Philosophy Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Philosophy as a Way of Life
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction 1James M. Ambury, Tushar Irani, and Kathleen Wallace Part 1: History of Philosophy 5 1 Ancient Greek Philosophia in India as a Way of Life 7Christopher Moore 2 Philosophy and the Good Life in the Zhuangzi 25Pengbo Liu 3 Esoteric Confucianism, Moral Dilemmas, and Filial Piety 45William Sin 4 Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy as a Way of Life 65John Sellars 5 Cartesian Philosophy as Spiritual Practice 83Joseph I. Breidenstein Jr. 6 Leibniz’s Philosophy as a Way of Life? 97Paul Lodge 7 Philosophy as a Feminist Spirituality and Critical Practice for Mary Astell 117Simone Webb 8 Nietzsche and Unamuno on Conatus and the Agapeic Way of Life 141Alberto Oya 9 Ways of Discourse and Ways of Life: Plato on the Conflict Between Poetry and Philosophy 155I-Kai Jeng 10 Stoicism and its Telos: Insights from Michel Foucault 173Robin Weiss Part 2: Moral Philosophy 193 11 Philosophy as a Way of Life Today: History, Criticism, and Apology 195Marta Faustino 12 Setting Limits to Practical Reflection: Against Philosophy as a Way of Life 213Vitor Sommavilla 13 What It Takes to Live Philosophically: Or, How to Progress in the Art of Living 229Caleb M. Cohoe and Stephen R. Grimm 14 Why Practice Philosophy as a Way of Life? 249Javier Hidalgo Part 3: Pedagogy 271 15 On the Benefits of Philosophy as a Way of Life in a General Introductory Course 273Jake Wright 16 Philosophy as Empirical Exploration of Living: An Approach to Courses in Philosophy as a Way of Life 293Steven Horst Index 309
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Krishna Books Incorporated Srimad Bhagavatam: Ten (10) Volume Set
Book SynopsisBhaktivedanta Swami translated the 10th Canto, disciples finished the rest. Srimad Bhagavatam is revered for spiritual knowledge, emphasizing bhakti-yoga and the connection between beings and the Absolute, Krishna. It's seen as the pinnacle of Vedic literature, guiding towards life's ultimate perfection through devotion to Krishna.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Explaining Society
Book SynopsisFully revised, with an updated bibliography and new, relevant illustrative examples based on work inspired by critical realism, this new edition of Explaining Society constitutes an up-to-date resource connecting methodology, theory, and empirical research. Including discussions of more recent scholarship in the field which connects critical realism with interdisciplinary research, this second edition also clarifies concepts such as retroduction and retrodiction so as to render them consistent with developments within critical realism, which are covered in a new chapter. An accessible account of the nature of society and social science, together with the methods used to study and explain social phenomena, Explaining Society will appeal to scholars of sociology, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly.Table of Contents1. IntroductionPart I: Introduction to Critical Realism2. Science and Reality3. Conceptual Abstraction and CausalityPart II: Methodological Implications4. Social Structures and Human Agency5. Generalization, Scientific Inference and Models for Explanatory Social Science6. Theory in the Methodology of Social Science7. Critical Methodological Pluralism – Intensive and Extensive Research Design and Interdisciplinarity8. Social Science and Practice9. ConclusionGlossaryIndex
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Aiora Press The Golden Verses
Book SynopsisPythagoras (ca 585 BC 495 BC), a a philosopher, mathematician and musical theoretician wrote nothing down during the course of his life, not even the Theorem attributed to him. And yet his knowledge and wisdom changed the world, and have survived through the ages to benefit us today. The essence of Pythagoras teachings is contained in TheGolden Verses, seventy-one verses constituting guidelines on how to live. Functioning as admonitions, they link the human with the divine element and determine the point at which both converge to reveal how we might ourselves attain this supreme virtue in our everyday lives.Table of ContentsPythagoras: Between Myth and History; The Golden Verses
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Princeton University Press Politics and Expertise
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Princeton University Press The World Philosophy Made
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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Indigo Dragon Innovations Pty Ltd Emil Cioran
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SteinerBooks, Inc Rudolf Steiner, Life and Work: 1924-1925: The
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Harvard University Press Thinking with Whitehead
Book SynopsisAlfred North Whitehead has never gone out of print, but for a time he was decidedly out of fashion in the English-speaking world. In a splendid work that serves as both introduction and erudite commentary, Isabelle Stengersone of today's leading philosophers of sciencegoes straight to the beating heart of Whitehead's thought. The product of thirty years' engagement with the mathematician-philosopher's entire canon, this volume establishes Whitehead as a daring thinker on par with Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari, and Michel Foucault. Reading the texts in broadly chronological order while highlighting major works, Stengers deftly unpacks Whitehead's often complicated language, explaining the seismic shifts in his thinking and showing how he called into question all that philosophers had considered settled after Descartes and Kant. She demonstrates that the implications of Whitehead's philosophical theories and specialized knowledge of the various sciences come yoked with his innovative,
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Harvard University Press Empire
Book SynopsisEmpire, as Hardt and Negri demonstrate, is the new political order of globalization. Their book shows how this emerging structure is fundamentally different from the imperialism of European dominance and capitalist expansion in previous eras. Rather, today’s Empire draws on the hybrid identities and expanding frontiers of U.S. constitutionalism.Trade ReviewMichael Hardt and Tony Negri have given us an original, suggestive and provocative assessment of the international economic and political moment we have entered. Abandoning many of the propositions of conventional Marxism such as imperialism, the centrality of the national contexts of social struggle and a cardboard notion of the working class, the authors nonetheless show the salience of the Marxist framework as a tool of explanation. This book is bound to stimulate a new debate about globalization and the possibilities for social transformation in the 21st century. -- Stanley Aronowitz, author of False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class ConsciousnessEmpire…is a bold move away from established doctrine. Hardt and Negri's insistence that there really is a new world is promulgated with energy and conviction. Especially striking is their renunciation of the tendency of many writers on globalization to focus exclusively on the top, leaving the impression that what happens down below, to ordinary people, follows automatically from what the great powers do. -- Stanley Aronowitz * The Nation *Empire is a stunningly original attempt to come to grips with the cultural, political, and economic transformations of the contemporary world. While refusing to ignore history, Hardt and Negri question the adequacy of existing theoretical categories, and offer new concepts for approaching the practices and regimes of power of the emergent world order. Whether one agrees with it or not, it is an all too rare effort to engage with the most basic and pressing questions facing political intellectuals today. -- Lawrence Grossberg, author of We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern CultureAn extraordinary book, with enormous intellectual depth and a keen sense of the history-making transformation that is beginning to take shape—a new system of rule Hardt and Negri name Empire imperialism. -- Saskia Sassen, author of Losing Control? Sovereignty