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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
Sam Harris
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith. This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend...
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Charles Seife
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thought The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend...
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The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
David Abram
Vintage
Vintage
David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural...
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The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
Julian Jaynes
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still...
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Phenomenology of Perception (Routledge Classics)
Merleau-Ponty
Routledge
Routledge
Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first time since Plato.
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The Courage to Be
Paul Tillich
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
In this classic and deeply insightful book, one of the world's most eminent philosophers describes the dilemma of modern man and points a way to the conquest of the problem of anxiety. This edition includes a new introduction by Peter J. Gomes that...
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The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
Louis Menand
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members...
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