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by Henry David Thoreau
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2010
This new paperback edition of Henry D. Thoreau's compelling account of Cape Cod contains the complete, definitive text of the original. Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings.
In...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XXII, Volume 22
The Point of View
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
As a spiritual autobiography, Kierkegaard's The Point of View for My Work as an Author stands among such great works as Augustine's Confessions and Newman's Apologia pro Vita Sua. Yet Point of View is neither a confession nor a defense; it is an author's story of a lifetime of writing, his understanding...
Divine Machines
Leibniz and the Sciences of Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2011
Though it did not yet exist as a discrete field of scientific inquiry, biology was at the heart of many of the most important debates in seventeenth-century philosophy. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the work of G. W. Leibniz. In Divine Machines, Justin Smith offers the first in-depth examination...
by C. G. Jung, Tony Woolfson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
C. G. Jung (1875–1961) was a preeminent thinker of the modern era. In seeking to establish an interdisciplinary science of analytical psychology, he studied psychiatry, religion, mysticism, literature, physics, biology, education, and criminology. He introduced the concepts of extraversion and introversion,...
Would You Kill the Fat Man?
The Trolley Problem and What Your Answer Tells Us about Right and Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on a footbridge looking down on the unfolding disaster. However, a fat man, a stranger, is standing next to you: if you push him off the bridge,...
by Martin E Marty
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
For fascination, influence, inspiration, and controversy, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison is unmatched by any other book of Christian reflection written in the twentieth century. A Lutheran pastor and theologian, Bonhoeffer spent two years in Nazi prisons before being executed...
Prophets of the Past
Interpreters of Jewish History
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2010
Prophets of the Past is the first book to examine in depth how modern Jewish historians have interpreted Jewish history. Michael Brenner reveals that perhaps no other national or religious group has used their shared history for so many different ideological and political purposes as the Jews. He...
Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany
Individual Fates and Global Impact
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world. Mathematicians Fleeing from Nazi Germany is the first thoroughly documented account of this exodus. In this greatly expanded translation...
Weimar Thought
A Contested Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
During its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918-33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics--such as Hannah Arendt,...
Inheriting Abraham
The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a source of unity among the three traditions has become widespread in both scholarly and popular circles. But in Inheriting Abraham, Jon Levenson reveals how...
The Love of God
Divine Gift, Human Gratitude, and Mutual Faithfulness in Judaism
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
The love of God is perhaps the most essential element in Judaism—but also one of the most confounding. In biblical and rabbinic literature, the obligation to love God appears as a formal commandment. Yet most people today think of love as a feeling. How can an emotion be commanded? How could one...
The Scandal of Kabbalah
Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
The Scandal of Kabbalah is the first book about the origins of a culture war that began in early modern Europe and continues to this day: the debate between kabbalists and their critics on the nature of Judaism and the meaning of religious tradition. From its medieval beginnings as an esoteric form...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XVI: Works of Love
Works of Love
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
The various kinds and conditions of love are a common theme for Kierkegaard, beginning with his early Either/Or, through "The Diary of the Seducer" and Judge William's eulogy on married love, to his last work, on the changelessness of God's love. Works of Love, the midpoint in the series,...
Kierkegaard's Writings, XX: Practice in Christianity
Practice in Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Of the many works he wrote during 1848, his "richest and most fruitful year," Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as "the most perfect and truest thing." In his reflections on such topics as Christ's invitation to the burdened, the imitatio Christi, the possibility of...