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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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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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Communication and the evolution of society

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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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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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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Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions

Dematerializing: Taming the Power of Possessions more books like this

by Jane Hammerslough

An insightful look at the misplaced faith we place in things, and meaningful advice on achieving material and emotional well-being. Can the perfect new couch in your family room make for great times with your family? Does a diamond that costs two months' salary mean that love will last forever? In this era of high expectations and "low monthly ...

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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

Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles - not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who will stop at nothing to sell their wares? Are the producers' powers of persuasion so great that ...

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The Puppet and the Dwarf: The Perverse Core of Christianity

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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Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic

Late Marxism: Adorno or the Persistence of the Dialectic more books like this

by Professor Fredric Jameson

Theodor Adorno is widely recognized as one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century, as a foremost cultural critic and philosopher, and one of the most important figures in the Frankfurt School and Western Marxism more generally. And yet, Adorno's reputation has suffered from accusations about his alleged pessimism and, even worse, from ...

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The development of the monist view of history more books like this

by Georgii Valetinovich Plekhanov

The "father of Russian Marxism, " George Plekhanov (1857-1918) directed most of his writings against the Russian "populist" movement to which he once belonged. He insisted that although, in principle, in semi-feudal societies such as the Russian, the first revolution would of necessity have to be a "capitalist" one. However, he noted that ...

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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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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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Marxism and Form: 20th-Century Dialectical Theories of Literature more books like this

by Professor Fredric Jameson, Frederic Jameson

For more than thirty years, Fredric Jameson has been one of the most productive, wide-ranging, and distinctive literary theorists in the United States and the Anglophone world. "Marxism and Form" provided a pioneering account of the work of the major European Marxist theorists - T. W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, Georg ...

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Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism more books like this

by Jonathan Dollimore

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Escaping Materialism: Living a Life That's Rich Toward God more books like this

by George Caywood

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Fundamental problems of marxism more books like this

by Georgii Valentinovich Plekhanov

A defense of Marxism as an integral world outlook, against those who would vulgarize and/or distort it. Appendix includes "The Materialist Conception of History, " and "The Role of the Individual in History."

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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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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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Materialism more books like this

by Jorie Graham

In Materialism, her fifth collection, Jorie Graham undertakes a daring book-length meditation on the nature of our restless relationship with matter. With her trade-mark sagacity and vision, Graham unites the complex principles of science and philosophy with a startling array of tangible forms: a man praying in a downtown bakeshop; a crowd at an ...

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British Marxist Historians more books like this

by Harvey J Kaye

"The British Marxist Historians" remains the first and most complete study of the founders of one of the most important contemporary academic traditions in history and social theory. Kaye analyzes the work of Maurice Dobb, Rodney Hilton, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Hill, and E. P. Thompson.

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Death by Suburb: How to Keep the Suburbs from Killing Your Soul more books like this

by David L Goetz

A great number of seekers find themselves in the seemingly unreal world of the suburbs. They read spirituality books but find themselves in carpools and coaching soccer, not in monasteries. Dave Goetz, a former pastor, shows that the suburbs are a real world, but a spiritually corrosive one. The land of SUVs and soccer leagues can truly be toxic ...

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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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Subject to History: Ideology, Class, Gender more books like this

by David Simpson

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Making Histories: Studies in History-Writing and Politics more books like this

by Richard Johnson

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