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Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life Price: $58.50 (more details) The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethicopolitical conclusions concerning the state of society t... |
The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart Price: $18.68 (more details) 'These are the stories that came to me to be told after the close of a magical marriage to an extraordinary man that ended in a less-than-magical divorce. I found myself unmoored, unmated, ungrounded in a way that challenged everything I'd ever thought about human relationships. Situated squarely in that terrifying paradise called freedom, precipitously out on so many emotional limbs, it was as if I had been born; and, in f... |
The Homocysteine Revolution The Homocysteine Revolution Price: $13.22 (more details) More than 30 years ago, a young Harvard pathologist offered the medical community a theory for the cause of one of today's biggest killers-- heart disease. It is called the Homocysteine Theory and is the medical breakthrough that inspired Andrew Weil to label Dr. McCully as 'a visionary medical pioneer well ahead of his time'. This discovery has the potential to save millions, yet ironically destroyed Dr. McCully's medical career. Hom... |
Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age Price: $107.25 (more details) Language and Learning: Philosophy of Language in the Hellenistic Age |
Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship: Philosophy in a Changing World Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship: Philosophy in a Changing World Price: $117.00 (more details) Education, Autonomy and Democratic Citizenship: Philosophy in a Changing World |
The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses The Mahabharata: An English Version Based on Selected Verses Price: $35.09 (more details) The Mahabharata is the longest and, arguably, one of the greatest epic poems in any language. Intended to be a treatise on life itself, it embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. With its central theme of universal destruction and the evils of war, the epic poem reveals not the exploits of heroes but of ordinary lives in search of the most fundament... |
Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information: Proceedings of the 30th Inter... Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information: Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-symposium in Kirchberg, 2007 Price: $105.30 (more details) Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information: Proceedings of the 30th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-symposium in Kirchberg, 2007 |
Restructuring the Manufacturing Process Applying the Matrix Method Restructuring the Manufacturing Process Applying the Matrix Method Price: $81.85 (more details) Introducing the Matrix Manufacturing Method (MMM) -- a new approach to apply beneficial technology to all stages of the manufacturing process. The upside potential of this leading-edge method is enormous: reduced lead time, increased product diversity, higher quality products, greater customer satisfaction, more competitive pricing, and dominance in global competition. Details of the Matrix Manuf... |
After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy Price: $45.78 (more details) Provides a significant contribution to the growing genre of works offering a challenge to the modern and post-modern accounts of Christianity. Author Catherine Pickstock references Platonic philosophy and provides an important rethinking of Christian understandings of language, temporal and bodily life, and notions of the presence of God. |
The Science of Business, Lesson 7: Being the Philosophy of Successful Human A... The Science of Business, Lesson 7: Being the Philosophy of Successful Human Activity Functioning in Business Building or Constructive Salesmanship Price: $20.43 (more details) The Science of Business, Lesson 7: Being the Philosophy of Successful Human Activity Functioning in Business Building or Constructive Salesmanship |
Salt Run Salt Run Price: $15.55 (more details) Luke Fisher surfs by morning and attends classes at Flagler College by day. He passes out at the ghastly sight of what he finds on the beach one morning, and quickly becomes the prime suspect in a crime that rocks the college and the small town community of St. Augustine, Florida. When former Maine state judge Rick Derlax's 'do the crime, do the time' philosophy catches up with him, he escapes to the small coastal town to begin a new career as a profess... |
Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and the Meditations Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and the Meditations Price: $78.00 (more details) Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Descartes and the Meditations |
Lectures on Modern Idealism Lectures on Modern Idealism Price: $28.28 (more details) Ten lectures covering Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and the dialectical method by leading American philosopher. Focuses on the importance for modern philosophy of the nature of the human self. |
The One and the Many: Universalism and the Vision of Unity The One and the Many: Universalism and the Vision of Unity Price: $16.53 (more details) At the beginning of the 20th century a second scientific revolution was set in motion with Einstein's theory of relativity and the discovery of quantum mechanics. This new physics influenced the philosophers of the day -- but only until 1910, when materialistic philosophy took hold, and its supporters insisted that metaphysical principles be verified. Nicholas Hagger has revived this philosophical tradi... |
| Arcana of Nature: Or, the Philosophy of Spiritual Existence Arcana of Nature: Or, the Philosophy of Spiritual Existence Price: $18.52 (more details) Arcana of Nature: Or, the Philosophy of Spiritual Existence |
Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant Moral Philosophy from Montaigne to Kant Price: $43.87 (more details) Originally issued as a two-volume edition in 1990, the anthology is now re-issued (with a new foreword) as a one-volume anthology. It is a companion to Schneewind's highly successful history of modern ethics, The Invention of Autonomy. The anthology provides many of the sources discussed in The Invention of Autonomy. The combined two volumes are an invaluable resource for the teaching of the history of modern moral philoso... |
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