The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten and Ninety-Nine Other Thought Experiments by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
100 philosophical puzzles - how to approach them, how to begin to understand them, and come up with possible answers Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments: short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/hersel ...Show more
The Duck That Won the Lottery : and 99 other bad arguments by Julian Baggini
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
This companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politics, the media and everyday life. Each entry will be aroun ...Show more
Hobbes's 'leviathan' by Bagby Laurie
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: Reader's Guides
Thomas Hobbes' most enduring work, "Leviathan", is a key text in the study of political philosophy. Explaining the philosophical background against which the text was written, this book guides the reader to a clear understanding of the text as a whole, and then, explores the reception and influence of t ...Show more
The Devil We Know : Dealing With the New Iranian Superpower by Robert Baer
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Former CIA operative Robert Baer here exposes for the first time the true extent of Iran's tightening grip on the Middle East and the world's energy corridor, the Persian Gulf - revealing that the Shia nation has effectively checkmated the United States and other leading countries in a new global power ...Show more
Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War by Joe Bageant
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
After 30 years spent scratching together a life out of a 'dirt-poor' childhood, Joe Bageant moved back to his hometown of Winchester, Virginia, where he realized that his family and neighbors were the very people who carried Bush to victory. Ironic, because Winchester, like countless towns, is becoming ...Show more
The Century by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Everywhere, the twentieth century has been judged and condemned: the century of totalitarian terror, of utopian and criminal ideologies, of empty illusions, of genocides, of false avant-gardes, of democratic realism everywhere replaced by abstraction. It is not Badiou's wish to plead for an accused that ...Show more
Behind the Exclusive Brethren by Michael Bachelard
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Out of nowhere in 2004, an obscure religious sect burst onto the political stage in Australia. Almost unheard of until then, the Exclusive Brethren was suddenly spending up big in election advertising in support of conservative political parties. But its members were shy to the point of paranoia about w ...Show more
Being And Event by Badiou Alain
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Being and Event by Alain Badiou
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
A work on set theory - the cornerstone of the author's whole philosophy. This book includes a series of analyses of such key figures as Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hegel, Rousseau, and Lacan. It develops the basis for a history of philosophy rivalling those of Heidegger and Deleuze in its depth.
ELEPHANT THE TIGER AND THE CELL PHONE by THAROOR SHASHI
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
The Argumentative Indian - Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity by Amartya Sen
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Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
From Nobel prize-winning economist Amartya Sen, "The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity" brings together an illuminating selection of writings on contemporary India. India is an immensely diverse country with many distinct pursuits, vastly different convictions, widel ...Show more