in an Age of GlobalizationBy way of Spinoza, Wittgenstein, Marx, the Vietnam War, and even Bill Gates, Empire offers an irresistible, iconoclastic analysis of the 'globalized' world. Revolutionary, even visionary, Empire identifies the imminent new power of the multitude to free themselves from capitalist bondage. -- Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Almanac of the DeadAfter reading Empire, one cannot escape the impression that if this book were not written, it would have to be invented. What Hardt and Negri offer is nothing less than a rewriting of The Communist Manifesto for our time: Empire conclusively demonstrates how global capitalism generates antagonisms that will finally explode its form. This book rings the death-bell not only for the complacent liberal advocates of the 'end of history,' but also for pseudo-radical Cultural Studies which avoid the full confrontation with today's capitalism. -- Slavoj Žižek, author of The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Center of Political OntologyEmpire is one of the most brilliant, erudite, and yet incisively political interpretations available to date of the phenomenon called 'globalization.' Engaging critically with postcolonial and postmodern theories, and mindful throughout of the plural histories of modernity and capitalism, Hardt and Negri rework Marxism to develop a vision of politics that is both original and timely. This very impressive book will be debated and discussed for a long time. -- Dipesh Chakrabarty, author of Provincializing EuropeThe new book by Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt, Empire, is an amazing tour de force. Written with communicative enthusiasm, extensive historical knowledge, systematic organization, it basically combines a kojevian notion of global market as post-history (in this sense akin to Fukuyama's eschatology) with a foucauldian and deleuzian notion of bio-politics (in this sense crossing the road of a Sloterdijk who also poses the question of a coming techniques of the production of the human species). But it clearly outbids its rivals in philosophical skill. And, above all, it reverses their grim prospects of political stagnation or the return to zoology. By identifying the new advances of technology and the division of labor that underlies the globalization of the market and the corresponding de-centered structure of sovereignty with a deep structure of power located within the multitude's intellectual and affective corporeity, it seeks to identify the indestructible sources of resistance and constitution that frame our future. It claims to lay the foundations for a teleology of class struggles and militancy even more substantially 'communist' than the classical Marxist one. This will no doubt trigger a lasting and passionate discussion among philosophers, political scientists and socialists. Whatever their conclusions, the benefits will be enormous for intelligence. -- Etienne Balibar, author of Spinoza and PoliticsSo what does a disquisition on globalization have to offer scholars in crisis? First, there is the book's broad sweep and range of learning. Spanning nearly 500 pages of densely argued history, philosophy and political theory, it features sections on Imperial Rome, Haitian slave revolts, the American Constitution and the Persian Gulf War, and references to dozens of thinkers like Machiavelli, Spinoza, Hegel, Hobbes, Kant, Marx and Foucault. In short, the book has the formal trappings of a master theory in the old European tradition… [This] book is full of…bravura passages. Whether presenting new concepts—like Empire and multitude—or urging revolution, it brims with confidence in its ideas. Does it have the staying power and broad appeal necessary to become the next master theory? It is too soon to say. But for the moment, Empire is filling a void in the humanities. -- Emily Eakin * New York Times *One of the rare benefits to the credit [of the contemporary Empire] is to have undermined the ramparts of the nation, ethnicity, race, and peoples by multiplying the instances of contact and hybridization. Perhaps, at least this is the hope forwarded by these two Marx and Engels of the internet age, it has thus made possible the coming of new forms of transnational solidarity that will defeat Empire. -- Aude Lancelin * Le Nouvel Observateur *A sweeping neo-Marxist vision of the coming world order. The authors argue that globalization is not eroding sovereignty but transforming it into a system of diffuse national and supranational institutions—in other words, a new 'empire'…[that] encompasses all of modern life. * Foreign Affairs *Globalization's positive side is, intriguingly, a message of a hot new book. Since it was published last year, Empire…has been translated into four new languages, with six more on the way… It is selling briskly on Amazon.com and is impossible to find in Manhattan bookstores. For 413 pages of dense political philosophy—whose compass ranges from body piercing to Machiavelli—that's impressive. -- Michael Elliott * Time *How often can it happen that a book is swept off the shelves until you can't find a copy in New York for love nor money? …Empire is a sweeping history of humanist philosophy, Marxism and modernity that propels itself to a grand political conclusion: that we are a creative and enlightened species, and that our history is that of humanity's progress towards the seizure of power from those who exploit it. -- Ed Vulliamy * The Observer *Hardt is not just bent on saving the world. He has also been credited with dragging the humanities in American universities out of the doldrums… [Empire] presents a philosophical vision that some have greeted as the 'next big thing' in the field of the humanities, with its authors the natural successors of names such as Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. * Sunday Times *Hailed as the new Communist Manifesto on its dust jacket, this hefty tome may be worthy of such distinction… Hardt and Negri analyze the multiple processes of globalization…and argue that the new sovereign, the new order of the globalized world, is a decentered and deterritorializing apparatus of rule… Though Empire ties together diverse strands of often opaque structuralist and poststructuralist theory…the writing is surprisingly clear, accessible, and engaging… Hardt and Negri write to communicate beyond the claustrophobic redoubts of the academy… In short, Empire is a comprehensive and exciting analysis of the now reified concept of globalization, offering a lucid understanding of the political–economic quagmire of our present and a glimpse into the possible worlds beyond it. -- Tom Roach * Cultural Critique *In their recent book Empire—a highly explosive analysis of globalisation—[the authors] take the effort to develop a full narrative of this new world order, of the global postmodern sovereignty and its counter-currents. It is therefore not so much a book on hybridity only, but rather an attempt to reformulate and redefine the political under conditions of globalisation. The result is a resolute tour de force delineating the genealogy of the postmodern regime as well as its consolidation as a new 'society of control' under conditions of world-wide 'real subsumption' which creates one smooth, global capitalist terrain. -- Dirk Wiemann * Journal for the Study of British Cultures *Stretching back nearly twenty years, Antonio Negri's work has been until recently one of the best-kept secrets of Marxist theory in the United States… [Empire] is the culmination of Negri's lifework and a major contribution to Marx's uncompleted work on capitalism's international phase. Beyond its inherent scholarly merit, however, Empire provides a critical tool for understanding what the events following September 11th mean as history and politics. -- Curtis White * Bookforum *Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri's Empire…owes its density not to affected language—indeed, its manifesto-like communicative urgency is one of its greatest strengths—but to the exhilarating novelty of what it has to say… This is as simple, as apparently innocent, and as radically counter-intuitive when thought to its limit as the Sartrean dictum that existence precedes essence must have been in its time. It's not that this relation had never been thought before; the connection between the demands of labor unions and the development of the automated factory is well-known. But in Hardt and Negri's hands this relation becomes a powerful new way to theorize globalization and the development of capital itself… Hardt and Negri perform the urgent task of reclaiming Utopia for the multitude. -- Nicholas Brown * Symploke *Hardt, an assistant professor of literature and a political scientist (and currently a prison inmate), has produced one of the most comprehensive theoretical efforts to understand globalization. * Choice *The appearance of Empire represents a spectacular break. