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  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    The New Translation

    de Ludwig Wittgenstein ...
    Traducido por Alexander Booth ...
    Series series
    One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century'The final philosopher to perform the most profound surgery on philosophy ... concise yet exceptionally clear' Ai WeiweiWidely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a succinct yet wide-ranging ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Once upon a Time in the West

    Essays on the Politics of Thought and Imagination

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    Western civilization is over. So begins Jan Zwicky’s trenchant exploration of the root of global cultural and ecological collapse: a way of thinking that is also linked to some of the West’s most noted achievements.The Renaissance merged imperial enterprise with Islamic algebra and recently recovered Greek mathematics to precipitate mechanized industry and resource extraction; these in turn made ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Experience of Meaning

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Jan Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations, providing examples of such insight in mathematics and physics, literature, music, and Plato's ancient theory of forms. Taken together, these essays constitute a powerful indictment of the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Experience of Meaning

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    The aim of this book is a recovery of interest in the experience of meaning. Jan Zwicky defends the claim that we experience meaning in the apprehension of wholes and their internal structural relations, providing examples of such insight in mathematics and physics, literature, music, and Plato's ancient theory of forms. Taken together, these essays constitute a powerful indictment of the ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Alkibiades' Love

    Essays in Philosophy

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    Alkibiades, a central character in Plato's Symposium, claims that philosophy touches him to the quick. When Socrates speaks, he's often moved to tears and realizes he must change his life. In Alkibiades' Love, Jan Zwicky demonstrates that this image of philosophy is not anachronistic, but remains the living heart of the discipline. Philosophy can indeed matter to our lives, but for it to do so, we ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields

    de Carol Shields ...
    Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General’s Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of Carol Shields includes three previously published collections and over eighty unpublished poems, ranging from the early 1970s to Shields’s death in ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • The Shape of Content

    Creative Writing in Mathematics and Science

    Edición de Chandler Davis, Marjorie Senechal, Jan Zwicky ...
    This book is a collection of creative pieces-poems, short stories, essays, play excerpts-that give shape to mathematical and scientific content. This book portrays by example how various people work creatively with ideas from mathematics and other sciences. Creative writing about the content of mathematics and science is rare, and creative writing ... Leer más

    $77.99 USD

  • Alkibiades' Love

    Essays in Philosophy

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    Alkibiades, a central character in Plato's Symposium, claims that philosophy touches him to the quick. When Socrates speaks, he's often moved to tears and realizes he must change his life. In Alkibiades' Love, Jan Zwicky demonstrates that this image of philosophy is not anachronistic, but remains the living heart of the discipline. Philosophy can indeed matter to our lives, but for it to do so, we ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Songs For Relinquishing the Earth

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky’s experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario. ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Robinson's Crossing

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    The poems in this book arise from Robinson’s Crossing — the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on foot. How have we crossed into this country, with what violence and what blind love? Robinson’s Crossing enacts the pause at the frontier, where we reflect on the realities of colonial experience, but ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Chamber Music

    The Poetry of Jan Zwicky

    de Jan Zwicky ...
    Series Libro 22 - Laurier Poetry
    Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the first anthology of Zwicky’s poems, one may perceive the attunement of her vocations: poet, philosopher, violinist. Her poetry both praises and relinquishes the earth, bearing witness to the fierce skies ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

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  • Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent

    de Liz Howard ...
    **Winner of the 2016 Griffin Poetry PrizeA stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our contemporary world.**In Liz Howard’s wild, scintillating debut, the mechanisms we use to make sense of our worlds – even our direct intimate experiences of it – come under constant scrutiny and a pressure that feels like love. What Howard can accomplish with ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD