Writings against death : the autobiographies of Simone de Beauvoir by Bainbrigge, Susan

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Appeal and attitude : prospects for ultimate meaning by Smith, Steven G.

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Death Education and Research : Critical Perspectives. by Warren, William G.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; About the Author; Preface; Introduction; Part I Some Philosophical Considerations; Chapter 1: Traditional Western Thought and Existentialism; Chapter 2: Rights and Values; Postscript: Non-Western Thought; Concluding Remarks; Part II: Some Psychological Considerations; Chapter 3: Bereavement; Chapter 4: Conceptualizing and Assessing Death Attitudes and Cognitions; Chapter 5: Lifespan Differences in Death Orientations; Chapter 6: The Empirical Study of Death Education.…”
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Augustine and Kierkegaard

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The red sox and philosophy : green monster meditations by Macomber, Michael, 1976-

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An atheism that is not humanist emerges in French thought by Geroulanos, Stefanos, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…: ideologies of exclusivist universalism and the new men of interwar France -- Alexandre Kojève's negative anthropology, 1931-1939 -- Inventions of antihumanism, 1935 : phenomenology, the critique of transcendence, and the kenosis of human subjectivity in early existentialism -- Introduction : the humanist mantle, restored and retorn -- After the resistance (1) : engagement, being and the demise of philosophical anthropology -- Atheism and freedom after the death of God : Blanchot, Catholicism, literature, and life -- After the resistance (2) : Merleau-Ponty, communism, terror and the demise of philosophical anthropology -- Man in suspension : Jean Hyppolite on history, being, and language.…”
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The Routledge Companion to Ethics. by Skorupski, John

Table of Contents: “…BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; ILLUSTRATIONS; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; Part I: HISTORY; 1 ETHICAL THOUGHT IN CHINA; 2 ETHICAL THOUGHT IN INDIA; 3 SOCRATES AND PLATO; 4 ARISTOTLE; 5 LATER ANCIENT ETHICS; 6 THE ARABIC TRADITION; 7 EARLY MODERN NATURAL LAW; 8 HOBBES; 9 ETHICS AND REASON; 10 ETHICS AND SENTIMENT: Shaftesbury and Hutcheson; 11 HUME; 12 ADAM SMITH; 13 UTILITARIANISM TO BENTHAM; 14 KANT; 15 HEGEL; 16 JOHN STUART MILL; 17 SIDGWICK, GREEN, AND BRADLEY; 18 NIETZSCHE; 19 PRAGMATIST MORAL PHILOSOPHY; 20 EXISTENTIALISM; 21 HEIDEGGER; Part II: META-ETHICS.…”
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Sartre and fiction by Cox, Gary, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Sartre's writing -- Sartre's existentialism -- Sartre's short stories. The wall -- The room -- Erostratus -- Intimacy -- The childhood of a leader -- Sartre's novels. …”
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The philosophy of Kierkegaard by Pattison, George, 1950-

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Kierkegaard by Watkin, Julia

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Ambiguity and sexuality : a theory of sexual identity by Wilkerson, William S., 1968-

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Multiple intelligences in the classroom by Armstrong, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…The foundations of MI theory -- MI theory and personal development -- Describing intelligences in students -- Teaching students about MI theory -- MI theory and curriculum development -- MI theory and teaching strategies -- MI theory and the classroom environment -- MI theory and classroom management -- The MI school -- MI theory and assessment -- MI theory and special education -- MI theory and cognitive skills -- Other applications of MI theory -- MI theory and existential intelligence -- MI theory and its critics -- MI theory around the globe.…”
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Beyond Environmental Comfort. by Ong, Boon Lay

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Introduction: Environmental Comfort and Beyond; 2 Sensory Pleasure and Homeostasis; 3 Consciousness, Well-being and the Senses; 4 Cultural Responses to Primitive Needs; 5 Acoustical Aesthetics, Sound and Space; 6 Existential Comfort: Lived Space and Architecture; 7 Outdoor Environment Indoor Space; 8 The Poetics of Environment; 9 Why does the Environment Matter?…”
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Dutch Contributions to the Fifteenth International Congress of Slavists : Minsk. August 20-27, 2013. Linguistics. by Fortuin, Egbert

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; COMMUNICATIVE HETEROGENEITY IN NOVGORODBIRCHBARK LETTERS: A CASE STUDY INTO THE USE OFIMPERATIVE SUBJECTS; THE EXISTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION IN RUSSIAN:A SEMANTIC-SYNTACTIC APPROACH; JAKOVLEV'S MAGIC FORMULA AND THE LINOTYPE; FREQUENCY EFFECTS ON THE ACQUISITION OF POLISHAND RUSSIAN GENDER MORPHOLOGY; MACEDONIAN VERBAL ASPECT: EAST OR WEST?…”
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Lange and Nietzsche by Stack, George J.

