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The University of Chicago Press The Complete Works
Book SynopsisTrade Review"In this volume, Waterfield provides a translation of the extant works of Epictetus, an accessible introduction, and helpful historical, scholarly notes. . . . Waterfield provides essential philosophical ideas (for example, one should focus on what is in one's full control and let go of what is not), a condensed list of Stoic exercises, and specific references to Epictetus's works. . . . Recommended." * Choice *"Waterfield’s clear, readable translation brings out Epictetus’ humour and conversational tone as well as his philosophical vision." * London Review of Books *"A scrupulously rendered faithful rendition of both the substance and tone of the original. . . . I am grateful for this new edition of Epictetus, not only for its deft literary style but for Waterfield’s erudite and helpful annotations. It is a privilege to have the works of this great thinker offered to us with such excellence." -- Richard Smoley * Parabola *“This is an excellent book, well-produced and presented... a stimulating work of scholarship.” * Classics for All *"It is a privilege to have the works of this great thinker offered to us with such excellence." * Parabola *“This new translation of Epictetus by Waterfield is very welcome indeed. Both the translation and the notes help to make Epictetus more accessible than ever. Especially valuable is the introduction, which expertly situates Epictetus’s thought within wider Stoic philosophy and touches on many of the key debates in recent scholarship.” -- John Sellars, author of The Pocket Epicurean“This is now the best English translation of Epictetus available. Idiomatic yet accurate, it captures Epictetus’s voice in all its moods: direct and personal, often brusque and challenging, sometimes ironic, sometimes humorous. The introduction and notes are a reliable and up-to-date guide to the most influential Stoic in today’s world.” -- Brad Inwood, author of Ethics after Aristotle“Waterfield is a gifted writer and a superb classicist whose translation makes Epictetus come alive on the page. His introduction, at once scholarly and highly accessible, sheds new light on the texts and philosophy of this famous Stoic popularizer. Epictetus’s ‘live talks,’ preserved by Arrian, mix street preacher with acerbic comic. This edition of the complete works of Epictetus will be prized by all interested in delving into Stoic philosophy. We couldn’t ask for a better guide than Waterfield.” -- Nancy Sherman, author of Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern ResilienceTable of ContentsPreface Note on the Translation IntroductionHandbook Discourses Preface 1.1: What is and is not up to us 1.2: How to preserve conformity with one’s role in every situation 1.3: How one may proceed from the fact that God is the father of humankind to its consequences 1.4: On progress 1.5: Against the Academics 1.6: On providence 1.7: On the use of changing arguments, hypothetical arguments, and the like 1.8: That our faculties are not without danger for uneducated people 1.9: How one may proceed from the fact of our kinship with God to its consequences 1.10: To those who are intent on advancement at Rome 1.11: On family affection 1.12: On contentment 1.13: How to do whatever we do in a way that pleases the gods 1.14: That the Deity watches over us all 1.15: The prospect held out by philosophy 1.16: On providence 1.17: On the indispensability of logic 1.18: That one should not get angry with people for their mistakes 1.19: The proper attitude to have toward tyrants 1.20: On reason and its ability to examine itself 1.21: To those who want to be admired 1.22: On preconceptions 1.23: Against Epicurus 1.24: How to combat difficult circumstances 1.25: The same topic 1.26: What is the law of life? 1.27: How many ways are there for impressions to arise, and what resources should we have ensured that we have at hand to help us with them? 1.28: That we ought not to get angry with people, and what is trivial or important in human life 1.29: On self-possession 1.30: What we should have at hand in difficult circumstances 2.1: That confidence and caution are not incompatible 2.2: On tranquility 2.3: To those who recommend people to philosophers 2.4: To a man who had once been caught in adultery 2.5: How are greatness of mind and carefulness compatible? 2.6: On indifference 2.7: The correct way to go about divination 2.8: The essence of goodness 2.9: That despite our inability to fulfill our potential as human beings, we assume the mantle of philosophy as well 2.10: How the names that a person bears reveal what behavior is appropriate for him 2.11: The starting point of philosophy 2.12: On argument 2.13: On anxiety 2.14: To Naso 2.15: To those who cling obstinately to certain of their decisions 2.16: That in practice we fail to apply our judgments about what is good and bad 2.17: How to apply preconceptions to particular cases 2.18: How to combat impressions 2.19: To those who take up philosophy just to enhance their conversation 2.20: Against the Epicureans and Academics 2.21: On inconsistency 2.22: On friendship 2.23: On rhetoric 2.24: To someone who Epictetus thought did not have what it takes 2.25: On the indispensability of logic 2.26: What is it that makes a mistake a mistake? 3.1: On personal adornment 3.2: The training a person needs if he is to progress, and that we neglect what is most important 3.3: What the material is that a good person works with, and what the primary orientation of one’s training should be 3.4: To someone who expressed immoderate support in the theater 3.5: To those who quit school because of illness 3.6: A miscellany 3.7: To the Corrector responsible for the free Greek cities, who was an Epicurean 3.8: How we should train ourselves to deal with impressions 3.9: To an orator who was on his way to Rome for a lawsuit 3.10: How to bear illness 3.11: A miscellany 3.12: On training 3.13: What loneliness is and the kind of person who is lonely 3.14: A miscellany 3.15: That we should approach everything with circumspection 3.16: That venturing into company requires caution 3.17: On providence 3.18: That there is no need for news to worry us 3.19: How a non-philosopher’s stance differs from that of a philosopher 3.20: That it is possible to turn every external circumstance to good account 3.21: To people who too readily set out to become lecturers 3.22: On Cynicism 3.23: To those who give readings and lectures just to be admired 3.24: On the necessity of not being attached to things that are not up to us 3.25: To those who fail to see their projects through to completion 3.26: To those who fear destitution 4.1: On freedom 4.2: On social intercourse 4.3: What should be exchanged for what 4.4: To those who are intent on living a quiet life 4.5: Against those who are pugnacious and fierce 4.6: To those who find the pity of others distressful 4.7: On freedom from fear 4.8: To those who rush to assume the guise of philosophers 4.9: To someone who had lapsed into shamelessness 4.10: What we should treat as unimportant and what should matter to us 4.11: On cleanliness 4.12: On paying attention 4.13: On those who too readily share personal information Fragments Notes Textual Notes Recommended Reading Index
