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  • The White Moderate

    Why Racial Equality Demands Radicalism

    by Chauncey Maher ...
    White moderates have been a hidden obstacle to black-white equality in the United States for over two centuries. This book offers the first philosophical critique of their role in impeding racial progress and perpetuating black-white inequality.Taking his cue from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, the author defines white moderates as those who embrace the need for progress ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy

    Sellars, McDowell, Brandom

    by Chauncey Maher ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of conceptual capacities is to place it in a space of norms. Wilfrid Sellars claimed that humans are ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Plant Minds

    A Philosophical Defense

    by Chauncey Maher ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Philosophy
    The idea that plants have minds can sound improbable, but some widely respected contemporary scientists and philosophers find it plausible. It turns out to be rather tricky to vindicate the presumption that plants do not have minds, for doing so requires getting clear about what plants can do and what exactly a mind is.By connecting the most compelling empirical work on plant behavior with ... Read more

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  • The Promise of Happiness

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    The Promise of Happiness is a provocative cultural critique of the imperative to be happy. It asks what follows when we make our desires and even our own happiness conditional on the happiness of others: “I just want you to be happy”; “I’m happy if you’re happy.” Combining philosophy and feminist cultural studies, Sara Ahmed reveals the affective and moral work performed by the “happiness duty,” ... Read more

    $31.89 CAD

  • A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women

    Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind

    by Siri Hustvedt ...
    A compelling, radical, “richly explored” (The New York Times Book Review) and “insightful” (Vanity Fair) collection of essays on art, feminism, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy from prizewinning novelist Siri Hustvedt, acclaimed author of The Blazing World and What I Loved.In this expansive volume, Hustvedt presents a trilogy of intellectually daring works that reveal the striking breadth ... Read more

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  • World, Affectivity, Trauma

    Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis

    by Robert D. Stolorow ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Inquiry Book Series
    Stolorow and his collaborators' post-Cartesian psychoanalytic perspective – intersubjective-systems theory – is a phenomenological contextualism that illuminates worlds of emotional experience as they take form within relational contexts. After outlining the evolution and basic ideas of this framework, Stolorow shows both how post-Cartesian psychoanalysis finds enrichment and philosophical support ... Read more

    $61.82 CAD

  • Surfing Uncertainty

    Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

    by Andy Clark ...
    How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel, create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all these non-material mental states, including consciousness itself? An answer to this central question of our existence is emerging at the busy intersection of neuroscience, psychology, artificial intelligence, and ... Read more

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  • Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal

    by Somogy Varga ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that the ideal of authenticity has increasingly turned into a kind of aestheticism and egoistic self ... Read more

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  • Conversations for Power and Possibility

    Four Simple Conversations to Transform Your Life and Change the World

    by Darlene Chrissley ...
    This is a hopeful book.It's about finding new sources of power when you feel powerless and new possibilities when you feel boxed in. It's about choosing a creative response to any challenge that arises in your life.The four conversations presented by author Darlene Chrissley will help you stay focused on what you want instead of what you don't want, aim your efforts where they will do the most ... Read more

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  • Mules of Love

    by Ellen Bass ...
    Balancing heart-intelligent intimacy and surprising humor, the poems in Ellen Bass’s Mules of Love illuminate the essential dynamics of our lives: family, community, sexual love, joy, loss, religion and death. The poems also explore the darker aspects of humanity—personal, cultural, historical and environmental violence—all of which are handled with compassion and grace. Bass’s poetic gift is her ... Read more

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  • Historical Dictionary of Husserl's Philosophy

    by John J. Drummond ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements Series
    Edmund Husserl (1859-1938) is widely regarded as the founding figure of the philosophical movement of "phenomenology." Husserl's philosophical program was both embraced and rejected by many, but in either case, his ideas set the stage for and exercised an enormous influence on the development of much of the philosophy that followed. In particular, his thought provides the backdrop and impetus for ... Read more

    $159.79 CAD