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5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasiesby Raymond SmullyanISBN 0312295170 (0-312-29517-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Authority and the Individualby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415119561 (0-415-11956-1)
Softcover, Unwin Hyman
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Awakening of Intelligenceby J. KaishnhmurtiISBN 0380004623 (0-380-00462-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Bertrand Russell's Bestby Bertran RussellISBN 0415094399 (0-415-09439-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Beyond the Pleasure Principleby Sigmund FreudISBN 0393007693 (0-393-00769-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond the Pleasure Principle'Book summary:A collection of some of Freud's most famous essays, including ON THE INTRODUCTION OF NARCISSISM; REMEMBERING, REPEATING AND WORKING THROUGH; BEYOND THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; THE EGO AND THE ID and INHIBITION, SYMPTOM AND FEAR. [via]
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Beyond Theology : The Art of Godmanshipby Alan W. WattsISBN 0394719239 (0-394-71923-9)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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Candide and Other Writingsby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0394309642 (0-394-30964-2)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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The Chomsky Readerby Noam Chomsky, James PeckISBN 0394751736 (0-394-75173-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Collected Works of Karl Mannheimby Karl MannheimISBN 0415060540 (0-415-06054-0)
Hardcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collected Works of Karl Mannheim'Book summary:Ideology and Utopia argues that ideologies are mental fictions whose function is to veil the true nature of a given society. They originate unconsciously in the minds of those who seek to stabilise a social order. Utopias are wish dreams that inspire the collective action of opposition groups which aim at the entire transformation of society. Mannheim shows these two opposing elements to dominate not only our social thought but even unexpectedly to penetrate into the most scientific theories in philosophy, history and the social sciences.
This new edition contains a new preface by Bryan S. Turner which describes Mannheim's work and critically assesses its relevance to modern sociology. The book is published with a comprehensive bibliography of Mannheim's major works. [via]More editions of Collected Works of Karl Mannheim:
The Complete Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysisby Sigmund FreudISBN 0393010775 (0-393-01077-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Content and Consciousnessby D.C. DennettISBN 0415104319 (0-415-10431-9)
Softcover, Routledge
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Crowds and Powerby Elias Canetti, Carol StewartISBN 0374518203 (0-374-51820-3)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Crowds and Power'Book summary:Elias Canetti's 1981 Nobel Prize was awarded mainly on the basis of this, his masterwork of philosophical anthropology about la condition humaine on an overpopulated planet.
Ranging from soccer crowds and political rallies to Bushmen and the pilgrimage to Mecca, Canetti exhaustively reviews the way crowds form, develop, and dissolve, using this taxonomy of mass movement as a key to the dynamics of social life. The style is abstract, erudite, and anecdotal, which makes Crowds and Power the sort of work that awes some readers with its profundity while irritating others with its elusiveness. Canetti loves to say something brilliant but counterintuitive, and then leave the reader to figure out both why he said it and whether it's really true. --Richard Farr [via]
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Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectationsby Christopher LaschISBN 0393307387 (0-393-30738-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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The book quickly became a bestseller. This edition includes a new afterword, "The Culture of Narcissism Revisited." [via]More editions of Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations:
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The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thoughtby Marilynne RobinsonISBN 0312425325 (0-312-42532-5)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought'Book summary:In these ten essays, Marilynne Robinson brilliantly addresses subjects that have become the territory of specialists - religion, history, the state of society. The writing is "contrarian in method and spirit," as she states in her introduction, but "Who can imagine how the things we call ideas live in the world, or how they change, or how they perish, or how they can be renewed?" In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers a beautiful and authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by Midwestern abolitionists; how Creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a Frenchman in Geneva, points to America's continental origins, Robinson writes meticulously and with great conviction. Her essays are filled with the excitement of discovery. [via]
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Death of the Soul: From Descartes to the Computerby William E. BerrettISBN 038517327X (0-385-17327-X)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Divided Self Vol. 1 : An Existential Study in Sanity and Madnessby R. D. LaingISBN 0415198186 (0-415-19818-6)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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Elements of Semiologyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521468 (0-374-52146-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Semiology'Book summary:"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction[via]More editions of Elements of Semiology:
