Philosophy

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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

Roman Ingarden’s Ontology and Aesthetics

 A leading Polish philosopher of the 20th century, Roman Ingarden is principally renowned in Western culture for his work in aesthetics and the theory of literature. Jeff Mitscherling … 246 View

The Biology of Wonder

Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science

 In The Biology of Wonder author Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being … 336 View
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The Elective Mind

Philosophy and the Undergraduate Degree

 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 … 164 View

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

 We are witnessing a new surge of interpersonal and institutional violence against women, including new witch hunts, which have occurred alongside an expansion of capitalist social relations. In … 121 View
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An Introduction

From: In Praise of Retreat

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An Introduction to Nature for Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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 Promoting a dose of nature clarifies the minimum time exposure people should be outdoors and seeks to highlight the socioecological benefits this natural, accessible, and free health remedy can … ; ; 21 $2.10 Add
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God as Object of Philosophical Argument

From: God and Argument - Dieu et l'argumentation philosophique

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What Are We Doing Here?

From: The Elective Mind

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 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 … 31 $3.10 Add
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From: Roman Ingarden's Ontology and Aesthetics

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 The basic claim of this book is twofold: (1) that we are not in a position accurately to interpret and evaluate Ingarden’s studies in aesthetics until we place them within the framework … 8 $0.88 Add
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Towards a Poetic Ecology

From: The Biology of Wonder

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 In the introduction, Weber discusses attempts to separate emotions and nature in the science of biology, and how modern researchers are rejecting this earlier paradigm. 14 $1.40 Add
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That Which Should Never Have Happened

From: On Love and Tyranny

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 In the introduction, Heberlein exmines the links between Hannah Arendt’s love of the world and her explorations of evil. 4 $0.40 Add
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Where On Earth Are We Going

From: Intrinsic Hope

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 In this book, I propose the idea of “intrinsic hope.” Intrinsic hope is different from conventional hope because it is not based on the expectation that life will give us what we hope … 19 $1.90 Add
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Play It Once Again

From: On Nostalgia

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 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 … 3 $0.30 Add