Author: Kant, Immanuel

Publisher: Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, 2007

Ebook: You can read it here.

From the Publisher:

• Kant’s Critique of Judgement is a massively influential contribution to modern philosophy. It treats of aesthetics, morality, religion and metaphysics and represents the summation of Kant’s projects of transcendental philosophy.
• The text uses James Creed Meredith’s classic and elegant translation, lightly revised and updated to bring terminology into line with current academic usage, and is cross-paginated throughout to the original German texts.
• The edition includes, in a new translation by Nicholas Walker, Kant’s important ‘First Introduction’, Kant’s original introduction that bears on the subject matter.
• In addition to a general introduction to Kant’s philosophy and the Critique, the edition contains explanatory notes, a bilingual glossary of technical terms and full index of names and subject-matter.

‘beauty has purport and significance only for human beings, for beings at once animal and rational’

In the Critique of Judgement (1790) Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime, discussing the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of art and nature, the role of imagination, genius and originality, the limits of representation and the connection between morality and the aesthetic. He also investigates the validity of our judgements concerning the apparent purposiveness of nature with respect to the highest interests of reason and enlightenment.

The work profoundly influenced the artists and writers of the classical and romantic period and the philosophy of Hegel and Schelling. It has remained a central point of reference from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche through to phenomenology, hermeneutics, the Frankfurt School, analytical aesthetics and contemporary critical theory.

J. C. Meredith’s classic translation has been revised in accordance with standard modern renderings and provided with a bilingual glossary. This edition also includes the important ‘First Introduction’ that Kant originally composed for the work.

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Author: Frankena, William K.

Publisher: Scott, Foresman; 1st edition, 1965

About the Author: Frankena was an American philosopher who wrote extensively in moral philosophy. He is widely known for his landmark essay “The Naturalistic Fallacy”, which gives a critical analysis of G. E. Moore’s argument that coined the fallacy’s name.

The featured book here provides a historically insightful comparison of the three monumental philosophical traditions, but with a focus on the differences in their respective philosophies of education. For the student of ethics and morality and education, Frankena’s comprehensive study should be of great benefit.

Call Number: LB85.A7 F7

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Title: Hamlet’s BlackBerry: A Practical Philosophy for Building a Good Life in the Digital Age

Author: William Powers

Publisher: HarperCollins

Call Number: HM851 .P688 2010

From the Publisher:

Our computers and mobile devices do wonderful things for us. But they also impose a burden, making it harder for us to focus, do our best work, build strong relationships, and find the depth and fulfillment we crave.

How to solve this problem? Hamlet’s BlackBerry argues that we just need a new way of thinking, an everyday philosophy for life with screens. William Powers sets out to solve what he calls the conundrum of connectedness. Reaching into the past—using his own life as laboratory and object lesson—he draws on some of history’s most brilliant thinkers, from Plato to Shakespeare to Thoreau, to demonstrate that digital connectedness serves us best when it’s balanced by its opposite, disconnectedness. Lively, original, and entertaining, Hamlet’s BlackBerry will challenge you to rethink your digital life.

About the Author:

William Powers was born in Arizona and grew up in Rhode Island. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in history and literature. He began his journalism career at The Washington Post where in the 1990s he covered business, politics, popular culture, and other subjects. His widely read Post column, “The Magazine Reader,” launched his career as a leading thinker and writer on life in the age of information.

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Title: Enhancing Humanity: The Philosophical Foundations of Humanistic Education

Author: Nimrod Aloni

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers

Call No.: LC1011 .A57 2002

From the publisher:

Drawing on the tradition of Pragmatic Humanism, this book offers an alternative approach to thinking and talking about liberal and humanistic education that breaks free from what Richard Rorty has called “outworn vocabularies and attitudes.”
This book:

-aims to reach beyond and integrate the Classical, Romantic, Existentialist, and Radical Approaches;
-presents an integrative model of humanistic education that will address the needs and trends of humanity at the beginning of the 21st century;
-provides an historical review of central approaches in humanistic education;
-focuses on the principles and ways of humanistic moral education;
-concludes with a critical and prescriptive discussion of humanistic education in the test of current social, political, and cultural events.