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri defiantly overturn the verdict that the last two decades have been a time of punitive defeats for the Left… Hardt and Negri open their case by arguing that, although nation-state–based systems of power are rapidly unraveling in the force-fields of world capitalism, globalization cannot be understood as a simple process of deregulating markets. Far from withering away, regulations today proliferate and interlock to form an acephelous supranational order which the authors choose to call 'Empire' …Empire bravely upholds the possibility of a utopian manifesto for these times, in which the desire for another world buried or scattered in social experience could find an authentic language and point of concentration. -- Gopal Balakrishnan * New Left Review *This sprawling book is filled with original ideas and analyses, including some well-aimed critiques of postmodernism, dependency theory, world systems theory, anti-imperialism, and localism—and there is much more besides to stimulate the reader… This is an exciting and provocative book whose depth and richness can only be hinted at in so brief a review. -- Frank Ninkovich * Political Science Quarterly *Table of ContentsPreface 1. The Political Constitution of the Present 1.1 World Order 1.2 Biopolitical Production 1.3 Alternatives within Empire 2. Passages of Sovereignty 2.1 Two Europes, Two Modernities 2.2 Sovereignty of the Nation-State 2.3 The Dialectics of Colonial Sovereignty 2.4 Symptoms of Passage 2.5 Network Power: U.S. Sovereignty and the New Empire 2.6 Imperial Sovereignty Intermezzo: Counter-Empire 3. Passages of Production 3.1 The Limits of Imperialism 3.2 Disciplinary Governability 3.3 Resistance, Crisis, Transformation 3.4 Postmodernization, or The Informatization of Production 3.5 Mixed Constitution 3.6 Capitalist Sovereignty, or Administering the Global Society of Control 4. The Decline and Fall of Empire 4.1 Virtualities 4.2 Generation and Corruption 4.3 The Multitude against Empire Notes Index
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Lexington Books The Aesthetics of Autonomy
Book SynopsisThe Aesthetics of Autonomy: Ricoeur and Sartre on Emancipation, Authenticity, and Selfhood argues that, despite their differences, Sartre and Ricoeur have a similar goal. While they are both anti-essentialists, they nevertheless advocate for the notions of selfhood and autonomy. Autonomy, for them, is the end result of an aesthetic path. An identity, at the individual or collective level, is created by weaving together contingent threads of the given. In other words, identity is a narrative construct. The first two chapters focus on the respective methods of Sartre and Ricoeur. Despite their different emphases, Farhang Erfani argues that they have a similar dialectical method, between the situation and our ability to surpass it for Sartre, and between sedimentation and innovation for Ricoeur. The third chapter brings them together and shows how they can complement each other in building a narrative identity at the individual level; Ricoeur is helpful in appreciating Sartrean notions ofTrade ReviewDr. Erfani’s book on Sartre and Ricœur is a welcome re-reading, together, of two relatively neglected thinkers, with a view of appropriating what is most valuable in each for understanding the challenges posed by globalization to the newly ‘fragile’ subjects of an increasingly complex, globalized world. It will appeal to those individuals who are nevertheless interested in creatively rescuing a sense of autonomy and selfhood—an aesthetic path to an autonomous self—from oblivion at a time when heteronomy appears to be increasingly the rule in various domains. With insight and humour, Erfani demonstrates that these thinkers’ conceptions of imagination and creativity, together with a sensitivity for the constitutive role of narrative for individual subjects, can revitalize our own floundering attempts to rise above the restrictions of the nation state while still clinging to the protection it supposedly affords one from global, multi-national corporate power. -- Bert Olivier, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Can the Revolutionary Agent Ski? On Sartre's Methodology Chapter 2. Dialectics of Sedimentation and Innovation: On Ricœur's Methodology Chapter 3. Giving Style to One's Life: Existentialist Narrative Ethics Chapter 4. From Ideology to Dark Utopia Conclusion: "Imagine There's No Countries"
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Princeton University Press Kierkegaards Journals and Notebooks Volume 8
Book SynopsisTrade Review"For all of his lyricism, many of Kierkegaard's works project themselves as an impenetrable fortress of abstractions. These magnificently translated journals are a tunnel beneath the moat of that fortress. They capture the unpackaged and unbuttoned Kierkegaard and thus provide a stimulus to anyone intent on understanding a religious author who could well be reckoned a Luther of Lutheranism."--Gordon Marino, Christian Century "These new critical editions do an excellent job of making Kierkegaard's journals and notebooks available in all their richness."--Brian Gregor, Elizabeth C. Shaw and StaffTable of ContentsIntroduction vii Journal NB 21 1 Journal NB 22 97 Journal NB 23 199 Journal NB 24 319 Journal NB 25 441 Notes for Journal NB 21 541 Notes for Journal NB 22 593 Notes for Journal NB 23 661 Notes for Journal NB 24 743 Notes for Journal NB 25 799 Maps 849 Calendar 857 Concordance 865
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Cambridge University Press Deontic Logic and Legal Systems
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Ediciones Universidad Alberto Hurtado La noolog a de Xavier Zubiri
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Herder & Herder EL ESPIRITU DE LA ESPERANZA
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Oxford University Press Inc The Oxford Handbook of NineteenthCentury Women
Book SynopsisThis Oxford Handbook engages with the work of women philosophers spanning the long nineteenth century in the German tradition. It investigates women''s contributions to key philosophical areas such as epistemology and metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, social and political philosophy, ecology, education, and the philosophy of nature and examines their role in the formation and development of major philosophical moments, including romanticism and idealism, socialism, Marxism, Nietzscheanism, feminism, phenomenology, and neo-Kantianism. Through thirty-one newly commissioned chapters, the volume explores how women often took philosophical premises and positions in innovative and radical directions, and thereby sheds new light on the major movements of the period and their continuing philosophical potential. As the contributors demonstrate, women were generally excluded from academic discourse and therefore had to seek alternative means by which to carry out their philosophical research -- often by bringing philosophy to a wider public, and allowing fundamental existential, social, and political questions to determine their philosophizing.By investigating the works, influence, and legacy of a number of understudied and overlooked philosophers, the Handbook contributes to the ongoing effort to revise our knowledge of the history of philosophy, deepen our grasp of the philosophical potential of various arguments, positions, and movements, and critically rethink the narratives by which the discipline understands itself. This volume will serve as a crucial addition to our understanding of nineteenth-century philosophy and the movements that made it up.