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Law and Religion
Book SynopsisThe place of the Law and its relationship to religious observance and faith is a contested topic in the study of both the Old and New Testament. In Law and Religion, members of the Erhardt Seminar group provide an insight into the debate, probing key topics and offering new contributions to the subject. Their essays are grouped into three sections, focussing in turn on the Law''s place in Israelite religion, in the Jesus tradition, and in Paul and the Apostolic tradition. Thus, the foundation of the connection between law and religion in ancient Israel is explored, along with the decisive influence of the Deuteronomic reform and the radical new understanding now emerging of the later development in Judaism of the New Testament Period. So, also, the contemporary challenge to the conventional picture of Jesus and the Law is addressed, the attitude of Paul is shown in new light, and post-Pauline developments are examined. Readers will find in this symposium a refreshing breadth of opinionTrade Review'This is a most important collection which will be significant for biblical ethics as well as for the narrower questions of law, and deserves to be widely known' - Expository Times 'These essays. touch on three areas which are in the centre of scholarly debate at present, and together make a useful contribution to all three' - Morna D. Hooker, in Epworth Review 'It can be said that none of these thirteen papers is second rate, many are lively and original, and all are highly informative.' - P.S. Cameron, in Scottish Journal of Theology 'New light is shed especially on the Jewish context of Jesus' ministry, but there is valuable work on the Old Testament, Qumran, John, Paul and Luke-Acts. A theme common to most of the book is the varied ways in which law might be understood, and the need to suspect simple interpretations. Of interest to graduate students and specialists, but also useful to ministers, undergraduates and intelligent college students.' - Walter Houston, in Theological Book ReviewTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction Part I. The law in Israelite religion 1. God as 'judge' in Ugaritic and Hebrew thought - Adrian Curtis, Lecturer in Old Testament Studies 2. Law in Old Israel: Laws Concerning Adultery - Arnold A. Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament Studies 3. 'A Perpetual Statute Throughout Your Generations' - Roger Tomes, Lecturer in Old Testament Studies at Northern College 4. The Temple Scroll: A Law Unto Itself? - George J. Brooke, Lecturer in Intertestamental Literature 5. Jewish Law in the Time of Jesus: Towards a Clarification of the Problem - Philip S. Alexander, Nathan Laski Senior Lecturer in Post- Biblical Jewish Studies Part II The law in the Jesus tradition 6. All Foods Clean: Thoughts on Jesus and the Law - Barnabas Lindars SSF, Rylands Professor of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis 7. Jesus' Demonstration in the Temple - Richard Bauckham, Reader in the History of Christian Thought 8. Q, the Law and Judaism - Christopher Tuckett, Lecturer in New Testament Studies 9. Christ and the Law in John 7-10 - George J. Brooke Part III The law in Paul and the apostolic tradition 10. Paul and the Law in Recent Research - F.F. Bruce, Emeritus Professor in the University of Manchester 11. Paul and the Law in Romans 5-8; an Actantial Analysis - Barnabas Lindars SSF 12. The Status of Law in the Letter to the Ephesians - Martin Kitchen, Chaplain to the Manchester Polytechnic 13. Law and Custom: Luke-Acts and Late Hellenism - F. Gerald Downing, Vice-Principal of the Northern Ordination Course Notes Index of References Index of Modern Authors
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James Clarke & Co Ltd Evil and the Problem of Jesus
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Dorling Kindersley Ltd Whats the Point of Philosophy
Book SynopsisTravel down the road of wisdom to discover how to think about a series of philosophical problems, how to defend your opinions on them, and how to evaluate the opinions of others.Why is philosophy important? What''s so great about it? Take a leap into the world of philosophy and discover questions about life, the universe, and human behaviour that great thinkers have pondered throughout history, and which are still being asked today.Philosophical ideas affect our day-to-day lives in ways that you might not expect. But understanding these ideas can be daunting - even for adults! If you want to learn how to argue the case for animal rights, why the concept of equality has many sides, or even what the theories are about why humans exist at all, What''s the Point of Philosophy? is the perfect place to start. Put your thinking cap on and get ready to explore:- A variety of fascinating topics reveal pivotal questions in philosophy that are stil
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MIT Press Things We Could Design
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group How to Live a Good Life A Guide to Choosing Your
Book SynopsisA collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life.Socrates famously said the unexamined life is not worth living, but what does it mean to truly live philosophically?This thought-provoking, wide-ranging collection brings together essays by fifteen leading philosophers reflecting on what it means to live according to a philosophy of life. From Eastern philosophies (Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism) and classical Western philosophies (such as Aristotelianism and Stoicism), to the four major religions, as well as contemporary philosophies (such as existentialism and effective altruism), each contributor offers a lively, personal account of how they find meaning in the practice of their chosen philosophical tradition.Together, the pieces in How to Live a Good Life provide not only a beginner's guide to choosing a life philosophy but als
