Author: David Loy
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: philosophy, comparative, study, nonduality
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1997-11
List price: $32.98
ISBN-10: 1573923591
ISBN-13: 9781573923590

Many Western philosophers are poorly informed about the issues involved in nonduality, since this topic is usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West, or mystical traditions in the East. Increasingly, however, this topic is finding its way into Western philosophical debates. In this "scholarly but leisurely and very readable" (Spectrum Review) analysis of the philosophies of nondualism of (Hindu) Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, and Taoism, Loy, who is a Zen practitioner, extracts what he calls "a core doctrine" of nonduality of seer and seen from these three worldview

Author: Carolyn Merchant
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: second, ecology
Number of Pages: 436
Published: 2008-03-11
List price: $25.98
ISBN-10: 1591025788
ISBN-13: 9781591025788

As we survey the negative effects of modernism--environmental destruction, the net consumption of irreplaceable natural resources, the ever-widening gulf between first and third worlds--we are forced to grapple with the consequences of the domination of nature by human beings. Clearly, for the earth and its peoples to survive, new ways of thinking about the human relationship to nature are needed.The readings gathered in this popular reader join these issues with critical theory to examine the ongoing struggle to rediscover the nature within human beings and to reconnect it with

Authors:John R. Shook, Paul Kurtz,
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: naturalism, future
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2009-07-28
List price: $28.98
ISBN-10: 1591027314
ISBN-13: 9781591027317

Naturalism is widely regarded as the dominant philosophical worldview in the West. The prestige of science and the power of technology have driven naturalism to prominence, even as deep questions mount on all sides.In this volume of all new essays, prominent philosophers consider a wide variety of challenges to naturalism, proposing improved defenses and novel developments in this influential worldview. Some essays question whether naturalism is a unified philosophy, and try to determine how one or another variety of naturalism has an advantage. Other essays defend naturalism’s approache

Authors:Omar Dahbour, Micheline R. Ishay,
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: reader, nationalism
Number of Pages: 383
Published: 1995-03
List price: $28.98
ISBN-10: 157392623X
ISBN-13: 9781573926232

Author: Emma Goldman
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: emma, reader, goldman, speaks, red
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1996-05
List price: $29.98
ISBN-10: 1573924644
ISBN-13: 9781573924641

Unlike any other collection of Goldman’s work, RED EMMA SPEAKS presents in a single, handy volume the full sweep of her opinions and personality. In addition to nine essays from Goldman’s own 1910 collection ANARCHISM AND OTHER ESSAYS, three dramatic sections from her 1931 autobiography LIVING MY LIFE, and the Afterword to her MY DISILLUSIONMENT IN RUSSIA (which the collapse of the Soviet Union has revealed as prescient), this book contains sixteen more pieces covering a great range of subjects, assembled here for the first time to offer a rich composite of Goldman’s life an

Author: Herbert Marcuse
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: social, theory, rise, hegel, revolution, reason
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 1999-03
List price: $28.98
ISBN-10: 157392718X
ISBN-13: 9781573927185

"Dr. Marcuse’s book deserves a warm welcome. It is the first coherent and sympathetic account in English for many years past of what a great and original thinker set out to do." -- The Times Literary Supplement It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insights endure. Such is the case with Herbert Marcuse’s REASON AND REVOLUTION. When this study first appeared in 1940, it was acclaimed for its profound and undistorted reading of Hegel’s social and political theory. As its man

Author: William Throop
Publisher: Humanity Books
Keywords: series, flashpoints, restoration, environmental
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-04
List price: $29.98
ISBN-10: 1573928186
ISBN-13: 9781573928182

The natural environment is increasingly encroached upon by human interests, often in pursuit of commercial goals. Mining, logging, and other pursuits that involve physical extraction from the land, as well as development, waste management, and pollution all take their toll. One argument often heard in support of activities that affect the natural environment is that of restoration: Once the land has served its commercial purpose, the natural space would be restored to its former state. Environmental Restoration outlines philosophical perspectives on the rapidly growing practice of