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by Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the...
In the Shadow of the Bomb
Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
In the Shadow of the Bomb narrates how two charismatic, exceptionally talented physicists--J. Robert Oppenheimer and Hans A. Bethe--came to terms with the nuclear weapons they helped to create. In 1945, the United States dropped the bomb, and physicists were forced to contemplate disquieting questions...
Einstein on Politics
His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2013
The most famous scientist of the twentieth century, Albert Einstein was also one of the century's most outspoken political activists. Deeply engaged with the events of his tumultuous times, from the two world wars and the Holocaust, to the atomic bomb and the Cold War, to the effort to establish a...
Xunzi
The Complete Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2014
This is the first complete, one-volume English translation of the ancient Chinese text Xunzi, one of the most extensive, sophisticated, and elegant works in the tradition of Confucian thought. Through essays, poetry, dialogues, and anecdotes, the Xunzi articulates a Confucian perspective on ethics,...
by Rachel Ablow
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
The nineteenth century introduced developments in science and medicine that made the eradication of pain conceivable for the first time. This new understanding of pain brought with it a complex set of moral and philosophical dilemmas. If pain serves no obvious purpose, how do we reconcile its existence...
Cop in the Hood
My Year Policing Baltimore's Eastern District
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
When Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos left the classroom to become a cop in Baltimore's Eastern District, he was thrust deep into police culture and the ways of the street--the nerve-rattling patrols, the thriving drug corners, and a world of poverty and violence that outsiders never see....
Soren Kierkegaard
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
"The day will come when not only my writings, but precisely my life--the intriguing secret of all the machinery--will be studied and studied." Søren Kierkegaard's remarkable combination of genius and peculiarity made this a fair if arrogant prediction. But Kierkegaard's life has been notoriously...
Wittgenstein Reads Freud
The Myth of the Unconscious
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Did Freud present a scientific hypothesis about the unconscious, as he always maintained and as many of his disciples keep repeating? This question has long prompted debates concerning the legitimacy and usefulness of psychoanalysis, and it is of utmost importance to Lacanian analysts, whose main...
Good Neighbors
The Democracy of Everyday Life in America
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2016
"Love thy neighbor" is an impossible exhortation. Good neighbors greet us on the street and do small favors, but neighbors also startle us with sounds at night and unleash their demons on us, they monitor and reproach us, and betray us to authorities. The moral principles prescribed for friendship,...
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of...
Philosophic Pride
Stoicism and Political Thought from Lipsius to Rousseau
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Philosophic Pride is the first full-scale look at the essential place of Stoicism in the foundations of modern political thought. Spanning the period from Justus Lipsius's Politics in 1589 to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's Emile in 1762, and concentrating on arguments originating from England, France, and...
Imperfect Garden
The Legacy of Humanism
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Available in English for the first time, Imperfect Garden is both an approachable intellectual history and a bracing treatise on how we should understand and experience our lives. In it, one of France's most prominent intellectuals explores the foundations, limits, and possibilities of humanist thinking....
Before the Deluge
Public Debt, Inequality, and the Intellectual Origins of the French Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2009
Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, "Après moi, le déluge" (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in 1789. But decades before the Bastille fell, French writers had used the phrase to describe...
by Robert Wokler
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2012
Robert Wokler was one of the world's leading experts on Rousseau and the Enlightenment, but some of his best work was published in the form of widely scattered and difficult-to-find essays. This book collects for the first time a representative selection of his most important essays on Rousseau and...