LIBROS DEL AUTOR: glenn wallis

8 resultados para LIBROS DEL AUTOR: glenn wallis

  • Nietzsche Now!
    Glenn Wallis
    For readers both acquainted with and new to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche NOW! frames and explains Nietzsche’s thinking on topics of immediate contemporary concern and relevance. Wallis unpacks Nietzsche’s complex philosophy with a deft, empathetic, and brilliantly subtle analysis of the views of the Great Immoralist on democracy, identity, civilization, consci...
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    16,26 €

  • Non Buddhist Mysticism
    Glenn Wallis
    In the enlivening tradition of the dramaturgy to 'adapt a story to actable form,' Non Buddhist Mysticism presents a radical reorientation to 'spiritual' practice. Drawing from François Laruelle’s concept of future mysticism and the author’s own previous work on non-buddhism, Glenn Wallis galvanizes a materialist spirituality for the twenty-first century. Liberated from the punc...
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    22,55 €

  • An Anarchist’s Manifesto
    Glenn Wallis
    Anarchism is commonly viewed as an outdated and wholly impractical idea. Worse, it has an accursed reputation for advocating chaos, violence, and destruction. The aim of An Anarchist’s Manifesto is to convince readers of the exact opposite: that anarchism is the most adaptive, humane, intelligent, singly inclusive proposal that we, as social animals, have ever envisioned. In th...
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    12,53 €

  • A Critique of Western Buddhism
    Glenn Wallis
    What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the 'real.'...
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    55,05 €

  • How to Fix Education
    Glenn Wallis / TBD
    What concrete actions might a change-minded teacher take? This is the question driving How to Fix Education.An uncanny anticipation fills the halls of American higher education today. It is the sense that a reckoning is coming. Whether it is the case that higher education is in the teeth of a catastrophic crisis or only headed in that direction, many college professors, adminis...
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    5,24 €

  • A Critique of Western Buddhism
    Glenn Wallis
    What are we to make of Western Buddhism? Glenn Wallis argues that in aligning their tradition with the contemporary wellness industry, Western Buddhists evade the consequences of Buddhist thought. This book shows that with concepts such as vanishing, nihility, extinction, contingency, and no-self, Buddhism, like all potent systems of thought, articulates a notion of the 'real.†...
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    193,56 €

  • Oration on the Dignity of Man
    Giovanni Pico della Mirandola / Charles Glenn Wallis
    The Oration on the Dignity of Man was written in 1486 by the then 23-year-old Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, as an introduction to a public debate he was planning to host in Rome the following year, to discuss with the scholars of his day and the leaders of the Catholic Church (who had near absolute power at the time) 900 theses of his own, on what he considered to be the most ...
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    7,01 €

  • Cruel Theory - Sublime Practice
    Glenn Wallis / Matthias Steingass / Tom Pepper
    ’Cruel Theory | Sublime Practice’ consists of three parts. Each part addresses both theoretical and practical dimensions of Buddhism. Authored individually, each part nonetheless interacts with the concerns of the others. Those concerns include the formation of an autonomous subject in the face of Buddhism’s concealment of its ideological force; the possibility of a practice th...
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    28,00 €