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Book SynopsisPresents an introduction to Fichte's philosophical system and his place in the history of German Idealism. This title presents the English translations of "Introductions to the Wissenschaftslehre" and "The Basis of Our Belief in a Divine Governance of the World".Trade ReviewDaniel Breazeale is unquestionably the most erudite Fichte scholar now writing in English. --Philosophical Review

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Book SynopsisOffers two complementary works, unabridged, in modernised, annotated texts. Suitable for classroom use, this title provides an introduction, a note on the texts, and a select bibliography.

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Book SynopsisCollects the lectures that represent the distillation of Hegel's views on the three most important activities of spirit. This title features an Introduction, Select Bibliography, Analytical Table of Contents, and the restoration in the section headings of the outline of Hegel's lectures.Trade ReviewA valuable resource for any class that includes Hegel--useful both in undergraduate and graduate classes. Hegel at his clearest!--M. Jamie Ferreira, University of Virginia

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewSchopenhauer's On the Basis of Morality deserves to be a standard text for courses in religious ethics. It doesn’t fit into the prevalent genealogies of virtue ethics and utilitarianism, thus reminding us of other genealogies (pessimism, Nietzsche, Buddhism). It poses fundamental questions about the monotheistic background to the dominant ethical systems of the day as virtually no other work does. I have found that reading it after an intensive study of Kant's ethical and religious writings leads to fantastic discussions, which open the floor for great insights into the relation of religion and ethics.--Mark Larrimore, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisPresents a rendering of Kant's major work on religion, a selected bibliography, notes, glossary and a detailed index.

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Book SynopsisSuitable for both students and scholars, this title covers topics such as Reid's views on the role of common sense, scepticism, the theory of ideas, perception, memory and identity, as well as his views on moral liberty, duties, and principles.

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Book SynopsisThis well-constructed book offers practical guidance on how to realise the unimaginable: through clear, unambiguous language we are taken through techniques to access the subconscious mind and to use it with confidence to take charge of our own mind. With homely and commonplace analogies, Yogi Ramacharaka leads us through twelve clear steps in developing attention, so the individual consciousness is allowed to unfold naturally and beautifully. Yes, we can touch the intangible - and be our best selves. Captivating.Wendy Teasdill, BWY Yoga Teacher Trainer, Yogi, Writer Yogi Ramacharaka deftly explains concepts from the Raja Yoga tradition for a western audience, blending them with specific techniques - and the optimistic spirit - of Occultism. The result is a vision of a dawning future where mastery of the mind brings about a new, more enlightened stage in human development, and where the power to live a rewarding life comes from within. This new edition by Bamboo Leaf is very good, with

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Book SynopsisThis text introduces university students to the philosophical ethos of critical thinking, as well as to the essential skills required to practice it. The authors believe that Critical Thinking should engage students with issues of broader philosophical interest while they develop their skills in reasoning and argumentation. The text is informed throughout by philosophical theory concerning argument and communication—from Aristotle's recognition of the importance of evaluating argument in terms of its purpose to Habermas's developing of the concept of communicative rationality. The authors' treatment of the topic is also sensitive to the importance of language and of situation in shaping arguments, and to the necessity in argument of some interplay between reason and emotion. Unlike many other texts in this area, then, Good Reasons for Better Arguments helps to explain both why argument is important and how the social role of argument plays an important part in determining what counts as a good argument.If this text is distinctive in the extent to which it deals with the theory and the values of critical thinking, it is also noteworthy for the thorough grounding it provides in the skills of deductive and inductive reasoning; the authors present the reader with useful tools for the interpretation, evaluation and construction of arguments. A particular feature is the inclusion of a wide range of exercises, rich with examples that illuminate the practice of argument for the student. Many of the exercises are self testing, with answers provided at the back of the text; others are appropriate for in-class discussion and assignments.Challenging yet accessible, Good Reasons for Better Arguments brings a fresh perspective to an essential subject.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements1. CRITICAL THINKING: WHAT AND WHY What’s in a Name? Critical Thinking and the Search for Good Reasons Who’s to Say What a Good Reason Is? Good Reasons, Better Arguments and Rationality Rational Discourse: Giving Reasons Communicatively Rational Speech Acts, or Good Reasons for Better Arguments Communicative Norms: Expectations and Obligations Comprehensibility Sincerity Transparent Persuasion: The Goal of Better Arguments A Brief Overview of this BookExercises 2. ARGUMENTS Critical Thinking Skills, Phase 1: Argument Structure and Construction The Argument: Form and Function Arguments and Non-arguments Arguments and Opinions Arguments, Explanations and Definitions Units of Meaning Standard Form for Simple Arguments Enthymemes and the Principle of Charity Standard Form for Complex Arguments Expressing Yourself in Argument FormExercises 3. LANGUAGE Language as Context Definitions: Explaining Meaning Definitions: Arguing Meaning Paradigm Case/Counter-example Genus/Differentia Understanding Conditionals and the Relationship of Implication Language and the Gap between Intention and Communication Ambiguity Vagueness Euphemism and Hyperbole Jargon and Obfuscation Disempowering Language Linguistic Considerations in the Construction of Your Own ArgumentsExercises 4. GOOD ARGUMENTS Phase 2: Evaluating Arguments Arguments, Arguers and Conclusions: Where to Start Your Evaluation Facts, Values and Opinions: Are They All Open to Evaluation? The Normativity of Argument Evaluation What Are Good Enough Arguments Good Enough For? General Criteria of Argument Evaluation Acceptability Relevance Sufficiency Cogency: The Overall Judgement A Few More Words on Expressing Yourself in Argument FormExercises 5. BAD ARGUMENTS Fallacy-Spotting and Building a Better Argument Dubious Premises Premises that Mean Too Much, or Not Enough Premises Bearing Illicitly Imported Assumptions Irrelevance Irrelevant Attacks on the Source of Opinion Illegitimate Manipulation of Emotion Changing the Subject Improper Appeals to Authority Hasty Conclusions and Suppressed Evidence Building a Better ArgumentExercises 6. DEDUCTION Three Modes of Argumentation Aspects of Deductive Reasoning Validity Categorical Logic Translation Venn Diagrams Immediate Inferences Syllogisms Fallacies of Distribution and Other Violations of the Rules for Syllogisms Propositional Logic The Strengths and Weaknesses of DeductionExercises 7. INDUCTION Induction and Reasoning from Observation Enumerative Induction Representative Sampling and Justified Confidence in Induction Reasoning about Causation Types of Causes Inductive Justification and Scientific MethodsExercises 8. PRACTICAL REASONING The Scope of Practical Reasoning Intersubjectivity, Open-endedness and Criterial Reasoning Conductive Reasoning Reasoning from Analogy Communicative Rationality: The Sufficiency Criterion in Practical ReasoningExercises Answers to Selected ExercisesAppendix A: Procedure for Standardizing Complex ArgumentsAppendix B: Procedure for Expressing Yourself in Argument FormIndex

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Book SynopsisBringing Biology to Life is a guided tour of the philosophy of biology, canvassing three broad areas: the early history of biology, from Aristotle to Darwin; traditional debates regarding species, function, and units of selection; and recent efforts to better understand the human condition in light of evolutionary biology. Topics are addressed using no more technical jargon than necessary, and without presupposing any advanced knowledge of biology or the philosophy of science on the part of the reader. Discussion questions are also provided to encourage reader reflection.Trade Review“Mahesh Ananth’s Bringing Biology to Life does exactly what it promises, which is to bring to life core topics in philosophy of biology. This book will be eminently attractive not only to the relative beginner but also to the most erudite reader. Covered with remarkable breadth, depth, and élan are the following topics: the history of biological thought (notably Aristotle and Darwin), the units of selection problem, the nature of biological function, the problem of what a biological species is, and the implications of evolution for morality and ethics, psychology, and religion (especially so-called Intelligent Design). Those hoping to find a lively read will not be disappointed.” — David N. Stamos, York UniversityTable of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Aristotle’s Philosophy of Biology Chapter 2: Darwin’s Darwinism Chapter 3: The Unit of Selection Chapter 4: Biological Function Chapter 5: The Species Debate Chapter 6: Evolution and Ethics Chapter 7: Evolutionary Psychology Chapter 8: Evolution and Religion

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Book SynopsisThe Critical Thinking Book covers not only standard topics such as definitions, fallacies, and argument identification, but also other pertinent themes such as consumer choice in a market economy and political choice in a representative democracy. Interesting historical asides are included throughout, as are images, diagrams, and reflective questions. A wealth of exercises is provided, both within the text and on a supplemental website for instructors.Trade Review“Gary James Jason has pulled off something that I have long hoped for—one book that covers all the necessary components of critical thinking. This text offers such a range of methods and approaches that it gives instructors choice as to how to map out their courses. I find the Concept Maps, thought questions, and historical accounts of important thinkers to be great supplements to the main text. The author uses cool examples such as dialogues and advertisements, and these visual components make the book fun and engaging for students.” — Jacqueline Alvarez, California State University, Fresno“The Critical Thinking Book is an excellent choice for courses in critical thinking, rhetoric, and informal logic. The cross-disciplinary approach is engaging, and the contemporary examples from fields such as marketing and politics will hold the reader’s attention. Students will benefit considerably from the abundant exercises and the Concept Map in each chapter. This is a text that instructors will want to use and students will want to read.” — Jeff Lawrence, North Island College“The Critical Thinking Book provides remarkably thorough coverage of the main topics in this field. As a critical thinking instructor, I have been looking for a text that strikes a balance between formal and informal reasoning; Jason's book does this well, as it is comprehensive in its coverage without being overly technical.” — Tuomas Manninen, Arizona State UniversityTable of ContentsPart One: The Elements of Critical Thinking: Statements, Questions, Arguments, Cases, and DialoguesChapter 1: Critical Thinking: Developing an Effective Worldview 1. Critical Thinking and Mental Models 2. Clarity and Consistency 3. Relevance 4. Justification and Explanatory/Predictive Power 5. The Usefulness of Critical Thinking 6. Impediments to Critical Thinking 7. Critical Thinking as an Academic Discipline 8. The Organization of This Book Chapter 2: Assertions 1. Assertions and Sentences 2. Statement Forms: Simple and Compound 3. Statement Forms: Particular and General 4. Statement Content: Necessary versus Contingent 5. Statement Content: Descriptive versus Evaluative Chapter 3: Questions 1. Questions and Sentences 2. Types of Questions 3. Responsive Answers 4. Fallacies of Questions Chapter 4: Identifying Single Arguments 1. Premises and Conclusions 2. Identifying Single Arguments: Rhetorical Devices 3. Identifying Single Arguments: Rhetorical Expansion 4. Identifying Single Arguments: Rhetorical Compression 5. Telling Arguments from Other Things 6. The Uses of Arguments 7. Two Types of Evidential Relations 8. Deductive Argument Forms 9. Inductive Argument Forms and the IBE Chapter 5: Multiple Arguments, Cases, and Dialogues 1. Diagramming Multiple Arguments 2. The Case Structure 3. The IBE as a Compressed Case 4. Dialogues Part Two: The Goals of Critical Thinking: Clarity, Relevance, Consistency, Justification, and Explanatory PowerChapter 6: Pitfalls of Language 1. Pitfalls of Language 2. Verbosity and Jargon 3. Vagueness 4. Loaded Language and Circular Argument 5. Understatement and Overstatement 6. Ambiguity 7. Synonymy 8. Figurative Language 9. Review of Major Fallacies Discussed so Far Chapter 7: Definition, Classification, and Concept Mapping 1. Three Tools for Organizing Thought and Clarifying Language 2. Types of Definition 3. Sense and Reference 4. Methods of Definition 5. Rules for Explicit Definitions 6. Analogical Definition 7. Classification 8. Concept Mapping Chapter 8: Topical Relevance 1. Relevance and Questions 2. Fallacies of Refusing to Answer 3. Fallacies of Irrelevant Emotional Appeal 4. Fallacies of Ignoring the Issue 5. How to Explain Fallacies of Relevance 6. Review of the Major Fallacies Discussed so Far Chapter 9: Deductive Reasoning I: Truth-Functional Logic 1. Two Types of Consistency 2. Cognitive Dissonance Theory 3. Basic Concepts of Deductive Logic 4. Truth Table Calculations 5. Symbolization 6. Truth Table Testing for Consistency 7. Truth Table Testing for Implication and Validity 8. Truth Table Testing for Other Deductive Concepts 9. Summary Chapter 10: Deductive Reasoning II: Class Logic 1. A Closer Look at Statements 2. Statements Involving Two Classes 3. Venn Testing for Consistency 4. Venn Testing for Implication and Validity 5. Venn Testing for Other Concepts 6. Summary of Concepts 7. The Limitations of Truth-Functional and Class Logic Chapter 11: Inductive Reasoning I: Observation, Memory, and Testimony 1. Sensing, Observing, and Reporting 2. Assessing Observation 3. Special Issues Concerning Observation in Natural Science 4. Assessing Memory 5. Assessing Eyewitness Testimony 6. Assessing Expert Testimony 7. The Fallacy of Faulty Appeal to Authority 8. Special Issues Concerning Expert Testimony in Journalism 9. Special Issues Concerning Expert Testimony in Legal Proceedings 10. Observation, Memory, and Testimony IBE and CBE Chapter 12: Inductive Reasoning II: Inductive Generalization and Inductive Instantiation 1. The Pervasiveness of Inductive Generalization 2. Criteria for Assessing Generalizations 3. The Fallacy of Faulty Generalization 4. Defeasibility and General Rules 5. The Statistical Syllogism 6. The Fallacy of Faulty Instantiation 7. A Common Confusion 8. Inductive Generalization and Inductive Instantiation as IBE and CBE 9. Stereotypes and Prejudice Chapter 13: Inductive Reasoning III: Analogies 1. The Uses of Analogy 2. Descriptive and Definitional Analogies 3. Assessing Analogical Arguments 4. The Heuristic Use of Analogies 5. Models in Science 6. Analogies in Legal Reasoning 7. Analogical Arguments as IBE and CBE Chapter 14: Inductive Reasoning IV: Causal Inference 1. The Relation of Cause and Effect 2. Evidence for Causal Claims: Temporal and Statistical Linkages 3. Establishing Deterministic Causes 4. A More Formal Approach to Causal Reasoning 5. Establishing Statistical Causes 6. Special Issues in Medical and Pharmaceutical Research 7. The Fallacy of Faulty Causal Reasoning 8. Causal Inference as IBE and CBE 9. Review of the Five Inductive Fallacies 10. Review of All of the Previous Major Fallacies Chapter 15: Inductive Reasoning V: Explanation, Hypothesis, and Prediction 1. Key Concepts 2. Types of Explanation 3. A Closer Look at Causal Explanations 4. Rules for Forming Hypotheses 5. Rules for Assessing Hypotheses Part Three: Applications of Critical Thinking: Decisions in a Democratic Market EconomyChapter 16: Classical Decision Theory: Its Uses and Problems 1. Utility and Preferences 2. Decision under Certainty: The Rational Choice Model 3. Decision under Risk 4. Decision under Uncertainty 5. Decision under Conflict 6. Challenges to Classical Decision Theory I: Several Narrow Criticisms 7. Challenges to Classical Decision Theory II: The Opacity of Costs and Benefits 8. Challenges to Classical Decision Theory III: Behavioral Decision Theory 9. Challenges to Classical Decision Theory IV: Manipulation by Others Chapter 17: Application I: Rational versus Irrational Marketing 1. Two Main Branches of Rhetoric 2. When Is Marketing Rational? 3. Why Is Marketing so Often Irrational? 4. Psychological Mechanisms Exploited by Marketing Agents 5. Examples of Irrational Marketing Techniques 6. Special Issues in Advertising to Children 7. How to Combat Deceptive Marketing Chapter 18: Application II: Rational versus Irrational Propaganda 1. Political Agents and Propaganda 2. Is Deceptive Propaganda More Prevalent Than Deceptive Marketing? 3. Examples of Irrational Propaganda Techniques 4. How to Combat Deceptive Propaganda 5. Propaganda in a Dictatorship Chapter 19: Application III: Science versus Pseudo-Science 1. Healthy Science versus Pseudo-Science 2. Symptoms of Pseudo-Science 3. First Example of Pseudo-Science: Astrology 4. Second Example of Pseudo-Science: Lysenkoism 5. A Borderline Case GlossaryBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisEveryone can run. Whether it is a jog around the park on a Sunday morning, or lining up with 40,000 other people at the start of the London Marathon, all it requires is a pair of trainers and the open road. But where does that road lead and why do we run at all? Robin Harvie ran his first marathon after a bet, but it wasn't until he had ventured 6,000 miles into the extreme world of ultra-distance running to the start line of the oldest and toughest footrace on earth, that he found an answer. As a hobby turned into a 120-mile-a-week obsession, so a way out of his daily routine evolved into a journey to discover who he was and what he was really made of.Through the scorching heat of the desert and into the darkest hours of the morning, Why We Run reveals the beating heart of the brutal and profoundly intoxicating experience of running. If you have ever wondered what makes you lace up your trainers, and why you keep coming back for more, this is your story too.Trade ReviewThere is much to enjoy in this erudite, literary memoir * Observer *Where the book truly excels is in its depiction of Harvie's internal landscape. He largely shuns training tips and inspirational advice in favour of a true memoirist's tone, exploring the reasons why he runs - grief, ambition, boredom - with an almost brutal honesty. These passages are as moving as they are illuminating . . . this is a memoir for anyone who has ever dreamed about reaching the outer limits of what they're capable of and, as such, it should be enjoyed by an audience far wider than just those who head home this evening wearing a medal * Independent on Sunday *Harvie writes intricately on how such a limit-busting endeavour (the Sparthalon) made him understand himself, his journey into adulthood and his family * Metro *His journey is undeniably a compelling one * Independent *Harvie tells many more fascinating stories in this vein about everything from the suicidally dedicated marathon monks of Mount Hiel in Japan, whose initiation requires them to run a marathon a day for 100 days, to the danger of modern trainers * Mail on Sunday *Every runner has a story, and Robin Harvie's is one of the most remarkable I've ever encountered. Why We Run is brilliantly written, deeply emotional, raw and honest. Robin scrapes away the superficial dermis and offers a rare glimpse into the mindset and motivation of a long-distance runner * Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathoner and NY Times bestselling author *An astonishing memoir--wholly unlike any other writing about 'running' and 'obsession' that I have encountered. It is both eloquent and rawly emotional--candid to the point of pain, illuminating, and finally very touching. It will make all who read it, who are drawn to running, feel stirrings of true excitement, if just a bit tinged with dread! For Robin Harvie is a 'real' runner--and a 'real' writer, and though competition is not the point, as the memoirist makes clear, in this case he is an uncontested winner.' * Joyce Carol Oates *An intensely personal journey, woven with memoir, philosophy, history and pain, Robin Harvie's debut is by turns compulsive, challenging and ultimately rewarding--a magnificent literary marathon in itself * Philip Hoare *