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The Female Eunuchby Germaine Greer, Jennifer BaumgardnerISBN 0374527628 (0-374-52762-8)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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When Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch was first published it created a shock wave of recognition in women, one that could be felt around the world. It went on to become an international bestseller, translated into more than twelve languages, and a landmark in the history of the women's movement. Positing that sexual liberation is the key to women's liberation, Greer looks at the inherent and unalterable biological differences between men and women as well as at the profound psychological differences that result from social conditioning. Drawing on history, literature, biology, and popular culture, Greer's searing examination of women's oppression is a vital, passionately argued social commentary that is both an important historical record of where we've been and a shockingly relevant treatise on what still remains to be achieved.More editions of The Female Eunuch:
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First and Second Discoursesby Jean-Jacques RousseauISBN 0312694407 (0-312-69440-7)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societiesby Jared DiamondISBN 0393317552 (0-393-31755-2)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Guns, Germs & Steel: The Fates of Human Societies'Book summary:With a new chapter. The phenomenal bestseller; over 1.5 million copies sold; is now a major PBS special.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Guns, Germs, and Steel is a brilliant work answering the question of why the peoples of certain continents succeeded in invading other continents and conquering or displacing their peoples. This edition includes a new chapter on Japan and all-new illustrations drawn from the television series. Until around 11,000 BC, all peoples were still Stone Age hunter/gatherers. At that point, a great divide occurred in the rates that human societies evolved. In Eurasia, parts of the Americas, and Africa, farming became the prevailing mode of existence when indigenous wild plants and animals were domesticated by prehistoric planters and herders. As Jared Diamond vividly reveals, the very people who gained a head start in producing food would collide with preliterate cultures, shaping the modern world through conquest, displacement, and genocide.The paths that lead from scattered centers of food to broad bands of settlement had a great deal to do with climate and geography. But how did differences in societies arise? Why weren't native Australians, Americans, or Africans the ones to colonize Europe? Diamond dismantles pernicious racial theories tracing societal differences to biological differences. He assembles convincing evidence linking germs to domestication of animals, germs that Eurasians then spread in epidemic proportions in their voyages of discovery. In its sweep, Guns, Germs and Steel encompasses the rise of agriculture, technology, writing, government, and religion, providing a unifying theory of human history as intriguing as the histories of dinosaurs and glaciers. 32 illustrations [via]
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Hegel's Dialecticby Hans-Georg GadamerISBN 0300028423 (0-300-02842-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studiesby Hans-Georg GadamerISBN 0300019092 (0-300-01909-2)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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A History of Philosophyby Frederick J. CoplestonISBN 0385230311 (0-385-23031-1)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Philosophy'Book summary:Here in one convenient volume are Volumes I, II, and III - complete and unabridged - of the acclaimed reference work that has dominated the field of philosophy for two decades. Volume I surveys the main currents in Greco-Roman thought from the pre-Socratics to Neoplatonism: e.g. Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Zeno, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Medieval philosophy is the scope of Volume II, which includes the contributions of such eminent philosophers as Augustine, St. Justin Martyr, Clement, Origen, Boethius, Bonaventure, Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, and Duns Scotus. Volume III focuses on the philosophy of the later Middle Ages and early Renaissance through a close study of such thinkers as William of Ockham, Nicholas of Cusa, the speculative mystics, the political philosophers - e.g. Machiavelli and Thomas More - Francis Bacon, and Francis Suárez. These individual volumes have been hailed as "accurate and authoritative ... sufficiently complete syntheses ... warmly recmmended ... a remarkable achievement." Now available as a three-in-one paperback, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of ancient and medieval philosophy as a reference work that no library should be without. [via]
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History of Philosophy Vol. 2: Mediaeval Philosophyby Frederick J. CoplestonISBN 0385032358 (0-385-03235-8)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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Holy Blood, Holy Grailby Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, Henry LincolnISBN 0385338457 (0-385-33845-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Blood, Holy Grail'Book summary:Michael Baigent, Henry Lincoln, and Richard Leigh, authors of The Messianic Legacy, spent over 10 years on their own kind of quest for the Holy Grail, into the secretive history of early France. What they found, researched with the tenacity and attention to detail that befits any great quest, is a tangled and intricate story of politics and faith that reads like a mystery novel. It is the story of the Knights Templar, and a behind-the-scenes society called the Prieure de Sion, and its involvement in reinstating descendants of the Merovingian bloodline into political power. Why? The authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail assert that their explorations into early history ultimately reveal that Jesus may not have died on the cross, but lived to marry and father children whose bloodline continues today. The authors' point here is not to compromise or to demean Jesus, but to offer another, more complete perspective of Jesus as God's incarnation in man. The power of this secret, which has been carefully guarded for hundreds of years, has sparked much controversy. For all the sensationalism and hoopla surrounding Holy Blood, Holy Grail and the alternate history that it outlines, the authors are careful to keep their perspective and sense of skepticism alive in its pages, explaining carefully and clearly how they came to draw such combustible conclusions. --Jodie Buller [via]
