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A Hedonist Manifesto: The Power to Exist

By Joseph Mcclellan (trans)

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Hardcover:

9780231171267 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 10, 2015, cover price $35.00

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n' Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science

By Zoe Cormier

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Hardcover:

9780306823930 | Da Capo Pr, March 24, 2015, cover price $26.99

Paperback:

9781781252703, titled "Sex, Drugs & Rock N Roll: The Science of Hedonism and the Hedonism of Science" | Gardners Books, April 6, 2016, cover price $13.90

Plato's Anti-hedonism and the Protagoras

Product Description: Plato often rejects hedonism, but in the Protagoras, Plato's Socrates seems to endorse hedonism. In this book, J. Clerk Shaw removes this apparent tension by arguing that the Protagoras as a whole actually reflects Plato's anti-hedonism...read more

By J. Clerk Shaw

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9781107046658 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 2, 2015, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Plato often rejects hedonism, but in the Protagoras, Plato's Socrates seems to endorse hedonism.

The Birth of Hedonism: The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure As a Way of Life

Product Description: According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness. Aristippus wasn't convinced. Instead, he and his followers espoused the most radical form of hedonism in ancient Western philosophy...read more

By Kurt Lampe

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9780691161136 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 26, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: According to Xenophon, Socrates tried to persuade his associate Aristippus to moderate his excessive indulgence in wine, women, and food, arguing that only hard work can bring happiness.

Can Virtue Make Us Happy?: The Art of Living and Morality

Product Description: Can one be happy and free, and nonetheless be moral? This question occurs at the core of daily life and is, as well, a question as old as philosophy itself. In Can Virtue Make Us Happy? The Art of Living and Morality, Otfried Höffe, one of Europe’s most well-known philosophers, offers a far-reaching and foundational work in philosophical ethics...read more

By Douglas R. McGaughey (trans)

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9780810125452 | Northwestern Univ Pr, February 28, 2010, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Can one be happy and free, and nonetheless be moral?

Plato on Pleasure And the Good Life

Daniel Russell develops a fresh and original view of pleasure and its pivotal role in Plato's treatment of value, happiness, and human psychology. This is the first full-length discussion of the topic for fifty years, and Russell shows its relevance to contemporary debates in moral philosophy and philosophical psychology. Plato on Pleasure and the Good Life will make fascinating reading for ancient specialists and for a wide range of philosophers.

By Daniel C. Russell

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9780199282845 | Clarendon Pr, November 24, 2005, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Daniel Russell develops a fresh and original view of pleasure and its pivotal role in Plato's treatment of value, happiness, and human psychology.

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9780199229796 | Clarendon Pr, November 17, 2007, cover price $51.00

Pleasure and the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties and Plausibility of Hedonism

Product Description: Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories about "the Good Life." On this view, the Good Life is the pleasant life-- pleasure is the Good. Now Fred Feldman presents a careful, modern formulation of hedonism, defending the theory against some of the most important objections...read more

By Fred Feldman

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9780199265169 | Clarendon Pr, June 3, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories about 'the Good Life'.

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9780199297603, titled "Pleasure And the Good Life: Concerning the Nature, Varieties, And Plausibility of Hedonism" | Clarendon Pr, June 22, 2006, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: Since ancient times, hedonism has been one of the most attractive and controversial theories about "the Good Life.

The Hedonism Handbook: Mastering the Lost Arts of Leisure and Pleasure

Presents the advantages of a way of life aimed at increasing pleasure and minimizing pain, explains the benefits of enjoying unstressful leisure time, and discusses related historical developments and such topics as virtues and vices.

By Michael Flocker

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9780306814143 | Da Capo Pr, October 12, 2004, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Presents the advantages of a way of life aimed at increasing pleasure and minimizing pain, explains the benefits of enjoying unstressful leisure time, and discusses related historical developments and such topics as virtues and vices.

The Economic Valuation of the Environment and Public Policy: A Hedonic Approach

Product Description: The importance of the hedonic valuation approach in public policy evaluation and environmental value estimation is now widely accepted. This text is especially designed to illustrate the basic assumptions of the hedonic approach and highlight the strengths and weaknesses associated with it...read more

By Noboru Hidano

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9781843761686 | Edward Elgar Pub, April 1, 2003, cover price $127.00 | About this edition: The importance of the hedonic valuation approach in public policy evaluation and environmental value estimation is now widely accepted.

