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In this book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post "Marriage Isn't for You"-which received over 30 million hits and has been translated into over twenty languages-and shares how living for others can enrich every aspect of your life, just as it has his. With a mix of humor, candor, and compassion, he reveals how, years before his marriage, his self-obsession led to a downward spiral of addiction and depression, culminating in a suicide attempt at the age of twenty. Reflecting on the love and support he experienced in the aftermath, as well as o
Selfishness. --- Benevolence. --- Kindness. --- Conduct of life.
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"The philosophy of Ayn Rand has had a role equal or greater than that of Milton Friedman or F.A. Hayek in shaping the contemporary neo-liberal consensus. Its impact was powerful on architects of Reaganomics such as Alan Greenspan, former Director of the World Bank, and the new breed of American industrialists who developed revolutionary information technologies in Silicon Valley. But what do we really know of Rand's philosophy? Is her gospel of selfishness really nothing more than a reiteration of a quintessentially American "rugged individualism"? This book argues that Rand's philosophy can in fact be traced back to a moment, before World War I, when the work of a now-forgotten German philosopher called Max Stirner possessed an extraordinary appeal for writers and artists across Europe. The influence of Stirnerian Egoism upon that phase of intense creative innovation we now call Modernism was seminal. The implications for our understanding of Modernism are profound - so too for our grasp of the "cultural logic of late capitalism". This book presents the reader with a fresh perspective on the Modernist classics, as well as introducing less familiar art and writing that is only now beginning to attract interest in the West. It arrives at a fresh and compelling re-evaluation of Modernism: revealing its selfish streak."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Selfishness. --- Rand, Ayn --- Stirner, Max, --- Philosophy.
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The Nature of Selection is a straightforward, self-contained introduction to philosophical and biological problems in evolutionary theory. It presents a powerful analysis of the evolutionary concepts of natural selection, fitness, and adaptation and clarifies controversial issues concerning altruism, group selection, and the idea that organisms are survival machines built for the good of the genes that inhabit them. "Sober's is the answering philosophical voice, the voice of a first-rate philosopher and a knowledgeable student of contemporary evolutionary theory. His book merits broad attention among both communities. It should also inspire others to continue the conversation."-Philip Kitcher, Nature "Elliott Sober has made extraordinarily important contributions to our understanding of biological problems in evolutionary biology and causality. The Nature of Selection is a major contribution to understanding epistemological problems in evolutionary theory. I predict that it will have a long lasting place in the literature."-Richard C. Lewontin
Science --- Evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Philosophy. --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- evolution, philosophy, biology, natural selection, fitness, adaptation, altruism, groups, survival, genes, supervenience, forces, reproduction, averaging, selfishness, variation, replication, representability, parsimony, allele, context dependence, transitivity, mutation, prediction, population, laplace, essentialism, nonfiction, science, causation, improvement.
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Stephen L. Elkin deftly combines the empirical and normative strands of political science to make a powerfully original statement about what cities are, can, and should be. Rejecting the idea that two goals of city politics-equality and efficiency-are opposed to one another, Elkin argues that a commercial republic could achieve both. He then takes the unusual step of addressing how the political institutions of the city can help to form the kind of citizenry such a republic needs. The present workings of American urban political institutions are, Elkin maintains, characterized by a close relationship between politicians and businessmen, a relationship that promotes neither political equality nor effective social problem-solving. Elkin pays particular attention to the issue of land-use in his analysis of these failures of popular control in traditional city politics. Urban political institutions, however, are not just instruments for the dispensing of valued outcomes or devices for social problem-solving-they help to form the citizenry. Our present institutions largely define citizens as interest group adversaries and do little to encourage them to focus on the commercial public interest of the city. Elkin concludes by proposing new institutional arrangements that would be better able to harness the self-interested behavior of individuals for the common good of a commercial republic.
Municipal government --- city, urban, metropolis, american culture, republic, democracy, political science, politicians, business, corruption, wealth, class, stratification, inequity, inequality, social justice, land use, interest groups, common good, commerce, capitalism, revenue, government, municipal, market, economy, bias, systemic racism, problem solving, judgment, selfishness, motivation, nonfiction, politics, philosophy, human nature.
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From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a strategy for a new socialism built on love, kindness, and compassion for one another. Revolutionary Love proposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the "capitalist globalization of selfishness" with a globalization of generosity, prophetic empathy, and environmental sanity.Lerner challenges liberal and progressive forces to move beyond often weak-kneed and visionless politics to build instead a movement that can reverse the environmental destructiveness and social injustice caused by the relentless pursuit of economic growth and profits. Revisiting the hidden injuries of class, Lerner shows that much of the suffering in our society-including most of its addictions and the growing embrace of right-wing nationalism and reactionary versions of fundamentalism-is driven by frustrated needs for community, love, respect, and connection to a higher purpose in life. Yet these needs are too often missing from liberal discourse. No matter that progressive programs are smartly constructed-they cannot be achieved unless they speak to the heart and address the pain so many people experience.Liberals and progressives need coherent alternatives to capitalism, but previous visions of socialism do not address the yearning for anything beyond material benefits. Inspired by Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm, and Carol Gilligan, Revolutionary Love offers a strategy to create the "Caring Society." Lerner details how a civilization infused with love could put an end to global poverty, homelessness, and hunger, while democratizing the economy, shifting to a twenty-eight-hour work week, and saving the life-support system of Earth. He asks that we develop the courage to stop listening to those who tell us that fundamental social transformation is "unrealistic."
