Random House New Releases - Philosophy - Phenomenology

The Arithmetic of Life and Death by George Shaffner

2010-12-15T00:30:00-05:00

The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Written by George Shaffner

eBook | Ballantine Books | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Philosophy - Pragmatism; Philosophy - Logic | $13.99 | 978-0-307-77574-0 (0-307-77574-7)

Whether you realize it or not, numbers are everywhere--and integral to almost every facet of your life . . . from your next raise in pay to the inevitable rise of inflation, your weekly family budget to your end of the national debt. And as George Shaffner amazingly reveals, there are discerning answers (and a great measure of comfort) in numbers. In The Arithmetic of Life, he applies the basic principles of mathematics--addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division--to some of the most profound and just plain puzzling questions of our time.

Illuminated with anecdotes, humor, and insight, each chapter explains a unique part of life that can be understood only through the magic of numbers. Whether it's an unconventional theory on why more things go wrong than right, a simple calculation of how much it will cost you to smoke for a lifetime, why crime (accumulatively) doesn't pay, or a glimpse into the probability of life after death, this enlightening and lucidly reasoned book will forever change the way you think about numbers--and the world around you.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Heidegger For Beginners by Paul Gordon

2007-08-21T00:30:00-05:00

Heidegger For Beginners
Written by Eric Charles Lemay and Jennifer A. Pitts
Illustrated by Paul Gordon

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | For Beginners | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Biography & Autobiography - Philosophers | $16.99 | 978-1-934389-13-3 (1-934389-13-7)

The ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger have been described as an intellectual time bomb, as some of the most revolutionary thought in western history. Despite the enormous amount of secondary scholarship available on Heidegger, it is–due to the complexity of his thought and the density of his writing–difficult for the curious beginner to gain an insight into Heidegger’s philosophy. Heidegger For Beginners serves as an entry into the ideas of one of the 20th century’s most important thinkers, situating Heidegger’s thought within its philosophical and historical context–alongside such thinkers as Plato, Descartes, Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl and Sartre. Heidegger For Beginners explicates many of Heidegger’s central ideas, including the Nothing, average everydayness, care, existence, be-in-the-world, the One, the critique of technology, anxiety, and most importantly, Being–a notion which may offer us the key to understanding the very mystery of our own existence.

The Compassionate Brain by Gerald H�ther

2006-06-13T00:30:00-05:00

The Compassionate Brain A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential
Written by Gerald H�ther

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Trumpeter | Science - Cognitive Science; Philosophy - Phenomenology; Psychology & Psychiatry - Neuropsychology | $18.95 | 978-1-59030-330-6 (1-59030-330-X)

Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity.

The brain, according to current research, is not some kind of automatic machine that works independently of its user. In fact, the circuitry of the brain actually changes according to how one uses it. Our brains are continuously developing new capacities and refinements—or losing them, depending upon how we use them. Gerald Hüther takes us on a fascinating tour of the brain's development—from one-celled organisms to worms, moles, apes, and on to us humans—showing how we truly are what we think: our behavior directly affects our brain capacity. And the behavior that promotes the fullest development of the brain is behavior that balances emotion and intellect, dependence and autonomy, openness and focus, and ultimately expresses itself in such virtues as truthfulness, considerateness, sincerity, humility, and love.

Hüther's user's-manual approach is humorous and engaging, with a minimum of technical language, yet the book's message is profound: the fundamental nature of our brains and nervous systems naturally leads to our continued growth in intelligence and humanity.

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Alfred Denker

2003-09-01T00:30:00-05:00

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit New Critical Essays
Edited by Alfred Denker

Trade Paperback, 359 pages | Humanity Books | Philosophy - Modern; Philosophy - Phenomenology | $39.99 | 978-1-59102-056-1 (1-59102-056-5)

Hegel's first major philosophical work is one of philosophy's true masterpieces. Despite its notorious difficulty, it is one of the most influential philosophical works ever written. The Phenomenology is not only the first presentation of Hegel's system; it also is an account of the historical development of Geist (spirit or mind) from Greek tragedy to the triumph of philosophy as science in Hegel's own time.

This volume of essays offers an interpretation of the spirit of Hegel's Phenomenology as well as a concise reading of the main text. It discusses also the historical and philosophical background of Hegel's main work and takes note of its reception. Since the essays were written by philosophers from different countries—both established Hegel scholars and promising young researchers—this volume presents the reader with an international overview of recent Hegel research.

The main goal of the collection is to offer students a hermeneutical tool for the reading of Hegel's masterpiece while opening up new fields of research for those who know Hegel and German philosophy well.

The contributors are Christoph Asmuth, Klaus Brinkmann, Paul Cobben, Alfred Denker, Richard Findler, Jeffery Kinlaw, Angelica Nuzzo, Tom Rockmore, Dale Snow, Mike Vater, Ludovicus De Vos, Robert Williams, and Holger Zaborowski.

