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After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologistby Clifford GeertzISBN 0674008723 (0-674-00872-3)
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All Or Nothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, And Skepticism In German Idealismby Paul FranksISBN 0674018885 (0-674-01888-5)
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At the center of the book are some neglected but critical questions about German Idealism: Why do Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel think that philosophy's main task is the construction of a system? Why do they think that every part of this system must derive from a single, immanent and absolute principle? Why, in short, must it be all or nothing? Through close examination of the major Idealists as well as the overlooked figures who influenced their reading of Kant, Franks explores the common ground and divergences between the philosophical problems that motivated Kant and those that, in turn, motivated the Idealists. The result is a characterization of German Idealism that reveals its sources as well as its pertinence--and its challenge--to contemporary philosophical naturalism.
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The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820by Robert A. FergusonISBN 0674023226 (0-674-02322-6)
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The Anarchistsby James JollISBN 0674036425 (0-674-03642-5)
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The Anatomy of Racial Inequalityby Glenn C. LouryISBN 0674012429 (0-674-01242-9)
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The Applicability of Mathematics As a Philosophical Problemby Mark SteinerISBN 0674009703 (0-674-00970-3)
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Aristotle and the Renaissanceby Charles B. SchmittISBN 0674045254 (0-674-04525-4)
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Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biologyby J. S. Medawar, P.B. MedawarISBN 0674045378 (0-674-04537-8)
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Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacksby Frank M. SnowdenISBN 0674063813 (0-674-06381-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Before Color Prejudice: The Ancient View of Blacks'Book summary:Further developing the themes he so eloquently outlines in Blacks in Antiquity, Frank M. Snowden Jr. continues his investigations into attitudes towards Africans in the classical civilizations of Rome and Greece. Snowden identifies the African blacks from Egypt, Nubia (the modern Sudan), Ethiopia, and Carthage (Tunisia), discussing their interactions--including intermarriage--with the Greco-Romans. (He also notes that many of the artistic representations of these people resemble present-day African Americans.) From the trade missions of the Egyptian dynasties to their conquest of the Mediterranean and ultimate downfall at the hands of the Romans, Snowden unravels a complex history of cultural exchanges that went on for several millennia in which racial prejudice was not a factor. "There was a clear-cut respect among the Mediterranean peoples for Ethiopians and their way of life," he writes, "and above all, the ancients did not stereotype blacks as primitives defective in religion and culture." --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Berlin Childhood Around 1900by Walter Benjamin, Howard EilandISBN 067402222X (0-674-02222-X)
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Not an autobiography in the customary sense, Benjamin's recollection of his childhood in an upper-middle-class Jewish home in Berlin's West End at the turn of the century becomes an occasion for unified "expeditions into the depths of memory." In this diagram of his life, Benjamin focuses not on persons or events but on places and things, all seen from the perspective of a child--a collector, flaneur, and allegorist in one.
This book is also one of Benjamin's great city texts, bringing to life the cocoon of his childhood--the parks, streets, schoolrooms, and interiors of an emerging metropolis. It reads the city as palimpsest and labyrinth, revealing unexpected lyricism in the heart of the familiar.
As an added gem, a preface by Howard Eiland discusses the genesis and structure of the work, which marks the culmination of Benjamin's attempt to do philosophy concretely.
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Beyond Optimizing: A Study of Rational Choiceby Michael SloteISBN 0674069188 (0-674-06918-8)
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The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double-Consciousnessby Paul GilroyISBN 0674076060 (0-674-07606-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness'Book summary:Afrocentrism. Eurocentrism. Caribbean Studies. British Studies. To the forces of cultural nationalism hunkered down in their camps, this bold hook sounds a liberating call. There is,Paul Gilroy tells us, a culture that is not specifically African, American, Caribbean, or British, but all of these at once, a black Atlantic culture whose themes and techniques transcend ethnicity and nationality to produce something new and, until now, unremarked. Challenging the practices and assumptions of cultural studies, The Black Atlantic also complicates and enriches our understanding of modernism.
