Humanism

By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows that Renaissance thinkers had a lot to say, not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874622263Author James H. RobbFormat PaperbackPage Count 285Imprint Marquette University PressPublisher Marquette University PressWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874622409Author Roland J. S.J. TeskeFormat PaperbackPage Count 510Imprint Marquette University PressPublisher Marquette University PressWeight(grams) 691g

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophers and biographer of Albert Einstein.Philipp Frank (1884-1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public...

The secular age has confronted human beings with a fundamental challenge. While the naturalistic worldview rooted in science has persuasively shown that traditional religious conceptions of the universe are unsustainable, it has so far offered no...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557788757Author Alan SobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Paragon House PublishersPublisher Paragon House Publishers

“Written in 1940, and available here for the first time ever in English, Samuel Ramos’ Toward a New Humanism is a prescient discussion of humanism, technology, mortality, and the tensions between the national and the universal. In addition to Sanchez’s...

From Plato and Aristotle and on to the present, many great philosophers have dealt with the nature of love, which is the most central and profound act of the person. Particularly the philosophy of the twentieth century excelled in this regard, most often...

The groundbreaking new book showing how nature enhances our powers of attention and shapes brain development, from the founder of the field of environmental neuroscience.'Nature's power has everything to do with attention, the driving force behind our...

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry...

This book is the first essay collection on Richard Shusterman, the foremost representative of contemporary pragmatist aesthetics, a philosopher whose books have been translated into more than fifteen languages. The 12 essays, which cover the wide-ranging...

This book evaluates competing theories on speculative topics, such as nature, technology, space, time, and the relation of mind and matter. The general thesis is the actuality of principles in the form of laws, norms and other general principles in a...

Hope: What is it? How do we get it? Is it part of being human? Is it something that carries us through hard times? Is it something illusory? This book, which stems from the 4th Inter-Disciplinary.net conference on Hope: Probing the Boundaries held in...

This volume brings together contributions that, from different disciplinary perspectives, highlight certain aspects and problems related to the configuration of the relationship between the religious and the secular in Japan. In the background stands the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027277735Author Jean-Jacques RousseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint OK PublishingPublisher OK Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989040211Author Jeffrey Thomas BergnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Rambling Ridge Press, LLCPublisher Rambling Ridge Press, LLCWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789785878936Author Maduabuchi DukorFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Malthouse PressPublisher Malthouse PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912951352Author Tom RubensFormat HardbackPage Count 260Imprint Happy London PressPublisher Happy London PressWeight(grams) 535g

Stately Bodies explores the curious prevalence of bodily metaphors in conceptions of noncorporeal institutions: the state, the law, and politics itself. The book builds on work from Adriana Cavarero's well-received study, In Spite of Plato: A Feminist...

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The notion of the posthuman continues to both intrigue and confuse, not least because of the huge number of ideas, theories and figures associated with this term. More Posthuman Glossary provides a way in to the dizzying array of posthuman concepts,...

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A live issue in anthropology and development studies, humanism is not typically addressed by analytic philosophers. Arguing for humanism as a view about truths, Humanism and Embodiment insists that disembodied reason, not religion, should be the target...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412056069Author John FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 188g

Flix Ravaissons seminal philosophical essay, Of Habit, was first published in French in 1838. It traces the origins and development of habit and proposes the principle of habit as the foundation of human nature. This metaphysics of habit steers a path...

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In the human quest for orientation vis-à-vis personal life and comprehensive reality the worldviews of religionists and humanists offer different answers, and science also plays a crucial role. Yet it is the ordinary, embodied experience of meaningful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781644240717Author Sigh Lent WittiamFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Page Publishing, Inc.Publisher Page Publishing, Inc.Weight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798223917229Author Artem KudeliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Artem Kudelia PhDPublisher Artem Kudelia PhDWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410212740Author Sir Leslie StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399505284Author Professor Emeritus of Drama S E WilmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781907962523Author Neil Paul CumminsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Cranmore PublicationsPublisher Cranmore PublicationsWeight(grams) 126g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894400459Author David HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Sola Scriptura Ministries InternationalPublisher Sola Scriptura Ministries...