Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

This new collection of essays shares insights drawn from more than fifty years of traveling.

"e;The more I read the Bible, the more evident it becomes that everything I have ever taught or written about effective leadership over the past 25 years, Jesus did to perfection.

When mystics like Angelus Silesius speak of God, they do so from a vibrant intensity of awareness, and in a tone of voice one trusts at once.

This is a great place to start reading Paul Brunton's Notebooks-an uplifting, enlightening survey of virtually every aspect of spiritual awakening and stage of practice.

What does an assemblage made out of crumpled newspaper have in common with an empty room in which the lights go on and off every five seconds?

Young Daniel Naroditsky (1995) has picked the most instructive examples of endgames in which you have to use ideas and plans in order to outplay your opponent.

Behind the clamorous headlines of militant and political Islam lies a more serene and cultivated form of traditional Islam.

At the very heart of Islam lies the spiritual way of Sufism.

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

From the Greek philosophers to the Postmodernist theories of Jacques Derrida and Richard Rorty, this authoritative survey encompasses over two thousand years of interaction between philosophical and religious thought.

This book examines one of the most fundamental issues in twelfth-century English politics: justice.

Jalal al-Din Rumi (1207-73), founder of the Mevlevi Sufi order of ';Whirling Dervishes,' is the best-selling poet in America today.

This edited collection aims to reimagine and extend ethnography for a data-saturated world.

Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the last three decades have concentrated on the supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and its Muslims.

This volume collects and revises the key essays of Gunther Teubner, one of the world's leading sociologists of law.

This book offers an innovative account of manliness in Britain between 1760 and 1900.

Combining a historical perspective that traces lines of continuity and change in Arab liberalism, an integrative discussion of cross-sectional themes, and a comparative analysis of the West, Turkey and Iran, this book seeks to enrich our knowledge of liberal thought in the Arab Middle East.

This book tells the story of critical avant-garde design in Japan, which emerged during the 1960s and continues to inspire designers today.

Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women.

This text communicates the sense of Buddhism as a comprehensive whole, as it is a non-sectarian guide to the Buddha''s essential teachings.

This book provides a profound exploration of the concept of a "e;human minimum"e; as articulated by the renowned African philosopher H.

The goal of the ancient philosophers was to understand how to live in harmony with nature and to transcend the limitations imposed by sense experience and discursive reasoning.

This authoritative new introduction draws on both Richard H.

A bold new reconception of ancient Greek drama as a mode of philosophical thinkingThe Philosophical Stage offers an innovative approach to ancient Greek literature and thought that places drama at the heart of intellectual history.

Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art.

In the 1930s and 1940s - amid the crises of totalitarianism, war and a perceived cultural collapse in the democratic West - a high-profile group of mostly Christian intellectuals met to map out 'middle ways' through the 'age of extremes'.

In this book J.

Taras tenacity is immense and Buddha Shakyamuni, when teaching on Tara, said among all the other buddhas, Tara has exceedingly great resolve.

Who might reasonably be nominated as the funniest philosopher of all time?

The forgotten story of the nineteenth-century freethinkers and twentieth-century humanists who tried to build their own secular religionIn The Church of Saint Thomas Paine, Leigh Eric Schmidt tells the surprising story of how freethinking liberals in nineteenth-century America promoted a secular religion of humanity centered on the deistic revolutionary Thomas Paine (1737-1809) and how their descendants eventually became embroiled in the culture wars of the late twentieth century.

This book consists of Gregory Vlastos' studies on a variety of themes in Plato's metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and social philosophy.

The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem-now available in a one-volume paperbackThe Ramayana of Valmiki, the monumental Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of the great god Visnu, has profoundly affected the literature, art, religions, and cultures of South and Southeast Asia from antiquity to the present.

Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates.

This is a thorough and balanced guide to modern French philosophical thought, providing lucid, authoritative accounts of famous philosophers whilst also highlighting lesser-known figures.

Zygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades.

Approaching the Stuart courts through the lens of the queen consort, Anna of Denmark, this study is underpinned by three key themes: translating cultures, female agency and the role of kinship networks and genealogical identity for early modern royal women.

A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither.

For much of the twentieth century, Confucianism was condemned by Westerners and East Asians alike as antithetical to modernity.

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity-and examines the question of whether he was the "e;first secular Jew.

This ambitious study presents Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) as the most outstanding and influential thinker of modernity-and examines the question of whether he was the "e;first secular Jew.

A monumental compendium of Chinese thought, from pre-Confucianism to Chinese CommunismA Source Book in Chinese Philosophy covers the entire historical development of Chinese philosophy from its ancient origins to today, providing the most wide-ranging and authoritative English-language anthology of Chinese thought available.

In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary.

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government.

Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics.

This is the first major work in English to explore at length the meaning, context, aims, and vital importance of Thomas Hobbes's concepts of the law of nature and the right of nature.

Machiavelli's Ethics challenges the most entrenched understandings of Machiavelli, arguing that he was a moral and political philosopher who consistently favored the rule of law over that of men, that he had a coherent theory of justice, and that he did not defend the "e;Machiavellian"e; maxim that the ends justify the means.