検索キーワード： "Dreams" 哲学

'I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals' (Carl Gustav Jung) In 1957, four years before his death, Carl Gustav Jung, psychiatrist and psychologist, began writing his life story. But...

Mikhail Bakunin was the most incandescent revolutionary of the nineteenth century: a Russian aristocrat who traded his estate for the barricade, a veteran of three uprisings, a prisoner of three empires, the rival who nearly broke Karl Marx, and the trusting soul whom the young fanatic Nechayev played like an instrument. He gave anarchism its most famous sentence—that the urge to destroy is also a creative urge—and he believed, with his whole enormous heart, that freedom was something you seized by tearing the old world down.

What if nobody has to win the argument about how society should be organized? In the nineteenth century, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon shocked the world by declaring that property is theft—and then, rather cheerfully, proposed that people could get along just fine without governments telling them what to do. He was mocked, attacked, imprisoned, and largely misunderstood. He also happened to be onto something.

In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, for Washington to adopt a more restrained foreign policy based on a sound understanding of how nationalism and realism constrain great powers abroad.

Challenge everything you know about political philosophy by exploring a world free from forced hierarchy and domination. Whether you are seeking a thought-provoking companion for your daily commute or deep learning during quiet evenings, this critical narrative replaces myths of chaos with a...

Uncover humanity’s relentless pursuit of a perfect society in this thought-provoking history of utopian philosophy. Whether you are seeking meaning during a daily commute or craving an intellectual deep-dive into sociology, this reflective exploration reveals how our blueprints for heaven on...

Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and experimentation derive from sustained engagement with American democratic thought.

America's greatness comes from people working hard to fulfill their dreams. But today that greatness is being undermined by people using the government to steal other people's dreams (and money). Rather than participate and innovate in the marketplace, generating goods and services that benefit...