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The House of Intellectby Jacques BarzunISBN 0313200718 (0-313-20071-8)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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How to Read Derridaby Penelope DeutscherISBN 0393328791 (0-393-32879-1)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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How to Read Nietzscheby Keith Ansell-Pearson, Keith Ansell PearsonISBN 039332821X (0-393-32821-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How to Read Nietzsche'Book summary:Intent upon letting the reader experience the pleasure and intellectual stimulation in reading these classic authors, the How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon.
Approaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction--a personal master class in reading--that brings you face to face with the work of some of the most influential and challenging writers in history. In lucid, accessible language, these books explain essential topics such as Nietzsche's thinking on beauty, truth, and memory.
Nietzsche's thinking revolves around a new and striking concept of humanitya humanity that has come to terms with the death of God and practices the art and science of living well, free of the need for metaphysical certainties and moral absolutes. How, then, are we to live? And what do we love?
Keith Ansell Pearson introduces the reader to Nietzsche's distinctive philosophical style and to the development of his thought. Through a series of close readings of Nietzsche's aphorisms he illuminates some of his best-known but often ill-understood ideas, including eternal recurrence and the superman, and he brings to light the challenging nature of Nietzsche's thinking on key topics such as beauty, truth, and memory. Extracts are taken from a range of Nietzsche's work, including Human, All Too Human; The Gay Science; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; and On the Genealogy of Morality. [via]More editions of How to Read Nietzsche:
Human Society in Ethics And Politicsby Bertran RussellISBN 0415083001 (0-415-08300-1)
Softcover, Routledge
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Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the Tenth Dimensionby Michio KakuISBN 0385477058 (0-385-47705-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Illness As Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphorsby Susan SontagISBN 0312420137 (0-312-42013-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Immense Journeyby Loren C. EiseleyISBN 0394701577 (0-394-70157-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalismby LeninISBN 0318364379 (0-318-36437-9)
Softcover, China Books & Periodicals
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism'Book summary:[via]'Globalisation' is the buzzword of the 1990s. VI Lenin's Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism was one of the first attempts to account for the increasing importance of the world market in the twentieth century. Originally published in 1916, Imperialism explains how colonialism and the First World War were inherent features of the global development of the capitalist economy.
In a new introduction, Norman Lewis and James Malone contrast Lenin's approach with that adopted by contemporary theories of globalisation. They argue that, while much has changed since Lenin wrote, his theoretical framework remains the best method for understanding recent global developments.
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Intellectualsby Paul JohnsonISBN 0297793950 (0-297-79395-0)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld and Nicolson
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Journey to the Eastby Hermann Hesse, Hilda RosnerISBN 0312421680 (0-312-42168-0)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Journey to the East'Book summary:In simple, mesmerizing prose, Hermann Hesse's Journey to the East tells of a journey both geographic and spiritual. H.H., a German choirmaster, is invited on an expedition with the League, a secret society whose members include Paul Klee, Mozart, and Albertus Magnus. The participants traverse both space and time, encountering Noahs Ark in Zurich and Don Quixote at Bremgarten. The pilgrims ultimate destination is the East, the Home of the Light, where they expect to find spiritual renewal. Yet the harmony that ruled at the outset of the trip soon degenerates into open conflict. Each traveler finds the rest of the group intolerable and heads off in his own direction, with H.H. bitterly blaming the others for the failure of the journey. It is only long after the trip, while poring over records in the League archives, that H.H. discovers his own role in the dissolution of the group, and the ominous significance of the journey itself.[via] -
The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyanaby Richard F. Burton, Called Mallanaga VatsyayanaISBN 0375759247 (0-375-75924-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana'Book summary:Sir Richard F. Burtons translation of The Kama Sutra remains one of the best English interpretations of this early Indian treatise on politics, social customs, love, and intimacy. Its crisp style set a new standard for Sanskrit translation.
