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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Wittgensteins Poker
Book SynopsisOn October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud and aggressive confrontation became the stuff of instant legend, but precisely what happened during that brief confrontation remained for decades the subject of intense disagreement.An engaging mix of philosophy, history, biography, and literary detection, Wittgenstein''s Poker explores, through the Popper/Wittgenstein confrontation, the history of philosophy in the twentieth century. It evokes the tumult of fin-de-siécle Vienna, Wittgentein''s and Popper''s birthplace; the tragedy of the Nazi takeover of Austria; and postwar Cambridge University, with its eccentric set of philosophy dons, including Bertrand Russell. At the center of the story stand the two giants of philosophy themselves -- proud, irascible, larg
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Great Political Theories V.2
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Enlightenment
Book Synopsis“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment’s literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of this milieu. -- Wall Street JournalNow in paperback, a magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Yet why, over three hundred years after it began, is the Enlightenment so profoundly misunderstood as controversial, the expression of soulless calculation? The answer may be that, to an extraordinary extent, we have accepted the account of the Enlightenment given by its conservative enemies: that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion or support for an unfettered free market, or that this was “the best of all possible worlds”. Ritchie Robertson goes back into the “long eighteenth century,” from approximately 1680 to 1790, to reveal what this much-debated period was really about.Robertson returns to the era’s original texts to show that above all, the Enlightenment was really about increasing human happiness - in this world rather than the next - by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. In so doing Robertson chronicles the campaigns mounted by some Enlightened figures against evils like capital punishment, judicial torture, serfdom and witchcraft trials, featuring the experiences of major figures like Voltaire and Diderot alongside ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary moment.In answering the question ''What is Enlightenment?'' in 1784, Kant famously urged men and women above all to “have the courage to use your own intellect”. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a well-rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. Drawing on philosophy, theology, historiography and literature across the major western European languages, The Enlightenment is a master-class in big picture history about the foundational epoch of modern times.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Modern Philosophy
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The University of Chicago Press Camus and Sartre The Story of a Friendship and
Book SynopsisThe full story of the rupture between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre is described here as a falling out over fundamental differences of opinion regarding the use of violence as a path to change.Trade Review"With meticulous even-handedness, this internationally renowned Sartre expert has produced a remarkably non-partisan account which also reminds us that it is possible to combine the highest level of scholarship with a lively and readable style of writing.... An important contribution to twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history." - David Drake, Times Literary Supplement; "Aronson's literary acuity combined with an entertaining use of anecdotes on social and personal jealousies Sartre and Camus harbored make the book a useful biographical background to the major works of these authors and a most enjoyable tale of the turmoil of intellectual life in postwar France." - Publishers Weekly; "A masterful synthesis of intellectual history, political context, and biographical narrative.... A book that will reward both those unfamiliar with either thinker and the expert It will doubtless be the standard account of the Sartre-Camus debate for a long time to come." - Scott McLemee, Bookforum"
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The University of Chicago Press The Symbolic Construction of Reality
Book SynopsisA collection of essays that analyze various aspects of philosopher Ernst Cassirer's legacy, reassessing their significance for our contemporary world.
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The University of Chicago Press The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss
Book SynopsisTakes on the crucial task of separating what is truly important in the work of Leo Strauss from the ephemeral politics associated with his school. This title shows that Strauss' famous distinction between ancient and modern thinkers is primarily rhetorical, one of the great examples of Strauss' own exoteric craft.Trade Review"The Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss offers a major and provocative contribution to Strauss scholarship, but this is not the most important thing it offers. Laurence Lampert makes a persuasive case for the 'new history of philosophy,' which invites us to radically rethink the whole 'tradition.'" (David Janssens, Tilburg University)"
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The University of Chicago Press Heideggers Confessions The Remains of Saint
Book SynopsisBringing a fresh and unexpected perspective to bear on Heidegger's profoundly influential critique of modern metaphysics, the author traces a larger lineage between religious and theological discourse and continental philosophy.Trade Review"Heidegger's Confessions traces the role of Augustine across Heidegger's thinking-early, middle, and late-to convincingly show that Augustine is not only a constant companion but an inspiration for Heidegger's own transformations throughout his career." (Andrew J. Mitchell, Emory University)
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University of Chicago Press Biopower Foucault and Beyond
Book SynopsisMichel Foucault's notion of biopower has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them. With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of powerwhat Foucault called sovereign powerthe contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.
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University of Chicago Press The Figural Jew
Book SynopsisReveals how the figural Jew can function as a critical mechanism that exposes the political dangers of mythic allegiance, whether couched in universalizing or particularizing terms. This title provides a consideration of Jewish identity, modern Jewish thought, and continental philosophy.Trade Review"In The Figural Jew, Sarah Hammerschlag deftly brings together intellectual history, literary analysis, and philosophical argument in a wonderfully insightful and engaging account of the role the figure of the Jew plays within twentieth-century French philosophy. She also makes a vital philosophical contribution to contemporary debates about ethics, alterity, and politics." - Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School.
