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Quaker Summer

Quaker Summer more books like this

by Lisa Samson

Every year I think there must be more to life, and every year, despite a new car or a trip to a new land, new milestones and triumphs in my son's life, or a redone deck, a pool, a spa, or entertainment system, I take stock and think once again, I was made for more than this. But I love my stuff. Heather Curridge is coming unhinged.

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Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism more books like this

by Chogyam Trungpa, Sakyong Mipham (Foreword by)

On numerous lists of the 'Most Influential Spiritual Books of the Twentieth Century,' "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" presents the universal truths of the Buddhist path so clearly and succinctly that it has become a favourite even for people of other faiths. In this book, the Tibetan meditation master Chogyam Trungpa highlights the most ...

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Born to Buy

Born to Buy more books like this

by Juliet B Schor

Ads targeted at kids are virtually everywhere - in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at Girl Scout meetings, slumber parties, and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television. Drawing on her own survey research and unprecedented access to the advertising ...

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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture

Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture more books like this

by Juliet B Schor

Over the last fifteen years children's spending power has mushroomed to an estimated USD30 billion in direct purchases and another USD600 billion of influence over parental purchases. Advertising and marketing has exploded alongside expenditures and now totals more than USD12 billion a year. Ads targeted at children are virtually everywhere - in ...

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The German Ideology

The German Ideology more books like this

by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

This edition makes easily accessible the most important parts of Marx's and Engels's major early philosophical work, "The German Ideology", a text of key importance for students.

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The High Price of Materialism

The High Price of Materialism more books like this

by Tim Kasser

In this volume, Tim Kasser offers a scientific explanation of how our contemporary culture of consumerism and materialism affects our everyday happiness and psychological health. Other writers have shown that once we have sufficient food, shelter, and clothing, further material gains do little to improve our well-being. Kasser goes beyond these ...

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The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World

The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World more books like this

by Owen Flanagan

A noted philosopher proposes a naturalistic (rather than supernaturalistic) way to solve the "really hard problem": how to live in a meaningful way - how to live a life that really matters - even as a finite material being living in a material world.If consciousness is "the hard problem" in mind science - explaining how the amazing private world ...

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Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism

Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism more books like this

by Professor James B Twitchell

-- Geoff Lewis, Business Week

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Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture

Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture more books like this

by Marvin Harris

Cultural Materialism, published in 1979, was Marvin Harris's first full-length explication of the theory with which his work has been associated. While Harris has developed and modified some of his ideas over the past two decades, generations of professors have looked to this volume as the essential starting point for explaining the science of ...

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The German Ideology Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy

The German Ideology Including Theses on Feuerbach and Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy more books like this

by Karl Marx, Robert M Baird (Editor), Stuart E Rosenbaum (Editor)

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote "The German Ideology" in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labour, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism. ...

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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity more books like this

by Slavoj Zizek, Slavoj A1/2ia3/4ek

In this volume Slavoj Zizek offers a close reading of today's religious constellation from the viewpoint of Lacanian psychoanalysis. He critically confronts both predominant versions of today's spirituality - New Age gnosticism and deconstructionist-Levinasian Judaism - and then tries to redeem the "materialist" kernel of Christianity. His reading ...

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Culture and practical reason more books like this

by Marshall David Sahlins

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter ...

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Communication and the evolution of society more books like this

by Jurgen Habermas

In this important volume Habermas outlines the views which form the basis of his critical theory of modern societies. The volume comprises five interlocking essays, which together define the contours of his theory of communication and of his substantive account of social change.'What is Universal Pragmatics?' is the best available statement of ...

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Search for a Method more books like this

by Jean Paul Sarte, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E Barnes (Translator)

'Search for a Method' is a separate and introductory essay published together with 'Critique of Dialectical Reason'. It is the search for a method by which the existentialist Marxist may hope to understand both individual persons and history.

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Marxism and Modernism; An Historical Study of Lukacs, Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno more books like this

by Eugene Lunn

Explores the debate concerning realism and modernism in art and examines the efforts of four influential critics to develop Marxist theories of modern art.

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Karl Marx more books like this

by Tom Bottomore

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The Lost Soul of American Politics: Virtue, Self-Interest, and the Foundations of Liberalism more books like this

by John Patrick Diggins

The Lost Soul of American Politics is a provocative new interpretation of American political thought from the Founding Fathers to the Neo-Conservatives. Reassessing the motives and intentions of such great political thinkers as Madison, Thoreau, Lincoln, and Emerson, John P. Diggins shows how these men struggled to create an alliance between the ...

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The New Inquisition: Irrational Rationalism and the Citadel of Science more books like this

by Robert Anton Wilson

The New Inquisition dares to confront the disease of our time; Fundamentalist Materialism. Wilson explains, "I am opposing the Fundamentalism, not the Materialism. This book...is deliberately shocking because I do not want its ideas to seem any less stark or startling than they are".

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Rolling Away the Stone: Mary Baker Eddy's Challenge to Materialism more books like this

by Stephen Gottschalk

"Rolling Away the Stone" is a richly detailed account of the last two decades of the life of Mary Baker Eddy, a major religious thinker whose character and achievement are just beginning to be understood. This is the first book-length discussion of Eddy to make full use of the resources of the Mary Baker Eddy Collection in Boston. It focuses on ...

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Materialism and Empirio-Criticism: Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy more books like this

by Vladimir Ilich Lenin

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The ideology of power and the power of ideology more books like this

by Professor Goran Therborn

Few concepts have been so intensely discussed or so widely sponsored as that of 'ideology'. Whether read as the expression of social classes or attributed a material independence and efficacy, whether devalued as false and non-scientific or asserted as the necessary element of social practice, 'ideology' has become an ineluctable conceptual ...

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The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times more books like this

by Rene? Guenon

The Reign of Quantity gives a concise but comprehensive view of the present state of affairs in the world, as it appears from the point of view of the 'ancient wisdom', formerly common both to the East and to the West, but now almost entirely lost sight of. The author indicates with his fabled clarity and directness the precise nature of the ...

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Marxism and the Philosophy of Language more books like this

by V N Volosinov, Irwin R Titunik (Translator), Ladislav Matejka (Translator)

'This book is a masterpiece of theoretical thought. It anticipates the actual achievements of much of what we now call sociolinguistics. The 'dialectic of the sign' and of the verbal sign in particular as it presented in the book acquires great suggestive value in the light of today's debates about semiotics.'--Roman Jakobson

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Cultural Materialism more books like this

by Marvin Harris

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Dialectical Materialism more books like this

by Professor Henri Lefebvre, John Sturrock (Translator), Stefan Kipfer (Foreword by)

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