Politics, Practical --- capitalist globalization of selfishness. --- civilization infused with love. --- coherent alternatives to capitalism. --- environmental sanity. --- fundamental social transformation. --- globalization of generosity. --- liberals. --- progressives. --- propehtic empathy. --- reverse environmental destructiveness and social injustice. --- strategy for new socialism. --- strategy to create caring society.
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This richly drawn ethnography of Samburu cattle herders in northern Kenya examines the effects of an epochal shift in their basic diet-from a regimen of milk, meat, and blood to one of purchased agricultural products. In his innovative analysis, Jon Holtzman uses food as a way to contextualize and measure the profound changes occurring in Samburu social and material life. He shows that if Samburu reaction to the new foods is primarily negative-they are referred to disparagingly as "gray food" and "government food"-it is also deeply ambivalent. For example, the Samburu attribute a host of social maladies to these dietary changes, including selfishness and moral decay. Yet because the new foods save lives during famines, the same individuals also talk of the triumph of reason over an antiquated culture and speak enthusiastically of a better life where there is less struggle to find food. Through detailed analysis of a range of food-centered arenas, Uncertain Tastes argues that the experience of food itself-symbolic, sensuous, social, and material-is intrinsically characterized by multiple and frequently conflicting layers.
Samburu (African people) --- Food habits --- Food preferences --- Food --- Culture conflict --- Social change --- Food. --- Domestic animals. --- Social conditions. --- Symbolic aspects --- Samburu District (Kenya) --- Economic conditions. --- african culture. --- agricultural products. --- agriculture. --- anthropology. --- basic diet. --- blood. --- cattle. --- cultural studies. --- eating. --- ethnography. --- famines. --- food. --- gastronomy. --- government food. --- gray food. --- kenya. --- kenyan culture. --- loikop. --- lokop. --- meat. --- milk. --- moral decay. --- nilotic people. --- north central kenya. --- northern kenya. --- pastoralists. --- samburu cattle herders. --- samburu culture. --- samburu material life. --- samburu social life. --- samburu tribe. --- samburu. --- selfishness. --- semi nomadic. --- struggle for food.
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Guy Sircello's analysis of the varieties of expression and his use of them to justify a particular view of the human mind clarify a number of controversial topics in contemporary philosophy, among them the notion of "artistic acts," language as expression, the expression of ideas, expressions as "natural signs," and the nature of the causal relationship between an expression and what is expressed.Originally published in 1972.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Art --- Philosophy. --- Psychology. --- Philosophie --- Psychologie --- Beautiful, The --- Beauty --- Aesthetics --- Art and philosophy --- Analysis, interpretation, appreciation --- Absurdity. --- Adjective. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegory. --- Analogy. --- Anecdote. --- Anger. --- Anthropomorphism. --- Art. --- BDSM. --- Book. --- Boredom. --- Category mistake. --- Causality. --- Circumlocution. --- Classicism. --- Cognate. --- Connotation. --- Consciousness. --- Constant conjunction. --- Copying. --- Criticism. --- Defamation. --- Disgust. --- Distrust. --- El Greco. --- Emotionalism. --- Equanimity. --- Explanation. --- Externalization. --- Falsity. --- Feeling. --- Fine art. --- Greatness. --- Hallucination. --- Hostility. --- Illocutionary act. --- Imagination. --- Indication (medicine). --- Inferiority complex. --- Informality. --- Inseparability. --- Irony. --- Jargon. --- Laziness. --- Literature. --- Lytton Strachey. --- Magnanimity. --- Metaphor. --- Modern philosophy. --- Modesty. --- Moral character. --- Music criticism. --- Narcissism. --- Non-fiction. --- Nonsense. --- Nonverbal communication. --- Obscurantism. --- Originality. --- Paradox. --- Personal identity. --- Phenomenon. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy of language. --- Phrase (music). --- Pity. --- Poetry. --- Politeness. --- Praxiteles. --- Prose. --- Respect. --- Result. --- Romanticism. --- Sadness. --- Sanity. --- Sarcasm. --- Science. --- Scientist. --- Selfishness. --- Sentimentality. --- Sophistication. --- Spirituality. --- Suggestion. --- Sympathy. --- Symptom. --- The Concept of Mind. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory of art. --- Theory of mind. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Understanding. --- Uniqueness. --- Vagueness. --- Verb. --- Work of art. --- Writing.
