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De quoi demain: dialogue
Par Jacques Derrida, Élisabeth Roudinesco. 2001
« De quoi demain sera-t-il fait ? » interroge Victor Hugo. Un philosophe, une historienne répondent au long d'un dialogue…
serré, exigeant. Pourquoi ont-ils choisi de Rire ce livre ensemble ? En raison d'une longue amitié, au nom d'une histoire commune, en vertu de la qualité d'un débat qui n'a jamais cessé entre eux depuis qu'à la fin des années soixante la jeune étudiante découvrit l'importance de ce penseur de quinze ans son aîné qui, avec d'autres, réveillait l'esprit critique de toute une génération. Si les points de vue sont différents, l'héritage intellectuel est commun. Et c'est cet héritage qu'ils s'attachent à inventorier avant de circonscrire des enjeux majeurs de notre temps comment penser la différence dans l'universel ? La famille a-t-elle encore un avenir ? La liberté se réduira-t-elle demain pour l'homme à l'intelligibilité des contraintes qui pèsent sur lui, ou le désir et l'imprévisible auront-ils encore leur place ? Que nous dit la souffrance des animaux que nous massacrons ? La page de la révolution est-elle définitivement tournée après l'échec du communisme ? Est-il envisageable d'en finir une fois pour toutes avec la peine de mort ? Quelles seront demain les formes nouvelles de l'antisémitisme et comment les combattre ? L'échange s'achève sur un éloge de la psychanalyse, référence commune tout au long du dialogue.Guide des égarés
Par Jean D' Ormesson. 2016
Nous ne savons ni pourquoi nous sommes nés ni ce que nous devenons après la mort. Nous sommes tous des…
égarés. C'est à la question : Qu'est-ce que je fais là ? que s'efforce de répondre ce manuel de poche qui n'a pas d'autre ambition que de décrire avec audace, avec naïveté, avec gaieté ce monde peu vraisemblable où nous avons été jetés malgré nous et de fournir vaille que vaille quelques brèves indications sur les moyens d'en tirer à la fois un peu de plaisir et, s'il se peut, de hauteur. 2016.From the Gita to the grail: exploring yoga stories and western myths
Par Bernie Clark. 2014
Compares the myths of yoga to stories that have influenced Western culture, and explores how these spiritual stories can work…
at an unconscious level to provide road maps for navigating through modern life. 2014. A note on mythology -- An introduction to myths, maps and models -- The cosmological function: The creation of all things (creation myths) -- The magic of myth -- The sociological function: Living in accord with our neighbors -- The great cycles -- Varna, Dharma and Karma -- Boundaries -- The pyschological function: The arc of aging -- The goals of life -- The soul question -- Matter vs spirit -- The individual in society -- Myths for women -- Myths of love -- The mystical function: The horror of life -- Three characteristics of life -- Three attitudes towards life -- Aum in four syllables -- Mahayana Buddhism -- Tantra yoga (Tantric) -- Guru yoga -- Living with the mystical -- Transcending boundaries: going beyond your map.Janus: a summing up
Par Arthur Koestler. 1978
In this book, named after the Roman god who faced two ways, the author sums up his work over the…
past twenty-five years and indicates its continuity since he turned from politics to the sciences of life. He shows us man as a dual-faceted unique individual, who is yet part of a social group. Order comes when these two are in balance. The difference between this post-atomic world and the preceding centuries is our ability to cause death, not just individually but as a species. 1978.Intolerable: a memoir of extremes
Par Kamal Al-Solaylee. 2012
As a gay man living in an intolerant Middle East, Al-Solaylee escaped first to England and eventually to Canada, where…
he became a journalist and academic. While he was enjoying the cultural and personal freedoms of life in the West, his once-liberal family slowly fell into the hard-line interpretations of Islam that were sweeping large parts of the Arab-Muslim world in the 1980s and 1990s. The differences between his life and theirs were brought into sharp relief by the 2011 revolution in Egypt and the civil war in Yemen. Bestseller. Canada Reads 2015. 2012.Introduction to metaphysics
Par Martin Heidegger, Gregory Fried, Richard F H Polt. 2000
Heidegger's "Introduction to Metaphysics" is one of the most important works written by this figure of twentieth-century philosophy. The new…
translation aims to make this work more accessible including provision of conventional translations of Greek passages that Heidegger translated unconventionally. 2000. Uniform title: Einfuhrung in die Metaphysik.I am right - you are wrong: from this to the new Renaissance: from rock logic to water logic
Par Edward De Bono. 1990
In this major new perspective Edward de Bono, the classic lateral thinker, argues that traditional Western logic is rigid, stagnant…
and misled. He calls for a New Renaissance, in which the creative perception of the human mind is allowed to shape a new future. 1990.Hiding out: a memoir of drugs, deception, and double lives
Par Tina Alexis Allen. 2018
Tina Alexis Allen grew up in 1980s suburban Maryland in a house ruled by her stern father, Sir John, an…
