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Author : Matthew Plampin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857575364
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (753 download)
Download or read book The Street Philosopher written by Matthew Plampin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Matthew Plampin
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007310048
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book The Street Philosopher written by Matthew Plampin and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-03-13 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An elegant, powerful novel, set in Victorian England, a time not so different from our own... perfect for fans of THE INTERPRETATION OF MURDER and THE SHADOW OF THE WIND
Author : Sandra Peart
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472024140
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)
Download or read book The Street Porter and the Philosopher written by Sandra Peart and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2009-11-16 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Smith, asserting the common humanity of the street porter and the philosopher, articulated the classical economists' model of social interactions as exchanges among equals. This model had largely fallen out of favor until, recently, a number of scholars in the avant-garde of economic thought rediscovered it and rechristened it "analytical egalitarianism." In this volume, Sandra J. Peart and David M. Levy bring together an impressive array of authors to explore the ramifications of this analytical ideal and to discuss the ways in which an egalitarian theory of individuality can enable economists to reconcile ideas from opposite ends of the political spectrum. "The analytical egalitarianism project that Peart and Levy have advanced has come to occupy a prominent place in the current agenda of historians of economic thought." ---Ross Emmett, Associate Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Michigan Center for Innovation and Economic Prosperity, Michigan State University "These essays and dialogs from the Summer Institute would make Adam Smith, economist and moral philosopher, proud." ---J. Daniel Hammond, Hultquist Family Professor of Economics, Wake Forest University With essays by: James M. Buchanan, Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences recipient (1985) and Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnic and State University Juan Pablo Couyoumdijian, Universidad del Desearrollo, Chile Tyler Cowen, George Mason University Eric Crampton, University of Canterbury, New Zealand Andrew Farrant, Dickinson College Samuel Hollander, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto M. Ali Khan, Johns Hopkins University Thomas Leonard, Princeton University Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois, Chicago Leonidas Montes, Dean of School of Government, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez, Chile Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University and New York University Warren J. Samuels, Professor Emeritus, Michigan State University Eric Schliesser, VENI post-doctoral research fellow, Leiden University, and University of Amsterdam Gordon Tullock, George Mason University Sandra J. Peart is Dean of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, Virginia. David M. Levy is Professor of Economics at George Mason University (GMU) and Research Associate at the Center for Study of Public Choice at GMU. They are Co-Directors of George Mason University's Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of Economics.
Author : Charles Babbage
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book A Chapter on Street Nuisances written by Charles Babbage and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoff Dyer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781477310335
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand written by Geoff Dyer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-03-18 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garry Winogrand—along with Diane Arbus and Lee Friedlander—was one of the most important photographers of the 1960s and 1970s, as well as one of the world’s foremost street photographers. Award-winning writer Geoff Dyer has admired Winogrand’s work for many years. Modeled on John Szarkowski’s classic book Atget, The Street Philosophy of Garry Winogrand is a masterfully curated selection of one hundred photographs from the Winogrand archive at the Center for Creative Photography, with each image accompanied by an original essay. Dyer takes the viewer/reader on a wildly original journey through both iconic and unseen images from the archive, including eighteen previously unpublished color photographs. The book encompasses most of Winogrand’s themes and subjects and remains broadly faithful to the chronological and geographical facts of his life, but Dyer’s responses to the photographs are unorthodox, eye-opening, and often hilarious. This inimitable combination of photographer and writer, images and text, itself offers what Dyer claims for Winogrand’s photography—an education in seeing.
Author : Marius Kociejowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781780600727
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Street Philosopher and the Holy Fool written by Marius Kociejowski and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on five journeys to Syria, with a cast of lively characters, this book is in danger of becoming a testament to the last of the Levant. With B AND W photos.
Author : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Christian Philosopher written by Cotton Mather and published by . This book was released on 1721 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frédéric Gros
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1804290440
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (42 download)
Download or read book A Philosophy of Walking written by Frédéric Gros and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “passionate affirmation of the simple life” explores how walking has influenced history’s greatest thinkers—from Henry David Thoreau and John Muir to Gandhi and Nietzsche (Observer) “It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.” —Nietzsche In this French bestseller, leading thinker and philosopher Frédéric Gros charts the many different ways we get from A to B—the pilgrimage, the promenade, the protest march, the nature ramble—and reveals what they say about us. Gros draws attention to other thinkers who also saw walking as something central to their practice. On his travels he ponders Thoreau’s eager seclusion in Walden Woods; the reason Rimbaud walked in a fury, while Nerval rambled to cure his melancholy. He shows us how Rousseau walked in order to think, while Nietzsche wandered the mountainside to write. In contrast, Kant marched through his hometown every day, exactly at the same hour, to escape the compulsion of thought. Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophy of Walking is an entertaining and insightful manifesto for putting one foot in front of the other.
