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Heidegger & Nietzsche / Heidegger und Nietzsche

Table of Contents: “…Preservation-Enhancement as Value-Positing Metaphysics in Heidegger's Essay "The Word of Nietzsche: 'God is Dead'" /…”
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Why should Jews survive? : looking past the Holocaust toward a Jewish future by Goldberg, Michael, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- The holocaust cult -- Is the only good god a dead god? -- A new Sinai, a new Torah, and the 614th commandment -- The household of Israel: is anybody home besides Anne Frank and Eleazar Ben Ya'ir? …”
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The meaning of the death of God ; Protestant, Jewish and Catholic scholars explore atheistic theology by Murchland, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Novak--Is God dead? By R. Adolfs.--God-is-dead theology, by E. B. Borowitz.--Taking the death of God seriously, by E. …”

Comic relief : Nietzsche's Gay science by Higgins, Kathleen Marie

Table of Contents: “…; Interlude 3: A Fool's Cap, Above All; FIVE: God Is Dead; Interlude 4: Become Who You Are; SIX: Eternal Recurrence: Not Again!…”
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New Poetic : Yeats to Eliot. by Stead, C. K.

Table of Contents: “…FC; Half title; Also available from Bloomsbury; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Conventions; Introduction; 1 Art and Reason; Plato or Socrates; Apollo and Dionysus; Art and life; Plato and the poets; Wine and song; Divine madness; 2 Being; Metaphysics; Essence and existence; Forms; God; God is dead; Nihilism; Eternal return; 3 Becoming; Heraclitus; Will to power; Historical background; Reality and truth; Nietzsche and science; Plato on becoming; 4 Noble and Good; Kalokagathia; Objectivism and relativism; Eudaimonia; Soul over body; Decadence; Masters and slaves.…”
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Camus : the Stranger.

Table of Contents: “…-- 6 Class and race -- 7 An Arab is somehow murdered -- 8 An Arab forgotten and a mother appeased -- 9 Meursault judges the judges -- 10 God is dead and Existentialism is born -- Chapter 3 Early Camus and Sartre -- 11 The cycle of the absurd -- 12 Different views of freedom -- Chapter 4 Camus and the Algerian war -- Chapter 5 Why and how we read The Stranger: a guide to further reading -- 13 Contemporaries, precursors and followers -- 14 Suggestions for further reading -- 15 Translations -- 16 Lo Straniero.…”
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Edvard Munch : behind the Scream by Prideaux, Sue

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Foreward -- Problems in Naming and Dating -- Munch's Paints and Materials -- ONE Shy Souls -- TWO Never To Be Parted -- THREE Growing Up In Kristiania -- FOUR The Blood-red Banner -- FIVE Losing Faith -- SIX 'I Have Decided To Become an Artist' -- SEVEN 'No More Brown Sauce' -- EIGHT A Calculated Seduction -- NINE A Few Drinks Before Breakfast -- TEN Soap Art and Soul Art -- ELEVEN And Virtue Is a Sham -- TWELVE The Saint-Cloud Manifesto -- THIRTEEN Bizarro -- FOURTEEN God is Dead, Berlin -- FIFTEEN Memento Mori…”
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Dien Cai Dau. by Komunyakaa, Yusef

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; Camouflaging the Chimera; Tunnels; Somewhere Near Phu Bai; Starlight Scope Myopia; Red Pagoda; A Greenness Taller Than Gods; The Dead at Quang Tri; Hanoi Hannah; Roll Call; Fragging; You and I Are Disappearing -- 2527th Birthday of the Buddha; Re-creating the Scene; Night Muse & Mortar Round; One More Loss to Count; Sappers; Nude Pictures; We Never Know; A Break from the Bush; Seeing in the Dark; Tu Do Street; Communiqué; The Edge; Donut Dollies; Prisoners; Jungle Surrender; Eyeball Television; The One-legged Stool; Short-timer's Calendar; Thanks; To Have Danced with Death.…”
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Philosophers without gods : meditations on Atheism and the secular life

Table of Contents: “…Taylor -- Disenchantment / David Owens -- Religion and respect / Simon Blackburn -- Reasonable religious disagreements / Richard Feldman -- If God is dead, is everything permitted? / Elizabeth Secord Anderson -- Divine evil / David Lewis -- Meta-atheism: religious avowal as self-deception / Georges Rey -- Faith and Fanaticism / Jonathan E. …”
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An anthology of living religions / Living religions

Table of Contents: “…Freud, Religion as the opium of the people / K. Marx, God is dead / F. Nietzsche; Religious points of view, The oneness of divine / A. …”

Philosophy on the Go. by Green, Joey

Table of Contents: “…; Does God Exist?; "God is dead."…”
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To kill or not to kill euthanasia in a society with a cultural death wish by Fleming, John

Table of Contents: “…-- Ideology: part reality and part illusion -- When God is Dead! -- The Decline in Religious Adherence and Practice -- Secular -- What Does it Mean? …”
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Sidney Lumet : film and literary vision by Cunningham, Frank R., 1937-

Table of Contents: “…The Loner and the Struggle for Moral Capability -- Equus: Martin Dysart and the Death of the Gods -- The Deadly Affair: Varieties of Betrayal -- The Fugitive Kind: Orpheus Ascending -- A View from the Bridge: The Consequences of Denial -- Daniel: The Understanding of the Past…”
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The portable atheist : essential readings for the nonbeliever / Essential readings for the nonbeliever

Table of Contents: “…--- Elizabeth Anderson, If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted? Penn Jillette, There Is No God --- Ian Mcewan, End of the World Blues --- Steven Weinberg, What About God? …”
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The silent god by Korpel, Marjo C. A. (Marjo Christina Annette), 1958-

Table of Contents: “…The Silent God; contents; preface; the silent god in modernity; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Silent God in Modern Literature and Media; 1.2.1 Marie Luise Kaschnitz; 1.2.2 Jean-Paul Sartre; 1.2.3 Samuel Beckett; 1.2.4 Eli Wiesel; 1.2.5 Ingmar Bergman; 1.2.6 Endo Shusaku; 1.2.7 Nathalie Sarraute; 1.2.8 Cormac McCarthy; 1.2.9 Patric Tavanti; 1.3 Some Theologians and Philosophers; 1.3.1 Silent before the Silent; 1.3.2 Contemporary Theologians and Philosophers; 1.3.2.1 Karl Barth; 1.3.2.2 Kornelis Miskotte; 1.3.2.3 God Is Dead Movement; 1.3.2.4 John Paul II and Benedict XVI…”
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Literature classics. / What makes The Odyssey a classic?

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