The ethics and politics of speech : communication and rhetoric in the twentieth century by Gehrke, Pat J., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Preparing the speaker to stand tall -- Rhetoric, discussion, and character -- From speech science to rhetoric and philosophy -- Humanism, rhetoric, and existential ethics -- The ethics of objectivism and relativism -- The recalcitrance of humanism.…”
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The Future of Post-Human Humor : a Preface to a New Theory of Joking and Laughing by Baofu, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Theory and Meta-TheoryThe Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodology and Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples…”
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Ontological humility : Lord Voldemort and the philosophers by Holland, Nancy J. (Nancy Jean)

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Defining Ontological Humility -- Epistemological Humility and Its Other -- Ontological Humility in Heidegger -- Existential Humility and Its Other -- Postmodern Humility and Its Other -- Feminist Humility -- Conclusion.…”
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Buddhist biology : ancient Eastern wisdom meets modern Western science by Barash, David P.

Table of Contents: “…A science sutra -- Non-self (Anatman) -- Impermanence (Anitya) -- Connectedness (Pratitya-Samutpada) -- Engagement, part 1 (Dukkha) -- Engagement, part 2 (Karma) -- Meaning (existential Biobuddhism?).…”
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Ontological humility : Lord Voldemort and the philosophers by Holland, Nancy J. (Nancy Jean)

Table of Contents: “…Prologue : Defining Ontological Humility -- Epistemological Humility and Its Other -- Ontological Humility in Heidegger -- Existential Humility and Its Other -- Postmodern Humility and Its Other -- Feminist Humility -- Conclusion.…”
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An analytical philosophy of religion by Zuurdeeg, Willem Frederick

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Death by Scarre, Geoffrey

Table of Contents: “…The nature of death -- 2. Existential perspectives -- 3. Long lives, short lives -- 4. …”
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Sartre explained : from bad faith to authenticity by Detmer, David, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…-- Being and nothingness -- Interrogation -- Destruction -- Absence -- Anguish -- Bad faith -- Knowledge -- Others -- The body -- Concrete relations with others -- Freedom -- Existential psychoanalysis -- Ethics -- No exit -- A philosophical play -- Bad faith dramatized -- Hell is other people -- Death -- The devil and the good Lord -- Atheism -- Conversion -- Good and evil -- Violence -- Saint Genet -- Existential psychoanalysis illustrated -- Inventing the homosexual subject -- Freedom and facticity -- Understanding that overcomes difference -- Critique of dialectical reason -- Marxism -- Dialectic -- Practico-inert and counter-finality -- The progressive-regressive method -- Criticisms of Marxism -- Two kinds of freedom -- Scarcity and violence -- Totalization -- Series and group -- The ethics of violence -- Inauthenticity -- Propaganda -- Priorities.…”
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Embodied Theories. by Spinelli, Ernesto

Table of Contents: “…Self-Help Using Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy; Chapter 4 -- On Being Present at One's Own Life (Gestalt Psychotherapy); Chapter 5 -- An Infant Personal Construct Theorist (Personal Construct Psychotherapy); Chapter 6 -- The Body I Am: Lived Body and Existential Change (Existential Psychotherapy); Chapter 7 -- The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole (Analytical Psychology).…”
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The future of post-human acoustics : a preface to a new theory of sound and silence by Baofu, Peter

Table of Contents: “…The Multilateral ArgumentThe Multilateral Theory of Acoustics; Theory and Meta-Theory; The Classification of Theory and Meta-Theory; A Unified Theory of Everything; The Logic of Existential Dialectics; The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics); The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic); The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics); The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics); Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; In Conversation with My Previous Books.…”
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Existence. Volume 2 : philosophical theology by Neville, Robert C.

