Best of
Philosophy

1938

The Science of Mind


Ernest Shurtleff Holmes - 1938
    Schooled in Christian Science, he moved to Los Angeles in 1912. Holmes published his first book, Creative Mind in 1919, and followed it up with The Science of Mind in 1926. Holmes had an immense influence on New Age beliefs, particularly his core philosophy that we create our own reality. This is the text of the first edition of The Science of Mind. A revised edition of this book was published in 1938.

The Theater and Its Double


Antonin Artaud - 1938
    

The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays


Martin Heidegger - 1938
    The essays in this volume are intriguing, challenging, & often baffling to the reader, calling him to abandon all superficial scanning & to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking. Heidegger is not a 'primitive' or a 'romantic.' He is not one who seeks escape from the burdens & responsibilities of contemporary life into serenity, either through the re-creating of some idyllic past or through the exalting of some simple experience. Finally, Heidegger is not a foe of technology & science. He neither disdains nor rejects them as though they were only destructive of human life. The roots of Heidegger's thinking lie deep in the Western philosophical tradition. Yet that thinking is unique in many of its aspects, in its language, & in its literary expression. In the development of this thought Heidegger has been taught chiefly by the Greeks, by German idealism, by phenomenology, & by the scholastic theological tradition. In him these & other elements have been fused by his genius of sensitivity * intellect into a very individual philosophical expression."--William Lovitt's Introduction

The Tyranny of Words


Stuart Chase - 1938
    Index

Contributions to Philosophy (from Enowning)


Martin Heidegger - 1938
    essential for all collections." --Choice..". students of Heidegger will surely find this book indispensable." --Library JournalContributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), written in 1936-38 and first published in 1989 as Beitrage zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), is Heidegger's most ground-breaking work after the publication of Being and Time in 1927. If Being and Time is perceived as undermining modern metaphysics, Contributions undertakes to reshape the very project of thinking.

Modes of Thought


Alfred North Whitehead - 1938
    Six lectures delivered at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, & two at the University of ChicagoPrefaceImportance Expression UnderstandingPerspective Forms of process Civilized universeNature lifelessNature aliveThe aim of philosophyIndex

Fashion is Spinach


Elizabeth Hawes - 1938
    Miss Hawes' story is an adventure into every phase of the women's clothing industry, the second largest business in the United States. Her early struggles for recognition and her final leadership in helping to shift the center of the fashion industry from Paris to New York make a story that will appeal not only to the initiate, but to the thousands besides - and to their husbands."Consumers attention!" Elizabeth Hawes tells us that 'the deformed thief Fashion' steals the real value out of what we buy. She suggests a remedy. She makes a plea for functional and durable merchandise. Consumers want that too. "Although Fashion is Spinach deals exclusively with the clothing industry it has a wider application"Aline Davis HaysPresident, League of Women Shoppers

Zen and Japanese Culture


D.T. Suzuki - 1938
    In simple, often poetic, language, Daisetz Suzuki describes what Zen is, how it evolved, and how its emphasis on primitive simplicity and self-effacement have helped to shape an aesthetics found throughout Japanese culture. He explores the surprising role of Zen in the philosophy of the samurai, and subtly portrays the relationship between Zen and swordsmanship, haiku, tea ceremonies, and the Japanese love of nature. Suzuki's contemplative discussion is enhanced by anecdotes, poetry, and illustrations showing silk screens, calligraphy, and examples of architecture.

Little Essays Toward Truth


Aleister Crowley - 1938
    Little Essays Toward Truth by Aleister Crowley.

Logic: The Theory of Inquiry


John Dewey - 1938
    To Evander Bradley McGilvary, the work "assured De­wey a place among the world’s great logicians.”William Gruen thought “No treatise on logic ever written has had as direct and vital an impact on social life as Dewey’s will have.”Paul Weiss called it the “source and inspiration of a new and powerful movement.”Irwin Edman said of it, “Most phi­losophers write postscripts; Dewey has made a program. His Logic is a new charter for liberal intelligence.”Ernest Nagel called the Logic an im­pressive work. “Its unique virtue is to bring fresh illumination to its subject by stressing the roles logical principles and concepts have in achieving the ob­jectives of scientific inquiry.”Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Prayer and Intelligence


Jacques Maritain - 1938
    It is also a book about the intellectual life. How does our intellectual search for God influence our life of prayer and how does the discipline of a life of prayer act as the necessary grounding for a profound and sustained search for the truth? In the pages of this book, philosophy and the spiritual life intertwine and strengthen each other.

Poetry and Anarchism


Herbert Read - 1938
    

On the Latin Language, Volume II: Books VIII.–X., Fragments


Marcus Terentius Varro - 1938
    Terentius), 116-27 BCE, of Reate, renowned for his vast learning, was an antiquarian, historian, philologist, student of science, agriculturist, and poet. He was a republican who was reconciled to Julius Caesar and was marked out by him to supervise an intended national library.Of Varro's more than seventy works involving hundreds of volumes we have only his treatise On Agriculture (in Loeb number 283) and part of his monumental achievement "De Lingua Latina," On the Latin Language, a work typical of its author's interest not only in antiquarian matters but also in the collection of scientific facts. Originally it consisted of twenty-five books in three parts: etymology of Latin words (books 1-7); their inflexions and other changes (books 8-13); and syntax (books 14-25). Of the whole work survive (somewhat imperfectly) books 5 to 10. These are from the section (books 4-6) which applied etymology to words of time and place and to poetic expressions; the section (books 7-9) on analogy as it occurs in word formation; and the section (books 10-12) which applied analogy to word derivation. Varro's work contains much that is of very great value to the study of the Latin language.The Loeb Classical Library edition of "On the Latin Language" is in two volumes.

Faith and Action


Helmut Stellrecht - 1938
    

Reason & Revelation in the Middle Ages


Étienne Gilson - 1938
    

The Journals of Kierkegaard


Søren Kierkegaard - 1938
    Journals of the Danish thinker

The Story Of The World's Great Thinkers


Ernest R. Trattner - 1938
    A survey of important thinkers, with an overview of one important theory from each, from Copernicus to Einstein.

The Living Thoughts of Schopenhauer


Arthur Schopenhauer - 1938