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  • Homo Sacer

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    In this major work by the renowned Italian philosopher, an obscure figure in Roman law poses significant questions about the nature of power.The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, challenges modern conceptions of society and the individual's place within it. In Homo Sacer, Agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and ... Read more

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  • Potentialities

    Collected Essays in Philosophy

    Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    This book collects fifteen major philosophical essays spanning more than twenty years by acclaimed Italian philosopher and author of State of Exception.Giorgio Agamben is one of contemporary philosophy's most influential thinkers on the subjects of language, power, society. This collection of essays opens with an enlightening introduction by the translator Daniel Heller-Roazen, who situates ... Read more

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  • The Fifth Hammer

    Pythagoras and the Disharmony of the World

    A revolutionary history and theory of harmony from music to metaphysicsAn ancient tradition holds that Pythagoras invented harmony. It is said that one day, he wandered by a forge and, hearing a wondrous sound come from within, ventured in to investigate. He found five men hammering with five hammers. To his astonishment, he discovered that four of the five hammers stood in a marvelous set of ... Read more

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  • Far Calls

    On Omens, Slips, and Epiphanies

    An inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearingWhen words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state things that they never meant to say, the saying, in its unsteady relation to understanding, becomes an event. That event has long been studied by a disparate company of interpreters: prophets, priests, ... Read more

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  • Absentees

    On Variously Missing Persons

    An intellectually adventurous account of the role of nonpersons that explores their depiction in literature and challenges how they are defined in philosophy, law, and anthropologyIn thirteen interlocking chapters, Absentees explores the role of the missing in human communities, asking an urgent question: How does a person become a nonperson, whether by disappearance, disenfranchisement, or civil, ... Read more

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  • Building a Career in Software

    A Comprehensive Guide to Success in the Software Industry

    by Daniel Heller ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    Software engineering education has a problem: universities and bootcamps teach aspiring engineers to write code, but they leave graduates to teach themselves the countless supporting tools required to thrive in real software companies. Building a Career in Software is the solution, a comprehensive guide to the essential skills that instructors don't need and professionals never think to teach: ... Read more

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  • Vertigo

    The Temptation of Identity

    Translated by Max Matukhin ...
    Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself.Fear of the void, terror of heights: everyone knows what acrophobia is, and many suffer from it. Before Freud, the so-called “sciences of the mind” reserved a place of honor for vertigo in the ... Read more

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  • Homo Sacer

    Sovereign Power and Bare Life

    Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The work of Giorgio Agamben, one of Italy's most important and original philosophers, has been based on an uncommon erudition in classical traditions of philosophy and rhetoric, the grammarians of late antiquity, Christian theology, and modern philosophy. Recently, Agamben has begun to direct his thinking to the constitution of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Political Will and Improving Public Schools

    Seven Reflections for Americans to Consider

    by Daniel Heller ...
    The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.The suggestions for education made here will require that Americans admit certain flaws in the system, some of which involve ... Read more

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  • Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders

    Gentle Pathways to Resolving Conflicts

    by Daniel Heller ...
    This book explores ways in which educational leaders can apply the wisdom of the Tao in their day-to-day work in schools. It offers an alternative to the standard ways of western thinking to give the leader more possibilities when confronting a situation. We tend to value immediate and decisive action, winning, directing, and getting one’s way. Taoist Lessons for Educational Leaders offers another ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Curriculum on the Edge of Survival

    How Schools Fail to Prepare Students for Membership in a Democracy

    by Daniel Heller ...
    Typically, school curriculum has been viewed through the lens of preparation for the workplace or higher education, both worthy objectives. However, this is not the only lens, and perhaps not even the most powerful one to use, if the goal is to optimize the educational system. Curriculum on the Edge of Survival, 2nd Edition, attempts to define basic aspects of the curriculum when viewed through ... Read more

    $42.99 USD