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Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566632935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief and enlightening exploration of the philosopher's life and ideas is presented in an entertaining and accessible fashion.
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 2000-11-10
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1461662370
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 1997-04-01
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 1461703557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 1996-09-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 1461709741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Philosophers in 90 Minutes
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.
Author: David M. Halperin
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0195111273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough there is scarcely more than a mention of homosexuality in his scholarly writings, Michel Foucault, who died of AIDS in 1984, has become a source of inspiration to a generation of gay activists. This book provides a defence of Foucault's work.
Author: Paul Strathern
Publisher: Philosophers in 90 Minutes
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensible and interesting to almost everyone.
Author: Aldous Huxley
Publisher: Ivan R. Dee
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 1461741351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Hollywood millionaire with a terror of death, whose personal physician happens to be working on a theory of longevity-these are the elements of Aldous Huxley's caustic and entertaining satire on man's desire to live indefinitely. With his customary wit and intellectual sophistication, Huxley pursues his characters in their quest for the eternal, finishing on a note of horror. "This is Mr. Huxley's Hollywood novel, and you might expect it to be fantastic, extravagant, crazy and preposterous. It is all that, and heaven and hell too....It is the kind of novel that he is particularly the master of, where the most extraordinary and fortuitous events are followed by contemplative little essays on the meaning of life....The story is outrageously good."—New York Times. "A highly sensational plot that will keep astonishing you to practically the final sentence."—The New Yorker. "Mr. Huxley's elegant mockery, his cruel aptness of phrase, the revelations and the ingenious surprises he springs on the reader are those of a master craftsman; Mr. Huxley is at the top of his form." —London Times Literary Supplement.
Author: Margaret A. McLaren
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2012-02-01
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0791487938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAddressing central questions in the debate about Foucault's usefulness for politics, including his rejection of universal norms, his conception of power and power-knowledge, his seemingly contradictory position on subjectivity and his resistance to using identity as a political category, McLaren argues that Foucault employs a conception of embodied subjectivity that is well-suited for feminism. She applies Foucault's notion of practices of the self to contemporary feminist practices, such as consciousness-raising and autobiography, and concludes that the connection between self-transformation and social transformation that Foucault theorizes as the connection between subjectivity and institutional and social norms is crucial for contemporary feminist theory and politics.
Author: Leonard Lawlor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-04-21
Total Pages: 1318
ISBN-13: 1139867067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Foucault Lexicon is a reference tool that provides clear and incisive definitions and descriptions of all of Foucault's major terms and influences, including history, knowledge, language, philosophy and power. It also includes entries on philosophers about whom Foucault wrote and who influenced Foucault's thinking, such as Deleuze, Heidegger, Nietzsche and Canguilhem. The entries are written by scholars of Foucault from a variety of disciplines such as philosophy, gender studies, political science and history. Together, they shed light on concepts key to Foucault and to ongoing discussions of his work today.
