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Letting Be

Preface p. ix Introduction: Dallmayr's 'Letting Be' Stephen F. Schneck p. 1 Part I Political Theory and Modern Philosophy 1 Seeing the Sovereign: Theatricality and

New Age: Searching For The Spiritual Self

Draws on an eclectic mix of eastern and western spiritual philosophies to document the New Age movement's key themes, citing such influences as Hinduism and

Functions in biological and artificial worlds

Investigations into the relationship between organism and artifacts from the perspective of functionality. The notion of function is an integral part of thinking in both

Committing the Future to Memory

Committing the Future to Memory: History, Experience, Trauma by Sarah Clift explores alternatives to the linear temporality of modern historiography through an examinatio...

The Question of Christian Ethics

McInerny describes how a debate was initiated in the 30s on whether philosophy could have existed in the age of faith. Concerned with the moral

Zwischenzonen

This publication is based on two exhibitions held at the Migros Museum in Zurich, both of which were dedicated, in different ways, to exploring the

War and Peace

Just War principles both ancient and modern, religious and secular, are placed in the context of recent conflicts as experienced teacher Jonathan Rowe demonstrates how

How to Teach Philosophy to Your Dog

Because man’s best friend deserves to know the secrets of how to live a good life, too. Monty was just like any other dog. A

Knowledge: Stuff You Ought to Know

You can never know too much stuff. For example: Today, the people of earth take more photos in two minutes than they did in the

Rationality and Religious Experience

Henry Rosemont puts forth two arguements in this volume: that Western science and education are products of an Abrahamic world view and would not have

Berkeley's Principles and Dialogues

This volume sets Berkeley's philosophy in its historical context by providing selections from influential and contemporary works.

Tolstoy : A Guide for the Perplexed

A concise but comprehensive guide to Tolstoy's literary and philosophical writings, focusing on aspects of his work that students find most difficult. Count Leo Nikolaev...

Conspiracy Theories (Discovery Collection FB)

Is the world we know a lie? Could the truth be something very different from the information we get from mainstream media and conventional history?

Paths and Goals of the Spiritual Human Being

Speaking to audiences in Denmark, Germany and France, Rudolf Steiner discusses a wide range of topics: from positive and negative human soul capacities, true self-k...

Freedom is not for Free

In the videos, photographs and installations by the artist Elmar Hess, private conflicts are determined by the impact of technology or systemic structures. Individual ev...

The Black Mirror

Inspired by E. M. Forster's thought that 'Death destroys a man but the idea of it saves him', The Black Mirror takes death as an

TELL ME ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD

Why are coral reefs protected? Who was Charles Darwin? When did weather forecasting begin? This book provides the answers to these questions and hundreds more,

Freedom, Virtue and the Common Good

Inspired by the recovery of natural law and virtue ethics in recent ethical discourse, 25 members of the American Maritain Association have written essays to

African Philosophy As Cultural Inquiry

This book assesses the direction and impact of African philosophy as well as its future role. What is the intellectual, social, cultural, and political territory

Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical, Gregory Chaitin

Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.

Signs Grow

This is the third volume in Floyd Merrell's trilogy on semiotics focusing on Peirce's categories of Firstness, Secondness, and Thirdness. In this book the author

Times Great Quotations

Discover the wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi alongside the wit of Groucho Marx in a collection of great and memorable quotations from across the centuries: an

The Big Questions

In this investigation of Christian thinkers, selected philosophers, and other religious leaders, key issues regarding Christianity over the centuries are discussed in det...

Euripides Our Contemporary, John Michæl Walton

In this accessible and beautifully written study of Euripides, the first study of all the plays of Euripides for thirty years, J. Michael Walton provides

Affinity, that elusive dream, Mi Gyung Kim

In the eighteenth century, chemistry was transformed from an art to a public science. Chemical affinity played an important role in this process as a

On Being Born and Other Difficulties

There is no theme more central to human life on earth than birth (unless it is its natural counterpart, death). With a pathologist's trained eye

Answers to Rhetorical Questions

A question that doesn't require an answer - what kind of question is that? The rhetorical question is one of those grammatical quirks that just

Yours Faithfully, Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest philosophers of our time. In addition, he engaged in a lifelong battle with the forces of injustice —

The Shitshow

It was shit. Then the shit hit the fan. Would someone find a way of making it worse? Of course they would! Welcome to THE

100 Facts Mummies

Journey through the ages and unearth the mysteries of the mummies! Exactly 100 facts will help you explore everything you need to know about the

One Degree Revolution

Innovative, accessible, and easily implemented, One Degree Revolution is acclaimed yoga educator and leadership coach Coby Kozlowski's holistic program for self-inquiry a...

