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Cinema is a Secular Temple
by Marty Fairbairn
“…spirituality is all around us. We are not so cast adrift as we think. The questioning persists; only the venue is different. God is not dead, he’s moved. But he left a forwarding address: the cinema.”
The world of film is the mirror-double, the Doppelgänger, of the world of our experience, a place where ancestral ghosts and guardian spirits dance across the screen, holding the promise of a transcendent spiritual dimension through which we can control the natural forces around and within us, or at least come face to face with them.
Steeped in the history of cinema and philosophically ambitious, this book brings the reader on a journey of exploration. Fairbairn challenges us to go to the movies clutching the works of phenomenologists (particularly those concerned with the phenomenology of religion) and thereby encounter at the cinema challenging and profound spiritual insights. –Felix Ó Murchadha, University of Galway, Ireland
Ten Essays In Honour Of John McMurtry
by Jeff Noonan and Giorgio Baruchello (editors)
Professor John McMurtry (1939-2021) was a Canadian philosopher and iconoclast whose work spanned a wide range of fields, especially including social and political thought, economics, education, media, culture, and value theory. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001, for his contributions to the arts and humanities, as well as to Canadian public life.
In this volume, McMurtry’s students, colleagues, and friends present a collection of original work that builds upon his concepts and arguments, and reflects upon his personal and academic influence.
Thinking and Talking
by Giorgio Baruchello
Baruchello’s fifth collection of essays brings his diverse philosophical interests—Gadamer, Socrates, Gestalt psychology, Catholic ethics, Icelandic public policy, to name only a few examples—into a unified exploration of the interpersonal dimension of human reason. His writerly voice is similarly diverse: there’s straight-up academic prose, and Heideggerian aphorisms, a gentle sense of humour, and an intimate account of how he explains philosophy to his children. Thinking And Talking is a book for those who still believe that philosophy is about love, not only the love of wisdom, but also the love of humanity.
Clear And Present Thinking
A Handbook in Logic and Rationality
2nd edition (2017)
by Brendan Myers and collaborators
This is the current edition of Brendan’s popular, low-cost, college level textbook in logic and critical thinking. In addition to the usual matters of arguments and fallacies, CPT covers topics like worldviews, value programs, propaganda, fake news, and the history of logic.