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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities

Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities more books like this

by Lawrence Cunningham

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CULTURE AND VALUES, Fifth Edition continues to combine balanced coverage of literature, art, music, and philosophy with sociological insight into the daily life of the characters in the unfolding drama of Western civilization. Available in two volumes, or as an alternate single volume without readings, this text remains the most readable and ...

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Classics of Western philosophy

Classics of Western philosophy more books like this

by Steven M Cahn

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The seventh edition of Steven Cahn's "Classics of Western Philosophy" features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus' "Enneads", Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation", Husserl's "Paris Lectures", Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", and a new selection from Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". ...

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Passion of the Western Mind

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by Richard Tarnas

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"[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the first time". SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Here are the great ...

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Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache more books like this

by Keith H Basso

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Explores the connections of place, language, wisdom, and morality among the Western Apache.

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Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Edition (with CD-ROM)

Culture and Values: A Survey of the Humanities, Alternate Edition (with CD-ROM) more books like this

by Lawrence S Cunningham, John J Reich

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Covers Western cultures and non-Western cultures, providing students solid, accessible introductions to art, music, philosophy, literature and more.

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History of Western Philosophy

History of Western Philosophy more books like this

by Bertrand Russell, Earl

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First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, ...

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Fundamentals of Philosophy

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by David Stewart

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For freshman/sophomore-level courses in Introduction to Philosophy.An accessible reader/text for beginning students of philosophy, this volume offers a broad scope of diverse classic and contemporary selections -- with a narrative and format that presents difficult issues and readings in a simplified but not condescending manner. The readings are ...

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Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia

Dreamkeepers: A Spirit-Journey Into Aboriginal Australia more books like this

by Harvey Arden

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Written by the co-author of "Wisdomkeepers", this book reveals the world of the Aborigines of the Kimberley region of Australia - "the land beyond goodby". Harvey Arden introduces readers to aboriginal men and women - rough-edged stockmen and gold hunters, storytellers and healers, poets and artists, spiritual elders and traditional Law Men - as ...

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The Art of Worldly Wisdom

The Art of Worldly Wisdom more books like this

by Joseph Jacobs (Translator), Baltasar Gracian y Morales

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Written in the seventeenth century, this collection of three hundred timeless maxims offers sage advice on how to impress superiors, confound rivals, and get the most from subordinates. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

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Art of Worldly Wisdom

Art of Worldly Wisdom more books like this

by Baltasar Gracian y Morales

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Written in the seventeenth century by a Spanish Jesuit, The Art of Worldly Wisdom is strikingly modern in sensibility and tone. This timeless collection of maxims addresses universal concerns such as friendship, morality, and effective leadership. This edition features a lengthy introduction by Willis Barnstone, former Distinguished Professor of ...

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Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750 more books like this

by Jonathan I Israel

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In this detailed survey, Jonathan Israel examines the genesis of modern thought, marked by its emphasis on democracy and equality, from the 17th- and 18th-century philosophies of Spinoza, Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.

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C.S. Lewis for the Third Millennium: Six Essays on the Abolition of Man more books like this

by Peter Kreeft

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The passion of the western mind : understanding the ideas that have shaped our world view. more books like this

by Richard Tarnas

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A collection of the pivotal ideas from the great minds of Western civilization. From Plato to Hegel, from Augustine to Nietzsche, from Copernicus to Freud, their concepts are described simply but without simplifying them.

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The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding more books like this

by Kieran Egan

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Egan reconceives intellectual development as learning to use particular "intellectual tools"--such as language or literacy--which shape how we make sense of the world. The book concludes with practical proposals for implementing changes in teaching and curriculum.

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Philosophy and Contemporary Issues more books like this

by John Roy Burr

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For courses in Introduction to Philosophy or Contemporary Philosophy. One of the most successful texts in its field over the last 20 years, Philosophy and Contemporary Issues introduces today's students to philosophy with timely, approachable readings of philosophical significance. The authors strive to demonstrate how philosophy illuminates and ...

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The Triumph of the Therapeutic: Uses of Faith After Freud more books like this

by Philip Rieff

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A look at the role of faith in the post-Freudian world, by the author of FREUD: The Mind of a Moralist.

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The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America more books like this

by Ayn Rand, Leonard Peikoff

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A controversial work by a disciple of the philosopher and novelist Ayn Rand. Peikoff maintains that Americans have been seduced by collectivist ideas concerning politics and culture, and that American society in consequence is heading towards a future society that will resemble Nazi Germany in its glorification of the group over the individual.

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A History of Western Philosophy more books like this

by W. T. Jones

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History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances From.. more books like this

by Bertrand Arthur Russell

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This comprehensive work presents the history of Western philosophy in its social, economic and political context, enlivened by Bertrand Russell's profound and lucid insight and wit.

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Coming to Our Senses more books like this

by Morris Berman

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The Western intellectual tradition, from Leonardo to Hegel more books like this

by Jacob Bronowski, Bruce Mazlish

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Our Natural History more books like this

by Daniel B Botkin, Ph.D.

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Biologist and naturalist Daniel Botkin recreates the journey of Lewis and Clark, using it to draw lessons about the environment and humanity's place within it.

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The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations more books like this

by Miguel De Unamuno, Miguel De Unamuno, Anthony Kerrigan (Editor)

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Unamuno expressed the anguish of modern man in his passionate concept of the Tragic Sense of life, the continual struggle within the 'man of flesh and blood' between the dictates of reason and the demands of his own heart. This book is his acknowledged masterpiece.

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Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna more books like this

by Professor Peter Singer

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PUSHING TIME AWAY is Peter Singer's biography of his grandfather, an obscure classical scholar named David Oppenheim. As a young man in Vienna, Oppenheim, a teacher, was a friend and collaborator of Freud. When he returned from service in World War I, he was a different man--shellshocked, burned out, and disillusioned. He turned inward, took ...

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Coming to Our Senses: Body and Spirit in the Hidden History of the West more books like this

by Morris Berman

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