Debates about postmodernism have cast an unfashionable pall over questions of historical periodization. Gilroy bucks this trend by arguing that the development of black culture in the Americas arid Europe is a historical experience which can be called modern for a number of clear and specific reasons. For Hegel, the dialectic of master and slave was integral to modernity, and Gilroy considers the implications of this idea for a transatlantic culture. In search of a poetics reflecting the politics and history of this culture, he takes us on a transatlantic tour of the music that, for centuries, has transmitted racial messages and feeling around the world, from the Jubilee Singers in the nineteenth century to Jimi Hendrix to rap. He also explores this internationalism as it is manifested in black writing from the "double consciousness" of W. E. B. Du Bois to the "double vision" of Richard Wright to the compelling voice of Toni Morrison.
In a final tour de force, Gilroy exposes the shared contours of black and Jewish concepts of diaspora in order both to establish a theoretical basis for healing rifts between blacks and Jews in contemporary culture and to further define the central theme of his book: that blacks have shaped a nationalism, if not a nation, within the shared culture of the black Atlantic.
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The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letter of the Adams Family, 1762-1784by John Adams, Abigail AdamsISBN 0674078543 (0-674-07854-3)
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The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784by Abigail Adams, Marc Friedlaender, L.H. Butterfield, Mary-Jo KlineISBN 0674078551 (0-674-07855-1)
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Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopedie 1775-1800by Robert DarntonISBN 0674087860 (0-674-08786-0)
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Chinese Communism and the Rise of Maoby Benjamin SchwartzISBN 0674122607 (0-674-12260-7)
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Choice and Consequenceby Thomas C. SchellingISBN 0674127714 (0-674-12771-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Choice and Consequence'Book summary:Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist. In Choice and Consequence, he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating as euthanasia. He examines ethical issues wrapped up in economics, unwrapping the economics to disclose ethical issues that are misplaced or misidentified.
With an ingenious, often startling approach Schelling brings new perspectives to problems ranging from drug abuse, abortion, and the value people put on their lives to organized crime, airplane hijacking, and automobile safety. One chapter is a clear and elegant exposition of game theory as a framework for analyzing social problems. Another plays with the hypothesis that our minds are not only our problem-solving equipment but also the organ in which much of our consumption takes place.
What binds together the different subjects is the author's belief in the possibility of simultaneously being humane and analytical, of dealing with both the momentous and the familiar. Choice and Consequence was written for the curious, the puzzled, the worried, and all those who appreciate intellectual adventure.
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A Choice of Inheritance: Self and Community from Edmund Burke to Robert Frostby David BromwichISBN 0674127757 (0-674-12775-7)
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Choice, Welfare and Measurementby Amartya K. SenISBN 0674127781 (0-674-12778-1)
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Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce: Principles of Philosophy and Elements of Logicby C. PeirceISBN 0674138007 (0-674-13800-7)
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emersonby Ralph Waldo EmersonISBN 0674139917 (0-674-13991-7)
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The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, Addresses, and Lecturesby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joseph Slater, Robert Ernest Spiller, Jean Ferguson Carr, Alfred Riggs FergusonISBN 0674139704 (0-674-13970-4)
