Philosophy

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From A Breath of Relief From This Fast-Paced World On Consumed Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	Both nostalgia and consumerism satisfy a longing, an attempt to satisfy impossible desires. Consumerism, as in the most important role for a person is somone who buys things, and a history of …	David Berry	23	2020	$2.30 Add
From A Failure to Communicate Facts are not Enough with George Lakoff From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Lakoff described frames as metaphors and conceptual frameworks that we use to interpret and understand the world. They give meaning to the words we hear more than the other way around, because …	James Hoggan	7	2016	$0.70 Add
From A Failure to Communicate Matters of Concern with Bruno Latour From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Latour told me we should put aside matters of fact and focus instead upon matters of concern, a conclusion he arrived at after having studied everything from environmental crises to atmospheres …	James Hoggan	12	2016	$1.20 Add
From A Healthier Foundation From: Not Just a Pretty Face View New Society Publishers	Safe products, healthy business practices and the growing natural products industry.	Stacy Malkan	15	2007	$1.50 Add
From NEW! A Hut of One’s Own From: In Praise of Retreat View ECW Press	This chapter explores the concept of being a hermit. The author describes their own experience and provides examples of hermits throughout history and the religious, political, and personal …	Kirsteen MacLeod	32	2021	$3.20 Add
From A Letter to my Granddaughter about Dartmouth From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	You just turned 17 this month, granddaughter, and you’ll be leaving the nest for college soon, I suppose. I wish you wouldn’t, but I know better than to say that, so at least let me …	John Taylor Gatto	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From A Lifelong Loyalty From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	This chapter describes Arendt’s activities in France before the outbreak of war with Germany. In France, she lived an active social and political life before the German invasion.	Ann Heberlein	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From A New Beginning From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	This chapter details Arendt’s journey to Portugal, and her subsequent sea voyage to America.	Ann Heberlein	6	2021	$0.60 Add
From A Sketch of Ingarden’s Life, Career, and Works From: Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics View University of Ottawa Press	A Chronological Overview of Ingarden’s Life and Major Publications	Jeff Mitsecherling	32	1997	$3.52 Add
From A Special Kind of Evil From: On Love and Tyranny View House of Anansi Press	This chapter concerns Arendt’s flight from Germany, and her arrival in Paris in 1933. It also details some of the history of anti-Semitism in Europe.	Ann Heberlein	5	2021	$0.50 Add
From Accepting What Is From: Intrinsic Hope View New Society Publishers	Accepting the reality of the global eco-social crisis nurtures intrinsic hope because it gives us the possibility of doing something about it. By saying yes to our situation — even a …	Kate Davies	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From Affective Neuroscience From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body.	Andreas Weber	30	2016	$3.00 Add
From Afterword Invitation to an Open Conspiracy: The Bartleby Project From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	The whole diseased empire of institutional schooling is, like the wonderful one-horse shay, extremely fragile. Its most vulnerable point, the glue that holds the thing together, is standardized …	John Taylor Gatto	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From Alienation From: Finding Our Niche View Fernwood Publishing	In the first chapter of Finding Our Niche, Alienation, Loring introduces the eco-modernist philosophy that humans are inherently destructive of and separate from nature, and explains how that …	Philip A. Loring	26	2020	$2.60 Add
From Alvin Plantinga’s Slip From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique View University of Ottawa Press	All inquiry, they say, is carried on within the framework of a presupposed set of principles that determine, for instance, what is to count as being reasonable grounds for what. Therefore, they …	D. Goldstick	9	1999	$1.08 Add