The Kama Sutra stands uniquely as a work of psychology, sociology, Hindu dogma, and sexology. It has been a celebrated classic of Indian literature for 1,700 years and a window for the West into the culture and mysticism of the East.
This Modern Library Paperback Classic reprints the authoritative text of Sir Richard F. Burtons 1883 translation. [via]More editions of The Kama Sutra Of Vatsyana:
Maine Woodsby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0404595839 (0-404-59583-9)
Hardcover, AMS Press
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Meditations on Quixoteby Jose Ortega Y GassetISBN 0393052931 (0-393-05293-1)
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The Mind-Body Problemby Rebecca GoldsteinISBN 0394524748 (0-394-52474-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind-Body Problem'Book summary:Wonderful book from perhaps the greatest living author today. Volume One of his "Border Trilogy." Hardcover. Original jacket. Stated First Edition. Light bumping. PO writing on front end page. Jacket price intact. Looks great. Very Good/Near Fine condition. [via]
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Mister God, This Is Annaby Fynn, PapasISBN 0345327225 (0-345-32722-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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Anna was only four years old when Fynn found her on London's fog-shrouded docks. He took her back to his mother's home, and from that first moment, their times together were filled with delight and discovery. Anna had an astonishing ability to ask--and to answer--life's largest questions. Her total openness and honesty amazed all who knew her. She seemed to understand with uncanny certainty the purpose of being, the essence of feeling, the beauty of love. You see, Anna had a very special friendship with Mister God. . . . [via]More editions of Mister God, This Is Anna:
Money and the Meaning of Lifeby Jacob NeedlemanISBN 0385262426 (0-385-26242-6)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Moses and Monotheismby S. FreudISBN 0394700147 (0-394-70014-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moses and Monotheism'Book summary:"To deny a people the man whom it praises as the greatest of its sons is not a deed to be undertaken lightheartedly--especially by one belonging to that people," writes Sigmund Freud, as he prepares to pull the carpet out from under The Great Lawgiver in Moses and Monotheism. In this, his last book, Freud argues that Moses was an Egyptian nobleman and that the Jewish religion was in fact an Egyptian import to Palestine. Freud also writes that Moses was murdered in the wilderness, in a reenactment of the primal crime against the father. Lingering guilt for this crime, Freud says, is the reason Christians understand Jesus' death as sacrificial. "The 'redeemer' could be none other than the one chief culprit, the leader of the brother-band who had overpowered the father." Hence the basic difference between Judaism and Christianity: "Judaism had been a religion of the father, Christianity became a religion of the son." Freud's arguments are extremely imaginative, and his distinction between reality and fantasy, as always, is very loose. If only as a study of wrong-headedness, however, it's fascinating reading for those who want to explore the psychological impulses governing the historical relationship between Christians and Jews. --Michael Joseph Gross [via]
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The Needs of Strangersby Michael IgnatieffISBN 0312281803 (0-312-28180-3)
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Nietzsche in Turin: An Intimate Biographyby Lesley ChamberlainISBN 0312199384 (0-312-19938-4)
Softcover, Picador USA
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The Old Regime and the French Revolutionby Alexis De TocquevilleISBN 0385092601 (0-385-09260-1)
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On Dialogueby David Bohm, Lee NicholISBN 0415149126 (0-415-14912-6)
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Order Out of Chaos : Man's New Dialogue with Natureby Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle StengersISBN 0394542045 (0-394-54204-5)
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The Philosopher at the End of the Universe: Philosophy Explained Through Science Fiction Filmsby Mark RowlandsISBN 0312322348 (0-312-32234-8)
Hardcover, Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
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Philosophy and Truth: Selections from Nietzsche's Notebooks of the Early 1870sby Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheISBN 039100686X (0-391-00686-X)
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Philosophy: The Classicsby Nigel WarburtonISBN 0415146925 (0-415-14692-5)
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The Pleasure of the Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521603 (0-374-52160-3)
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Politics and Vision; Continuity and Innovation in Western Political Thought.by Sheldon S. WolinISBN 0316951250 (0-316-95125-0)
