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  • Love's Vision

    by Troy Jollimore ...
    Love often seems uncontrollable and irrational, but we just as frequently appear to have reasons for loving the people we do. In Love's Vision, Troy Jollimore offers a new way of understanding love that accommodates both of these facts, arguing that love is guided by reason even as it resists and sometimes eludes rationality. At the same time, he reconsiders love's moral status, acknowledging its ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • The Virtue of Loyalty

    Edited by Troy Jollimore ...
    Series series The Virtues
    Loyalty is a highly contested virtue. One the one hand, some have wondered whether it is really a virtue at all. On the other, we might doubt whether a person who was not loyal to anything could be said to have a defined moral character. Loyalty is so fundamental to so many of our relationships and commitments that it is hard to imagine a world without it. Because it structures our lives by ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Earthly Delights

    Poems

    by Troy Jollimore ...
    Series series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
    From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itselfEarthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimore’s distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Syllabus of Errors

    Poems

    by Troy Jollimore ...
    Series series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
    A new collection of poetry from the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. . . we are fixed to perpetrate the species—I meant perpetuate—as if our dutywere coupled with our terror. As if beautyitself were but a syllabus of errors.Troy Jollimore's first collection of poems won the National Book Critics Circle Award, was hailed by the New York Times as "a snappy, entertai... ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • On Loyalty

    by Troy Jollimore ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Loyalty is a highly charged and important issue, often evoking strong feelings and actions. What is loyalty? Is loyalty compatible with impartiality? How do we respond to conflicts of loyalties? In a global era, should we be trying to transcend loyalties to particular political communities?Drawing on a fascinating array of literary and cinematic examples - The Remains of the Day, No Country for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • At Lake Scugog

    Poems

    by Troy Jollimore ...
    Series series Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets
    This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a "snappy, entertaining book." A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut, At Lake Scugog demonstrates why the San Francisco Chronicle has called Troy Jollimore "a new and exciting voice in American poetry. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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    Race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, sexuality: in the past couple of decades, a great deal of attention has been paid to such collective identities. They clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. But to what extent do "identities" constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our ... Read more

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  • Philosophical Interventions

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    by Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    This volume collects the notable published book reviews of Martha C. Nussbaum, an acclaimed philosopher who is also a professor of law and a public intellectual. Her academic work focuses on questions of moral and political philosophy and on the nature of the emotions. But over the past 25 years she has also written many book reviews for a general public, in periodicals such as The New Republic ... Read more

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  • The Good Life

    The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World

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  • Toward A Free And Virtuous Society

    by Robert Sirico ...
    Occasional Paper No. 9. With an Introduction by Doug Bandow. A foundational description of the complementary relationship of freedom and morality. "Both freedom and virtue are under serious assault today...At this critical time, some supporters of either liberty or virtue are setting the two against each other, treating them as frequent antagonists, if not permanent opponents. At the very least, ... Read more

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  • Man for Himself

    An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

    by Erich Fromm ...
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  • The Virtue of Selfishness

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