About the author:

Professor Nimrod Aloni of Hakibbutzim College of Education and Beit-Berl College of Education in Israel graduated from the Philosophy and Education doctoral program in 1987. He is author ofseveral widely read books including Enhancing Humanity: The Philosophical Foundations of Humanistic Education (Dordrecht, Boston, London: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.) and Beyond Nihilism: Nietzsche’s Healing and Edifying Philosophy (Lanham: University Press of America, 1991.). He is a regular visitor to the program.

Reviews:

“There is a freshness in this book, a restoration of a lost clarity, a regaining of authentic commitment. No longer oriented to an `essence’ of what it means to be human, `humanism’ in the context of this book cannot be used to paper over what has become a kind of wasteland where values are concerned. Nor can it be used to suggest that contemporary education (public or private or religious) is governed by identifiable principle or communally defined and accepted ideal.”
(Professor Maxine Greene)

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Author: V.N. Volosinov/ translated by Ladislav Matejka and I.R. Titunik
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986, c1973
Check it out: B809.8 .V59413 1986

From the Publisher: Volosinov’s important work, first published in Russian in 1929, had to wait a generation for recognition. This first paperback edition of the English translation will be capital for literary theorists, philosophers, linguists, psychologists, and many others.

About the author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Voloshinov

On the Web: http://www.amazon.com/Marxism-Philosophy-Language-V-Volosinov/dp/0674550986

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From the Publisher: Theory on mothers, mothering and motherhood has emerged as a distinct body of knowledge within Motherhood Studies and Feminist Theory more generally. This collection, the first ever anthology on maternal theory, introduces readers to this rich and diverse tradition of maternal theory. Composed of 50 chapters and covering more than three decades of scholarship, Maternal Theory includes all the “must read” theorists on motherhood. Writers include: Adrienne Rich, Nancy Chodorow, Sara Ruddick, Alice Walker, Barbara Katz Rothman, bell hooks, Sharon Hays, Patricia Hill-Collins, Julia Kristeva, Kim Anderson, Audre Lorde, Ellen Lewin, Daphne de Marneffe, Ariel Gore, Ann Crittenden, Judith Warner and many more. Maternal Theory is essential reading for anyone interested in motherhood as experience, ideology, and identity.

About the Author: Andrea O’Reilly is an Associate Professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University. She is author /editor of twelve books on Mothering/Motherhood including Mother Outlaws: Theories and Practices of Empowered Mothering. O’Reilly is founder and director of the Association for Research on Mothering.

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Author: Pierre Hadot

Publisher: Malden, MA : Blackwell, 1995 & 2003

Call Number: B105.S66 H3313 1995

From the Publisher:

“This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Hadot’s book demonstrates the extent to which philosophy has been, and still is, above all else a way of seeing and of being in the world.”

About the Author:

“Pierre Hadot [was] Professor of the History of Hellenistic and Roman Thought at the College de France. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne from 1942 to 1946, later becoming first a researcher and then director of studies at the Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes in Paris. He is the author of several landmark essays, collected together in Exercices Spirituels et Philosophie Antique (Second Edition, 1987).”

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Title: Work, Society, and Culture

Author: Simon, Yves R. , Vukan Kuic (ed.)

Publisher: Fordham University Press

Call No.:  HD4904 .S495 1986

About the Author:

Yves R. Simon is a world-renowned philosopher, and author of several books, including The Definition of Moral Virtue, Foresight and Knowledge, Freedom of Choice, An Introduction to Metaphysics of Knowledge, Practical Knowledge, The Tradition of Natural Law and Work Society and Culture, all available from Fordham University Press.