Table of Contents: “…Cross References; Preface; Introduction; I. The Existential Dimensions of Religion; II. The Human Condition, Suffering, and Semiotics; III. …”
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The future of post-human geology : a preface to a new theory of statics and dynamics by Baofu, Peter

Table of Contents: “…A Unified Theory of EverythingThe Logic of Existential Dialectics; The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics); The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic); The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics); The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics); Sophisticated Methodological Holism; Chapter Outline; Some Clarifications; In Conversation with My Previous Books; Case Studies and Examples; Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis; Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations; The Use of Neologisms.…”
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The lived experiences of African American women mentors : what it means to guide as community pedagogues by Gamble-Lomax, Wyletta

Table of Contents: “…Mentors, mirrors, and memories -- Existential investigation : lanterns lighting the path -- Life lessons : the fabric of the journey -- I am who I am : black femininity -- (Un)silenced dialogue -- Pedagogical insights : the meaning in mentoring.…”
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Realm of unknowing : meditations on art, suicide, and other transformations by Rudman, Mark

Table of Contents: “…Realm Beyond Knowing -- "Father's Wild Game" -- The Night -- Catastrophe Practice -- "A Non-Figurative, Perceptual Realist with Existential Overtones" -- William Arrowsmith in Heaven: A Sketch -- My Best Friend -- On Place: City and Country.…”
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Ocean Enlightenment A Conversation with Edie Widder. by Burton, Howard

Table of Contents: “…Kids to the Rescue -- VI. Existential Challenges -- Continuing the Conversation…”
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The buried astrolabe : Canadian dramatic imagination and Western tradition by Walker, Craig Stewart, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…James Reaney: metamorphic masques -- Michael Cook: elegy, allegory, and eschatology -- Sharon Pollock: besieged memory -- Michel Tremblay: existential mythopoeia -- George F. Walker: postmodern city comedy -- Judith Thompson: social psychomachia.…”
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New British Philosophy : the Interviews. by Baggini, Julian

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Philosophical Biography; Ethics in the Modern World; The Role of Political Philosophy; Aesthetics and Music; Power, Knowledge and Injustice; Feminism and Pornography; Mind Matters; The Concerns of Analytic Philosophy; On Vagueness; The Rebirth of Metaphysics; Continental Philosophy and Emancipation; The Analytic and the Continental; Sartre's Existentialism; Post-Analytic Philosophy; A Post-Human Hell; Philosophy and the Public; Further Reading; Index.…”
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Ricoeur and Theology. by Stiver, Dan R.

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Picturing the Human : the Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch. by Antonaccio, Maria

Table of Contents: “…The Critique of Consciousness in Existentialism and Linguistic Behaviorism; 4. Moral Agency, Consciousness, and the Concept of the Individual; 5. …”
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Tyler Perry's America : inside his films by Lee, Shayne

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The dream and the nightmare: Perry's socioeconomic crossroads -- Wanting more: Perry's populist critique -- Redemptive madness: Perry's existential superwomen -- Relational religion: Perry's folk-modern spirituality -- Pragmatist cinema: Perrys five functions of art.…”
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The speed of light : constancy + cosmos by Grandy, David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Space, time, and light speed constancy -- Special relativity -- Horizonal light -- Experiential light -- Relational light -- Internal relations -- Light in a vacuum -- Ambient light -- Pre-reflective experience -- Body, world, and light -- Existential light.…”
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Invitation to Public Administration. by McSwite, O. C.

Table of Contents: “…A second letter from Prague: existential crisis on Ostrovni Street -- 4. Back in D.C. in a new millennium.…”
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Eric Voegelin, philosopher of history by Webb, Eugene, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Philosophy and history ; Experience and language ; Philosophical knowing as an existential process ; Reality and consciousness -- Anamnesis : the study of history and the struggle for truth. …”
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The Future of Post-Human Chess : a Preface to a New Theory of Tactics and Strategy.