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Book SynopsisGandhi's complex views on violence and non-violence, including his response to Hitler and his strictness within his family, raise questions about his notion of ahimsa. Jyotirmaya Sharma explores Gandhi's journey and the relevance of ahimsa in the modern world.

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Book SynopsisThe text discusses the progression of a monk's life towards Nibbana, covering moral precepts, contentment, mindfulness, hindrance abandonment, jhanas, and higher knowledge.

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Book SynopsisA groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century. Contemporanea is a nascent lexicon for the twenty-first century edited by seasoned philosophers and authors Michael Marder and Giovanbattista Tusa. The collection showcases perspectives from a range of noteworthy thinkers in philosophy, ecology, and cultural studies, as well as artists, from across the globe, including Slavoj Zizek, Timothy Morton, Denise Ferreira Da Silva, and Vandana Shiva, who each describe what they anticipate will be the concepts shaping the trajectory of this centuryeverything from the world state to the nuclear taboo, automation to Teslaism, plant sexuality to arachnomancy, and ecotrauma to resonances, to name a few. This century, as the editors explain, has to date grounded itself in the debris of the preceding century, whose revolutions and struggles failed to transform our time: post-colonial

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Book SynopsisAn accessible and comprehensive guide to the philosophy of sportEach chapter is framed by a question that explores the main issues, ideas and literature in the field ranging from questions about the nature and value of sport, the sporting body, aesthetics and ethics. Students are given the opportunity to consider significant debates in the philosophy of sport and each chapter is supplemented by independent study questions. Each section also contains short insightful interviews with eminent scholars in order to give a broader understanding of the history and development of the subject.The main themes covered within this text include: the nature of sport; sport and the body; aesthetics and the aesthetic value of sport; a consideration of fair play, rules and the ethos of sport; the nature of competition; the application and effect of technology on sport and introductions to contemporary ethical issues such as doping, violence, disability, patriotism, elitism andTable of ContentsContributors 1 Introduction, Cesar R. Torres Part I: History and Development 2 A History of Philosophic Ideas about Sport, David Lunt and Mark Dyreson Part II: Research Methodology 3 The Philosophy of Sport and Analytic Philosophy, Scott Kretchmar 4 The Philosophy of Sport and Continental Philosophy, Vegard Fusche Moe 5 The Philosophy of Sport, Eastern Philosophy and Pragmatism, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza, Koyo Fukasawa and Mizuho Takemura Part III: Current Research and Key Issues 6 Theories of Sport, Robert L. Simon 7 Fairness and Justice in Sport, Sigmund Loland 8 The Ethics of Enhancing Performance, Sarah Teetzel 9 Disability and Sport, Carwyn Jones 10 Sport, Risk and Danger, Leslie A. Howe 11 Sport and the Environment – Ecosophical and Metanoetical Intersections, Ron Welters 12 The Aesthetics of Sport, Stephen Mumford 13 Sporting Knowledge, Gunnar Breivik 14 Sport and Ideology, Lamartine P. DaCosta 15 Competitive Sport, Moral Development and Peace, J.S. Russell 16 Sport, Spirituality and Religion, Simon Robinson 17 Violence in Sport, Danny Rosenberg Part IV: Future Developments 18 Sport and Technological Development, Alun Hardman 19 Conceivable Horizons of Equality in Sport, Pam R. Sailors 20 ‘Spoiled Sports’: Markets and the Corruption of Sport, William J. Morgan 21 Sport Philosophy Around the World, Peter M. Hopsicker and Ivo Jirásek Part V: Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts Cheating, Warren P. Fraleigh Competition, Jan Boxill Conventionalism, Peter F. Hager Cybersport, Dennis Hemphill Deception, Adam G. Pfleegor Doping, Angela J. Schneider Embodiment, Irena Martínková Enhancement, W.M. Brown Fair Play, Claudia Pawlenka Formalism, José Luis Pérez Triviño Games, Chad Carlson Gamesmanship, Mark Hamilton Internalism, Francisco Javier López Frías Kinesiology, Gregg Twietmeyer Play, Stephen E. Schmid Rules, John Gleaves Skills, Daniel G. Campos Sport, Jeff Fry Sportsmanship, Diana Abad Part VI: Resources and Careers 22 Resource Guide, Emily Ryall 23 Careers, Charlene Weaving Part VII: The Literature 24 The Sport Philosophy Literature: Foundations, Evolutions and Annotations, Tim L. Elcombe, Douglas Hochstetler and Douglas W. McLaughlin Index

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Book SynopsisNo matter what you teach, there is a 100 Ideas title for you!The 100 Ideas series offers teachers practical, easy-to-implement strategies and activities for the classroom. Each author is an expert in their field and is passionate about sharing best practice with their peers.Each title includes at least ten additional extra-creative Bonus Ideas that won''t fail to inspire and engage all learners.Questioning is key to effective teaching and learning, yet practical questioning strategies that are immediately useable in the classroom can be hard to come by. 100 Ideas for Primary Teachers: Questioning presents practical strategies, games and activities not only to help teachers improve their own questioning in the classroom, but also to allow pupils to develop an understanding of how they too can ask effective questions to develop their learning.Using philosophical approaches including ownership, authenticity, balance and Socratic principles,Trade ReviewPeter Worley offers us a supercharged insight into questioning strategies and mindsets. Teachers will appreciate this crisp distillation of his most influential and practical ideas. This book is a crash course in becoming a more deliberative and deft facilitator of enquiry. -- Michelle Sowey, Director, The Philosophy Club, AustraliaIf you were to merge the training of an academic philosopher with the passion of our most inspirational teachers, then you'd create Peter Worley. This, his latest creation, is quite simply a beauty of a book: one that will guide and inspire you, and lead to ever more engaging, thought-provoking experiences for your learners. -- James Nottingham, teacher, author, and creator of The Learning PitThe invention – for that is what it is – of the concept of open questioning mindset (OQM) is a remarkable contribution, not just to the pedagogy of philosophical inquiry with children but to good pedagogy in any context. In an unassuming, but extremely elegant, way, Peter Worley has matched the much more famous pedagogical contribution, ‘growth mindset’, of Carol Dweck. Indeed, it could be argued that a teacher who models and encourages OQM contributes more directly to a child’s intellectual growth than one who models and encourages growth mindset. At any rate, a child might be more likely to become a fully self-directed learner through developing an OQM of her own, than merely developing a growth mindset. For it could be through – and only through – the practice of OQM that one might develop the capacity, in the metaphor of Plutarch, to ‘light the fire of learning’ in and for oneself. -- Roger Sutcliffe, Founding Member of SAPEREI would like to become a really good questioner and develop a questioning classroom. So, how can I learn to ask just the right question? What strategies can I use? Look no further than Peter Worley's new book on Questioning. Based on a wealth of experience, this introduction to questions and questioning is a cornucopia of ideas for the busy primary teacher, with the bonus of teaching tips and further suggestions that you can return to time and again. My advice to primary school teachers: get hold of this book and have it at your fingertips as you plan your lessons and work with your class. -- Dr Philip Cam, Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, and author of '20 Thinking Tools'A great book [...] Questioning forms a huge part of my teacher training across the UK. [There is] tons of stuff I'm going to use in here for my own research and my own teacher training. -- Ross Morrison McGill, @TeacherToolkitThis short text would be of value to any member of staff who is interested in developing a deeper understanding of the ways that questioning can activate children’s thinking and imagination. -- Mary Mountstephen * SEN Magazine *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewParting Ways succeeds in its main task: to intervene in the political discourse and voice a Jewish concern about the State of Israel and its relation to the other. Studies in Religion It is a profoundly difficult vision that Butler articulates, and one unlikely to find ready adherence among those already at war; but it is a great one. Its genuine promise deserves a hearing - and more than that, to gather those whom expulsion has scattered in a renewed hope for an end to war. Theory & EventTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Self-Departure 1: Impossible 2. Unable to Kill: Levinas Contra Levinas 3. Walter Benjamin and the Critique of Violence 4. Flashing Up: Benjamin's Messianic Politics 5. Is Judaism Zionism? Or 6. Quandaries of the Plural: Cohabitation and Sovereignty in Arendt 7. Primo Levi for the Present 8. "What Shall We Do Without Exile?": Said and Darwish Address the Future Notes Index