On the Web:

Philosophy of Democratic Government

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Editor: Harvey Siegel

Publisher: Oxford Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2009

Call Number: LB14.7 .O93 2009

About the Book:

“Philosophy of education has an honored place in the history of Western philosophical thought. Its questions are as vital now, both philosophically and practically, as they have ever been. In recent decades, however, philosophical thinking about education has largely fallen off the philosophical radar screen. Philosophy of education has lost intimate contact with the parent discipline to a regrettably large extent–to the detriment of both.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Education is intended to serve as a general introduction to key issues in the field, to further the philosophical pursuit of those issues, and to bring philosophy of education back into closer contact with general philosophy. Distinguished philosophers and philosophers of education, most of whom have made important contributions to core areas of philosophy, turn their attention in these 28 essays to a broad range of philosophical questions concerning education. The chapters are accessible to readers with no prior exposure to philosophy of education, and provide both surveys of the general domain they address, and advance the discussion in those domains in original and fruitful ways. Together their authors constitute a new wave of general philosophers taking up fundamental philosophical questions about education–the first such cohort of outstanding general philosophers to do so (in English) in a generation.”

About the Editor:

“Harvey Siegel is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami. He is the author of many papers in epistemology, philosophy of science, and philosophy of education, and of Relativism Refuted: A Critique of Contemporary Epistemological Relativism (1987),Educating Reason: Rationality, Critical Thinking, and Education (1988), and Rationality Redeemed? Further Dialogues on an Educational Ideal (1997).”

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Author: James Miller

Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011

Call Number: B104 .M56 2011

From the Publisher:

“We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes for a life worth living. In Examined Lives, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous philosophers. Socrates spent his life examining himself and the assumptions of others. His most famous student, Plato, risked his reputation to tutor a tyrant. Diogenes carried a bright lamp in broad daylight and announced he was “looking for a man.” Aristotle’s alliance with Alexander the Great presaged Seneca’s complex role in the court of the Roman Emperor Nero. Augustine discovered God within himself. Montaigne and Descartes struggled to explore their deepest convictions in eras of murderous religious warfare. Rousseau aspired to a life of perfect virtue. Kant elaborated a new ideal of autonomy. Emerson successfully preached a gospel of self-reliance for the new American nation. And Nietzsche tried “to compose into one and bring together what is fragment and riddle and dreadful chance in man,” before he lapsed into catatonic madness.”

With a flair for paradox and rich anecdote, Examined Lives is a book that confirms the continuing relevance of philosophy today—and explores the most urgent questions about what it means to live a good life.

About the Author:

“James Miller is Chair of Liberal Studies and Professor of Politics at the New School for Social Research.

He is the author of five other books: Flowers in the Dustbin: the Rise of Rock & Roll, 1947-1977, winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor award and a Ralph Gleason BMI award for best music book of 1999; The Passion of Michel Foucault (1993), an interpretive essay on the life of the French philosopher and a National Book Critics Circle Finalist for General Nonfiction, which has been translated into nine languages; “Democracy is in the Streets”: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago (1987), an account of the American student movement of the 1960s, also a National Book Critics Circle Finalist for General Nonfiction; Rousseau: Dreamer of Democracy (1984), a study of the origins of modern democracy; and History and Human Existence – From Marx to Merleau-Ponty, an analysis of Marx and the French existentialists.

The original editor of The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll (1976), he has written about music since the 1960s, when one of his early record reviews appeared in the third issue of Rolling Stone magazine. Subsequent pieces on music have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times and Newsweek, where he was a book reviewer and pop music critic between 1981 and 1990. Pieces on philosophy and history have appeared in The London Review of Books, The New York Times Book Review. In 2000, the magazine Lingua Franca published his best-known essay, “Is Bad Writing Necessary? George Orwell, Theodor Adorno, and the Politics of Language.”

Besides publishing in such peer-reviewed academic journals as History and Theory and Political Theory, he has contributed to a variety of reference works, from Encyclopedia Britannica and A New Literary History of America, published by Harvard in 2009, to the Dictionnaire de philosophie morale edited by Monique Canto-Sperber in 1996.

From 2000 to 2008, he edited Daedalus, the journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an NEH Fellow twice, and in 2006-2007 he was a Fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A native of Chicago, he was educated at Pomona College in California, and at Brandeis University, where he received a Ph.D. in the History of Ideas in 1976.”

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Video of talk at The New School, February 2011

Reviews at Amazon.com

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