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Ayn Rand & Objectivism
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 | "An Introduction To The Objectivist Community: A Rational Philosophy & Way of Life" [2002] by James H. Yoke Xlibris 8.6x5.6 pb [2/2002] for $21.99 Xlibris 8.8x6 hardcover [2/2002] for $31.99 |
 | "The Essence of Objectivism" [2002] by William Thomas Six lectures: "Objectivism: Who Needs It?"; "Reason: Man’s Only Absolute"; "Living On Earth"; "Happiness: The Moral Purpose of Life"; "Productive Achievement: The Noblest Activity"; & "Capitalism as a Moral Ideal", plus 48-page study guide The Objectivist Center audio CD [3/2002] out of prodn/used |
 | "Basic Principles of Objectivism" [2001] by Nathaniel Branden series of 20 lectures on 28 CDs The Objectivist Center audio CDs [4/2001] status uncertain |
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educator Mortimer J. Adler [1902-2001]
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Center For The Study of The Great Ideas [est. 1990] in Chicago
 | "Reforming Education: The Schooling of A People and Their Education Beyond Schooling" [1977] by Mortimer J. Adler, Edited by Geraldine Van Doren Westview Press 9x6 hardcover [5/78] out of print/used |
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"The Paedeia Program: An Educational Syllabus" [1982] Essays by The Paedeia Group, Preface & Introduction by Mortimer J. Adler Touchstone Trade 8¾x6 pb [11/84] for $17.95 Scribner 8¼x6¾ hardcover [11/84] out of print/used Scribner hardcover [9/82] out of print/used "Paideia Problems & Possibilities" [1983] by Mortimer J. Adler Scribner 8¼x6½ pb [9/83] out of print/many, many used Collier Macmillan hardcover [9/83] out of print/used |
 | "Reforming Education: The Opening of The American Mind" [1989] by Mortimer J. Adler, Edited by Geraldine Van Doren Collier Macmillan 8x5½ pb [4/90] out of print/used Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/89] out of print/many used |
 | "How To Think About The Great Ideas: From The Great Books of Western Civilization" [2000] by Mortimer J. Adler, Edited by Max Weismann Adler had his own TV show, "The Great Ideas" [1953-54] on KGO-TV in San Francisco, California and this book contains transcripts of the 52 half-hour episodes Kindle Edition from Open Court Publng [8/2008] for $9.99 Open Court Publng 9x6 pb [3/2000] for $17.63 |
 | "The Great Books Collection" [1952 & 1990] for Kindle Edited by Mortimer J. Adler |
| Volume 1: Kindle Edition from H&H Books [10/2009] for $2.99
authors include Marcus Aurelius, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Daniel Defoe, Francois Rabelais, Jonathan Swift & Mark Twain: specific works include Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales", "Don Quixote", Michel de Montaigne's "Essays", Edmund Spenser's "The Faerie Queen", "The Federalist Papers", Homer's "The Iliad" & "The Odyssey", Herman Melville's epic "Moby Dick", and Leonardo da Vinci's "Notebooks" Volume 2: Kindle Edition from H&H Books [10/2009] for $2.99 authors include Honoré de Balzac, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, George Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Sigmund Freud, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Plato, Albert Schopenhauer, Henry David Thoreau, Thucydides & Leo Tolstoy; specific works include "The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels These Kindle editions are absent Adler's "Synopticon" as well as many other works from the 1952 & 1990 collections "The Great Books of Western Civilization" - perhaps there will be a Volume 3? |
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Richard Bach
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Ernest Becker [1925-74]
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Ernest Becker Foundation
won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1974
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"Denial of Death" [S&S 1973]
won the Pulitzer Prize in 1974 Free Press 8½x5½ pb [5/97] for $10.65 Free Press 8¼x5½ pb [3/85] out of print/used Peter Smith Publrs 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/98] for $31.75 |
 | "Escape From Evil" [1975] sequel to "Denial of Death"
Free Press pb [3/85] for $17.95 Free Press hardcover [11/75] out of print/used |
Edward Bellamy [1850-98]
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 | "Looking Backward, 2000-1887" [1888]
A young man wakes up in the year 2000, in a socialist utopian America. Bellamy's predictions include credit cards, warehouse clubs, and media delivered to the home by 'cable telephone'. Digireads 8¾x6 pb [2005] for $5.49 BiblioLife 97frac12x6¼ hardcover [8/2008] for $23.99 book entry at Wikipedia |
Walter Benjamin [1892-1940]
Especially interesting is his concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow.
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text of "On The Concept of History" {"Theses On The Philosophy of History"} [1939]
Walter Benjamin Research Syndicate
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"The Work of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction" [1936 classic] by Walter Benjamin "widely considered to be one of the top 100 greatest books of all time" CreateSpace 36-page 8¼x5½ pb [8/2009] for $9.95 "The Work of Art In The Age of Its Technological Reproducibility & Other Writings On Media" Harvard University Belknap Press 9x6¼ pb [5/2008] for $12.89 |
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"The Arcades Project" aka "Das Passagenwerk" [1940] by Walter Benjamin, Edited by Rolf Tiedemann, Translated by Howard Eiland & Kevin McLaughlin Benjamin made notes on the culture-changing glass-topped arcades of Paris, France from 1927 until his suicide (to prevent capture by the Nazis) in 1940; long thought destroyed, the manuscript finally saw publication & translation in the 1980s. Harvard Univ Press/Belknap 10x6½ pb [3/2002] for $21.24 Harvard Univ Press/Belknap 10x6½ hardcover [12/99] for $59.86 book entry at Wikipedia |
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"Walter Benjamin At The Dairy Queen: Reflections On Sixty and Beyond" [1999] by Larry McMurtry Touchstone 7¾x5½ pb [8/2001] for $10.20 S&S 8¾x5¾ hardcover [11/99] out of print/used |
 | "Walter Benjamin and Art" [2005] Edited by Andrew Benjamin Continuum 9x6 pb [1/2005] for $42.94 Continuum 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/2005] for $150.00 |
Henri Bergson [1859-1941]
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 | "Time & Free Will: An Essay On The Immediate Data of Consciousness" [1889] by Henri Bergson [1859-1941]; translated by F. L. Pogson Nabu Press 9½x7½ pb [8/2010] for $20.75 General Books LLC 9x6 pb [8/2009] for $8.03 Kessinger Publng 10¼x7¼ hardcover [facsimile 1913 edition] for $32.64 |
 | "The Creative Mind: An Introduction To Metaphysics" [1903] by Henri Bergson [1859-1941] Citadel Press 8½x6¾ pb [2/2002] for $10.36 Citadel Press 8¼x5½ pb [9/97] for $17.95 Replica Books hardcover [2/99] for $31.85 |
Dr. Eric Berne [1910-70]
Transactional Analysis Page at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Joseph Campbell [1904-87] Page
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Albert Camus [1913-60] Page
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Carlos Castañeda [1925-98] Page
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Noam Chomsky [b. 1928]
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"Noam Chomsky: Class Warfare - Interviews With David Barsamian" [Pluto Press 1996] by Noam Chomsky & David Barsamian New Star Books 9x6 pb [9/2003] out of print/used Common Courage Press 7½x5 pb [7/2002] out of print/many, many used Common Courage Press library hardcover [7/2002] for $29.95 |
 | "Introducing Chomsky" [1997] by John Maher & Judy Groves Totem Books 4th edition pb [12/2011] for $9.95 
Totem Books 8¼x5½ pb [3/2005] for $11.01 Totem Books 8x5½ pb [4/97] out of print/many used |
 | "The Essential Chomsky" [2008] Edited by Anthony Arnove The New Press 9¼x6 pb [2/2008] for $11.80 The New Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [2/2008] for $26.60 |
'radical lesbian feminist' philosopher
Mary Daly [1928-2010]
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Charles Darwin [1809-82] Page
Books To Ponder Page 2: Science, Religion & Evolution
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Pierre Teilhard de Chardin [1881-1955]
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Fondation Teilhard de Chardin [est. 1964] in Paris, France
The American Teilhard Assn. [est. 1967]
The British Teilhard Assn. [est. 1963]
multi-language Stichting Teilhard de Chardin Netherlands [est. 1997]
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"The Phenomenon of Man" [1955 classic] Harper Perennial Modern Classics 8x5¼ pb [11/2008] for $10.17 Harper Perennial 7¾x5&frac4 pb [12/75] for $10.17 book entry at Wikip[edia |
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W. Edwards Deming [1900-93] Page
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pragmatist/educator John Dewey [1859-1952]
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Will & Ariel Durant
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Albert Einstein [1879-1955] Page
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Werner Erhard Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Richard P. Feynman [1918-88] Page
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Paulo Freire [1921-97]
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R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983] Page
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Mahatma Gandhi [1869-1948]
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 | "Gandhi" [Columbia Dec 1982]