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Oxford University Press Inc The Case for Rage
Book SynopsisThis book is a philosophical defense of anger at racial injustice. It shows that this type of angerwhat author Myisha Cherry calls Lordean rage, honoring Audre Lordecan inspire us to change the world. For that reason, we should seek to cultivate it, rather than push it down. Crossing the terrain of moral psychology, philosophy, and current affairs, the book shows how anger at racism is an appropriate and even necessary way of valuing others, how anger canmotivate those who are outraged to engage in productive action, and how anger strengthens us to become the heroes that we have been waiting for. Beyond laying out the theory behind her case for rage, Cherry shows racially marginalized people and their allies how to better manage and channel anti-racistanger in order to affect lasting, long-awaited change.Trade ReviewOne of Cherry's stated aims is for the book to be accessible to a wide audience that includes not just academics but anyone with an interest in racial justice and the role that anger should play in its pursuit. On this score, Cherry succeeds with flying colors. The writing is exceptionally clear, and the book is full of real life examples and pop culture references that make it highly engaging and a pleasure to read. * Tyler Paytas, Australian Catholic University, Ethics *Myisha Cherry argues very plausibly that anger is an appropriate, useful, and powerful reaction to racism, and often more effective than cooler responses might be ... When bad people get angry we are in trouble. Of course. But when good people are angry about things that matter there is hope for change. * Nigel Warburton, The New European *Moving beyond reductive, 'broad brush stroke' judgements about political anger, The Case for Rage considers its varied forms and nuances. * Mike Waite, Process North *(Starred) ...Cherry... makes a bold and persuasive call for using rage to combat racial injustice... Inspired by the poet and activist Audre Lorde, Cherry advocates in particular for 'Lordean rage,' which 'aims for change' and is 'informed by an inclusive and liberating perspective.' She finds examplesin the words and actions of Frederick Douglass, Martin Luther King Jr....James Baldwin, among others, and contrasts the 'respect' given to displays of entitled anger by Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh and other white men and women with the denial of African Americans' right to anger. Cherry lucidly distinguishes between different forms of rage...With its incisive readings of classical philosophers, contemporary politics, and even Saturday Night Live sketches, this accessible, passionate, and meticulously argued case is a must-read. * Publishers Weekly *A philosophical manifesto defending anger as an effective instrument of protest against racism and oppression…Cherry unpacks Martin Luther King Jr.'s celebrated 'Letter From Birmingham Jail' as a foundational document in what she calls 'Lordean rage,' after the iconic poet and activist Audre Lorde. This Lordean rage ranks favorably in a typology of anger that she constructs...Such rage, as well as the rage of narcissism, is the fevered, useless tool of the enemy, whereas 'Lordean rage is a kind that is well suited to maintain itself just as it is, without needing to get out of the way so that "better" emotions can get to work.'…Cherry effectively shows that anger can be a positive force in organizing resistance and keeping the pressure on perpetrators of racism, sexism, and other societal ills. A well-reasoned case for not holding one's tongue in the presence of injustice. * Kirkus *In a time where the ubiquity of outrage makes it difficult to find our bearings, Myisha Cherry pierces through the confusion with sharp analysis, accessible writing, and her characteristic sense of humor to offer an exemplary work of public philosophy on the place of anger in our lives. Passionate and incisive, witty and wise, Cherry builds a powerful case for the value of what she calls Lordean rage, following the great Audre Lorde, to sustain struggles against racial justice, resist habits of undue deference, and defend our self-respect. A book to argue with, and be transformed by, The Case for Rage introduces to the public one of the most original and distinctive voices in contemporary American philosophy at a time when her thinking, and perhaps even anger, is sorely needed. * Brandon Terry, African and African American Studies and Social Studies, Harvard University *Brilliant. Timely. Necessary. * Kate Manne, Philosophy, Cornell University, author of Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny (OUP, 2017) and Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women (Crown, 2020) *Myisha Cherry's The Case for Rage is public philosophy at its best. In a book that is simultaneously concise, accessible, and profound, Cherry demonstrates how we—all of us—can learn to use our anger to make the world more free, more just, and more loving. This book is essential reading for our moment. * Nicholas Buccola, Author of The Fire Is Upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America *In the struggle against racism, anger can be a powerful resource but also has well-known dangers. In a judicious and wide-ranging discussion, Cherry insightfully examines this controversial terrain, helping readers better comprehend the complexity and practical value of antiracist anger. This timely, accessible, and philosophically rich book advances the important debate on the role of rage in politics. * Tommie Shelby, Caldwell Titcomb Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy, Harvard University, and author of Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (Belknap, 2016) *The Case for Rage is an incredibly hopeful and inspiring book, and it comes at just the right time. Myisha Cherry explains how Lordean rage — in the lineage of righteous anger from Ida B. Wells and Sojourner Truth — is both necessary and suited to the anti-racist struggles of our times. Lordean rage is furious, but focused and not frenzied. It is compassionate and empathic, but uncompromising when it comes to the demands of justice. Cherry offers firm, reasoned resistance to skeptics about the role of anger in the service of anti-racism. An important book. * Owen Flanagan, Duke University, author How to Do Things with Emotions: The Morality of Anger and Shame Across Cultures *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Broad Strokes Chapter 2: Fitting Fury Chapter 3: Rage in Work Clothes Chapter 4: Breaking Racial Rules Chapter 5: Rage Renegades Chapter 6: Anger Management Chapter 7: The End of Rage?
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Oxford University Press Obligation and Responsibility
Book SynopsisMany philosophers have sought to distinguish moral obligation from moral responsibility. In this book, author Ishtiyaque Haji argues that these concepts, though still distinct, are more similar than many think.First, conceptual ties between obligation and responsibility speak largely in favor of responsibility''s requiring alternatives, challenging the view that responsibility does not require freedom to do otherwise. Second, many philosophers champion responsibility semicompatibilism, which mean that even if determinism is incompatible with the freedom to do otherwise, it is compatible with responsibility. Essential relations between obligation and responsibility are deployed against this thesis, and the parallel thesis of obligation semicompatibilism is also rejected. An upshot of forsaking these two species of semicompatibilism is that determinism threatens both obligation and responsibility by eliminating alternate possibilities. Third, many concur that whereas you may now no longer have an obligation that you previously had, you cannot now fail to be blameworthy for something for which you were formerly to blame. Haji rejects this immutability thesis about blameworthiness. Haji does find one legitimate difference between obligation and responsibility: while how one acquires one''s values may significantly influence whether one is responsible for much of their conduct, obligation is not historical in this way.Table of Contents1. Obligation and Responsibility: Four Alleged Differences 2. Alternate Possibility (AP) Arguments for Varieties of Incompatibilism 3. Obligation Semicompatibilism 4. Responsibility Semicompatibilism 5. The Free Will Premise 6. Internalism and Externalism 7. More Radical Reversal Stories and Appraisals 8. Obligation, Blameworthiness, and Time 9. Obligation, Overridingness, and Punishment 10. Concluding Reflections
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Oxford University Press Inc Kant Race and Racism
Book SynopsisKant scholars have paid relatively little attention to his raciology. They assume that his racism, as personal prejudice, can be disentangled from his core philosophy. They also assume that racism contradicts his moral theory. In this book, philosopher Huaping Lu-Adler challenges both assumptions. She shows how Kant''s raciology--divided into racialism and racism--is integral to his philosophical system. She also rejects the individualistic approach to Kant and racism. Instead, she uses the notion of racism as ideological formation to demonstrate how Kant, from his social location both as a prominent scholar and as a lifelong educator, participated in the formation of modern racist ideology. As a scholar, Kant developed a ground-breaking scientific theory of race from the standpoint of a philosophical investigator of nature or Naturforscher. As an educator, he transmitted denigrating depictions of the racialized others and imbued those descriptions with normative relevance. In both roles, he left behind, as one of his legacies, a worldview that excluded non-whites from such goods as recognitional respect and candidacy for cultural and moral achievements. Scholars who research and teach Kant''s philosophy therefore have an unshakable burden to take part in the ongoing antiracist struggles, through their teaching practices as well as their scholarship. And they must do so with a pragmatic attention to nonideal social realities and a deliberate orientation toward substantial racial justice, equality, and inclusion. Lu-Adler pushes the discourse about Kant and racism well beyond the old debates about whether he was racist or whether his racism contaminates his philosophy. By foregrounding the lasting legacies of Kant''s raciology, her work calls for a profound reorientation of Kant scholarship.
