History of Ideas
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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  NEW! Neoliberal Reason |
In this chapter, Himelfarb traces the intellectual roots of neoliberalism from the 1930s through the 1940s, centring on Friedrich Hayek and the 1947 founding of the Mont Pelerin Society. | Alex Himelfarb | 19 | 2026 | $1.90 Add |
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From  On Creation |
In this chapter, Highway compares three creation traditions—Christian, Greek, and North American Indigenous—through a Cree framework of truth, fiction, and the liminal space between. | Tomson Highway | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 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 | ||
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From  Philosophical JustificationsFrom: Rethinking Free Speech |
In this chapter, Ives traces how Kant, Mill, Meiklejohn, and Baker each grounded free expression in distinct philosophical frameworks stretching from the eighteenth century onward. | Peter Ives | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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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 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  PrologueAgainst School |
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 |
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From  PrologueThe Changing Face of Contemporary Theory From: Restless Ideas |
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 |
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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 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 |
Restless IdeasContemporary 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 | ||
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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 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 That’s What She SaidOn the Future of Nostalgia From: On Nostalgia |
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 |
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From The Biopolitical Production of the Common |
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 |
