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The Basic Problems of Phenomenologyby HeideggerISBN 025320478X (0-253-20478-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianismby John Stuart Mill, J. B. SchneewindISBN 0375759182 (0-375-75918-2)
Softcover, Modern Library
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This Modern Library Paperback Classics edition includes newly commissioned endnotes and commentary by Dale E. Miller, and an index. [via]More editions of The Basic Writings of John Stuart Mill: On Liberty, the Subjection of Women, and Utilitarianism:
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Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventureby Daniel QuinnISBN 0609805363 (0-609-80536-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Civilization: Humanity's Next Great Adventure'Book summary:Futurist Daniel Quinn (Ishmael) dares to imagine a new approach to saving the world that involves deconstructing civilization. Quinn asks the radical yet fundamental questions about humanity such as, Why does civilization grow food, lock it up, and then make people earn money to buy it back? Why not progress "beyond civilization" and abandon the hierarchical lifestyles that cause many of our social problems? He challenges the "old mind" thinking that believes problems should be fixed with social programs. "Old minds think: How do we stop these bad things from happening?" Quinn writes. "New minds think: How do we make things the way we want them to be?"
Whether he is discussing Amish farming, homelessness, "tribal business," or holy work, Quinn's manifesto is highly digestible. Instead of writing dense, weighty chapters filled with self-important prose, he's assembled a series of brief one-page essays. His language is down to earth, his metaphors easy to grasp. As a result, readers can read about and ponder Beyond Civilization at a blissfully civilized pace. --Gail Hudson [via]
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Beyond Freedom & Dignityby Burrhus Frederic SkinnerISBN 0394425553 (0-394-42555-3)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Beyond Freedom and Dignityby B. F. SkinnerISBN 0553254049 (0-553-25404-9)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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The Complete Greek Tragedies: A Centennial Editionby Richmond Lattimore, David GreneISBN 0226307638 (0-226-30763-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Decline of the Westby Oswald SpenglerISBN 0195066340 (0-19-506634-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Decline of the West'Book summary:Since its first publication in two volumes between 1918-1923, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and most talked about books of our time. In all its various editions, it has sold nearly 100,000 copies. A twentieth-century Cassandra, Oswald Spengler thoroughly probed the origin and "fate" of our civilization, and the result can be (and has been) read as a prophesy of the Nazi regime. His challenging views have led to harsh criticism over the years, but the knowledge and eloquence that went into his sweeping study of Western culture have kept The Decline of the West alive. As the face of Germany and Europe as a whole continues to change each day, The Decline of the West cannot be ignored.
The abridgment, prepared by the German scholar Helmut Werner, with the blessing of the Spengler estate, consists of selections from the original (translated into English by Charles Francis Atkinson) linked by explanatory passages which have been put into English by Arthur Helps. H. Stuart Hughes has written a new introduction for this edition.
In this engrossing and highly controversial philosophy of history, Spengler describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity. Guided by the philosophies of Goethe and Nietzsche, he rejects linear progression, and instead presents a world view based on the cyclical rise and decline of civilizations. He argues that a culture blossoms from the soil of a definable landscape and dies when it has exhausted all of its possibilities.
