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Against the state
Irreverent and incisive critique of liberal theories of the state.In Against the State, Crispin Sartwell unleashes a quick and brutal rejection of the traditional arguments for state legitimacy. Sartwell considers the classics of Western political philosophy-Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hegel, Hume, ...
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End of story
Argues that the academy's obsession with language, and in particular with narrative, has become a sort of disease.In End of Story, Crispin Sartwell maintains that the academy is obsessed with language, and with narrative in particular. Narrative has been held to constitute or explain time, action...
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Entanglements
Presents strikingly original and contemporary answers to the most traditional philosophical problems in epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, and political theory.A work of maximally ambitious scope with a foundation in humility, Entanglements sets out a philosophical system of the sort rarely seen o...
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Extreme virtue
Explores leadership and civic virtue in American culture.Extreme Virtue presents a new and radical approach to the problems of leadership and virtue in public life. Originating in the author's newspaper writing about the Clinton/Lewinsky scandal, the book grapples with what has gone wrong in the ...
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How to escape
Passionate and rollicking personal and intellectual essays by philosopher Crispin Sartwell.Philosopher, music critic, and syndicated columnist Crispin Sartwell has forged a distinctive and fiercely original identity over the years as a cultural commentator. In books about anarchism, art and polit...
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Obscenity, anarchy, reality
Examines the consequences of utter affirmations of our world as it is, exploring the themes of transgressive sexuality, political anarchism, addiction, death, and embodiment.Sartwell presents an extreme and provocative philosophy of life. He explores what happens if we love this world precisely a...
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The art of living
A multicultural philosophy of art applied to common American and European experience and discussed in relation to Taoist, Buddhist, Hindu, Native American, and African traditionsThe Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions is the first truly multi-cultural philosoph...
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