Philosophical traditions and schools of thought

Psychological and psychotherapeutic orientations often neglect the notion that the individual is not one unit, but rather a coalition of affects.

The three essays collected in this book offer a succinct introduction to Agamben's recent work through an investigation of Foucault's notion of the apparatus, a meditation on the intimate link of philosophy to friendship, and a reflection on contemporariness, or the singular relation one may have to one's own time.

Philosophy, Socrates declared, is the art of dying.

Since the 1930s, philosophy has been divided into two camps: the analytic tradition which prevails in the Anglophone world and the continental tradition which holds sway over the European continent.

When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority.

The current fashions in both analytic and continental philosophy are staunchly anti-metaphysical.

In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society.

Have you ever wondered how many of the spiritual masters and enlightened teachers have been parents?

Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected.

Wow!

Let's go visit the ancient people and see the world as they see it.

In our age of ecological disaster, this book joins the growing philosophical literature on vegetable life to ask how our present debates about biopower and animal studies change if we take plants as a linchpin for thinking about biopolitics.

That which is never lost cannot be found, and to search for it is absurd.

Nirvana has become an idealized word associated with the juxtaposition of a cult rock celebrity who died before his time and a vague new age version of Eastern religion.

Today, humanity is caught up in the mad complexity of the mind, and as never before, there is an urgent need to rediscover simplicity and innocence.

Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology.

Does God play cards with the universe?

Did you know that for the longest time women were considered inferior to men?

This book is of vital interest to anyone who yearns to know how science, theology, ethics, art, and politics do really afford objective truths.

What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today?

Did you know that there's so much you can learn from the early civilizations that are applicable today?

In this educational book, we're going to go over the Roman and Greek gods of Jupiter and Mars.

Yogananda was one of the most significant spiritual teachers of the 20th century.

Government are governed by laws.

Your child must learn to like history and you are the key to making it happen.

The interaction between philosophy and theater or performance has recently become an important and innovative area of inquiry.

This is an original reading of Mikhail Bakhtin in the context of Western philosophical traditions and counter-traditions.

Transparency is the order of the day.

Our competitive, service-oriented societies are taking a toll on the late-modern individual.

Before a great discovery, the Renaissance scientists had to endure long days of working in sometimes unhygienic places.

This book investigates what Bataille, in "e;The Pineal Eye,"e; calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology.

Twelve scholars take us on a journey through twelve books that have defined the methodologies and orthodoxies of key disciplines within the university curriculum.

Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation mythtold here for the very first time in illustrated form.

The Perfection of Freedom seeks to respond to the impoverished conventional notion of freedom through a recovery of an understanding rich with possibilities yet all but forgotten in contemporary thought.

An inspiring guide about how our daily decisions can turn hate and fear into hope and love.

This seminal text in the history of moral philosophy elaborates the basic themes of Kant's moral theory, gives the most complete statement of his highly original theory of freedom of the will, and develops his practical metaphysics.

When Intellectual Impostures was published in France, it sent shock waves through the Left Bank establishment.

Twenty-three essays by young professional philosophers examine crucial ethical and metaphysical aspects of the Buffyverse (the world of Buffy).

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The gods have always looked out for the Middle Kingdom, and that's evident through the years of successes and failures.

Inject the very wonderful and lively Greek and Roman myths in your children's systems because they have tons to learn from them.

An exploration of the roots of beauty in Japanese aesthetics.

In this companion to his best-selling translation ofThe Dhammapada, Eknath Easwaran explains howThe Dhammapadais a perfect map for the spiritual journey.

A blast to the past could be what your child needs in order to fully comprehend the present and know what to expect in the future.

The oeuvre of the Greek historian Xenophon, whose works stand with those of Plato as essential accounts of the teachings of Socrates, has seen a new surge of attention after decades in the shadows.

Conversations with YoganandaThis is an unparalleled firsthand account of Paramhansa Yogananda and his teachings, written by one of his closest students.

We live in an age of distraction.

Western Europe is in a strangely neurotic condition of being smug and terrified at the same time.

The Trees of Pride is another bestselling novella by the G.

In this volume we venture to the East.