Despite Spengler's reputation today as an extreme pessimist, The Decline of the West remains essential reading for anyone interested in the history of civilization. [via]More editions of The Decline of the West:
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Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion: Eastern and Western Thoughtby William L. ReeseISBN 0391038656 (0-391-03865-6)
Softcover, Prometheus Books
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Elizabethan World Pictureby TillyardISBN 0394701623 (0-394-70162-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabethan World Picture'Book summary:This brief and illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries-Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne and Milton, among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Professor Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortunes; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humours; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance-ideas and symbols which inspirited the minds and imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but of all men of the Renaissance. [via]
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Emmanuel Levinas: Basic Philosophical Writingsby Robert Bernasconi, Simon Critchley, Emmanuel Levinas, Adriaan Theodoor PeperzakISBN 0253210798 (0-253-21079-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Evolution of Medieval Thoughtby David KnowlesISBN 0582494265 (0-582-49426-5)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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Full House : The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwinby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0609801406 (0-609-80140-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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The Ghost in the Machineby Arthur KoestlerISBN 0394524721 (0-394-52472-1)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religionby James George Frazer, Robert FraserISBN 0192835416 (0-19-283541-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion'Book summary:Before Joseph Campbell became the world's most famous practitioner of comparative mythology, there was Sir James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for mass distribution. The thesis on the origins of magic and religion that it elaborates "will be long and laborious," Frazer warns readers, "but may possess something of the charm of a voyage of discovery, in which we shall visit many strange lands, with strange foreign peoples, and still stranger customs." Chief among those customs--at least as the book is remembered in the popular imagination--is the sacrificial killing of god-kings to ensure bountiful harvests, which Frazer traces through several cultures, including in his elaborations the myths of Adonis, Osiris, and Balder.
While highly influential in its day, The Golden Bough has come under harsh critical scrutiny in subsequent decades, with many of its descriptions of regional folklore and legends deemed less than reliable. Furthermore, much of its tone is rooted in a philosophy of social Darwinism--sheer cultural imperialism, really--that finds its most explicit form in Frazer's rhetorical question: "If in the most backward state of human society now known to us we find magic thus conspicuously present and religion conspicuously absent, may we not reasonably conjecture that the civilised races of the world have also at some period of their history passed through a similar intellectual phase?" (The truly civilized races, he goes on to say later, though not particularly loudly, are the ones whose minds evolve beyond religious belief to embrace the rational structures of scientific thought.) Frazer was much too genteel to state plainly that "primitive" races believe in magic because they are too stupid and backwards to know any better; instead he remarks that "a savage hardly conceives the distinction commonly drawn by more advanced peoples between the natural and the supernatural." And he certainly was not about to make explicit the logical extension of his theories--"that Christian legend, dogma, and ritual" (to quote Robert Graves's summation of Frazer in The White Goddess) "are the refinement of a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs." Whatever modern readers have come to think of the book, however, its historical significance and the eloquence with which Frazer attempts to develop what one might call a unifying theory of anthropology cannot be denied. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Golden Bough : The Roots of Religion and Folkloreby James George FrazerISBN 0517336332 (0-517-33633-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Greeks and the Irrationalby E.R. DoddsISBN 0520242300 (0-520-24230-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: An Alternative Approach to Philosophyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0231060319 (0-231-06031-9)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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I Think, Therefore I Laugh: The Flip Side of Philosophyby John Allen PaulosISBN 0231119151 (0-231-11915-1)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Individualsby P. F. StrawsonISBN 0415051851 (0-415-05185-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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La Rochefoucauld: Maximsby Francois LA Rochefoucauld, John HeardISBN 0486451453 (0-486-45145-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Rochefoucauld: Maxims'Book summary:Often poetic, occasionally ironic, and frequently humorous, Maxims first published in 1665 can also be blunt and brutally candid: "Everyone blames his memory, no one his judgment." Bursting with philosophical musings that make for enlightened reading, this collection features more than 500 thought-provoking revelations.[via]More editions of La Rochefoucauld: Maxims:
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Logical Positivismby Alfred S. AyerISBN 0313204624 (0-313-20462-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Pub Group
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Mind: A Brief Introductionby John R. SearleISBN 0195157346 (0-19-515734-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mind: A Brief Introduction'Book summary:"The philosophy of mind is unique among contemporary philosophical subjects," writes John Searle, "in that all of the most famous and influential theories are false." In Mind, Searle dismantles these famous and influential theories as he presents a vividly written, comprehensive introduction to the mind.
