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Rudolf Steiner
"We live in [a time when] human beings must become independent. But on what does this depend? It depends on people's ability...to become self-assertive, to not allow themselves to be…
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Gary Steiner
Anthropocentrism and Its Discontents is the first-ever comprehensive examination of views of animals in the history of Western philosophy, from Homeric Greece to the twentieth century.
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This book strongly challenges the Western philosophical tradition's assertion that humans are superior to nonhuman animals. It provides a full and direct moral status of nonhuman animals.
Gary Steiner argues that ethologists and philosophers in the analytic and continental traditions have largely failed to advance an adequate explanation of animal behavior. Critically engaging the positions of Marc…
In Animals and the Limits of Postmodernism, Gary Steiner illuminates postmodernism’s inability to produce viable ethical and political principles. Ethics requires notions of self, agency, and value that are not…
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Dominique Lestel
A provocative defense of meat eating as an affirmation of our vital relation and debt to animals.
Gary L. Francione
Demonstrates why Francione’s theory is regarded as an innovation in animal ethics. This volume explains our attitudes about animals by distinguishing the issue of animal use from that of animal…
Karl Loewith
Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for…
Gary Lachman
A biography of the twentieth-century mystic and educator who - while widely known for founding the Waldorf schools and other educational and humanitarian movements - remains a mystery to many…
Rudolf Steiner - educator, architect, artist, philosopher and agriculturalist - ranks amongst the most creative and prolific figures of the early twentieth century. Yet he remains a mystery to most…
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This book is a call to examine the very nature of technology and to develop practices for meeting its many challenges.
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Karl Lowith
