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Jean Baudrillard: Selected Writings
by Jean Baudrillard  Publisher Comments This is an expanded edition of the first comprehensive overview of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most fascinating thinkers on the French intellectual scene. To the original selection of his writings from 1968 to 1985, this new edition adds...
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Philosophy : Quest for Truth (6TH 06 - Old Edition)
by Louis P. Pojman Publisher Comments Praised for its accessibility and comprehensiveness, Philosophy: The Quest for Truth provides an excellent selection of classical and contemporary readings on nineteen key problems in philosophy. Louis P. Pojman has carefully organized the essays in each...
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Western Philosophy: An Illustrated Guide
by David Papineau Publisher Comments What does it mean for someone to exist? What is truth? Are we free to choose to think or act? What is consciousness? Is human cloning justifiable? These are just some of the questions philosophers have attempted to answer, striking right at the heart of...
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What Is Thought? (Bradford Books)
by Eric B Baum Publisher Comments In "What Is Thought?" Eric Baum proposes a computational explanation of thought. Just as Erwin Schrodinger in his classic 1944 work "What Is Life?" argued ten years before the discovery of DNA that life must be explainable at a fundamental level by...
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Nietzsche and the Philology of the Future
by James I. Porter Publisher Comments Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of a philosopher who abandoned classical philology, tracing the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opening the way to a fresh...
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Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics
by Michael J. Sandel Publisher Comments In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between...
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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: The Phenomenology of Knowledge, Volume 3
by Ernst Cassirer Publisher Comments The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art and science-the various...
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The Art of Peace
by Morihei Ueshiba Publisher Comments The inspirational teachings in this collection show that the real way of the warrior is based on compassion, wisdom, fearlessness, and love of nature. The teachings are drawn from the talks and writings of Morihei Ueshiba, founder of the popular Japanese...
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The Grounding of Positive Philosophy: The Berlin Lectures
by Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Von Schelling Synopsis The Berlin lectures in The Grounding of Positive Philosophy, appearing here for the first time in English, advance Schelling's final "existential system" as an alternative to modernity's reduction of philosophy to a purely formal science of reason. The...
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Immortal Man: A Compilation of Lectures
by Neville Publisher Comments Lectures given by one of the principal metaphysicians of the American New Thought movement in the 20th century. Consciousness is the only reality, and the imaginative faculties are the veritable shapers of all experience....
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Three Early Modern Utopias (99 Edition)
by Susan (ed.) Bruce Publisher Comments With the publication of Utopia (1516), Thomas More provided a scathing analysis of the shortcomings of his own society, a realistic suggestion for an alternative mode of social organization, and a satire on unrealistic idealism. Enormously influential...
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The Passion of Michel Foucault
by Jim Miller Publisher Comments A startling look at one of this century's most influential philosophers, the book chronicles every stage of Foucault's personal and professional odyssey, from his early interest in dreams to his final preoccupation with sexuality and the nature of...
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The Cambridge Companion to Maimonides (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
by Kenneth Seeskin Publisher Comments Moses ben Maimon, known to English speaking audiences as Maimonides (1138-1204), represents the high point of Jewish rationalism in the middle ages and played a pivotal role in the transition of philosophical interest from the Islamic East to the...
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Essence of Religion (04 Edition)
by Ludwig Feuerbach Publisher Comments Originally published in 1845, this digest of thirty lectures by one of Germany's most influential humanist philosophers extends the critique expounded in "The Essence of Christianity (1841) to religion as a whole. The main thrust of Feuerbach's analysis...
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Utopia (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Thomas More Publisher Comments 16th-century classic by brilliant humanist, churchman and scholar envisioned a patriarchal island kingdom that practiced religious tolerance, in which everybody worked, all goods were community-owned, and violence, bloodshed and vice were nonexistent...
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Elements of Moral Philosophy 3RD Edition
by James Rachels Publisher Comments Firmly established as the standard text for undergraduate courses in ethics, this concise, lively book combines clear explanations of the main theories of ethics with discussions of interesting examples. Topics covered include famine relief...
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Nietzsche: 'On the Genealogy of Morality' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments A Genealogy of Morality is Nietzsche's most important work on morality. A polemical contribution to moral and political theory, it traces the history of concepts such as guilt, responsibility, and justice, offering insight into Nietzsche's assessment of...
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Utilitarianism: For and Against
by John Jamieson Smart Publisher Comments A serious and controversial work in which the authors contribute essays from opposite points of view on utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals....
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Education and the Significance of Life
by Jiddu Krishnamurti Publisher Comments Chapter One<P>EDUCATION AND THESIGNIFICANCE OF LIFE<P>When one travels around the world, one notices to what an extraordinary degree human nature is the same, whether in India or America, in Europe or Australia. This is especially true in...
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The Philosophy of Edmund Husserl: A Historical Development (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)
by J. N. Mohanty Publisher Comments Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), known as the founder of the phenomenological movement, was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. A prolific scholar, he explored an enormous landscape of philosophical subjects, including...
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