Hannah Arendt's (1906-1975) writings, both in public magazines and in her important books, are still widely studied today. She made original contributions in political thinking that still astound readers and critics alike. The subject of several films and numerous books, colloquia, and newspaper articles, Arendt remains a touchstone in innumerable debates about the use of violence in politics, the responsibility one has under dictatorships and totalitarianism, and how to combat the repetit...

Speculative realism is one of the most talked-about movements in recent Continental philosophy. It has been discussed widely amongst the younger generation of Continental philosophers seeking new philosophical approaches and promises to form the cornerstone of future debates in the field.This book introduces the contexts out of which speculative realism has emerged and provides an overview of the major contributors and latest developments. It guides the reader through the important...

In his preface to Ecce Homo, Friedrich Nietzsche says this: With [Thus Spoke Zarathustra] I have given mankind the greatest present that has ever been made to it so far. This book, with a voice bridging centuries, is not only the highest book there is, the book that is truly characterized by the air of the heights-the whole fact of man lies beneath it at a tremendous distance-it is also the deepest, born out of the innermost wealth of truth, an inexhaustible well to whic...

When this adventure began I was living in the projects working multiple jobs to support my family.I was tired, broke, and completely fed up with being tired and broke. It seemed that the harder I worked the further behind I fell.One day a complete stranger pressed a book into my hands. That book was "The Secret" and it completely changed my life.Within six months I went from working multiple jobs to a single work-at-home position.I went from a unit in the pr...

How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these questions and more in a lively and straightforward way, presuming no prior knowledge of philosophy or related disciplines.Since its first publication, The Mechanical Mind has introduced thousands of people to some of the most important id...

New Thought: Its History and Principles (The Message of the New Thought) is a classic work by William Walker Atkinson that explains how the origins of the New Thought movement, the uniquely American spiritual philosophy that developed at the turn of the 20th century, can be found in the oldest philosophical systems of humanity, and in the revival of Transcendentalism which occurred in America about 1800 to 1825. The text of this new edition has been edited into gender neutral lang...

Ryan Wasserman presents a wide-ranging exploration of puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, including the grandfather paradox, the bootstrapping paradox, and the twin paradox of special relativity. He draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology. The Paradoxes of Time Travel is written in an accessible style, and filled with entertaining examples from physics,...

This edited collection discusses phenomenological critiques of formalism and their relevance to the problem of responsibility and the life-world. The book deals with themes of formalization of knowledge in connection to the life-world, the natural world, the history of science and our responsibility for both our epistemic claims and the world in which we live. Readers will discover critiques of formalization, the life-world and responsibility, and a collation and comparison of Patočka’s an...

Poststructuralists hold Hegel responsible for giving rise to many of modern philosophy's problematic concepts—the authority of reason, self-consciousness, the knowing subject. Yet, according to Simon Lumsden, this animosity is rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of Hegel's thought, and resolving this tension can not only heal the rift between poststructuralism and German idealism but also point these traditions in exciting new directions.Revisiting the philosopher's key texts,...

S.T.A.R. PHILOSOPHY carries an expanded understanding of a truth that humanity is on the edge of owning on a grand scale: “Accept Thyself as Divine.”With a crystal clear writing style, Brown takes us beyond self-growth books and gives us wisdom to awaken the remembering of our divinity! She delivers a profound multi-level message serving to help us access the highest frequencies of love by using the simple secrets of S.T.A.R. (surrender, trust, allow, receive).Reading S...

This journey you are about to embark on is laid before you with unconditional love. It represents for me a work of inspiration from spirit through me. I have been silently hounded for years now to put pen to paper and share what excites me most at this point of my life experience. I dont mind admitting that Im a little slow at the draw, but I know without a doubt that everything in this universe is timely. I wont question the fact that had I started younger, I could have done and enjoyed m...

This volume presents thirteen original essays which explore both traditional and contemporary aspects of the metaphysics of relations. It is uncontroversial that there are true relational predications-'Abelard loves Eloise', 'Simmias is taller than Socrates', 'smoking causes cancer', and so forth. More controversial is whether any true relational predications have irreducibly relational truthmakers. Do any of the statements above involve their subjects jointly instantiating polyadic proper...