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Vintage The Roots of Romanticism
Book SynopsisIsaiah Berlin was born in Riga, now capital of Latvia, in 1909. When he was six, his family moved to Russia, and in Petrograd in 1917 Berlin witnessed both Revolutions - Social Democratic and Bolshevik. In 1921 he and his parents emigrated to England, where he was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Apart from his war service in New York, Washington, Moscow and Leningrad, he remained at Oxford thereafter - as a Fellow of All Souls, then of New College, as Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, and as founding President of Wolfson College. He also held the Presidency of the British Academy. His published work includes Karl Marx, Russian Thinkers, Concepts and Categories, Against the Current, Personal Impressions, The Sense of Reality, The Proper Study of Mankind, The Roots of Romanticism, The Power of Ideas, Three Critics of the Enlightenment, Freedom and Its Betrayal, Liberty, The Soviet Mind and Political Ideas in Trade ReviewExhilaratingly thought-provoking -- Iain Finlayson * The Times *Isaiah Berlin at the height of his glory -- Michael Foot * Independent on Sunday *In an era where humane intellectual discourse has been deconstructed, intertextualised, phallicised and generally kicked senseless, Berlin's writing shines like a beacon -- Rupert Christiansen * Spectator *A profound, if often tantalising, contribution to an understanding of the West's culture... This is a book that would be as salutary a read for prime ministers and presidents as for those who see themselves as cultural critics -- Peter Mudford * The Times Higher Education Supplement *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Belief
Book SynopsisIn this engaging book, Gianni Vattimo explores the theme of faith and religion which underlies much of his work.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Luca D'Isanto. Return. Return and philosophy. Christian inheritance and nihilism. Incarnation and secularization. Beyond the violence of metaphysics. Secularization: a purified faith?. Revelation continues. Christianity and modernity. Demythification against paradox: the meaning of kenosis. Demythification of morality. Demythification of dogmas. Secularization: the limit of charity. Enlightenment rediscovered. The substance of faith. The moral question. To return where?. A reduced faith. Secularization versus tragic thought. Reason and the leap. What a pity!. Postscriptum.
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Orion Publishing Co Confessions Of A Philosopher
Book SynopsisIn this inspirational book Bryan Magee tells the story of his discovery of philosophy, and in doing so introduces the subject to his reader. Experiences of everyday life provide discussion of philosophers and explain why certain philosophical questions persistently exercise our minds.With great fluency Magee untangles philosophy, making it seem part of everyone''s life. Intensely personal and brimming with infectious enthusiasm, this is a wonderful introduction to philosophy by one of the most elegant and accessible writers on the subject.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Selected Discourses The Wisdom of Epictetus
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Hackett Publishing Co, Inc The Wealth of Nations
Book SynopsisStates that no book has done more to instruct, enlighten, and inform conservatives about economics than Adam Smith's undisputed classic.Trade ReviewHas all the basic chapters for the illustration of all the various (and contradictory) points anyone might want to make about the text. Dickey's own texts are invaluable. The introductions to the chapters are essential to make clear to students where they fit in the overall argument of the book. The appendices, though clearly the expression of the author's own views about the text, are admirably objective in the treatment of competing views, and represent an important contribution to Smith scholarship. --J. W. Smit, Columbia University
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Journey Beyond the Great Tree A Novel
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Cambridge University Press Formal Ontology
Book SynopsisThis Element shows different accounts of ontological forms in literature. It shows a character-neutral relational account and shows metatheory is useful for understanding categorial fundamentality/non-fundamentality, different formal ontologies, and unifying metaphysical questions. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.Table of Contents1. Introduction: against fantology; 2. A very short history of formal ontology; 3. Contemporary formal ontology; 4. Our metatheory of formal ontology; 5. What can we do with our metatheory?; 6. Conclusion; References.
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Tale of a Dream
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Devilish Enigma
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Austin Macauley Publishers God
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Austin Macauley Publishers Echoes of Existence
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Austin Macauley Publishers The Resilience Mindset
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Austin Macauley Wit and Wisdom Lady in Red
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Austin Macauley Publishers Life in a Dance on Words
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Austin Macauley Publishers Innocence of Mind
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Dune and Philosophy