Socrates, Pleasure, and Value

Product Description: In the past quarter century, enormous philosophical attention has been paid to Plato's "Socratic" dialogues, as interpreters have sought to identify which dialogues are truly Socratic and interpret and defend the moral theories they find in those works...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By George Rudebusch

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9780195128550 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 19, 1999, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: In the past quarter century, enormous philosophical attention has been paid to Plato's "Socratic" dialogues, as interpreters have sought to identify which dialogues are truly Socratic and interpret and defend the moral theories they find in those works.

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9780195159615 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, November 7, 2002, cover price $38.95 | About this edition: In the past quarter century, enormous philosophical attention has been paid to Plato's "Socratic" dialogues, as interpreters have sought to identify which dialogues are truly Socratic and interpret and defend the moral theories they find in those works.

The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand: The Collected Sex Writings

Provides essays, anecdotes, interviews, and lectures on the link between sexuality and the mind and the author's view of the social and psychological attitudes about sex in the United States (view table of contents)

By Timothy Leary

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9781560251811 | Da Capo Pr, December 7, 1999, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Provides essays, anecdotes, interviews, and lectures on the link between sexuality and the mind and the author's view of the social and psychological attitudes about sex in the United States

Right Actions and Good Persons: Controversies Between Eudaimonistic and Deontic Moral Theories

Product Description: Deals with the contemporary ethical controversy between the "agent-centred" and "act-centred" approaches to moral theory. It discusses whether moral theory should focus on the good life of the agent or whether it should provide the criterion for right actions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Marjaana Kopperi

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9781840149029 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, May 1, 1999, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: Deals with the contemporary ethical controversy between the "agent-centred" and "act-centred" approaches to moral theory.

Hedonistic Utilitarianism

By Torbjorn Tannsjo

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9780748610426 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $165.00

Utilitarianism, Hedonism, and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy

Product Description: Fred Feldman has made a substantial contribution to utilitarian moral philosophy. In this collection, ten previously published essays plus a new introductory essay reveal the striking originality and unity of his views. Feldman's utilitarianism differs from traditional forms in that it evaluates behavior by appeal to the values of accessible worlds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Fred Feldman

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9780521591553 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $73.99 | About this edition: Fred Feldman has made a substantial contribution to utilitarian moral philosophy.

Paperback:

9780521598422, titled "Utilitarianism, Hedonism and Desert: Essays in Moral Philosophy" | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1997, cover price $69.99

Values and Economic Theory: The Case of Hedonism

Product Description: This study aims to show that, contrary to popular belief, hedonism has played a central and continuous role in the development of economic theory. The work starts with a brief discussion of the nature and meaning of hedonism. This is supplemented with a short examination of the origins of hedonistic ideas...read more

By S. A. Drakopoulos

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9781856282000 | Avebury, September 1, 1991, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: This study aims to show that, contrary to popular belief, hedonism has played a central and continuous role in the development of economic theory.

The Hedonics of Taste

Product Description: A study of hedonism could conceivably operate on a massive scale. This book, however, concentrates specifically on the hedonics of taste. The editor notes some important reasons for limiting the argument in this manner. First of all, this is an area of hedonics in which a handful of experimenters continued to do research during a period when hedonism might have been lost altogether...read more

By Robert C. Bolles (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780805803662 | Psychology Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $90.00

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9781138876019 | Reprint edition (Psychology Pr, July 31, 2015), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: A study of hedonism could conceivably operate on a massive scale.

Troubled Pleasures: Writings on Politics, Gender and Hedonism

By Kate Soper

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Hardcover:

9780860913139 | Verso Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $59.95

Paperback:

9780860915362 | Verso Books, March 1, 1991, cover price $20.00

Qualitative Utilitarianism

Product Description: This text offers an interpretation of John Stuart Mill's ethical theory, Qualitatively-Hedonistic Utilitarianism, as well as a discussion, analysis and solution of problems that have arisen in the theory since the initial publication of Utilitarianism in 1861...read more

By Daniel Holbrook

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9780819169884 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1988, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This text offers an interpretation of John Stuart Mill's ethical theory, Qualitatively-Hedonistic Utilitarianism, as well as a discussion, analysis and solution of problems that have arisen in the theory since the initial publication of Utilitarianism in 1861.

Paperback:

9780819169891 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 1, 1988, cover price $26.99 | About this edition: This text offers an interpretation of John Stuart Mill's ethical theory, Qualitatively-Hedonistic Utilitarianism, as well as a discussion, analysis and solution of problems that have arisen in the theory since the initial publication of Utilitarianism in 1861.

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