Jon Stewart: 30 books
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents Earth (The Book)
A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
The New York Times bestseller from Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, *Daily Show-*anchoring Jon Stewart--the man behind the megaseller America (The Book) -- is now available as an ebook!
Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time,...
The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing
The Perils of Conformity
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
In The Unity of Content and Form in Philosophical Writing, Jon Stewart argues that there is a close relation between content and form in philosophical writing. While this might seem obvious at first glance, it is overlooked in the current climate of Anglophone academic philosophy, which, Stewart contends,...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Presents America (The Book) Teacher's Edition
A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
For everyone who was too cheap to buy the hardcover, the blockbuster, award-winning #1 New York Times bestseller is now available in ebook--with a new introduction, fully updated, and with equally unsettling nude photos of the newest Supreme Court justices, and a text corrected by the most reputable...
Late-Night Talkers: The Playboy Interview
50 Years of the Playboy Interview
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Who needs sleep anyway? The men (and woman) who established a genre of television—comedy after dark—are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From pioneers Dick Cavett and Tom Snyder to the original meta-hosts David Letterman and Garry...
Søren Kierkegaard
Subjectivity, Irony, & the Crisis of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Søren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Søren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has freeired, provoked, fascinated, and irritated people ever since he walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of his life, Kierkegaard said that the only model...
Hegel's Interpretation of the Religions of the World
The Logic of the Gods
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2018
In his Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, Hegel treats the religions of the world under the rubric "the determinate religion." This is a part of his corpus that has traditionally been neglected since scholars have struggled to understand what philosophical work it is supposed to do....
by Katalin Nun, Jon Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
One of the elements that many readers admire in Kierkegaard’s skill as a writer is his ability to create different voices and perspectives in his works. Instead of unilaterally presenting clear-cut doctrines and theses, he confronts the reader with a range of personalities and figures who all espouse...
by Aletta Bonn, Tim Allott, Klaus Hubacek
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
The uplands are a crucial source of ecosystem services, such as water provision, carbon retention, maintenance of biodiversity, provision of recreation value and cultural heritage. This puts them in the focus of both environmental and social scientists as well as practitioners and land managers.....
Volume 16, Tome II: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs
Gulliver to Zerlina
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension...
Volume 12, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art
The Germanophone World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists worldwide who have been attracted to his creative mixing of genres, his complex use of pseudonyms, his rhetoric and literary style, and...
Volume 16, Tome I: Kierkegaard's Literary Figures and Motifs
Agamemnon to Guadalquivir
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
While Kierkegaard is perhaps known best as a religious thinker and philosopher, there is an unmistakable literary element in his writings. He often explains complex concepts and ideas by using literary figures and motifs that he could assume his readers would have some familiarity with. This dimension...
Volume 12, Tome IV: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art
The Anglophone World
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work of major cultural figures not just in Denmark and Scandinavia but also in the wider world. They have...
Volume 15, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Concepts
Objectivity to Sacrifice
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Kierkegaard’s Concepts is a comprehensive, multi-volume survey of the key concepts and categories that inform Kierkegaard’s writings. Each article is a substantial, original piece of scholarship, which discusses the etymology and lexical meaning of the relevant Danish term, traces the development...
Volume 12, Tome V: Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art
The Romance Languages, Central and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
While Kierkegaard is primarily known as a philosopher or religious thinker, his writings have also been used extensively by literary writers, critics and artists. This use can be traced in the work of major cultural figures not just in Denmark and Scandinavia but also in the wider world. They have...