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Modernity and its Discontents Making and Unmaking the Bourgeois from Machiavelli to Bellow
ISBN: PB: 9780300240238, ISBN: HB: 9780300198393, Yale University Press, October 2018
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
Steven B. Smith examines the concept of modernity, not as the end product of historical developments but as a state of mind. He explores modernism as a source of both pride and anxiety, suggesting that its most distinctive characteristics are the sel...
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Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals With an Updated Translation, Introduction, and Notes
ISBN: PB: 9780300227437, Yale University Press, July 2018
144 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This work, one of the most important texts in the history of ethics, presents Immanuel Kant's conception of moral self-government based on pure reason. It has been a source of controversy and an object of reinterpretation for over two centuries. This...
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War An Enquiry
ISBN: PB: 9780300234459, Yale University Press, May 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm
A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more. For residents of the twenty-first century, a vision of a future without warfare is almost inco...
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Autobiography or "The Story of My Experiments with Truth" A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780300234077, Yale University Press, May 2018
816 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, black&white illus.
In the mid-1920s, prompted by a "small, still voice" that encouraged him to lay bare what was known only to him and his God, M. K. Gandhi began writing and publishing his autobiography. Drafted during a period of intensive fasting and "in-dwelling" a...
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Why Marx Was Right
ISBN: PB: 9780300231069, Yale University Press, March 2018
280 pp., 21x14 cm
In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism – that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the econo...
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Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780300228731, Yale University Press, March 2018
192 pp., 21x14 cm
<p>Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing its role in our lives is not, however, so straightforward. Terry Eagleton, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics, is uniquely poised to take on...
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Critique of Religious Discourse
ISBN: HB: 9780300207125, Yale University Press, February 2018
320 pp., 21x14 cm
First published in Arabic in 1994, progressive Muslim scholar Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd's controversial essay argued that conventional fundamentalist interpretations of the Quran and other Islamic religious texts are ahistorical and misleading. Conservativ...
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Last Works Lessons in Leaving
ISBN: HB: 9780300224399, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
For many today, retirement and the leisure said to accompany it have become vestiges of a slower, long-lost time. In a world where the sense of identity is tied to work and careers, to stop working often is to become nobody. In this deeply perceptive...
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Decoding Chomsky Science and Revolutionary Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780300228762, ISBN: HB: 9780300221466, Yale University Press, February 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A fresh and fascinating look at the philosophies, politics, and intellectual legacy of one of the twentieth century's most influential and controversial minds Occupying a pivotal position in postwar thought, Noam Chomsky is both the founder of modern...
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Everyday Mysticism A Contemplative Community at Work in the Desert
ISBN: HB: 9780300212099, Yale University Press, February 2018
280 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
In this thoughtful and enlightening work, world renowned religion scholar Ariel Glucklich recounts his experiences at Neot Smadar, an ecological and spiritual oasis that has been thriving in the arid Southern Israeli desert for a quarter century. An...
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