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Culture and Materialism (Radical Thinkers)
Raymond Williams

Verso, 2006

A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism (Shambhala Library)

33 reviews
Chogyam Trungpa

Shambhala, 2008

A Classic
I kind of backed into reading Trungpa via an interest in his student, Pema Chodron. I am neither in any sense an advanced meditator nor a practicing Buddhist. My only reason for writing a review is to address the question of whether this is a good book for a general reader with vague questions about meditation as a practice, and about Tibetan Buddhism as a belief system and spiritual practice, ...

Contemporary Materialism: A Reader

1 review
Paul K. Moser

Routledge, 1995

Fascinating Study/Reference
A fine reader on materilaist philosophy covering lots of ground and giving the patinet reader much to think about (as with most academic literature, the reader must slog through a dense thicket of jargon to get at the substance of the writing). Essays are included by advocates of non-reductive (everything reduces to physics in principal, but "special sciences" are needed to fully explain ...

The High Price of Materialism

16 reviews
Tim Kasser

The MIT Press, 2003

Excellent
I am still reading this book, but I am so enjoying it. This book explains the reasons that we as a country and a culture are becoming more and more discontent and unhappy. Our materialistic ideas and concepts, largely due to the media, TV, movies, commercialism are so polluted and distorted by the idealogy that we need more and more "stuff" and things to be happy......this of course never ...

Cultural Materialism: The Struggle for a Science of Culture

4 reviews
Marvin Harris

AltaMira Press, 2001

One of the most important books of the 20th Century
This book will eventually be recognized as one of the most important of the 20th Century - but not until the 21st Century. In spite of what the previous reviewer said, it does indeed deal with male supremacy - and Cultural Materialism's explanation for male dominance is something that feminists should learn and understand, if they want to do something to end male supremacy.

Materialism and the Mind-Body Problem, 2nd Ed.

2 reviews

Hackett Publishing Company, 2000

A good dialogue, but has a weak start
This book was on the whole a very well structured anthology showing how the debate amongst materialists has evolved on the nature of mind and the body. Hackett continues a fine tradition of providing first-rate philosophy at great prices. My chief gripe is that the dualistic selections at the beginning are Descartes and Spinoza--the latter in particular tends to be a favorite strawman for ...

Marx's Ecology: Materialism and Nature

5 reviews
John Bellamy Foster

Monthly Review Press, 2000

Marx as ecologist
In "Marx's Ecology," John Bellamy Foster defies conventional green thinking by raising the banner of materialism rather than spirituality in the fight to save the planet and humanity from ecological ruin. In addition to restoring materialism to its proper place, Foster also shows that ecological questions were central not only to Marx, but other Marxists such as Bebel and Bukharin. By ...

Materialism and Empirio-Criticism

3 reviews
Vladimir Ilich Lenin

China Books & Periodicals Inc., 1986

Idealism vs. Materialism (religion vs. science)
This book is difficult to read without knowledge of the philosophical debate at the time. But at the same time, it is an introduction to that debate, and has great relevance to theocratic tendencies in American science and government today. I became interested in reading after reading Stephen Hawking's "Brief History of Time". It was interesting to me that even so reknowned and path-breaking ...

The Nation-State and Violence: Volume 2 of A Contemporary Critique of Historical Materialism ...
Anthony Giddens

University of California Press, 1987

History Of Materialism And Criticism Of Its Present Importance Vol III
Frederick Albert Lange

Obscure Press, 2006

Originally published in 1825. Author: Frederick Albert Lange Language: English Keywords: Philosophy Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Gramsci, Historical Materialism and International Relations (Cambridge Studies in International Relations)

Cambridge University Press, 1993

The essays collected here relate the writings of Antonio Gramsci and others to the contemporary reconstruction of historical materialist theories of international relations. The contributors analyze the contradiction between globalizing and territorially based social and political forces in the context of past, present, and future world orders, and view the emerging world order as undergoing a structural transformation, a "triple crisis" ...

Oscillate Wildly: Space, Body, and Spirit of Millennial Materialism
Peter Hitchcock

University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Phenomenology and Dialectical Materialism (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science)
Trân Duc Thao, D.J. Herman, ...

Springer, 1985

Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism
Matthew J. A. Green

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

This new study, explores the connection between religious enthusiasm and empirical science in Blake's early work and the eighteenth century. Green integrates three divergent strands of Blake scholarship: of Blake's relationship with empiricism, his affiliations with radical Protestantism and investigations into his artistic theories and practices. Green concludes his discussion by looking ahead to representations of Blake's thought in Salman ...

Materialism: An Affirmative History and Definition

1 review
Richard C. Vitzthum

Prometheus Books, 1995

an unexpected treasure...
Vitzthum avoided the pitfalls of professional philosophy by making his living in teaching outside the area. Along the way, he's been a keen observer of philosophical implications of various pieces of literature, beginning with the earliest literature recorded. He has pieced together three treatments of individuals who agonized over the ways of the world, through the ages. These literary ...

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