David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) wrote the acclaimed novels
Infinite Jest and
The Broom of the System and the story collections
Oblivion,
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and
Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections
Consider the Lobster and
A Supposedly Fun Thing I“ll Never Do Again and the full-length work
Everything and More.
10 Ebooks von Steven Cahn
Steven M. Cahn: From Student to Scholar
Steven M. Cahn’s advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how to plan, complete, and defend a dissertation; how to navigate a job interview; how to improve …
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€17.58
David Wallace: Fate, Time, and Language
In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor’s m …
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€19.99
Steven Cahn & Victor Cahn: Polishing Your Prose
This singular book illustrates how to edit a piece of prose and enhance its clarity of thought and felicity of style. The authors first present ten principles of effective composition, and then …
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€14.99
Steven Cahn & Maureen Eckert: Freedom and the Self
The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace’s challenge to Richard Taylor’s argument for fatalism. In this …
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€30.99
Steven Cahn & Christine Vitrano: Happiness and Goodness
How should we evaluate the success of each person’s life? Countering the prevalent philosophical perspective on the subject, Steven M. Cahn and Christine Vitrano defend the view that our well-being i …
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€19.99
Steven Cahn: Religion Within Reason
In the views of most believers and critics, religion is essentially connected to the existence of a supernatural deity. If supernaturalism is not reasonable, the argument goes, religion cannot be rea …
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€27.99
Cahn Steven Cahn: Affirmative Action and the University
"This book is recommended for anyone interested in understanding, questioning, articulating, and acting on the basis of their own and others‘ perspectives on sexism, racism, and affirmative …
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€54.69
Cahn Steven Cahn: Morality, Responsibility, and the University
"[A] timely and important book…. These thoughtful essays surely will shape the debate about morality in higher education for years to come and provide guidance in the quest to improve the …
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€40.15
Steven M. Cahn: Annotated Kant
This new, complete translation of Immanuel Kant’s Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals provides the most accessible version of this challenging foundational work in moral philosophy. Calling on …
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€18.82
Steven M. Cahn & Andrew T. Forcehimes: Democracy Reader
Democracies put political power in the hands of the people. But why should people have a say in the operations of the states that govern them? Are democratic states preferable to non-democratic …
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€37.65