Here readers will find one of the world's most eminent thinkers shedding light on the central concern of modern philosophy. Searle begins with a look at the twelve problems of philosophy of mind--which he calls "Descartes and Other Disasters"--problems which he returns to throughout the volume, as he illuminates such topics as the freedom of the will, the actual operation of mental causation, the nature and functioning of the unconscious, the analysis of perception, and the concept of the self. One of the key chapters is on the mind-body problem, which Searle analyzes brilliantly. He argues that all forms of consciousness--from feeling thirsty to wondering how to translate Mallarmé--are caused by the behavior of neurons and are realized in the brain system, which is itself composed of neurons. But this does not mean that consciousness is nothing but neuronal behavior. The main point of having the concept of consciousness, Searle points out, is to capture the first person subjective features of the phenomenon and this point is lost if we redefine consciousness in third person objective terms.
Described as a "dragonslayer by temperament," John Searle offers here a refreshingly direct and open discussion of philosophy, one that skewers accepted wisdom even as it offers striking new insights into the nature of consciousness and the mind. [via]More editions of Mind: A Brief Introduction:
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Morality: An Introduction to Ethicsby Bernard WilliamsISBN 0521457297 (0-521-45729-7)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolutionby Ayn RandISBN 0451156455 (0-451-15645-5)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Notebooks, 1914-1916by Ludwig WittgensteinISBN 0226904474 (0-226-90447-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Oedipus Plays of Sophoclesby Paul RocheISBN 0451628470 (0-451-62847-0)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, Paul RocheISBN 0452011671 (0-452-01167-1)
Softcover, Plume
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Oedipus Trilogy: A Play in Three Acts Based on the Oedipus Plays of Sophoclesby Stephen SpenderISBN 0394544838 (0-394-54483-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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On the Plurality of Worldsby David LewisISBN 0631224262 (0-631-22426-2)
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One World: The Ethics of Globalizationby Peter SingerISBN 0300103050 (0-300-10305-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One World: The Ethics of Globalization'Book summary:Known for his original and courageous thinking on matters ranging from the treatment of animals to genetic screening, Peter Singer now turns his attention to the ethical issues surrounding globalisation. In this provocative book, he challenges us to think beyond the boundaries of nation-states and consider what a global ethic could mean in today's world. Singer raises novel questions about such an ethic and, more important, he provides illuminating and practical answers. The book encompasses four main global issues: climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterises international theory and relations today. [via]
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An Outline of Philosophyby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415141176 (0-415-14117-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Pensees and Other Writingsby Blaise PascalISBN 0192836552 (0-19-283655-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pensees and Other Writings'Book summary:For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensées, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. This translation is the only one based on the Pensées as Pascal left them. It includes the principal dossiers classified by Pascal, as well as the essential portion of his important Writings on Grace. [via]
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Philosophy: A Very Short Introductionby Edward CraigISBN 0192854216 (0-19-285421-6)
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The Philosophy of Schopenhauerby Bryan MageeISBN 0198237227 (0-19-823722-7)
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Plato's Statesmanby Plato, Seth Benardete, Seth BernardeteISBN 0226670333 (0-226-67033-3)
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The Portable Emersonby Ralph Waldo Emerson, Malcolm Cowley, Carl BodeISBN 0670292745 (0-670-29274-5)
Hardcover, Viking Press
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Pragmatismby William James, Ralph Barton PerryISBN 0452006600 (0-452-00660-0)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolutionby Ayn Rand, Peter SchwartzISBN 0452011841 (0-452-01184-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Kant and the Critique of Pure Reasonby Sebastian GardnerISBN 041511909X (0-415-11909-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Search for a Methodby Jean Paul SartreISBN 0394704649 (0-394-70464-9)
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The Seat of the Soulby Gary ZukavISBN 0671253832 (0-671-25383-2)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Separate Reality; Further Conversations With Don Juan.by Carlos CastanedaISBN 0671208977 (0-671-20897-7)
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A Short History of Decayby E.M. CioranISBN 0631174001 (0-631-17400-1)
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Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigoneby Sophocles, David Greene, Richard LattimoreISBN 0226307921 (0-226-30792-1)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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"This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation
