A History of Dangerous Assumptions features over two hundred illuminating and intriguing case-studies of this fascinating
subject, including some of the most disastrous assumptions ever foisted upon the human race.
What is the connection between God and East Sheen? How do you talk your way out of an Albanian jail? Why do dictators love to make comic books? How does a missed penalty-kick lead to a bloody war? Theodore Dalrymple, a psychiatrist who gives expert witness in murder cases, has a passion for sideways thinking. In The Pleasure of Thinking he takes ......
Meditations on the African Spiritual Journey: From the Middle Passage to the Mountaintop
Explores the ideas and influences behind a man who draws on ideas from anthroposophy and other spiritual traditions and applies them in challenging social contexts to remarkable effect.
7 lectures in Berlin, June 6 - July 18, 1916 (CW 169) Given in 1916, when Europe was in the throes of World War I, these seven lectures present Rudolf Steiner's trenchant analysis of the malaise of our time. With wit and compassion, he vividly confronts us with the dead end to which materialism has brought modern civilization. Starting ......
In Travels with Plotinus, Moin Mir follows Plotinus's 1,780-year-old journey of personal discovery across India, Egypt, Italy, Greece and Turkey as he tries to understand the core concept of Plotinian thought, derived from studying the Upanishads - 'Unity and Oneness'. He uses Plotinus's philosophy to observe how the free will of intellect uses ......
The Cultural Roots of the Current Environmental Crisis
Traces the development of cultural attitudes toward the environment and technology over the span of human civilization. This work explores the effects influential thinkers and movements have had on environmental attitudes.
Despite recent advances in the study of black thought, black women intellectuals remain often neglected. This collection of essays by fifteen scholars of history and literature establishes black women's places in intellectual history by engaging the work of writers, educators, activists, religious leaders, and social reformers in the United ......
The ""Jewish Question, "" the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory
German jurist and legal theorist Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) significantly influenced Western political and legal thinking in the last century, yet his life and work have also stirred considerable controversy. While his ideas have been used and diffused by prominent philosophers on both the left and the right, such as Jurgen Habermas and Leo Strauss, ......
