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  • Early Buddhism as Philosophy of Existence

    Freedom and Death

    by Susan E. Babbitt ...
    The Buddha was what today is called an empirical philosopher, taking his philosophy from careful study of the empirical world, and rejecting “high flown” philosophies. As philosophy of existence, his view overlaps with Marx in his most interesting form, which is not the way Marx is typically understood. Marx was reduced to economics while the Buddha was reduced to religion. Many shared his view, ... Read more

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  • Artless Integrity

    Moral Imagination, Agency, and Stories

    by Susan E. Babbitt ...
    This book considers the nature and exercise of moral imagination in situations in which our ability to act and choose meaningfully is limited by unarticulated expectations. Moral imagination is a cognitive attitude, in which we regard propositions as true. But it also involves orientation. In moral imagination, we regard propositions as true in order to make something else true, and we act and ... Read more

    $168.99 CAD

  • Humanism and Embodiment

    From Cause and Effect to Secularism

    by Susan E. Babbitt ...
    A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target of secularists promoting freedom of enquiry and human community.Susan Babbitt's original study presents humanism as a meta-ethical view, ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Impossible Dreams

    Rationality, Integrity And Moral Imagination

    by Susan Babbitt ...
    Both contemporary philosophy and commonsense morality presuppose a personal autonomy and integrity that an unjust social system may make impossible for some people. Babbitt examines the implications of this insight, drawing on feminist and antiracist political theory, contemporary analytic ethics and philosophy of mind, and nonphilosophical literature. She argues for the role of moral imagination ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Center Must Not Hold

    White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy

    by Barbara Applebaum, Berit Brogaard, Lisa Heldke, Sarah Hoagland, Crista Lebens, Alexis Shotwell, Audrey Thompson, Alison Bailey, Susan E. Babbitt, George Yancy, Cynthia Kaufman, Cris Mayo, Shannon Sullivan, Lisa Tessman ...
    The Center Must Not Hold: White Women Philosophers on the Whiteness of Philosophy functions as a textual site where white women philosophers engage boldly in critical acts of exploring ways of naming and disrupting whiteness in terms of how it has defined the conceptual field of philosophy. Within this text, white women philosophers critique the field of philosophy for its complicity with ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Dark Places

    Crime and Politics in the Personal Noir of James Ellroy

    by Joseph Romance, Erik Anderson, Paul Babbitt, Deirdre Condit, Susan McWilliams Barndt, Darrell A. Hamlin, Lexey A. Bartlett, Jeffrey A. Becker, Caitlin B. Coulter0, W. John Green1 ...
    Series series Politics, Literature, & Film
    James Ellroy has mined the darkest corners of the American experience, public and private, to paint a landscape of corrupt hearts, minds, and institutions. Ellroy is particularly notable for exploring the connection between the murder of his own mother, when he was ten years old, and his troubled adolescence and early adulthood struggles with addiction. “Dead people belong to the live people who ... Read more

    $115.89 CAD

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  • HEGEL FOR TEACHERS

    The philosopher of absolute knowledge

    by CLEBERSON EDUARDO DA COSTA ...
    (A5,150 P.) - REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITIONIWhy Hegel for teachers, the so-called philosopher of absolute knowledge?The philosophy of Hegel (1770-1831), from the 20th century, experienced and, even today – the dawn of the century. XXI –, has experienced a great rebirth, and this fact was due and is due, in large part, to four important reasons:Because Hegel was rediscovered and re-evaluated as the ... Read more

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  • Re-Engendering Translation

    Transcultural Practice, Gender/Sexuality and the Politics of Alterity

    Edited by Christopher Larkosh ...
    Of interest to scholars in translation studies, gender and sexuality, and comparative literary and cultural studies, this volume re-examines the possibilities for multiple intersections between translation studies and research on sexuality and gender, and in so doing addresses the persistent theoretical gaps in much work on translation and gender to date. The current climate still seems to promote ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Alternating Current

    by Octavio Paz ...
    In its front-page review of Alternating Current, The New York Times Book Review called Octavio Paz “an intellectual literary one-man band” for his ability to write incisively and with dazzling originality about a wide range of subjects. This collection of his essays is divided into three parts. Part 1 sets forth his credo as an artist and poet, steeped in his knowledge of world literature and ... Read more

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  • Understanding Kant: Concepts and Intuitions

    Understanding Philosophy, #4

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 4 - Understanding Philosophy
    This guide examines Kant's theory of knowledge, specifically his arguments for separating human thought into concepts and intuitions. Based on the Critique of Pure Reason, this guide covers his critique of empirical and rational thought, and explains key concepts such as a priori judgements, analytic and synthetic judgements, and the difference between pure and empirical concepts. ... Read more

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  • The World Is Made of Stories

    by David R. Loy ...
    In this dynamic and utterly novel presentation, David Loy explores the fascinating proposition that the stories we tell—about what is and is not possible, about ourselves, about right and wrong, life and death, about the world and everything in it—become the very building blocks of our experience and of reality itself. Loy uses an intriguing mixture of quotations from familiar and less-familiar ... Read more

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  • Designs for the Pluriverse

    Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    In Designs for the Pluriverse Arturo Escobar presents a new vision of design theory and practice aimed at channeling design's world-making capacity toward ways of being and doing that are deeply attuned to justice and the Earth. Noting that most design—from consumer goods and digital technologies to built environments—currently serves capitalist ends, Escobar argues for the development of an ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD