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HarperCollins India From Fire To Light
Book SynopsisIn From Fire to Light, acclaimed academic Arvind Sharma argues that the present understanding of the Manusmriti - regarded as a text designed by the higher castes, especially brahmanas, to oppress the lower castes and women - only tells one side of the story. As he demonstrates, this perception, when examined against textual, commentarial and historical evidence, is limited to the point of being misleading (and sometimes downright wrong).Providing an alternative reading of the Manusmriti, From Fire to Light accepts some of the conclusions associated with the existing interpretation but presents them in a new light, mitigating and at times contradicting some of its other features. In taking the plural character of the Hindu tradition and the Manusmriti''s historical context more deeply into account, it brings about a paradigm shift in our understanding of this ancient text. The Manusmriti emerges as an attempt at social engineering, but of a rather different kind than imagined till now.
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Gita Publishing House Life is Beautiful
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Buddhist Publication Society,Sri Lanka Buddhist Essays 1: Five Titles
Book SynopsisCollection of essays written over 50 years by a Buddhist monk and teacher. Topics include aesthetic enjoyment, women in Buddhism, social growth, and death as inspiration. Emphasizes provocative thinking and academic detachment in exploring these subjects.
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Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd Book of Shiva The Book of
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Penguin Random House India The Mahabharata
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Oxford University Press, USA Eastern Religions and Western Thought Oxford India Paperbacks
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John Wiley & Sons Self and Community in a Changing World
Book SynopsisD. A. Masolo is Professor of Philosophy and Justus Bier Professor of Humanities at the University of Louisville. He is author of African Philosophy in Search of Identity (IUP, 1994) and editor (with Ivan Karp) of African Philosophy as Cultural Inquiry (IUP, 2000).
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MIT Press Ltd Convention and Materialism Uniqueness without
Book SynopsisThe first English translation of the book that established Paolo Virno as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation.With the 1986 publication of this book in Italy, Paolo Virno established himself as one of the most influential Italian thinkers of his generation. Astonishingly, this crucial work has never before been published in an English translation. This MIT Press edition, translated by Italian philosopher and Insubordinations series editor Lorenzo Chiesa, is its first English-language version. Virno here engages, in an innovative and iconoclastic way, with some classical issues of philosophy involving experience, singularity, and the relation between ethics and language, while also offering a profoundly transformative political perspective that revolves around the Marxian notion of the general intellect. Virno reconsiders Walter Benjamin's idea of a loss of the aura (brought on, Benjamin argued, by technical reproducibility), and postula
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Philosophy and National Development in Nigeria
Book SynopsisWhat does it imply for Nigerian philosophers to conscientiously and engagingly reflect on Nigeria as a place of philosophy and as a dynamic plural context of socioeconomic, political, cultural and ethnic problems? Any answer to this question automatically constitutes the opening salvo to the reflection on the evolution of a Nigerian tradition of philosophy and philosophizing. This book represents such an initial salvo in in its attempt to hammer out the conditions for the possibility of a Nigerian tradition of philosophy by placing that endeavor in between the triadic challenges of the Nigerian political economy, the African philosophical theorizing and the global epistemological hegemony. How do these three dynamics condition the evolution and functional relevance of the philosophical enterprise in Nigeria? How have Nigerian philosophers responded to them? What is Nigerian philosophy? How can there be a Nigerian philosophy when there are no