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Oxford University Press Thomas Hobbes Elements of Law
Book SynopsisHobbes''s Elements of Law was written in 1640, on the eve of the English Civil War. It circulated in manuscript, and eleven manuscripts now survive. Two of them contain a substantial amount of material in Hobbes''s own handwriting. Soon after writing it, Hobbes fled to France, while in England civil war broke out over many of the issues discussed by Hobbes in this book. In France he wrote a Latin version of his political theory (De Cive, on the Citizen), and then the English Leviathan, of which a Latin revision followed and in which he greatly expanded what he had to say about religion and church-state relations. The Elements of Law presents a complete but succinct version of Hobbes''s political theory and of his more general philosophy. It analyzes the nature of knowledge and science, discusses psychology and human nature, surveys the rights and duties of individuals, and argues for the need of states to be governed by sovereign authority. It discusses the relationship between politics and religion, and the extent and limitations of political power. It is ''a work of extraordinary assurance, an almost fully fledged statement of Hobbes''s entire political philosophy''. (Noel Malcolm) This edition is intended to replace the one edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (1889), from which that of J.C.A. Gaskin (Oxford World''s Classics, 1994) derives. It establishes a more accurate text based on all the eleven known manuscripts, and includes much material omitted by Tönnies (who knew of only six manuscripts). It draws extensively on modern scholarship on Hobbes and his contexts.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales) Navigating the Postqualitative New Materialist
Book SynopsisNavigating the Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Terrain Across Disciplines is an accessible introductory guide to theories, paradigm shifts and key concepts in postqualitative, new materialist and critical posthumanist research. Supported by its own website, this first book in a larger series is an essential companion to the primary texts and original sources of the theorists discussed in this and other books in the series. Disrupting the theory/practice divide, the book offers a postqualitative reimagining of traditional research processes. In doing so, it guides readers through the contestation of binaries, innovative concepts, and the practical provocations that make up the postqualitative terrain. It orients the researcher in the ontological re-turn also by considering Indigenous knowledges, African, Eastern and young children's philosophies. The style itself is postqualitative through diffractive engagements by the authors and the websiTable of ContentsIntroduction: Making Kin: Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research; 1. Knowledge Matters: Five Propositions Concerning the Reconceptualisation of Knowledge in Feminist New Materialist, Posthumanist and Postqualitative Approaches 2. What Paradigmatic Perspectives Make Possible: Considerations for Pedagogies and the Doing of Inquiry 3. The ‘Missing Peoples’ of Critical Posthumanism and New Materialism 4. Eastern Ethico-Onto-Epistemologies as a Diffracting Return: Implications for Post-Qualitative Pedagogy and Research 5. A New Science of Contemporary Educational Theory, Practice and Research 6. Re-Turning to Embodied Matters and Movement through Postqualitative Inquiries 7. Rendering Each Other Capable: Doing Response-Able Research Responsibly 8. Reanimating Video and Sound in Research Practices 9. Rethinking Research ‘Use’: Reframing Impact, Engagement and Activism with Feminist New Materialist, Posthumanist and Postqualitative Research
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Ethics Volume III 3 Muirhead Library of Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Ethics
Book SynopsisThis magisterial study tells the story of a new way of doing ethics, starting in the seventeenth century, that was based on secular ideas of human psychology and universal accountability. It also shows that this modern approach remains relevant to us today and that it has a vibrant future.
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Celestine Vision
Book SynopsisJAMES REDFIELD is the author of a number of critically acclaimed books, including The Tenth Insight, The Secret of Shambhala, The Celestine Vision and, of course the phenomenal international bestseller, The Celestine Prophecy, which spent more than three years on the New York Times bestseller list. This remarkable book was also the world's No.1 bestselling work of fiction for two consecutive years. James Redfield lives in Alabama with his wife Salle.Trade ReviewThe godfather of gurus is back... the style is clear and engaging * Daily Express *
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Seagull Books London Ltd Doing
Book SynopsisIn Doing, Jean-Luc Nancy, one of the most prominent and lucid articulators of contemporary French theory and philosophy, examines the precarious but urgent relationship between being and doing. His book is not so much a call to action as a summons to more vigorous thinking, the examination and reflection that must precede any effective action. The first section of the book considers this matter tersely: Jean-Luc Nancy's quickness of language and grace of humor lead the reader carefully past the dangers of oversimplification, toward a general awareness of meaningful being. In the last section, Nancy examines the realities of terrorist actionsspecifically those that shocked Paris a few years ago, and more generally the frightening world of politics without conscience, where conscience is the root of all thinking. Trade Review"Timely. . . . Patient, philosophically minded readers are sure to find food for thought." * Publishers Weekly *Table of ContentsN
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Pensees
Book SynopsisThis eloquent and philosophically astute translation is the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal''s manuscript, widely accepted as the manuscript that is closest to the version Pascal left behind on his death in 1662. A brief history of the text, a select bibliography of primary and secondary sources, a chronology of Pascal's life and works, concordances between the Sellier and Lafuma editions of the original, and an index are provided.