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The Presocratic Philosophersby Jonathan BarnesISBN 0415050790 (0-415-05079-0)
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Purgatorioby Dante AlighieriISBN 0375708391 (0-375-70839-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Purgatorio'Book summary:In the foreword to his version of the Purgatorio, W.S. Merwin dwells on the quasi-insuperable hurdles that any translator of Dante must face. Choosing just a single line from the first canticle, he asks: "How could that, then, really be translated? It could not, of course." This makes Dante's masterpiece sound like the literary equivalent of Mission: Impossible ("Your mission, Mr. Merwin, should you choose to accept it...") Happily, however, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet decided to give it a try. He spent several years wrestling with Dante's inexhaustible tercets, and rather than applying himself to the fire-and-brimstone-scented thrills of the Inferno, Merwin turned to the middle and most humane portion of the entire work: Purgatorio. It's here, in a kind of spiritual halfway house between heaven and hell, that the poem reaches a peak of tenderness and regret--and rises quite literally from the dead.
Merwin's version must be measured against a good many predecessors, from John Ciardi's reader-friendly approach to Allen Mandelbaum's free-versifying to Charles Singleton's prosaic trot. How does this Purgatorio stack up? Very decently indeed. Merwin is something of a strict constructionist, who wants to hew as closely as possible to the syntax and sound of the original Italian. Yet he's no Nabokovian naysayer, slapping himself on the wrist every time he deviates from Dante's text, and he's wisely thrown the rhymes overboard. That leaves him with enough flexibility to echo some of the poem's loveliest effects:
A sweet air that within itself was
Merwin also does a good job capturing Dante's asperity, including his near-proverbial response to a rebuke from main squeeze Beatrice in Canto XXX: "As a mother may seem harsh to her child, / she seemed to me, because the flavor / of raw pity when tasted is bitter." There are moments, of course, when the translator's taste for literalism gets him in trouble. When, for example, Dante is surrounded by a crowd of souls in the second canto, who are astonished to see one of the living among them, he describes them as "quasi oblïando d'ire a farsi belle." A difficult phrase to translate, yes, but Merwin's solution--"forgetting, it seemed, to go and see to their own beauty"--makes it sound as though they're late for an appointment at the hairdresser's. Still, these are minor flaws in a major and often marvelous piece of work. Can we look forward to a paradisiacal follow-up? --James Marcus [via]
unvarying struck me on the forehead,
a stroke no rougher than a gentle breeze,at which the trembling branches all together
bent at once in that direction where
the holy mountain casts its first shadow,without ever leaning over so far from
the upright as to make the small birds stop
the practice of their art in the treetops...
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Purgatorioby Robert HollanderISBN 0385497008 (0-385-49700-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Now I shall sing the second kingdom, there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to heaven. In the second book of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy , Dante has left hell and begins the ascent of the mount of purgatory. Just as hell had its circles, purgatory, situated at the threshold of heaven, has its terraces, each representing one of the seven mortal sins. With Virgil again as his guide, Dante climbs the mountain; the poet shows us, on its slopes, those whose lives were variously governed by pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony, and lust. As he witnesses the penance required on each successive terrace, Dante often feels the smart of his own sins. His reward will be a walk through the garden of Eden, perhaps the most remarkable invention in the history of literature. Now Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Inferno was acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well as generous historical and interpretive commentaries that draw on centuries of scholarship and Robert Hollander's own decades of teaching and reasearch. [via]
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Reading Capitalby Etienne Balibar, Louis AlthusserISBN 0394472004 (0-394-47200-4)
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Realism and the Aim of Scienceby Karl Raimund Popper, William Warren BartleyISBN 0415084008 (0-415-08400-8)
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Regarding the Pain of Othersby Susan SontagISBN 0312422199 (0-312-42219-9)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Regarding the Pain of Others'Book summary:A brilliant, clear-eyed new consideration of the visual representation of violence in our culture--its ubiquity, meanings, and effects[via]
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured -or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception of reality eroded by the universal availability of imagery intended to shock?