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The University of Chicago Press Philosophy Scare The Politics of Reason in the
Book SynopsisFrom the rise of formalist novels that championed the heroism of the individual to the proliferation of abstract art as a counter to socialist realism, the years of the Cold War had a profound impact on American intellectual life. As John McCumber shows in this fascinating account, philosophy, too, was hit hard by the Red Scare. Detailing the immense political pressures that reshaped philosophy departments in midcentury America, he shows just how radically politics can alter the course of intellectual history. McCumber begins with the story of Max Otto, whose appointment to the UCLA Philosophy Department in 1947 was met with widespread protest charging him as an atheist. Drawing on Otto's case, McCumber details the hugely successful conservative efforts that, by 1960, had all but banished the existentialist and pragmatist paradigms not to mention Marxism from philosophy departments all across the country, replacing them with an approach that valorized scientific objectivity and free ma
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The University of Chicago Press The Death Penalty Volume II
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The University of Chicago Press No Exit Arab Existentialism JeanPaul Sartre and
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the major role played by Sartre as both figure and philosopher in the development of political thought in post-colonial Arab countries.
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University of Chicago Press Serious Larks The Philosophy of Ted Cohen
Book SynopsisTed Cohen was an original and captivating essayist known for his inquisitive intelligence, wit, charm, and a deeply humane feel for life. For Cohen, writing was a way of discovering, and also celebrating, the depth and complexity of things overlooked by most professional philosophers and aestheticiansbut not by most people. Whether writing about the rules of baseball, of driving, or of Kant's Third Critique; about Hitchcock, ceramics, or jokes, Cohen proved that if you study the world with a bemused but honest attentiveness, you can find something to philosophize about more or less anywhere. This collection, edited and introduced by philosopher Daniel Herwitz, brings together some of Cohen's best work to capture the unique style that made Cohen one of the most beloved philosophers of his generation. Among the perceptive, engaging, and laugh-out-loud funny reflections on movies, sports, art, language, and life included here are Cohen's classic papers on metaphor and his Pushcart Prizewinning essay on baseball, as well as memoir, fiction, and even poetry. Full of free-spirited inventiveness, these Serious Larks would be equally at home outside Thoreau's cabin on the waters of Walden Pond as they are here, proving that intelligence, sensitivity, and good humor can be found in philosophical writing after all.
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The University of Chicago Press On Faith
Book SynopsisBy making faith a philosophical rather than a theological matter, this book explores its essence as an awareness of how we relate within mundane reality to all that is beyond the human world. It examines how faith structures a variety of relations from the nature of cults to servitude to God.Table of ContentsForeword by Paul Mendes-Flohr Preface 1: The Approach 2: The Phenomenon of Faith 3: Denominators 4: Characterizations 5: Manifested Guidance 6: Being 7: Entity, Cognition, and Reality 8: Holiness 9: Active Expressions of Faith 10: From Generation to Generation 11: Bondage 12: Reflective Articulation 13: The Core 14: Exposition and Identification 15: Negation and Restrained Affirmation
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The University of Chicago Press On Faith
Book SynopsisBy making faith a philosophical rather than a theological matter, this book explores its essence as an awareness of how we relate within mundane reality to all that is beyond the human world. It examines how faith structures a variety of relations from the nature of cults to servitude to God.
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The University of Chicago Press Walter Benjamin
Book SynopsisOffers a comprehensive introduction to the oeuvre of German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). This title traces the development of Benjamin's thought chronologically through his writings on philosophy, literature, history, politics, the media, art, photography, cinema, technology, and theology.Trade Review"Steiner's dual focus on text and context offers a fruitful and illuminating introduction to Benjamin's challenging writings." - Paragraph "The book offers much to those long familiar with Benjamin's reception, as well as to those looking for a sound introduction." - Monatshefte"
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The University of Chicago Press The Derrida Habermas Reader
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The University of Chicago Press The Derrida Habermas Reader
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MIT Press Ltd Reset Modernity
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MIT Press The Situationist City The MIT Press
Book SynopsisSimon Sadler searches for the Situationist City among the detritus of tracts, manifestos, and works of art that the Situationist International left behind. From 1957 to 1972 the artistic and political movement known as the Situationist International (SI) worked aggressively to subvert the conservative ideology of the Western world. The movement's broadside attack on establishment institutions and values left its mark upon the libertarian left, the counterculture, the revolutionary events of 1968, and more recent phenomena from punk to postmodernism. But over time it tended to obscure Situationism's own founding principles. In this book, Simon Sadler investigates the artistic, architectural, and cultural theories that were once the foundations of Situationist thought, particularly as they applied to the form of the modern city.According to the Situationists, the benign professionalism of architecture and design had led to a sterilization of the world that threatened to
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Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc The Proper Study of Mankind
Book SynopsisIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin''s famous essay on Tolstoy, The Hedgehog and the Fox; his penetrating portraits of contemporaries from Pasternak and Akhmatova to Churchill and Roosevelt; his essays on liberty and his exposition of pluralism; his defense of philosophy and history against assimilation to scientific method; and his brilliant studies of such intellectual originals as Machiavelli, Vico, and Herder.
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Random House USA Inc Status Anxiety
Book Synopsis“There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status—a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone call or the neighbor’s Lexus had better read Alain de Botton’s irresistibly clear-headed new book, immediately. For in its pages, a master explicator of our civilization and its discontents explores the notion that our pursuit of status is actually a pursuit of love, ranging through Western history and thought from St. Augustine to Andrew Carnegie and Machiavelli to Anthony Robbins. Whether it’s assessing the class-consciousness of Christianity or the convulsions of consumer capitalism, dueling or home-furnishing, Status Anxiety is infallibly entertaining. And when it examines the virtues of informed misanthropy, art appreciation, or walking a lobster on a leash, it is not only wise but helpful.