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"Coming to Writing" and Other Essaysby Helene CixousISBN 0674144376 (0-674-14437-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: '"Coming to Writing" and Other Essays'Book summary:Of Helene Cixous's many and diverse writings, few have been translated into English. This collection presents six essays by one of France's most remarkable contemporary authors. Cixous is known for her work on sexual difference and its relations to literary text. Here she explores the problematics of a "feminine" mode of writing, basing her method on the premise that differences between the sexes - viewed as a paragdigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning - manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts. "Tancredi Continues" and "The Last Painting or the Portrait of God" question the enigma of sexual difference and the origins of writing through artistic practices analogous to writing (music and painting). The title essay explores Cixous's decision to become an author and the problems raised by a woman's writing herself into history and into a particular literary and cultural tradition. The remaining essays examine another aspect of her work: her ongoing dialogue with the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. "By the light of an Apple" and "Clarice Lispector: The Approach" are celebrations of Cixous's Brazilian contemporary. In "The Author in Truth" Cixous quotes passages from Lispector and discusses them in detail, providing a sense of why Lispector has assumed such importance in her life. This volume aims to be of interest not only to scholars who are engaged in the task of understanding Cixous as writer and theorist but to all readers seeking a unique and exciting voice. [via]
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Confusion: A Study in the Theory of Knowledgeby Joseph L. CampISBN 0674015916 (0-674-01591-6)
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Constitutional Choicesby Laurence H. TribeISBN 067416539X (0-674-16539-X)
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Contested Commoditiesby Margaret Jane RadinISBN 0674166973 (0-674-16697-3)
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The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Orignis of the Information Societyby James R. BenigerISBN 0674169867 (0-674-16986-7)
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Convention: A Philosophical Studyby David LewisISBN 0674170261 (0-674-17026-1)
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Creating Modern Capitalism: How Entrepreneurs, Companies, and Countries Triumphed in Three Industrial Revolutionsby Thomas K. McCrawISBN 0674175565 (0-674-17556-5)
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Creation: Life and How to Make Itby Steve GrandISBN 0674011139 (0-674-01113-9)
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Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?by Michael RuseISBN 0674016319 (0-674-01631-9)
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Darwin Machines and the Nature of Knowledgeby Henry PlotkinISBN 0674192818 (0-674-19281-8)
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The Decent Societyby Avishai Margalit, Naomi GoldblumISBN 0674194373 (0-674-19437-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decent Society'Book summary:Avishai Margalit builds his social philosophy on this foundation: a decent society, or a civilized society, is one whose institutions do not humiliate the people under their authority, and whose citizens do not humiliate one another. What political philosophy needs urgently is a way that will permit us to live together without humiliation and with dignity.
Most of the philosophical attention nowadays is drawn to the ideal of the just society based on the right balance between freedom and equality. The ideal of the just society is a sublime one but hard to realize. The decent society is an ideal which can be realized even in our children's lifetime. We should get rid of cruelty first, advocated Judith Shklar. Humiliation is a close second. There is more urgency in bringing about a decent society than in bringing about a just one.
Margalit begins concretely where we live, with all the infuriating acts of humiliation that make living in the world so difficult. He argues in a concrete way in the spirit of Judith Shklar and Isaiah Berlin. This is a social philosophy that resists all those menacing labels that promote moral laziness, just as it urges us to get beyond the behavior that labels other human beings. Margalit can't be earmarked as liberal or conservative. If a label is necessary, then the most suitable is George Orwell's humane socialism, a far cry from Animal Farm socialism with its many tools of oppression. How to be decent, how to build a decent society, emerges out of Margalit's analysis of the corrosive functioning of humiliation in its many forms. This is a thoroughly argued and, what is much more, a deeply felt book that springs from Margalit's experience at the borderlands of conflicts between Eastern Europeans and Westerners, between Palestinians and Israelis.
