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The Foucault reader
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Michel Foucault |
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Einführung in die Literaturtheorie
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Terry Eagleton |
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The Problems of Philosophy
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Bertrand Russell |
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Choose Life
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Arnold J. Toynbee,Daisaku Ikeda,Ikeda Daisaku |
Also known as *The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue*. |
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A Study of History
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Arnold J. Toynbee,D.C Somervell |
A masterful attempt to describe a universal history. Staggering depth of scholarship and breath of thought. |
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Experience and education
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John Dewey |
*Experience and Education* is the best concise statement on education ever published by John Dewey, the man acknowledged to be the pre-eminent educational theorist of the twentieth century. Written m… |
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Violence
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Slavoj Žižek |
"Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Zizek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Zizek brings n… |
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The meaning of a liberal education
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One, two, three ... infinity
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George Gamow |
This wonderful book is an introduction to the relationship between mathematics and the physical world. It explains elements of quantum theory, relativity, and purer mathematics, in a way apprenendib… |
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Homo Ludens
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Johan Huizinga |
A unique philosophical perspective regarding the topic of play and it's impact and necessity in human culture. |
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The idea of a university
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John Henry Newman |
A series of lectures about the purpose of Universities in society. |
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What's wrong with microphysicalism?
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Andreas Hüttemann |
"What's Wrong With Microphysicalism? Is a convincing and original contribution to central issues in contemporary philosophy of mind, philosophy of science and metaphysics."--BOOK JACKET |
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James Madison and the spirit of republican self-government
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Colleen A. Sheehan |
In the first study that combines an in-depth examination of Madison's National Gazette essays of 179192 with a study of The Federalist, Colleen Sheehan traces the evolution of Madison's conception of… |
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Colloquium heptaplomeres
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Jean Bodin |
"An English translation of Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, originally written in Latin in the sixteenth-century by Jean Bodin. Structured as a series of discussions on religion … |
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Lonergan and the philosophy of historical existence
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Thomas J. McPartland |
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The uses and abuses of history
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History can be a very useful tool in understanding why we and those we must deal with think and react in certain ways. But in the wrong hands it can be dangerous and used to foster a sense of grievan… |
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Du refus à l'invocation
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Gabriel Marcel |
"This collection of lectures and essays was regarded by Gabriel Marcel as the best introduction to his thought. Outstanding in the richness of its analyses and in its application of Marcel's "concret… |
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Elements of philosophy
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Samuel E. Stumpf |
The third edition (1993) is by far the best single-volume introductory textbook I have ever encountered. Stumpf breaks down the complexities of each thinker's philosophies into well-organized and eas… |
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On other grounds
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Brigitte Weltman-Aron |
"On Other Grounds addresses the broader impacts of the English landscape movement on French gardening during the latter half of the eighteenth century. Through readings of the relevant texts of major… |
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Modern European thought
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Franklin LeVan Baumer |
This book is for anyone interested in ideas and their history. Despite its comprehensiveness, it is not primarily a survey or synthesis but rather an interpretation of modern intellectual history. It… |
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