Traveling With Philosophes

Author : Ken Ewell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595410073
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling with Philosophes written by Ken Ewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join a fellow traveler on a walkabout through Paris and London, and then travel with him across England, Scotland and Wales. After those walkabouts, accompany him as he journeys across America and follows the equator to Australia. Finally, wander with him along the corridors of modern and postmodern philosophy, and as he travels with old and new Philosophes, who all voiced an opinion as regards this travel book. It is a book that people won't buy, won't read and won't praise. Mark Twain After reading only a few pages, I gave up the study of philosophy forever. Voltaire I cannot look upon the book without shedding tears. Bertrand Russell If I could only make a travel book like that, I would be perfectly willing to die-even anxious. John Dewey I have seen a great many travel books in my time, but none that this one reminds me of. Will Durant This travel book is one-third fabrication, one-third prevarication and one-third barefaced lies. However, the rest of the book is the unadulterated truth. Dr. Morris A. Nussbaum

Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019883540X
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Travel written by Emily Thomas and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we think more deeply about our travels? This was the question that inspired Emily Thomas' journey into the philosophy of travel. Part philosophical ramble, part travelogue, The Meaning of Travel begins in the Age of Discovery, when philosophers first started taking travel seriously. It meanders forward to consider Montaigne on otherness, John Locke on cannibals, and Henry Thoreau on wilderness. On our travels with Thomas, we discover the dark side of maps, how the philosophy of space fuelled mountain tourism, and why you should wash underwear in woodland cabins... We also confront profound issues, such as the ethics of 'doom tourism' (travel to 'doomed' glaciers and coral reefs), and the effect of space travel on human significance in a leviathan universe. The first ever exploration of the places where history and philosophy meet, this book will reshape your understanding of travel.

Author : Hermann Graf von Keyserling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travel Diary of a Philosopher written by Hermann Graf von Keyserling and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For other editions, see Author Catalog.

Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781039515666
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meaning of Travel written by Emily Thomas and published by . This book was released on with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first ever history of the places where history and philosophy meet, from the Age of Discovery in the sixteenth century to contemplation of how space travel will affect our understanding of who we are in the twenty-first. This book will reshape your understanding of travel.

Author : Hermann Graf von Keyserling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Travel Diary of a Philosopher written by Hermann Graf von Keyserling and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hermann Graf von Keyserling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book The Travel Diary of a Philosopher written by Hermann Graf von Keyserling and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nikk Effingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198842503
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Travel written by Nikk Effingham and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-20 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are various arguments for the metaphysical impossibility of time travel. Is it impossible because objects could then be in two places at once? Or is it impossible because some objects could bring about their own existence? In this book, Nikk Effingham contends that no such argument is sound and that time travel is metaphysically possible. His main focus is on the Grandfather Paradox: the position that time travel is impossible because someone could not go back in time and kill their own grandfather before he met their grandmother. In such a case, Effingham argues that the time traveller would have the ability to do the impossible (so they could kill their grandfather) even though those impossibilities will never come about (so they won't kill their grandfather). He then explores the ramifications of this view, discussing issues in probability and decision theory. The book ends by laying out the dangers of time travel and why, even though no time machines currently exist, we should pay extra special care ensuring that nothing, no matter how small or microscopic, ever travels in time.

Author : David Wittenberg
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823273334
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Time Travel written by David Wittenberg and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “stimulating contribution to literary theory” reveals the deeply philosophical concerns and developments behind popular time travel sci-fi (London Review of Books). In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative “laboratory” where theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about the philosophy of temporality, history, and subjectivity—are presented in story form. Drawing on physics, philosophy, narrative theory, psychoanalysis, and film theory, Wittenberg links innovations in time travel fiction to specific shifts in the popularization of science, from nineteenth-century evolutionary biology to twentieth-century quantum physics and more recent “multiverse” cosmologies. Wittenberg shows how popular awareness of new science led to surprising innovations in the literary “time machine,” which evolved from a vehicle used for sociopolitical commentary into a psychological device capable of exploring the temporal structure and significance of subjects, viewpoints, and historical events. Time Travel draws on classic works of science fiction by H. G. Wells, Edward Bellamy, Robert Heinlein, Samuel Delany, and Harlan Ellison, television shows such as “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek,” and other popular entertainments. These are read alongside theoretical work ranging from Einstein, Schrödinger, Stephen Hawking to Gérard Genette, David Lewis, and Gilles Deleuze. Wittenberg argues that even the most mainstream audiences of popular time travel fiction and cinema are vigorously engaged with many of the same questions about temporality, identity, and history that concern literary theorists, media and film scholars, and philosophers.

Author : Ryan Wasserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198793332
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paradoxes of Time Travel written by Ryan Wasserman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ryan Wasserman explores a range of fascinating puzzles raised by the possibility of time travel, with entertaining examples from physics, science fiction, and popular culture, and he draws out their implications for our understanding of time, tense, freedom, fatalism, causation, counterfactuals, laws of nature, persistence, change, and mereology.

Author : Ken Ewell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440180776
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traveling with Skeptics written by Ken Ewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-11-20 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traveling with Skeptics is the much anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed book, Traveling with Philosophes. However, due to the authors honest and straightforward portrayal of the people of France, he has incurred the wrath and condemnation of the French literary and intellectual establishment, with many persons voicing harsh opinions as regards this unique and insightful work. Insignificant writers cannot be crushed, they lie too flat beneath the foot. Honore de Balzac The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. Clearly, this most presumptuous writer believes in nothing. Gustave Flaubert Since a person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance, this writer must be the happiest man in the world. Anatole France As soon as he ceased to be mad he became merely stupid. As soon as he ceased to be stupid he became merely this writer. Marcel Proust This author should be deconstructed with the aid of a guillotine. Jacques Derrida There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is this authors suicide or murder. Albert Camus If Hell is other people, then this writer can go to Hell. Jean-Paul Sartre