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Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason ranks with Being and Nothingness as a work of major philosophical significance, but it has been largely neglected. The first volume, published in 1960, was dismissed as a Marxist work at a time when structuralism was coming into vogue; the incomplete second volume has only recently been published in France. In this commentary on the first volume, Joseph S. Catalano restores the Critique to its deserved place...
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It is hard to think of two philosophers less alike than St. Thomas Aquinas and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aquinas, a thirteenth-century Dominican friar, and Sartre, a twentieth-century philosopher and atheist, are separated by both time and religious beliefs. Yet, for philosopher Joseph S. Catalano, the two are worth bringing together for their shared concern with a fundamental issue: the uniqueness of each individual person and how this uniqueness relates...
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It is a curious and relatively little-known fact that for two decades-from the end of World War II until the late 1960s-existentialism's most fertile ground outside of Europe was in the Middle East, and Jean-Paul Sartre was the Arab intelligentsia's uncontested champion. In the Arab world, neither before nor since has another Western intellectual been so widely translated, debated, and celebrated.
By closely following the remarkable career...
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A part of Harper Perennial's special "Resistance Library" highlighting classic works that illuminate our times: A special edition reissue of Stanley Milgram's landmark examination of humanity's susceptibility to authoritarianism.
"The classic account of the human tendency to follow orders, no matter who they hurt or what their consequences." - Washington Post Book World
In the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried...
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"Les carnets de Malik" sonde l'énigme du temps, le dépeignant comme une entité insaisissable, indépendante de nos désirs. Qu'il nous soit ami ou ennemi, il file inexorablement à travers nos vies, porté par un étrange cordon d'or. Cette symphonie discordante entre notre perception du temps et sa réalité quantique nous entraîne dans une danse émotionnelle, entre peur, courage et dévotion. L'ouvrage, scrutant chaque instant avec passion,...
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