History of Ideas

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From Real Universality as a Challenge to the Cosmopolitan Ideal From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	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
Restless Ideas Contemporary Social Theory in an Anxious Age	How do we make sense of the rise of political strongmen like Trump and Erdoğan, or the increase in hate crimes and terrorism? How can we understand Brexit and xenophobic, anti-immigrant …		592		View
From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds Morality Binds and Blinds with Jonathan Haidt From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	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
From Spineless Admiration On Anti-Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	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
From That’s What She Said On the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	In this chapter the author points out that we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone and we don’t even know when it will go. The question "Why is it that nostalgia …	David Berry	25	2020	$2.50 Add
From The Biopolitical Production of the Common From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	This chapter shows how Marx’s framework, suitably updated, can help us better make sense of the fact that the world is becoming increasingly multicultural, in a way that allows us to deepen …	Réal Fillion	18	2008	$2.34 Add
From The Continuous Vibration of Animal Spirits: On the Why of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia View Coach House Books	This chapter discusses nostalgia as a feeling, and the history of nostalgia, from antiquity to the present, moving out of the medical into the cultural realm. Why it is important to describe …	David Berry	21	2020	$2.10 Add
From The Dynamic Telos of History — A Shared Democratic World From: Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History View University of Ottawa Press	Conclusion	Réal Fillion	8	2008	$1.04 Add
NEW! The Elective Mind Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree University of Ottawa Press	This book discusses the relevance of philosophy courses within the undergraduate curriculum as integral to the self-formation that is at the heart of a liberal education. The objective is to …	Réal Fillion	164	2021	View
From The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative Psychic Numbing with Paul Slovic From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	When numbers soar, our consistency with basic values and concerns collapses. Most people are caring and highly responsive when they hear of an individual’s desperate plight, yet are numbly …	James Hoggan	10	2016	$1.00 Add
From The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative Sometimes David Wins with Marshall Ganz From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot View New Society Publishers	Resourcefulness — fueled by courage, commitment and imagination — can overcome nominally powerful resources, as well as the arrogance that often goes with them.	James Hoggan	12	2016	$1.20 Add
The Return of History Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century House of Anansi Press	In the 2016 CBC Massey Lectures, former Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General and international relations specialist Jennifer Welsh delivers a timely, intelligent, and fascinating analysis …	Jennifer Welsh	402	2016	View
From The Return of History From: The Return of History View House of Anansi Press	From The Return of History: Conflict, Migration, and Geopolitics in the Twenty-First Century	Jennifer Welsh	46	2016	$4.60 Add
From Theorizing Our Anxious Age Theorists of Late Modernity From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	What Is Late Modernity? … 441 From Modernism to Late Modernity: The Social Theories of Anthony Giddens and Pierre Bourdieu … 447 Structuration Theory of Anthony Giddens … 448 …	Tony Simmons	64	2020	$6.40 Add
From Theorizing Our Class Divisions Neo-Marxist and Post-Marxist Theories of Society From: Restless Ideas View Fernwood Publishing	The Modern Legacy of Karl Marx … 138 The Many Faces of Contemporary Marxism … 147 Critical Theory … 150 Structuralist Marxism … 150 Post-Marxism … 164 The “Post” in …	Tony Simmons	43	2020	$4.30 Add