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Democracy and Classical Greeceby J.K. DaviesISBN 0674196074 (0-674-19607-4)
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Democracy and Distrustby John ElyISBN 0674196376 (0-674-19637-6)
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Democracy and Distrust: A Theory of Judicial Reviewby John Hart ElyISBN 0674196368 (0-674-19636-8)
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Descartes's Dualismby Marleen RozemondISBN 0674009681 (0-674-00968-1)
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Dialogues With Childrenby Gareth MatthewsISBN 0674202848 (0-674-20284-8)
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The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Scienceby John DupreISBN 0674212614 (0-674-21261-4)
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The Diversity of Lifeby Edward O. WilsonISBN 0674212983 (0-674-21298-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diversity of Life'Book summary:Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson takes a sweeping view of our planet's natural richness, remarking on what on the surface seems a paradox: "almost all the species that ever lived are extinct, and yet more are alive today than at any time in the past." (Wilson's elegant explanation is a scientific education in itself.) This great variety of species is, of course, threatened by habitat destruction, global climate change, and a host of other forces, and Wilson revisits his oft-stated call for the protection of wilderness and undeveloped land, noting that "wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification." We should, he continues, regard every species, "every scrap of biodiversity," as precious and irreplaceable, without attempting to quantify that regard with utilitarian measures such as "bio-economics." In short, Wilson offers with this book a simple, workable environmental ethic that extends the work of Aldo Leopold and other conservationists. A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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The Dynamics of Rational Deliberationby Brian SkyrmsISBN 067421885X (0-674-21885-X)
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Early German Philosophy: Kant and His Redecessorsby Lewis W. BeckISBN 0674221257 (0-674-22125-7)
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The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Conceptsby Arnold I. DavidsonISBN 0674013700 (0-674-01370-0)
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Emersonby Lawrence BuellISBN 0674016270 (0-674-01627-0)
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The Ends of Human Life: Medical Ethics in a Liberal Polityby Ezekiel J. EmanuelISBN 0674253264 (0-674-25326-4)
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Enlightenment, Revolution, and Romanticism: The Genesis of Modern German Political Thought, 1790-1800by Frederick C. BeiserISBN 0674257278 (0-674-25727-8)
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The Entropy Law and the Economic Process.by Nicholas Georgescu-RoegenISBN 0674257812 (0-674-25781-2)
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The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing and the Formation of American Cultureby Lawrence BuellISBN 0674258622 (0-674-25862-2)
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Essays in Religion and Moralityby William JamesISBN 0674267354 (0-674-26735-4)
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Ethics: Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Moralityby David WigginsISBN 0674022149 (0-674-02214-9)
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Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Centuryby Barbara TaylorISBN 0674270231 (0-674-27023-1)
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Facing Up: Science and Its Cultural Adversariesby Steven WeinbergISBN 0674011201 (0-674-01120-1)
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Fieldwork in Familiar Places: Morality, Culture, and Philosophyby Michele M. Moody-Adams, Michele M. Moody AdamsISBN 0674299531 (0-674-29953-1)
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The First Amendment, Democracy, and Romanceby Steven H ShiffrinISBN 0674302753 (0-674-30275-3)
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France, Fin De Siecleby Eugen WeberISBN 0674318137 (0-674-31813-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'France, Fin De Siecle'Book summary:The end of the nineteenth century in France was marked by political scandals, social unrest, dissension, and "decadence." Yet the fin de siècle was also an era of great social and scientific progress, a time when advantages previously reserved for the privileged began to be shared by the many. Public transportation, electrical illumination, standard time, and an improved water supply radically altered the life of the modest folk, who found time for travel and leisure activities--including sports such as cycling. Change became the nature of things, and people believed that further improvement was not only possible but inevitable.
In this thoroughly engaging history, Eugen Weber describes ways of life, not as recorded by general history, but as contemporaries experienced them. He writes about political atmosphere and public prejudices rather than standard political history. Water and washing, bicycles and public transportation engage him more than great scientific discoveries. He discusses academic painting and poster art, the popular stage and music halls, at greater length than avant-garde and classic theater or opera. In this book the importance of telephones, plumbing, and central heating outranks such traditional subjects as international developments, the rise of organized labor, and the spread of socialism.
Weber does not neglect the darker side of the fin de siècle. The discrepancy between material advance and spiritual dejection, characteristic of our own times, interests him as much as the idea of progress, and he reminds us that for most people the period was far from elegant. In the lurid context of military defeat, political instability, public scandal, and clamorous social criticism, one had also to contend with civic dirt, unsanitary food, mob violence, and the seeds of modem-day scourges: pollution, drugs, sensationalism, debased art, the erosion of moral character. Yet millions of fin de siècle French lived as only thousands had lived fifty years before; while their advance was slow, their right to improvement was conceded.