Think Differently: Open your mind. Philosophy for modern life: 20 thought-provoking lessons

From philosophical ‘people skills’ to ethical and moral questions about our lifestyle choices, philosophy teaches us to ask the right questions, even if it doesn't

Man and the Universe: Hindu Perspectives

Man and the Universe is an investigation of how man has visualised his relation to the universe around him since his appearance on earth. It

L'esprit du terrorisme

In dealing all the cards to itself, the system forced the Other to change the rules of the game. And the new rules are ferocious,

What's the Issue?: Future Humans

What does it really mean to be human? In the future, might we be forced to rethink the answer? In this fascinating book, explore these

Beyond Death

What really happens after we die? This and other mysteries of the afterlife phenomenon are explored in this scientific exploration by author Christopher Scott.

Textual Reasonings

Textual reasoning is the name that a group of contemporary Jewish thinkers has given to its overlapping practices of Jewish philosophy and theology. This volume

Mortal Subjects

This wide ranging and challenging book explores the relationship between subjectivity and mortality as it is understood by a number of twentieth-century French philosophe...

Introducing Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein has somehow captured the popular imagination as the modern Socrates, the master of enigmatic logic, the fascinating and attractive icon of modernism....

Ask a Philosopher

The perfect gift for the smart thinker in your life. For several years Ian Olasov has set up 'Ask-a-Philosopher' booths around New York City, answering

Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation

'A pleasure...a really sensitive, lucid account of his personal liberation...a penetrating analysis of the political premises and goals and philosophical background of t...

Fictions of Masculinity : Crossing Cultures, Crossing Sexualities

We are just beginning to understand masculinity as a fiction or a localizable, historical, and therefore unstable construct. This book points the way to a

Afterglow of Creation: Decoding the Message from the Beginning of Time

Stephen Hawking described it as 'the discovery of the century, if not of all time', yet the scientists who first detected the cosmic radiation that

Enchanted Objects

În tradiția Who Owns the Future, un om de știință al MIT Media Lab imaginează modul în care obiectele de zi cu zi ne pot

Machiavelli

An introduction to the life and philosophy of Italian statesman Niccolò Machiavelli that explores his careers as politician and author and discusses his thoughts on

THE REAL SIMPLE GUIDE TO REAL LIFE

Created for smart, aspiring young women, 'The REAL SIMPLE Guide to Real Life' offers 'REAL SIMPLE''s clever solutions for navigating adulthood with ease, confidence, and...

The Problem of Context (Methodology and History in Anthropology)

The apparently simple notion that it is contextualization and invocation of context that give form to our interpretations raises important questions about context definit...

Socrates in Sichuan

When Peter J. Vernezze took a leave of absence from his position as a philosophy professor to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer in China,

FROM HERE TO INFINITY: A VISION FOR THE FUTURE OF SCIENCE

One of our greatest scientific minds reflect on the role of science in the twenty-first century. Science is often portrayed as an obscure, difficult discipl...

Philosophical witnessing

Fascinating philosophical inquiry into post-Holocaust representations of the event in political theory, ethics, and aesthetics, and an assessment of the limitations and p...

Austere Realism Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology

A provocative ontological-cum-semantic position asserting that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that man...

Causality

Causal thinking is a standard expression and an indispensable instrument of human intellect. Is it based on the properties of mental activity, or on natural

The Trolley problem

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Cogent Science in Context : The Science Wars, Argumentation Theory, and Habermas

A proposal for an interdisciplinary, context-sensitive framework for assessing the strength of scientific arguments that melds Jurgen Habermas's discourse theory and soc...

The Element in the Room

Why is it impossible to spin your right foot clockwise while you draw a 6 with your right hand? Can you extract DNA from a

Symbolic Essence

Historian and architectural critic William H. Jordy (1917-1997) significantly shaped the way we understand the character and meaning of modern architecture and American ...

Art of War (Hero Classics)

Part of the Hero Classics series If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If

Evolutionaries

Blending cutting-edge ideas with incisive spiritual insights, Evolutionaries is the first popular presentation of an emerging school of thought called “evolutionary spir...

Recovering the New: Transatlantic Roots of Modernism

Examines the emergence of modernism in the mid-nineteenth century and argues that modernism began as a transatlantic urban phenomenon with roots in mass culture. ...

Translating the Orient

This book examines the emplotment of India in the Western literary imagination. Basing her discussion on the reception of an emblematic Sanskrit text, Kalidasa's SAakunt...