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Written partly in response to Social Darwinism and in particular to Thomas H. Huxley's Nineteenth Century essay, "The Struggle for Existence", Kropotkin's book drew on his experiences in scientific expeditions in Siberia to illustrate the phenomenon of cooperation. After examining the evidence of cooperation in nonhuman animals, pre-feudal societies, in medieval cities, and in modern times, he concludes that cooperation and mutual aid are the most...
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The two lectures translated here were published in 1957 under the title Identitat und Differenz. The sensitive and attentive reader will come away with a feeling that he now knows Heidegger, the man, the teacher, better. Heidegger provides illuminating insights and thoughts on many a vital issue-our technological age, religion, language, history, and more-all of which he touches upon here, if only epigrammatically. What makes Heidegger important is...
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Tyler Roberts encourages scholars to abandon rigid conceptual oppositions between "secular" and "religious" to better understand how human beings actively and thoughtfully engage with their worlds and make meaning. The artificial distinction between a self-conscious and critical "academic study of religion" and an ideological and authoritarian "religion," he argues, only obscures the phenomenon. Instead, Roberts calls on intellectuals to approach...
44) Althusser et Spinoza: Détours et retours: Avec trois textes inédits de Louis Althusser sur Spinoza
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Spinoza était un auteur dérangeant dans son siècle et le reste aujourd'hui. Sa pensée resurgit quand on la croit refoulée pour ébranler des certitudes dont celles du marxisme, qui a subi l'impact du spectre de Spinoza convoqué par Althusser.
Il y a des philosophies dont il n'est pas facile de se débarrasser, qui, de façon directe ou par le détour de critiques et de dénégations, s'imposent par-delà les siècles dans le débat philosophique....
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Maria Diaz, originally from Ecuador, teaches math in a Miami high school. She is intellectual, loves poetry and likes music-from classical to Andean, to tangos-and suffers from insomnia. Sleep intrigues her. She does the math and figures that over a sixty-year span we sleep the staggering sum of twenty years. Where does all that time go? Is it a waste? Or does it have a hidden redeeming value? Finding answers to these questions becomes her quest.
She...
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A progressive secular society is one committed to the widening of scientific knowledge and humane feeling. It regards humanity as part of physical nature and opposes any appeal to supernatural agencies or explanations. In particular, human moral perspectives are human creations and the only basis for ethics. Secular values need re-affirming in the face of the resurgence of aggressive supernatural religious doctrines and practices. This book gives...
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Découvrez les portraits de ces femmes si fortes...
Ce livre a été entrepris dans l'optique du 25e anniversaire des Mères pour la Paix. Il rappelle quelques pages de l'histoire des deux dernières décennies, évoquant les grandes crises internationales et leurs terribles conséquences, notamment sur les femmes et les enfants. Il apporte en même temps un regard parfois critique, parfois tendre mais objectif sur les écueils et les échecs qui...
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"Winner of the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" "Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Language & Linguistics, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the 2015 Christian Gauss Award, Phi Beta Kappa Society" "One of The Times Literary Supplement's Books of the year 2014, chosen by Thom Shippey" "Selected for the Claremont Review of Books CRB Christmas Reading List 2015" James Turner is the Cavanaugh Professor...
49) Le Prince
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Extrait: "Tous les Etats, toutes les dominations qui ont tenu et tiennent encore les hommes sous leur empire, ont été et sont ou des républiques ou des principautés. Les principautés sont ou héréditaires ou nouvelles. Les héréditaires sont celles qui ont été longtemps possédées par la famille de leur prince."
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Michel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal-curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But wha,t does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short, erudite, and lively chapters written over a single summer, Antoine Compagnon seeks answers to that question.
In A Summer with Montaigne, Compagnon invites his readers to join him as he strolls through...
51) The Art of Being
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Renowned social psychologist Erich Fromm outlines a guide to well-being in the modern age Though laptops, smartphones, and TVs have in many ways made life more convenient, they have also disconnected us from the real world. Days are spent going from screen to machine, machine to screen. In The Art of Being, renowned humanist philosopher and psychoanalyst Erich Fromm draws from sources as varied as Sigmund Freud, Buddha, and Karl Marx to find a new,...
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Essays on human alienation, mode of existence, consumerism, narcissism, and more from "both a psychologist of penetration and a writer of ability" (Chicago Tribune).
As Erich Fromm points out, ours is "a life between having and being"-between mere having and healthy being, between destructiveness and creativity, between narcissism and productive self-understanding, between passivity and the joy of positive activity.
The alternatives of having...
53) Laconics of Cult
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There is but one form of human enslavement more villainous and more detestable than the chains of the tyrant or the shackles of the despot, and that is the enslavement of the human mind under ecclesiastical tyranny, whose cowering and crouching victims at the crack of the priestly lash are driven from the cultivation of their own intelligence, from the custody of their own thoughts, from the guardianship of their own souls, and who, like whipt dogs,...
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In a waking dream, we inhabit the dreamworld with an awareness of doing so-as sometimes happens upon waking from sleep when a dream continues to feel present alongside an awareness of lying in bed.
Taking perspectives from transpersonal psychology, ecotherapy, complexity theory, and fractal geometry, this book develops new possibilities within waking dream practice (also known as, "active imagination" and "guided imagery") to show:
• how the in-between...
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From the very dawn of time when humanity started to explore our blue planet there has also always been a compulsion to find our true origins — body, soul and spirit. In this modern age we accept that those origins came from a sun-drenched primordial pool full of organic sea sludge. If you travelled back in time 90,000 years and spoke to cave people from Africa to Australia drawing on their walls and showed them the sea sludge we had once come from,...
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"Más que en cualquier otro período, la filosofía en el Renacimiento reclama un abordaje interdisciplinario, cosa que se ha tenido en cuenta al acercarnos a sus autores. De todos modos, nos hemos ceñido al campo de las ideas sobre el que confluyen otras perspectivas. Asimismo, hemos tomado como referencia esencial, en la "Introducción", su momento más pleno y emblemático, el siglo XV, con epicentro en Florencia. Aun así, sería imposible abarcar...
57) Little Dreamer
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Little Dreamer encompasses universal experiences. When we feel like we're falling apart, we tend to feel as though it's a personal problem and that we cannot be understood by others. The truth is, heartbreak is, felt by billions of others across the world. But, just like heartbreak, happiness can also be felt by billions of others too. No matter what background we have or what time zone we're in, our brothers and sisters in humanity, across this beautiful...
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La vida y los escritos de Tomás Moro (1478-1535) han adquirido mayor actualidad con el correr de los años, y suscitan un interés creciente.
Hombre de Estado, canciller, escritor, padre de familia y santo, Moro fue uno de los pilares del humanismo renacentista.
Su atractiva personalidad y su importancia histórica y literaria son tan evidentes como su alto valor ético y espiritual.
La carta, como el diálogo, fue el género favorito de los humanistas,...
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The classic work that redefined the sociology of knowledge and has inspired a generation of philosophers and thinkers In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge-the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among...
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