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContibutors: Navigators, Mentats, Fremen, and Bene Gesserit viii Introduction: "He Who Controls the Spice Controls the Universe" xivKevin S. Decker A Brief Dune Series Timeline xviii Songs of Muad'Dib: Culture and Religion in Dune 1 1 Liberating Women's Bodies: Feminist Philosophy and the Bene Gesserit of Dune 3Kara Kennedy 2 What Do Zendaya's Blue Eyes Really Mean? 14Edwardo Pérez 3 The Golden Path and Multicultural Meanings of Life 24Ethan Mills 4 Messiahs, Jihads, and God Emperors: Should Humanity Just Give Up Religion? 35Greg Littmann 5 (Re)defining Masculinity and Femininity in Villeneuve's Dune 46Edwardo Pérez Arrakis Awakening: Science and Ecology in Dune 55 6 Spiritual Realm Adaptation: Arrakeen Spice, Terrestrial Psychedelics, and Technique 57A.M. Houot 7 Thinking Like a Desert: Environmental Philosophy and Dune 67Zach Vereb 8 Humans, Machines, and an Ethics for Technology in Dune 76Zachary Pirtle The Wisdom of Muad'Dib: Mind, Memory, and Interpretation in Dune 87 9 "Thou Shalt Make a Human Mind in the Likeness of a Machine": Imitation, Thinking Machines, and Mentats 89Tomi Kokkonen, Ilmari Hirvonen, and Matti Mäkikangas 10 Herbert's Gholas: Mystical Legends and Scientific Inspiration 99Jennifer Mundale 11 Psychological Expanses of Dune: Indigenous Philosophy, Americana, and Existentialism 108Matthew Crippen 12 Thatched Cottages at Cordeville: Hegel, Heidegger, and the Death of Art in Dune 119Kevin S. Decker The Lens of Time: Freedom, History, and Evil in Dune 131 13 Should the Bene Gesserit Be in Charge? 133Greg Littmann 14 Prisoners of Prophecy: Freedom and Foreknowledge in the Dune Series 144William Peden 15 Time versus History: A Conflict Central to Herbert's Dune 153Aaron Irvin The Humanity of Muad'Dib: Morality and Ethics in Dune 163 16 Secher Nbiw and the Child's Right to an Open Future 165Kenneth R. Pike 17 The Spice of Life: Hedonism and Nozick in the Dune Universe 173Luke Hillman 18 "Less Than a God, More Than a Man": Is It Morally Wrong to Make a Kwisatz Haderach? 179Alexandru Dragomir 19 That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Shai-Hulud: Self-overcoming in Nietzsche, Hinduism, and Dune 189Steve Bein Lessons of the Great Revolt: Politics and War in Dune 199 20 The God Emperor and the Tyrant: The Political Theology of Frank Herbert's Dune Saga 201James R.M. Wakefield 21 Lessons from Islamic Philosophy on the Politics of Paul Atreides 211Galipcan Altinkaya and Mehmet Kuyurtar 22 Why Settle for Hobbes's Sovereign When You Could Have a God Emperor? 221R.S. Leiby 23 The Mind at War: Conflict and Cognition in Frank Herbert's Dune 229Sam Forsythe Index 239
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The Impact of Science on Society
Book SynopsisMany of the revolutionary effects of science and technology are obvious enough. Bertrand Russell saw in the 1950s that there are also many negative aspects of scientific innovation. Insightful and controversial in equal measure, Russell argues that science offers the world greater well-being than it has ever known, on the condition that prosperity is dispersed; power is diffused by means of a single, world government; birth rates do not become too high; and war is abolished. Russell acknowledges that is a tall order, but remains essentially optimistic. He imagines mankind in a ''race between human skill as to means and human folly as to ends'', but believes human society will ultimately choose the path of reason.This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by Tim Sluckin.Trade Review‘A joy to read' – The Daily Telegraph'A most beautifully written study which shows Russell at the height of his powers.' – Liverpool Daily PostTable of ContentsForeword to the Routledge Classics edition. 1. Science and Tradition 2. General Effects of Scientific Technique 3. Scientific Technique in Oligarchy 4. Democracy and Scientific Technique 5. Science and War 6. Science and Values 7. Can a Scientific Society be Stable? Index
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WW Norton & Co Breakfast with Seneca
Book SynopsisThe first clear and faithful guide to the timeless, practical teachings of the Stoic philosopher SenecaTrade Review"A feast for the soul and spirit. Those who absorb the lessons in Breakfast with Seneca will embark on a life more worth living." -- Christopher Phillips PhD, author of Socrates Cafe"The most companionable of the new Stoic books." -- Molly Young - The New York Times"A fine guide to Seneca, Stoicism, and what it means to live a Stoic life. Highly readable." -- John Sellars, author of Lessons in Stoicism"When I find myself in a tight spot, I take a philosophical shortcut and simply ask, ‘What would Seneca do?’ David Fideler’s wonderful Breakfast with Seneca will come in handy in such situations. An accessible introduction to Stoic practice and to t" -- William B. Irvine, author of A Guide to the Good Life and The Stoic Challenge"In Breakfast with Seneca [David Fideler] explains his habit of poring over the Roman philosopher with his morning coffee and omelette. Writing with charm and clarity, he argues that Seneca’s philosophy can help us ‘live a happy, flourishing life’." -- Emily Thomas - The Times Literary Supplement
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Prophetic Culture
Book SynopsisSelected as one of The Tablet's Books of the Year 2021Throughout history, different civilisations have given rise to many alternative worlds. Each of them was the enactment of a unique story about the structure of reality, the rhythm of time and the range of what it is possible to think and to do in the course of a life. Cosmological stories, however, are fragile things. As soon as they lose their ring of truth and their significance for living, the worlds that they brought into existence disintegrate. New and alien worlds emerge from their ruins.Federico Campagna explores the twilight of our contemporary notion of reality, and the fading of the cosmological story that belonged to the civilisation of Westernised Modernity. How are we to face the challenge of leaving a fertile cultural legacy to those who will come after the end of our future? How can we help the creation of new worlds out of the ruins of our own?Trade ReviewIt sets a new tone - but this tone is immediately recognizable as belonging to our time. * Boris Groys, Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University, USA *A brilliant meditation on the planetary debacle of Westernized Modernity and a radical evocation of the spiritual and imaginative realities that may just possibly lie beyond the ruins of our future. A lucid and urgent work. * Jonathan Crary, Meyer Schapiro Professor of Modern Art and Theory, Columbia University, USA *It’s not enough to realize that the world is ending; we need to learn how to dream up new ones. Federico Campagna’s Prophetic Culture— a worthy successor to his Technic and Magic— offers an eloquent, evocative and visionary map for drafting the cosmos to come. * John Tresch, Mellon Professor in History of Art, Science, and Folk Practice, The Warburg Institute, UK *A world does not simply exist from a human point of view. It needs to be maintained and even entertained by means of song and story. But how to perform this maintenance, or housekeeping if time and