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The Civility Solution
What to Do When People Are Rude
P. M. Forni
St. Martin's Griffin
"Though his new book deals with many kinds of incivility, Dr. Forni has devoted a sizeable chunk of it to workplace and high-tech rudeness . . . his approach to incivility is rooted in his academic career researching and teaching Italian literature. Some fundamentals of good behavior, he says, go back hundreds of years."—
The Wall Street Journal
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Security, Territory, Population
Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
Michel Foucault
Picador
"The English translation of
Security, Territory and Population
is a major event not only for Anglophone readers of Foucault’s work, but for all those concerned with understanding our present social and political condition. These lectures show that the trenchant analysis of biopower, 'power over life,' which Foucault had begun in the first volume of the History of Sexuality and which he pursues here in terms of technologies of security, led him to a decisively deeper and more radical formulation of his guiding problematic—what he called 'the government of the self and others'—the issue that would serve as the basis for all his subsequent work.
Security, Territory and Population
might thus properly be called the ‘missing link’ that reveals the underlying unity of Foucault’s later thought . . . Burchell’s translation is meticulous, supple, and attentive to the nuances of Foucault’s fluid lecture style. We all stand in his debt."—
Kevin Thompson, Book Review Editor,
Continental Philosophy Review
, Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
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Abnormal
Lectures at the Collège de France, 1974-1975
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"The importance of these lectures is that they are directly connected with two of Foucault's greatest books,
Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: An Introduction
. Because they are clear and to the point, the lectures throw considerable light on the more difficult ideas and passages of their related published works . . . [
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Charles Mudede,
The Stranger
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The Hermeneutics of the Subject
Lectures at the Collège de France 1981--1982
Lectures at the Collège de France
Michel Foucault; Translated by Graham Burchell; General Editors: François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana; English Series Editor: Arnold I. Davidson
Picador
"Is the 'self' capable of reaching the truth when only equipped with knowledge? Or can it attain the truth without a 'long labor of ascesis?' Why is the concept of the 'care of the self' neglected by Western thought despite its vital role in constructing the concept of 'know yourself?' These ethical questions and more are elegantly discussed in Foucault's third volume of lectures from the Collège de France."—
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The Human Touch
Our Part in the Creation of a Universe
Michael Frayn
Picador
"Frayn . . . has a healthy respect for the power of external reality to constrain our world-making. Indeed, what makes
The Human Touch
so rewarding is the subtlety and humor with which he examines 'the great mutual balancing act.' There may be something godlike in the way we 'bring into their various forms of existence all the receding ontological planes of the world we inhabit,' but we are also at the mercy of that world's whims. A brick to the head and the whole show comes to an end."—
Jim Holt,
The New York Times
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Sophie's World
A Novel About the History of Philosophy
Jostein Gaarder; Translated by Paulette Møller
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel—something like a modern-day version of
Through the Looking Glass
. Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force."—
Time
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Straw Dogs
Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals
John Gray
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"This powerful and brilliant book is an essential guide to the new Millennium.
Straw Dogs
challenges all our assumptions about what it is to be human, and convincingly shows that most of them are delusions."—
J.G. Ballard
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American Transcendentalism
A History
Philip F. Gura
Hill and Wang
"Philip Gura has given us the most comprehensive and concise overview of Transcendentalism to appear in fifty years. By carefully re-historicizing the movement, in all its diversity, he provides the term 'Transcendentalistism' with much needed definition. An important book on a subject indispensable for study of the American mind."—
John McWilliams, Professor, Middlebury College
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Nonfiction
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Time
Big Ideas, Small Books
Eva Hoffman
Picador
“Hoffman examines this philosophically fraught subject in unpretentious, clear chapters: asking how time affects our bodies, our minds, our cultures, and, finally, how time has accelerated and changed with the advent of the concept of 'immediacy'—or, as she puts it, 'what pace and density of stimulus we need in order to feel that something ‘interesting’ is happening.'”—
Benjamin Moser,
Harper’s
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Soul of a Citizen
Living with Conviction in Challenging Times
Paul Rogat Loeb
St. Martin's Griffin
“
Soul of a Citizen
has been a powerful resource to get thousands of students involved in their communities, giving them the opportunity to apply their learning in meaningful ways. This updated edition is both timely and exceptionally useful to campuses that want to reclaim higher education’s central role in educating responsible, democratic citizens.”—
Carol Geary Schneider, President, American Association of Colleges and Universities
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Moral Relativism
Big Ideas/Small Books
Steven Lukes
Picador
"No sociologist alive is a sharper philosopher than Steven Lukes. He has been making mincemeat of academic distinctions for decades, bringing a razor mind and an eye for significance to all manner of vexing questions about power, individualism, rationality, human rights, identity, and now, in this masterful little volume, moral relativism. He reads like an omnivore, writes like a dream, and has both the reason and the courage to say that some positions are right and others wrong."—
Todd Gitlin, author of
Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms our Lives
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Critical Writings
New Edition
F. T. Marinetti; Edited by Günter Berghaus; Translated by Doug Thompson
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"The volume compiles writings not previously available in English alongside fresh translations of his better-known works. This is all very nice, but if you're like me, the first thing you want to know when perusing any Marinetti edition is, 'Is the essay about sculpted meat included?' Happily it is."—
Philadelphia
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The Metaphysical Club
A Story of Ideas in America
Louis Menand
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize
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The Metaphysical Club
