"This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today's globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddha's vision of human flourishing"--Amazon.com. "Some twenty-five centuries afte…
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"This original and provocative book presents a new framework for understanding the remarkable spread of Buddhism in today's globalized world. It also reminds us of what was so startling about the Buddha's vision of human flourishing"--Amazon.com. "Some twenty-five centuries aft…
"Some twenty-five centuries after the Buddha started teaching, his message continues to inspire people across the globe, including those living in predominantly secular societies. What does it mean to adapt religious practices to secular contexts? Stephen Batchelor, an internati…
The author assesses the role of alientation in the philosophy of Marx, looks at the social production of personality, and discusses responses to alienation in contemporary society. The book concludes with a focus on the future of alienation, followed by a bibliography. "This bo…
"Anthropology Matters places the study of anthropology concretely in the world that surrounds it. It takes a question-based approach to introducing important anthropological concepts by embedding those concepts in contemporary global issues that will interest students. The third…
German Idealism Today
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This collection of essays provides an exemplary overview of the diversity and relevance of current scholarship on German Idealism. The importance of German Idealism for contemporary philosophy has received growing attention and acknowledgment throughout competing fields of conte…
Double Desire challenges the tendency by critics to perpetuate an aesthetic apartheid between Indigenous and Western art ... The essays, by fourteen experts in the field, discuss Indigenous comtemporary art practices and their artworld reception in different locales in Australia…