space break down, if the present becomes unpredictable, the past keeps changing, the future is past and the “house” as such becomes precarious, unstable and unavailable? Despite its wealth of historical references to prophetism and gnostic traditions Federico Campagna's book is in my view an intriguing experiment of how to turn something as mundane and pedestrian as housekeeping into a necessary tool of remaking the world, to turn housekeeping into world making so to speak. * Hito Steyerl, Filmmaker and writer *This is a visionary book, highly original in conception. It offers an eloquent series of meditations on the forms of cultural and political possibility embedded within Judaeo-Christian mysticism, and addresses the prevailing sense of cultural crisis with confidence. Like Giorgio Agamben, Federico Campagna is an eclectic thinker with an internally coherent and urgent message for our time. * Malcolm Bull, Professor of Art and the History of Ideas, Christ Church College, Oxford *Campagna has written the score for a piece that allows its own end. It dies within and in its death gives us life in form of a humble prayer. A prayer whose words we have forgotten long ago but whose rhythm we still sing to ourselves. * Nicolas Jaar, Composer *Something has ended. What comes next is still unclear. At a time when extrapolative futures designed for navigating more stable realities are proving inadequate, Prophetic Culture offers a possible angle of approach, through a new kind of worlding, for the hazy, futureless reality fast approaching from over the imaginative horizon. * Anthony Dunne, Professor of Design and Social Inquiry, The New School, USA *We are on the bridge between worlds: Federico Campagna shows us how we might remake the cartographies of the next. The ‘end of the world’, as seen through the prophetic attitude, becomes not apocalypse, but apocatastasis: a joyful restoration. Campagna offers the cosmic trip for our collective transformation, inadvertently becoming a prophet for our time. Prophetic Culture is the foundational book for the day after tomorrow. * Sarah Shin and Ben Vickers, Ignota Books *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Time - Prologue: Jons the Squire - A Great Future Behind You - The Afterlife of Civilisations - Westernised Modernity Chapter 2: Otherworlds - Prologue: Anamorphosis - Aesthetics and Annihilation - A Chance to Lie - Archaic Adolescents - Tetrapharmakon Chapter 3: Prophetic Culture - Prologue: The Enigma - Stuttering - The Grotesque - The Prophet as a Position - Apocatastasis - A Memory of Having Forgotten - Prophecy as Therapy of Worlding Cosmography - 0 / 15 – Scheintür - 1 – The Island of Facts o 14 – Consciousness - 2 – Mundus Imaginalis - 3 – The World o 13 – Angel - 4 – The Point-Island of the Ineffable - 5 – The Dream o 12 – God - 6 – The Sleeping Gods - 7 – Being o 11 – Grammar - 8 – Non-Being o 10 – Death - 9 – Non-relationality Afterword: Sensuous Prophecy, by Franco Berardi ‘Bifo’ Bibliography Index
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John Wiley & Sons Inc The Witcher and Philosophy
Book SynopsisEmbark on a revealing philosophical journey through the universe of The Witcher If I''m to choose between one evil and another, I''d rather not choose at all, growls the mutant witcher, Geralt of Rivia. Andrzej Sapkowski''s Witcher books lay bare the adventures of monster hunters like Geralt, who seek to avoid humanity''s conflicts and live only for the next kill and the coin that comes with it. But Geralt''s destiny is complicated by his relationship with a powerful sorceress, Yennefer of Vengerberg. When he connects with a displaced princess, Ciri, Geralt lands right in the middle of the political conflicts of the Continent, which is endangered by Nilfgaard, a domineering southern kingdom that threatens to conquer the world. Part of the Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture series, The Witcher and Philosophy brings on twenty-seven philosophers to test their mettle against werewolves, the bruxa, strigas, vodyanoi, and kikimora; their work addresses the phenomenal
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John Wiley & Sons The Last of Us and Philosophy
Book SynopsisDid Joel do the right thing when he saved Ellie? Are those infected by the Cordyceps conscious? Are communities necessary for human survival and flourishing? Should Ellie forgive Joel? Is Abby's revenge morally justified? Is Ellie's? The Last of Us franchise includes two of the best video games ever created and the critically acclaimed HBO series. Renowned for brilliant gameplay and world-class narrative, The Last of Us raises timeless and enduring philosophical questions. Beautiful, thrilling, and tragic, Ellie's story of survival is as philosophical as it is profound. The Last of Us and Philosophy brings together an international team of philosophical experts and fans exploring the timeless questions raised by the video games and the show. Drawing insights ranging from Aristotle and Abby to Buddha and Bill, this book elucidates the roles that trust, community, love, justice, and hope play in The Last of Us. Twenty-four original essays cover both The Last of Us Part I and II and the H
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Austin Macauley Publishers Humanity and Human Sexuality The Origin and
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Austin Macauley Publishers Living by Thoughts Creating a Lasting Reality
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Arcturus Publishing Ltd The Twilight of the Idols and The Antichrist
Book SynopsisDive into the fascinating and complex mind of Friedrich Nietzsche with this collection of some of his most eye-opening works. Including ''The Twilight of the Idols'', ''The Antichrist'', and other important texts like ''The Eternal Recurrence'' and ''Explanatory Notes to Thus Spake Zarathustra'', this collection is the perfect companion for anyone looking to understand why Nietzsche believed that freedom of thought and self-discovery was so essential.Controversially candid and almost uncomfortably insightful, these writings highlight some of the philosophical and theological viewpoints that shook German society and have captured the attention of thinkers across the globe for more than a century.ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Classics series brings together high-quality paperback editions of classics works, presented with contemporary graphic cover designs. Together they make a wonderful collection which is perfect for any home library.