Author : Matthew B. Crawford
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062741985
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Why We Drive written by Matthew B. Crawford and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by "one of the most influential thinkers of our time" (Sunday Times) "Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to independence, making the case that freedom of motion is essential to who we are as a species. ... We hope you'll read it." —Road & Track Once we were drivers, the open road alive with autonomy, adventure, danger, trust, and speed. Today we are as likely to be in the back seat of an Uber as behind the wheel ourselves. Tech giants are hurling us toward a shiny, happy “self-driving” future, selling utopia but equally keen to advertise to a captive audience strapped into another expensive device. Are we destined, then, to become passengers, not drivers? Why We Drive reveals that much more may be at stake than we might think. Ten years ago, in the New York Times-bestselling Shop Class as Soulcraft, philosopher-mechanic Matthew B. Crawford—a University of Chicago PhD who owned his own motorcycle shop—made a revolutionary case for manual labor, one that ran headlong against the pretentions of white-collar office work. Now, using driving as a window through which to view the broader changes wrought by technology on all aspects of contemporary life, Crawford investigates the driver’s seat as one of the few remaining domains of skill, exploration, play—and freedom. Blending philosophy and hands-on storytelling, Crawford grounds the narrative in his own experience in the garage and behind the wheel, recounting his decade-long restoration of a vintage Volkswagen as well as his journeys to thriving automotive subcultures across the country. Crawford leads us on an irreverent but deeply considered inquiry into the power of faceless bureaucracies, the importance of questioning mindless rules, and the battle for democratic self-determination against the surveillance capitalists. A meditation on the competence of ordinary people, Why We Drive explores the genius of our everyday practices on the road, the rewards of “folk engineering,” and the existential value of occasionally being scared shitless. Witty and ingenious throughout, Why We Drive is a rebellious and daring celebration of the irrepressible human spirit.
Author : Royalty
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 154627135X
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The Philosophical Philosopher Presents Street Life Philosophy written by Royalty and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is reality based. It’s about growing up around fast-living people. My mother was a gangster; my godfather was born a pimp. The book is based on growth, development, childhood to adulthood, graduating to greater heights, living to learn, and learning how to live. Spirituality is very important. We have blessings to love from the dove above (the Most High), so this book is based on blessings and love from above. The book also explains how your environment will mold you into who you become, what storms you go through, and how you live your life. This book also explains how we all want to live an innocent lifestyle and how we learn from our mistakes. It also explains that as a child, you know not what you or we do is wrong. This book finally explains that a child needs to be protected from the world and be taught about the wicked and the righteous ways of the world. A child requires adult supervision at all times; a child should not raise up another child. All in all, this book has hidden messages in plain sight, which can only seen by those with their third eye open. I also start the book by speaking on topics that prepare you for all you will read in this book and will possibly deal with in life. Details in this book are serious. They include words only seen in the past historically, dictionary words, and names of high-end things you should buy. Thank you for reading to succeed. Reading is self-teaching. Take what you need out of this book and what you need to give to someone else. These include the following: Live and let live; each one, teach one, and reach one; united we stand, divided we fall; truth be told, truth be spoken. Earn blessings to love others and blessings to love to the Most High. Peace be onto the ancient ancestors, and respect to all the elders of the land of today.
Author : Rebecca Goldstein
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 : 0307378195
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Plato at the Googleplex written by Rebecca Goldstein and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed philosopher and novelist Rebecca Newberger Goldstein provides a dazzlingly original plunge into the drama of philosophy, revealing its hidden role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
Author : D.E. Wittkower
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440558876
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)
Download or read book The Philosopher's Book of Questions & Answers written by D.E. Wittkower and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your life through the lens of the world's greatest thinkers! Do you ever wonder how important money really is in life or what you need to do to achieve happiness? With The Philosopher's Book of Questions and Answers, you will be one step closer to solving these uncertainties. Inside, you'll find the basics of philosophy, written in plain English, and thoughts for applying these important theories to your own life. You'll also be encouraged to dig deep into the philosophical reasoning behind your everyday actions with a series of fascinating prompts, such as: If you had ten times your wealth and ten times your income, what would you do then that you can't do now? What's a version of that activity that you could do right now? Is it ten times less meaningful, important, or enjoyable than the activity you would do with more money? From Socrates and Epicurean to Kierkegaard and Nietzsche, The Philosopher's Book of Questions and Answers will not only help you grasp history's greatest thoughts, but will also unveil the world in a whole new light.
