Early Holiday Gift Idea

Amazon has again this season reduced the price of World of Shakespeare: The Complete Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare (38 Volume Library) (Hardcover) by more than $200. Instead of the usual price of $299.00, it is on sale for $89.70. That works out to be cheaper then buying the equivalent paperback copies.

-Mark Brawner

The Philosophical Lexicon

8th ed. 1987, edited by Daniel Dennett

Some sample entries.

heidegger, n. A ponderous device for boring through thick layers of substance. "It's buried so deep we'll have to use a heidegger."
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marcuse, v. To criticize vehemently from a Marxist perspective. "Je marcuse!" - J. P. Sartre.
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rawl, n. A fishing line, baited with a few apparently innocent intuitions about fairness, but capable of bringing in such big fish as Pareto optimality and God knows what else. "But some who use a rawl are only fitching." Hence rawl, v. "When he rawled that slender line in, I could hardly believe my eyes."

--Terrence Berres

Middlebrow Translations of Highbow Philosophy
The Film Fandom of the 1930s Great Books Intellectuals

(Preview of a chapter from Scenes of Instruction: The Beginnings of the U.S. Study of Film By Dana Polan (University of California Press - April 2007))

...in which Adler, Scott Buchanan, St. John's College, etc, are discussed.

-Mark Brawner

Who Is John Galt? And Does Anyone Care Anymore?

Brian Murray, at On the Square, marking tomorrow's fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Atlas Shrugged

What made [Ayn] Rand’s works controversial, then and now, was their unashamed elitism and atheism—their contempt for the values and attitudes held by most human beings who must make their way through the real world with the usual sets of weaknesses and strengths.

--Terrence Berres