"It took one remarkable man to defeat the British Empire and free a nation of 350 million people. His goal was freedom for India. His strategy was peace. His weapon was his humanity." Directed by Richard Attenborough; screenplay by John Briley; starring Ben Kingsley (as Gandhi}, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud, Trevor Howard, John Mills, Martin Sheen, Ian Charleson, Athol Fugard, Günther Maria Halmer, Saeed Jaffrey, Roshan Seth {as Nehru}, Rohini Hattangadi, Ian Bannen, Michael Bryant, Michael Hordern, Shreeram Lagoo, Om Puri & Daniel Day-Lewis; won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script, Best Actor (BK), Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Set Decoration, Oscar noms for Best Original Score Best Costumes, Best Sound, Best Makeup; won 5 of 16 BAFTA noms, won DGA Award Sony Special Edition widescreen color DVD [2/2007] 2 disks for $19.99 Sony widescreen color DVD [9/2001] out of prodn/used R.C.A./Columbia color VHS [12/92] 2 tapes - out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Gandhi Screenplay" [1983] by John Briley Grove/Atlantic Evergreen pb [3/83] for $1.98 "Homage To Mahatma Gandhi" album [2004] by Ravi Shankar Deutsche Grammophon audio CD [7/2004] for $11.98 |
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [1749-1832]
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Goethe's autobiographical masterpiece "The Sorrows of Young Werther" []
"Young Goethe In Love" [2011]
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Stephen W. Hawking Page
Quantum Physics Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel [1770-1830]
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 | "Introducing Hegel" [2001] by Lloyd Spencer & Andrzej Krauze Icon/Totem 8¼x5½ pb [4/2007] for $11.01 Icon/Totem 8x5½ pb [6/2001] out of print/used |
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Martin Heidegger [1889-1976] Page
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Hermann Hesse [1877-1962]
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'Castalia' site
Glass Bead Games site
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Thomas Hobbes [1588-1679]
Hobbes was a counter-revolutionary philosopher, and so is excluded here
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longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer [1902-83]
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awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in February 1983
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Hoffer
Hoffer Papers at Stanford
http://www.hofferaward.com/
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/e/eric_hoffer.html
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historian Richard Hofstadter [1916-70]
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 | "The American Political Tradition & The Men Who Made It" [Knopf 1948 classic] by Richard Hofstadter Vintage 8¼x5¼ pb [4/89] for $9.72 A.C.L.S. 9x6 hardcover [12/99] for $45.00 |
 | "Anti-Intellectualism In American Life" [1963 classic] by Richard Hofstadter won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction Vintage 8x5 pb [2/66] for $12.24 Knopf 9½x7 hardcover [5/63] out of print/used |
 | "Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography" [2006] by David S. Brown Univ Chicago Press 8¾x6 pb [4/2007] for $13.26 Univ Chicago Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $27.50 |
Elbert Hubbard [1859-1915]
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Roycrofters official website
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 | "The Olympians: A Tribute To Tall Sun-Crowned Men" [1921] by Elbert Hubbard [1856-1915] chapters/topics include oil & food tycoon E.T. Bedford, botanist Luther Burbank, railroad tycoon Benjamin Franklin Bush, arms maker Samuel Pomeroy Colt, railroad executive George H. Daniels, John Davey, utilities tycoon Henry L. Doherty, automaker Henry Ford, educator Thomas J. Foster, steel tycoon Elbert H. Gary, restaurant tycoon Fred Harvey [1835-1901], railroad tycoon Charles M. Hays, college president Patrick J. Healy, explorer Henry Hudson, automaker {Packard} Henry B. Joy, cereal tycoons Dr. J.H. Kellogg & C.W. Post, Canadian statesman Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Judge Benjamin B. Lindsey, New York City politician William T. Noonan, New York City attorney John Edward Parsons, cash register tycoon {N.C.R.} John H. Patterson, Illinois banker & politician George M. Reynolds, tractor tycoons J.A. Secor & E.A. Rumely, toolmaker E.C. Simmons, hatmaker John B. Stetson, railroad tycoon Frederick D. Underwood, college president Dr. Charles R. Van Hise, New York City politician John H. Vincent, automaker John North Willys, machinery tycoon Sidney W. Winslow, and educator Ella Flagg Young BiblioLife 8x5 pb [10/2008] for $16.19 BiblioLife 9¼x6 hardcover [10/2008] for $21.99 |
"The Common Sense Revolutionary: A Business Vision For Our Times" [2003]
biography of Elbert Hubbard by Daniel Diehl
Spiro Press 8½x6½ hardcover [6/2003] for $24.95
"Works of Elbert Hubbard" for Kindle [2007]
Kindle Edition from MobileReference [10/2007] for $4.79
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Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]
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Somaweb
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pragmatist William James [1842-1910]
"[Wm. James] represented the true America, and represented in a measure the whole
ultramodern, radical world." — George Santayana
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Emory Univ pages •
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William James Society [est. 1999] based in Canada
Library of America editions: Volume I | Volume II
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Karl Jaspers [1883-1969]
