Tag: Thought

Free Download Suheil I. Laher, "Tawātur in Islamic Thought: Transmission, Certitude and Orthodoxy "
English | ISBN: 1399510819 | 2024 | 288 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Tawātur is the concept that information yields certainty if acquired through a sufficient number of independent channels. Tawātur in Islamic Thought is an attempt to unravel the twisted historical threads of the conception and usage of tawātur across diverse Islamic disciplines, in light of both Western academia and debates within Muslim scholarship.

Free Download Ati Mul, ""They Thought It Was a Marvel": Arthur Melbourne-Cooper (1874-1961), Pioneer of Puppet Animation"
English | 2010 | pages: 577 | ISBN: 9085550165 | PDF | 7,5 mb
Drawing on hitherto unseen archival material and interviews, "They Thought It Was a Marvel" sketches an unforgettable portrait of British pioneer filmmaker Arthur Melbourne-Cooper. Tjitte de Vries and Ati Mul sift through several of Melbourne-Cooper’s films, emphasizing his contributions to early cinema while simultaneously arguing their case that Melbourne-Cooper’s Matches Appealisthe first animated film. Accompanying the book is a DVD that features the six surviving animated films made by Melbourne-Cooper.

Free Download Richard King, "The Party of Eros: Radical Social Thought and the Realm of Freedom"
English | 1972 | ISBN: 0807897019 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 0.2 mb
In this provocative study, the author treats Goodman, Marcuse, and Brown as the three most important radical social theorists in America since the end of World War II. His reasoned conclusions will attract anyone interested in the nonpolitical background of today’s radical social thought.

Free Download Nedim Nomer, "Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World"
English | ISBN: 019288834X | 2025 | 400 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its downfall in the early 20th century. It features fourteen original papers by some of the most prominent and innovative scholars of Ottoman history. The book sheds light on the complex role that ideas have played in all aspects of Ottoman social and political life throughout the history of the Ottoman world, across time, space, social class, and ethnic and religious identity.

Free Download Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism by Alma Steingart
English | January 17, 2023 | ISBN: 0226824187 | 300 pages | MOBI | 2.29 Mb
The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.

Free Download Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, 1798-1939 by Albert Hourani
English | August 31, 1983 | ISBN: 0521274230 | 406 pages | PDF | 11 Mb
Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 is the most comprehensive study of the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East. Albert Hourani studies the way in which ideas about politics and society changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe. His main attention is given to the movement of ideas in Egypt and Lebanon. He shows how two streams of thought, the one aiming to restate the social principles of Islam, and the other to justify the separation of religion from politics, flowed into each other to create the Egyptian and Arab nationalisms of the present century. The last chapter of the book surveys the main tendencies of thought in the post-war years. Since its publication in 1962, this book has been regarded as a modern classic of interpretation. It was reissued by the Cambridge University Press in 1983 and has subsequently sold over 8000 copies.

Free Download Michael J. Shapiro, "Deforming American Political Thought: Challenging the Jeffersonian Legacy"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138182702, 1138182710 | EPUB | pages: 236 | 1.0 mb
Deforming American Political Thought offers an alternative to the dominant American historical imagination, treating issues that range from the nature of Thomas Jefferson’s vision of an egalitarian nation to the persistence of racial inequality. Presenting multifaceted arguments that transcend the myopic scope of traditional political discourses, Michael J. Shapiro summons disparate disciplines and genres – architecture, crime stories, novels, films, and jazz/blues music (among others) to provide approaches to the comprehension of diverse facets of American political thought from the founding to the present. The book’s various investigations disclose that there have always been dissenting voices, articulated in diverse genres of expression that cast doubt on the moral purpose and exceptionalism of the American mind.

Free Download Beyond Prayer: Positive Thought and Universal Energy by Parker Rowan
English | October 6, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DJN1S7TD | 82 pages | EPUB | 6.14 Mb
Beyond Prayer: Positive Thought and Universal Energy

Free Download Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, "Tolstoy’s Political Thought: Christian Anarcho-Pacifist Iconoclasm Then and Now "
English | ISBN: 036777738X | 2021 | 268 pages | EPUB | 572 KB
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), besides writing famous novels such as War and Peace, also wrote on political issues, especially later in his life, putting forward a political philosophy which might be termed ‘Christian anarchism’. This book provides a comprehensive overview of Tolstoy’s political thought. It outlines in a systematic way Tolstoy’s thought, which was originally articulated unsystematically in diverse, often informal writing, such as pamphlets, letters, and speeches, as well as books, and in his novels, where Tolstoy’s thinking is put forward implicitly through the novels’ characters. The book sets out the basic themes of Tolstoy’s political thought: his acceptance of the teachings of Jesus, his criticism of the way in which Jesus’ teachings have been relayed by the church through traditional creeds and dogma, his passionate rejection of political violence by both the state and those working for reform, his plea for a nonviolent response to violence and injustice, and his call for society to forego its institutional shackles and enact a community of peace, love, and justice. The book also includes background information on the Russia of Tolstoy’s time, including the religious context, and a discussion of how Tolstoy’s political thought has been received by his admirers, who included Gandhi, and his critics.

Free Download Opening the Hand of Thought: Foundations of Zen Buddhist Practice by Kosho Uchiyama, edited and translated by Shohaku Okumura, Tom Wright, Jisho Warner
English | June 15, 2004 | ISBN: 0861713575 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 3.7 MB
For over thirty years, Opening the Hand of Thought has offered an introduction to Zen Buddhism and meditation unmatched in clarity and power. This is the revised edition of Kosho Uchiyama’s singularly incisive classic.