Nigerians? This book is also an attempt to contribute to the trajectory of philosophy education in Nigeria within the context of a postcolonial educational system and university dynamics that stultifies the role of the intellectuals in development. From Plato to Wiredu, from Bodunrin to Bourdieu, and from Heidegger and Nietzsche to Fanon, Mignolo and Santos, the book traces a trajectory of dynamics rethinking of existing paradigms and epistemological assumptions that could enable a robust evolution of a Nigerian tradition of philosophy that possesses sufficient clout to confront its historicity and its place in Nigeriaâs development impasse. Table of ContentsDedication Preface & AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter OneThe Incidence of Philosophy in NigeriaChapter TwoThe Homo Academicus NigerianusChapter ThreeThe Nigerian State Encounters PhilosophyChapter FourWestern Epistemology and Popular EpistemologiesChapter FiveNigerian Philosophy without Nigerians? Tradition, Philosophy, and PluralityChapter SixThe National Character of PhilosophyChapter SevenPhilosophy and the Idea of ThinkingChapter EightBios Theoretikos /Bios Politikos: Theory, Practice, and the Challenges of a Nigerian Tradition of PhilosophyChapter NineSocial Philosophy as Social Hope: Nigerian Philosophy and the Archaeologies of GovernanceConclusion: Envisioning Nigeria: Towards Postmetaphysical Nigerian Philosophy
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Cambridge University Press Psychoanalysis in a New Light
Book SynopsisWhat kind of a science is psychoanalysis? What constitutes its domain? What truth claims does it maintain? In this unique and scholarly work concerning the nature of psychoanalysis, Gunnar Karlsson guides his arguments through phenomenological thinking which, he claims, can be seen as an alternative to the recent attempts to cite neuropsychoanalysis as the answer to the crisis of psychoanalysis. Karlsson criticizes this effort to ground psychoanalysis in biology and neurology and emphasizes instead the importance of defining the psychoanalytic domain from the vantage point of the character of consciousness. His understanding of the unconscious, the libido and the death drive offer new insights into the nature of psychoanalysis, and he also illuminates and develops neglected dimensions such as consciousness and self-consciousness. Karlsson's approach to psychoanalysis is rigorous yet original, and this book fills an intellectual gap with implications for both the theoretical understandiTrade Review'An invaluable study of Husserl's phenomenology and Freud's psychoanalysis in relation to modern neuroscience. Karlsson's engaging writing and crystal-clear style make this an extremely worthwhile book.' Juliet Flower MacCannell, University of California, Irvine'I do not know of any other books that approach the problem of the unconscious from a phenomenological epistemological perspective. This book fills an intellectual gap, is highly original and very persuasive.' Jo Nash, University of Sheffield'What [Karlsson] does across eight short chapters is to define and trace phenomenological philosophy's approach to understanding the human and then apply that understanding to psychoanalysis, using both Freud's writings and other analysts' interpretations of Freud's work. In the end, [he] both clarifies and complicates psychoanalysis, offering up an interpretation that somehow manages to be true to Freud's ideas while also offering a new view on an old subject.' PsycCRITIQUES'Karlsson's book redefines the significance and purpose of psychoanalysis from a phenomenological perspective that conceives of psychoanalysis as a science (searching for truth) and 'not merely as a method of treatment' … This project is clearly executed with helpful chapter summaries along the way. Overall, it casts a powerful phenomenological searchlight upon the couch, levering the intelligibility of psychoanalytic theory off from dependence on its own empirical moment …' Sara Beardsworth, Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Phenomenology and psychoanalysis; 2. The life-world as the ground for sciences; 3. A critical examination of neuropsychoanalysis; 4. The conceptualization of the psychical in psychoanalysis; 5. The libido as the core of the unconscious; 6. The grounding of libido in the life-world experience; 7. Beyond the pleasure principle: the affirmation of existence; 8. The question of truth claims in psychoanalysis; Concluding remarks.
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Cambridge University Press Reason Religion and Democracy
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Cambridge University Press The Sublime
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Cambridge University Press The Invention of Market Freedom
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of EighteenthCentury Philosophy 2 Volume Hardback Boxed Set
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge World History of Medical Ethics
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Cambridge University Press The Comedy of Errors Cambridge School Shakespeare
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Crown Dear Freedom Writer
Book SynopsisThe students of today tell their stories of adversity and growth in letters to the original Freedom Writers—authors of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Freedom Writers Diary—who write supportive and powerful letters in response.Over twenty years ago, the students in first-year teacher Erin Gruwell’s high school class in Long Beach, California, were labeled “unteachable”—but she saw past that. Instead of treating them as scores on a test, she understood that each of them had a unique story to tell. Inspired by books like Anne Frank’s diary, her students began writing their own diaries, eventually dubbing themselves the Freedom Writers. Together, they co-authored The Freedom Writers Diary, which launched a movement that remains incredibly relevant and impactful today. Their stories speak to young people who feel as if those around them do not care about their lives, their feelings, and their struggles.
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Shogam Publications Longchenpas Three Cycles of Natural Freedom
Book SynopsisLongchenpa''s Three Cycles of Natural Freedom: Oral translation and commentary is a seminal Dzogchen text that is divided into three cycles: Mind, Ultimate Reality and Equality. The ninth Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche (1959-2012) of the Kagyu Nyingma tradition, one of the great meditation master and scholars to come out of the Tibetan diaspora, has provided a detailed oral commentary and spontaneous translation of Longchenpa''s text to help reveal the essential meaning of these profound teachings. A glimpse at each cycle - in the Mind Cycle, Longchenpa is in part concerned with our ability to comprehend and experience the freedom within the authentic state; in the Ultimate Reality Cycle, all dualistic notions are challenged as the nature of self and phenomena are revealed as the same; in the Equality Cycle, our aboriginal state is described as that which transcends conditioned existence. Within each cycle, Lonchenpa also gives concise guidelines on approaching one''s practice within a retreat situation. Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche''s renowned fluency with the English language, coupled with his own profound levels of realization, makes this translation an exciting opportunity for these transformative teachings to not only be known, but also experienced in these modern times.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Kama The Riddle of Desire City Plans
Book SynopsisGurcharan Das discusses the importance of desire in Indian culture, examining its impact on love, marriage, and duty. He explores the interplay between desire and morality, offering guidance on balancing personal fulfillment with ethical principles. The book also delves into the link between romantic love and spiritual devotion.
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Stanford University Press On Ceasing to Be Human
Book SynopsisOn Ceasing to be Human explores and develops a question posed by Stanley Cavell, "Can a human being be free of human nature?" particularly in terms of the link between freedom and nonidentity.Trade Review"On Ceasing to be Human is a must read in terms of recent discussions relating to the man/animal distinction. It does a brilliant job of bringing together strands of intellectual history—Deleuze, Nancy, Derrida, Agamben, Bataille, Blanchot, and Levinas—whose interconnections enable us to read French theory in an entirely new way even as they inform questions about the end of the human." -- Herman Rapaport"On Ceasing to be Human lays out with exemplary clarity the stakes of recent debates over the human. Bruns provides a commentary on the major positions presently in play, placing them in dialogue with one another and sketching out alternatives, fault lines, and disagreements. In his account, the human, as a concept or category, is inseparable from a conservative program to shore up currently dominant practices and institutions. He asks whether, in conceiving non-human others principally on the basis of their lack of human capacities, we remain fully human ourselves." -- R.M. Berry"Bruns has written yet another interesting book on his lifelong passions: the relation of literature and philosophy to their language; and the theme of poetry and ethics belonging to the domain of openness, responsibility, the singular, and the irreducible—versus traditional respect for rules . . . Overall, this short book is a wonderful aid in understanding current French thought on the title's topic . . . Recommended." -- S. Correa * CHOICE *