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Cambridge University Press The Life of Form
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Taylor & Francis Critical Thinking The Basics
Book SynopsisCritical Thinking: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the field of critical thinking, drawing on philosophy, communication, and psychology. Emphasising its relevance both to academic literacy and to decision-making in a range of contexts, this book introduces and explains the knowledge, methods, and skills needed to identify and avoid poor reasoning, reconstruct and evaluate arguments, and engage constructively in dialogues.Topics covered include: The relationship between critical thinking, emotions, and the psychology of persuasion The role of character dispositions such as open-mindedness, courage, and self-knowledge Argument identification and reconstruction Fallacies and argument evaluation. This second edition has been revised and updated throughout, and includes an additional chapter on the relationship between critical thinking and emotions. There are also new sections on concepTrade ReviewPraise for the previous edition:'Critical Thinking: The Basics covers the basics engagingly and without unnecessary jargon, provides lots of well-chosen examples and practice exercises, and, unlike most critical thinking textbooks, explains the theoretical background to the recent rise of critical thinking in education.' - Justine Kingsbury, University of Waikato, New Zealand'This is an excellent contribution to the growing literature on critical thinking. The discussion on causal reasoning, heuristics and biases, framing, social power, metacognition, and self-deception are timely and valuable. Critical Thinking: The Basics helps to bring together the literature on the psychology and sociology of human judgement with the philosophical art of argument analysis.' - Ted Poston, University of South Alabama, USA'This text is loaded with references, explanations, history and examples from the development and enhancement of the understanding of critical thinking. It offers a coverage of the basics of critical thinking and also provides a sense of how the field and individual expectations of critical thinking are changing.' - Charles Blatz, Professor Emeritus at University of Toledo, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rationality, biases and emotions 2. Emotions 3. Critical Thinking and Dispositions 4. Arguments and argument reconstruction 5. Argument forms and fallacies 6. Arguments referring to expertise, power, and message source (I) 7. Arguments referring to expertise, power, and message source (II) 8. Causal arguments, generalisations, arguments from consequences and slippery slope arguments 10. Further fallacies Conclusion. Glossary References Index
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Beauvoir and Politics
Book SynopsisApproaching Simone de Beauvoir's feminism and social commentary as a resource to understand our current crises, Beauvoir and Politics: A Toolkit brings together established and emerging scholars to apply her insights to gender studies, political philosophy, decolonisation, intellectual history, age theory, and critical phenomenology. The essays in this collection start from key concepts in Beauvoir's oeuvre and relate them to contemporary debates, asking how her notion of ambiguity speaks to lived experiences that have been highly politicized in recent years, such as pregnancy, old age, sexual violence, and the exposure of black and brown bodies to police violence; how myths inform our notions of collective, national identities, as well as notions of masculinity and femininity; and how she provides conceptual tools that help to theorize the various political strategies that are used to challenge gendered and racialized systems of oppression. These and other issues are centralTrade Review“This wonderful new collection features well-known scholars writing on new topics alongside important emerging voices. These essays bring the full force of Beauvoir’s uncompromising insight into human experience and political life to bear on urgent problems facing us today: from the ambiguous lived experiences of aging and pregnancy, to the mobilization of myth, affect, and counter-violence in contemporary political discourse, to the troubling world of the ‘incel’ and the bewildering and terrifying landscape of anti-Black violence and global pandemic. The authors set out, not to reify or rescue Beauvoir as the author of a system, but to think alongside her, to show that the conceptual tools she provides, always rooted in her own experience of concrete engagement, are still, or perhaps newly, ‘good to think with.’ Beauvoir scholars will certainly want to read it; so will anyone working through current debates in political theory, and anyone concerned (as we all must be) with the current emergencies of political culture.”- Meryl Altman, Professor Emerita of English and Women's Studies, DePauw University, author of Beauvoir in Time“This lively collection offers a toolkit of Beauvoirian ‘takes’ on political, ethical, feminist conversations about burqinis on French beaches, the expectant anxiety experienced by pregnant persons, women’s experiences of aging and raced embodiment, and more. Its several essays demonstrate the scope and continuing relevance of Beauvoir’s political thought as this diverse group of feminists deepen conversations that began more than a half-century ago.”- Lori Jo Marso, Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Literary and Historical Studies, Union College, author of Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter“The fine papers in this innovative and timely volume share a focus on activism and nuanced readings of Beauvoir’s life and work that I find deeply sympathetic and welcoming. It has my highest recommendation.”- Margaret A. Simons, Distinguished Research Professor Emerita, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism and editor of the Beauvoir Series"This wonderful community of philosophers and political theorists pay appropriate respect to Beauvoir’s thought through not fetishizing but instead engaging its continued relevance for 21st-century social and political problems. Non-reductive, non-totalizing, it is the usefulness of her thought that comes to the fore, the conceptual tools in the kit, which makes this collection nothing short of living thought." —Lewis R. Gordon, author of Freedom, Justice, and Decolonization and Fear of Black Consciousness Table of ContentsAbout the Contributors Introduction Liesbeth Schoonheim, Karen Veronica Quirina Vintges Part I: Changing Myths and Feminist Concerns 1. Beauvoir the Mythmaker Adam Kjellgren 2. What Do Incels Want? Explaining Incel Violence Using Beauvoirian Otherness Filipa Melo Lopes 3. Beauvoir, Bardot, and Burqinis: Making Sense of Modern France Catherine Raissiguier Part II: Lived ambiguities and post-colonial conditions 4. Uses of Ambiguity: A Black Feminist Phenomenologist Reflects on Ambiguities in the Year 2020 Qrescent Mali Mason 5. Repossession: The Ambiguity of Decolonization Dana Miranda 6. Love – patriarchal oppression or emancipatory potential? Aspects of feminist love critique Heli Mahkonen 7. Sacrificing Carceral Feminism: Beauvoir, Davis, and Institutional Responses to Campus Sexual Violence in the United States Dana Rognlie Part III: Situated Experience and Embodied Oppression 8. Simone de Beauvoir and the Phenomenology of Racial Oppression Mickaëlle Provost 9. Old Age and the question of authenticity Sonia Kruks 10. Expectant Anxiety Kate Kirkpatrick Part IV: Resistance and Fighting Back 11. “Muscular Revolt”: Resisting Gender Oppression Through Counter-violence Dianna Taylor 12. "I Didn't Ask for It": Women of Former Yugoslavia Vs. The Invisibility of Rape Ana Maskalan 13. The Role of Affective Reflexivity in Political Mobilization Elaine Stavro Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Wittgenstein
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO WITTGENSTEIN The most comprehensive survey of Wittgenstein's thought yet compiled, this volume of fifty newly commissioned essays by leading interpreters of his philosophy is a keynote addition to the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series. Full of penetrating insights into the life and work of the most important philosopher of the twentieth century, the collection explores the full range of Wittgenstein's contribution to philosophy. It includes essays on his intellectual development, his work in logic and mathematics, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind and action, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and much else. As well as examining Wittgenstein's contribution to human understanding in detail, the Companion features vital contextual analysis that traces the relationship between his ideas and those of other philosophers and schools of thought, including the Aristotelian and continental philosophical traditions. Authors also address prominent the