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Orion Publishing Co The Great Philosophers Wittgenstein
Book Synopsis''Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself'' WittgensteinWittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of ''the inner'', of our subjective experience and of our knowledge of self and others. Traditional conceptions of ''the outer'', of human behaviour, were equally distorted and so too was the relation between the inner and the outer.This highly accessible account offers an illuminating introduction to Wittgenstein''s philosophy of mind and to his conception of philosophy, showing how Wittgenstein''s examination of our use of words clarifies our notions of mind, body and behaviour.W&NNON-FICTIONPHILOSOPHYUK 3.99Trade ReviewThe books should improve the cultural circulation of philosophy by their style as well as their substance * TES *Rarely have intellectual sophistication and complexity come so cheap * FINANCIAL TIMES *A promising venture * THE TIMES *The virtue of these deceptively brief books is that they are the real thing * EVENING STANDARD *If you want to acquire some first-hand experience of philosophy and democracy you would do well to read this welcome series * TIMES HIGHER EDUCATIONAL SUPPLEMENT *
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Wollstonecraft
Book SynopsisFamous as the author ofA Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosopher. She engaged with many of the most polarising issues of her day: criticising social hierarchies, advocating for educational reform, analysing the French Revolution, and challenging men's political dominance. In this illuminating introduction, Alan Coffee argues that the originality of Wollstonecraft's feminist arguments is best understood within the context of a systematic and comprehensive philosophical system built up from a set of simple' theological and moral principles. An effective way to approach this is through the concept of freedom as independence. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, including her novels, reviews and letters, Coffee shows how the ideal of independence illuminates and unites many of her intellectual preoccupations and her contribution to contemporary debates, such as on the structural nature of social injustice and the republican notion of freedom as non-domination. This gripping account of Wollstonecraft's work sheds new light on one of the most important eighteenth-century thinkers.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Also a History of Philosophy, Volume 1: The
Book SynopsisThis is the first volume of a ground-breaking new work by Jürgen Habermas on the history of philosophy. In this major new work, Habermas sets out the ideas that inform his systematic account of the history of Western philosophy as a genealogy of postmetaphysical thinking. His account goes far beyond a vindication of the enduring relevance of philosophical reflection founded on communicative reason as a source of orientation in the modern world. He contrasts this conception with prominent diagnoses of the supposed crisis of Enlightenment reason and culture that seeks redemption in the affirmation of traditional religious authority (Schmitt), the timeless validity of Greek metaphysics (Strauss), a numinous conception of nature (Löwith), and an occurrence of being that speaks to us from beyond the mists of pre-Socratic thought (Heidegger). Habermas situates Western philosophy in relation to traditions of thought founded in the major worldviews (Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism) that continue to shape contemporary culture and civilization. At the same time, he lays the groundwork for his analysis in the later volumes of the constitutive role played by the discourse on faith and knowledge in the development of Western philosophy, which is the result of the unique symbiosis that Christianity entered into with Greek thought with the Christianization of the Roman Empire. Far from raising claims to exclusivity, completeness or closure, Habermas’s history of philosophy, published in English in three volumes, opens up new lines of research and reflection that will influence the humanities and social sciences for decades to come.Trade Review‘A wonderful English translation of Jürgen Habermas’s magnum opus tracing 1,300 years of philosophy in the West. This volume is at once a reconstruction of the encounter between faith and reason, so defining of the Western philosophical legacy, and a reflection on philosophy’s role in shaping who we are and how we relate to the world around us. Brilliant, breath-taking in scope, and profound in its assessment of the modern self-understanding, this magnificent work is a vital contribution to contemporary philosophy.’Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine‘Among all the philosophers and social theorists of our time, Jürgen Habermas has distinguished himself not only for his philosophical acumen, but also for a certain epistemic modesty – a willingness to learn from both his contemporaries and the preceding tradition. In this monumental volume, Habermas shows us how the ideal of philosophy as a learning process can assist in reconstructing our own philosophical history. He guides us through an exhilarating series of past encounters between faith and knowledge that contribute to the rational but fallibilistic model of postmetaphysical thinking today. The result is nothing less than a masterpiece.’Peter E. Gordon, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Translator’s Note Abbreviations Preface I. On the Question of a Genealogy of Postmetaphysical Thinking 1. Crisis Scenarios and Narratives of Decline in Major Twentieth-Century Philosophical Theories (1) Carl Schmitt (2) Leo Strauss (3) Karl Löwith (4) Martin Heidegger (5) The reconstruction of learning processes and the independent legitimacy of modernity 2. Religion as a ‘Contemporary’ Formation of Objective Mind? (1) The sociological controversy over the secularization thesis (2) John Rawls: political reason and religion (3) Karl Jaspers: philosophical and religious ‘faith’ 3. The Occidental Path of Development and the Claim to Universality of Postmetaphysical Thinking (1) The analysis of the formative power of world religions in the theory of civilizations (2) Intercultural understanding, secular mode of thought and concerns about the Eurocentric narrowing of perspective 4. Basic Assumptions of the Theory of Society and Programmatic Outlook (1) The problem of social integration and the stages of social evolution (2) Sketch of the line of thought (3) From world views to the lifeworld II. The Sacred Roots of the Axial Age Traditions 1. Cognitive Breakthrough and Preservation of the Sacred Core (1) The concept of the Axial Age (2) The two elements of religion (3) Excursus on the concept of ‘religion’ 2. Myth and Ritual Practices (1) Performance of rituals and enactment of myths (2) The meaning of ritual practices (3) Excursus on the origins of language 3. The Meaning of the Sacred (1) The self-referential character of ritual behaviour (2) From symbolic to linguistic communication (3) Myth as a response to the cognitive challenge