"The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."Times Education Supplement
"These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian
"The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."Commonweal
"Grene is one of the great translators."Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times
"Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book ReviewMore editions of Sophocles I: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone:
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Sophocles IIby Sophocles, David GreeneISBN 0226307867 (0-226-30786-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sophocles II'Book summary:"These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket."-Robert Brustein, The New Republic "This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody."-Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation "The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase."-Times Education Supplement "These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead."-Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian "The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional."-Commonweal "Grene is one of the great translators."-Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times "Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet."-Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review [via]
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Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equalityby Michael WalzerISBN 0465081894 (0-465-08189-4)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality'Book summary:The distinguished political philosopher and author of the widely acclaimed Just and Unjust Wars analyzes how society distributes not just wealth and power but other social goods like honor, education, work, free timeeven love.[via]More editions of Spheres of Justice: A Defense of Pluralism and Equality:
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Spinozaby Roger ScrutonISBN 0415923905 (0-415-92390-5)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spinoza'Book summary:Presents a clear and systematic analysis of Spinoza's thought, and shows its relevance to today's intellectual preoccupations. [via]
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State Of Exceptionby Giorgio Agamben, Kevin AttellISBN 0226009254 (0-226-00925-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'State Of Exception'Book summary:Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorized the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or "state of exception," has historically been an underexamined and powerful strategy that has the potential to transform democracies into totalitarian states.[via]
The sequel to Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, State of Exception is the first book to theorize the state of exception in historical and philosophical context. In Agamben's view, the majority of legal scholars and policymakers in Europe as well as the United States have wrongly rejected the necessity of such a theory, claiming instead that the state of exception is a pragmatic question. Agamben argues here that the state of exception, which was meant to be a provisional measure, became in the course of the twentieth century a normal paradigm of government. Writing nothing less than the history of the state of exception in its various national contexts throughout Western Europe and the United States, Agamben uses the work of Carl Schmitt as a foil for his reflections as well as that of Derrida, Benjamin, and Arendt.
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Stranger in a Strange Landby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0441788386 (0-441-78838-6)
Softcover, Ace Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger in a Strange Land'Book summary:Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.
The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the 60's to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."). That aside, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the master's best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it? --Brooks Peck [via]
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- Stranger in a Strange Land: ISBN 0441790348 (0-441-79034-8)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Stranger in a Strange Land: ISBN 039910772X (0-399-10772-X)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated - Stranger in a Strange Land: ISBN 0425052168 (0-425-05216-8)
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Stranger in a Strange Land/30th Anniversary, Uncut Versionby Robert A. HeinleinISBN 0399135863 (0-399-13586-3)
Hardcover, Putnam Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stranger in a Strange Land/30th Anniversary, Uncut Version'Book summary:Stranger in a Strange Land, winner of the 1962 Hugo Award, is the story of Valentine Michael Smith, born during, and the only survivor of, the first manned mission to Mars. Michael is raised by Martians, and he arrives on Earth as a true innocent: he has never seen a woman and has no knowledge of Earth's cultures or religions. But he brings turmoil with him, as he is the legal heir to an enormous financial empire, not to mention de facto owner of the planet Mars. With the irascible popular author Jubal Harshaw to protect him, Michael explores human morality and the meanings of love. He founds his own church, preaching free love and disseminating the psychic talents taught him by the Martians. Ultimately, he confronts the fate reserved for all messiahs.