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION 8212; THE FUN OF CHESS -- A Didactic Tale of Two Chess Sensibilities -- Chess and Its Variants -- The Value of Each Chess Piece -- The Movement of Each Chess Piece -- The Algebraic Chess Notation for Recordng Moves -- Different Variants of Chess in the World -- Chess, and the Relationshipbetween Strategy and Tactics -- Strategy -- Tactics -- The Theoretical Debate -- The Mental Argument -- The Natural Argument -- The Social Argument -- The Cultural Argument -- The Mediative-Variative Argument -- The Mediative-Variative Theory of Chess -- Theory and Meta-Theory -- A Unified Theory of Everything -- The Logic of Existential Dialectics -- The Conception of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontics) -- The Syntax of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontomethodologyand Ontologic) -- The Semantics of Existential Dialectics (or Its Ontosemantics) -- The Pragmatics of Existential Dialectics (or ItsOntopragmatics) -- Sophisticated Methodological Holism -- Chapter Outline -- Some Clarifications -- In Conversation with My Previous Books -- Case Studies and Examples -- Detailed Analysis versus Overall Synthesis -- Two Distinctive Features of Using Quotations -- The Use of Neologisms -- PART TWO 8226; Strategy -- CHAPTER 2. …”
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Partitives : studies on the syntax and semantics of partitive and related constructions

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Doing without a Partitive Constraint -- Floating Quantifiers, Partitives and Distributivity -- Naked Partitive Phrases in Turkish -- Partitives, existentials, and partitive determiners -- Is partitive case inherent or structural? …”
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Costly habits : stories by Makuck, Peter, 1940-2023

Table of Contents: “…Intro -- Contents -- Bound Away -- Under the Azure Dee -- Filling the Igloo -- The Price of Dining Out -- True Colors -- Existential Dirty Jokes -- Simple Misalignment -- Palliatives -- Costly Habits -- Bereavement Flight -- Animal Planet -- Yellow Tom -- Junk Trade -- About the Author.…”
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Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living.

Table of Contents: “…TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; HEIDEGGER AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF EMANCIPATION; CUTTING POETS TO SIZE; GEOGRAPHY, BIOLOGY AND POLITICS; HEEDING HEIDEGGER'S WAY; THE PITCH BLACK NIGHT OF HUMAN CREATION; MARTIN HEIDEGGER AND THE PHILOSOPHY OF NEGATIVITY; THE INTERPRETATION OF DA-SEIN AS A TRANSFORMATIVE, POETIC AND ETHICAL BEING; MOODS THAT MATTER; TERRENCE MALICK'S THE THIN RED LINE AND THE QUESTION OF HEIDEGGERIAN CINEMA; REFLECTIONS ON HEIDEGGER'S SAYING; ART, TRUTH AND FREEDOM; THE WORK AND THE PROMISE OF TECHNOLOGY; THE AN-DENKEN OF EXISTENTIALISM…”
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Dreams in exile : rediscovering science and ethics in nineteenth-century social theory by McCarthy, George E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: conversing with traditions : ancients and moderns in nineteenth-century practical science -- Aristotle on the constitution of social justice and classical democracy -- Aristotle and classical social theory : social justice and moral economy in Marx, Weber, and Durkheim -- Kant on the critique of reason and science -- Kant and classical social theory : epistemology, logic, and methods in Marx, Weber, and Durkheim -- Conclusion: dreams of classical reason : historical science between existentialism and antiquity.…”
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Consciousness and Loneliness by Mijuskovic, Ben

Table of Contents: “…8 The Bicameral Mind, the Abyss, and Underworlds9 Loneliness: In Harm's Way; 10 Metaphysical Dualism, Subjective Idealism, and Existentialism; By Way of an Epilogue; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index…”
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History and Philosophy of Psychology by Chung, Man Cheung

Table of Contents: “…10 Philosophical Critiques of Freudian Ideas -- 11 The Return of the Mind: Phenomenological and Existential Psychology and the Psychology of Ultimate Concerns -- 12 Existential and Phenomenological Philosophies -- 13 History of Clinical Psychology and Philosophy of Mental Health -- 14 How to Preserve Oneself: Part I -- 15 How to Preserve Oneself: Part II -- 16 The Qualitative Perspective: Social Constructionism, Critical Psychology, Hermeneutical Psychology and the Psychology of Common Sense -- Notes -- References -- Index…”
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Business coaching international : transforming individuals and organizations by Rostron, Sunny Stout

