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  • Laws of Freedom: A Study of Kant's Method of Applying the Categorical Imperative in the Metaphysik Der Sitten

    Laws of Freedom is Mary J. Gregor's rigorous and illuminating study of Immanuel Kant's ethical framework, focusing on how the categorical imperative is applied in his Metaphysik der Sitten ( Metaphysics of Morals). In clear and precise prose, Gregor examines Kant's method for translating abstract moral principles into concrete laws governing human freedom. Her work bridges the gap between ... Read more

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  • Three Lives

    Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This ... Read more

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  • Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac’s life they were—in Holmes’s words—“Brother Souls.” Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac ... Read more

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  • Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were--in Holmes's words--"Brother Souls." Both were neophyte novelists, hungry for literary fame but just as hungry to find a new way of responding to their experiences in a postwar American society that for them had lost its direction. Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac ... Read more

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  • Three Lives

    Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged woman, but she was surrounded by women who were trapped by poverty, class, and race into lives that offered little choice. Her portraits of Anna and Lena are examples of realistic depictions of immigrant women who had no occupational choice but to become domestic workers. This ... Read more

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  • Kerouac

    A Biography

    by Ann Charters ...
    "This biography [of]. . . . the darkly intense, handsome young man . . . hero and prophet . . . written with . . . daring insight and honesty, is a worthy monument." ― The Los Angeles TimesNow that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary style and examine the dozen books comprising what ... Read more

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    Brother-Souls

    John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation

    Narrated by Brian Holden ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 45 min

    John Clellon Holmes met Jack Kerouac on a hot New York City weekend in 1948, and until the end of Kerouac's life they were—in Holmes's words—"Brother Souls." Late one night as they sat talking, Kerouac spontaneously created the term "Beat Generation" to describe this new attitude they felt stirring around them. Brother-Souls: John Clellon Holmes, Jack Kerouac, and the Beat Generation is the ... Read more

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  • Groundwork Of The Metaphysics Of Morals (Mobi Classics)

    The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten, 1785), Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy, argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the Critique of Pure Reason laid out Kant's metaphysical and epistemological ideas, this relatively short, primarily meta-ethical, work was intended to ... Read more

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  • Oscar Wars

    A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears

    The author of the New York Times bestseller Her Again: Becoming Meryl Streep returns with a lively history of the Academy Awards, focusing on the brutal battles, the starry rivalries, and the colorful behind-the-scenes Hollywood drama.America does not have royalty. It has the Academy Awards. For nine decades, perfectly coiffed starlets, debonair leading men, and producers with gold in their eyes ... Read more

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  • Principia Ethica

    Exploring the Non-Natural Concept of Good: A Philosophical Inquiry into Ethics and Moral Dilemmas

    by G. E. Moore ...
    In "Principia Ethica," G. E. Moore presents a groundbreaking analysis of ethical theory, arguing for the significance of the intrinsic 'good' as a fundamental aspect of reality. Published in 1903, this philosophical treatise is noted for its rigorous logical structure and innovative approach to moral philosophy. Moore challenges prevalent ethical theories of his time, introducing the famous ... Read more

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  • On the Road: The Original Scroll

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    by Jack Kerouac ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    The legendary 1951 scroll draft of On the Road, published word for word as Kerouac originally composed itThough Jack Kerouac began thinking about the novel that was to become On the Road as early as 1947, it was not until three weeks in April 1951, in an apartment on West Twentieth Street in Manhattan, that he wrote the first full draft that was satisfactory to him. Typed out as one long, single ... Read more

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  • Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and corroborate the supreme principle of morality, the categorical imperative. He argues that human beings are ends in themselves ... Read more

    $19.69 USD