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1) Excursions
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Works volume 5
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Writings and musings of Thoreau after his return to Concord, Mass.
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Anthony Grafton is the Henry Putnam University Professor of History at Princeton University.
Desiderius Erasmus (1466–1536) was a Dutch humanist, scholar, and social critic, and one of the most important figures of the Renaissance. The Praise of Folly is perhaps his best-known work. Originally written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More, this satiric celebration of pleasure, youth, and intoxication irreverently pokes fun at the pieties of theologians...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 21
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Thoreau's autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth and, above all, the freedom it gave him to adapt his living to the natural world around him.
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How do we decide what is "good" and what is "bad"? According to the ethical theory of Utilitarianism, to do good is to "always perform that act, of those available, that will bring the most happiness or the least unhappiness." By far the most widely read introduction to this theory, John Stuart Mill's Utilitarianism is one of the most important and controversial works of moral philosophy ever written. In this major contribution to ethical history,...
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A disciple of Kant and a significant factor in shaping Nietzsche's thinking, Arthur Schopenhauer worked from the foundation that all knowledge derives from our experience of the world, but that our experience is necessarily subjective and formed by our own intellect and biases: reality, therefore, is but an extension of our own will. In this essay, translated by THOMAS BAILEY SAUNDERS (1860-1928) and first published in English in the 1890s, Schopenhauer...
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2013
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William James was a groundbreaking thinker who made significant contributions to the fields of philosophy and psychology, as well as to the genre of personal essays. This volume brings together a collection of James' essays and scholarly articles that shine light on his doctrine of "radical empiricism," which attempts to outline the way the human mind comes to know and recognize not only material objects, but also the relationships and links between
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A Book that Transformed America
Civil Disobedience was Thoreau's first published book and continues to transform American discourse. It is unusual for its symbolism and structure, its criticism of Christian institutions, and its many-layered storytelling.
The ideas presented in this essay have influenced some of the most powerful and influential people in history, including Martin Luther King Jnr, Leo Tolstoy, President John F. Kennedy and Ernest...
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"Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic" is French philosopher Henri Bergson's treatise on laughter and the timeless role of comedy in human society. Originally published in three parts in French in 1900 and translated into English in 1924, Bergson makes three essential observations about laughter and comedy. First, that comedy is a necessary human behavior and acts as a sort of caricature or parody of essential human activities and behaviors....
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Thomas Brown (1778–1820), Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh, was among the most prominent and widely read British philosophers of the first half of the nineteenth century. An influential interpreter of both Hume and Reid, Brown provided a bridge between the Scottish school of 'Common Sense' and the later positivism of John Stuart Mill and others. The selections in this volume illustrate Brown's original ideas about mental science, cause...
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Il y a plusieurs façons d'être féministe:
de façon militante
de façon discrète
de façon publique
de façon intime
selon son contexte familial,
son milieu professionnel, son caractère.
Au moment o les langues se délient, on ne peut plus être silencieux.ses ou indifférent.e. s. Richard Baillargeon, qui se fait habituellement discret, choisit aujourd'hui de partager ses réflexions, suite à des lectures cruciales et à des rencontres décisives.
Au...
11) Astronave
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¿Qué pueden enseñarnos las naves espaciales sobre la ecología, el feminismo, la democracia y la naturaleza de los objetos?
Este es un libro sobre las astronaves de nuestra imaginación. Sin embargo, dice Morton, las astronaves son mucho más que eso. Las astronaves son seres autónomos, y tienen algo que decirnos. Basándose en el quimérico Halcón Milenario de Star Wars, el aclamado autor de Hiperobjetos nos conduce a un viaje intergaláctico...
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"Fromm's developing thought merits the critical attention of all concerned with the human condition and its future." -The Washington Post
The essays in this fascinating volume examine present-day psychological and cultural problems with the keen insight and humanistic sympathies characteristic of Erich Fromm's work.
The Dogma of Christ provides some of the sharpest critical insights into how the contemporary world of human destructiveness and...
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Eugenio Garin afirmaba que "no cabe duda de que es imposible asir el sentido del Renacimiento italiano ni comprender su peso en la historia, si no se aferra el secreto de su profunda unidad vivencial de ciencia y arte, de un tormentato pensamiento crítico unido a una fe religiosa renovada por el retorno a los orígenes". Haciéndose cargo de dicha aseveración, el filósofo francés Stéphane Toussaint sugiere en este libro dos conceptos que revitalizan...
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El inconsciente es la cuna del sueño. Se ocupa de hacer Uno de lo diverso para que durmamos, como el Estado. La diferencia es que allí donde el inconsciente falla, el psicoanálisis saluda el advenimiento de un saber. Por su parte, el amo no quiere saber, con ello atrapa los cuerpos y los descuenta, como letras de cambio. Así se hace Estado, así se hace fuerte y define al débil. Pero ¿quién es el Estado? Sobre todo, seamos discretos, no se...
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En La flauta mágica (1791) la noche es tiniebla, irracionalidad, mujer, en oposición al día, que es luz, racionalidad, varón. La razón es revolucionaria, pero su fuerza le viene de una noche que aún no entiende, porque viene del futuro.
El decorado de Schinkel (1816) para la gran escena de la Reina de la Noche reconoce esa fuerza. El Idealismo alemán trata de entenderla. Monarquías e imperios se tambalean, la guerra cubre Europa, religión,...
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An exploration of the terrain of consciousness in the light of its temporality from the father of phenomenology.
The Phenomenology of Internal Time-Consciousness is a translation of Edmund Husserl's Vorlesungen zur Phänomenologie des inneren Zeitbewußtseins. The first part of the book was originally presented as a lecture course at the University of Göttingen in the winter semester of 1904-1905, while the second part is based on additional supplementary...
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La reconciliación social no es posible porque el estado mental habitual de las masas es paranoide o maniaco, por lo tanto, incompatible con dicho propósito. El logro de una reconciliación social se traduciría en una historia oficial. La historia de las naciones demuestra que tal objetivo es inalcanzable además de restrictivo. La reconciliación requiere un estado mental maduro, alcanzable solo en la psicología individual y de pequeños grupos....
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Could it be possible? This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead! - Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra
This beautiful jacketed hardback brings together three of Friedrich Niezsche's most influential essays, Thus Spake Zarathustra, Ecce Homo and Beyond Good and Evil.
This German philosopher was one of the most prominent thinkers of the 19th century. His work contains a radical critique of objective truth, rejecting Christian...
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Extrait: "L'analyse de l'esprit humain nous a démontré que son développement naturel aboutit à quatre points de vue fondamentaux, qui le mesurent et le représentent tout entier. Ces quatre point de vue, dans leur expression scientifique, donnent quatre systèmes élémentaires, le sensualisme, l'idéalisme, le scepticisme et le mysticisme. Et, comme l'histoire de la philosophie est la manifestation de l'esprit humain dans l'espace et dans le...
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