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  • The Battles of Texas

    Adjuncts, Composition, and Culture Wars at UT Austin

    by Nate Kreuter, Mark Garrett Longaker ...
    The 1980s were a consequential decade for universities. The marketization of higher education, the adjunctification of labor, and culture wars over curriculum transformed the landscape in a short period of time. The Battles of Texas traces the lived consequences of this upheaval by focusing on one influential institution: the writing program at the University of Texas at Austin.Drawing from ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Practice of Rhetoric

    Poetics, Performance, Philosophy

    by Debra Hawhee, Vessela Valiavitcharska, Jeanne Fahnestock, Susan C. Jarratt, Michele Kennerly, Mark Garrett Longaker, Glen McClish, Ellen Quandahl, Marie Secor0, Dale Martin Smith1, Cleve Wiese2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    Essays that show what a broad conception of rhetoric means and does in relation to practiceRhetoric is the art of emphasis, in the ancient sense of bringing to light or obscuring in shadow, and it is both a practice and a theory about that practice. In recent decades, scholars of rhetoric have turned to approaches that braid together poetics, performance, and philosophy into a “practical art.” The ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue

    Capitalism and Civil Society in the British Enlightenment

    by Mark Garrett Longaker ...
    Series series RSA Series in Transdisciplinary Rhetoric
    During the British Enlightenment, the correlation between effective communication and moral excellence was undisputed—so much so that rhetoric was taught as a means of instilling desirable values in students. In Rhetorical Style and Bourgeois Virtue, Mark Garrett Longaker explores the connections between rhetoric and ethics in the context of the history of capitalism.Longaker’s study lingers on ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

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  • Interfaces of the Word

    Studies in the Evolution of Consciousness and Culture

    by Walter J. Ong ...
    Drawing on a wide range of disciplines—linguistics, phenomenological analysis, cultural anthropology, media studies, and intellectual history—Walter J. Ong offers a reasoned and sophisticated view of human consciousness different in many respects from that of structuralism. The essays in Interfaces of the Word are grouped around the dialectically related themes of change or alienation and growth ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Identity Trap

    A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time

    by Yascha Mounk ...
    **Named a Best Book of the Year by The Economist, Financial Times, Inc., Prospect Magazine, and The Conversation“The most comprehensive and reasonable story of this shift that has yet been attempted . . . Mounk has told the story of the Great Awokening better than any other writer who has attempted to make sense of it.” *—*The Washington Post“An intellectual tour de force about the origins of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The History of Philosophy

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    **“A witty, learned, authoritative survey of philosophical thought.” —The New York Times Book ReviewThe first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world’s most eminent thinkers**The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Persona Non Grata

    The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

    by Tom Flanagan ...
    From an acclaimed professor and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue.In February 2013, Tom Flanagan, acclaimed academic, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments surrounding the issue of viewing child pornography that were ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • An Introduction to Western Philosophy

    by Matt McGinniss ...
    For some people philosophy is everything. For others it's nothing. It's a subject that solves problems, causes arguments and even brings war. But what is philosophy, and who are the famous men and women who have changed our world with their ideas?In this eBook, you will find simple biographies and basic explanations of the ideas of twenty of the most important western philosophers. It can be read ... Read more

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  • Hegel

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Singer ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Many people regard Hegel's work as obscure and extremely difficult, yet his importance and influence are universally acknowledged. Professor Singer eliminates any excuse for remaining ignorant of the outlines of Hegel's philosophy by providing a broad discussion of his ideas and an account of his major works. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The End of Race Politics

    Arguments for a Colorblind America

    by Coleman Hughes ...
    An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism.As one of the few black students in his philosophy program at Columbia University years ago, Coleman Hughes wondered why his peers seemed more pessimistic about the state of American race relations than his ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Spinoza: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was at once the father of the Enlightenment and the last sad guardian of the medieval world. In his brilliant synthesis of geometrical method, religious sentiment, and secular science, he attempted to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch, and to present a vision of humanity as simultaneously bound by necessity and eternally free. In ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Inside American Education

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD