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Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age
by Bill McKibben  Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The End of Nature comes a passionate plea to limit the technologies that could change the very definition of who we are We are on the verge of crossing the line from born to made, from created to built. Sometime in the next...
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Popular Culture and Philosophy #4: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale
by James B South Publisher Comments How can Buffy’s religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedon’s professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faith’s corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they...
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Questions That Matter : an Invitation To Philosophy (6TH 08 Edition)
by Ed. L. Miller Publisher Comments This classic text-reader introduces readers to the fundamental, timeless, and pressing questions of philosophy. The authors make the issues accessible for students with primary source readings incorporated into clearly written text material and an...
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Natural Ethical Facts: Evolution, Connectionism, and Moral Cognition
by William D Casebeer Publisher Comments An original and comprehensive theory of a naturalized ethic using conceptual tools from cognitive science and evolutionary biology....
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 9: Modern Philosophy from the French Revolution to Sartre, Camus, and Levi-Strauss
by Frederick Copleston Publisher Comments Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as...
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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach
by Martha C Nussbaum Publisher Comments Martha Nussbaum proposes a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international....
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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975
by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments From 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is proud to be publishing the lectures in thirteen volumes...
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Eros and Civilization (55 Edition)
by Herbert Marcuse Publisher Comments A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud "A philosophical critique of psychoanalysis that takes psychoanalysis seriously but not as unchallengeable dogma. . . . The most significant general treatment of psychoanalytic theory since Freud himself ceased...
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Beyond Power: Simone Weil and the Notion of Authority
by Desmond Avery Synopsis Beyond Power offers fresh ways to approach the burning political, religious, and scientific issues of our time. It also provides a compelling overview of the work of the great French philosopher Simone Weil, who died during the Second World War at the...
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Advancement of Science : Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions (93 Edition)
by Philip Kitcher Publisher Comments During the last three decades, reflections on the growth of scientific knowledge have inspired historians, sociologists, and some philosophers to contend that scientific objectivity is a myth. In this book, Kitcher attempts to resurrect the notions of...
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Language and Myth
by Ernst Cassirer Publisher Comments Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more....
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The Essential Tension
by Kuhn Publisher Comments "Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."--Sir Peter Medawar, "Nature"...
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Transformative Phenomenology: Changing Ourselves, Lifeworlds, and Professional Practice
by David Allan (edt) Rehorick Synopsis The fourteen authors in this collection used phenomenology (the study of consciousness) and hermeneutics (the interpretation of meaning) to conduct deep inquiry into perplexing and wondrous events in their work and personal lives. These seasoned scholar...
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The Physiology of Marriage
by Honore De Balzac Publisher Comments Philosophical studies. The Musings of an eclectic philosopher on the happiness and unhappiness of married...
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The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project
by Susan Buck-morss Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin's magnum opus was a book he did not live to write. In The Dialectics of Seeing, Susan Buck-Morss offers an inventive reconstruction of the Passagen-Werk, or Arcades Project, as it might have taken form....
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Spinoza : Practical Philosophy (88 Edition)
by Gilles Deleuze Publisher Comments Spinoza's theoretical philosophy is one of the most radical attempts to construct a pure ontology with a single infinite substance. This book, which presents Spinoza's main ideas in dictionary form, has as its subject the opposition between ethics and...
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The Discovery of Time
by Stephen Toulmin Publisher Comments "A discussion of the historical development of our ideas of time as they relate to nature, human nature and society. . . . The excellence of "The Discovery of Time" is unquestionable."--Martin Lebowitz, "The Kenyon Review"...
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First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
by Paul Woodruff Publisher Comments This brilliant analysis of the nature of democracy draws on the hard-earned lessons of the ancient Greeks....
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The Law of Peoples
by John Rawls Publisher Comments This book consists of two parts: the essay "The Idea of Public Reason Revisited," first published in 1997, and "The Law of Peoples," a major reworking of a much shorter article by the same name published in 1993. Taken together, they are the culmination...
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Writings
by Vilem Flusser Publisher Comments The first English-language anthology of Vilem Flusser's work, this volume displays the extraordinary range and subtlety of his intellect. A number of the essays gathered here introduce and elaborate his theory of communication. While taking dystopian...
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