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Everyone talks about style, but no one explains it. The authors of this book do; and in doing so, they provoke the reader to consider style, not as an elegant accessory of effective prose, but as its very heart.At a time when writing skills have virtually disappeared, what can be done? If only people learned the principles of verbal correctness, the essential rules, wouldn't good prose simply fall into place? Thomas and Turner say no. Attending to rules of grammar, sense, and sentence structure will no more lead to effective prose than knowing the mechanics of a golf swing will lead to a hole-in-one. Furthermore, ten-step programs to better writing exacerbate the problem by failing to recognize, as Thomas and Turner point out, that there are many styles with different standards.In the first half of Clear and Simple, the authors introduce a range of styles--reflexive, practical, plain, contemplative, romantic, prophetic, and others--contrasting them to classic style. Its principles are simple: The writer adopts the pose that the motive is truth, the purpose is presentation, the reader is an intellectual equal, and the occasion is informal. Classic style is at home in everything from business memos to personal letters, from magazine articles to university writing.The second half of the book is a tour of examples--the exquisite and the execrable--showing what has worked and what hasn't. Classic prose is found everywhere: from Thomas Jefferson to Junichirō Tanizaki, from Mark Twain to the observations of an undergraduate. Here are many fine performances in classic style, each clear and simple as the truth.Originally published in 1994.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Report writing. --- English language --- Style. --- Rhetoric. --- Abstraction. --- Accessibility. --- Active voice. --- Allegory. --- Antithesis. --- Approximation. --- Areopagitica. --- Classical language. --- Colloquialism. --- Concept. --- Conflation. --- Creative nonfiction. --- Deed. --- Distraction. --- Divine providence. --- Elizabeth Eisenstein. --- Empiricism. --- Erudition. --- Essay. --- Etiquette. --- Family resemblance. --- Figure of speech. --- Fine art. --- Formality. --- Greatness. --- Handbook. --- Heuristic. --- Hilary Putnam. --- Humility. --- Ideogram. --- Image schema. --- Inception. --- Informality. --- Ingenuity. --- Introspection. --- Invention. --- Irony. --- James Thurber. --- Julian Barnes. --- Kenneth Burke. --- Lady Catherine de Bourgh. --- Lettres provinciales. --- Level of detail. --- Linguistic competence. --- Mark Twain. --- Metonymy. --- Mr. --- Narrative. --- New Thought. --- Obfuscation. --- On Truth. --- Optimism. --- Oracle. --- Parody. --- Peor. --- Persuasive writing. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophy. --- Phrase. --- Piety. --- Plain English. --- Platitude. --- Prima facie. --- Printing. --- Prose. --- Provenance. --- Reasonable person. --- Religion. --- Result. --- Righteousness. --- Romanticism. --- Science. --- Self-interest. --- Selfishness. --- Sentimentality. --- Silliness. --- Simile. --- Sincerity. --- Sir Thomas Elyot. --- Skepticism. --- Sophistication. --- Special pleading. --- Spoken language. --- Standard English. --- Subtitle (captioning). --- Suggestion. --- Superiority (short story). --- The Elements of Style. --- The Other Hand. --- Theorem. --- Thought. --- Thucydides. --- Treatise. --- Understanding. --- Understatement. --- Verbosity. --- White's. --- Writing style. --- Writing.
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Game theory-the study of how people make choices while interacting with others-is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in his insightful new book, Jane Austen explored game theory's core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago-over a century before its mathematical development during the Cold War. Jane Austen, Game Theorist shows how this beloved writer theorized choice and preferences, prized strategic thinking, and analyzed why superiors are often strategically clueless about inferiors. Exploring a diverse range of literature and folktales, this book illustrates the wide relevance of game theory and how, fundamentally, we are all strategic thinkers.
Game theory in literature. --- Game theory --- Rational choice theory. --- Social choice --- Games, Theory of --- Theory of games --- Mathematical models --- Mathematics --- Social aspects. --- Austen, Jane, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Criticism and interpretation. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. --- African American folktales. --- Black Boy. --- Brer Rabbit. --- Cold War. --- Fallujah. --- Flossie Finley. --- Flossie and the Fox. --- Fox. --- Jane Austen. --- Malitis. --- Mansfield Park. --- Much Ado About Nothing. --- Northanger Abbey. --- Oklahoma!. --- Persuasion. --- Pride and Prejudice. --- Sense and Sensibility. --- Tar Baby. --- bargaining position. --- children. --- choice. --- civil rights movement. --- cluelessness. --- commensurability. --- constancy. --- economics. --- economism. --- economistic values. --- emotions. --- empathy. --- folk game theory. --- folktales. --- foresight. --- game theory. --- habit. --- human behavior. --- human nature. --- ideology. --- inconsequential games. --- instinct. --- intoxication. --- literature. --- manipulation. --- mental laziness. --- money-centrism. --- moral life. --- moralism. --- multiple selves. --- naivety. --- novels. --- penetration. --- power. --- preferences. --- presumption. --- pride. --- rational choice theory. --- resistance. --- rules. --- sagacity. --- self-management. --- self-reference. --- selfishness. --- slaves. --- social distance. --- social factors. --- social status. --- socialization. --- speculation. --- status maintenance. --- strategic partnership. --- strategic sophomores. --- strategic thinking. --- strategic wisdom. --- superiors.
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