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Love a history / by May, Simon (Simon Philip Walter)

Table of Contents: “…Love plays God -- The foundation of Western love : Hebrew scripture -- From physical desire to paradise : Plato -- Love as perfect friendship : Aristotle -- Love as sexual desire : Lucretius and Ovid -- Love as the supreme virtue : Christianity -- Why Christian love isn't unconditional -- Women on top : love and the troubadours -- How human nature became loveable : from the high Middle Ages to the Renaissance -- Love as joyful understanding of the whole : Spinoza -- Love as enlightened romanticism : Rousseau -- Love as religion : Schlegel and Novalis -- Love as the urge to procreate : Schopenhauer -- Love as affirmation of life : Nietzsche -- Love as a history of loss : Freud -- Love as terror and tedium : Proust -- Love reconsidered.…”
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Conrad and empire by Ross, Stephen, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…The heart's desire -- Dereliction of duty -- Our man in Sulaco -- The perfect anarchist.…”
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Mute poetry, speaking pictures by Barkan, Leonard

Table of Contents: “…Visible and invisible -- Apples and oranges -- Desire and loss -- The theater as a visual arrt -- Afterword.…”
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Unbecoming subjects Judith Butler, moral philosophy, and critical responsibility / by Thiem, Annika

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part one : Challenges to the subject -- Subjects in subjection : bodies, desires, and the psychic life of norms -- Moral subjects and agents of morality -- Part two : Responsibility -- Responsibility as response : Levinas and responsibility for others -- Ambivalent desires of responsibility : Laplanche and psychoanalytic translations -- Part three : Critique -- The aporia of critique and the future of moral philosophy -- Critique and political ethics : justice as a question.…”
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Originalism and the good constitution / by McGinnis, John O., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Originalism : Its Discontents and the Supermajoritarian Solution -- The Nature of the Argument -- The Supermajoritarian Theory of Constitutionalism -- The Compliance of the US Constitution with Desirable Supermajority Rules -- The Continuing Desirability of an Old Supermajoritarian Constitution -- Supermajoritarian Failure, Including the Exclusion of African Americans and Women -- Original Methods Originalism -- Original Methods versus Constitutional Construction -- Precedent, Originalism, and the Constitution -- The Normative Theory of Precedent -- Imagining an Originalist Future.…”
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The Treacherous Imagination Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction / by McGill, Robert, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…A short history of transgression -- Biographical desire -- Fiction's betrayals, intimacy's trials -- In bed with an author.…”
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The Treacherous Imagination : Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction / by McGill, Robert, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…A short history of transgression -- Biographical desire -- Fiction's betrayals, intimacy's trials -- In bed with an author.…”
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The Treacherous Imagination : Intimacy, Ethics, and Autobiographical Fiction / by McGill, Robert, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…A short history of transgression -- Biographical desire -- Fiction's betrayals, intimacy's trials -- In bed with an author.…”
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Mimesis and science empirical research on imitation and the mimetic theory of culture and religion /

Table of Contents: “…Anspach -- Scared violence, mimetic rivalry, and war / Melvin Konner -- Desire, mimesis, and the phylogeny of freedom / William B. …”
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The sex education debates by Kendall, Nancy, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…: scientism, sexual identity, and sexuality education -- Rape as consuming desire and gendered responsibility -- Concluding thoughts: sex education as civics education.…”
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Knowledge, reason, and taste Kant's response to Hume / by Guyer, Paul, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Common sense and the varieties of skepticism -- Causation -- Cause, object, and self -- Reason, desire, and action -- Systematicity, taste, and purpose.…”
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Hollywood romantic comedy states of the union, 1934-65 / by Glitre, Kathrina

Table of Contents: “…III. Equality -- pt. IV. Desire.…”
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The religious philosophy of Simone Weil : an introduction / by McCullough, Lissa

Table of Contents: “…Reality and contradiction -- The paradox of desire -- God and the world -- Necessity and obedience -- Grace and decreation -- Conclusion : Weil's theological coherence.…”
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Liturgy and the beauty of the unknown another place / by Torevell, David

Table of Contents: “…The movement of return -- The movement of interiority -- The movement in the image -- The movement of desire -- The movement towards silent mystery -- The movement of aesthetics.…”
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Remembering Victoria a tragic Nahuat love story / by Taggart, James M., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The tragedy -- Talcuaco -- Fratricide -- "Rabbit and coyote" -- Human goodness -- Nahueh -- Love as desire -- Wife as sister -- Conclusions.…”
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Affect, narratives and politics of Southeast Asian migration / by Piocos, Carlos M., III

Table of Contents: “…Emotions on the move -- At home and unhomeliness -- Shame and desire -- Vulnerability and resistance -- Sacrifice and social heroism -- Mourning and movement -- Affect and activism.…”
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Improving undergraduate instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics report of a workshop /

Table of Contents: “…Identifying desired student learning outcomes -- Evaluating effective instruction -- Promoting effective instruction at departmental and institutional levels -- General discussion.…”
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Narkomania : Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine / by Carroll, Jennifer J., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Homegrown -- What counts when you're counting -- A deficit of desire -- Star wars and the state -- Drugs of revolution -- Sovereignty and abandonment.…”
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Narkomania : Drugs, HIV, and Citizenship in Ukraine / by Carroll, Jennifer J., 1981-

Table of Contents: “…Homegrown -- What counts when you're counting -- A deficit of desire -- Star wars and the state -- Drugs of revolution -- Sovereignty and abandonment.…”
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Politics and the passions, 1500-1850

Table of Contents: “…McCormick -- Difficult engagements : private passion and public service in Montaigne's Essais / Timothy Hampton -- The bachelor state : philosophy and sovereignty in Bacon's New Atlantis / John Guillory -- Hobbes' revolution / Daniela Coli -- Happy tears : baroque politics in Descartes' Passions de l'âme / Victoria Kahn -- The desire to live : Spinoza's Ethics under pressure / Judith Butler -- A mind for passion : Locke and Hutcheson on desire / Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse -- Rousseau's quarrel with gratitude / Patrick Coleman -- Parting with prejudice : Hume, identity, and aesthetic universality / Neil Saccamano -- Vico, "tenderness," and "barbarism" / Riccardo Caporali -- Kant and the relegation of the passions / Howard Caygill -- Beliefs and emotions (from Stanley Fish to Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill) / Frances Ferguson.…”
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