Table of Contents: “…About this book -- The business coaching process -- The coaching conversation -- Working with question frameworks -- Exploring and understanding coaching models -- Diversity, culture and gender -- Existential and experiential learning issues -- Supervision, contracting and ethical concerns -- Developing a body of knowledge--coaching research -- Integration and synthesis.…”
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Once You Go Black : Choice, Desire, and the Black American Intellectual. by Reid-Pharr, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Existential Negro; Going Black; 1 The Funny Father's Luck; 2 Ralph Ellison's Blues; 3 Alas Poor Jimmy; Coming Back?…”
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Wild dog dreaming : love and extinction by Rose, Deborah Bird, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…-- Looking into extinction -- Bobby's face, my love -- Ecological existentialism -- Orion's dog -- Singing up the others -- Job's grief -- What if the angel of history were a dog? …”
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The philosophical contexts of Sartre's The wall and other stories : stories of bad faith by Sweeney, Kevin W., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Philosophical ideas in The wall and other stories -- Bad faith and responsibility in "The wall" -- Eve in Sartre's "The room": Freudian censor in bad faith -- "Erostratus" and Descartes's example of hats and coats -- Knowledge of one's emotions in "Intimacy" -- The existential childhood of a leader -- Bad faith in The wall and other stories.…”
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The demons of modernity : Ingmar Bergman and European cinema by Orr, John, 1943-2010

Table of Contents: “…Foreword; Chapter One: Ingmar Bergman -- The Demons of Modernity; Chapter Two: The Shadow of Transcendence -- Dreyer-Bergman-Tarkovsky; Chapter Three: Lure of the Archipelago -- Bergman-Godard-New Wave; Chapter Four: Existential Stoicism -- Bergman-Antonioni; Afterword and Acknowlegements; Filmography; Selected Bibliography; Index.…”
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Cities in time : temporary urbanism and the future of the city by Madanipour, Ali

Table of Contents: “…Regulating time in everyday life -- Accelerated cities -- Existential temporality. Memory and identity in the city -- The phenomenology of anxiety -- Experimental temporality. …”
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Steve Biko : decolonial meditations of Black consciousness by Sithole, Tendayi

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Biko's contested subjectivities -- Biko: a decolonial philosopher -- The existential scandal of antiblack racism -- The mask of bad faith -- The colonial state: the Freedom Charter and the modicum of freedom -- The racist state, the law, and its outlawed -- Biko and the problématique of death -- Coda: Charting the terrains of the de-colonial turn.…”
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Music : the therapeutic edge : readings from William W. Sears

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Charles Eagle -- Introduction / Margaret Sears -- Process in music therapy -- A re-vision and expansion of processes in music therapy -- Models of thinking -- On music, mind, education, and human development -- The influence of music on behavior -- Time, the servant of music -- Semantic and existential implications for music therapy -- Afterword.…”
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Radiohead and Philosophy. by Forbes, Brandon

Table of Contents: “….; Radiohead and the Music Industry.; Radiohead's Existential Politics.; Radiohead, Heidegger, and Technology.; Radiohead and the Postmodern.; Selected chronological radiohead discography; Where we got our big ideas; Index (for a book); Copyright Page.…”
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The world of freedom : Heidegger, Foucault, and the politics of historical ontology by Nichols, Robert, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of the problematic -- Potentiality and authenticity : Heidegger's preparatory existential analytic in Being and time -- The field of freedom : Heidegger from fundamental to historical ontology -- Foucault contra Heidegger -- Foucault's 'autocritique' : three equivocations of conduct, experience, and thought -- The subject of spirituality -- Objectification, reification, subjectification : historical ontology and social criticism.…”
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