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Role Playing and Identity
The Limits of Theatre As Metaphor
Häftad, 1982
349 kr
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"[Wilshire] establishes a phenomenology of theatre, a theory of enactment, and a theory of appearance, none of which American theatre . . . has ever had." —Performing Arts Journal" . . . Wilshire makes unique contributions to understanding major aspects of the human condition in its necessary …
Primal Roots of American Philosophy
Pragmatism, Phenomenology, and Native American Thought
Häftad, 2000
441 kr
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Continuing his quest to bring American philosophy back to its roots, Bruce Wilshire connects the work of such thinkers as Thoreau, Emerson, Dewey, and James with Native American beliefs and practices. His search is not for exact parallels, but rather for fundamental affinities between the equally …
Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!
Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities
Inbunden, 2004
1275 kr
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To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term since it makes a kind of sense out of genocide and terrorism and ultimately begs the question: What is genocide? What sense does it make to kill or disable all members of an other …
Get 'Em All! Kill 'Em!
Genocide, Terrorism, Righteous Communities
Häftad, 2006
598 kr
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To think about genocide and terrorism is to accept an invitation from hell. In fact, hell may be too benign a term since it makes a kind of sense out of genocide and terrorism and ultimately begs the question: What is genocide? What sense does it make to kill or disable all members of an other …
Moral Collapse of the University
Professionalism, Purity, and Alienation
Häftad, 1990
474 kr
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Fashionable Nihilism
A Critique of Analytic Philosophy
Häftad, 2002
341 kr
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One of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life.Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the …
Romanticism and Evolution
The Nineteenth Century: An Anthology
Häftad, 1985
1061 kr
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This book, originally published by Capricorn Books in 1968, contains writings by the chief exponents of romanticism and the evolutionary theory in its various applications: Rousseau, Kant, Schiller, Blake, Wordsworth, Goethe, Coleridge, Emerson, Hegel, Marx, Mill, Darwin, Spencer, James, …
Wild Hunger
The Primal Roots of Modern Addiction
Häftad, 1999
218 kr
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Why is it that even amidst affluence and power, our culture is plagued by a variety of addictions? In this pioneering work, Bruce Wilshire searches for answers by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors as well as to the unique ways we adapt to our …
William James
The Essential Writings
Häftad, 1984
477 kr
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The importance of this collection of writings of William James lies in the fact that it has been arranged to provide a systematic introduction to his major philosophical discoveries, and precisely to those doctrines and theories that are of most burning current interest. William James: The …
Fashionable Nihilism
A Critique of Analytic Philosophy
Inbunden, 2002
1111 kr
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One of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life.Thoreau wrote that we have professors of philosophy but no philosophers. Can't we have both? Why doesn't philosophy hold a more central place in our lives? Why should it? Eloquently opposing the …