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WW Norton & Co Socrates Cafe A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
Book Synopsis"A bracing, rollicking read about the spark that ignites when people start asking meaningful questions." —O MagazineTrade Review"Christopher Phillips is a fine writer, a fine thinker. In his engaging, accessible book, he leads us on a journey to find ourselves." -- James Morgan, author of The Distance to the Moon"An entertaining blend of memoir and philosophical reflection…[Phillips] winningly showcases a tantalizing method for getting philosophy to thrive more widely." -- Publishers Weekly"A noble, accessible tome to enliven the philosophy shelf." -- Booklist
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Cengage Learning, Inc The Carl Rogers Reader
Book SynopsisThis remarkable collection provides a personal look at Rogers' youth, marriage, and aging, and also addresses personal growth, education, and "client-centered therapy."
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Penguin Putnam Inc Objectivism The Philosophy of Ayn Rand Ayn Rand
Book SynopsisTHE 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—The definitive statement of Ayn Rand’s philosophy as interpreted by her best student and chosen heir. This brilliantly conceived and organized book is Dr. Leonard Peikoff’s classic text on the abstract principles and practical applications of Objectivism, based on his lecture series “The Philosophy of Objectivism.” Ayn Rand said of these lectures: “Until or unless I write a comprehensive treatise on my philosophy, Dr. Peikoff’s course is the only authorized presentation of the entire theoretical structure of Objectivism—that is, the only one that I know of my knowledge to be fully accurate.” In Objectivism, Peikoff covers every philosophic topic that Rand regarded as important—from certainty to money, from logic to art, from measurement to sex. Drawn from Rand’s published works as well as in-depth conversations between her and Peikoff,Trade Review“A revelation...Peikoff is an extraordinary communicator...He brings the most difficult intellectual ideas within the grasp of the general reader.”—Detroit Free PressPraise for Leonard Peikoff “Offers a truly revolutionary idea…The book is clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned. Its style is clear and hard as crystal—and as sparkling… As to my personal reaction, I can express it best by paraphrasing a line from Atlas Shrugged: ‘It’s so wonderful to see a great, new, crucial achievement which is not mine!’”—Ayn Rand “Extraordinarily perceptive…frightening insights…Everyone concerned with the collectivist trend in today’s world should read this book.”—Alan Greenspan “A fascinating weave of German history, philosophic determinism, and Objectivist polemic.”—Chicago TribuneTable of ContentsObjectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand - Leonard Peikoff AcknowledgementsPrefaceChapter 1: RealityExistence, Consciousness, and Identity as the Basic AxiomsCausality as a Corollary of IdentityExistence as Possessing Primacy over ConsciousnessThe Metaphysically Given as AbsoluteIdealism and Materialism as the Rejection of Basic AxiomsChapter 2: Sense Perception and VolitionThe Senses as Necessarily ValidSensory Qualities as RealConsciousness as Possessing IdentityThe Perceptual Level as the GivenThe Primary Choice as the Choice to Focus or NotHuman Actions, Mental and Physical, as Both Caused and FreeVolition as AxiomaticChapter 3: Concept-FormationDifferentiation and Integration as the Means to a Unit-PerspectiveConcept-Formation as a Mathematical ProcessConcepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-OmissionDefinition as the Final Step in Concept-FormationConcepts as Devices to Achieve Unit-EconomyChapter 4: ObjectivityConcepts as ObjectiveObjectivity as Volitional Adherence to Reality by the Method of LogicKnowledge as ContextualKnowledge as HierarchicalIntrinsicism and Subjectivism as the Two Forms of Rejecting ObjectivityChapter 5: ReasonEmotions as a Product of IdeasReason as Man's Only Means of KnowledgeThe Arbitrary as Neither True nor FalseCertainty as ContextualMysticism and Skepticism as Denials of ReasonChapter 6: ManLiving Organisms as Goal-Directed and ConditionalReason as Man's Basic Means of SurvivalReason as an Attribute of the IndividualChapter 7: The Good"Life" as the Essential Root of "Value"Man's Life as the Standard of Moral ValueRationality as the Primary VirtueThe Individual as the Proper Beneficiary of His Own Moral ActionValues as ObjectiveChapter 8: VirtueIndependence as a Primary Orientation to Reality, Not to Other MenIntegrity as Loyalty to Rational PrinciplesHonesty as the Rejection of UnrealityJustice as Rationality in the Evaluation of MenProductiveness as the Adjustment of Nature to ManPride as Moral AmbitiousnessThe Initiation of Physical Force as EvilChapter 9: HappinessVirtue as PracticalHappiness as the Normal Condition of ManSex as MetaphysicalChapter 10: GovernmentIndividual Rights as AbsolutesGovernment as an Agency to Protect RightsStatism as the Politics of UnreasonChapter 11: CapitalismCapitalism as the Only Moral Social SystemCapitalism as the System of ObjectivityOpposition to Capitalism as Dependent on Bad EpistemologyChapter 12: ArtArt as a Concretization of MetaphysicsRomantic Literature as Illustrating the Role of Philosophy in ArtEsthetic Value as ObjectiveEpilogue: The Duel Between Plato and AristotleReferencesIndex
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The University of Michigan Press The Subject and Other Subjects
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Visionaries
Book SynopsisA soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram EilenbergerThe period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of history’s greatest philosophers. There were four women, in particular, whose parallel ideas would come to dominate the twentieth century—at once in necessary dialogue and in striking contrast with one another.Simone de Beauvoir, already in a deep emotional and intellectual partnership with Jean-Paul Sartre, was laying the foundations for nothing less than the future of feminism. Born Alisa Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg, Ayn Rand immigrated to the United States in 1926 and was honing one of the most politically influential voices of the twentieth century. Her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged would reach the hearts and minds of millions of Americans in the decades to come, becoming canonical libertarian texts that continue to echo today among Silicon Valley’s tech elite. Hannah Arendt was developing some of today’s most important liberal ideas, culminating with the publication of The Origins of Totalitarianism and her arrival as a peerless intellectual celebrity. Perhaps the greatest thinker of all was a classmate of Beauvoir’s: Simone Weil, who turned away from fame to devote herself entirely to refugee aid and the resistance movement during the war. Ultimately, in 1943, she would starve to death in England, a martyr and true saint in the eyes of many.Few authors can synthesize gripping storytelling with sophisticated philosophy as Wolfram Eilenberger does. The Visionaries tells the story of four singular philosophers—indomitable women who were refugees and resistance fighters—each putting forward a vision of a truly free and open society at a time of authoritarianism and war.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Humanly Possible