The Arithmetic of Life and Death by George Shaffner

2001-05-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Written by George Shaffner

Trade Paperback, 220 pages | Ballantine Books | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Philosophy - Pragmatism; Philosophy - Logic | $15.00 | 978-0-345-42645-1 (0-345-42645-2)

Equality and Diversity by Michael D. Barber

2001-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

Equality and Diversity Phenomenological Investigations of Prejudice and Discrimination
Written by Michael D. Barber

Hardcover, 296 pages | Humanity Books | Philosophy - Phenomenology | $56.99 | 978-1-57392-651-5 (1-57392-651-5)

Examples of prejudice against Jews, women, African-Americans, and other minority groups are reported almost daily by the media. Despite educational programs to counteract prejudicial attitudes, this seemingly intractable problem remains an ongoing concern, not only in the United States but throughout the world. It is an interesting and often overlooked fact that the subject of prejudice was the focus of major works by three prominent philosophers in the phenomenological tradition, works that still offer many insights into contemporary attempts to understand this social problem: Jean-Paul Sartre's Anti-Semite and Jew, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, and Alfred Schutz's essay "Equality and the Meaning Structure of the Social World." Michael Barber examines this striking convergence of interests by these three philosophers and explores the significance of phenomenology for analyzing prejudice as expressed in anti-Semitism, sexism, and racism.

Part One first examines Edmund Husserl's highly abstract use of the term "prejudice" and then considers how Sartre, de Beauvoir, and Schutz applied their own unique modifications of Husserl's phenomenological system to various manifestations of prejudice. In their writings, Barber uncovers a dialectic between a modernist concern for equality and a postmodernist fear of the suppression of "alterity"—the distinctive qualities of the groups against whom prejudice is directed. In Part Two Barber articulates a theoretical system of ethics that is innovative in reconciling the very different ethical perspectives of Karl-Otto Apel and Emmanuel Levinas. The book concludes by drawing on this unique synthesis to provide an ethical warrant for affirmative action, illuminating the unacknowledged presuppositions at play in debates over this issue.

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

1994-04-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Poetics of Space
Written by Gaston Bachelard

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Beacon Press | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Philosophy - Mind & Body; House & Home | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-6473-3 (0-8070-6473-4)

A magical book. . . . A prism through which all worlds from literary creation to housework to aesthetics to carpentry take on enhanced-and enchanted-significances. Every reader of it will never see ordinary spaces in ordinary ways. Instead the reader will see with the soul of the eye, the glint of Gaston Bachelard. -from the foreword by John R. Stilgoe

Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana

1992-03-31T00:30:00-05:00

Tree of Knowledge
Written by Humberto R. Maturana

Trade Paperback | Shambhala | Psychology & Psychiatry - Cognitive Psychology; Philosophy - Phenomenology; Social Science - Essays | $29.95 | 978-0-87773-642-4 (0-87773-642-1)

"Knowing how we know" is the subject of this book. Its authors present a new view of cognition that has important social and ethical implications, for, they assert, the only world we humans can have is the one we create together through the actions of our coexistence. Written for a general audience as well as for students, scholars, and scientists and abundantly illustrated with examples from biology, linguistics, and new social and cultural phenomena, this revised edition includes a new afterword by Dr. Varela, in which he discusses the effect the book has had in the years since its first publication.

The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard

1987-01-30T00:30:00-05:00

The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Written by Gaston Bachelard

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | Beacon Press | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Philosophy - Mind & Body; Philosophy - Language | $19.00 | 978-0-8070-6461-0 (0-8070-6461-0)

The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard

1971-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

The Poetics of Reverie
Written by Gaston Bachelard

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Beacon Press | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Philosophy - Mind & Body; Philosophy - Essays | $22.00 | 978-0-8070-6413-9 (0-8070-6413-0)

Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss

1971-06-01T00:30:00-05:00

Totemism
Written by Claude Levi-Strauss

Trade Paperback, 128 pages | Beacon Press | Philosophy - Phenomenology; Philosophy - Movements - Structuralism; Body, Mind & Spirit | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-4671-5 (0-8070-4671-X)

Random House New Releases - Philosophy - Phenomenology

The Arithmetic of Life and Death by George Shaffner

The Arithmetic of Life and Death Written by George Shaffner

Heidegger For Beginners by Paul Gordon

Heidegger For Beginners Written by Eric Charles Lemay and Jennifer A. Pitts Illustrated by Paul Gordon

The Compassionate Brain by Gerald H�ther

The Compassionate Brain A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full PotentialWritten by Gerald H�ther

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit by Alfred Denker

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit New Critical EssaysEdited by Alfred Denker

The Arithmetic of Life and Death by George Shaffner

The Arithmetic of Life and Death Written by George Shaffner

Equality and Diversity by Michael D. Barber

Equality and Diversity Phenomenological Investigations of Prejudice and DiscriminationWritten by Michael D. Barber

The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Space Written by Gaston Bachelard

Tree of Knowledge by Humberto R. Maturana

Tree of Knowledge Written by Humberto R. Maturana

The Psychoanalysis of Fire by Gaston Bachelard

The Psychoanalysis of Fire Written by Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Reverie by Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Reverie Written by Gaston Bachelard

Totemism by Claude Levi-Strauss

Totemism Written by Claude Levi-Strauss

The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Written by George Shaffner

Heidegger For Beginners
Written by Eric Charles Lemay and Jennifer A. Pitts
Illustrated by Paul Gordon

The Compassionate Brain A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential
Written by Gerald H�ther

Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit New Critical Essays
Edited by Alfred Denker

The Arithmetic of Life and Death
Written by George Shaffner

Equality and Diversity Phenomenological Investigations of Prejudice and Discrimination
Written by Michael D. Barber

The Poetics of Space
Written by Gaston Bachelard

Tree of Knowledge
Written by Humberto R. Maturana

The Psychoanalysis of Fire
Written by Gaston Bachelard

The Poetics of Reverie
Written by Gaston Bachelard

Totemism
Written by Claude Levi-Strauss