Table of Contents: “…Eternal Recurrence -- Recurrence as Psychological Test -- The Cosmological Arguments -- Force-Centers and Recurrence -- Existential Meaning and Recurrence -- III. Contra Platonism -- Lange versus Plato -- IV. …”
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A Companion to African-American Philosophy. by Lott, Tommy

Table of Contents: “…Notes on Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction to Part I; 1 Philosophy and the Afro-American Experience; 2 African-American Existential Philosophy; 3 African-American Philosophy: A Caribbean Perspective; 4 Modernisms in Black; 5 The Crisis of the Black Intellectual; Introduction to Part II; 6 Kant and Knowledge of Disappearing Expression; 7 Social Contract Theory, Slavery, and the Antebellum Courts; 8 The Morality of Reparations II; Introduction to Part III; 9 "Afrocentricity": Critical Considerations; 10 African Retentions.…”
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Lefebvre, love, and struggle : spatial dialectics by Shields, Rob, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 LEFEBVRE'S SIGNIFICANCE; 2 ADVENTURE, ART AND WARS 1905-45; 3 FOUNDATION WORKS: PHILOSOPHIES, HEGEL, SURREALISM; 4 FALSE AUTHENTICITY: THE ROOTS OF FASCISM; 5 MOMENTS OF PRESENCE; 6 THE CRITIQUE OF EVERYDAY LIFE: MARX AND NIETZSCHE; 7 POSTWAR INTELLECTUAL; 8 FATHER OF THE DIALECTIC AND CRITIC OF STRUCTURALISM; 9 EXISTENTIAL MARXISM: SARTRE; 10 THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE; 11 CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRI LEFEBVRE'S WORKS; SECONDARY SOURCES; INDEX.…”
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Blackness and modernity : the colour of humanity and the quest for freedom by Foster, Cecil, 1954-

Table of Contents: “…Blackness : method, differences, perspective -- Meaning, understanding, and knowing -- Common sense blackness : existentialism, epistemology, ontology -- Blackness and goodness : frameworks of study -- Ideology that privileges the somatic -- Phenomenology, history, and paradigms -- Blackness and speculative philosophy -- Greek mythologies and philosophies -- The cunning of blackness -- Blackness : status, citizenship, death, and rebirth -- Slavery and death -- Ethno-racial bondage -- Multiculturalism and blackness -- Promises of multiculturalism -- Blackness : essences, mythologies, and positioning -- Neo-mythic multiculturalism -- Blackness : social and political in Canada -- New ideals of Canadian blackness -- Black Canada : reconciliation?…”
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Survival through integration : American Reform Jewish universalism and the Holocaust by Shiff, Ofer

Table of Contents: “…The Modern Jewish Context; Chapter One Before the Universalistic Coping Pattern Coalesced; Chapter Two Transformation of the Universalistic Perspective into a Jewish Existential Ideology; Chapter Three Jewish Culture and Zionism as seen by "Veteran American" Jews; Chapter Four Intensifying Threats; Chapter Five The Reform and American Jewish Context of the Universalistic Coping Pattern; Epilogue: The Universalistic Reform Pattern from a Historical Perspective; Sources and Bibliography; Index of Names and Concepts.…”
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The Primacy of Method in Historical Research Philosophy of History and the Perspective of Meaning. by Ahlskog, Jonas

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Primacy of Method in Historical Research -- 2 Metaphilosophy, Empiricism and the Historical Past -- 3 Narrativism and the Reality of the Historical Past -- 4 The Internal Relation Between Practice and History -- 5 The Presence of the Past -- 6 The Existential Relevance of the Historical Past -- 7 Historical Evidence and the Perspective of Meaning -- 8 Testimonial Knowledge and the Method of History -- 9 Historical Method and the Limits of Hermeneutics of Suspicion…”
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A theory of Catholic education by Whittle, Sean

