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A gifted storyteller and historian and a member of the Sicunga Lakota Sioux, Joseph M.

Caustic and hilarious, Candide has ranked as one of the world's great satires since its first publication in 1759. It concerns the adventures of the youthful Candide, disciple of Dr. Pangloss.

A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention-and our personal information-that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that w

Quand nous nous mettons à chercher l'interdépendance, nous la voyons partout où se dirige notre regard.

This program is read by the author.
The world-renowned philosopher and author of the best-selling Justice explores the central question of our time: What has become of the common good?

The Thinker's Guide to Intellectual Standards details and analyzes the ways by which reasoning is judged in skilled thought.

As a German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and scholar of Latin and Greek, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche has exerted a profound influence on modern intellectual history.

For most of us, the major questions of life continue to perplex: Who am I? Why am I here? How should I live?

Aristotle wrote on everything from the shape of seashells to sterility, from speculations on the nature of the soul to meteorology, poetry, art, and even the interpretation of dreams.

In Confucius in 90 Minutes, Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Confucius's life and ideas and explains their influence on man's struggle to understand his existence in the

Ren ̌Descartes spent most of his childhood in solitude, a situation that also came to characterize his adult life.

A lively philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life.

Immanuel Kant taught and wrote prolifically about physical geography yet never traveled further than forty miles from his home in Kn̲igsberg.

Kierkegaard wasn't really a philosopher in the academic sense. Yet he produced what many people expect of philosophy.

Ce qui est, est deux fois : une fois comme être générique, une fois comme être singularisé par ses manières.