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  • Integral Pluralism

    Beyond Culture Wars

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In addition to war, terrorism, and unchecked military violence, modernity is also subject to less visible but no less venomous conflicts. Global in nature, these "culture wars" exacerbate the tensions between tradition and innovation, virtue and freedom. Internationally acclaimed scholar Fred Dallmayr charts a course beyond these persistent but curable dichotomies in Integral Pluralism: Beyond ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Spiritual Guides

    Pathfinders in the Desert

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In Spiritual Guides: Pathfinders in the Desert, Fred Dallmayr challenges the "desert character" of modern culture. Political and economic corruption, incessant warmongering, spoliation of natural resources, and, above all, mindless consumerism and greedy self-satisfaction are all symptoms of what he contends is an expanding wasteland or desert where everything creative and nourishing decays and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Truth and Politics

    Toward a Post-Secular Community

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    Endorses the pursuit of paradigm shifts in our understandings of faith, truth, and nature to remedy the "underside" of modernity and thus to inaugurate a post-modern (but not anti-modern) and post-secular (but not anti-secular) view of the world.Oppositions found in nearly every element of society readily give way to antagonism and hostility and, ultimately, to war and destruction. Both ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Good Life

    A Pedagogy for Troubled Times

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    The great German novelist Thomas Mann implored readers to resist the persistent and growing militarism of the mid-twentieth century. To whom should we turn for guidance during this current era of global violence, political corruption, economic inequality, and environmental degradation? For more than two millennia, the world's great thinkers have held that the ethically "good life" is the highest ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Post-Liberalism

    Recovering a Shared World

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    Liberal democracy is the dominant political ideology in the West today. Taken at face value it suggests an equivalency between its two central components--liberalism and democracy--but as Fred Dallmayr argues here, the two operate in very different registers. The two frequently conflict, endangering our public life.This is evident in the rise of self-centered neo-liberalism as well as autocratic ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

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  • The Promise of Democracy

    Political Agency and Transformation

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    Presentation of a new, ethical vision of democracy built around self-rule, civic education, and ethical cultivation.A new ethical concept of democracy as the cultivation and practice of civic virtues in a pluralistic setting is presented in this thoughtful and wide-ranging study. Drawing upon such figures as Aristotle, Montesquieu, Hegel, Dewey, Heidegger, Arendt, and Lefort, Fred Dallmayr ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Democracy to Come

    Politics as Relational Praxis

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In this book Fred Dallmayr lays the groundwork for a new understanding of democracy. He argues that democracy is not a stable system anchored in a manifest authority (like monarchy), but is sustained by the recessed and purely potential rule of the "people". Hence, democracy has to constantly reinvent itself, resembling theologically a creatio continua. Like one of Calder's mobiles, democracy for ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Being in the World

    Dialogue and Cosmopolis

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    It is commonly agreed that we live in an age of globalization, but the profound consequences of this development are rarely understood. Usually, globalization is equated with the expansion of economic and financial markets and the proliferation of global networks of communication. In truth, much more is at stake: Traditional concepts of individual and national identity as well as perceived ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Mindfulness and Letting Be

    On Engaged Thinking and Acting

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    Mindfulness and Letting Be: On Engaged Thinking and Acting is a protest against the extreme mindlessness or thoughtlessness of our age, a malaise covered by manipulative cleverness and by minds filled to the brim with opinions, doctrines, marching orders, and ideologies. Rather than concentrating on a self-contained "mind," Fred Dallmayr pleads for an act of "minding" about oneself, one’s fellow ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Horizons of Difference

    Engaging with Others

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    In his latest book, Horizons of Difference: Engaging with Others, Fred Dallmayr argues that the dialogue between religious and secular commitments, between faith and reason, is particularly important in our time because both faith and reason can give rise to dangerous and destructive types of extremism, fanaticism, or idolatry. In this interdisciplinary and cross-cultural synthesis of philosophy, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On the Boundary

    A Life Remembered

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    The book records the author’s personal and intellectual maturation over a period of nine decades. This maturation was never purely self-propelled, but always occurred in response to teachings and experiences. Situated as a “being-in-the-world”, the author’s experiences reach from World War II via the Cold War to recent “terror wars.” Intellectually, he participated in and reacted to a number of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Return to Nature?

    An Ecological Counterhistory

    by Fred Dallmayr ...
    Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems. In Return to Nature? An Ecological Counterhistory, Fred Dallmayr demonstrates how nature has been marginalized, colonized, and abused in the modern era. Although nature was regarded as a matrix that encompassed all beings in premodern ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD