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What Social Classes Owe Each Other
by W G Sumner  Publisher Comments Written in 1883, this political and economic treatise is even more pertinent today than at the time of its first publication. Sumner champions the rights of the individual over the state and organized pressure groups. He defines the important role that...
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The Enlightment
by Peter Gay Synopsis This work completes the author's reinterpretation begun in "The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism". It describes the programme of the "philosophes" and their views of society, with the aim of providing insights into the Enlightenment's critical...
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There Is a God: How the World's Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
by Antony Flew Publisher Comments In one of the biggest religion news stories of the new millennium, the Associated Press announced that Professor Antony Flew, the world's leading atheist, now believes in God. Flew is a pioneer for modern atheism. His famous paper, Theology and...
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Introducing Kant 2ND Edition
by Chris Want Publisher Comments Immanuel Kant was the pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment....
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Introducing Descartes 2ND Edition
by Dave Robinson Publisher Comments Explains the basis for Descartes' philosophical doubtings and offers an accessible guide to the puzzling questions he asked about human beings and their place in the world....
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
by William Irwin Publisher Comments If the world as we know it is nothing more than our dream of it, does this make the dream real? If we had the choice to step out of our world into a more-real but less-pleasant one—to take the red pill—would it be a moral failure not to do so?...
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How We Think (97 Edition)
by John Dewey Publisher Comments The dean of American philosophers shares his views on methods of training students to think well. His considerations include inductive and deductive logic, interpreting facts, concrete and abstract thinking, the roles of activity, language, and...
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Jacques Derrida: Live Theory (Live Theory)
by James K. A. Smith Publisher Comments Jacques Derrida: Live Theory is a new introduction to the work of this most influential of contemporary philosophers. It covers Derrida's corpus in its entirety - from his earliest work in phenomenology and the philosophy of language, to his most recent...
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Theory & History of Literature #0020: Just Gaming
by Jean-loup Thebaud Publisher Comments This book considers the possibility of ethical political practice after deconstruction. Both authors probe the relationship of language to truth and the consequences, for ethics and politics, of any theoretical posture on this issue: 'Can we have a...
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Freedom Evolves (03 Edition)
by Daniel C. Dennett Publisher Comments An "intellectually liberating" (San Francisco Chronicle) exploration of free will and morality — from the acclaimed author of Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel...
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Introducing Heidegger
by Jeff Collins Publisher Comments Introducing Heidegger provides an accessible introduction to his difficult thinking, examining its historical contexts and its resonances in ecology, theology, art, literature and other fields....
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Guide for the Perplexed
by E F Schumacher Publisher Comments The author of the world wide best-seller, "Small Is Beautiful," now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living.Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. man has obligations -- to other men, to the earth, to progress and...
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Mysticism and the New Physics: Revised and Updated Edition
by Michael Talbot Publisher Comments Mystics have long held that the physical world is an illusion. This book shows how quantum physics is putting forward ideas that confirm this perception....
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Perspectives on Embodiment: The Intersections of Nature and Culture
by Honi Fern Haber Publisher Comments "Perspectives on Embodiment" offers multiple ways of conceptualizing human corporeality. These essays collectively defy arbitrary distinctions between nature and culture and reveal the complex ways in which nature and culture interact to produce embodied...
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Entropy and Art
by Rudolf Arnheim Publisher Comments This essay is an attempt to reconcile the disturbing contradiction between the striving for order in nature and in man and the principle of entropy implicit in the second law of thermodynamics; between the tendency toward greater organization and the...
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The Last Word
by Thomas Nagel Publisher Comments If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view - principles that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. But this...
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The Essential Marx
by Karl Marx Publisher Comments Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Trotsky made this selection from "Capital, "to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words, it...
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Speaker's Meaning
by Owen Barfield Publisher Comments Each new book by Owen Barfield makes it increasingly certain that he is one of the tiny number of truly original and creative thinkers of out time. In the present work, based on lectures read at Brandeis University in 1965, Mr. Barfield sets out to...
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Social and Political Philosophy : Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives (3RD 03 Edition)
by James P. Sterba Publisher Comments This anthology, with general and reading-specific introductions by the editor, puts the historical development of Western social and political philosophy into both feminist and multicultural perspectives. Each of the book's sections provides a basic...
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The Possibility of Altruism
by Thomas Nagel Review An extremely tough, polished, and altogether stimulating piece of work....
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