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Umberto Eco
Book SynopsisFocuses on the work of Umberto Eco - one of Europe's best-known writers and intellectuals. This title covers the range of Eco's work, from his theoretical writings on semiotics to his best-selling novels. It assesses the influence of Eco's work on contemporary culture.Trade Review"It is a full, clear and authoritative account of Eco's work, with an emphasis on his development as a theorist and in particular his semiotic theory. But it includes a lively discussion of Eco's novels, which teases out their links with the theory most effectively. It shows the remarkable range and coherence of Eco as a writer, and is notably interesting on the ways in which his ideas have evolved in response to a changing cultural environment. Rich in details, cool, well-paced and incisive, it provides an excellent introduction to, as well as a sympathetic critique of, Eco the thinker." David Robey, Department of Italian Studies, Reading University "This wonderfully lucid and thorough exposition of Eco's major works will be indispensable to scholars and students alike. Michael Caesar explores the interconnectedness of the 'theoretical' and 'narrative' writings with analytical rigour, balancing appreciation with careful criticism. Caesar makes brilliant use of his own reading of the works to discuss the 'role of the reader', showing the limits as well as the possibilities in Eco's approach to texts." Robert Lumley, Director of the Centre for Italian Studies, University College, LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgement ix Note on References x Introduction 1 1 Form, Interpretation and the Open Work 6 On form and interpretation: from Croce to Pareyson 6 Art and rationality 10 The appearance of Opera aperta 15 The poetics of the open work 18 Beyond ‘openness’ 23 2 A Critical View of Culture: Mass Communications, Politics and the Avant-garde 28 The role of the avant-garde 29 Mass communications and theories of mass culture 37 Television and semiotic guerrilla war 43 Openness and structure 47 3 Introducing the Study of Signs 54 Signals and sense 55 Ambiguity, self-reflexivity and the aesthetic message 64 The critique of iconism 67 Some provisional conclusions on the aesthetic message 69 4 A Theory of Semiotics 76 From La struttura assente to A Theory of Semiotics 76 Communication, code and signification 81 Sign and sign-function 83 Sign production, iconism and the aesthetic message (again) 90 5 Semiotics Bounded and Unbound 100 The boundaries of semiotics 102 The dynamics of semiosis 111 6 Theory and Fiction 120 Readers and worlds Texts 120 7 Secrets, Paranoia and Critical Reading 145 8 Kant, the Platypus and the Horizon 162 Notes 171 Select Bibliography 184 Index 193
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Exiles from Dialogue
Book SynopsisNot long ago, two friends Jean Baudrillard and Enrique Valiente Noailles the one having come from Buenos Aires, the other from nowhere, met in Paris. They had a long discussion without any precise aim. It was, rather, a way of rubbing up against metaphysics without risk of contagion.Table of Contents1. The retrospective echo of the event. 2. The jouissance of language. 3. The unbearable gift. 4. The cloning of God. 5. Illusion/ Real/ Simulation. 6. Gradation/ Degradation/ Hierarchy. 7. Transcendence/ Immanence. 8. The vaccinated system. 9. The suffering of stones. 10. Neanderthal man. 11. It’s the inhuman that thinks us. 12. The genealogy of disappearance. 13. Polychrony. 14. The abolition of night. 15. A luxurious dysfunction. 16. How to eat the nothing?
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Northwestern University Press Piaget Philosophy and the Human Sciences Studies
Book SynopsisIn this work, Piaget's theory of the development and nature of knowledge is discussed in the context of 20th-century European thought, and his views are compared with those of Freud, Lacan, Heidegger, Foucault, and writers of the Frankfurt school.
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Northwestern University Press Ordinary Language Criticism Literary Thinking
Book SynopsisWhat is ordinary language criticism? In a series of essays on texts and figures ranging from Genesis to Don Quixote to Proust, Henry James, Martin Heidegger, and Robert Frost, this work sets out to recover ordinariness as the overlooked point of departure and return in literary studies.Trade ReviewRevolutionary change creates exiles, new qualifications for advancement, new forms of address, new silences. Ordinary language criticism is invoked by the editors as an avenue of liberation from what were felt to be, let's say, conformities to system, ones having the effect of a kind of inhibition... of reading, as though what was felt to be a fetishized response to texts had become transformed into a phobic response. I felt something of the sort of liberation on encountering Wittgenstein and Austin.... - STANLEY CAVELL, FROM THE AFTERWORDTable of ContentsIntroduction - The Varieties Of Ordinary Language Criticism, Kenneth Dauber And Walter Jost; Wittgenstein's Philosophizing And Literary Theorizing, Austin E. Quigley; Stanley Cavell's Redemptive Reading - A Philosophical Labor In Progress, Edward Duffy; The Window - Knowledge Of Other Minds In Virginia Woolf's ""To The Lighthouse"", Martha C. Nussbaum; Ordinary Language Brought To Grief - ""Home Burial"", Walter Jost; Reading, Writing, Remembering - What Cavell And Heidegger Call Thinking, Stephen Mulhall; The Grammar Of Telling - The Example Of ""Don Quixote"", A.J. Cascardi; The Shadow Of A Magnitude - Quotation As Canonicity In Proust And Beckett, William Flesch; The Self, Reflected - Wittgenstein, Cavell, And The Autobiographical Situation, Garry L. Hagberg; Cavell's Imperfect Perfectionism, Charles Altieri; The Poetics Of Description - Wittgenstein On The Aesthetic, Marjorie Perloff; In Which Henry James Strikes Bedrock, Ralph M. Berry; ""The Accomplishment Of Inhabitation"" - Danto, Cavell, And The Argument Of American Poetry, Gerald L. Bruns. (Part Contents).