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Frege's Philosophy of Mathematicsby William DemopoulosISBN 0674319427 (0-674-31942-7)
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Gamer Theoryby McKenzie WarkISBN 0674025199 (0-674-02519-9)
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The Gift Of Science: Leibniz And The Modern Legal Traditionby Roger BerkowitzISBN 0674018737 (0-674-01873-7)
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In Praise of Athletic Beautyby Hans Ulrich GumbrechtISBN 067402172X (0-674-02172-X)
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Lessons Of The Mastersby George SteinerISBN 0674017676 (0-674-01767-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lessons Of The Masters'Book summary:When we talk about education today, we tend to avoid the rhetoric of "mastery," with its erotic and inegalitarian overtones. But the charged personal encounter between master and disciple is precisely what interests George Steiner in this book, a sustained reflection on the infinitely complex and subtle interplay of power, trust, and passions in the most profound sorts of pedagogy. Based on Steiner's Norton Lectures on the art and lore of teaching, Lessons of the Masters evokes a host of exemplary figures, including Socrates and Plato, Jesus and his disciples, Virgil and Dante, Heloise and Abelard, Tycho Brahe and Johann Kepler, the Baal Shem Tov, Confucian and Buddhist sages, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, Nadia Boulanger, and Knute Rockne.
Pivotal in the unfolding of Western culture are Socrates and Jesus, charismatic masters who left no written teachings, founded no schools. In the efforts of their disciples, in the passion narratives inspired by their deaths, Steiner sees the beginnings of the inward vocabulary, the encoded recognitions of much of our moral, philosophical, and theological idiom. He goes on to consider a diverse array of traditions and disciplines, recurring throughout to three underlying themes: the master's power to exploit his student's dependence and vulnerability; the complementary threat of subversion and betrayal of the mentor by his pupil; and the reciprocal exchange of trust and love, of learning and instruction between master and disciple.
Forcefully written, passionately argued, Lessons of the Masters is itself a masterly testament to the high vocation and perilous risks undertaken by true teacher and learner alike.
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Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnessesby Ian HackingISBN 0674009541 (0-674-00954-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses'Book summary:Hacking tells the fascinating tale of Albert Dadas, a native of France's Bordeaux region and the first diagnosed mad traveler. Dadas suffered from a strange compulsion that led him to travel obsessively, often without identification, not knowing who he was or why he traveled. Using the records of Philippe Tissié, Dadas's physician, Hacking attempts to make sense of this strange epidemic.
In telling this tale, Hacking raises probing questions about the nature of mental disorders, the cultural repercussions of their diagnosis, and the relevance of this century-old case study for today's overanalyzed society.
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The Mind of Egypt: History and Meaning in the Time of the Pharaohsby Jan AssmannISBN 0674012119 (0-674-01211-9)
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Mind Time: The Temporal Factor In Consciousnessby Benjamin LibetISBN 067401846X (0-674-01846-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind Time: The Temporal Factor In Consciousness'Book summary:Our subjective inner life is what really matters to us as human beings--and yet we know relatively little about how it arises. Over a long and distinguished career Benjamin Libet has conducted experiments that have helped us see, in clear and concrete ways, how the brain produces conscious awareness. For the first time, Libet gives his own account of these experiments and their importance for our understanding of consciousness.
Most notably, Libet's experiments reveal a substantial delay--the "mind time" of the title--before any awareness affects how we view our mental activities. If all conscious awarenesses are preceded by unconscious processes, as Libet observes, we are forced to conclude that unconscious processes initiate our conscious experiences. Freely voluntary acts are found to be initiated unconsciously before an awareness of wanting to act--a discovery with profound ramifications for our understanding of free will.
