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43 produkter
Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash
A View from Annapolis
Inbunden, 2006
1826 kr
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Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. It suggests that liberal thought is intrinsically different from conservative thought, and that each constitutes a …
Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash
A View from Annapolis
Häftad, 2006
488 kr
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Why Liberals and Conservatives Clash offers an explanation for the extreme polarization between liberal and conservative that is the hallmark of the American political landscape today. It suggests that liberal thought is intrinsically different from conservative thought, and that each constitutes a …
Sexual Ethics
Liberal vs. Conservative
Häftad, 2004
615 kr
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Oftentimes, subjects related to sexuality such as abortion and homosexuality are flash points for political argument between liberals and conservatives. In recent years the debate on these topics has become shrill.Sexual Ethics considers the traditional Western views, as well as Freudian …
New Tractatus
Summing Up Everything
Häftad, 2007
529 kr
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Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was informed by the belief that it was possible to get clarity once and for all on fundamental philosophical issues, and so to think our way to a silence where philosophy was no longer necessary. This is The New Tractatus: it sympathizes with …
Bill the Goat's Adult Refresher Guide to Writing
Häftad, 2007
560 kr
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Many otherwise competent adults are wobbly writers, whether they're college students or already thriving in a job. They probably exhibit a "go get 'em" attitude for most of their lives, but find themselves stumped by a blank computer screen or a piece of paper. What, they wonder, do I do now? …
Journey to the Middle of the Forest
A Maryland Half-Life
Häftad, 2007
577 kr
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What is the taste of life as we really live it, rather than the way we imagine it in others? What does it feel like to become aware of the hand of cards we've been dealt, to play them as well as we can, to understand what has happened to us, and to try to control the future? Journey to the Middle …
Aesthetic Sense of Life
A Philosophy of the Everyday
Häftad, 2007
558 kr
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The Aesthetic Sense of Life is a fast-moving book about how to see the world and get value from living every day with the "everyday." Do the infinite number of sensations we're surrounded with every day have intrinsic value? If not, what gives them value? Who appreciates the sunrise if we don't? Is …
Thanksgiving Symposium
A Modern Platonic Dialogue on Love
Häftad, 2007
529 kr
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What if Plato's Symposium took place in present-day America rather than in ancient Athens? The Thanksgiving Symposium imagines this, and makes it happen. Like Plato's dialogue, The Thanksgiving Symposium focuses on the age-old question: what is the nature of love? In The Thanksgiving Symposium, …
Homage to Eugene O'Neill
Literary Criticism in a New Key
Häftad, 2008
641 kr
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Homage to Eugene O'Neill re-invokes O'Neill's own muses to offer a re-conception of his artistic world, a re-enactment, and an entirely new work not so much in the style but in the spirit of the Nobel-prize winning American dramatist. Most closely allied with Strange Interlude but with echoes as …
Running is Life
Transcending the Crisis of Modernity
Häftad, 2010
558 kr
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Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establishes an active relationship between the self and others. Running takes the motion we are all born with (that is the essence of life) and with the …
Running is Life
Transcending the Crisis of Modernity
E-bok, 2010
608 kr
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Running feels good. It also centers the runner in the world, solves the problems implied by the Cartesian split between body and soul, and establishes an active relationship between the self and others. Running takes the motion we are all born with (that is the essence of life) and with the …
End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia
E-bok, 2022
856 kr
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This book identifies the—now moribund—Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "make it new" attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development …
End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia
E-bok, 2022
856 kr
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This book identifies the—now moribund—Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "make it new" attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development …
Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time
E-bok, 2022
745 kr
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Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is …
Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time
E-bok, 2022
729 kr
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Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is …
Masculinity from the Inside
Gender Theory’s Missing Piece
E-bok, 2022
729 kr
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Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a …
Masculinity from the Inside
Gender Theory’s Missing Piece
E-bok, 2022
721 kr
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Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a …
What Does 'Art' Mean Now?
The Personal After the Age of Romanticism and Modernism
E-bok, 2023
762 kr
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What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond, viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in …
What Does 'Art' Mean Now?
The Personal After the Age of Romanticism and Modernism
E-bok, 2023
746 kr
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What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond, viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in …
Democracy's Achilles Heel
The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute
E-bok, 2023
814 kr
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Democracy’s Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative. This combination of opposites is essential for its survival, yet places democracy at risk since each worldview is …
Democracy's Achilles Heel
The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute
E-bok, 2023
814 kr
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Democracy’s Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative. This combination of opposites is essential for its survival, yet places democracy at risk since each worldview is …
End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia
Inbunden, 2022
2439 kr
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This book identifies the—now moribund—Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "make it new" attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development of …
End of the Modernist Era in Arts and Academia
Häftad, 2022
615 kr
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This book identifies the—now moribund—Modernist spirit of the twentieth century, with its "make it new" attitude in the arts, and its tendency towards abstraction and the scientific process, as the impetus behind the academic structures of universities and museums, together with the development of …
Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time
Inbunden, 2022
2510 kr
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Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is us, …
Civilizing Process and the Past We Now Abhor
Slavery, Cat-Burning, and the Colonialism of Time
Häftad, 2022
633 kr
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Drawing on the thought of Norbert Elias and using as a thread a purposely apolitical example of cruelty to animals to focus on changes in attitudes, this book explores the ways in which we deal with a past that we now abhor. As we struggle to deal with the fact that our past shapes us—indeed is us, …
Masculinity from the Inside
Gender Theory’s Missing Piece
Inbunden, 2022
2510 kr
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Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a …
Masculinity from the Inside
Gender Theory’s Missing Piece
Häftad, 2022
633 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Rejecting the vocabulary and presuppositions common in Western talk about men, this book considers the ways in which men see, speak about, and understand themselves. Based on the author’s experience of teaching young men at a military academy and drawing on a range of theory, it identifies a …
What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now?
The Personal After the Age of Romanticism and Modernism
Inbunden, 2023
2510 kr
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What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond, viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in …
What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now?
The Personal After the Age of Romanticism and Modernism
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
Lägg i varukorg
What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now? asks, and answers, fundamental questions about the nature of aesthetic experience and role of the arts in contemporary society. The Modern Age, Romanticism and beyond, viewed art as something transcending and separated from life, and usually something encountered in …
Democracy’s Achilles Heel
The Rocky Marriage of Relative and Absolute
Inbunden, 2023
2510 kr
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Democracy’s Achilles Heel argues that the structure of democracy is a combination of two incompatible worldviews: one relativist and liberal, the other absolutist and conservative. This combination of opposites is essential for its survival, yet places democracy at risk since each worldview is …