In her first full-scale investigation of the role of imagery in our culture since her now-classic book On Photography defined the terms of the debate twenty-five years ago, Susan Sontag cuts through circular arguments about how pictures can inspire dissent or foster violence as she takes a fresh look at the representation of atrocity--from Goya's The Disasters of War to photographs of the American Civil War, lynchings of blacks in the South, and Dachau and Auschwitz to contemporary horrific images of Bosnia, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, and New York City on September 11, 2001.
As John Berger wrote when On Photography was first published, "All future discussions or analysis of the role of photography in the affluent mass-media societies is now bound to begin with her book." Sontag's new book, a startling reappraisal of the intersection of "information", "news," "art," and politics in the contemporary depiction of war and disaster, will be equally essential. It will forever alter our thinking about the uses and meanings of images in our world.More editions of Regarding the Pain of Others:
Rethinking Life & Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethicsby Peter SingerISBN 0312144016 (0-312-14401-6)
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Running from Safetyby Richard BachISBN 0385315287 (0-385-31528-7)
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Saint Genet : Actor and Martyrby Jean-Paul Sartre, Bernard FrechtmanISBN 0394715837 (0-394-71583-7)
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Selected Dialogues of Platoby Plato, Benjamin Jowett, Hayden PellicciaISBN 0375758402 (0-375-75840-2)
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The Seven Storey Mountainby Thomas MertonISBN 0374955689 (0-374-95568-9)
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Solitude : A Return to the Selfby Anthony StorrISBN 0345358473 (0-345-35847-3)
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The Supreme Identityby Alan W. WattsISBN 0394718356 (0-394-71835-6)
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Tertium Organum: The Third Canon of Thought, a Key to the Enigmas of the Worldby P. D. UspenskiiISBN 039475168X (0-394-75168-X)
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The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise And Fall of Disbelief in the Modern Worldby Alister McGrathISBN 0385500629 (0-385-50062-9)
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Atheism is one of the most important movements in modern Western culture. For the last two hundred years, it seemed to be on the verge of eliminating religion as an outmoded and dangerous superstition. Recent years, however, have witnessed the decline of disbelief and a rise in religious devotion throughout the world. In THE TWILIGHT OF ATHEISM, the distinguished historian and theologian Alister McGrath examines what went wrong with the atheist dream and explains why religion and faith are destined to play a central role in the twenty-first century.
A former atheist who is now one of Christianitys foremost scholars, McGrath traces the history of atheism from its emergence in eighteenth-century Europe as a revolutionary worldview that offered liberation from the rigidity of traditional religion and the oppression of tyrannical monarchs, to its golden age in the first half of the twentieth century. Blending thoughtful, authoritative historical analysis with incisive portraits of such leading and influential atheists as Sigmund Freud and Richard Dawkins, McGrath exposes the flaws at the heart of atheism, and argues that the renewal of faith is a natural, inevitable, and necessary response to its failures.
THE TWILIGHT OF ATHEISM will unsettle believers and nonbelievers alike. A powerful rebuttal of the philosophy that, for better and for worse, has exerted tremendous influence on Western history, it carries major implications for the future of both religion and unbelief in our society. [via]More editions of The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise And Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World:
What Philosophy Is: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophyby Anthony O'HearISBN 0391033549 (0-391-03354-9)
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Wilderness and the American Mindby Roderick NashISBN 0300091222 (0-300-09122-2)
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World Philosophiesby Ninian SmartISBN 0415228522 (0-415-22852-2)
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Worldviews in Conflict: Choosing Christianity in a World of Ideasby Ronald H. NashISBN 0310577713 (0-310-57771-3)
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