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Karl Jaspers Society of Austria
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"Philosophy of Existence" [1958] by Karl Jaspers, 1971 translation by Richard F. Grabau Univ PA Press 8x5 pb [6/71] for $18.95 |
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Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
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Søren Kierkegaard [1813-55]
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 | "Kierkegaard in 90 Minutes" [1997] by Paul Strathern Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8x5 pb [11/2001] for $7.95 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8½x5¼ hardcover [4/97] for $14.95 |
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"Kierkegaard's Existential Ethics" [1992] by George J. Stack Ashgate hardcover [1/92] for $61.94 |
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross [1926-2004]
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political writer Walter Lippmann [1889-1974]
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John Locke [1632-1704]
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Locke Institute
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"Works of John Locke" for Kindle [2008]
Kindle Edition from MobileReference [6/2008] for $2.39
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"Locke in 90 Minutes" [1999] by Paul Strathern Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8x5 pb [11/99] for $7.95 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8x5 hardcover [11/99] for $14.95 |
 | "Locke: Political Essays" [1997] Edited by Mark Goldie Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5½ pb [10/97] for $24.99 Cambridge Univ Press 8½x5¾ hardcover [10/97] out of print/used |
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"John Locke: Political Writings" [1993] Edited by David Wootton includes "Second Treatise of Government" [c. 1681] & "A Letter Concerning Toleration" [1685] Hackett Publng 8¼x5¼ pb [3/2003] for $12.95 Hackett Publng 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2003] for $39.95 |
H.L. Mencken [1880-1956] Page
at Spirit of America Bookstore
H.L. Mencken Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
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'fearless public intellectual' Eduardo Mendieta
browse books • SUNY homepage • no entry at Wikipedia
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Dan Millman {"Peaceful Warrior" Saga}
books • official website •
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C. Wright Mills [1916-62] Page
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Renaissance philosopher
{Michel Eyquem de} Montaigne [1533-1592]
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 | "How to Live, or A Life of Montaigne: In One Question  and Twenty Attempts At An Answer" [2010] by Sarah Bakewell Other Press 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2010] for $16.50 author's bookpage • author's website |
Dr. Maria Montessori [1870-1952]
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Assn. Montessori Internationale
North American Montessori Teachers Assn. [est. 1970]
Montessori Foundation
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Sir Isaac Newton [1643-1727]
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"Newton & Gravity" [1998] Anchor/Doubleday 7¾x5½ pb [7/98] for $9.95 |
(Karl Paul) Reinhold Niebuhr [1892-1971]
A favorite philosopher of Barack Obama, for his thinking on the Christian faith's
relationship to the realities of modern politics & diplomacy.
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'The Niebuhr Legacy' at Elmhurst College
Reinhold Niebuhr Papers at Library of Congress
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Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900] Page
Friedrich Nietzsche [1844-1900] Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
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Robert Nozick [1938-2002] Page
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Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset [1883-1955]
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Fundación José Ortega y Gasset y Gregorio Marañón [est. 1978] in Spain
Fundación José Ortega y Gasset Argentina [est. 1988]
 | "The Revolt of The Masses" [Spanish 1932, English 1934] by José Ortega y Gasset W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [2/94] for $10.85 W.W. Norton 7¾x5 pb [4/64] out of print/many used W.W. Norton 7½x5 hardcover [8/1932] out of print/used book entry at Wikipedia |
Maison d'Être Bookstore's
educator Jean Piaget [1896-1980] Page
 | "The Essential Piaget: An Interpretive Reference and Guide" [1977] Edited by Howard E. Gruber & J. Jacques Voneche "The best and most complete of all the anthologies of my work." — Jean Piaget Jason Aronson 9x6¼ 100th Anniversary Edition pb [8/95] for $93.95 Basic Books pb [5/82] out of print/used Basic Books hardcover [2/77] out of print/used |
Edgar Allan Poe [1809-49]
Edgar Allan Poe is considered by many to have invented the American horror story,
the modern detective story, and science fiction. While Poe is usually taught as a literary master,
he was also an intellectual giant on the level of Michelangelo or Da Vinci or Einstein.