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Book SynopsisJeff Love reinterprets Alexandre Kojève’s works, showing him to be a provocative thinker who challenged modernity's valuation of self-interest. Joining intellectual history, close textual analysis, and philosophy, The Black Circle reveals Kojève’s thought as a profound critique of capitalist individualism and a timely meditation on human freedom.Trade ReviewThe Black Circle is an extraordinary study in which hardcore philosophical issues are approached at a cosmic level but lyrically, almost as part of an intimate conversation. Alexandre Kojève was so thoroughly at home in German and French culture that his origins in yet a third culture have been neglected. In this book, Jeff Love restores Russian contexts to Kojève’s thought on Hegel and the ‘end of history.’ -- Caryl Emerson, Princeton UniversityKojève is best known as arguably the best twentieth-century commentator on Hegel. But Love’s incisive book shows that he is much more. This is by far the best, most comprehensive overview of Kojève’s thinking in any language and the only one to draw in detail on Kojève’s Russian background. Clearly, elegantly written and argued, it is indispensable reading for anyone interested in the complexity and range of twentieth-century thought. -- William Todd Mills, Harry Tuchman Levin Professor of Literature, Harvard UniversityKnown only in Anglophone letters for a drastically truncated translation of his idiosyncratic and influential Parisian “Lectures on Hegel,” Alexandre Kojève bequeathed to posterity a multitude of tantalizing manuscripts and has finally received the intellectual contextualization and philosophical interpretation he deserves. In his magisterial study Jeff Love uncovers the profound presence of nineteenth-century Russian thought within Kojève’s literary style and his philosophy of negation, finality, perfection, repetition, political community, and radical freedom, such that Kojève emerges from Dostoevsky's underground as a distinctly Russian Hegelian existentialist thinker worthy of serious consideration today. -- Henry W. Pickford, Duke UniversityIn this excellent intellectual biography, Jeff Love explicates the thought and speculates on the intentions of expatriate Russian Hegelian philosopher Alexandre Kojève. Love’s readings of neglected Russian influences on Kojève (Dostoevsky and philosophers Vladimir Soloviev and Nikolai Fedorov) and of Kojève himself are satisfyingly complex, clear, and accessible. His Kojève is deep, controversial, and a 'philosophical propagandist' still relevant today. -- Donna Orwin, University of TorontoA sophisticated contribution to the study of one of the most enigmatic modern thinkers, this book is simultaneously scholarly and bold. It not only retraces Kojève’s roots in more than a century of Russian literature and thought but also–attuned to the paradoxes and ironies embedded in his kaleidoscopic corpus–orchestrates a spirited exchange among canonical figures of the 'Western tradition,' from Plato and Aristotle to Beckett and Leo Strauss. -- Ilya Kliger, New York UniversityLove’s thoughtful account and probing interrogation of Kojève’s texts shed light on both the powerful arguments and interpretations that Kojève presents and the bewildering paradoxes and problems that the outcomes of these arguments leave us with. -- James H. Nichols * H-Net *This lucid book goes far in clarifying the origins of and the problems with Kojeve's 'end of history' thesis. * Choice *Meticulously researched and boasting an extensive bibliography in multiple languages . . . of interest to philosophers [and] intellectual historians. * Slavic Review *Kojève’s thought is complex, puzzling, and intense—and so is this book about writings and ideas he puts forward. It is no easy reading, but the reader who takes the challenge will be rewarded with a (not the) profound grasp of the philosophical thought of this important Russian-European thinker. * Studies in East European Thought *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgments ixList of Abbreviations xiIntroduction: A Russian in Paris 1I. Russian Contexts1. Madmen 172. The Possessed 443. Godmen 70II. The Hegel Lectures4. The Last Revolution 1035. Time No More 1326. The Book of the Dead 161III. The Later Writings7. Nobodies 1938. Roads Or Ruins? 2139. Why Finality? 257Epilogue: The Grand Inquisitor 279Notes 291Bibliography 335Index 347

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Book SynopsisThis book develops a new conception of universality that helps us rethink political thought and action. Through a wide range of examples in contemporary politics, film, and history, Universality and Identity Politics offers an antidote to the impasses of identity and an inspiring vision of twenty-first-century collective struggle.Trade ReviewI used to be among those left-leaning academics who believe that universalism is problematic and that particularism represents a corrective to false universalism. Not anymore. McGowan shows that a genuinely emancipatory politics is intrinsically universalist, and he reveals the various ways in which identity politics inevitably serves the conservative establishment and traps us into a conception of politics as a struggle of one identity against others. Universality and Identity Politics is a groundbreaking book. -- Mari Ruti, author of Penis Envy and Other Bad Feelings: The Emotional Costs of Everyday LifePassionately yet patiently argued, Universality and Identity Politics looks back at earlier debates surrounding the universal and mounts fresh defenses of it. More than timely, this book writes to the moment. -- Joan Copjec, author of Imagine There’s No Woman: Ethics and SublimationWhat is universality? With his signature exactitude, Todd McGowan radiantly argues that universality is what we lack in common, the absent foundation for a nonetheless necessary sociality. Against the many theories conflating universality with positive content and violent oppression, Universality and Identity Politics illustrates how movements beyond the particular are indispensable for solidarity. Ceaseless catastrophes now rain down; McGowan boldly underwrites new political imaginings of equality and freedom. -- Anna Kornbluh, author of The Order of Forms: Realism, Formalism, and Social SpaceIn calm, level-headed formulations that are as elegant as they are clear, Todd McGowan presents a crucial insight into all emancipatory political efforts. Those who want to liberate themselves without at the same time aiming at liberating all others do not lead an emancipatory struggle. As a result, they do not even liberate themselves. -- Robert Pfaller, author of On the Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions Without OwnersHe calls for uniting the process of emancipation for some with the universal project of emancipation for all. * Choice *Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Finding Universality1. Our Particular Age2. The Importance of Being Absent3. Universal Villains4. Capitalism’s Lack and Its Discontents5. This Is Identity Politics6. This Is Not Identity PoliticsConclusion: Avoiding the WorstNotesIndex

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Book Synopsis. . . [captures] the relentless urgency of Lucretius' didacticism, his passionate conviction and proselytizing fervour.' The Classical ReviewTable of ContentsA Foreword by the TranslatorIntroductionText of the PoemBook IBook IIBook IIIBook IVBook VBook VISynopses and Notes

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Book SynopsisContains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. This title is suitable for students of Heidegger and Hegel and of contemporary Continental philosophy.Trade Review" . . . an important contribution . . . offers a penetrating glimpse into certain uncharted waters in the development of German thought." —Review of Metaphysics "A must for all students of Hegel, Husserl, and Heidegger." —Choice

