The Rise of Modern Philosophy - A New History of Western Philosophy (Volume 3) by Anthony Kenny
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: New History of Western Philosophy
Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy is the fascinating story of the emergence, from the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth century, of great ideas and intellectual systems that shaped modern thought. Kenny in ...Show more
The Value of the Novel by Peter Boxall
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: The Value of
Peter Boxall's The Value of the Novel offers a reappraisal of the ethical, political and literary value of the novel as a genre at turning point in the history both of literature and of criticism. As the dominant critical concerns of the twentieth century faded, and new cultural and technological enviro ...Show more
Barbie the Icon by Massimiliano Capella
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has broken cultural, social, and linguistic barriers, all while showcasing a fabulous fashion sense. Organised into five sections: Barbie Is Fashion; Barbie's Family; Dolls of the World; Barbie's Careers; and Queen, Diva and Celebrity, Barbie as Global Icon, Barbie: Th ...Show more
Creating Cities by Marcus Westbury
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In 2008, Marcus Westbury returned to his hometown of Newcastle, Australia and found more than 150 empty buildings lining its two main streets. Three years later the world’s largest travel publisher, Lonely Planet, named it one of the Top Ten cities to visit in the world. Creating Cities is about th ...Show more
Frames of War - When is Life Grievable? by Judith Butler
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this urgent response to violence, racism and increasingly aggressive methods of coercion, Judith Butler explores the media's portrayal of armed conflict, a process integral to how the West prosecutes its wars. In doing so, she calls for a reconceptualization of the left, one united in opposition and ...Show more
Challenge of Things: Thinking Through Troubled Times: Thinking Through Troubled Times by A. C. Grayling
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular. The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Thinking of Answers, but this time to collect Grayling's recent writ ...Show more
Cracking Philosophy by Martin Cohen
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: Cracking Series
This guide covers the main schools of thought from the Ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucius and Lao Tzu, Ancient wisdom from Aristotle, Plato, Zeno and Pythagoras through to those most influential of philosophers studied the world over - Hegel, Marx, Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein to ...Show more
The Existentialist Moment: The Rise of Sartre as a Public Intellectual by Patrick Baert
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2015 Jean-Paul Sartre is often seen as the quintessential public intellectual, but this was not always the case. Until the mid-1940s he was not so well-known, even in France. Then suddenly, in a very short period of time, Sartre became an intellectual celebrity. Ho ...Show more
Why Bernie Sanders Matters by Harry Jaffe
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Missionary. Radical. Hippy. Revolutionary. Red Mayor. Pragmatist. Socialist. Hot from the campaign trail, this vivid new biography goes inside Bernie Sanders's contradictions, his unusual life, and his electrifying quest to make the American dream a reality for all. He may be 'the least political person ...Show more
The Aesthetics of Degradation by Adrian W. West
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Pornography keeps getting more extreme. Manufacturers, defenders and consumers of porn rely on a mix of wilful ignorance and bad faith to avoid serious discussion. When we do talk about violence against women in the porn world, the debate all too often becomes technical, complicated by legalities and ou ...Show more
Philosophers at Table by Raymond Boisvert
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
One of the most important things we do every day is eat. The question of eating - what and how - may seem simple at first, but it is dense with possible interpretations, reflecting the myriad roles food plays in our lives. In fact, as Raymond D. Boisvert and Lisa Heldke show in this book, it's difficult ...Show more
America's Original Sin: Racism, White Privilege, and the Bridge to a New America by Wallis Jim
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
America's problem with race has deep roots, with the country's foundation tied to the near extermination of one race of people and the enslavement of another. Racism is truly our nation's original sin. "It's time we right this unacceptable wrong," says bestselling author and leading Christian activist J ...Show more