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  • Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

    by Julia T. Meszaros ...
    Series series Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
    In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD

  • Economies of Gender

    Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women’s Labor

    by Julia H. Meszaros ...
    Series series Politics of Marriage and Gender: Global Issues in Local Contexts
    Economies of Gender: Masculinity, "Mail Order Brides," and Women's Labor offers a provocative exploration of the international dating industry, challenging simplistic narratives of human trafficking and scams while shedding light on the economic dynamics of gender. Through twelve years of fieldwork, the book delves into the motivations and experiences of men who seek relationships abroad, driven ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Love as Common Ground

    Essays on Love in Religion

    by Minlib Dallh, Oliver Davies, Mircea Dumitru, Smilen Markov, Julia T. Meszaros, Louise Nelstrop, Melissa Raphael, Naftali Rothenberg, Paul Weller, Eleanor McLaughlin, Leyla H. Tajer0, H.R.H. Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal1, Paul S. Fiddes2, Werner G. Jeanrond4 ...
    This book explores the way in which the study and practice of love creates a common ground for different faiths and different traditions within the same faith. For the contributors, “common ground” in this context is not a minimal core of belief or a lowest common denominator of faith, but a space or area in which to live together, consider together the meaning of the love to which various faiths ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    by Anthony Stevens ...
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  • Very Important People

    Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit

    by Ashley Mears ...
    A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of menMillion-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Riviera, and $40,000 bottles of champagne. In today's New Gilded Age, the world's moneyed classes have taken conspicuous consumption to new extremes. In ... Read more

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  • Wittgenstein

    A Very Short Introduction

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist reader, A. C. Grayling explains the nature and impact of Wittgenstein's views. He describes both his early and later philosophy, the differences ... Read more

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  • Women of Color and Feminism

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    by Maythee Rojas ...
    In this Seal Studies title, author and professor Maythee Rojas offers a look at the intricate crossroads of being a woman of color. Women of Color and Feminism tackles the question of how women of color experience feminism, and how race and socioeconomics can alter this experience. Rojas explores the feminist woman of color's identity and how it relates to mainstream culture and feminism. ... Read more

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  • Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path

    A Philosophy of Freedom (CW 4)

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by Michael Lipson ...
    Series series Anthroposophy
    Written in 1894 (CW 4)"The realms of life are many. For each, specific sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more the sciences busily immerse themselves in separate realms, the farther they move away from seeing the living wholeness of the world. There must be a kind of knowing that seeks, in the separate sciences, the elements that lead human beings back to full life again. A ... Read more

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  • The Sovereignty of Good

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    Series series Routledge Great Minds
    Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This brilliant work shows ... Read more

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  • Illicit Flirtations

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    by Rhacel Parreñas ...
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  • The Great Philosophers:Heidegger

    by Jonathan Rée ...
    'The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking' Heidegger'We should never allow our fears of the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny'Martin Heidegger was one of the most controversial philosophers of the 20th century, and still causes widespread division. Born in Germany, he was concerned with what makes beings intelligible ... Read more

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