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by Anthony K. Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Nietzsche, the so-called herald of the 'philosophy of the future', nevertheless dealt with the past on nearly every page of his writing. Not only was he concerned with how past values, cultural practices and institutions influence the present - he was plainly aware that any attempt to understand that...
The Sense of Semblance
Philosophical Analyses of Holocaust Art
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust. The book’s principal aim is to move beyond the familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness...
Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy
Raiding the Temple of Wisdom
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
This volume will convince readers that the swift ascent of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to worldwide popularity in the 1970s and 1980s is the most exciting event in popular culture since the invention of the motion picture.”
Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy presents twenty-one...
The Philosophical I
Personal Reflections on Life in Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2002
Philosophy is shaped by life and life is shaped by philosophy. This is reflected in The Philosophical I, a collection of 16 autobiographical essays by prominent philosophers. Candid and philosophically insightful, these personal narratives critically call into question the belief that philosophy should...
Words of Wisdom
Philosophy's Most Important Quotations and Their Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Words of Wisdom brings together 360 of Philosophy's most famous quotations, explaining their meaning and telling the stories behind them.
Western philosophy may be said to have begun in ancient Greece, where, inscribed in his temple at Delphi, the words of the god Apollo commanded those who...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2012
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Despite dating from the 4th century BC, The Art of Rhetoric continues to be regarded by many as the single most important work on the art of persuasion. As democracy began emerging in 5th-century Athens, public...
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages
Dante and His Precursors
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2002
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy...
by Immanuel Kant, Robert B. Louden, Günter Zöller
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2007
Anthropology, History, and Education, first published in 2007, contains all of Kant's major writings on human nature. Some of these works, which were published over a thirty-nine year period between 1764 and 1803, had never before been translated into English. Kant's question 'What is the human being?'...
Aesthetic
As Science of Expression and General Linguistic
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Benedetto Croce is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His work in aesthetics and historiography has been controversial, but enduring. When the first edition of ^Esthetic appeared in 1902, Croce was seen as foremost in reasserting an idealistic philosophy, which despite...
Think Differently: Open your mind. Philosophy for modern life
20 thought-provoking lessons (BUILD+BECOME)
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
**Philosophy is about our lives and how we live them. **
Using a unique, visual approach to explore philosophical concepts, Adam Ferner shows how philosophy is one of our best tools for responding to the challenges of the modern world.
From philosophical ‘people skills’ to ethical and...
by Christopher Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2011
“[Phillips takes] philosophy out of the ivory tower and into the street.”—Los Angeles Times
Christopher Phillips goes to the heart of philosophy and Socratic discourse to discover what we’re all looking for: the kind of love that makes life worthwhile. That is, love not defined only...
Bob Dylan and Philosophy
It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Thinking)
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2011
The legions of Bob Dylan fans know that Dylan is not just a great composer, writer, and performer, but a great thinker as well. In Bob Dylan and Philosophy, eighteen philosophers analyze Dylan’s ethical positions, political commitments, views on gender and sexuality, and his complicated and controversial...
by Dean A. Kowalski
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
In The Philosophy of The X-Files, Dean A. Kowalski has gathered a remarkable cast of contributors to shed light on the philosophical mysteries of the television show The X-Files. With sections devoted to the show's credos, such as "The Truth Is Out There," individual characters, and specific...
The Princess Bride and Philosophy
Inconceivable!
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2015
The Princess Bride is the 1987 satirical adventure movie that had to wait for the Internet and DVDs to become the most quoted of all cult classics. The Princess Bride and Philosophy is for all those who have wondered about the true meaning of Inconceivable!,” why the name Roberts” uniquely...