Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: passionate, life, versus, thin, philosophy, thinking, joy
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-03-27
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0195165403
ISBN-13: 9780195165401

The Joy of Philosophy is a return to some of the perennial questions of philosophy--questions about the meaning of life; about death and tragedy; about the respective roles of rationality and passion in the good life; about love, compassion, and revenge; about honesty, deception, and betrayal; and about who we are and how we think about who we are. Recapturing the heart-felt confusion and excitement that originally brings us all to philosophy, internationally renowned teacher and lecturer Robert C. Solomon offers both a critique of contemporary philosophy and an invitation to engage in philoso

Author: Robert Solomon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: money
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-01-11
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 0691004447
ISBN-13: 9780691004440

The international monetary system has changed radically in the last twenty years. Capital, information, goods, and services move around the globe with unprecedented ease. Countries from the former communist bloc have joined the system. Europe is on the verge of monetary union. Financial crises in East Asia and Mexico have rocked the world economy. In this book, Robert Solomon--author of the definitive history of the monetary order between 1945 and 1981--presents the first comprehensive history of these and other aspects of this revolution in international finance. Authoritative, accessible, an

Author: Solomon Robert
Publisher: Kaplan Busine
Keywords: service, client, art
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-04-25
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 079316799X
ISBN-13: 9780793167999

With brevity, levity, and clarity, Robert Solomon, a well-respected advertising executive, has written a definitive and practical resource for advertising and marketing account executives. Writers, planners, researchers, and production supervisors will benefit as well from his down-to-earth advice on the care and feeding of the advertising client. Account management is more art than science, requiring a wide-ranging arsenal of talents and skills. At times acting as psychologist, orchestra conductor, or lion tamer, the advertising account executive must be creative and versatile enough to devel

Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: leads, corporate, success, integrity, personal, think, business, way
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 1999-05-20
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0195112385
ISBN-13: 9780195112382

Is business ethics a contradiction in terms? Absolutely not, says Robert Solomon. In fact, he maintains that sound ethics is a necessary precondition of any long-term business enterprise, and that excellence in business must exist on the foundation of values that most of us hold dear. Drawing on twenty years of experience consulting with major corporations on ethics, Solomon clarifies the difficult ethical choices all people in business are faced with from time to time. He takes an "Aristotelian" approach to ethical questions, reminding readers that a corporation--like an individual--is emb

Author: Robert Solomon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: choice, emotions, slave, passion
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-01-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0195145496
ISBN-13: 9780195145496

Not Passion’s Slave is a collection of Solomon’s most significant essay-length publications on the nature of emotions over the past twenty-five years. He develops two essential themes throughout the volume: firstly, he presents a "cognitive" theory of emotions in which emotions are construed primarily as evaluative judgments; secondly, he proposes an "existentialist" perspective in which he defends the idea that we are responsible for our emotions and, in a limited sense, "choose" them. The final section presents his current philosophical position on the seeming "passivity

Author: Robert Solomon
Publisher: Kaplan Publishing
Keywords: marketing, professional, revised, updated, amp, advertising, client, service, things, art
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1427796718
ISBN-13: 9781427796714

If you work with clients in any industry, The Art of Client Service is for you. If you work in an advertising or marketing agency, then this book is indispensable.Distilling decades of experience, advertising executive Robert Solomon has compiled the definitive resource for advertising and marketing account executives: a fast-reading, pocket-size, actionable checklist of 58 essential ideas to help client service professionals improve their account management strategy and skills. Now fully updated and revised, The Art of Client Service is geared to the entire account team -- copy writers, art d

Author: Robert C. Solomon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: life, passionate, sentimentality, defense
Number of Pages: 318
Published: 2004-08-26
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 019514550X
ISBN-13: 9780195145502

Philosophy has as much to do with feelings as it does with thoughts and thinking. Philosophy, accordingly, requires not only emotional sensitivity but an understanding of the emotions, not as curious but marginal psychological phenomena but as the very substance of life. In this, the second book in a series devoted to his work on the emotions, Robert Solomon presents a defense of the emotions and of sentimentality against the background of what he perceives as a long history of abuse in philosophy and social thought and art and literary criticism. The title piece reopens a classic debate about