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Relational Integrative Psychotherapy Engaging Process and Theory in Practice. by Finlay, Linda

Table of Contents: “…-- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 12 Existential Phenomenology: Theory and Therapy -- Existential Phenomenology: 'Landmarks' in the Philosophical Territory -- The Phenomenological Attitude: 'Bracketing' and 'Being' -- Existential-phenomenological Therapy -- Concluding Reflections -- Notes -- 13 Gestalt Theory and Therapy -- Theoretical Foundations Applied to Therapy -- The Gestalt Cycle…”
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Iris Murdoch : philosophical novelist by Leeson, Miles

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One: Murdoch's Earliest Work and the Existential; Chapter Two: A Severed Head: The Impact of Freud and Nietzsche; Chapter Three: Martin Heidegger and The Time of the Angels; Chapter Four: The Bell and Platonism; Chapter Five: The Philosopher's Pupil: A Revision of Ideas?…”
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Counseling Older Adults. by Blando, John

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Chapter 1 Theories of Aging and Later Life Development; Chapter 2 Attending and Listening Skills in Work With Older Adults; Chapter 3 Stages of Counseling Older Adults; Chapter 4 Psychodynamic and Existential Foundations in Counseling Older Adults; Chapter 5 Transference and Other Counseling Processes With Older Adults; Chapter 6 Approaches to Counseling Older Adults; Chapter 7 The Culture and Context of Old Age; Chapter 8 Spirituality and Counseling Older Adults.…”
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Wilbur Schramm and Noam Chomsky meet Harold Innis : media, power, and democracy by Babe, Robert E.

Table of Contents: “…Political Economy, Medium Theory, and Existentialism -- 5. Media and Scholarship -- 6. Media and Public Opinion -- II. …”
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A commentary on Gabriel Marcel's The mystery of being by Anderson, Thomas C., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The broken world -- The need for transcendence -- Truth as a value: the intelligible milieu -- Primary and secondary reflection: the existential reference point -- Feeling as a mode of participation -- Being in a situation -- 'My life' -- Togetherness: identity and depth -- Presence as a mystery -- Commentator's summary of volume I -- Commentary on volume II: Faith and reality. …”
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Calila : the later novels of Carmen Martín Gaite by Brown, Joan Lipman

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Calila and her later novels -- Backstory : Carmen Martín Gaite's earlier life and literature -- Caperucita en Manhattan : a young adult novel of recovery -- Nubosidad variable : contemporary feminism in post-transition Spain -- La reina de las nieves : rewriting a tragedy of Spain's transition -- Lo raro es vivir : existential questions in uncertain times -- Irse de casa : back to the future in democratic Spain -- Los parentescos : fractured families in the twenty-first century -- Conclusion: The later novels and Martín Gaite's legacy.…”
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Starting with Merleau-Ponty. by Morris, Katherine J.

Table of Contents: “…Title; Copyright; Dedication Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Preface; Chapter 1 Starting with Merleau-Ponty; i. Phenomenology and existential philosophy: Husserl and Heidegger; iv. Coda: What phenomenology is not; i. …”
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Self -Esteem. by Zeigler-Hill, Virgil

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Self-Esteem; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; 1 The importance of self-esteem; 2 Self-structure: The social and emotional contexts of self-esteem; 3 Pursuing self-esteem: Implications for self-regulation and relationships; 4 Development of self-esteem; 5 Fragile self-esteem: The perils and pitfalls of (some) high self-esteem; 6 The development of explicit and implicit self-esteem and their role in psychological adjustment; 7 An existential perspective on the need for self-esteem; 8 Badge of honor or mark of shame: Self-esteem as an interpersonal signal.…”
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A commentary on Gabriel Marcel's The mystery of being by Anderson, Thomas C., 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The broken world -- The need for transcendence -- Truth as a value: the intelligible milieu -- Primary and secondary reflection: the existential reference point -- Feeling as a mode of participation -- Being in a situation -- 'My life' -- Togetherness: identity and depth -- Presence as a mystery -- Commentator's summary of volume I -- Commentary on volume II: Faith and reality. …”
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Martin Luther and Islam : a study in sixteenth-century polemics and apologetics by Francisco, Adam

