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Many authors throughout history have presented their religious beliefs in written form, and H. G. Wells is no exception. Within this fascinating volume, Wells covers everything from inter personal relationships to military attitude. He begins with his ideas concerning metaphysics, beliefs, and general conduct; with the latter part of the book dealing with 'personal things'. Contents include: "The Back Of Miss Bathwick And George Boon", "Being The...
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"Winner of the Grand Prix de la Biographie Politique" "Winner of the Prix littéraire de biographie historique Brantme" "A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year"
Olivier Zunz is the James Madison Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Virginia. He is the author, most recently, of Philanthropy in America: A History (Princeton). He is the editor of the Library of America edition of Democracy in America, Tocqueville's Recollections,...
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Disenchanted Wanderer is the first comprehensive English-language study in over half a century of the life and ideas of Konstantin Nikolaevich Leontiev (1831—1891), one of the most important thinkers in nineteenth-century Russia on political, social, and religious matters. Glenn Cronin gives the reader a broad overview of Leontiev's life and varied career as novelist, army doctor, diplomat, journalist, censor, and, late in life, ordained monk.
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The Monsoon Diaries is the firsthand account of Dr. Calvin Sun, an emergency room doctor, who worked tirelessly on the front lines in multiple hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Drawing upon the lessons he learned from his adventures traveling to more than 190 countries in ten years, as well as from the grief he experienced as a teen when his father died, Dr. Sun shares his journey, from growing up as a young Asian American in New York to his...
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Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the "father of environmental ethics."Internationally renowned for the synthesis he has found in evolutionary biology and Christianity, Rolston has followed an immensely interesting life course. In this compelling biography, Rolston's story is traced from childhood to the present, detailing the process by which he has come to hone his profound philosophies. Culled from countless interviews with Rolston...
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Ryan Patrick Hanley is professor of political science at Boston College. He is the author of Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue and the editor of Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy (Princeton) and the Penguin Classics edition of Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments.
Invaluable wisdom on living a good life from the founder of modern economics
Adam Smith is best known today as the founder of modern economics, but he was also an...
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Lors de sa retraite, un homme entreprend une longue marche de Lille à Strasbourg et découvre, ainsi, le souffle d'une seconde vie.
Le 2 octobre 2017 un homme s'en va sur les chemins avec son sac à dos, il vient de prendre sa retraite. La vie professionnelle s'est arrêtée, il doit inventer une seconde vie. Au cours de sa randonnée solitaire qui le conduit de Lille à Strasbourg il va apprendre la subtile alchimie de la marche : se déprendre...
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Ecrivaine et philosophe, fondatrice des Cahiers du GRIF, Françoise Collin nous a quitté.e.s à l'automne 2012, laissant la scène féministe belge orpheline de l'une de ses figures les plus engagées et les plus influentes sur le plan international.
Ce numéro de Sextant souhaite rendre hommage à Françoise Collin, écrivaine et philosophe belge, et souligner à la fois la singularité et la pertinence de son œuvre dans notre société contemporaine.
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This book examines the ideas and influences of a nearly forgotten Swedish-American philosopher, John Elof Boodin (1869—1950). A friend and student of William James and protégé of Josiah Royce at Harvard, Boodin combined Jamesian pragmatism and Roycean idealism in developing original scholarship (nearly sixty articles and eight books) from 1900 to 1947, in addition to a volume of posthumous papers published in 1957. Although he is seldom remembered...
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Thoughts on Getting Me Back
Looking back: It is like sitting in the third row seat of an old station wagon, staring ahead at the road behind you...
It is not enough to sit in the front seat and see where you were going, you didn't know anyway.
To understand how you got here you have to look at where you have been.
In that third row seat facing backwards you might be tempted to stare at the floorboard or the marks on your shoes or the stripes on the...
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Walter Lowrie (1868-1959) played a leading role in introducing Kierkegaard to the English-speaking world as his first English-language biographer and the first English translator of more than a dozen volumes of his work.
A small, insignificant-looking intellectual with absurdly long legs, Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) was a veritable Hans Christian Andersen caricature of a man. A strange combination of witty cosmopolite and melancholy introvert,...
453) Adam Smith's America
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"Winner of the PROSE Award in Economics, Association of American Publishers" Glory M. Liu is assistant director of the Center for Economy and Society and assistant research professor at the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University. Her writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation, and other publications.
The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free markets
Originally published in 1776, Adam...
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In his private life, as well as in his work and political attitudes, Michel Foucault often stood in contradiction to himself, especially when his expansive ideas collided with the institutions in which he worked. In Francois Caillat's provocative collection of essays and interviews based on his French documentary of the same name, leading contemporary critics and philosophers reframe Foucault's legacy in an effort to build new ways of thinking about...
455) The Essential Marx
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Shortly before he was assassinated in 1940, Leon Trotsky - one of Marx's most devoted converts and a key figure in the Russian Revolution - made this selection from Capital, to which he appended his own lengthy and insightful introduction. Compact and fascinating, this invaluable work not only presents Marx's thoughts in his own words but also places them in the swirling context of the 20th century. A critical analysis of ideas that have influenced...
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An elusive and complex idea of truth lies at the center of Theodor Adorno's thought. Yet he never spells out what it is. Through close readings of Negative Dialectics, Aesthetic Theory, and related course lectures, Lambert Zuidervaart reconstructs Adorno's conception of truth, contrasts it with the conceptions of Martin Heidegger and Michel Foucault, and explores its relevance for contemporary philosophy, art, and politics. Adorno regards truth as...
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Steven Nadler is the William H. Hay II Professor of Philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His books include Rembrandt's Jews, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Spinoza: A Life, which won the Koret Jewish Book Award; and A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age (Princeton).
How a famous painting opens a window into the life, times, and philosophy of René Descartes
In the Louvre...
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Le travail est-il liberté ou aliénation ?
Le travail est-il, quoiqu'on fasse, l'opposé de la liberté et de la « vraie vie », don’t l'humanité pourrait, et devrait parvenir à se libérer ? Ou bien, est-il une modalité essentielle de l'accomplissement de soi, le lieu essentiel de la vie sociale en même temps que d'une transformation du monde capable de libérer l'homme du règne de la nécessité ? La modernité a exalté cette seconde...
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"Winner of the 2008 Prix François Guizot, Académie française" Lucien Jaume is a philosopher, political scientist, and historian of ideas. The author of a number of books, he is research director at France's Centre de Recherches Politiques de Sciences Po. He teaches in Paris, Rome, and Shanghai.
A major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential context
Many American readers like to regard Alexis...
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A dual biography of the two most influential socio-political moralists of the twentieth century, whose lives were intertwined personally and intellectually for more than forty-six years. Madsen provides an engrossing view of the luminously transparent relationship that was unconventional yet faithful to its ideals.
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