History of Ideas

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Interregnum and the Birth of Neoliberalism From: Breaking Free of Neoliberalism: Canada's Challenge View James Lorimer and Company	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
From NEW! Introduction What Are We Doing Here? From: The Elective Mind View University of Ottawa Press	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
From Introduction Play It Once Again From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	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
From Introduction From: Exclusion and Refoulement View Irwin Law Inc.	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
From Introduction: Where Are We Headed? From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	Introduction	Réal Fillion	17	2008	$2.21 Add
From Kant and the Cosmopolitan Point of View From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	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
From Marx, Productive Forces, and History From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	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
From NEW! Meeting Place Socrates in the Agora From: The Elective Mind View University of Ottawa Press	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 History Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx University of Ottawa Press	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
From Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Unfamiliar Familiarities From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	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
On Nostalgia	On Nostalgia is a panoramic cultural history of nostalgia, exploring how a force that started as a psychological diagnosis of soldiers fighting far from home has come become a quintessentially …		161		View
From NEW! Placing the Text From: The Elective Mind View University of Ottawa Press	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
From NEW! Professors in Place From: The Elective Mind View University of Ottawa Press	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
From Prologue Against School From: Weapons of Mass Instruction View New Society Publishers	I taught for thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time, I became an expert in boredom.	John Taylor Gatto	11	2010	$1.10 Add
From Prologue The Changing Face of Contemporary Theory From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Waning of the Western Worldview … 1 Eurocentrism and Its Discontents … 3 The Crumbling Canon of Social Theory: The Classics … 9 The Expanding Horizons of Contemporary Social …	Tony Simmons	20	2020	$2.00 Add
From Prologue: Hospitality—Conditional and Unconditional From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	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