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Book SynopsisDiscusses major ideas, figures, and schools of thought in philosophy in the African context. While drawing out critical issues in the formation of African philosophy, this book focuses on scholarship and relevant debates that have made African philosophy critical to understanding the rich and complex cultural heritage of the continent.Trade ReviewThis expanded and updated edition of Hallen's work will be a valuable asset as a highly accessible reference, not only for the undergraduate student, but also for graduates and researchers. * Journal of Africa *A Short History of African Philosophy is a good read for both the neophyte and the seasoned scholar; it is a helpful guide and beginning for anyone with an interest in African philosophy. * Dialogue *The purpose of Hallen's book is to provide professional philosophers, students, and intellectually interested laypersons with both a synopsis and analysis of the field of African philosophy, a scholarly field that is still widely ignored in the philosophical profession and still widely unknown in the public realm. He succeeds quite well in this enterprise. Vol. 43, no. 2, 2010 * Intl. Jrnl. of African Historical Studies *Hallen's writing is consistently clear and accessible to a general reader, and his knowledge of the subject is wide-ranging, making this an excellent introduction to the vibrant and complex melange that falls withing the category of African philosophy.#71 Winter 2009/2010 -- Mikel Burley * University of Leeds *While avowedly a short conspectus, the book as a whole is dynamized by a number of recurring debates which make their appearance in most of the chapters, giving the work an internal coherence belying its brevity and simplicity. * Leeds African Studies Bulletin *Provides an excellent orientation to the various approaches and issues which have emerged throughout the history of African philosophy. * International Studies in Philosophy *With this small book, Barry Hallen has opened up the field of African philosophy to the general public, without turning professionals off. * Philosophy in Review *Hallen has provided an immeasurable service to students and scholars of Africana thought by lucidly and concisely chronicling the history, development, and current issues in African philosophies. * Choice, named Outstanding Academic Book *Table of ContentsIntroduction1. The Historical Perspective2. Twentieth-Century Origins3. Rationality as Culturally Universal4. Rationality as Culturally Relative5. Ethnophilosophy and Philosophical Sagacity6. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics7. Socialism and Marxism8. Philosophy and Culture9. Histories, Anthologies, Introductions to African Philosophy, Journals, and WebsitesConclusion BibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisClaims that while we are in many ways different from the Greeks the differences are not to be traced to a shift in basic conceptions of ethical life. This book argues that we are more like the ancients than we are prepared to acknowledge, and only when this is understood can we grasp our differences from them, such as our rejection of slavery.Trade Review"A dazzlingly clever and agile assault. . . . Williams's treatment of shame is brilliant. . . . Mr Williams's mind is subtle, his reasoning complex. In places this is a difficult book, but always because the argument requires it; essentially, it is a model of philosophical lucidity. And though it is deeply serious, we can often catch an ironic inflection in the author's voice." * New York Times *"Brilliant, demanding, disturbing." * New York Review of Books *"Poets often prove to be much better observers of human thought, character and action than philosophers, historians or psychologists, who are apt to launch into theory and generalisation before they have a good description of what they are setting out to explain. This is what Williams's discussions of the ancient texts bring out in every instance, and what makes his book worth reading, not just for those who are interested in the question whether we have made any real moral progress, but also for those who are interested in the Greeks, or in the varieties of ethical experience." * London Review of Books *"Clearly written, well argued, and carefully documented." * Library Journal *Table of ContentsPreface Foreword to the 2008 Edition I. The Liberation of Antiquity II. Centres of Agency III. Recognising Responsibility IV. Shame and Autonomy V. Necessary Identities VI. Possibility, Freedom, and Power Notes Endnote I: Mechanisms of Shame and Guilt Endnote 2: Phaedra's Distinction: Euripides Hippolytus 380-87 Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

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Book SynopsisHow do we justify our political convictions? Libertarians appeal to a love of freedom, liberals to a dedication to fairness. Niko Kolodny, however, argues that neither value actually makes sense of our avowed convictions. Instead, what drives much of our politics is an opposition to social hierarchy.Trade ReviewThe Pecking Order provides a powerful articulation and defense of its master idea of noninferiority. That idea is already percolating through political philosophy, but nobody has done anything like the systematic development of it that Kolodny achieves. This book stands out for its ability to animate so many different debates in political philosophy through a single idea, deploying it to address a wider range and variety of moral and political phenomena. Carefully argued, clearly written, and remarkable for both the depth of its analysis and the scope of its engagement, Kolodny’s book is one that everyone working in political philosophy and many in democratic theory will want to read. -- Arthur Ripstein, author of Force and FreedomIn this far-reaching study, Niko Kolodny illuminates everyone’s fundamental interest in being an equal. The claim against hierarchy—against being socially subordinate to others—is offered as a key to more stuck doors in political philosophy than other time-honored projects around freedom and equality, liberalism, and democracy. Relentless in method and vivid in style, the book will be widely studied, and rightly so. -- David Estlund, author of UtopophobiaThis book is smart, provocative, timely, and deeply informed. It engages and carries to a new level of clarity and sophistication a set of themes associated with social egalitarianism. It also offers as comprehensive a critical view of central themes in recent democratic theory as I can imagine. Reading The Pecking Order is a rare and bracing experience. -- Charles R. Beitz, author of The Idea of Human RightsSocial and political discourse is full of claims about what we owe each other and why. In this compelling book, a perceptive philosopher argues that much of that talk is grounded in our shared aversion to subordination. In his hands, the principle of ‘noninferiority’ provides a powerful touchstone for assessing contentious issues ranging from the limits of authority in the workplace to the reach of the welfare state and the role of money in politics. -- Larry M. Bartels, author of Unequal Democracy and Democracy for Realists

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Book SynopsisPaolo Giovio’s Portraits of Learned Men provides brief biographies of 146 men from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio to Erasmus, Thomas More, and Juan Luis Vives that were meant to accompany portraits in a museum of great figures in modern history. This volume contains a fresh edition of the Latin text and a new, more complete English translation.

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Book SynopsisIn a new approach to philosophical anthropology, Bruno Latour offers answers to questions raised in We Have Never Been Modern: If not modern, what have we been, and what values should we inherit? An Inquiry into Modes of Existence offers a new basis for diplomatic encounters with other societies at a time of ecological crisis.Trade Review[An Inquiry into Modes of Existence] is not just a book; it is also a project in interactive metaphysics. In other words, a book, plus website… Intrigued readers of Latour’s text can go online [http://www.modesofexistence.org/] and find themselves drawn into a collaborative project. Collective collaboration—some would call it ‘crowdsourcing’—is rare in philosophy, but Latour, a sociologist and anthropologist by training, is used to collaboration with scientists… Latour’s work makes the world—sorry, worlds—interesting again. And, best of all, it is a project to which you can attach yourself. -- Stephen Muecke * Los Angeles Review of Books *Magnificent… An Inquiry into Modes of Existence shows that [Latour] has lost none of his astonishing fertility as a thinker, or his skill and wit as a writer… Latour’s main message—that rationality is ‘woven from more than one thread’—is intended not just for the academic seminar, but for the public square—and the public square today is global as never before. Thanks to what Bruno Latour describes as the ‘formidable discoveries of modernism,’ we have come to share a world of material interdependence and incessant communication, just at the time when the threat of climate change gives desperate pathos to our common stewardship of the planet. Latour speaks with urgency when he asks us all to set aside the script of secular modernity—to stop insulting each other and learn to pluralize, apologize and ecologize. We must prepare ourselves for diplomacy, he says: we must talk to one another or die. -- Jonathan Rée * Times Literary Supplement *

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Book SynopsisDignity plays a central role in thinking about law and human rights, but there is sharp disagreement about its meaning. Combining conceptual precision with a broad historical background, Rosen puts these controversies in context and offers a novel, constructive proposal. He also answers a puzzling question: why treat the dead with dignity?

