Clare Carlisle: 4 books

Book cover of On Habit
by Clare Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2014

For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as ‘the great guide of life’. However, for Proust habit is problematic: ‘if habit is a second nature, it prevents us from knowing our first.’ What is habit? Do habits turn us into machines or free us to do more...
Book cover of Kierkegaard's World

Kierkegaard's World

How to Believe

by Clare Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013

To some, Soren Kierkegaard is primarily a philosopher, to others a Christian thinker or theologian. He was also a perceptive psychologist and incisive cultural critic. But above all, Kierkegaard was a writer. Clare Carlisles tackles eight key questions surrounding Kierkegaards multi-faceted thinking,...
Book cover of A History of Habit

A History of Habit

From Aristotle to Bourdieu

by Jeffrey Bell, Nick Crossley, William O. Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013

From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low....
Book cover of Kierkegaard's 'Fear and Trembling'
by Clare Carlisle
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010

Søren Kierkegaard was without question one of the most important and influential thinkers of the nineteenth century. Fear and Trembling is a classic text in the history of both philosophical and religious thought that still challenges readers with its original philosophical perspective and idiosyncratic...
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