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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Deleuze Deleuze Alain Badiou A major new voice from France offers a provocative reevaluation of Deleuze’s philosophy. The works of Gilles Deleuze-on cinema, literature, painting, and philosophy-have made him one of the most w… OL102204W
The Problems of Philosophy The Problems of Philosophy Bertrand Russell In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative cr… OL1088577W
The philosophical discourse of modernity The philosophical discourse of modernity Jürgen Habermas A series of twelve lectures on Modern and Post Modern thinkers ranging from Hegel who critiqued subjective reason and sought to replace it with Absolute Knowledge to Nietsche who proclaimed the death… OL1414395W
Less than nothing Less than nothing Slavoj Žižek For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, whose influence each new thinker tries in vain to escape: whether in the name of the pre-rational Will, the social… OL16451383W
The Cambridge Companion to Levinas The Cambridge Companion to Levinas Simon Critchley,Robert Bernasconi Emmanuel Levinas is now widely recognised alongside Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty and Sartre as one of the most important Continental philosophers of the twentieth century. His abiding concern was the pri… OL16919097W
Beyond the post-modern mind Beyond the post-modern mind Huston Smith In Beyond the Post-Modern Mind, Houston Smith challenges the premises of our current Western ethos as a whole and points beyond to a new synthesis. Echoing the opening words of Dante's Divine Comedy,… OL18515899W
A companion to analytic philosophy A companion to analytic philosophy Aloysius Martinich "The entries in this Companion are contributed by contemporary philosophers, including some of the most distinguished now living, such as Michael Dummett, Frank Jackson, P. M. S. Hacker, Israel Schef… OL18849700W
Neuropolitics Neuropolitics Timothy Leary Timothy Leary, Ph.D. has been a world-renowned psychologist, a defrocked Harvard professor, a relentless champion of brain change, a reputed drug guru, a stand-up philosopher, and a prisoner of the N… OL1952606W
The Forty-nine Steps The Forty-nine Steps Roberto Calasso "In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating, and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to wh… OL2039381W
John Macmurray John Macmurray Nigel Dower,David Fergusson "This volume comprises of multidisciplinary study of the work of the important Scottish philosopher, John Macmurray (1891-1976). Macmurray held university posts in London and Edinburgh and exercised … OL20978689W
Socrates' children Socrates' children Peter Kreeft "How is this history of philosophy different from all others? 1. It's neighter very long (like Copleston's twelve-volumet tome, which is a clear and hepful reference work but pretty dull reading) nor… OL22314341W
Remaking Society Remaking Society Murray Bookchin According to Murray Bookchin, a humane solution to the climate crisis—a crisis he was among the first to identify—will require replacing industrial capitalism with an egalitarian, ecological society,… OL2422722W
Traditions 2 Traditions 2 Stephen H. Watson "In Tradition(s) II, Stephen H. Watson engages post-Kantian Continental philosophy in his continuing investigation into the concept of tradition which he began in his work Tradition(s). According to … OL2620626W
The making of the modern world The making of the modern world Alan Macfarlane "At the start of the third Christian millennium we are aware of massive political, economic and ideological changes which condition the chances of liberty, wealth and equality. Yet it is surprisingly… OL3285549W
Letters to Jeannine Letters to Jeannine Charlotte M. Savignac A mother writes essays to instruct her daughter on lessons of life. OL3535865W
The Philosophy of Karl Popper The Philosophy of Karl Popper Herbert Keuth "Karl Popper is one of the greatest and most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. Perhaps his greatest book, The Logic of Scientific Discovery, sets out his epistemology of critical rat… OL3642278W
Voluntary simplicity Voluntary simplicity Duane Elgin When Voluntary Simplicity was first published in 1981, it quickly became recognized as a powerful and visionary work in the emerging dialogue over sustainable ways of living. Nearly three decades lat… OL3913227W
Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason Patrick L. Bourgeois "In Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason, Patrick Bourgeois clarifies that although deconstruction has much to offer contemporary thinking, it has gone to some philosophical extremes. Taking a cue fr… OL4011348W