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This collection of facsimile reprints brings together the most
important recent scholarship examining the major stages in
Heidegger's philosophical career.
The threat to liberal democracy isn't just autocrats - it's a lack of
effective action by so-called progressives.
We have the means to build an equitable world without hunger, fuelled
by clean energy. Instead, we have a politics driven by scarcity, lives
defined by unaffordability and public institutions that no longer
deliver on big ideas. It's time for change.
Bestselling authors Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson have spent decades
analysing the political, economic and cultural forces that have led us
here. In this once-in-a-generation intervention, they unpick the
barriers to progress and show how we can, and must, shift the political
agenda to one that not only protects and preserves, but also builds.
From healthcare to housing, infrastructure to innovation, they lay out
a path to a future defined not by fear, but by abundance.
First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
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The Message
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
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With his bestseller, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates established himself as a unique voice in his generation of American authors; a brilliant writer and thinker in the tradition of James Baldwin.
In his keenly anticipated new book, The Message, he explores the urgent question of how our stories – our reporting, imaginative narratives and mythmaking – both expose and distort our realities. Travelling to three resonant sites of conflict, he illuminates how the stories we tell – as well as the ones we don’t – work to shape us.
The first of the book’s three main parts finds Coates on his inaugural trip to Africa – a journey to Dakar, where he finds himself in two places at once: a modern city in Senegal and the ghost-haunted country of his imagination. He then takes readers along with him to Columbia, South Carolina, where he reports on the banning of his own work and the deep roots of a false and fiercely protected American mythology – visibly on display in this capital of the confederacy, with statues of segregationists still looming over its public squares. Finally in Palestine, Coates sees with devastating clarity the tragedy that grows in the clash between the stories we tell and reality on the ground.
Written at a dramatic moment in American and global life, this work from one of the country’s most important writers is about the urgent need to untangle ourselves from the destructive myths that shape our world – and our own souls – and embrace the liberating power of even the most difficult truths.
Beautifully packaged daily doses of Stoic wisdom, from the author of The Obstacle is the Way.
'No role is so well suited to philosophy as the one you happen to be in right now.' - Marcus Aurelius
The Stoics' unique blend of practicality and wisdom has been inspiring the most successful among us for centuries, from Roman Emperors to Barack Obama, and most recently via Ryan Holiday's bestselling The Obstacle is the Way. If that book introduced readers to the idea that what is in the way is the way, The Daily Stoic widens our view on the Stoic philosophy and shows that it can be applied to any problem.
From how to manage failure to getting what you want, the ideas of Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and others continue to be vitally relevant to today's doers and thinkers. Here, in bold new translations of the ancient classics, language is stripped down to reveal powerful aphorisms that cut straight to the heart of our day-to-day challenges.
Presented in a page-per-day format, this daily resource of Stoic inspiration combines quotations with calls to further reflection - and action. Arranged topically, this guide features twelve principles for overcoming obstacles and achieving greater satisfaction. It introduces readers to a new daily ritual and new orientation that will bring them balanced action, insight, effectiveness, and serenity.
A reply to Mathew Tindal's Christianity as Old as the Creation,
this text when first published provoked criticism for the author's
free-thinking beliefs and led to many exchanges of opinions with
other theologians.
The works reprinted in this two-volume collection cover the length
of Robertson's career, from his student days in 1737 to his closing
years in 1789, and show his intellectual and stylistic evolution.
Part One contains his lesser known writings and speeches. Subjects
explored range from Greek translation to architectural history to
university fund-raising to geological speculation to church
politics. Part Two consists of the earliest biographical
commentaries on Robertson's life, written by five men who knew him
personally. Together these items reveal details of Robertson's life
and career with the aim of giving the reader a wider picture of
Robertson's character and career.
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as
capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about
ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert
situates the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable
geographical and historical framework in this fascinating new book.
Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from merchant
communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, capitalism’s radical
recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually. Then it burst
onto the world scene, as European states and merchants built a powerful
alliance that would propel them across the oceans. This epic drama
corresponded at no point to an idealised dream of free markets. All
along, state-backed institutions and imperial expansions shaped its
dynamics.
Capitalism decentres the European perspective, highlighting agency,
resistance, innovation and ruthless coercion around the world through
to the present with the rise of Asian economies, particularly China.
Sven Beckert doesn’t merely add up capitalism’s debits and credits in
this monumental book, but allows us to think afresh about the past to
help us re-imagine the future.
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Christopher Thomas King Hood
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The book of peace that will open doors to new realities. Written in
poetry form, short stories, a book of spells, bringing back old
folk heroes Robin Hood and little Miss Riding Hood, along with
shamans, angels, wizards and magicians. Questioning the way of life
and its current state of affairs, whilst creating an opening for
the reader to question their own mind and existence. The reader
will be left with a personal choice as they enter a new future.
Lara Buchak sets out an original account of the principles that
govern rational decision-making in the face of risk. A distinctive
feature of these decisions is that individuals are forced to
consider how their choices will turn out under various
circumstances, and decide how to trade off the possibility that a
choice will turn out well against the possibility that it will turn
out poorly. The orthodox view is that there is only one acceptable
way to do this: rational individuals must maximize expected
utility. Buchak's contention, however, is that the orthodox theory
(expected utility theory) dictates an overly narrow way in which
considerations about risk can play a role in an individual's
choices. Combining research from economics and philosophy, she
argues for an alternative, more permissive, theory of
decision-making: one that allows individuals to pay special
attention to the worst-case or best-case scenario (among other
'global features' of gambles). This theory, risk-weighted expected
utility theory, better captures the preferences of actual
decision-makers. Furthermore, it isolates the distinct roles that
beliefs, desires, and risk-attitudes play in decision-making.
Finally, contra the orthodox view, Buchak argues that
decision-makers whose preferences can be captured by risk-weighted
expected utility theory are rational. Thus, Risk and Rationality is
in many ways a vindication of the ordinary
decision-maker-particularly his or her attitude towards risk-from
the point of view of even ideal rationality.
Following the catastrophic events of the 2008 global financial
crisis, an anonymous hacker released Bitcoin to claw back power
from commercial and central banks. It quickly garnered an
enthusiastic following who sought to forge a stable and democratic
global economy—a world free from hierarchy and control. In their
eyes, Bitcoin's underlying architecture, blockchain, hailed the
dawn of decentralisation. Money Code Space shatters these
emancipatory claims. In their place, Jack Parkin constructs a new
framework for revealing the geographies of power that lie behind
blockchain networks. Drawing on first-hand experience in
cryptocurrency communities and start-up companies from Silicon
Valley to London, Parkin untangles the complex web of culture,
politics, and economics that truly drive decentralisation.
When ordinary people - mathematicians among them - take something
to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the
backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. Jody Azzouni
investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of
consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians. One
claim of the book is that, despite our apparent intuitive grasp of
consequence, we do not introspect rules by which we reason, nor do
we grasp the scope and range of the domain, as it were, of our
reasoning. This point is illustrated with a close analysis of a
paradigmatic case of ordinary reasoning: mathematical proof.
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