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Book SynopsisPhenomenology has the strongest claim to the mantle of continental philosophy. Edward Baring shows that credit for its prodigious growth goes to a surprising group of early enthusiasts: Catholic intellectuals. Tracing debates in Europe from existentialism to speculative realism, he shows why European philosophy bears the mark of Catholicism.Trade ReviewBaring has achieved something very significant…Not just a story of ideas…but a story of how ideas spread across the boundaries between national communities or between secular and Catholic thought. -- Sarah Shortall * Commonweal *An important book that should appear on the shelves of every serious scholar committed to the study of either of its chosen fields. -- Jeffrey Bloechl * Theological Studies *Brilliantly conceived…By showing how Catholicism nourished the roots of modern European philosophy, Baring sheds invaluable light on ongoing discussions of the persistence of Christianity in a not-so-secular age. -- Brandon Bloch * Church History *A story of thought as an inter-personal, inter-institutional happening, where events of thinking take place between works, between thinkers…Baring tells continental philosophy’s church history. -- Elad Lapidot * Phenomenological Reviews *An impressive work that combines a broad scope and fluent, accessible style with the kind of deep detail usually confined to specialist studies. -- Clare Carlisle * Times Literary Supplement *Socrates modestly described himself as a midwife, helping others to give birth to a wisdom that was their own. The analogy springs to mind when reading this fascinating, well-researched and imaginative book by Edward Baring. His aim is to show something both striking and unexpected: that Catholicism is ‘the single most important explanation’ for the international success of phenomenology. -- Maximilian de Gaynesford * The Tablet *[A] very rich book…It is both profound and sweeping in its scope; it is almost a history of twentieth-century philosophy. -- Jude P. Dougherty * Review of Metaphysics *Baring’s history of phenomenology is itself phenomenological in its attention to hundreds of dramas of belief, the outcomes of which—contextualized but not determined by the Catholic Church—helped imprint the continental philosophy of the twentieth century with the strangeness of their unforeseen patterns…[A] rich, deeply researched book. -- Martyn Wendell Jones * Hedgehog Review *An exemplary model of the scholarship that is so needed in continental philosophy of religion: historically and philosophically learned, attuned as much to archives as to arguments. It is accessible without being simplistic, driven by narrative without sacrificing detail. -- Vincent Lloyd * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *A scholarly achievement of the highest order…a profoundly original and painstakingly detailed history of the shared conceptual spaces of phenomenology and Catholic thought…Successfully lay[s] out a genealogy of continental philosophy that spans (and indeed, calls into question) the separation of sacred and secular…As much a normative attempt to resolve a host of philosophical and theological disputes as it is a work of transnational intellectual history…Converts to the Real is a work of great erudition. -- Piotr H. Kosicki * Journal of Modern History *Well-written and direct, Converts to the Real is bold and well worth reading by all interested in philosophy or Catholicism. -- Graham McAleer * Law & Liberty *Excellent and exhaustively researched…A major contribution to the history of European philosophy in the 20th century, and of phenomenology more particularly. * Choice *Through archival research and an analysis of philosophical affinities, Baring traces the influence of neo-scholasticism on continental philosophy…A detailed study of the tight but often awkward relationship between Catholicism and continental philosophy in the first half of the twentieth-century and its philosophical and political implications. * Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal *Converts to the Real tells an intriguing, valuable, and timely story about the religious leanings of European phenomenology, especially with respect to its associations with Neo-Scholasticism and the Catholic Church. Baring has done impressive archival research to create a narrative with considerable detail. An excellent book. -- Kevin Hart, University of VirginiaThe virtues of Edward Baring’s superb book are many. Converts to the Real demonstrates the importance of phenomenology—typically viewed as a philosopher’s philosophy—not only for twentieth-century European intellectual life but for key social and political trends as well. Its great achievement is to merge two contemporary histories by showing how transformations in modern Catholic thought turned phenomenology into the continental philosophy. -- Michael Gubser, author of The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe

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Book SynopsisHow Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours argues that Alexis de Tocqueville, one of democracy's greatest champions and most incisive critics, can guide us forward. Drawing on Tocqueville's major works and lesser-known policy writings, Ewa Atanassow shines a bright light on the foundations of liberal democracy. She argues that its prospects depend on how we tackle three dilemmas that were as urgent in Tocqueville's day as they are in ours: how to institutionalize popular sovereignty, how to define nationhood, and how to grasp the possibility and limits of global governance. These are pivotal but often neglected dimensions of Tocqueville's work, and this fresh look at his writings provides a powerful framework for addressing the tensions between liberalism and d

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is always good to find a new book on the shelves that regards wine with both pleasure and common sense, including a good deal about manners and drunkenness. . . . [How to Drink is] an enjoyable read and . . . makes good, genial sense at a time when wine is now being taken far too seriously as a subject to be put under a microscope rather than be sloshed into a glass."---John Mariani, Forbes"[How to Drink is] a fetching translation . . . I recommend it, as much for its hints about drinking ‘sustainably and with discrimination’ as for its wry warnings about excess."---Roger Kimball, Spectator US"[A] lively modern rendition . . . [How to Drink] mashes up a How to Win Friends and Influence People Under the Influence sort of self-help book, a snapshot of a binge-drinking culture 500 years ago and a personal airing of grievances through the lens of one entertaining, wildly self-contradictory and extremely cantankerous tutor."---Ben O’Donnell, WineSpectator.com"If you can escape the world for a couple of days, bring this delightful book with you and cue up your Pandora 'Circa 1500' playlist . . . a balance of elegance and boisterousness."---Lana Bortolot, Forbes"Fontaine has done a good job in resurrecting an amusing enough oeuvre for those who enjoy exploring such highways and byways."---Peter Jones, Classics for All"[How to Drink] serves as relevant social commentary for today, railing, with wit and humor, against toxic masculinity and overindulgence while providing advice on how to win drinking games. It’s a great addition to your bartending library."---Matt Kettman, Santa Barbara Independent"I found this book fascinating . . . I recommend How to Drink for anyone who enjoys history, the social aspects of alcohol, and the fact that some things never seem to change through the ages!" * TheBrewholder.com *"I adored this quirky little book. It’s half a millennium old and relevant. It’s vulnerably human, capricious, mercurial, inconsistent, wise, ridiculous, passionate and poetic. It’s unintentionally hilarious."---Tamlyn Currin, jancisrobinson.com"[How to Drink] is a witty, entertaining and well produced book, whose editor/translator is clearly well-matched to the subject-matter: in Fontaine’s capable hands, Obsopoeus is anything but an acquired taste."---Gary Vos, The Journal of Classics Teaching"This is a fun little book; it is also a scholarly edition of a little-known sixteenth-century didactic poem, accompanied by an eminently readable translation—an unusual and commendable combination. . . . We should be thankful to Michael Fontaine for undertaking this edition and translation, and to Princeton University Press for publishing it. . . . Obsopoeus might well be proud of how his poem has been presented to twenty-first-century readers."---David Money, Neo-Latin News

