Who Owns the Moon? : In Defence of Humanity's Common Interests in Space by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries; titanium for missiles. The moon contains a wealth of natural resources. So, as the Earth's supplies have begun to dwindle, it is no surprise that the world's superpowers and wealthiest corporations have turned their eyes to the stars. As this new Space Ra ...Show more
For the Good of the World: Is Global Agreement on Global Challenges Possible? by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Philosophy
Can we human beings agree on a set of values which will allow us to confront the numerous threats that we and our planet face? Or will we continue our disagreements, rivalries and antipathies, even as we collectively approach what, in the not impossible extreme, might be extinction? To answer these que ...Show more
How Are We To Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest by Peter Singer
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Category: Philosophy
"Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one's own family?" Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has an answer to these and other questions in this compelling new volume. "If we can detach ourselves fr ...Show more
The Theatre of War: What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today by Bryan Doerries
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Category: Philosophy
Classical tragedy is timelessly powerful - not only does it still move us, but it heals, too. Bryan Doerries produces performances of Greek tragedies for soldiers returned from conflict, addicts, prison communities, victims of natural disasters, and other vulnerable people. His dramatisations have explo ...Show more
NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SOCIAL SCIENCE THE HETEROGENEOUS SOCIAL by LITTLE DANIEL
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Category: Philosophy
Philosophy matters for the social sciences. Our world faces ever more complex and hazardous problems and, social science ontology and methods need to be adequate to the changing nature of the social realm. Imagination and new ways of thinking are crucial to the social sciences. Based on Daniel Little's ...Show more
CRITIQUE OF JUDGEMENT by KANT IMMANUEL (UNIVERSITY OF
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Category: Philosophy
'beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational'In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of ...Show more
AGES OF THE WORLD by SCHELLING FWJ VON AND WIRTH JASON
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Category: Philosophy | Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy Ser.
A new translation of the third and most sustained version of Schelling's magnum opus, this great heroic poem is a genealogy of time. Anticipating Heidegger, as well as contemporary debates about post-modernity and the limits of dialectical thinking, Schelling struggles with the question of time as the r ...Show more
Montaigne: A Life by Philippe Desan
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Category: Philosophy
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and sto ...Show more
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: General Adult
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we - in the West, at least - largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a defining book for our time, Charles Taylor takes up the ...Show more
DISCLOSING THE WORLD ON THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF LANGUAGE by INKPIN ANDREW
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Category: Philosophy
The Comrade from Milan by Rossana Rossanda
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Category: Philosophy
In this much-lauded memoir, acclaimed for its blend of literary elegance and political passion, Rossana Rossanda, a legendary figure on the Italian left, reflects on a life of radical commitment. Active as a communist militant in the Italian Resistance against fascism during World War Two, Rossanda rose ...Show more
Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Theodor Adorno (1903-69) was undoubtedly the foremost thinker of the Frankfurt School, the influential group of German thinkers that fled to the US in the 1930s, including such thinkers as Herbert Marcuse and Max Horkheimer. His work has proved enormously influential in sociology, philosophy and cultura ...Show more