The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory ...
 Post-Nuclear Philosophical Fallout: If, as William Barrett once remarked, existentialism is "philosophy for the atomic age," then the atomic age's look into the future - by way of Jean-Francois Lyotard's The Postmodern Condition - is nothing [... more]
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Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Excellent and thought-provoking.: Other reviews have done a nice job of explaining the textual benefits of the book, so let me explain its practical benefit. I'll keep this short and sweet. This is an excellent text to trot out during a sociology or [... more]
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The Rhetoric and the Poetics of Aristotle (Modern ...
The Capacity of Persuasion: I read these works for a graduate seminar on Aristotle. Definition of Rhetoric- capacity of persuasion. Plato is critical of the Rhetoric and the tragic poetry. Rhetoric is approach to political public speeches in the forum. [... more]
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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the ...
Amazon.com Review: The Condition of Postmodernity is David Harvey's seminal history of our most equivocal of eras. What does postmodernism mean? Where did it come from? Harvey, a professor of geography and a key mover behind extending the scope and [... more]
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What Does It All Mean?: A Very Short Introduction to ...
Where are the references?: As a supplementary text for an introductory survey course in philosophy, this is potentially a very nice volume. Students could read it the first week of class, before moving on to primary sources. In the introduction to the [... more]
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A Presocratics Reader
Great review of ancient philosophy: I found it very interesting to read many of the ideas that the ancient philosophers had about various subjects. It is interesting to compare the ideas to what we know today. A Gathering of Presocratics: Patricia Curd [... more]
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Nicomachean Ethics
Translations differ: It would be helpful if Amazon didn't pool together reviews from different translations. Note to Amazon: the customer reviews can be very helpful and have motivated me to purchase many books. But reviews for widely translated books [... more]
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Ken Wilber: Thought As Passion (Suny Series in ...
Making Ken Wilber Assessible: March 04, 2004 If you want a well researched, thorough overview of the work of Ken Wilber, then Frank Visser's Ken Wilber: Thought as Passion is a great choice. It covers a broad scope and is a relatively easy read. That's [... more]
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Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian ...
Unrecognized Genius: Korzybski aimed his discussion at professionals, so disregarded definitions (multi-ordinal anyway), etc. Despite this many criticisms resulted, some from professionals, notably Martin Gardner (1993): "...poorly organized, [... more]
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Thought in a Hostile World: The Evolution of Human Cognition
Book Description: Thought in a Hostile World is an exploration of the evolution of cognition, especially human cognition, by one of today's foremost philosophers of biology and of mind.The central idea of the book is that thought is a response to threat. [... more]
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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
A continuation of the post-modernist project: If you are familiar with Foucault, then saying that "Abnormal" is in many ways a continuation of "Discipline and Punish" should be enough. "Abnormal" deals with how social [... more]
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On Rhetoric: A Theory of Civic Discourse
The most scholarly & readable translation of the "Rhetorica": Aristotle's treatise "On Rhetoric" has been the seminal work in the field since it was written. There is a very real sense in which there is nothing new under the sun [... more]
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