Occasions for philosophy

Edwards, James C.

PRENTICE/HALL

The Plain Sense of Things: The Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism

What could it mean to be religious in a world where religion no longer retains its former authority? Posing this question for his fellow Western intellectuals who inhabit just such a world, James C. Edwards investigates the loss of religion's traditional power in a culture characterized by what he calls "normal nihilism"—a situation in which one's commitment to a particular set of values is all one really has, and in which traditional religion is only a means of interpretation used to preserve what one most cares about. Recognizing the important historical role of religion in making us the people we are, he seeks to establish a viable understanding of religion without traditional beliefs and within the context of contemporary skepticism. 
The Plain Sense of Things is a book more interested in the power of religion that in its truth and in what happens to that power when the claims to truth slacken their grip.

History

World

Penn State University Press

Ethics Without Philosophy: Wittgenstein and the Moral Life

"Ethics Without Philosophy is the first full-scale attempt to relate Wittgenstein’s ethical and religious concerns to his philosophical work. The attempt is splendidly carried out. I have found it more useful in helping me to understand Wittgenstein than any other book about him which I have read."  --Richard Rorty, Princeton University

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

University Press of Florida

Considering the basic elements of Heidegger's and Wittgenstein's thought, this book argues that the question of philosophical nihilism overturns the question of whether language can be represented as a set of rules to be followed by speakers.

The Authority of Language: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and the Threat of Philosophical Nihilism

Univ of Southern Florida

SHOTWELL PUBLISHING IS PLEASED TO PRESENT an entirely new study of a significant event in the War Between the States: Quantrill's Raid on Lawrence Kansas. 
It is often said that in any great conflict, it is the winners who write the history. It might be said even better that the winner’s propaganda becomes the accepted history. That is certainly true about the great American bloodletting of 1861—1865. 
Lincoln’s war of invasion and conquest of the Southern people is almost always told in a way that’s supports the victor’s claim of righteousness. That has certainly been true in regard to the raid of Quantrill’s Confederate guerillas on Lawrence, Kansas. 
Edwards has for the first time, based on exhaustive examination of the sources, tells the history fully and objectively. Civil War enthusiasts can learn clearly for the first time why the raid happened and how it was carried out. The author’s history treats both sides with truth-telling and, among other discoveries, exposes the flaws in the Union’s righteousness in the border war of Kansas/Missouri.

What Really Happened? Quantrill’s Raid on Lawrence, Kansas: Revisiting The Evidence

Americas

Shotwell Publishing LLC

In August 1863, guerrilla chieftain William C. Quantrill led around 400 Missouri guerrillas deep into Kansas to attack Lawrence, “the great hot-bed of abolitionism in Kansas.” Over a four-day period, Quantrill led his men over 90 miles from Johnson County, Missouri, to Lawrence where they burned much of the town and killed over 150 townsmen. After spending 4 hours in Lawrence, Quantrill took an 80 mile route back into Missouri, skirmishing with Union cavalry along the way. This tour guide contains 49 tour stops and follows the route taken by Quantrill’s guerrillas during their 1863 raid on Lawrence, Kansas. The tour begins in Johnson County, Missouri and goes west through Jackson and Cass Counties, Missouri, to the Kansas state line. The tour enters Kansas just north of the boundary between Johnson and Miami Counties, Kansas, and continues heading northwest through Johnson and Douglas Counties, Kansas, on the way to Lawrence. As you might expect, most of the tour stops are located in Lawrence, Kansas. After Lawrence there are a number of tour stops following the route taken by Quantrill’s guerrillas on their way back to Missouri as they were pursued by Federal troops. Altogether the tour covers a distance of approximately 175 miles from start to finish.

Quantrill's Revenge: A Comprehensive Tour Guide to William C. Quantrill's Raid of Lawrence, Kansas

Titterington, Dick

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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