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Fordham University Press Thinking about Thinking
Book SynopsisThinking about Thinking examines philosophy from a variety of perspectives as a the practice realized by persons who communicate with one another while reflecting about the meaning of human life and thought.Trade ReviewRather than elaborate types, values, classics, or even a phenomenology of conversation, Peperzak draws the reader into an engaging dialogue to rediscover how thought and life can enrich each other. By reconfiguring an array of premodern, modern, and postmodern stances, he presents a mature evaluation of Levinas, human affectivity as an original dative of manifestation that cannot be mastered or exhausted by any conversation, and abundant untimely but eminently applicable wisdom on philosophy’s mediating role in the university and in our culture. In the process we awake from dogmatic and anti-dogmatic slumbers to engage with equal fervor thought and one another. Both his wide circle of grateful readers and newcomers to Peperzak’s oeuvre have much to learn from this stimulating collection.---—Peter Casarella, DePaul University"Thinking about Thinking comprises a set of meditations about the dialogical nature of philosophy and the philosophical life. The fruit of twenty-five years of teaching by a gifted and spirit-filled philosopher, these ten meditations gather around the themes of trust and faith in its several forms, including religious faith and Hegel’s “faith in reason.” As dialogical, philosophizing entails the receiver who is also a responder. Its focus is on the dative case, each participant bringing along the “tradition” that has helped fashion the person he or she is. In effect, it requires the risk that the honest conversation entered into by trusting interlocutors will leave neither party unchanged by the experience. Reading this thoughtful account is itself transformative. It is reminiscent of Foucault’s famous “parrhesiastic contract.”---—Thomas R. Flynn, Emory University
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The Swedenborg Society Emanuel Swedenborg Introducing the New Jerusalem
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Liberty Fund Inc An Historical View of the English Government From
Book SynopsisConsists of three parts, concerned with the most substantive revolutions in English government and manners: from the Saxon settlement to the Norman Conquest, from the Norman Conquest to the accession of James I, and from James I to the Glorious Revolution. Through these three phases Millar traces the development of the ''great outlines of the English constitution'' -- the history of institutions of English liberty from Saxon antiquity to the revolution settlement of 1689.
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Liberty Fund Inc Historical View of the English Government
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Liberty Fund Inc Philosophiae Moralis Institutio Compendi With a
Book SynopsisThis publication is a parallel edition of the English and Latin versions of a book designed by Hutcheson for use in the classroom. General Editor Knud Haakonssen remarks that Hutcheson''s Institutio was written as a textbook for university students and it therefore covers a curriculum which has an institutional background in his own university, Glasgow. This was a curriculum crucially influenced by Hutcheson''s predecessor Gershom Carmichael, and at its center was modern natural jurisprudence as systematised by Grotius, Pufendorf, and others . . . The Institutio is the first major [published] attempt by Hutcheson to deal with natural law on his own terms . . . It therefore encapsulates the axis of natural law and Scottish Enlightenment ideas, which so many other thinkers, including Adam Smith, worked with in their different ways. It is of great significance that this work issued from the class in which Smith sat as a student.
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Liberty Fund Inc. System of Moral Philosophy
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Liberty Fund Inc Vindiciae Gallicae
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Liberty Fund Inc Vindiciae Gallicae
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Liberty Fund Inc Commentary on the Law of Prize Booty with
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Liberty Fund Inc The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks Or an
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Liberty Fund Inc Present State of Germany
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Liberty Fund Inc Present State of Germany Or an Account of the
Book SynopsisAlthough ''The Present State of Germany'' was first made available in English over three centuries ago, it has been virtually unavailable in English since the period of the American Founding. By 1696, Pufendorf was well known in England as a staunch defender of the Protestant cause and as one of the renovators of natural law. His writings were familiar to such luminaries as Locke and figured prominently in James Tyrell''s ''Patriarcha non Monarcha'' (1681).
