Richard Bernstein: 27 books
by Charles Taylor, Richard Bernstein, Daniel Gamper
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2017
Frente a un mundo en el que imperan los mensajes cortos, la inmediatez y la necesidad de crear sensaciones, la filosofía reivindica meditar sin prisas y pone en tela de juicio los lugares comunes. Como actividad libre, su objetivo no es la persecución del poder, sino la verdad entendida como la...
Out of the Blue
A Narrative of September 11, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
A gripping and authoritative account of the September 11th attack, its historical roots, and its aftermath
Few news stories in recent memory have commanded as much attention as the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, but no news organization rivaled The New York Times...
China 1945
Mao's Revolution and America's Fateful Choice
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
A riveting account of the watershed moment in America’s dealings with China that forever altered the course of East-West relations
As 1945 opened, America was on surprisingly congenial terms with China’s Communist rebels—their soldiers treated their American counterparts as heroes, rescuing...
The East, the West, and Sex
A History of Erotic Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2009
In this wide-ranging history, Richard Bernstein explores the connection between sex and power as it has played out between Eastern cultures and the Western explorers, merchants, and conquerors who have visited them. This illuminating book describes the historical and ongoing encounter between these...
by Richard Bernstein
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Que la vida y el pensamiento del filósofo estadounidense John Dewey (1859-1952) sigan hoy sorprendiendo no es extraño en un momento en que los intelectuales han renunciado a sus tareas públicas y educativas. John Dewey fue un pensador que no conoció barreras entre disciplinas, abarcando problemas...
A Girl Named Faithful Plum
The True Story of a Dancer from China and How She Achieved Her Dream
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
In 1977, when Zhongmei Lei was eleven years old, she learned that the prestigious Beijing Dance Academy was having open auditions. She'd already taken dance lessons, but everyone said a poor country girl would never get into the academy, especially without any connections in the Communist Party of...
Freud and Monotheism
Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy
Thinking the Plural
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016
Thinking The Plural: Richard J. Bernstein and the Expansion of American Philosophy is a text devoted to highlighting, scrutinizing, and deploying Bernstein’s philosophical research as it has intersected and impacted American and European philosophy. Collecting essays written explicitly for the volume...
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2016
"Just as philosophy begins with doubt, so also a life that may be called human begins with irony" so wrote Kierkegaard. While we commonly think of irony as a figure of speech where someone says one thing and means the opposite, the concept of irony has long played a more fundamental role in the tradition...
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of the most significant themes in Arendt's thinking have their origins in their confrontation with the Jewish...
by Richard J. Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2013
In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and...
Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution
The Complete Guide to Achieving Normal Blood Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Originally published in 1997, DR. BERNSTEIN'S DIABETES SOLUTION is a unique resource that covers both adult- and childhood-onset diabetes, explains step-by-step how to normalize blood sugar levels and prevent or reverse complications, and offers detailed guidelines for establishing a treatment plan....
Ending Poverty in America
How to Restore the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2009
**An “**engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles” from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more (Publishers Weekly).
Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the...
Violence
Thinking without Banisters
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
We live in a time when we are overwhelmed with talk and images of violence. Whether on television, the internet, films or the video screen, we can’t escape representations of actual or fictional violence - another murder, another killing spree in a high school or movie theatre, another action movie...
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