of openness to the world (4) The complementary dangers of exclusion and hyper-inclusion (5) Ritual as a source of solidarity (6) The explosive power of dissonant empirical knowledge 4. The Path to the Axial Age Transformation of Religious Consciousness (1) Pantheon and religious practice in early civilizations (2) Cult of the gods (3) The differentiation of forms of knowledge III. A Provisional Comparison of the Axial Age World Views 1. The Moralization of the Sacred and the Break with Mythical Thought (1) The step of abstraction from the gods to the transcendent divine (2) Essence and appearance (3) Second-order thinking: discourse and dogmatics 2. The Repudiation of ‘Paganism’ by Jewish Monotheism (1) From henotheism to the monotheistic creator, lawgiver and judge (2) The universalistic meaning of the covenant with the transcendent God (3) The overcoming of magical thinking and the disenchantment of ritual (4) On the singular status of monotheism 3. The Buddha’s Teaching and Practice (1) Brahmanism, the Upanishads and meditative practice (2) The Buddha’s life and teachings (3) Aims and paths of salvation in Buddhism and Judaism (4) Meditation 4. Confucianism and Taoism (1) Emergence of Confucianism and the era of the ‘Warring States’ (2) Confucius’s life and teachings (3) Confucianism as ethics and learned religion (4) The counter-model of the Taoist doctrine of salvation 5. From the Greek ‘Natural Philosophers’ to Socrates (1) The very different original context (2) The Presocratics (3) Socrates 6. Plato’s Theory of Ideas – in Comparison (1) The structure of the Platonic system (2) The decoupling of doctrine from cult First Intermediate Reflection: The Conceptual Trajectories of the Axial Age (1) Emergence, dynamics and structural transformation of world views (2) Excursus on the concept of lifeworld (3) The structure of world views and the dogmatic form of thought (4) The concept of the Axial Age Bibliography Detailed Table of Contents Notes Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Metamorphoses
Book SynopsisWe are all fascinated by the mystery of metamorphosis – of the caterpillar that transforms itself into a butterfly. Their bodies have almost nothing in common. They don’t share the same world: one crawls on the ground and the other flutters its wings in the air. And yet they are one and the same life. Emanuele Coccia argues that metamorphosis – the phenomenon that allows the same life to subsist in disparate bodies – is the relationship that binds all species together and unites the living with the non-living. Bacteria, viruses, fungi, plants, animals: they are all one and the same life. Each species, including the human species, is the metamorphosis of all those that preceded it – the same life, cobbling together a new body and a new form in order to exist differently. And there is no opposition between the living and the non-living: life is always the reincarnation of the non-living, a carnival of the telluric substance of a planet – the Earth – that continually draws new faces and new ways of being out of even the smallest particle of its disparate body. By highlighting what joins humans together with other forms of life, Coccia’s brilliant reflection on metamorphosis encourages us to abandon our view of the human species as static and independent and to recognize instead that we are part of a much larger and interconnected form of life.Trade Review"Emanuele Coccia defines anew the relationship between humans and nature – a fascinating inquiry, and one which we urgently need in order to open our eyes to the world around us."—Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees "Emanuele Coccia's Metamorphoses is effectively Darwinian and also profoundly philosophical. With lyric prose sparkling with ideas at every turn, the work is inspiring, insightful, and stimulating."—Environmental PhilosophyTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionThe Continuity of LifeThe Forms Within Us1. BirthsEvery Self is a ForgettingOne and the Same LifeBirth and NatureCosmic TwinsGiving Birth, or the Migration of LifeCarnival of the GodsThe Speech of the EarthMetamorphosis as DestinyMirror of the World2. CocoonsTransformationsInsectsEvery Living Being is a ChimeraA Postnatal EggRejuvenationsA New Idea of TechnicsThe Metamorphosis of PlantsThe Cocoon of the World3. ReincarnationsEating and MetamorphosisBeing EatenReincarnation and the Transmigration of the SelfGenetics and ReincarnationThe Shadow of the Species4. MigrationsPlanetary MigrationVehicle TheoryThe Great ArkEverybody in the HouseThe Domestic Life of Non-HumansInvasions5. AssociationsThe Multispecies CityInterspecies ArchitectureOur Mind is Always in the Bodies of Other SpeciesThe End of WildernessContemporary NatureConclusionBibliography
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Pleasure Erased: The Clitoris Unthought
Book SynopsisThe clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral jouissance is recognized. The boundaries of feminism have also moved: queer, intersex and trans approaches claim that the clitoris is perhaps no longer the exclusive preserve of the woman. And yet, there remains a wounded space. Because genital mutilation is still common practice. Because millions of women are still denied pleasure. The clitoris continues to mark the enigmatic space of the feminine. Constrained by the extreme difficulty and the extreme urgency of returning to this scorched earth, it is time to give voice to an organ of pleasure which has still not become an organ of thought.Trade Review“A project whose glaring absence has been hiding in plain sight, clitoral pleasure has finally found its philosopher. Malabou tells us what we can do with our clitoral brain, uncloaking its agency and anarchic politics. Essential reading for anyone interested in interpreting sex otherwise than phallic and in relation to philosophy’s power to shape the soma.”Emily Apter, New York UniversityTable of ContentsTranslator’s Preface1. Erasures2. Nymphs 1: Virtual Goddesses3. Nymphs 2: Images without Genitals4. Nymphs 3: Nadja, Or a Being Without Life5. Political Anatomy6. “Sexual Existence” According to Simone de Beauvoir7. Dolto, Lacan and the “Relationship”8. “The Feminine Sexual Organ is the Clitoris”: Carla Lonzi and the Feminism of Difference9. Luce Irigaray: “Woman is Neither Open nor Closed”10. “With Tenderness and Respect for the Blameless Vulva”11. Mutilation and Repair: In Search of le mot juste12. Technologically Modified Bodies: Paul B. Preciado and Transfeminism13. Nymphomaniac: “Mea vulva, mea maximum vulva”14. Ecstasy Zones in the Real15. Clitoris, Anarchy and the FeminineNotes
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Interventions 2020