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Liberty Fund Inc Philosophical Commentary on These Words of the
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Liberty Fund Inc Essays on the Church State Politics
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Liberty Fund Inc Essays on the Church State Politics
Book SynopsisThe essays selected here for translation derive largely from Thomasius''s work on Staatskirchenrecht, or the political jurisprudence of church law. These works, originating as disputations, theses, and pamphlets, were direct interventions in the unresolved issue of the political role of religion in Brandenburg-Prussia, a state in which a Calvinist dynasty ruled over a largely Lutheran population and nobility as well as a significant Catholic minority. In mandating limited religious toleration within the German states, the provisions of the Peace of Westphalia (1648) also provided the rulers of Brandenburg-Prussia with a way of keeping the powerful Lutheran church in check by guaranteeing a degree of religious freedom to non-Lutherans and thereby detaching the state from the most powerful territorial church. Thomasius''s writings on church-state relations, many of them critical of the civil claims made by Lutheran theologians, are a direct response to this state of affairs. At the same
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Liberty Fund Inc Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius
Book SynopsisOffers a vision of a universe governed by a natural law that obliges us to love mankind and to govern our lives in accordance with the natural order of things.
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Liberty Fund Inc Truth of the Christian Religion
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Liberty Fund Inc Collected Works of John Stuart Mill Volume 1
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Liberty Fund Inc Reflections on the Rise Fall of the Ancient
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Liberty Fund Inc Reflections on the Rise and Fall of the Ancient
Book SynopsisIn 1759, at the height of the Seven Year''s War, when Great Britain was suffering a series of military reversals, Montagu considered his country''s plight in an historical contect formed by the study of five ancient republics: Sparta, Athens, Thenes, Carthage and Rome. Montagu''s focus on the ancient republics gives his contribution a distinctive twist to the chorus of voices lamenting Britain''s decline, and his analysis exerted influence in three momentous eighteenth-century crises: the Seven Year''s War, the American War of Independence, and the French Revolution. This is the first modern edition of Montagu''s work.
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Liberty Fund Inc Commentary on Filangieris Work
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Liberty Fund Inc Commentary on Filangieris Work
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Can Animals and Machines Be Persons
Book SynopsisDeals with topics such as personhood, animal rights, and artificial intelligence.Trade Review"Written in a lively and entertaining style, this little book, which deals with topics such as 'personhood,' animal rights, and artificial intelligence . . . makes some rather difficult philosophical points clear in an unpedantic fashion." --M. E. Winston, Trenton State College"A delightful book, beautifully written and psychologically acute." --Peter T. Manicas, Queens College, CUNY
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Can Animals and Machines be Persons A Dialogue
Book SynopsisPresents a dialogue about the notion of a person, of an entity that thinks and feels and acts, that counts and is accountable.Trade Review"Written in a lively and entertaining style, this little book, which deals with topics such as 'personhood,' animal rights, and artificial intelligence . . . makes some rather difficult philosophical points clear in an unpedantic fashion." --M. E. Winston, Trenton State College"A delightful book, beautifully written and psychologically acute." --Peter T. Manicas, Queens College, CUNY
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Charmides
Book SynopsisA translation that allows the simplicity and vigor of the Greek diction to shine through.
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Reflections on the Revolution in France Hackett
Book SynopsisIncludes "Burke's Reflections" and "Pocock's Reflections on Burke and the Eighteenth Century".Trade ReviewPocock is, without question, the leading historian of eighteenth-century British-American political thought. . . . All of his skills are brilliantly employed in the Introduction. . . . In addition to being the best treatment of Burke's thought in context, it is . . . the best and most concentrated presentation of Pocock's own view of the main contours of eighteenth-century political thought. . . . Finally, the Reflections and other texts by Burke are then woven into this rich fabric, thus providing the reader with an understanding of Burke's thought which is deeper and more complex (and surely more historically sensitive) than any available in the secondary literature. --James Tully, McGill UniversityOf all the scholars who currently study the history of Western political thought, no one is more fertile, eloquent, and ingenious than J. G. A. Pocock. --Keith Thomas, in the New York Review of Books
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc Critique of Judgment
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewPluhar maintains a fine, even tone throughout. . . . Those who have found the prospect of teaching the third Critique daunting will admire its clarity. . . . No one will be disappointed. --Timothy Sean Quinn, The Review of Metaphysics
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Vocation of Man
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