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  • Why We Are Restless

    On the Modern Quest for Contentment

    by Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey ...
    Series series New Forum Books
    A compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a profound and beautiful ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Enlightenment and Secularism

    Essays on the Mobilization of Reason

    by Fred Baumann, Alice Behnegar, Nasser Behnegar, Mark Blitz, Henry C. Clark, Dean DiSpalatro, Brian J. Glenn, Ryan Hanley, Jeffrey L. High, Christopher Lynch, Svetozar Minkov, Andrea Radasanu, John T. Scott, Susan Meld Shell, Benjamin Storey, Friederike von Schwerin-High, Andre Wakefield, Allan Arkush, Jeremy D. Bailey, David Biale, Robert Faulkner, David Janssens, Ralph Lerner, Rafael Major, Paul A. Rahe, George Thomas ...
    Enlightenment and Secularism is a collection of twenty eight essays that seek to understand the connection between the European Enlightenment and the emergence of secular societies, as well as the character or nature of those societies. The contributors are drawn from a variety of disciplines including History, Sociology, Political Science, and Literature. Most of the essays focus on a single text ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity

    by James C. Capretta, J. Daryl Charles, Patrick J. Deneen, William English, Benjamin Hippen, Adam Keiper, Charles T. Rubin, Ari N. Schulman, Benjamin Storey, Ronald Bailey, Marc D. Guerra0, Robert P. Kraynak2, Peter Augustine Lawler3 ...
    Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity addresses each of the key public policy issues of our techno-future from the perspective of deeply informed and philosophically inclined public intellectuals. Among the issues addressed are the detachment of our idea of justice from any credible foundation; Tocqueville’s prescience on how a “cognitive elite” might be the aristocracy to be most feared in ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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    Why We Are Restless

    On the Modern Quest for Contentment

    by Benjamin Storey, Jenna Silber Storey ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...
    Series series New Forum Books

    Unabridged

    6 hours 35 min

    This audiobook narrated by Laurel Lefkow reflects on how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappyWe live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see signs that our pursuit of happiness has proven fruitless. Dissatisfied, we seek change for the sake of change—even if it means undermining the foundations of our common life. In Why We Are Restless, Benjamin and Jenna Storey offer a ... Read more

    $19.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Less is More

    How Degrowth Will Save the World

    by Jason Hickel ...
    Narrated by Ben Crystal, Clifford Samuel ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 5 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The world has finally awoken to the reality of climate breakdown and ecological collapse. Now we must face up to its primary cause. Capitalism demands perpetual expansion, which is devastating the living world. There is only one solution that will lead to meaningful and immediate change: DEGROWTH.If we want to have a shot at halting the crisis, we need to restore the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Mindset

    The New Psychology of Success

    by Carol S. Dweck ...
    Narrated by Bernadette Dunne ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 23 min

    **From the renowned psychologist who introduced the world to “growth mindset” comes this updated edition of the million-copy bestseller—featuring transformative insights into redefining success, building lifelong resilience, and supercharging self-improvement.“Through clever research studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs about our capabilities exert tremendous influence ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

  • The Enlightenment

    And Why It Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWSOne of our most renowned and brilliant historians takes a fresh look at the revolutionary intellectual movement that laid the foundation for the modern world.Liberty and equality. Human rights. Freedom of thought and expression. Belief in reason and progress. The value of scientific inquiry. These are just some of the ideas that were ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • A Secular Age

    by Charles TAYLOR ...
    The place of religion in society has changed profoundly in the last few centuries, particularly in the West. In what will be a defining book for our time, Taylor takes up the question of what these changes mean, and what, precisely, happens when a society becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others. ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • A Revolution of the Mind

    Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy

    by Jonathan Israel ...
    Democracy, free thought and expression, religious tolerance, individual liberty, political self-determination of peoples, sexual and racial equality--these values have firmly entered the mainstream in the decades since they were enshrined in the 1948 U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. But if these ideals no longer seem radical today, their origin was very radical indeed--far more so than most ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Enlightenment: And Why it Still Matters

    And Why it Still Matters

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    This book tells nothing less than the story of how the modern, Western view of the world was born. Cultural and intellectual historian Anthony Pagden explains how, and why, the ideal of a universal, global, and cosmopolitan society became such a central part of the Western imagination in the ferment of the Enlightenment - and how these ideas have done battle with an inward-looking, tradition ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • The Passions and the Interests

    Political Arguments for Capitalism before Its Triumph

    by Albert O. Hirschman, Jeremy Adelman ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    In this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pursuit of material interests--so long condemned as the deadly sin of avarice--was assigned the role of containing the unruly and destructive passions of man. Hirschman here offers a new interpretation ... Read more

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  • Rousseau

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Robert Wokler ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    One of the most profound thinkers of modern history, Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-78) was a central figure of the European Enlightenment. He was also its most formidable critic, condemning the political, economic, theological, and sexual trappings of civilization along lines that would excite the enthusiasm of romantic individualists and radical revolutionaries alike. In this study of Rousseau's ... Read more

    $7.99 USD