How do the physical activities of billions of cerebral nerve cells give rise to an integrated conscious subjective awareness? How can the subjective mind affect or control voluntary actions? Libet considers these questions, as well as the implications of his discoveries for the nature of the soul, the identity of the person, and the relation of the non-physical subjective mind to the physical brain that produces it. Rendered in clear, accessible language, Libet's experiments and theories will allow interested amateurs and experts alike to share the experience of the extraordinary discoveries made in the practical study of consciousness.
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On Hashishby Walter Benjamin, Howard EilandISBN 0674022211 (0-674-02221-1)
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Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politicsby Michael J. SandelISBN 067402365X (0-674-02365-X)
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Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quineby W.V. Quine, Roger F. GibsonISBN 0674010485 (0-674-01048-5)
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Reconstructing Public Reasonby Eric A. MacgilvrayISBN 0674015428 (0-674-01542-8)
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Reporting the Universeby E.L. DoctorowISBN 0674016289 (0-674-01628-9)
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Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theoryby Bhikhu ParekhISBN 0674009959 (0-674-00995-9)
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Saving Persuasion: A Defense Of Rhetoric And Judgmentby Bryan GarstenISBN 0674021681 (0-674-02168-1)
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Saving the Differences: Essays on Themes from Truth and Objectivityby Crispin WrightISBN 0674010779 (0-674-01077-9)
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The Self Awakened: Pragmatism Unboundby Roberto Mangabeira UngerISBN 0674023544 (0-674-02354-4)
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Shih Ching: The Classic Anthology Defined by Confuciusby Ezra PoundISBN 0674133978 (0-674-13397-8)
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Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generationby James Edgar StrickISBN 0674009991 (0-674-00999-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation'Book summary:How, asks James E. Strick, could spontaneous generation--the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials--come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease.
The Victorian debates, Strick shows, were entwined with the public controversy over Darwin's theory of evolution. While other histories of the debates between 1860 and 1880 have focused largely on the experiments of John Tyndall, Henry Charlton Bastian, and others, Sparks of Life emphasizes previously understudied changes in the theories that underlay the debates. Strick argues that the disputes cannot be understood without full knowledge of the factional infighting among Darwinians themselves, as they struggled to create a socially and scientifically viable form of "Darwinian" science. He shows that even the terms of the debate, such as "biogenesis," usually but incorrectly attributed to Huxley, were intensely contested.
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Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconsciousby Timothy D. WilsonISBN 0674013824 (0-674-01382-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious'Book summary:"Know thyself," a precept as old as Socrates, is still good advice. But is introspection the best path to self-knowledge? What are we trying to discover, anyway? In an eye-opening tour of the unconscious, as contemporary psychological science has redefined it, Timothy D. Wilson introduces us to a hidden mental world of judgments, feelings, and motives that introspection may never show us.
This is not your psychoanalyst's unconscious. The adaptive unconscious that empirical psychology has revealed, and that Wilson describes, is much more than a repository of primitive drives and conflict-ridden memories. It is a set of pervasive, sophisticated mental processes that size up our worlds, set goals, and initiate action, all while we are consciously thinking about something else.
If we don't know ourselves--our potentials, feelings, or motives--it is most often, Wilson tells us, because we have developed a plausible story about ourselves that is out of touch with our adaptive unconscious. Citing evidence that too much introspection can actually do damage, Wilson makes the case for better ways of discovering our unconscious selves. If you want to know who you are or what you feel or what you're like, Wilson advises, pay attention to what you actually do and what other people think about you. Showing us an unconscious more powerful than Freud's, and even more pervasive in our daily life, Strangers to Ourselves marks a revolution in how we know ourselves.
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Time and Chanceby David Z AlbertISBN 0674011325 (0-674-01132-5)
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Who Rules in Science: An Opinionated Guide to the Warsby James Robert BrownISBN 0674013646 (0-674-01364-6)
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The Writer of Modern Life: Essays on Charles Baudelaireby Walter BenjaminISBN 0674022874 (0-674-02287-4)
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