Table of Contents: “…Luther's Initial Critique of Islam -- Chapter 6. An Existential Apologetic for Christians in the la Mahometisch Reich -- Chapter 7. …”
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Business coaching : wisdom and practice. by Rostron, Sunny Stout

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Preface; Foreword; About the Authors; Authors' Acknowledgements; Chapter 1: About This Book; Chapter 2: The Business Coaching Process; Chapter 3: The Coaching Conversation; Chapter 4: Working With Question Frameworks; Chapter 5: Exploring and Understanding Coaching Models; Chapter 6: Diversity, Personality and Culture; Chapter 7: Competences in Business Coaching; Chapter 8: Existential and Experiential Learning Issues; Chapter 9: Supervision, Contracting and Ethical Concerns; Chapter 10: Developing a Body of Knowledge -- Coaching Research; Chapter 11: Integration and Synthesis.…”
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The effects of race

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- About the STIAS series -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- An Introduction -- Part I -- Race in Racialised South Africa -- Chapter 1 -- Perspectives on Race and Racism -- Chapter 2 -- Racism, Existential Inequality and Problems of Categorical Equalisation -- Chapter 4 -- Templates of Ordering and Maintaining the Social -- Chapter 5 -- 'Being-Black-in-the-World' and the Future of 'Blackness' -- Part II -- Naming -- Chapter 6 -- An Informational Taxonomy of Race-Ideation -- Chapter 7 -- What do Words really say? …”
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The new Heidegger by Beistegui, Miguel de, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Politically Adrift: The Affair with National Socialism; Concluding Remarks; Appendix 1 A Brief, Philosophical Biography; Appendix 2 Existential Philosophy and Psychotherapy; Appendix 3 Heidegger and the Greeks; Appendix 4 Hermeneutics after Heidegger: The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer; Appendix 5 Philosophy and Architecture; Appendix 6 Derrida and Deconstruction; Appendix 7 Human vs Artificial Intelligence.…”
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Anthropology & philosophy : dialogues on trust and hope

Table of Contents: “…Jackson & Thomas Schwarz Wentzer -- The reopening of the gate of effort : existential imperatives at the margins of a globalized world / Michael D. …”
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Social epistemology and technology : toward public self-awareness regarding technological mediation

Table of Contents: “…Reider -- Existential privacy and the technological situation of boundary regulation / Elize de Mul -- Critical media: media archeology as critical theory / Stephen M. …”
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Authentic self-love : a path to healing the self and relationships by Irvani, Sepideh

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction: A Loveless World; Background of the Problem; Statement of the Problem; Purpose of the Book; Importance of the Book; Theoretical Foundation and Conceptual Framework; Scope and Methodologyof the Book; Chapter 1: Review of the Literature I: Love Conceptualized; Conceptualization of Love and Self-Love; Distinction Between Narcissismand Authentic Self-Love; Inhibitions and Maladjustment; Humanistic Psychology; Existential Psychotherapy; Object Relations Theory; Systems Theory; Categorical Definitions of Love; Existential Psychotherapy…”
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The outside edge : how outsiders can succeed in a world made by insiders by Kelsey, Robert, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Adolescence, Family and Opportunity; The Timing of Puberty; The Disadvantaged Outsider; The Impact of Self-Esteem; Girls Change Friends, Boys Retreat; Family Scripts; The Dilemma of Choice; Rousseau's Discourse of the Vanities; 4. Existentialism and the Need for a Purpose; Hegel's Contradictions; Kierkegaard Adds a Moral Dimension; 'We are all too Human, ' Says Nietzsche; Rise of the Superman; We Must Define Ourselves; Condemned to be Free; Indifference and Meaninglessness; 10 Things Existentialists Teach Outsiders; Part Two: The Rebel with a Cause.…”
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Ex-changes : comparative studies in British and American cultures

Table of Contents: “…Poetically realistic juxtapositions of anglo-american old and new world experiences portrayed in toni morrison's a mercythe fairy tale visions of the world; "no black male show"; carnival and the carnivalesque in aphra behn's the rover and caryl churchill's cloud nine; part iv; characters versus authors; jean luc godard's king lear in the light of existentialism; chasing zebras; the literary animal bites; contributors.…”
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Birth, death, and femininity : philosophies of embodiment

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