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9781412863131 | Transaction Pub, June 30, 2016, cover price $69.95
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9780415822923 | Routledge, May 6, 2014, cover price $160.00
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9780199348169 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 13, 2013, cover price $53.00
Product Description: René Girard shows that all desires are contagiousâand the desire to be thin is no exception. In this compelling new book, Girard ties the anorexia epidemic to what he calls mimetic desire: a desire imitated from a model. Girard has long argued that, far from being spontaneous, our most intimate desires are copied from what we see around us...read more
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9781611860870 | Michigan State Univ Pr, October 1, 2013, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: René Girard shows that all desires are contagiousâand the desire to be thin is no exception.
The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London Universityâs School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion. They revolve around the intersection of two ideas, nothingness and desire, as they apply to a re-examination of the questions of self, God, morality, property, and the East-West philosophical divide.Rather than attempt to harmonize East and West philosophies into a single chorus, Heisig undertakes what he calls a âphilosophical antiphony.â Through the simple call-and-response of a few representative voices, Heisig tries to join the choir on both sides of the antiphony to relate the questions at hand to larger problems that press on the human community. He argues that as problems like the technological devastation of the natural world, the shrinking of elected governance through the expanding powers of financial institutions, and the expropriation of alternate cultures of health and education spread freely through traditional civilizations across the world, religious and philosophical responses can no longer afford to remain territorial in outlook. Although the lectures often stress the importance of practice, their principal preoccupation is with seeing the things of life more clearly. Heisig explains: âBy that I mean not just looking more closely at objects that come into my line of view from day to day, but seeing them as mirrors in which I can see myself reflected. Things do not just reveal parts of the world to me; they also tell me something of how I see what I see, and who it is that does the seeing. To listen to what things have to say to me, I need to break with the habit of thinking simply that it is I who mirror inside of myself the world outside and process what I have captured to make my way through life. Only when this habit has been broken will I be able to start seeing through the reflections, to scrape the tain off the mirror, as it were, so that it becomes a window to the things of life as they are, with only a pale reflection of myself left on the pane. Everything seen through the looking glass, myself included, becomes an image on which reality has stamped itself. This, I am persuaded, is the closest we can come to a ground for thinking reasonably and acting as true-to-life as we can.â
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9780824838850 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, August 31, 2013, cover price $49.00
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9780824838867 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, August 31, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The six lectures that make up this book were delivered in March 2011 at London Universityâs School of Oriental and Asian Studies as the Jordan Lectures on Comparative Religion.
Product Description: A philosophical analysis of the work of one of the most iconoclastic thinkers in Chinese history, Li Zhi, whose ethics prized spontaneous expression of genuine feelings. Li Zhi (1527â1602) was a bestselling author with a devoted readership...read more
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9781438439273 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 2012, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Li Zhi (1527-1602) was a bestselling author with a devoted readership.
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9781438439266 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2013, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A philosophical analysis of the work of one of the most iconoclastic thinkers in Chinese history, Li Zhi, whose ethics prized spontaneous expression of genuine feelings.
Product Description: Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself. This book reconstructs the account of desire latent in his various scattered remarks on the subject and analyses its role in his moral psychology...read more
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9781107023918 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2012, cover price $104.99 | About this edition: Desire is a central concept in Aristotle's ethical and psychological works, but he does not provide us with a systematic treatment of the notion itself.
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9780230294097 | Palgrave Macmillan, August 15, 2011, cover price $105.00
Product Description: One of the most persistent and poignant human experiences is the sensation of longingâa restlessness perhaps best described as the unspoken conviction that something is missing from our lives. In this study, Drew M. Dalton attempts to illuminate this experience by examining the philosophical thought of Emmanuel Levinas on longing, or what Levinas terms âmetaphysical desire...read more
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9780820704258 | Duquesne Univ Pr, November 30, 2009, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: One of the most persistent and poignant human experiences is the sensation of longingâa restlessness perhaps best described as the unspoken conviction that something is missing from our lives.
Product Description: The nature and meaning of desire in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work have thus far received little attention in Rousseau scholarship. Rousseau and Desire is the first examination of the eighteenth-century philosopher's conceptualization of desire in relation to his understanding of modernity...read more
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9781442640412 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 30, 2009, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: The nature and meaning of desire in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's work have thus far received little attention in Rousseau scholarship.
Product Description: What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules...read more
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9780804748926 | Stanford Univ Pr, September 15, 2004, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus?
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9780195172379 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 12, 2004, cover price $61.00
Product Description: First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415919562 | Routledge, December 1, 1999, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: First published in 2000.
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9780415919579 | Routledge, May 1, 2000, cover price $43.95 | About this edition: First published in 2000.
An IrishCatholic scholar and poet continues his trilogy of books rooted in ancient Celtic religion that explores the spiritual longing for belonging and its relationship to religion, suffering, loss, love, and hope for future happiness. Reprint.
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9780788192999 | Diane Pub Co, April 1, 1999, cover price $25.00
9780060182809 | Cliff Street Books, January 1, 1999, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The author continues his trilogy of books rooted in ancient Celtic religion in a work that explores the spiritual longing for belonging and its relationship to religion, suffering, loss, love, and hope for future happiness
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9780060955588 | Reprint edition (Perennial, April 1, 2000), cover price $13.99 | About this edition: The author continues his trilogy of books rooted in ancient Celtic religion in a work that explores the spiritual longing for belonging and its relationship to religion, suffering, loss, love, and hope for future happiness.
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9781564556783 | Sounds True, March 1, 1999, cover price $18.95
This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to his metaphysics and view of the subject and revealed ambiguities within his position. (view table of contents)
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9780231064507 | Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 1987, cover price $63.50 | About this edition: This now classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the trajectory of desire and its genesis from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit through its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault, presenting how French reception of Hegel posed successive challenges to his metaphysics and view of the subject and revealed ambiguities within his position.
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9780231064514 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1999), cover price $28.00
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9780415129510, titled "Getting What You Want?: A Critique of Liberal Morality" | Routledge, February 1, 1998, cover price $105.00
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9780415129527 | Routledge, June 1, 1998, cover price $39.95
Product Description: Does action always arise out of desire? G.F. Schueler examines this hotly debated topic in philosophy of action and moral philosophy, arguing that once two senses of "desire" are distinguished -- roughly, genuine desires and pro attitudes -- apparently plausible explanations of action in terms of the agent's desires can be seen to be mistaken...read more
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9780262193559 | Bradford Books, February 6, 1995, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Does action always arise out of desire?
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9780025002814 | Macmillan Pub Co, October 1, 1991, cover price $22.95
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9781604190465 | Axios Pr, January 16, 2012, cover price $12.00
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