History of Ideas
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From  From the HeartSpeak the Truth, but not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh |
Thich Nhat Hanh used the example of a pine tree and suggested, what if that tree asked us what it could do to help the world? Our answer would be very clear: “You should be a beautiful, … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Great AgainOn Political Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
This chapter examines nostalgia in modern democracies, where generalized nostalgia binds individuals into a mass movement through its vagueness. The dissonance between nostlagia and how politics … | David Berry | 23 | 2020 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Hegel, The Particularity of Conflicts, and the Spaces of "Reason-ability" |
Hegel wants to show that history is not a cold, anonymous process that simply sweeps up human lives and never looks back. Indeed, his philosophy of history is primarily concerned with the … | Réal Fillion | 17 | 2008 | $2.21 Add |
 NEW! HumansThe 300,000-Year Struggle for Equality |
Historian Alvin Finkel builds on the work of archaeologists, anthropologists and historians to present the very long view of the history of the human species. His focus is not on the leaders … | 416 | View | ||
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From I’m Just So Tired of All These Star WarsOn Art and Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
Modern nostalgia in novel and flim is discussed, using examples of Ready Player One, Back to the Future, American Graffitti, Indiana Jones, and the introduction of prequels with Star Wars. … | David Berry | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From  IndexFrom: Restless Ideas |
Tony Simmons | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add | |
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From  NEW! Interregnum and the Birth of Neoliberalism |
This chapter outlines the origins of neoliberalism and the key ideas of this philosophy as well as tracing its resurgence beginning in the 1980s after decades of disfavour. | Alex Himelfarb | 36 | 2024 | $3.60 Add |
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From  NEW! IntroductionWhat Are We Doing Here? From: The Elective Mind |
The introduction lays out the intent of the book, a long essay reflecting on the value of elective courses in university, specifically philosophy, as an opportunity for shared, social learning … | Réal Fillion | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From IntroductionPlay It Once Again From: On Nostalgia |
The introduction discusses paradise as a place where nothing ever happens, as in the song "Heaven" by the Talking Heads. It also discusses the tension in nostalgia between the loss, the … | David Berry | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Introduction |
In Chapter One the author provides a background discussion of the definitions, concepts, history involved in refugee law. | Joseph Rikhof | 40 | 2023 | $4.00 Add |
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From Introduction: Where Are We Headed? |
Introduction | Réal Fillion | 17 | 2008 | $2.21 Add |
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From Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View |
For Kant, a position that enables us to consider the whole of history can be found if we adopt a cosmopolitan point of view. The idea of cosmopolitanism is quite popular at the present time … | Réal Fillion | 18 | 2008 | $2.34 Add |
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From Marx, Productive Forces, and History |
Marx wants to show us that it is the productive forces that have developed out of our passionate engagements with each other and the world (of nature) that are at the heart of "actual … | Réal Fillion | 18 | 2008 | $2.34 Add |
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From  NEW! Marxist Socialism and TSS Dialectical MaterialismFrom: Thinking Systematics |
In this chapter, Smith and Hayslip explore the intellectual foundations of Marxist socialism. | Murray E.G. Smith; Tim Hayslip | 7 | 2025 | $0.70 Add |
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From NEW! Meeting PlaceSocrates in the Agora From: The Elective Mind |
The first section discusses how learning requires a willingness to seek out and be transformed by truth and that the elective classroom is a space where that can still happen. She explores how … | Réal Fillion | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of HistoryExploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx |
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these … | Réal Fillion | 185 | 2008 | View |
