There was no Reichstag fire. No storming of the Bastille. No mutiny on the Aurora. Instead, the mediocre have seized power without firing a single shot. They rose to power on the tide of an economy where workers produce assembly-line...
Philosophy
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Author:Deneault, Alain, Browne, CatherineSummary: - Author:Descartes, RenéSummary:
Considered a foundational text in modern philosophy, the Meditations on First Philosophy presents numerous powerful arguments that to this day influence debates in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of religion....
- Author:Descartes, ReneSummary:
A landmark in the history of thought, Rene Descartes' Meditations helped bring critical thinking and skepticism to the Western world. Modern philosophers are still captivated by Descartes' radical and controversial departure from his...
- Author:Sweeney, Jon M.Summary:
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328) was a priest, a mystic, and nearly a heretic (he died before the Church court's verdict). In the 20th century, the Roman Catholic Church rehabilitated him and the late Pope John Paul II spoke of his work with...
- Author:Herzog, BernardSummary:
La vie se poursuit-elle après la mort ? Sous quelle forme et dans quel but ? Telles sont les interrogations d’un professeur d’université de médecine d’aujourd’hui. Le grand apport de ce livre réside dans la qualité de l’échange entre le...
- Author:Crane, TimSummary:
This anthology provides an extensive and varied collection of the best classical and contemporary readings in metaphysics, as well as substantial editorial material, setting the extracts in context and guiding the reader through them....
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This anthology, intended to accompany A Companion to Metaphysics (1995), brings together over 60 selections which represent the best & most important works in metaphysics during this century. The selections are grouped under 9 major...
- Author:Eribon, DidierSummary:
À sa parution en 1989, cinq ans après la mort de Foucault, cette biographie fut internationalement saluée comme un événement. Explorant les archives inédites, Didier Éribon y restituait magistralement les mille visages, connus et...
- Author:Macdonald, William A.Summary:
Mutual accommodation is about co-operation, compromise, and inclusion. It's a big idea, equal to freedom, science, and compassion. The postwar global economic order led by the United States is one of the greatest historic...
- Author:Sweet, WilliamSummary:
There can be little dispute that culture influences philosophy: we see this in the way that classical Greek culture influenced Greek philosophy, that Christianity influenced mediaeval western philosophy, that French culture influenced a...
- Author:Bateson, GregorySummary:
An exploration of the mental patterns in nature that connect all living beings.
- Author:Dzogchen Ponlop, RinpocheSummary:
Mind Beyond Death is an indispensable guidebook through the journey of life and death. Using humorous analogies and his profound understanding of the Western mind, Dzogchen Ponlop makes the mysterious Tibetan teachings on the bardos--...
- Author:Grim, PatrickSummary:
How is it that our brain creates all the subjective experiences of our lives every single day-the experiences we call reality' That is the mind-body problem. In Mind-Body Philosophy, Professor Patrick Grim of the State University...
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Alongside the major narratives of ethics in the tradition of Western philosophy, a reader with an eye to the vague and the peripheral, to the turbulent and shifting, will spy minor lines of thinking - and with them, new histories and...
- Author:Dunn, Alexander, Ott, WalterSummary:
This is a textbook (or better, a workbook) in modern philosophy. It combines readings from primary sources with two pedagogical tools. Paragraphs in italics introduce figures and texts. Numbered study questions (also in italics) ask...
- Author:Timmons, MarkSummary:
Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the most historically important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and good. Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains and critically examines...
- Author:Lucht, Bernie, Ward, Barbara, Underhill, Frank H., Levi-Strauss, Claude, Brandt, Willy, Grant, GeorgeSummary:
The CBC Massey Lectures, Canada's preeminent public lecture series, are for many of us a highly anticipated annual feast of ideas. However, some of the finest lectures, by some of the greatest minds of modern times, have been lost for...
- Author:Gordon-Reed, AnnetteSummary:
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,...
- Author:Mo, DiSummary:
Mozi (fifth century B.C.) was an important political and social thinker and formidable rival of the Confucianists. He advocated universal love -- his most important doctrine according to which all humankind should be loved and treated...
- 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...
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