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Palgrave Macmillan Philosophy and Terry Pratchett
Book SynopsisIt''s time to pick up your fedora and embark on a philosophical journey through Discworld!Terry Pratchett is world-famous for the narrative verve and surreal humour of his novels. But now meet another Terry Pratchett - a man of serious metaphysical ideas and sophisticated philosophical insights. In Philosophy and Terry Pratchett thirteen professional philosophers survey such key philosophical issues as personal identity, the nature of destiny, the value of individuality, the meaning of existentialism, the reality of universals and the existence of alternative realities. In considering these and many other equally fascinating themes, close reference is made to more than 35 Discworld novels as well as to the ideas of some of history''s greatest philosophers including Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, Kant, Mill, Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein and Rawls.During your journey, you will be surprised by numerous provocative conclusions including the startling claim that the existence of Table of ContentsIntroduction; James B. South PART I: SELF-PERCEPTION, NARRATIVE, AND IDENTITY 1. A Golem is not Born, but Rather Becomes, a Woman: Gender on the Disc; Jacob M. Held 2. 'Nothing Like a Bit of Destiny to Get the Old Plot Rolling:' A Philosophical Reading of Wyrd Sisters ; James B. South 3. 'Feigning to Feign:' Pratchett and the Maskerade; Andrew Rayment 4. 'Knowing things that other people don't know is a form of magic:' Lessons in Headology and Critical Thinking from The Lancre Witch; Tuomas W. Manninen PART II: SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 5. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy on the Discworld; Kevin Guilfoy 6. Plato, the Witch and the Cave: Granny Weatherwax and the Moral Problem of Paternalism; Dietrich Schotte 7. Equality and Difference: Just because the Disc is flat, doesn't make it a Level Playing Field for All; Ben Saunders PART III: ETHICS AND GOOD LIFE 8. Millennium Hand and Shrimp: On the Importance of Being in the Right Trouser Leg of Time; Susanne E. Foster 9. Categorically Not Cackling: The Will, Moral Fictions and Witchcraft; Jennifer Jill Fellows 10. The Care of the Reaper Man: Death, the Auditors, and the Importance of Individuality; Erica L. Neely 11. 'YES, SUSAN, THERE IS A HOGFATHER:' Hogfather and the Existentialism of Søren Kierkegaard; J. Keeping PART IV: LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS 12. On the Possibility of the Discworld; Martin Vacek 13. Pratchett's The Last Continent and the Act of Creation; Jay Ruud
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Cengage Learning, Inc A Concise Introduction to Logic
Book SynopsisOver a million students have learned to be more discerning at constructing and evaluating arguments with the help of A CONCISE INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC, 13th Edition. The text's clear, friendly, thorough presentation has made it the most widely used logic text in North America. The book shows you how the content connects to real-life problems and gives you everything you need to do well in your logic course. Doing well in logic improves your skills in ways that translate to other courses you take, your everyday life, and your future career. The accompanying technological resources offered through MindTap, a highly robust online platform, include self-grading interactive exercises, a new digital activity that allows you to apply the skills you learn to a real-world problem, and videos to reinforce what you learn in the book and hear in class.Table of ContentsPart I: INFORMAL LOGIC. 1. Basic Concepts. Arguments, Premises, and Conclusions. Exercise. Recognizing Arguments. Exercise. Deduction and Induction. Exercise. Validity, Truth, Soundness, Strength, Cogency. Exercise. Argument Forms: Proving Invalidity. Exercise. Extended Arguments. Exercise. 2. Language: Meaning and Definition. Varieties of Meaning. Exercise. The Intension and Extension of Terms. Exercise. Definitions and Their Purposes. Exercise. Definitional Techniques. Exercise. Criteria for Lexical Definitions. Exercise. 3. Informal Fallacies. Fallacies in General. Exercise. Fallacies of Relevance. Exercise. Fallacies of Weak Induction. Exercise. Fallacies of Presumption, Ambiguity, and Illicit Transference. Exercise. Fallacies in Ordinary Language. Exercise. Part II: FORMAL LOGIC. 4. Categorical Propositions. The Components of Categorical Propositions. Exercise. Quality, Quantity, and Distribution. Exercise. Venn Diagrams and the Modern Square of Opposition. Exercise. Conversion, Obversion, and Contraposition. Exercise. The Traditional Square of Opposition. Exercise. Venn Diagrams and the Traditional Standpoint. Exercise. Translating Ordinary Language Statements into Categorical Form. Exercise. 5. Categorical Syllogisms. Standard Form, Mood, and Figure. Exercise. Venn Diagrams. Exercise. Rules and Fallacies. Exercise. Reducing the Number of Terms. Exercise. Ordinary Language Arguments. Exercise. Enthymemes. Exercise. Sorites. Exercise. 6. Propositional Logic. Symbols and Translation. Exercise. Truth Functions. Exercise. Truth Tables for Propositions. Exercise. Truth Tables for Arguments. Exercise. Indirect Truth Tables. Exercise. Argument Forms and Fallacies. Exercise. 7. Natural Deduction in Propositional Logic. Rules of Implication I. Exercise. Rules of Implication II. Exercise. Rules of Replacement I. Exercise. Rules of Replacement II. Exercise. Conditional Proof. Exercise. Indirect Proof. Exercise. Proving Logical Truths. Exercise. 8. Predicate Logic Symbols and Translation. Exercise. Using the Rules of Inference. Exercise. Quantifier Negation Rule. Exercise. Conditional and Indirect Proof. Exercise. Proving Invalidity. Exercise. Relational Predicates and Overlapping Quantifiers. Exercise. Identity. Exercise. Part III: INDUCTIVE LOGIC. 9. Analogy and Legal and Moral Reasoning. Analogical Reasoning. Legal Reasoning. Moral Reasoning. Exercise. 10. Causality and Mill's Methods. Cause" and Necessary and Sufficient Conditions. Mill's Five Methods. Mill's Methods and Science. Exercise. 11. Probability. Theories of Probability. The Probability Calculus. Exercise. 12. Statistical Reasoning. Evaluating Statistics. Samples. The Meaning of "Average." Dispersion. Graphs and Pictograms. Percentages. Exercise. 13. Hypothetical/Scientific Reasoning. The Hypothetical Method. Hypothetical Reasoning: Four Examples from Science. The Proof of Hypotheses. The Tentative Acceptance of Hypotheses. Exercise. 14. Science and Superstition. Distinguishing Between Science and Superstition. Evidentiary Support. Objectivity. Integrity. Concluding Remarks. Exercise. Answers to Selected Exercises. Glossary/Index."
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WW Norton & Co The Sickness Unto Death
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Edinburgh University Press Matter and Motion
Book SynopsisThomas Nail traces an alternative history of ancient and modern thinkers from the Bronze Age to quantum physics who share a radically different understanding of the nature of matter and motion compared to the rest of the Euro-Western tradition.
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Union Square & Co. The Prophet
Book SynopsisThis edition of Gibran's collection of 26 poetic essays on life features a bonded-leather binding and distinctive gilt edging. Gibran's poetry provides timeless spiritual wisdom on a range of subjects, including love and marriage, children, giving, eating and drinking, crime and punishment, pain, friendship, time, pleasure, beauty, religion and death.
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Edinburgh University Press The Henri Meschonnic Reader
Book SynopsisThis Reader, featuring sixteen texts covering the core concepts and topics of Henri Meschonnic's theory, will enrich, enhance and challenge your understanding of language.