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Soames's book is an excellent introduction to the relevance of philosophy in the contemporary world. . . . Highly recommended." * Choice *"An erudite riposte to the accusation that philosophy has little practical relevance." * Paradigm Explorer *"Soames demonstrates how philosophy shaped our world while at the same time developing a spectacular one-volume history of Western philosophy in the analytic tradition. On those grounds alone, that makes this work a profound achievement."---Brendan Patrick Purdy, Law & Liberty

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Zena Hitz, Winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, The Dallas Institute""Seminary Coop's Notable Books for 2020""A London Lyceum Top Book of the Year""[In Lost in Thought] Hitz is asking the right questions. . . . The question at its heart is disarmingly simple and deeply engaging: What should we do with ourselves."---Jonathan Marks, Wall Street Journal"[An] amazing book." * MC Hammer on Twitter *"Utterly charming."---John Warner, Chicago Tribune"[Lost in Thought] proved a salutary reminder for me, and may for other readers as well, that we should try to make at least a little space . . . for the contemplative learning that drew us into the life of the mind."---James M. Lang, Chronicle of Higher Eduation"Zena Hitz’s Lost in Thought offers a passionate and powerful defense of pure intellectualism and the intrinsic value of the intellectual life."---Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed"An inspirational attestation of the ability of intellectual activity to dignify oppressed lives. . . . Much of this book is beautiful."---Sophie Duncan, Literary Review"Hitz’s memoir is profoundly affecting as she describes how academic life made her lose her love of learning before, finally, she found a meaningful path."---Joe Humphreys, Irish Times"Compelling. . . . you’ll probably walk away from this book, as I did, feeling that your inner life has been enlarged."---Roosevelt Montás, Wall Street Journal"Lost in Thought [is] a persuasive defense of learning and intellectual life . . . Hitz’s breadth of knowledge is on display."---Aurelian Craiutu, Los Angeles Review of Books"[Lost in Thought is] full of wonder, full of the joyful smiles of somebody who’s been saved, or saved herself, from empty toils of ledger-sheet learning. In her good-natured way, Hitz chastises the increasing commodification of intellectual endeavor. . . . This is a book to savor in your quietest reading nook. Which is very much the point."---Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review"Everyone who cares about colleges and universities and their place in American life should read it. [Lost in Thought] confronts familiar and abiding questions about intellectual inquiry in an utterly engaging and profound way. . . . [A] wonderful book."---Flagg Taylor, National Review"In her rich and rewarding book Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life, Professor Zena Hitz argues that the goal of education is not the status or privileges it confers upon us, or even the valuable life skills it demands that we acquire. In line with classical pagan and Christian traditions, she argues that we have a natural desire to understand the world outside of us, and that a true education carefully cultivates this natural love of learning and helps to bring it to its full maturity. . . . [A] rich, timely book, a book educators and students alike would do well to read."---Jennifer A. Frey, Classical Learning Test blog"Lost in Thought [is] an examination of conscience or a manual for discernment for those who care about the intellectual life . . . Lost in Thought is the strongest case for the humanities to appear in years."---Nathaniel Peters, Public Discourse"[Zena Hitz's] account is persuasive, not least because it is personal."---Peter Costello, Irish Catholic"Part autobiography, part defense of impractical intellectualism, and part cultural lament, Lost in Thought forces us to contemplate the ways in which we might salvage thoughtfulness—perhaps not through our universities but in spite of them . . . elegant . . . Hitz’s book is a valuable opportunity."---Charles McNamara, Commonweal"In Lost in Thought, Hitz seeks to revive an appreciation for intellectual pursuit as inherently good and fundamental to human happiness. - Rachel K. Alexander, Tablet Magazine""Lost in Thought is a rhetorical case for the loveliness of learning for its own sake . . . insightful."---Pavlos Papadopoulos, Athwart.org"Very well written and referenced, this book is a reminder that pursuit of the intellectual life, broadly understood, can be of great benefit to individuals and society." * Choice *"[An] important book in which [Hitz] reminds us that the humanities are about humanity, and essentially about cultivating an inner life." * Paradigm Explorer *"One of the most interesting volumes I’ve read this year . . . Lost in Thought mounts a direct challenge to anyone who would collapse contemplative work into a mere prelude to political action, gainful employment, or any other utilitarian pursuit. The development of one’s 'contemplative side,' for lack of a better term, is an end in itself. And for Hitz, it is the cultivation of this distinctly human faculty that lays the groundwork for enduring joy and flourishing, even in the midst of dire personal circumstances."---John Ehrett, Patheos"[Lost in Thought] is best understood as a kind of intellectual pilgrim’s progress: taking us on a tour of the temptations and misunderstandings that prevent us from achieving our nature as thinking beings . . . an absorbing story . . . Lost in Thought helps us to dislodge our dreary preoccupation with transient goods by giving us a glimpse of . . . more lasting satisfactions."---Jenna Silber Storey, Real Clear Books"The best compliment I can give the author of this excellent book is to note that Lost is Thought itself counts as a perfect example of the elusive thing it tries to capture: splendidly useless yet intrinsically valuable thinking in action."---Derek van Zoonen, Nexus Instituut"[A] lovely . . . meditation . . . [in Lost in Thought] Hitz defends learning for its own sake and takes aim polemically at the canard that such learning is “elitist” or draws necessary attention away from the properly activist bent of intellectual inquiry . . . accessible [and] jargon-free."---Matt Dinan, The Hedgehog Review"Zena Hitz’s wonderful book presents a different and refreshing take on these issues. Focusing on what it means to love learning and learning for learning’s sake, she shows us how intellectual activity is part of human flourishing and is essential to our fulfilment."---Joana Correa Monteiro, Forma De Vida"[An] elegant and absorbing argument. . . .The remarkable thing about Lost in Thought is that it makes. . .rather dreary propositions not only palatable but also compelling. Hitz doesn’t just want to persuade you; she wants to win over your heart. . . .You might walk away from it with a little more clarity, a little more conviction, and a little more dedication to what really matters in your life."---Roosevelt Montás, American Political Thought

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