Author : David Ewing Duncan
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group Press
ISBN 13 : 9781626348714
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (487 download)
Download or read book A Philosopher on Wall Street written by David Ewing Duncan and published by Greenleaf Book Group Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing tale of Wall Street and the explosion of new life-science technologies and other industries of the future as told by one of the most creative dealmakers of the past 60 years. When Fred Frank arrived on Wall Street in 1958, he became a key member of a small, whip-smart cadre of young financiers who began challenging the stodgy, risk-averse scions of old-world investment banking. He also became the first banker to specialize in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, and health care services. Frank's perpetual search for the new--pioneering technologies and innovative business models--has transformed our world. A Philosopher on Wall Street is an intriguing tale of * a man who was a force of verve and ingenuity on Wall Street, who built and nurtured new industries that have impacted everyone; * Wall Street and its history since the late 1950s, the surprisingly fascinating story of how high technology in America was capitalized, and the formation and meteoric rise of the pharma and biotech industries; * the best and worst of Wall Street over the past sixty years, and thoughts about the future of how to fund innovation to benefit both people and the bottom line * colorful stories from top innovators, scientists, executives, and investors about deals, intrigue, genius, booms and busts. This is the story of one of the most creative dealmakers of the past sixty years, a master artist of finance whose erudition and grace helped shape our world, who has always believed that inspired science, entrepreneurship, and investing are the keys to a better future.
Author : Andy West
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 9781529032024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)
Download or read book The Life Inside written by Andy West and published by Picador. This book was released on 2023-02-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish Times and The i Book of 2022'Tense and intimate . . . an education' - Geoff Dyer'Enriching, sobering and at times heartrending. A wonder' - Sir Lenny Henry'Authentic, fascinating and deeply moving' - Terry Waite__________Can someone in prison be more free than someone outside? Would we ever be good if we never felt shame? What makes a person worthy of forgiveness?Andy West teaches philosophy in prisons. Every day he has conversations with people inside about their lives, discusses their ideas and feelings, and listens as they explore new ways to think about their situation.When Andy steps into a prison, he also confronts his inherited shame: his father, uncle and brother all spent time behind bars. While Andy has built a different life for himself, he still fears that their fate will also be his. As he discusses pressing questions of truth, identity and hope with his students, he searches for his own form of freedom too.Moving, sympathetic, wise and frequently funny, The Life Inside is an elegantly written and unforgettable memoir. Through a blend of storytelling and gentle philosophical questioning, it offers a new insight into our stretched justice system, our failing prisons and the complex lives being lived inside.__________'Inspiring' - The Observer'Strives with humour and compassion to understand the phenomenon of prison' - Sydney Review of Books'Expands both heart and mind' - Ciaran Thapar'A fascinating and enlightening journey . . . A legitimate page-turner' - 3AM
Author : A. C. Grayling
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241980860
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The History of Philosophy written by A. C. Grayling and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AUTHORITATIVE AND ACCESSIBLE, THIS LANDMARK WORK IS THE FIRST SINGLE-VOLUME HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY SHARED FOR DECADES 'A cerebrally enjoyable survey, written with great clarity and touches of wit' Sunday Times The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But there has been no comprehensive history of this great intellectual journey since 1945. Intelligible for students and eye-opening for philosophy readers, A. C. Grayling covers with characteristic clarity and elegance subjects like epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, logic, and the philosophy of mind, as well as the history of debates in these areas, through the ideas of celebrated philosophers as well as less well-known influential thinkers. The History of Philosophy takes the reader on a journey from the age of the Buddha, Confucius and Socrates. Through Christianity's dominance of the European mind to the Renaissance and Enlightenment. On to Mill, Nietzsche, Sartre, then the philosophical traditions of India, China and the Persian-Arabic world. And finally, into philosophy today.
Author : Ernst Wolff
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702977
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Martin Versfeld written by Ernst Wolff and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-10-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Versfeld (1909–1995) is one of South Africa’s greatest philosophers, appreciated by academics and activists, poets and the broader public. His masterful prose spans the tension between disquiet and joy. Detractor of the violent trends of modernity, a critic of apartheid from the first hour, he was among the first philosophers of ecology. At the same time he celebrated the generosity of the world and advocated an ethics of simplicity, drawing on mediaeval theology and Eastern wisdom. His philosophy offered food for thought in dark times of the 20th century, as it still does for us in the 21st century. This first book-length study on Versfeld is an invitation to think with him on justice and exploitation, cultural difference and human nature, religion and the environment, time and connectedness.
Author : Peter Cave
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780747438
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Big Think Book written by Peter Cave and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes me, me – and you, you? What is this thing called ‘love’? Does life have a point? Is ‘no’ the right answer to this question? Philosophy transports us from the wonderful to the weird, from the funny to the very serious indeed. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, fascinating insights and common sense, Peter Cave offers a comprehensive survey of all areas of philosophy, addressing the big puzzles in ethics and politics, metaphysics and knowledge, religion and the emotions, aesthetics and logic. Replete with a smorgasbord of amusing and mind-boggling examples, The Big Think Book is perfect for anyone who delights in life’s conundrums.