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Orion Publishing Co Finding Happiness
Book Synopsis''His guidance is spot on. Heaven knows, most of us need all the peace we can get'' Daily ExpressIncludes a brand new introduction to offer help during a pandemicWhy is ''being happy'' such an imperative nowadays? What meaning do people give to happiness? In this book Abbot Christopher turns to monastic wisdom to offer answers, and to explain that in essence, happiness is a gift, not an achievement, the fruit of giving and receiving blessings. Abbot Christopher takes different aspects of happiness, examines them, tells us what monastic wisdom has to say about them, and offers us steps towards our own journey to finding happiness.Trade ReviewA jewel of a book * GUARDIAN *Anyone who enjoyed the surprise hit television series The Monastery should be delighted with Christopher Jamison's book ... by the end I was left with the definite impression that the author himself is a sincere and honourable man who sees, in the best aspects of the Rule of Benedict, a genuine solution to the abominable problems of modern living * SUNDAY TELEGRAPH *Lucid and insightful ... Friendly, clever and original * TABLET *His guidance is spot on. Heaven knows, most of us need all the peace we can get * DAILY EXPRESS *What can a monk tell us about finding happiness in our complicated modern world? A surprising amount, is the answer * SUNDAY TIMES *Generous with his insights, but never self-righteous, smug or preachy. I felt better for meeting him -- Judy Finnigan
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Ends of the World
Book SynopsisThe end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these visions have been given a new lease on life. Information and analyses concerning the human causes and the catastrophic consequences of the planetary ‘crisis’ have been accumulating at an ever-increasing rate, mobilising popular opinion as well as academic reflection. In this book, philosopher Déborah Danowski and anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro offer a bold overview and interpretation of these current discourses on ‘the end of the world’, reading them as thought experiments on the decline of the West’s anthropological adventure Ð that is, as attempts, though not necessarily intentional ones, at inventing a mythology that is adequate to the present. This work has important implications for the future development of ecological practices and it will appeal to a broad audience interested in contemporary anthropology, philosophy, and environmentalism.Trade Review�In their powerful essay on the climate crisis that humans face today, Danowski and Viveiros de Castro propose nothing short of a radically new and pluralist philosophical anthropology that is bound to reinvigorate humanist and post-humanist debates on anthropogenic global warming. A brilliant tour de force.� Dipesh Chakrabarty, The University of Chicago �This is a passionate, profoundly intelligent book. The ends of time are not the Anthropocene; that is a boundary, not a destiny. What comes next cannot be allowed to be the barbarism of the techno moderns. In this book, recomposition tracks along the Möbius strip of still imaginable, still liveable thought, mythology, and world-making practices indigenous to terrans. Actual indigenous peoples, who have refused to end in end time after end time, can perhaps teach the �needed subsistence of the future.� Donna Haraway, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsForeword by Bruno Latour vii Prefatory note x Acknowledgments xiii 1 What rough beast ... 1 2 ... Its hour come round at last ... 8 3 ... Slouches toward bethlehem to be born? 23 4 The outside without thought, or the death of the other 28 5 Alone at last 41 6 A world of people 61 7 Humans and terrans in the Gaia War 79 Conclusion: World on the brink 109 Notes 124 Bibliography 152 Index 169
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Austin Macauley Publishers Mental Fight
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John Murray Press Arguing for a Better World
Book Synopsis''Brings cooling clarity to the heat of today''s culture wars'' Priyamvada Gopal, author of Insurgent Empire''Allows us to not only interrogate our own views, but to persuade others using reason and optimism. A must read'' Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury CommunismCan white people be victims of racism?Is it sexist to say ''men are trash''?Should we worry about ''cancel culture''?Tired of having the same old arguments? Kicking yourself for not being able to justify your views? Wondering whether individuals can bring about meaningful change?Now imagine that instead of losing another hour of your life in a social media spat or knowing that the only way to make it through lunch was by biting your tongue, you could find a way to talk about injustice - and, just possibly, change someone''s mind.Many of us know what we think about inequality, but flounder when asked for ou
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Fulcrum Publishing Red Earth, White Lies: Native Americans and the
Book SynopsisVine Deloria, Jr., leading Native American scholar and author of the best-selling God is Red, addresses the conflict between mainstream scientific theory about our world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Claiming that science has created a largely fictional scenario for American Indians in prehistoric North America, Deloria offers an alternative view of the continent's history as seen through the eyes and memories of Native Americans. Further, he warns future generations of scientists not to repeat the ethnocentric omissions and fallacies of the past by dismissing Native oral tradition as mere legends.Trade Review"This is Vine Deloria's best book yet. ... Red Earth, White Lies shoots down a whole herd of sacred cows-from Charles Darwin's cow to Samuel Eliot Morison's bull." -Leslie Marmon Silko, author of Ceremony "Vine Deloria, Jr,. started the whole modern American Indian renaissance. ... Now, in Red Earth, White Lies, he is lambasting scholars and scientists for filling our heads with nonsense while they ignore the traditional knowledge of native tribes. Bound to be controversial, bound to start readers rethinking old concepts." -Dee Brown, author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee "This is Vine Deloria at his very best-challenging, taunting, acerbic-and powerful." -Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., author of Now That the Buffalo's Gone
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Pushkin Press The Needs of Strangers: On Solidarity and the
Book SynopsisReissue of a profound exploration of the concept of human need by the esteemed author of On Consolation What does a person need, not just to survive, but to flourish? In this profound, searching book, Michael Ignatieff explores the many human needs that go beyond basic sustenance: for love, for respect, for community and consolation. In a society of strangers, how might we find a common language to express such needs? Ignatieff's lucid, penetrating enquiry takes him back to great works of philosophy, literature and art, from St. Augustine to Hieronymus Bosch to Shakespeare. Reissued with a new preface, The Needs of Strangers builds to a moving meditation on the possibility of accommodating claims of difference within a politics based on common need.Trade Review'Michael Ignatieff writes an urgent prose... he will convince people, in highly readable fashion, that the ideas he discusses really matter' - Salman Rushdie'Beautifully written and profoundly thoughtful' - New Statesman'Elegant meditations on human need' - New Republic
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Intermex Publishing Ltd Chant and Be Happy
Book Synopsisthe power of mantra meditation and how it can bring you ultimate self-awareness and put you in touch with the supreme pleasure principle. Featuring exclusive conversations with George Harrison and John Lennon.
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Watkins Media Limited Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia: Five
Book SynopsisBack in print after fifty years and with a new introduction by Ray Brassier, this often overlooked but prescient collection of Marcuse's lectures makes an impassioned plea for the overthrowing of capitalism. Analysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia excavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism. In a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse’s radical insights in Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970. Trade Review“Against the lies and mystifications of a cynical ‘realism,’ Marcuse insists on the real basis of utopia — an insistence we need today more than ever.”"Marcuse also shows a path to a concrete utopia made possible by the achievements of the existing society. The essays in his volume are once again timely as rising social conflict on the right and the left challenges conventional thinking.”“These texts indicate how and why Marcuse was a key influence on the New Left and radical politics during the last two decades of his life in the 1960s and 1970s, and his continuing relevance for radical theory and politics today.”
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Hachette Livre - BNF Je Pense, Donc Je Suis: Introduction À La Méthode
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Bhaktivedanta Book Trust the Science of Self-Realization
Book SynopsisThe book explores ancient teachings on self-realization, meditation, yoga, liberation from Karma, and achieving superconsciousness in the modern age. It delves into the secrets of the self, nature, universe, and the Supreme Self within and without.
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Alpha Edition Ten Reasons Proposed To His Adversaries For
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