefully argued book touches on significant elements of the link between cinema and philosophy in Deleuze's work. This is a stimulating, sharp and keenly argued book. Analysis and MetaphysicsTable of ContentsPreface to the English-language EditionAcknowledgmentsFrequently Cited TextsIntroduction1. Images in Movement and Movement-Images2. Cinema and Perception3. The Montage of the Whole4. Postwar Cinema5. The Time0Image6. Images and Immanence: The Problem of the WorldConclusionAppendix: A Lost Everyday: Deleuze and Cavell on HollywoodNotesWorks CitedIndex
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Random House USA Inc I Think Youre Totally Wrong
Book SynopsisCaleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life; his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. The stay-at-home dad (three young girls) and the workaholic writer (eighteen books) head to the woods to spend four days together in a cabin, arguing life vs. art. I Think You’re Totally Wrong is an impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate. Shields and Powell talk about everything—marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal, and (of course) writers and writing—in the name of exploring and debating their central question: the lived life versus the examined life. There are no teachers or students here, no interviewers or interviewees, no masters of the universe—only a chasm of uncertainty, in a dialogue that remains dazzlingly provocative and entertaining from start to finish.James Franco’s film adaptation of I Think You’re Totally Wrong, starring the authors, premiered in 2015.
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John Wiley & Sons The Collected Works of John Dewey v. 14 1922
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Northwestern University Press New Essays on Fichtes Later Jena
Book SynopsisThe philosophical thought of J.G. Fichte is at the very centre of a paradigm shift underway in the field of German Idealism. This work gives an introduction to the major themes of the most important period of Fichte's thought.Table of ContentsDaniel Breezeale, ""Introduction: On the 'Later Jena Wissenschaftslahre' Part One: Essays on the Foundations of Natural Right (1796/97) Part Two: Essays on the Wissenschaftslahre Novs Methodo (1796/99) Part Three: Essays on the System of Ethical Theory(1798) Part Four: Essays on Various Topics by: Curtis Bowman Johannes Brachtendorf Daniel Breazeale Klaus Brinkmen Yolanda Estes Arnold Farr Stave Hoeltzel C. Jeffrey Kinlaw Jean Christoph Marle Lon Nease Angalica Nuzzo Claude Piche Ives Radrizzani Tom Rockmore F. Scott Scribner George J. Seidel Hans-Jakob Wilhelm Robert Williams Guntar Zoller
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Northwestern University Press Binding Words Conscience and Rhetoric in Hobbes
Book SynopsisAn account of how philosophical language appears to produce the very thing - here, conscience - that it seems to be discovering or describing. Conscience, as Binding Words argues, can only ever be understood, interpreted, and made effective through tropes and figures of language.
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Northwestern University Press After Jena New Essays on Fichtes Later Philosophy
Book SynopsisContains essays that demonstrate the depth and breadth of Fichte scholarship being done in English.With an introduction that locates the essays in philosophical and historical terms, the book divides into three related categories: Fichte's development, his view of religion, and other aspects of his popular (or not-so-popular) philosophy.
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Northwestern University Press Hegel on Hamann Topics in Historical Philosophy
Book SynopsisOffers a critical review of Johann Georg Hamann. This title reflects on Hamann's critiques of his contemporaries Immanuel Kant, Moses Mendelssohn, J G Herder, and F H Jacobi. It is suitable for those interested in the history of German thought, the philosophy of religion, language and hermeneutics, or friendship as a philosophical category.Table of ContentsTranslator's Introduction; Introductory Essay: The Notion of Friendship in Hegel and Hamann; G. W. F. Hegel, ""The Writings of J. G. Hamann""; Translator's Notes; Appendix: Hegel's Notebook Entries on Hamann; Bibliography.
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Northwestern University Press KantS Conception of Pedagogy Toward Education for
Book SynopsisAlthough he was involved in the education debates of his time, it is widely held that in his mature philosophical writings Immanuel Kant is silent on the subject. In her groundbreaking Kantâs Conception of Pedagogy, G. Felicitas Munzel finds extant in Kantâs writings the so-called missing critical treatise on education; it appears in the Doctrines of Method with which he concludes each of his major works. Here Kant identifies the fundamental principles for the cultivation of reasonâs judgement when it comes to cognition, beauty, nature, and the exercise of morality while subject to the passions and inclinations that characterise the human experience. From her analysis, Munzel extrapolates principles for a cosmopolitan education that parallels the structure of Kantâs republican constitution for perpetual peace. With the formal principles in place, the argument concludes with a query of the material principles that would fulfil the formal conditions required for an education for freedom.
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Northwestern University Press Meaning and Mortality in Kierkegaard and
Book SynopsisDeath is one of those few topics that attract the attention of just about every significant thinker in the history of Western philosophy. In Meaning and Mortality, Adam Buben offers a remarkably useful new framework for understanding the ways in which philosophy has discussed death by focusing first on two traditional strains in the discussion, the Platonic and the Epicurean.
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The Catholic University of America Press Plato and Platonism Studies in Philosophy the
Book SynopsisCombining cutting-edge research with innovative analysis, the authors present fourteen essays on various dimensions of Plato's thought. Most of Plato's dialogues are examined, from such conspicuously Socratic texts as Protagoras, Euthyphro, and Crito to the allegedly late Sophist, Statesman, and Laws. Several essays explore specific philosophical problems raised in a single Platonic dialogue, others offer in-depth analysis of one dialogue.
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The Catholic University of America Press Thomas Mores Vocation
Book SynopsisConsiders Thomas More's early life-choices. This study is based on early testimonies, those of Erasmus, Roper, Harpsfield, Stapleton and Cresacre More, as well as More's early writings, the Pageant Verses, and his additions/omissions to the Life of Pico; evidence drawn from authors he recommended and finally, his epitaph.
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The Catholic University of America Press Matter and Mathematics An Essentialist Account
Book SynopsisWhat is ‘A Law of Nature’? It's a question that's vexed philosophers and scientists ever since Descartes first coined the term. Andrew Younan explores it in this insightful book. After carefully reviewing the positions of Humeans and Anti-Humeans, he employs the philosophy of Aristotle and Aquinas to argue for an essentialist understanding.
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MJ - Ohio University Press Monad and Thou Phenomenological Ontology of
Book SynopsisThe genesis for this volume was in the bombing of Japan during World War II, where the author, as a young boy, watched the bombers overhead, speculating about the lives of the pilots and their relationship with those huddled on the ground.From
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MJ - Ohio University Press Science Unfettered
Book SynopsisWorking on a large canvas, Science Unfettered contributes to the ongoing debates in the philosophy of science. The ambitious aim of its authors is to reconceptualize the orientation of the subject, and to provide a new framework for understanding science as a human activity.
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