Book SynopsisThe death of God in the West was the prelude to a formidable metaphysical soap opera that continues to this day. Christianity’s masterstroke was to combine a fierce belief in the individual with the promise of eternal participation in the Absolute. When that dream evaporated, various attempts were made to offer the individual a minimum of being. The latest of these attempts is advertising, which seeks to arouse desire and transform the subject into a docile phantom doomed to follow advertising’s every whim. But, like all previous attempts, this skin-deep, superficial participation in the world fails, and unhappiness and depression continue to spread.However, we can all produce a cold revolution in ourselves by stepping outside the flow of information and advertising. We need to take some time out, unplug the television, turn off our iPhones, stop buying stuff, stop wanting to buy stuff, temporarily detach ourselves and adopt an aesthetic attitude to the world. We just need to stay still for a few seconds.This is one of the key themes developed by Michel Houellebecq in this collection of his texts and interviews from the last three decades. Here he explains and elaborates his point of view, discusses his novels and addresses a wide range of topics from politics, religion and literature to suicide, euthanasia and paedophilia. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the work of one of the most widely read and controversial novelists of our time.Trade Review‘The most famous French novelist of his generation.’The New Yorker ‘An author who captures the times like no other.’Evening Standard‘Fascinating’Euro News‘The author has a rare power: the ability to predict at least the general form of the future.’Foreign Policy"these essays are a good place to get acquainted with that voice, acidic, pitiless, but too full of humor and awareness to shy from"The Local Voice"boasts an array of subjects of great depth and provocation."Washington ExaminerTable of Contents1. Jacques Prévert is a jerk 2. The Mirage by Jean-Claude Guiguet 3. Approaches to distress 4. Staring into the distance: in praise of silent cinema 5. Interview with Jean-Yves Jouannais and Christophe Duchâtel 6. Art as peeling 7. Creative absurdity 8. The party 9. Time out 10. Opera bianca 11. Letter to Lakis Proguidis 12. The question of paedophilia 13. Humanity, the second stage 14. Empty heavens 15. I have a dream 16. Neil Young 17. Interview with Christian Authier 18. I don’t love myself 19. Sky, earth, sun 20. Leaving the twentieth century 21. Philippe Muray in 2002 22. Towards a semi-rehabilitation of the hick 23. Conservatism, a source of progress 24. Prolegomena to positivism 25. I’m normal. A normal writer 26. I have read my whole life long 27. Soil cutting 28. The lost text 29. Interview with Frédéric Beigbeder 30. A remedy for the exhaustion of being 31. Interview with Marin De Viry and Valérie Toranian 32. Interview with Agathe Novak-Lechevalier 33. Emmanuel Carrère and the problem of goodness 34. Donald Trump is a good president 35. Conversation with Geoffroy Lejeune 36. A bit worse. A response to a few friends 37. The Vincent Lambert affair should not have taken place
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Being Philosophical
Book SynopsisBeing Philosophicalguides readers through the perplexing initial moments of meeting philosophy by taking them inside philosophical thinking as an activity. In a beginner-friendly voice, Stephen Hetherington elucidates how intellectual tools' from a diversity of traditions, East and West, can enable us to start doing philosophy that is, to think from scratch' in a philosophical way. He explores many classical topics and issues that have preoccupied philosophers from Plato, early Buddhists and Confucius to Karl Marx and beyond selves, souls, identity, will, knowing and reasoning, acting morally, and more and presents possible methods for responding to different theories. Inviting and conversational,Being Philosophicalis the book needed by every new philosophy student or anyone wondering whether they might want to explore the world of philosophy.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Human Animal
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd America
Book SynopsisWhat position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated, America incarnates a dark continent whose strangeness and singularity has driven thinkers outside of their own philosophical comfort zone often forcing them to show anger, anxiety or desire towards what they considered a challenge or a threat. This book provides a mapping of this complex relationship between America and philosophy through a series of examples drawn from a wide range of authors, from Freud and Heidegger to Adorno, Derrida and many others. It also examines the way American thinkers themselves have imported, used and abused philosophical views coming from Europe, often transforming them into something other than what they were. Is then philosophy an anti-American discourse, or America an anti-philosophical country? Or is it, rather, that America provokes philosophy
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Morality and Responsibility
Book SynopsisT. M. Scanlon is one of the world's leading philosophers, widely known for his contractualist moral theory and his distinctive account of moral responsibility and blame. In these important essays, written between 2001 and 2021, Scanlon reflects on the lines of thinking that led him to these views, considers objections to them, and locates them in relation to the views of others, including Derek Parfit, Harry Frankfurt, Gary Watson, and Christine Korsgaard. The result will be essential reading for scholars and students in moral philosophy, political philosophy, and the philosophy of law.
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Open Universe Pokemon and Philosophy
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Counterpoint Tawny Grammar: Essays
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Red Wheel/Weiser Finding Your Walden
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Shambhala Publications Inc Gurdjieff and the Fourth Way
Book SynopsisA profound new look at Gurdjieff?s life, teaching, and role as a spiritual leader through the lens of esotericism.Gurdjieff warned against taking anything literally or on faith, and he advised accepting only experience that could be lived oneself. He also said that one has to find out ?how to know? and that understanding higher knowledge depends on one?s ?level of being.? The aim of the Fourth Way is toward a change of being?from the level of man number one, two, and three to that of man number four. Stephen Grant offers a fundamental reassessment of Gurdjieff as a spiritual leader and the Fourth Way as an esoteric teaching. This includes recognizing the Fourth Way as esoteric Buddhism.This book outlines Gurdjieff?s early life and view of ancient history, followed by the itinerant course of his teaching from Russia in 1915 to his death in Paris in 1949. The discussion then focuses on his esoteric mission?to bring the Fourth Way to the West?and its three major stages: (1) introducing the system of ideas to and through P. D. Ouspensky; (2) writing his own theory of the teaching, principally in Beelzebub?s Tales; and (3) passing on the practical teaching to and through Jeanne de Salzmann. The last five chapters deal with Gurdjieff?s relationship with his closest pupils, his system of ideas, his hidden doctrine in Beelzebub?s Tales, and the practical knowledge revealed by Mme. de Salzmann.
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