Lauded as the most articulate voice of American freedom, even as he held people in bondage, Jefferson is variably described by current-day observers as a hypocrite, an atheist, and a simple-minded proponent of limited government. Now,...
Philosophy
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Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary: - Author:Fillion, RealSummary:
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to...
- Author:Jarosinski, EricSummary:
Nein. A Manifesto is the brainchild of Eric Jarosinski, the self-described “failed intellectual” behind @NeinQuarterly, a “Compendium of Utopian Negation” that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of...
- Author:Angle, Stephen C.Summary:
Neo-Confucianism is a philosophically sophisticated tradition weaving classical Confucianism together with themes from Buddhism and Daoism. It began in China around the eleventh century CE, played a leading role in East Asian cultures...
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The most comprehensive collection of Neoplatonic writings available in English, this volume provides translations of the central texts of four major figures of the Neoplatonic tradition: Plotinus, Porphyry, Iamblichus, and Proclus. The...
- Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
With Friedrich Nietzsche, philosophy was dangerous not only for philosophers but for everyone. Nietzsche ended up going mad, but his ideas presaged a collective madness that had horrific consequences in Europe in the early 1900s. Though...
- Author:Peery, Rebekah S.Summary:
The book offers new interpretations of Nietzsche's thinking — considering especially his ideas regarding power, values, nature, contrariety, sexuality and sexual politics — that could offer new and provocative approaches toward dealing...
- Author:Peery, Rebekah S.Summary:
In this book a new interpretation of Nietzsche's writings weaves together several issues: power, value, nature, sexuality and sexual politics and religion. This is perhaps the first book to address all these issues, and it offers the...
- Author:Boschman, Robert, Trono, MarioSummary:
On Active Grounds considers the themes of agency and time through the burgeoning, interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Fourteen essays and a photo album cover topics such as environmental practices and history,...
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On Generation and Corruption (Ancient Greek: ???? ???????? ??? ??????, Latin: De Generatione et Corruptione, also known as On Coming to Be and Passing Away) is a treatise by Aristotle. Like many of his texts, it is both scientific and...
- Author:Phelps, Kenneth WayneSummary:
Today, when killing the enemy can seem tantamount to playing a video game, what constitutes warfare? Phelps, former commander of a Remotely Piloted Aircraft unit, addresses these questions and others.
- Author:Mill, John StuartSummary:
A highly influential philosophical work of the Victorian era, John Stuart Mill’s book promotes the application of utilitarianism, an ethical system based on maximizing overall well-being and happiness, to society and government. But...
- Author:Pirsig, Robert M.Summary:
For the first time, listeners will have access to Pirsig's personal writings in this posthumous collection. Edited by Wendy Pirsig, the collection includes unpublished speeches, letters, and private notes.
- Author:Frankfurt, Harry G.Summary:
After the success of his work "On bullshit," Frankfurt looks at the other side of the philosophical coin. If bullshit resides in the realm of subjective perception, then truth points to what lies outside that realm. Frankfurt is praised...
- Author:Maxwell, NicholasSummary:
How can the world we live in and see, touch, hear, and smell, the world of living things, people, consciousness, free will, meaning, and value - how can all of this exist and flourish embedded as it is in the physical universe, made up...
- Author:Griffin, BetsySummary:
Based on a true story about the author's grandfather, Rebecca Bond's Out of the Woods is a dramatic tale of survival featuring both animals and people. Antonio Willie Giroux lived in a hotel his mother ran on the edge of a...
- Author:Dawkins, RichardSummary:
Should we believe in God' In this brisk introduction to modern atheism, one of the world's greatest science writers tells us why we shouldn't. Richard Dawkins was fifteen when he stopped believing in God. Deeply impressed...
- Author:Meng, Yuan, Tu, LongSummary:
This true story of the Bai Family in China traces how their devotion to truth placed them on a collision course with the Communist Party. When they became practitioners of Falun Gong, it paved the way for a painful and torturous, yet...
- Author:Geoffrion, DanièleSummary:
Qui ici dit Aphorisme en appelle à la pensée en équilibre, sagesse et réflexion, avec un goût évident d’espérer en l’humanité, parfois malgré elle.
Sur les murs familiers de ma vie au jour le jour sont épinglés comme des...
- Author:Ellul, Jacques, Vanderburg, Willem H.Summary:
Originally broadcast on CBC Radio's Ideas as a series of interviews, Jacques Ellul's first-person approach here makes his ideas accessible to readers looking for new ways of understanding our society, and also gives unique new insight...
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