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  • Raymond Klibansky

    A Life in Philosophy

    Born in Paris in 1905 to a German-Jewish family from Frankfurt and dying a century later in Montreal, Raymond Klibansky lived a life indelibly coloured by the history of the twentieth century. His thought shaped and was shaped by intellectual currents both European and American, and his scholarly work entailed an intellectual reckoning with tradition that was unique in its scope and ambition, long ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Partita for Glenn Gould

    An Inquiry into the Nature of Genius

    Glenn Gould (19321982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art. Countering this common misperception Partita for Glenn Gould is an eloquent tribute to the artist that illuminates his versatile genius his thinking and our reasons for loving his art. ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

  • Partita for Glenn Gould

    An Inquiry into the Nature of Genius

    Glenn Gould (1932-1982) was a giant of twentieth-century classical music, but one whose eccentricities have sometimes obscured the moral seriousness of his approach to art. Countering this common misperception, Partita for Glenn Gould is an eloquent tribute to the artist that illuminates his versatile genius, his thinking, and our reasons for loving his art. ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

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  • Creating Minds

    An Anatomy of Creativity as Seen Through the Lives of Freud, Einstein, Picasso, Stravinsky, Eliot, G

    This peerless classic guide to the creative self uses portraits of seven extraordinary individuals to reveal the patterns that drive the creative process -- to demonstrate how circumstance also plays an indispensable role in creative success.Howard Gardner changed the way the world thinks about intelligence. In his classic work Frames of Mind, he undermined the common notion that intelligence is a ... Read more

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  • Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Sick Souls, Healthy Minds

    How William James Can Save Your Life

    by John Kaag ...
    From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William JamesIn 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Culture Counts

    Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Brief Encounters
    What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm which sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Modern Culture

    What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society.In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

  • Shadow and Act

    by Ralph Ellison ...
    Series series Vintage International
    With the same intellectual incisiveness and supple, stylish prose he brought to his classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison examines his antecedents and in so doing illuminates the literature, music, and culture of both black and white America. His range is virtuosic, encompassing Mark Twain and Richard Wright, Mahalia Jackson and Charlie Parker, The Birth of a Nation and the Dante-esque ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nostalgia for the Absolute

    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Writer and scholar George Steiner's Massey Lectures are just as cogent today as when he delivered them in 1974 -- perhaps even more so. He argues that Western culture's moral and emotional emptiness stems from the decay of formal religion. He examines the alternate mythologies (Marxism, etc.) and fads of irrationality (astrology, the occult). Steiner argues that this decay and the failure of the ... Read more

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  • Black and Blur

    by Fred Moten ...
    Series Book [5. 1] - consent not to be a single being
    "Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary ImaginationIn Black and Blur—the first volume in his sublime and compelling trilogy consent not to be a single being ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Understanding Music

    Philosophy and Interpretation

    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    With Understanding Music and The Aesthetics of Music (1997)Roger Scruton set a new standard of rigour and seriousness in the philosophy of music. This collection of wide-ranging essays covers all aspects of the theory and practice of music, showing the significance of music as an expression of the moral life. The book is split into two parts, the first is devoted to the aesthetics and theory of ... Read more

    $28.39 USD