| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 243 pages) |
| Contents |
Preface -- Happiness? -- One. Happy Like God -- Two. Beyond the Sea -- Three. How to Make It in the Afterlife -- Four. The Gospel According to Me -- Five. Abandon (Nearly) All Hope -- I Believe -- Six. Why I Love Mormonism -- Seven. The Freedom of Faith-A Christmas Sermon -- Eight. The Rigor of Love -- Nine. Coin of Praise -- Ten. Soccer Fandom as a Model for Living -- What Are Philosophers For? -- Eleven. What Is a Philosopher? -- Twelve. When Socrates Met Phaedrus: Eros in Philosophy -- Thirteen. Cynicism We Can Believe In -- Fourteen. To Weld, Perchance to Dream -- Fifteen. Brexistentialism -- The Tragedy of Violence -- Sixteen. Euro Blind -- Seventeen. Let Be-An Answer to Hamlet's Question -- Eighteen. The Cycle of Revenge |
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Nineteen. Theater of Violence -- Athens in Pieces -- Twenty. The Art of Memory -- Twenty-one. The Stench of the Academy -- Twenty-two. In Aristotle's Garden -- Twenty-three. The Tragedy of Democracy -- Twenty-four. What Really Happened at Eleusis? -- Twenty-five. We Know Socrates's Fate. What's Ours? -- Twenty-six. The Happiest Man I Ever Met -- Twenty-seven. An Offering to the Soccer Gods -- Others -- Twenty-eight. There Is No Theory of Everything -- Twenty-nine. The Dangers of Certainty: A Lesson from Auschwitz -- Thirty. Nothing Remains: David Bowie's Vision of Love -- Thirty-one. PBS -- Philip K. Dick, Garage Philosopher -- Thirty-two. Meditations on a Radiant Fish -- Thirty-three. Future Gnostic -- Thirty-four. Adventures in the Dream Factory -- Covid Coda -- Thirty-five. Our Fear, Our Trembling, Our Strength -- Index |
| Summary |
A new and expansive collection of essays from one of the world's best known popular philosophers |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed on May 11, 2021) |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Popular works
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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Philosophy
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| Genre/Form |
Popular works
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Catapano, Peter, editor.
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| ISBN |
0300258356 |
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9780300258356 |
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