The impact of Stranger in a Strange Land was considerable, leading many children of the 60's to set up households based on Michael's water-brother nests. Heinlein loved to pontificate through the mouths of his characters, so modern readers must be willing to overlook the occasional sour note ("Nine times out of ten, if a girl gets raped, it's partly her fault."). That aside, Stranger in a Strange Land is one of the master's best entertainments, provocative as he always loved to be. Can you grok it? --Brooks Peck [via]
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The Theban Playsby Sophocles, George YoungISBN 048645049X (0-486-45049-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Theban Plays'Book summary:Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production. [via]
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The Three Theban Playsby Robert Fagles, SophoclesISBN 0670698059 (0-670-69805-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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The Three Theban Playsby Sophocles, Theodore Howard BanksISBN 0195010590 (0-19-501059-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Three Theban Plays'Book summary:Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King," and "Oedipus at Colonus"--are not strictly a trilogy, but all are based on the Theban myths that were old even in Sophocles' time. This particular edition was rendered by Robert Fagles, perhaps the best translator of the Greek classics into English. [via]
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Time and Narrativeby Kathleen Blamey, Paul Ricoeur, David PellauerISBN 0226713369 (0-226-71336-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Time and Narrative'Book summary:In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing, fiction, and theories of literature. This final volume, a comprehensive reexamination and synthesis of the ideas developed in volumes 1 and 2, stands as Ricoeur's most complete and satisfying presentation of his own philosophy.[via]
Ricoeur's aim here is to explicate as fully as possible the hypothesis that has governed his inquiry, namely, that the effort of thinking at work in every narrative configuration is completed in a refiguration of temporal experience. To this end, he sets himself the central task of determing how far a poetics of narrative can be said to resolve the "aporias"the doubtful or problematic elementsof time. Chief among these aporias are the conflicts between the phenomenological sense of time (that experienced or lived by the individual) and the cosmological sense (that described by history and physics) on the one hand and the oneness or unitary nature of time on the other. In conclusion, Ricoeur reflects upon the inscrutability of time itself and attempts to discern the limits of his own examination of narrative discourse.
"As in his previous works, Ricoeur labors as an imcomparable mediator of often estranged philosophical approaches, always in a manner that compromises neither rigor nor creativity."Mark Kline Taylor, Christian Century
"In the midst of two opposing contemporary optionseither to flee into ever more precious readings . . . or to retreat into ever more safe readings . . . Ricoeur's work offers an alternative option that is critical, wide-ranging, and conducive to new applications."Mary Gerhart, Journal of Religion
Trouble with Beingby E.M. CioranISBN 0670732621 (0-670-73262-1)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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Understanding Media: The Extension of Manby Herbert Marshall McLuhanISBN 0262631598 (0-262-63159-8)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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Understanding Media; The Extension of Manby M. McLuhanISBN 0415253977 (0-415-25397-7)
Hardcover, Taylor and Francis
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Understanding Media; The Extension of Man'Book summary:When Marshall McLuhan first coined the phrases "global village" and "the medium is the message" in 1964, no-one could have predicted today's information-dependent planet. No-one, that is, except for a handful of science fiction writers and Marshall McLuhan. Understanding Media was written twenty years before the PC revolution and thirty years before the rise of the Internet. Yet McLuhan's insights into our engagement with a variety of media led to a complete rethinking of our entire society. He believed that the message of electronic media foretold the end of humanity as it was known. In 1964, this looked like the paranoid babblings of a madman. In our twenty-first century digital world, the madman looks quite sane. Understanding Media: the most important book ever written on communication. Ignore its message at your peril. [via]
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Wittgensteinby A. C. GraylingISBN 0192876775 (0-19-287677-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mindby George LakoffISBN 0226468046 (0-226-46804-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind'Book summary:"Its publication should be a major event for cognitive linguistics and should pose a major challenge for cognitive science. In addition, it should have repercussions in a variety of disciplines, ranging from anthropology and psychology to epistemology and the philosophy of science. . . . Lakoff asks: What do categories of language and thought reveal about the human mind? Offering both general theory and minute details, Lakoff shows that categories reveal a great deal."David E. Leary, American Scientist[via]More editions of Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things: What Categories Reveal About the Mind:
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The World As Will and Idea: Abridged in One Volumeby Arthur Schopenhauer, David BermanISBN 0460875051 (0-460-87505-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The World As Will and Idea: Abridged in One Volume'Book summary:The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the truest understanding of the world comes through art, and the only lasting good through ascetic renunciation. Unique in western philosophy for his affinity with Eastern thought, Schopenhauer influenced philosophers, writers, and composers including Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, Wagner, Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, and Samuel Beckett. [via]
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