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  • Early-20th-Century Los Angeles Bungalow Architecture

    by Harry Zeitlin, Bennett Gilbert ...
    Series series Images of America
    Los Angeles, California, shaped the nation's culture in the 20th century with the city's bungalow style of mass middle-class housing. The style made the novelty and easy climate of Los Angeles into a force for living according to new standards of health and well-being, freedom and openness, and simple artistry. The bungalow combined the cozy appeal of Arts and Crafts design with what became the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power and Compassion

    On Moral Force Ethics and Historical Change

    by Bennett Gilbert ...
    This book presents a theory of the morality of human relations deeply drawn from widespread spiritual traditions, offering an account of the full range of sociality that comprises our moral life. Bennett Gilbert argues that the dynamic character of our choices and actions is developed as the center of philosophical inquiry into ethics. Relying on the tradition of philosophical personalism, the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Ethics and Time in the Philosophy of History

    A Cross-Cultural Approach

    Edited by Bennett Gilbert, Natan Elgabsi ...
    This interdisciplinary volume connects the philosophy of history to moral philosophy with a unique focus on time. Taking in a range of intellectual traditions, cultural, and geographical contexts, the volume provides a rich tapestry of approaches to time, morality, culture, and history.By extending the philosophical discussion on the ethical importance of temporality, the editors disentangle some ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Personalist Philosophy of History

    by Bennett Gilbert ...
    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Historical study has traditionally been built around the placement of the human at the center of inquiry. The de-stabilized concepts of the human in contemporary thought challenge this configuration. However, the ways in which these challenges provoke new historical perspectives both expand and enrich historical study but are also weak and vulnerable in their concept of the human, lacking or ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

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    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • German Philosophy in the Twentieth Century

    Weber to Heidegger

    by Julian Young ...
    The course of German philosophy in the twentieth century is one of the most exciting, diverse and controversial periods in the history of human thought. It is widely studied and its legacy hotly contested.In this outstanding introduction, Julian Young explains and assesses the two dominant traditions in modern German philosophy – critical theory and phenomenology – by examining the following key ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Lonergan in the World

    Self-Appropriation, Otherness, and Justice

    by James Marsh ...
    In his philosophical classic Insight, Catholic philosopher and theologian Bernard Lonergan introduced the concept of self-appropriation – the personal search for knowledge of the self, and through that of the world – as the basis for systematic philosophical investigation.In Lonergan in the World, James L. Marsh argues, clearly and passionately, that self-appropriation can serve as the basis for ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Social Ecology

    Essays on Dialectical Naturalism

    by Murray Bookchin, Todd McGowan ...
    What is nature? What is humanity's place in nature? And what is the relationship of society to the natural world? In an era of ecological breakdown, answering these questions has become of momentous importance for our everyday lives and for the future that we and other life-forms face. In the essays of The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Murray Bookchin confronts these questions head on: invoking ... Read more

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  • Hegel and Modern Society

    by Charles Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    This rich study explores the elements of Hegel's social and political thought that are most relevant to our society today. Combating the prevailing post-World War II stereotype of Hegel as a proto-fascist, Charles Taylor argues that Hegel aimed not to deny the rights of individuality but to synthesise them with the intrinsic good of community membership. Hegel's goal of a society of free ... Read more

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  • Metamodernism

    The Future of Theory

    by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm ...
    "Not only an astute diagnosis of the confusions and contradictions of contemporary thought; it also offers compelling alternatives." —Rita Felski, author of Hooked: Art and AttachmentFor decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has collapsed under the ... Read more

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  • Heidegger, Education, and Modernity

    by Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis, Michael Bonnett, Patrick Fitzsimons, Ilan Gur-Ze'ev, Padraig Hogan, F Ruth Irwin, Bert Lambeir, Paul Smeyers, Paul Standish, Iain Thomson, Michael A. Peters, David E Cooper ...
    Martin Heidegger is, perhaps, the most controversial philosopher of the twentieth-century. Little has been written on him or about his work and its significance for educational thought. This unique collection by a group of international scholars reexamines Heidegger's work and its legacy for educational thought. Thematically, the collection focuses on Heidegger's critique of modernity and ... Read more

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