Spirit of America Bookstore's Edgar Allan Poe [1809 -49] Page
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Karl Popper [1902-94]
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The Karl Popper Web at Dublin City University
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French philosopher Ernest Renan [1823-92]
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French philosopher Charles Bernard Renouvier [1815-1903]
primary concept: "one is made free by acting as if one were free"
books not available in English translation •
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Richard Rorty [1931-2007]
books • links • Wikipedia
 | "Richard Rorty: The Making of An American Philosopher" [2008] by Neil Gross Univ Chicago Press 9x6 hardcover [5/2008] for $21.45 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau [1712-78]
books • Wikipedia
"Confessions, Part I" [written 1765-67, publd 1782]
"Confessions, Part 2" [written 1769-70, publd 1789]
"Rousseau's autobiography is nothing less than a manifesto of modern individualism." — Richard Wolin
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Maison d'Être Bookstore's
Bertrand Russell [1872-1970] Page
Bertrand Russell Quotations Page
at Working Minds Philosophy website
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"The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959" [1961] Edited by Robert E. Egner & Lester E. Denonn Kindle Edition from T & F Books, U.K. [3/2009] for $16.47 Routledge 8½x5½ pb [4/2009] for $19.77 Allen & Unwin, London hardcover [1961] out of print/used |
Prof. Michael J. Sandel
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Harvard faculty page •
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"Justice" Lecture Series {24 1-hour episodes} from Harvard & WGBH-TV
 | "Justice: A Reader" [2007] Edited by Michael J. Sandel contributors include Aristotle, Jeremy Bentham, Milton & Rose Friedman, Friedrich A. Hayek, Immanuel Kant, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, Robert Nozick [1938-2002], John Rawls & editor Michael J. Sandel Oxford Univ Press 9¾x7½ pb [9/2007] for $30.49 Oxford Univ Press 10x7¼ hardcover [9/2007] for $85.00 |
 | "Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?" [2009] by Michael J. Sandel FS&G 9x6½ hardcover [9/2009] for $16.50 |
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"Justice: What's The Right Thing To Do?" [2009]
12 hours from Sandel's taped lectures P.B.S. Direct DVD set [9/2009] 3 disks for $52.49 not listed at IMDb |
George Santayana [1863-1952]
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Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80] Page
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E.F. Schumacher [1911-77]
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The E.F. Schumacher Society [est. 1980]
Schumacher U.K. [est. 1978]
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B.F. Skinner [1904-90]
Skinner developed 'behaviorism', based on the conclusion that animals (including humans)
initially behave randomly and then repeat those behaviors that get rewarded.
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Stanford E.P. behaviorism entry •
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Spinoza [1632-77]
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Stanford E.P. entry •
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book "The Ethics" & "Treatise" & Letters
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"The Cambridge Companion To Spinoza" [1995] Edited by Don Garrett Cambridge Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [10/95] for $34.19 |
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"Spinoza in 90 Minutes" [1998] by Paul Strathern Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8x5 pb [9/98] for $9.95 Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8¼x5¼ hardcover [9/98] for $14.95 |
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"Spinoza: Complete Works" [2002] by Benedictus de Spinoza Translations by Samuel Shirley, edited by Michael L. Morgan Hackett Publng 9x6½ pb [11/2002] for $62.70 includes "The Short Treatise On God, Man & His Well-Being" [c. 1660]; "Treatise On The Emendation of The Intellect" [1662]; "Principles of Cartesian Philosophy" [1663]; "A Theological-Political Treatise" [1670]; {unfinished} "Political Treatise" [1675-76]; "Ethics Demonstrated In Geometrical Order" [1677]; "Hebrew Grammar" [1677]; plus Letters {200 pages} |
http://www.amazon.com/Spinoza-Practical-Philosophy-Gilles-Deleuze/dp/0872862186/
Lewis Foyer's "Spinoza and The Rise of Liberalism"
http://www.amazon.com/Spinoza-Life-Steven-Nadler/dp/0521002931/
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