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Northwestern University Press Foucaults Askesis An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisIn his renowned courses at the College de France from 1982 to 1984, Michel Foucault devoted his lectures to meticulous readings and interpretations of the works of Plato, Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius, among others. This work shows us Foucault in the last phase of his life in the act of becoming a philosopher.Table of ContentsIntroduction; PART I: Philosophy as Care of the Self; Chapter 1: Truth as a Problem; Chapter 2: The Socratic Moment; Chapter 3: The Poetics of Subjectivity; Chapter 4: The Cynic & the True Life; PART II: Care of the Self in the Age of Reason; Chapter 5: Foucault's Cartesian Meditations; Chapter 6: The Prince and the Pastor: Figures of Power, Care, & Parrhesia; Chapter 7: Rage for Order, the Advent of Bio-Power; Chapter 8: Towards a Critique of the Present.
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Northwestern University Press Kants Nonideal Theory of Politics
Book SynopsisArgues that Kant's political thought must be understood by reference to his philosophy of history, cultural anthropology, and geography. The thesis of the book is that Kant's assessment of the politically salient features of history, culture, and geography generates a nonideal theory of politics, which supplements his theory of cosmopolitanism.Trade Review“Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics gives us the first account of Kant’s politics that can encompass the whole of his systematic thought. Huseyinzadegan is working at the cutting edge of the field, bringing together insights from recent research with themes that have puzzled Kant’s interpreters for centuries. This book will be essential reading for Kant scholars and scholars of political thought, especially those interested in the intersection of ideal and nonideal theory.” —Elisabeth Ellis, author of Kant’s Politics: Provisional Theory for an Uncertain World“Kant’s Nonideal Theory of Politics demonstrates extensively how Kant complemented his ideal (a priori) theory of political right with a nonideal (regulative) theory of ‘political Zweckmässigkeit,’ seeking hypothetical principles for the constraints and accommodations actually facing human morality and political life. This book offers a robust model for Kantian political philosophy today.” —John Zammito, author of Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology“Kant has often been criticized for focusing too much on ideal theory. Huseyinzadegan’s book provides an original, compelling, and balanced response.” —Karl Ameriks, author of Kant’s Elliptical Path"Kant's Nonideal Theory of Politics makes an innovative and important intervention in current scholarship on Kant's political philosophy.” —Kristi Sweet, author of Kant on Practical Life: From Duty to History
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University of Missouri Press Selected Correspondence 19241949 CW29
Book SynopsisContains selected correspondence written by Eric Voegelin during the period 1924 to 1949. This work is suitable for readers concerned with political theory and with better understanding of Voegelin's intellectual pilgrimage from his earliest academic years to his emergence as one of the most significant philosophers of our time.
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University of Missouri Press Beginning the Quest
Book SynopsisProvides an analysis of the legal and political writings of Eric Voegelin during the 1920s and 1930s. This work opens with Voegelin's efforts, following the trauma of defeat in World War I, at understanding the relation of law and the study of law (Staatslehre) to what he then called 'sociohistorical reality'.
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Urbanomic ObjectOriented Philosophy The Noumenons New
Book SynopsisA remarkably clear explication of the tenets of Object-Oriented Philosophy and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today.How does the patience and rigour of philosophical explanation fare when confronted with an irrepressible desire to commune with the object and to escape the subjective perplexities of reference, meaning, and sense?Moving beyond the hype and the inflated claims made for “Object-Oriented” thought, Peter Wolfendale considers its emergence in the light of the intertwined legacies of twentieth-century analytic and Continental traditions.Both a remarkably clear explication of the tenets of OOP and an acute critique of the movement's ramifications for philosophy today, Object-Oriented Philosophy is a major engagement with one of the most prevalent trends in recent philosophy.
