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Rethinking Fanon

Nigel C Gibson

• Paperback | Engels
• Over sixty years after his death, the social philosopher and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) remains a towering intellectual figure. Born in Mar... Lees meer

Must We Burn Sade?

• Paperback | Engels
• The Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) has been labeled everything from a sadomasochistic pornographer (The 120 Days of Sodom) to the fiction writer responsi... Lees meer

Evolutionary Theory and Victorian Culture

Martin Fichman

• Paperback | Engels
• This absorbing study of the Victorian controversies over the cultural meaning of evolution broadens our perspective by discussing the roles played by ... Lees meer

A Colored Woman in a White World

Mary Church Terrell

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Black Studies
• In this autobiography, originally published in 1940, Terrell describes the important events and people in her life. Lees meer

The Just State

Richard Dien Winfield

• Hardcover | Engels
• At a time when the enemies of democracy cannot be dissuaded by appeals to shared values and conventions, nothing is more pressing than a thoroughgoing... Lees meer

Controlling Human Heredity

Diane B Paul

• Paperback | Engels
• In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favorab... Lees meer

On Lynchings

Ida B Wells-Barnett

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Black Studies
• Though the end of the Civil War brought legal emancipation to African-American people, it is a fact of history that their social oppression continued ... Lees meer

The Negro Problem

W E B Du Bois, Paul Laurence Dunbar

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Black Studies
• One hundred years ago, African Americans looked forward to the new twentieth century with mixed feelings of pride and discouragement. On the one hand,... Lees meer

The Future of Naturalism

• Hardcover | Engels
• Naturalism is widely regarded as the dominant philosophical worldview in the West. The prestige of science and the power of technology have driven nat... Lees meer

Underside of Modernity

Enrique Dussel

• Paperback | Engels
• Until now, North American and European philosophies have been engaged in debates about the possibility of a postmetaphysical philosophy and the conseq... Lees meer

Woman, Church, and State

Matilda Joslyn Gage

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Women's Studies
• This classic history of woman's oppression is one of the first attempts to document the sad legacy of injustice and discrimination against women, whic... Lees meer

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Mary Edwards Walker

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Women's Studies
• The only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War, Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a surgeon, a publi... Lees meer

Heidegger in Question

Robert Bernasconi

• Paperback | Engels
• Robert Bernasconi explores in the context of Heidegger's thought a number of questions of far-reaching concern: what is the role of literary examples ... Lees meer

Michel Foucault's Force of Flight

James William Bernauer

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Human Sciences
• "Michel Foucault's Force of Light" offers a comprehensive, chronological reading of Foucault's published, and many unpublished, writings. James Bernau... Lees meer

Enslaving Connections

• Paperback | Engels
• This unique collection of twelve essays by internationally known scholars deals with the important, but underexplored, topic of the transatlantic link... Lees meer

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Elizabeth Blackwell

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Women's Studies
• Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) was the first woman awarded the MD degree in the United States. She opened up a small dispensary of her own in a slum ... Lees meer

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Mary Edwards Walker

• Hardcover | Engels | Classics in Women's Studies
• The only woman to receive the Congressional Medal of Honor for her service during the Civil War, Dr. Mary E. Walker (1832-1919) was a surgeon, a publi... Lees meer

Are You a Machine?

Eliezer J Sternberg

• Paperback | Engels
• Right now, someone in an artificial intelligence lab is fusing silicon circuitry in an attempt to engineer the human mind. In a hospital, a neurosurge... Lees meer

Knowledge of Man

Martin Buber

• Paperback | Engels
• These six essays present one of the most significant stages in the development of Buber's philosophical thought and particularly his philosophical ant... Lees meer

The Pivot of Civilization

Margaret Sanger

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Women's Studies
• Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sange... Lees meer

Elucidations of Holderin's Poetry

Martin Heidegger

• Paperback | Engels | Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and the Human Sciences
• The commentaries of Martin Heidegger on the lyric poems of German Romantic poet Friedrich Hölderlin are an extraordinary encounter between poetry and ... Lees meer

Reason and Revolution

Herbert Marcuse

• Paperback | Engels
• It is of the very definition of any "classic" work that it will not only introduce a new depth and direction of thought, but that its original insight... Lees meer

The Pivot of Civilization

Margaret Sanger

• Paperback | Engels | Classics in Women's Studies
• Arguably her most important and influential book, this controversial work, first published in 1922 by pioneering birth-control advocate Margaret Sange... Lees meer

Dirty Virtues

Louke Van Wensveen

• Hardcover | Engels
• This is the first extensive study of ecological virtue ethics and the new rhetoric of environmentalists. Based on a wide-ranging survey of environment... Lees meer