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  • Story and Philosophy for Social Change in Medieval and Postmodern Writing

    Reading for Change

    by Allyson Carr ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book bridges medieval and contemporary philosophical thinkers, examining the relationship between fiction and philosophy for bringing about social change. Drawing on the philosophical reading and writing practices of medieval author Christine de Pizan and twentieth-century philosopher Luce Irigaray, and through an engagement with Hans-Georg Gadamer’s work on tradition and hermeneutics, it ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Truth Matters

    Knowledge, Politics, Ethics, Religion

    by Lambert Zuidervaart, Allyson Carr, Ronnie Shuker, Matthew Klaassen ...
    Why should we seek and tell the truth? Does anyone know what truth is? Many are skeptical about the relevance of truth. Truth Matters endeavours to show why truth is important in a world where the very idea of truth is contested.Putting philosophers in conversation with educators, literary scholars, physicists, political theorists, and theologians, Truth Matters ranges across both analytic and ... Read more

    $103.49 USD

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  • Beautiful Risk of Education

    by Gert J. J. Biesta ...
    This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and ... Read more

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  • On Human Nature

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Read more

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  • Is There a Meaning in This Text?

    The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge

    by Kevin J. Vanhoozer ...
    Is there a meaning in the Bible, or is meaning rather a matter of who is reading or of how one reads? Does Christian doctrine have anything to contribute to debates about interpretation, literary theory, and post modernity? These are questions of crucial importance for contemporary biblical studies and theology alike. Kevin Vanhoozer contends that the postmodern crisis in hermeneutics—”incredulity ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1

    Philosophical Papers

    by Richard Rorty ...
    Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • The Love of Wisdom

    A Christian Introduction to Philosophy

    by James Spiegel, Steven B. Cowan ...
    Philosophy is defined as the love of wisdom, and college students will certainly admire this Bible-informed introductory level textbook’s fun approach to an often heady subject. The Love of Wisdom is made distinct in its engaging style that includes humor and copious popular culture illustrations to heighten reader interest and clarify important concepts. The book even addresses two key topics ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Whose Community? Which Interpretation?

    Philosophical Hermeneutics for the Church

    by Merold Westphal, James Smith ...
    Series series The Church and Postmodern Culture
    In this volume, renowned philosopher Merold Westphal introduces current philosophical thinking related to interpreting the Bible. Recognizing that no theology is completely free of philosophical "contamination," he engages and mines contemporary hermeneutical theory in service of the church. After providing a historical overview of contemporary theories of interpretation, Westphal addresses ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Philosophy of Agamben

    by Catherine Mills ...
    Giorgio Agamben has gained widespread popularity in recent years for his rethinking of radical politics and his approach to metaphysics and language. However, the extraordinary breadth of historical, legal and philosophical sources which contribute to the complexity and depth of Agamben's thinking can also make his work intimidating. Covering the full range of Agamben's work, this critical ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Religion

    Thinking About Faith

    by C. Stephen Evans, R. Zachary Manis ...
    Series series Contours of Christian Philosophy
    With over 40,000 copies in print since its original publication in 1982, Steve Evans's Philosophy of Religion has served many generations of students as a classic introduction to the philosophy of religion from a Christian perspective. Over the years the philosophical landscape has changed, and in this new edition Zach Manis joins Evans in a thorough revamping of arguments and information, while ... Read more

    $28.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography

    Edited by Aviezer Tucker ...
    Series Book 107 - Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
    A COMPANION TO THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY AND HISTORIOGRAPHYThe philosophy of historiography examines our representations and knowledge of the past, the relation between evidence, inference, explanation and narrative. Do we possess knowledge of the past? Do we just have probable beliefs about the past, or is historiography a piece of convincing fiction? The philosophy of history is the direct ... Read more

    $48.00 USD