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Hassell Street Press From Plato to Nietzsche
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Philosophy in The Twilight Zone
Book SynopsisIf you've ever felt lost in The Twilight Zone, this book is for you. Then, again, when you read what these philosophers have to say you may want to stay! William Irwin, King's College The Twilight Zone smuggled philosophy onto television in the form of a series of ingenious mind-teasers, seizing the audience's imagination.Trade Review"The anthology's substantial entries offer the reader rigorous, lucid, and stylistically polished arguments about one of the best dramas ever to grace American television screens. This collection is, to invoke Serling's memorable prose style, worthy of one's perusal, consideration, and review." (Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 21 March 2011)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction: Lester H. Hunt 1. “And Now, Rod Serling, Creator of The Twilight Zone”: The Author as Auteur: Lester H. Hunt 2. Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution to Narratology: Noël Carroll 3. Frame Shifters: Surprise Endings and Spectator Imagination in The Twilight Zone: Carl Plantinga 4. The Treachery of the Commonplace: Mary Sirridge 5. Where is the Twilight Zone?: Richard Hanley 6. Existentialism and Searching for an Exit: Susan L. Feagin 7. Through the Twilight Zone of Nonbeing: Two Exemplars of Race in Serling’s Classic Series: Lewis R. Gordon 8. Blending Fiction and Reality: “The Odyssey of Flight 33": Thomas E. Wartenberg 9. Epistemology at 20,000 Feet: Sheila Lintott 10. Rationality and Choice in “Nick of Time”: Aeon J. Skoble 11. “The Little People”: Power and the Worshipable: Aaron Smuts 12. Nothing in the Dark: Deprivation, Death, and the Good Life: James S. Taylor Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Subverting Aristotle
Book SynopsisIt alters present perceptions not only of the scientific revolution but of the role of Renaissance humanism in the forging of modernity.Trade ReviewAcademic and exuberant, the text provides a useful counter-reading of commonly held assumptions about the displacement of Aristotelian thought at the advent of the scientific revolution. Choice Refreshingly clear and readable... A good introduction to Aristotelianism. Renaissance Quarterly Concise but very richly informative, Martin's book with its clear vision and narrative will surely remain an essential work on the history of Aristotelianism for years to come. Isis ... [ Subverting Aristotle] effectively demonstrates the impossibility of completely disentangling the history of premodern philosophy from the history of premodern science, and the value of bridging the medieval and early modern periods even when endeavoring to account for the distinctiveness of the 'new sciences' of the later seventeenth century. The British Journal for the History of Science Reading the wildly varying portrayals of Aristotle's relationship to religion, from virtual Christian to benighted atheist, which Martin has collected together in this rich study, one cannot but agree with the French Jesuit Rene Rapin that "it is difficult to understand how in the succession of time it has been possible to make such different judgments on the same person" (p.167). The Catholic Historical Review [Subverting Aristotle] offers a lot of very useful and fine-grained research into the shifting fortunes of late-medieval and early-modern Scholasticism. British Society for Literature and Science ... excellent contribution Common Knowledge ... lucid and fascinating... Martin's book offers a necessary tonic to those texts that merely hold up religion as the adversary of science without explaining why. Sun News MiamiTable of ContentsIntroduction1. Scholasticism, Appropriation, and Censure2. Humanists' Invectives and Aristotle's Impiety3. Renaissance Aristotle, Renaissance Averroes4. Italian Aristotelianism after Pomponazzi5. Religious Reform and the Reassessment of Aristotelianism6. Learned Anti-Aristotelianism7. History, Erudition, and Aristotle's Past8. The New Sciences, Religion, and the Struggle over AristotleConclusionAcknowledgmentsNotesPrincipal Primary SourcesIndex
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Disparities
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA book of profound philosophical investigation. * David Marx Book Reviews *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION: IS HEGEL DEAD — OR ARE WE DEAD (IN THE EYES OF HEGEL)? When the Kraken Wakes A Report from the Trenches of Dialectical Materialism I THE DISPARITY OF TRUTH: SUBJECT, OBJECT, AND THE REST 1. FROM HUMAN TO POSTHUMAN AND BACK TO INHUMAN: THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE Aspects of Disparity Against the Univocity of Being Posthuman, Transhuman, Inhuman Hyperobjects in the Age of Anthropocene Biology or Quantum Physics? 2. OBJECTS, OBJECTS AND THE SUBJECT Re-enchanting Nature? No, Thanks! A Detour: Ideology in Pluriverse On a Subject Which Is Not an Object Resistance, Stasis, Repetition Speculative Judgment The Subject’s Epigenesis 3. SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, WHICH SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS? AGAINST THE RENORMALIZATION OF HEGEL In Defense of Hegel’s Madness The Immediacy of Mediation The Stick in Itself, for Us, for Itself Action and Responsibility Recollection, Forgiveness, Reconciliation Healing the Wound Self-consciousness = Freedom = Reason Reflexivity of the Unconscious II THE DISPARITY OF BEAUTY: THE UGLY, THE ABJECT, AND THE MINIMAL DIFFERENCE 4. ART AFTER HEGEL, HEGEL AFTER THE END OF ART With Hegel Against Hegel The Ugly Gaze From the Sublime to the Monstrous Hegel’s Path towards the Nonfigurative Between Auschwitz and Telenovelas 5. VERSIONS OF ABJECT: UGLY, CREEPY, DISGUSTING Varieties of Disavowal Traversing Abjection “MOOR EEFFOC” From Abjective to Creepy Mamatschi! Eisler’s Sinthoms 6. WHEN NOTHING CHANGES: TWO SCENES OF SUBJECTIVE DESTITUTION The Lesson of Psychoanalysis Music as a Sign of Love A Failed Betrayal Scene from a Happy Life III THE DISPARITY OF THE GOOD: TOWARDS A MATERIALIST NEGATIVE THEOLOGY 7. TRIBULATIONS OF A WOMAN-HYENA: AUTHORITY, COSTUME, AND FRIENDSHIP Why Heidegger Should Not Be Criminalized The Birth of Fascism out of the Spirit of Beauty Don Carlos between Auhthority and Friendship Stalin as Anti-Master Schiller versus Hegel The Self-Debased Authority 8. IS GOD DEAD, UNCONSCIOUS, EVIL, IMPOTENT, STUPID OR JUST COUNTERFACTUAL? On Divine Inexistence Counterfactuals Retroactivity, Omnipotence, and Impotence The Twelfth Camel as One of the Names of God A Truth That Arises out of a Lie The Divine Death-Drive The Deposed God 9. JECT OR SCEND? FROM THE TRAUMATIZED SUBJECT TO SUBJECT AS TRAUMA The Parallax of Drive and Desire Immortality as Death in Life The Troubles with Finitude Materialism or Agnosticism? A Comical Conclusion CONCLUSION: THE COURAGE OF HOPELESSNESS The Millenarian “Exhalation of Stale Gas” Divine Violence The Points of the Impossible Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Philosophies of America Reader
