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Utopia or Bust: A Guide to the Present Crisis
Benjamin Kunkel · Verso
Pages: 180
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After the financial crash and the great recession, the media rediscovered Karl Marx, socialist theory, and the very idea that capitalism can be questioned. But in spite of the publicity, the main paths of contemporary critical thought have gone unexplored outside of the academy. Benjamin... |
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The Cambridge Companion to Liberalism
Steven Wall (Editor) · Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The political philosophy of liberalism was first formulated during the Enlightenment in response to the growth of the modern nation-state and its authority and power over the individuals living within its boundaries. Liberalism is now the dominant ideology in the Western world, but it covers... |
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The Happiness Industry: How the Government and Big Business Sold us Well-Being
William Davies · Verso
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In winter 2014, a Tibetan monk lectured the world leaders gathered at Davos on the importance of Happiness. The recent DSM-5, the manual of all diagnosable mental illnesses, for the first time included shyness and grief as treatable diseases. Happiness has become the biggest idea of our age,... |
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A Theory of the Drone
Grégoire Chamayou · The New Press
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Drone warfare has raised profound ethical and constitutional questions both in the halls of Congress and among the U.S. public. Not since debates over nuclear warfare has American military strategy been the subject of discussion in living rooms, classrooms, and houses of worship. Yet as this... |
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for Everyone
Scott Samuelson · University Of Chicago Press
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Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks this is tragic, for our lives as well as for philosophy. In The Deepest Human Life he takes... |
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Mourning and Mysticism in First World War Literature and Beyond: Grappling with Ghosts
George M. Johnson · Palgrave Macmillan
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How did people respond to the overwhelming loss of loved ones during the First World War? Many took their lead from iconic early twentieth-century writers, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Oliver Lodge, J.M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling, Virginia Woolf, Wilfred Owen, and Aldous Huxley,... |
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The Newton Papers: The Strange and True Odyssey of Isaac Newton's Manuscripts
Sarah Dry · Oxford University Press
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When Isaac Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left behind a wealth of papers that, when examined, gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed, hinting at a Newton altogether stranger and less palatable... |
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