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  • Liberalism as a Way of Life

    by Alexandre Lefebvre ...
    Why liberalism is all you need to lead a good, fun, worthy, and rewarding life—and how you can become a better and happier person by taking your liberal beliefs more seriouslyWhere do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Human Rights and the Care of the Self

    by Alexandre Lefebvre ...
    When we think of human rights we assume that they are meant to protect people from serious social, legal, and political abuses and to advance global justice. In Human Rights and the Care of the Self Alexandre Lefebvre turns this assumption on its head, showing how the value of human rights also lies in enabling ethical practices of self-transformation. Drawing on Foucault's notion of "care of the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Freedom

    Lectures at the Collège de France, 1904–1905

    by Henri Bergson ...
    For 15 years, Henri Bergson, the most important French philosopher of the early 20th-century, taught at the Collège de France. Speaking without notes, most of his classes are now lost to history, but records of a handful of courses fortuitously survived thanks to stenographic transcripts. Conveying Bergson's very voice, these extraordinary documents are finally presented here in English.The 1904 ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Human Rights as a Way of Life

    On Bergson's Political Philosophy

    by Alexandre Lefebvre ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion—from which Alexandre Lefebvre ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Interpreting Bergson

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Alexandre Lefebvre, Nils F. Schott ...
    Bergson was a pre-eminent European philosopher of the early twentieth century and his work covers all major branches of philosophy. This volume of essays is the first collection in twenty years in English to address the whole of Bergson's philosophy, including his metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of life, aesthetics, ethics, social and political thought, and religion. ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Henri Bergson

    Translated by Nils F. Schott ...
    by Vladimir Jankelevitch ...
    Appearing here in English for the first time, Vladimir Jankélévitch's Henri Bergson is one of the two great commentaries written on Henri Bergson. Gilles Deleuze's Bergsonism renewed interest in the great French philosopher but failed to consider Bergson's experiential and religious perspectives. Here Jankélévitch covers all aspects of Bergson's thought, emphasizing the concepts of time and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Subject of Human Rights

    Edited by Danielle Celermajer, Alexandre Lefebvre ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Human Rights
    The Subject of Human Rights is the first book to systematically address the "human" part of "human rights." Drawing on the finest thinking in political theory, cultural studies, history, law, anthropology, and literary studies, this volume examines how human rights—as discourse, law, and practice—shape how we understand humanity and human beings. It asks how the humanness that the human rights ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Human Rights as a Way of Life

    On Bergson's Political Philosophy

    by Alexandre Lefebvre ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    The work of Henri Bergson, the foremost French philosopher of the early twentieth century, is not usually explored for its political dimensions. Indeed, Bergson is best known for his writings on time, evolution, and creativity. This book concentrates instead on his political philosophy—and especially on his late masterpiece, The Two Sources of Morality and Religion—from which Alexandre Lefebvre ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Bergson, Politics, and Religion

    Edited by Alexandre Lefebvre, Melanie White ...
    Henri Bergson is primarily known for his work on time, memory, and creativity. His equally innovative interventions into politics and religion have, however, been neglected or dismissed until now. In the first book in English dedicated to Bergson as a political thinker, leading Bergson scholars illuminate his positions on core concerns within political philosophy: the significance of emotion in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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    Liberalism as a Way of Life

    by Alexandre Lefebvre ...
    Narrated by Christopher Douyard ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 11 min

    Where do you get your values and sensibilities from? If you grew up in a Western democracy, the answer is probably liberalism. Conservatives are right about one thing: liberalism is the ideology of our times, as omnipresent as religion once was. Yet, as Alexandre Lefebvre argues in Liberalism as a Way of Life, many of us are liberal without fully realizing it—or grasping what it means. Misled into ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Hegel and the Shadow of Dialectical Materialism

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    Discover a 1,000-page resurrection of Hegel, a giant of Western philosophy—from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books).For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact ... Read more

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  • The Ethics of Identity

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our ... Read more

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