Back Talk: Alva Noë
Christine Smallwood
Philosopher Alva Noë talks about the brain, consciousness and animal rights.
2009
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The Commons
Laura Hanna & Gavin Browning : Activism & Organizing
In our imperfect world, only the lucky few have access to wealth and cultural riches. There is a better way: it's called The Commons.
2008
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The Pragmatist
Christopher Hayes : Barack Obama
We get it. He's pragmatic. But what does that mean--politically and philosophically?
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Obama the Philosopher
Linda Hirshman : Presidential Election 2008
Suddenly, Obama's making a pretty good case for why Americans should once again care for one another.
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Walter Benjamin Forever
Following the quirky, revolutionary life path of one of the most celebrated twentieth-century intellectuals.
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The White Whale
E.L. Doctorow : George W. Bush Administration
Just as Moby-Dick was too much for Ahab, our new century may be too difficult for us to comprehend.
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Good Faith
Two authors posit very different views on the problem of religious conflict in a supposedly secular age.
2007
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Spirited Away
Two writers explore the perversion of our collective imagination and the ways that science and myth shape our understanding of spirituality.
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The Thought Experimenter
Jackson Lears : Public Figures & Intellectuals
A new biography of William James portrays a man who made a brilliant career of asking tough questions.
2006
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A Metaphysical Materialist
Philosopher Walter Benjamin married Marxism and theology in an attempt to give hope to the hopeless.
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The Prison Notebooks
Nikolai Bukharin's Philosophical Arabesques is more than a cul-de-sac on the road from Marx to Stalin; the book defines a political path still not taken.
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Keeping It Real
Jackson Lears : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
In Songs of Experience, Martin Jay examines modern debates over the relationship between theory and the lived world.
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Heidegger Made Kosher
Two new books explore the work of philosophers Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger.
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In Her Mind's Eye
Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism is a political classic trapped in the era in which it was written.
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Easier Said Than Done
John Gray : Cultural Criticism & Analysis
Kwame Anthony Appiah's Cosmopolitanism explores the middle ground between the universal laws of liberalism and relativism's blind respect for all differences.
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Harry Magdoff
The late socialist economist Harry Magdoff read Marx at fifteen and never looked back. A self-educated co-editor of the Monthly Review, he not only fought for a just and humane world; he embodied his politics in the way he conducted his life.
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