Humanism category: 419 books

Cover of When Species Meet
by Donna J. Haraway
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2013

In 2006, about 69 million U.S. households had pets, giving homes to around 73.9 million dogs, 90.5 million cats, and 16.6 million birds, and spending more than 38 billion dollars on companion animals. As never before in history, our pets are truly members of the family. But the notion of “companion...
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The Pursuit of Pleasure

Overcoming a Civilizational Challenge

by Arsen Dallan, Karlen Dallakyan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016

This important book unveils how the pleasure principle has taken humanity hostage to the powers of branding and consumerism, steering our most basic desires. Radically re-evaluating the notion of pleasure and arguing for a deep societal change, it shows the way to a new humanist culture.
Cover of Living Life from the Inside Out: Who You Are Matters
by Edward A. Dreyfus
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014

Most of us define ourselves by the things we own, the titles we earn, the jobs we hold. Many people view these externals as the same as their personal self-worth. Who they are = things they have or bought. This chapter sets the stage for the chapters that follow. Rather than defining ourselves from...
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Commentaries on Living - first series

A Study Book Of The Teachings of J. Krishnamurti

by Jiddu Krishnamurti
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017

Krishnamurti, Jiddu born of middle-class Brahmin parents, was recognized at age fourteen as the coming World Teacher. Krishnamurti claimed allegiance to no caste, nationality or religion and was bound by no tradition. He traveled the world and spoke spontaneously to large audiences until the end of...
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The Praise of Folly

Updated Edition

by Desiderius Erasmus
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015

Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and...
Cover of Freewill and Responsibility (Routledge Revivals)
by Anthony Kenny
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011

This reissue was first published in 1978. Anthony Kenny, one of the most distinguished philosophers in England, explores the notion of responsibility and the precise place of the mental element in criminal actions. Bringing the insights of recent philosophy of mind to bear on contemporary developments...
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Posthumous Life

Theorizing Beyond the Posthuman

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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017

Posthumous Life launches critical life studies: a mode of inquiry that neither endorses nor dismisses a wave of recent "turns" toward life, matter, vitality, inhumanity, animality, and the real. Questioning the nature and limits of life in the natural sciences, the essays in this volume...
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by Michel Leroux
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013

If you were to travel the world, you would quickly come to realize that the vast majority of humanity has the same list of wants and needs: food, shelter, water, education, justice and safety, to name a few. Joys and sorrows, hopes and desperations are also similar in many ways. Even though...
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Wild Hunger

The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction

by Bruce Wilshire
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1999

This pioneering work explores why our culture is plagued by addictions—by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors.
Cover of On Anxiety
by Renata Salecl
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

We frequently hear that we live in an age of anxiety, from 'therapy culture', the Atkins diet and child anti-depressants to gun culture and weapons of mass destruction. While Hollywood regularly cashes in on teenage anxiety through its Scream franchise, pharmaceutical companies churn out new drugs...
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by Ingersoll Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2019

There is but one form of human enslavement more villainous and more detestable than the chains of the tyrant or the shackles of the despot, and that is the enslavement of the human mind under ecclesiastical tyranny, whose cowering and crouching victims at the crack of the priestly lash are driven...
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The Amateur

The Pleasures of Doing What You Love

by Andy Merrifield
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017

A radical manifesto about doing what you love Andy Merrifield offers a passionate tribute to the revolutionary spirit of the amateur—a figure who thinks outside the box, takes risks, dreams the impossible dream, seeks independence, and carves out a new world. Merrifield celebrates such square...
Cover of Any Questions?
by Mark Edward Reed
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013

Any Questions? is a philosophical and inspirational book. It is unorthodox in style, perhaps even unique, though it is similar in content to some classic works like the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the Essays of Michel de Montaigne, and the Reflections of Schopenhauer. Written entirely in the...
Cover of The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love (The Unabridged Original English Translation)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Most Pleasant and Delectable Questions of Love (The Unabridged Original English Translation)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. This is a translation of Boccaccio`s “Il libro di Difinizioni”, first translated...
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