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Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of
twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris.
Pulling back the veil of idealism and romanticism shrouding the
women's migrant lives, the book examines the very real pitfalls and
triumphs of life after the "happily ever after." Extraordinary,
Ordinary Women examines the consequences of immigration,
biculturalism, and assimilation on the individual identities of
modern expatriate women.
Secret wartime projects in code-breaking, radar and ballistics
produced a wealth of ideas and technologies that kick-started the
development of digital computers. Alan Turing took an early lead on
the theory side, along with fellow mathematicians on both sides of
the Atlantic. This is the story of the people and projects that
flourished in the post-war period. By 1955 the computers produced
by companies such as Ferranti, English Electric, Elliott Brothers
and the British Tabulating Machine Co. had begun to appear in the
market-place. The Information Age was dawning. Before the market
passed to the Americans, for a brief period Alan Turing and his
contemporaries held centre stage. Their influence is still
discernible deep down within today's hardware and software.
Self-Interest discusses the reconciliation of inevitable
self-concern with its manifest potential for harm. This anthology
brings together the efforts of twenty three renown philosophers to
address the matter of how to bring about such a reconciliation. The
drive for self-preservation, as observed by Aquinas, is the first
law of nature. With this self-love, however, comes the threat of
"the excessive love of self." Self-Interest brings into discussion
the reconciliation of necessary self-concern with its manifest
potential for harm.
This anthology brings together the work of twenty-three important
philosophers to address the question of how to bring about such a
reconciliation. Contributors include: Democritus, Plato, Aristotle,
Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, Hobbes, Nicole, Mandeville, Butler,
Hutchenson, Hume, Smith, Kant, Bentham, Mill, James, Nietzsche,
Dewey, Rand, and Gauthier.
Self-Interest discusses the reconciliation of inevitable
self-concern with its manifest potential for harm. This anthology
brings together the efforts of twenty three renown philosophers to
address the matter of how to bring about such a reconciliation. The
drive for self-preservation, as observed by Aquinas, is the first
law of nature. With this self-love, however, comes the threat of
"the excessive love of self." Self-Interest brings into discussion
the reconciliation of necessary self-concern with its manifest
potential for harm.
This anthology brings together the work of twenty-three important
philosophers to address the question of how to bring about such a
reconciliation. Contributors include: Democritus, Plato, Aristotle,
Augustine of Hippo, Aquinas, Hobbes, Nicole, Mandeville, Butler,
Hutchenson, Hume, Smith, Kant, Bentham, Mill, James, Nietzsche,
Dewey, Rand, and Gauthier.
Includes the Second Discourse (complete with the author's extensive
notes), contemporary critiques by Voltaire, Diderot, Bonnet, and
LeRoy, Rousseau's replies (some never before translated), and
Political Economy, which first outlined principles that were to
become famous in the Social Contract. This is the first time that
the works of 1755 and 1756 have been combined with careful
commentary to show the coherence of Rousseau's "political system."
The Second Discourse examines man in the true "state of nature,"
prior to the formation of the first human societies, tracing the
"hypothetical history" of political society and social inequality
as they developed out of natural equality and independence.
Contains the entire First Discourse, contemporary attacks on it,
Rousseau's replies to his critics, and his summary of the debate in
his preface to Narcissus. A number of these texts have never before
been available in English. The First Discourse and Polemics
demonstrate the continued relevance of Rousseau's thought. Whereas
his critics argue for correction of the excesses and corruptions of
knowledge and the sciences as sufficient, Rousseau attacks the
social and political effects of the dominant forms of scientific
knowledge.
When Rousseau first read his Confessions to a 1770 gathering in
Paris, reactions varied from admiration of his candor to doubts
about his sanity to outrage. Indeed, Rousseau's intent and approach
were revolutionary. As one of the first attempts at autobiography,
the Confessions' novelty lay not in just its retelling the facts of
Rousseau's life, but in its revelation of his innermost feelings
and its frank description of the strengths and failings of his
character.
Based on his doctrine of natural goodness, Rousseau intended the
Confessions as a testing ground to explore his belief that, as
Christopher Kelly writes, "people are to be measured by the depth
and nature of their feelings." Re-created here in a meticulously
documented new translation based on the definitive Pleiade edition,
the work represents Rousseau's attempt to forge connections among
his beliefs, his feelings, and his life. More than a
"behind-the-scenes look at the private life of a public man," Kelly
writes, "the Confessions is at the center of Rousseau's
philosophical enterprise."
Contains the Social Contract, as well as the first English
translation of Rousseau's early Discourse on the Virtue Most
Necessary for a Hero, numerous previously untranslated political
fragments, and the first draft of the Social Contract (the
so-called Geneva Manuscript). By placing Rousseau's famous
exposition of "political right" and the "general will" in the
context of his preparatory drafts, the editors provide significant
insight into the formation of one of the most important and
influential works in Western political thought.
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