is a brilliant reanimation of American pragmatism as it evolved from the writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., William James, Charles Sanders Peirce, and John Dewey as it was shaped by the traumas of the Civil War and the immense social and economic changes that followed it. Menand has written the most nuanced account I've ever read of pragmatist thinking and he demonstrates, as no one so effectively has before, how public enterprise shaped its specifically American texture and tone. This is a richly populated, intellectually thrilling book in which America is shown to be discovering its future."—
Richard Poirier
L.A. Times Book Prize - Nominee - History
Pulitzer Prize - Winner - History
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The Best of All Possible Worlds
A Story of Philosophers, God, and Evil
Steven Nadler
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“I can't imagine a better guide to 17th-century philosophical thought. Aimed at the general public,
The Best of All Possible Worlds
is written simply and clearly, without condescension, flashiness or over-simplification. But it's a demanding book nonetheless, and you need to pay attention. You'll be amply rewarded if you do.”—
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
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On Kindness
Adam Phillips and Barbara Taylor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
"In a lively survey that ranges from Rome's Stoics and Epicureans to Enlightenment thinkers like Hobbes, Hume and especially Rousseau, the authors deftly sketch the tension between the proponents of a mutually dependent society and those who champion the idea of blunt self-interest. They deliver us to the modern world where they conclude, with no small amount of regret, that 'we are all Hobbesians, convinced that self-interest is our ruling principle.'"—
Harvey Freedenberg,
Shelf Awareness
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Giordano Bruno
Philosopher/Heretic
Ingrid D. Rowland
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“
Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic
gives some support to the view of Bruno as a visionary of and martyr to science, but Rowland . . . knows too much about him and his times to accept that simple picture. Rather, she tells the story of a bright, thin-skinned, rebellious and inquisitive young man from outside Naples who became a precocious Dominican priest, had some original thoughts, wrote some interesting treatises and long poems, and pretty quickly got in trouble with the authorities.”—
Marc Kaufman,
The Washington Post
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Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
“Michael J. Sandel is one of this generation’s most important philosophers because he combines a relentlessly inquiring spirit with a profound commitment to the idea of a common good.
Justice
is Sandel at his finest: no matter what your views are, his delightful style will draw you in, and he’ll then force you to rethink your assumptions and challenge you to question accepted ways of thinking. But Sandel does not leave you marooned on an island of skepticism. He calls us to a better way of doing politics, and a more enriching way of living our lives.”—
E. J. Dionne, Jr.
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Science Friction
Where the Known Meets the Unknown
Michael Shermer
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"Meaty accounts of such interesting problems as counterfactuality and complexity in history and of recent controversies in evolutionary theory; entertaining discussions of the most famous episode of
Star Trek
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Bounty
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The Washington Post Book World
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Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag
Picador
"Sontag reappraises many of the opinions she laid out in her well known 1977 book
On Photography
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Regarding the Pain of Others
] focuses on how we look at photographs of calamities and the moral implications of such observation . . . A nuanced [and] revisionist coda of sorts to
On Photography
. . . Sontag is to be commended for acknowledging how her thinking has changed over the years."—
Michiko Kakutani,
The New York Times
National Books Critics Circle Awards - Nominee - Criticism
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The Bhagavad Gita
A New Translation
George Thompson
North Point Press
"George Thompson's new translation is a gift to teachers, students and seekers. The prose is lucid, lively, and admirably literal. The key metaphors are skillfully rendered, the core teachings precisely delineated; most important, the philosophical and spiritual radiance of the original shines through."—
Carol Zaleski, Professor of World Religions, Smith College
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Violence
Big Ideas/Small Books
Slavoj Zizek
Picador
"Žižek's book addresses in a really powerful way the human condition as we find ourselves in it today: as inheritors of the legacy of 9/11, global capitalism, the war on terror, etc. As a teacher I strive to bring my students into contact with philosophical texts that speak this directly to their lives and experiences so that they can begin to realize, as I once did, that philosophy is not a dead science, but a living art which is profoundly and frighteningly relevant—capable of transforming their understanding of themselves and their world. Žižek's book accomplishes all this and more. For this reason, I recommend his work to all young students of philosophy as essential reading."—
Drew Dalton, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, St. Anselm College
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Aristotle's Poetics
Aristotle; Translated by S. H. Butcher; Introduction by Francis Fergusson
Hill and Wang
Introduced by Francis Fergusson, the Poetics, written in the fourth century B.C., is still an essential study of the art of drama, indeed the most fundamental...
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The Limits of Power
The End of American Exceptionalism
American Empire Project
Andrew Bacevich
A Metropolitan/Holt Paperbacks Book
“This compact, meaty volume ought to be on the reading list of every candidate for national office in November's elections. In an age of cant and baloney, Andrew Bacevich offers a bracing slap of reality.
The Limits of Power
is gracefully written and easy to read . . . chockablock with provocative ideas and stern judgments. Bacevich's brand of intellectual assuredness is rare in today's public debates. Many of our talking heads and commentators are cocksure, of course, but few combine confidence with knowledge and deep thought the way Bacevich does here. His big argument is elegant and powerful.”—
The Washington Post
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Camera Lucida
Reflections on Photography
Roland Barthes; Translated by Richard Howard
Hill and Wang
"This is a great book—flawed, impossible, infuriating, and moving . . . but he has accomplished in this extraordinary book something finer than mere polemic. En route to his last painful discovery, Barthes takes the reader on an exquisitely rendered, lyrical journey into the heart of his own life and the medium he came to love, a medium that flirts constantly with the 'intractable reality' of the human condition."
—Douglas Davis,
Newsweek
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