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"Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher you've likely never heard of. In 1984, Parfit published what was, and is still, hailed by many philosophers as a work of genius - one of the most cited works of philosophy since World War II, Reasons and Persons. At its core, he argued that we should be concerned less with our own interests and more with the common good. His book brims with brilliant argumentative detail and stunningly inventive...
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"When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes-war, famine, pandemic-we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its...
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Vintage Books
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©2012
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First Vintage books edition.
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xxxv, 484 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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English
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In his unwavering commitment to truth and in the example of his own life, Socrates set the standard for all subsequent Western philosophy. And yet, for twenty-five centuries, he has remained an enigma: a man who left no written legacy and about whom everything we know is hearsay, gleaned from the writings of Plato, Xenophon and Aristophanes. Now the author, a historian gives us a portrait of Socrates and of his homeland, Athens in its Golden Age....
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 8
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie helps a new friend discover the identity of her father. But Isabel also manages to find time for her own concerns: her young son, Charlie, already walking and talking; her housekeeper, Grace, whose spiritualist has lately been doubling as a financial adviser; her niece Cat's latest relationship; and the pressing question of when and how Isabel and Jamie should finally get married.
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Zeitgeist Films
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2015.
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (128 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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English
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This thought provoking and spirited documentary, with its abundance of archival materials, offers an intimate portrait of the whole of Hannah Arendt's life.
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Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First U.S. edition.
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viii, 452 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
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English
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A biography of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.
"A groundbreaking new biography of philosophy's greatest iconoclast. Friedrich Nietzsche is one of the most enigmatic figures in philosophy, and his concepts--the Übermensch, the will to power, slave morality--have fundamentally reshaped our understanding of the human condition. But what do most people really know of Nietzsche--beyond the mustache, the scowl, and the lingering association with...
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Liveright Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
c2013
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1st ed.
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xx, 648 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A biography of the philosopher and political revolutionary describes his childhood and family life along with his public life as an agitator and dissident and compares him to his contemporaries.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 5
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Pantheon Books
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2008
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240 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Isabel Dalhousie comes to the aid of a renowned, much respected doctor whose reputation is at stake following the death of a patient because of allegations of scientific fraud in respect to a newly marketed drug.
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Born in the late 5th century AD, Boethius was a Roman statesman and philosopher who would come into the service of the Ostrogothic ruler of Italy, Theodoric the Great. Ultimately, he would rise to the position of magister officiorum, the head of all the government and court services. In 523 A.D., he would find himself accused of treasonous correspondence with Justin I, a charge that would land him in prison and ultimately lead to his execution. During...
13) Cicero's Tusculan Disputations: Also, Treatises on the Nature of the Gods, and on The Commonwealth
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This volume contains an English translation of "The Tusculanae Disputations", a five-book series written around 45 BC by Cicero, a Roman orator, statesman, philosopher and lawyer considered to be one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. The books were originally written as an attempt to introduce Greek philosophy to Ancient Rome, especially stoicism. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in Greek philosophy, and it would make...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 7
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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1st United States ed.
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256 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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A couple who are old friends of Isabel Dalhousie's ask for her help in a rather tricky situation: A successor is being sought for the headmaster position at their alma mater. The board has four final candidates but has received an anonymous letter alleging that one of them has a very serious skeleton in the closet. Could Isabel discreetly look into it?
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"Trapisondas de un filósofo insolente" (segunda edición) es la autobiografía ficticia de un filósofo ocurrente y socarrón que se nos muestra como un niño apocado y vergonzoso, primero; como un muchacho que huye de su casa y vive aventuras singulares, después; como universitario que alterna con compañeros juerguistas y mujeriegos, a continuación y, por último, dando forma al filósofo mundano y advertido que ya es y así poder salpimentar...
16) Simply Sartre
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"This is a delightful introduction to the life and ideas of Jean-Paul Sartre. Detmer's writing is clear, engaging, and fun to read. The book weaves together accurate overviews of Sartre's main ideas with convincing reasons these ideas are still relevant today. The book ends with useful summaries of 50 of Sartre's works-a perfect roadmap for anyone who wishes to read Sartre himself. If I had to recommend one book to a friend, colleague, or family member...
17) Antígona
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"Antígona contra las injustas leyes del Estado. Antígona defendiendo las leyes del corazón. Antígona frente a la ceguera complaciente. Antígona combatiendo el patriarcado. Son muchas y muy diversas las lecturas que se han hecho del clásico de Sófocles, de Platón a Judith Butler, pasando por Hegel o Kierkegaard. Ahora bien, nadie hasta hoy se había atrevido a reescribir Antígona como lo ha hecho Slavoj Žižek, con la declarada intención...
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In the early 1950s, German philosopher Martin Heidegger proclaimed the Austrian expressionist Georg Trakl to be the poet of his generation and of the hidden Occident. Trakl, a guilt-ridden lyricist who died of a cocaine overdose in the early days of World War I, thus became for Heidegger a redemptive successor to Hölderlin. Drawing on Derrida's “Geschlecht” series and substantial archival research, “Dialogue on the Threshold” explores the...
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A partir de las raíces fenomenológicas que introdujeron en esta corriente filosófica el problema del cuerpo y la constitución del mundo, el autor se aboca al estudio de lo que fuera la tesis doctoral de Ricoeur (Filosofía de la voluntad I), y sus primeras consideraciones sobre la relación entre carne y conciencia. Desde allí, elabora líneas de reflexión que recuperan la evolución de la relación cuerpo-naturaleza en las subsiguientes obras...
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