Book SynopsisThe Philosophies of America Reader brings together an unparalleled selection of original and translated readings spanning several eras and American traditions. Addressing perennial questions of philosophy and new questions arising in a variety of cultural contexts, texts from Classical American, Native American, Latin American, African American, Asian American, Mexican, Caribbean, and South American philosophers reveal the interweaving tapestry of ideas characteristic of America. With its distinctively pluralistic approach, this reader promotes intercultural dialogue and understanding, highlighting points of convergence and divergence across American philosophical traditions. It features: Writings by traditionally underrepresented groups Primary texts thematically arranged around major areas of philosophical enquiry including selfhood, knowledge, learning, and ethics Introductory essays outlining the trajectories of each section Suggestions for furthTrade ReviewThe Philosophies of America Reader is relevant to a much larger audience than pragmatists looking to be more inclusive. For pluralist philosophers and pluralist programs, this is a very exciting text. It takes multiple marginalized traditions and seeks to put them in conversation without tokenizing them ... This text has the potential to contribute to efforts to understand racism both past and present. * Transactions of The Charles S. Peirce Society *I can see no reason why this text could not become the new standard for our classes on American Philosophy. Additionally, I am not currently aware of any work on the market which serves the same unique role of The Philosophies of America Reader. I would strongly encourage any interested instructor to consider this text for their courses. * Teaching Philosophy *With selections by marginalized thinkers, this Reader rejects the myth that American philosophy is fundamentally male, white, and limited to the United States. It offers a window to the contexts, cultures, and conflicts that shaped Native America, African American, Latin American, and Asian American philosophies, and provides fresh insight into perennial problems in ethics, metaphysics, and epistemology by expanding the philosophical canon. Required reading. * Derrick Darby, Henry Rutgers Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University, USA *This exciting collection does some very important philosophical work: it opens the epistemological lens by which we can see better the diversity of experience that underlies life in the Americas. Diaz and Foust provide us the tools to construct a much more honest philosophical canon, one with a hemispheric awareness of the importance of multicultural and multiracial perspectives. By showing us the wide range of North and Latin American voices, we are able to put these resources in dialogue with one another and find new ways of thinking for a more humane future. * José-Antonio Orosco, Professor of Philosophy, Oregon State University, USA *The year is 2021 and what you have here is perhaps the first and only anthology of "American" philosophy. * Robert Eli Sanchez, Jr., Associate Professor of Philosophy, Occidental College, USA *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Note to the Teacher Note to the Student Part I: Selfhood and Identity Introduction 1. José Martí, “Our America” 2. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” 3. José Vasconcelos, “The Cosmic Race” 4. George Herbert Mead, “The ‘I’ and the ‘Me’” 5. Marcus Garvey, Speech in Nova Scotia 6. Gloria Anzaldúa, “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” 7. V.F. Cordova, “What Is It to Be Human in a Native American World View?” 8. V.F. Cordova, “Credo: This I Believe” 9. Gary Okihiro, “Is Yellow Black or White?” Further Reading Part II: Knowing and Learning Introduction 10. Selection from the Popol Vuh 11. Juana Inés de la Cruz, “The Reply to Sor Philothea” 12. Charles S. Peirce, “The Fixation of Belief” 13. Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, On Education 14. Manuel González Prada, “Our Indians” 15. Booker T. Washington, “Building a School Around a Problem” 16. Hubert Harrison, “Negro Culture and the Negro College,” “English as She is Spoke,” and “Education Out of School” 17. John Dewey, “Education as Growth” 18. Anisio S. Teixeira, “Democracy and its Creative Achievement in Education: New Frontiers for International Cooperation” 19. William R. Jones, “The Legitimacy and Necessity of Black Philosophy” 20. Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, “Ch’ixinakax utxiwa: A Reflection on the Practices and Discourses of Decolonization” Further Reading Part III: Aesthetics and Spirituality Introduction 21. William James, “The Will to Believe” 22. Mary Whiton Calkins, “The Nature of Prayer” 23. W.E.B. Du Bois, “Criteria of Negro Art” 24. Alain Locke, “Art or Propaganda” 25. Black Elk, “The Great Vision” 26. Risieri Frondizi, “Basic Problems in Axiology” 27. Óscar Romero, “The Last Sermon” 28. Vine Deloria, Jr., “Sacred Places and Moral Responsibility” 29. Angela Y. Davis, “I Used to Be Your Sweet Mama: Ideology, Sexuality, and Domesticity” 30. John J. McDermott, “Why Bother: Is Life Worth Living? Experience as Pedagogical” Further Reading Part IV: Ethics and Community Introduction 31. Benjamin Franklin, “Plan for Attaining Moral Perfection” 32. Margaret Fuller, “Prevalent Idea that Charity is Too Great a Luxury to be Given to the Poor” 33. Josiah Royce, “Provincialism” 34. Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” 35. César Chávez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco, November 9, 1984 36. David H. Kim, “Orientalism and America Enlarged” 37. Dale Turner, “Oral Traditions and the Politics of (Mis)recognition” 38. Luis Villoro, “The Triple Confusion of Utopia” 39. Gregory F. Pappas, “The American Challenge: The Tension Between the Values of the Anglo and the Hispanic World” Further Reading Part V: Violence and Peace Introduction 40. Pope Alexander VI, Inter Caetera 41. Elihu Coleman, “A Testimony Against That Anti-Christian Practice of Making Slaves of Men” 42. William Whipper, “The Slavery of Intemperance” 43. Frederick Douglass, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” 44. Henry David Thoreau, “Slavery in Massachusetts” 45. Young Joseph, “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs” 46. Jane Addams, “Respect for Law” 47. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynching and the Excuse for It” 48. José Carlos Mariátegui, “The Problem of the Indian” 49. Aimé Césaire, “Discourse on Colonialism” 50. Robert F. Williams, Speech from Peking Review 51. Mari J. Matsuda, “Asian Americans and the Peace Imperative” Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Wittgensteins Family Letters