imposing, British-born authoritarian who had been knighted by the Pope. When Sir John discovered Tina was attracted to women, he too revealed he was gay. Their second lives brought father and daughter closer, but little did Tina know, darker secrets lingered below the surface. 2018.Honor girl: [a graphic memoir]
Par Maggie Thrash. 2017
Maggie has spent basically every summer of her fifteen-year-old life at the one-hundred-year-old Camp Bellflower for Girls, set deep in…
the heart of Appalachia. She's from Atlanta, she's never kissed a guy, she's into Backstreet Boys, and her long summer days are full of a pleasant, peaceful nothing--until one confounding moment. A split-second of innocent physical contact pulls Maggie into a gut-twisting love for an older, wiser, and, most surprising of all (at least to Maggie), female counselor named Erin. But Camp Bellflower is an impossible place for a girl to fall in love with another girl. When it seems as if Erin maybe feels the same way about Maggie, it's too much for both Maggie and Camp Bellflower to handle--let alone understand. For senior high readers. 2017.Happiness: a history
Par Darrin M McMahon. 2006
Before therapy and self-help, the idea of happiness in this life was virtually unknown. McMahon looks back on 2,000 years…
of thought, from the plays of ancient Greece to the rhetoric of Rousseau and Jefferson, to examine texts that elucidate and confirm the development of Western notions of this elusive ideal. Some descriptions of sex. 2006.How to live: or, A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer
Par Sarah Bakewell. 2010
Explores the inner world of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne (1553-1592) by examining his essays and the social context in…
which they were written. Discusses twenty questions he posed about the art of living, which address topics like friendship, death, and travel. Nat'l Book Critics Circle Award. Some descriptions of sex. 2010.Heidegger (Fontana Modern Masters Ser.)
Par George Steiner. 1978
With characteristic lucidity and style, Steiner makes Heidegger's immensely difficult body of work accessible to the general reader. In a…
new introduction, Steiner addresses language and philosophy and the rise of Nazism. 1978.Gaia: a new look at life on Earth
Par James Lovelock. 2000
In this work Jim Lovelock puts forward his idea that life on earth functions as a single organism. Written for…
non-scientists, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the face of threats to its existence, the book explores the hypothesis that the earth's living matter, air, ocean, and land surfaces forms a complex system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life. Since Gaia was first published, many of Jim Lovelock's predictions have come true and his theory has become a hotly argued topic in scientific circles. In a new Preface to this reissued title, he outlines his present state of the debate. 2000.Freedom from the known
Par J Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens. 1983
The author shows how people can free themselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected, no matter what…
their age--opening the door to transforming society and their relationships. 1983.Forbidden knowledge: from Prometheus to pornography
Par Roger Shattuck. 1996
An inquiry into "dangerous knowledge" scientific and literary in Western civilization, along with ethical questions that are raised. Examines "forbidden"…
sources that range from folklore and myth to the writings of Marquis de Sade. Considers human conscience related to research such as the development of the atomic bomb. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex. c1996.Familiar spirits: a memoir of James Merrill and David Jackson
Par Alison Lurie. 2001
Novelist Alison Lurie reminisces about meeting American poet James Merrill (1926-1995) in his youth and becoming friends with him and…
his companion, David Jackson. Discusses their homosexuality, the importance of the Ouija board in their relationship, and their problems as they aged. 2001.Evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy (Princeton Classics Series)
Par Susan Neiman. 2002
Examines our understanding of evil from the Inquisition to contemporary terrorism. The author also posits that debating the nature of…
evil impelled modern philosophy, and eroded belief in God's benevolence, power, and relevance. Lastly, Neiman turns to consider philosophy's response to the Holocaust as a final moral evil. Some descriptions of violence. 2002.Existentialism and humanism
Par Philip Mairet, Jean-Paul Sartre. 1973
Sartre has laid the foundations for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, has been to relate his theory…
to human response and the practical demands of living. To this end, he has carried his concepts into his novels and plays. He has demonstrated the utility of Existentialist doctrine while creating works of high literary merit. 1973. Uniform title: Existentialisme est un humanisme.Essays and aphorisms
Par Arthur Schopenhauer, R J Hollingdale. 1970
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason…
but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, "Parerga and Paralipomena", which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. 1970. Uniform title: Parerga und Paralipomena