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  • Bewildered Travel

    The Sacred Quest for Confusion

    by Frederick J. Ruf ...
    Series series Studies in Religion and Culture
    Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign to our body and mind, and encounters with strangers on whom we must suddenly depend. Travel is not merely a break from routine; it is its antithesis, a voluntary trading in of the security one feels at ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • William James, Moral Philosophy, and the Ethical Life

    by Jacob L. Goodson, Guy Axtell, Gregory Eiselein, Amy Kittelstrom, Joseph D. John, Roger Ward, Neal A. Tognazzini, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Scott R. Stroud0, Jaishikha Nautiyal1, Anthony Karlin2, G. Scott Davis3, Eric Silverman4, Lee Yearley5, Frederick J. Ruf6, Gary S. Slater7, Pamela Crosby8, David O’Hara9, Ermine L. Algaier IV0, D. Micah Hester1, John R. Shook2, Sami Pihlström3, Seth Vannatta4 ...
    Series series American Philosophy Series
    Virtue theory, natural law, deontology, utilitarianism, existentialism: these are the basic moral theories taught in “Ethics,” “History of Philosophy,” and “Introduction to Philosophy” courses throughout the United States. When the American philosopher William James (1842 – 1910) find his way into these conversations, there is uncertainty about where his thinking fits. While utilitarianism has ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • The Source of Self-Regard

    Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations

    by Toni Morrison ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Here is the Nobel Prize winner in her own words: a rich gathering of her most important essays and speeches, spanning four decades that "speaks to today’s social and political moment as directly as this morning’s headlines” (NPR).These pages give us her searing prayer for the dead of 9/11, her Nobel lecture on the power of language, her searching meditation on Martin Luther ... Read more

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  • Recollections of My Nonexistence

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    by Rebecca Solnit ...
    **Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for BiographyLonglisted for The Orwell Prize for Political WritingAn electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses**In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Travels in Hyperreality

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    A "scintillating collection" of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault's Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: "In these pages, I try to ... Read more

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  • Burn This Book

    Notes on Literature and Engagement

    Edited by Toni Morrison ...
    Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book is a powerful collection of essays that explore the meaning of censorship and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves.As Americans we often take our freedom of speech for granted. When we talk about censorship we talk about China, the former Soviet Union, or the Middle East. But recent political ... Read more

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  • Art Theory

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this Very Short Introduction Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, ... Read more

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  • Known and Strange Things

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    by Teju Cole ...
    A blazingly intelligent first book of essays from the award-winning author of Open City and Every Day Is for the ThiefNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTime • The Guardian • Harper's Bazaar • San Francisco Chronicle • The Atlantic • Financial Times • KirkusFinalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and PEN/Jean Stein Book Award<... ... Read more

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  • The Devil at Large

    Erica Jong on Henry Miller

    by Erica Jong ...
    Fearless, iconic poet, novelist, and feminist Erica Jong offers a fascinating in-depth appreciation of the controversial life and work of American literary giant Henry MillerHenry Miller ( Tropic of Cancer) and Erica Jong ( Fear of Flying) are true literary soul mates. Both authors have been, in equal measure, lauded for their creative genius and maligned for their frank treatment of human ... Read more

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  • Vintage Reading: From Plato To Bradbury: A Persona Tour Of Some Of The World's Best Books

    by Robert Kanigel ...
    Vintage Reading brings eighty of the world's most unforgettable books out from behind the high castle walls, lowers the drawbridge, and welcomes readers inside. With lively and concise commentary, award-winning author Robert Kanigel throws an arm around the reader and becomes the tour guide to classics, best-sellers, lesser-known greats, and everything in-between. From St. Augustine's Confessions ... Read more

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  • Around the World in 80 Books

    by David Damrosch ...
    A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them*Featured in the *Chicago Tribune'*s Great 2021 Fall Book Preview * One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books About Travel of 2021*Inspired by Jules Verne’s hero Phileas Fogg, David Damrosch, chair of Harvard University’s ... Read more

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