History of Ideas
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From  NEW! Placing the TextFrom: The Elective Mind |
The second section considers why and how the university classroom can provide a place for learning and transformation, as well as the role of texts in the classroom. | Réal Fillion | 30 | 2021 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal |
Through Kant’s idea that the intelligibility of the historical process as a whole should be grasped as revealing a "secret plan of Nature," he actually betrays, if not disdain … | Réal Fillion | 19 | 2008 | $2.47 Add |
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From  Spineless AdmirationOn Anti-Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
The author details how nostalgia is regarded with suspicion from academic to widespread cultural use. Advocates of dismissing the past, and their perpective of the world as just and meritocratic … | David Berry | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Why Do We Theorize?From: Restless Ideas |
Living on the Brink … 21 Social Theory in an Anxious Age … 23 An Age of Indeterminacy … 24 Looking Back at Twentieth-Century Sociological Theory … 27 Looking Around at … | Tony Simmons | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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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 NEW! Professors in PlaceFrom: The Elective Mind |
The third section considers the role of professors in bringing an elective course and the curiosity, enthusiasm and desire for learning to life. | Réal Fillion | 38 | 2021 | $3.80 Add |
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From Prologue: Hospitality—Conditional and Unconditional |
Kant’s understanding of hospitality raises a number of interesting questions. Although it is clear that his own definition considers the hospitality that we owe others to be conditional, … | Réal Fillion | 8 | 2008 | $1.04 Add |
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From Theorizing Our Human SystemsFrom: Restless Ideas |
Systems Are Everywhere … 47 Living in Systems … 52 A Brief History of the Social System … 53 The Language of Social Systems Theory … 55 From Anthropology to Sociology … | Tony Simmons | 49 | 2020 | $4.90 Add |
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From NEW! ConclusionFrom: The Elective Mind |
The conclusion reflects on the current role of philisophy in the modern university. | Réal Fillion | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 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 Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Familiarities |
In trying to understand our world as "multicultural," we must think through and with the coexistence of many different independent cultures sharing a common space or territory. While it … | Réal Fillion | 18 | 2008 | $2.34 Add |
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From  Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMorality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt |
Ingrained, tribal behaviors can bind and blind us, and shut down open-minded thinking. Looking at the dynamic of polarization from the point of view of tribes and teams is enlightening and useful … | James Hoggan | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From Theorizing Our Conflict ZonesConflict Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas |
The Human Habit of Social Conflict … 96 Optimism, Pessimism or Realism? … 100 Origins of Conflict Theory … 102 Modern Sociological Conflict Theory … 105 The Structural … | Tony Simmons | 42 | 2020 | $4.20 Add |
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From A Breath of Relief From This Fast-Paced WorldOn Consumed Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
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 |
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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 |
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From Theorizing Our Class DivisionsNeo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas |
The Modern Legacy of Karl Marx … 138 The Many Faces of Contemporary Marxism … 147 Critical Theory … 150 Structuralist Marxism … 150 Post-Marxism … 164 The … | Tony Simmons | 43 | 2020 | $4.30 Add |