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewAnyone interested in the period, the Wittgenstein family, or the lost art of letter writing will find this a delightful read. Summing Up: Essential. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers. * CHOICE *This meticulously edited and superbly translated volume of letters written between 1908 and weeks before Ludwig's death in 1951 swings seamlessly between mundane trivialities and profound insights ... The letters offer incredible insight into Wittgenstein. * Times Higher Education *The letters Wittgenstein exchanged with his siblings and other family members make fascinating reading for the light they shed on his cultural background, particularly the central role that music played in his life. Here, they are presented in a beautiful edition, superbly translated and edited. * Ray Monk, author of Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius *There are not many families of the twentieth century as fascinating as the Wittgensteins. This is a valuable and often moving collection. The letters reveal how tight the bonds between family members were – but they also expose the tensions, that led ultimately to an irreparable split. * David Edmonds, co-author of Wittgenstein’s Poker *This beautifully illustrated and edited translation of Wittgenstein's correspondence with his family will appeal to anyone interested in learning more about his life or in exploring connections between his life and work. The present edition includes a new introduction, family tree, an annotated list of people and places and informative footnotes, all of which will be invaluable to readers. * David G. Stern, Professor of Philosophy, University of Iowa, USA *Wittgenstein fans will want this newly translated, intimate look over 40 odd years into the on-going soap opera that characterized the Wittgenstein family, ranging from personal hurts to life-or-death decisions; ranging from aesthetic, mainly musical, judgments to assessments of the obligations of friendship and family relations. It includes some three dozen newly published letters between Ludwig and his brother Paul. * James C. Klagge, Professor of Philosophy, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA and editor of Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy (2001) *The publication of this, the first English translation of the correspondence between Ludwig Wittgenstein and family—specifically, with his siblings Hermine, Margarete, Helene, and Paul—is an important event. As Brian McGuinness says in his incisive introduction, “The Wittgenstein’s were a family that might well have figured in one of the nineteenth century sagas they read.” A close but often contentious family, the siblings, especially Ludwig’s elder sister Hermine, wrote long and detailed letters to their famous brother; he responded with unusual candor –and often severity-- and so we learn a great deal about the Wittgenstein way of doing things—which was by no means always Ludwig’s way. The letters of the World War II years are especially interesting. This excellent translation by Peter Winslow, thoroughly annotated and copiously illustrated, is a real page-turner. * Marjorie Perloff, Sadie Dernham Patek Professor of Humanities, Emerita, Stanford University, Author of Wittgenstein’s Ladder *What does the correspondence have to offer beyond specialist interest? One answer, surprisingly, is pleasure. The siblings - 'rather hard and prickly elements', Ludwig calls them - slowly develop their own characteristics in the reader's mind ... The letters also offer a startling insight into what it meant to be a wealthy Viennese family in the early 20th century. * Literary Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction, Brian McGuinness Acknowledgements Ludwig’s Early Letters 1908 The War Years August 1914–April 1918 Captivity November 1918–September 1919 The Tractatus and the elementary school years October 1920–March 1926 A Viennese intermezzo a letter from late 1928? Cambridge January 1929–February 1938 121 The Anschluss and World War Two March 1938–May 1945 172 Ludwig’s last letters January 1946–April 1951
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Basic Books What We Owe the Future
Book SynopsisAn Instant New York Times Bestseller “This book will change your sense of how grand the sweep of human history could be, where you fit into it, and how much you could do to change it for the better. It's as simple, and as ambitious, as that.”—Ezra KleinAn Oxford philosopher makes the case for “longtermism” — that positively influencing the long-term future is a key moral priority of our time. The fate of the world is in our hands. Humanity’s written history spans only five thousand years. Our yet-unwritten future could last for millions more — or it could end tomorrow. Astonishing numbers of people could lead lives of great happiness or unimaginable suffering, or never live at all, depending on what we choose to do today. In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill argues for longtermism, that idea that positively influencing the distant future is a key moral priority of our time. From this perspective, it’s not enough to reverse climate change or avert the next pandemic. We must ensure that civilization would rebound if it collapsed; counter the end of moral progress; and prepare for a planet where the smartest beings are digital, not human. If we make wise choices today, our grandchildren’s grandchildren will thrive, knowing we did everything we could to give them a world full of justice, hope and beauty.
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Paragon House Publishers Where's Wilber At?: Ken Wilber's Integral Vision
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Paragon House Publishers Existence and Consolation: Reinventing Ontology,
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Paragon House Publishers Landesman's Journal: Meditations of a Forest
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