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Free Download Joyce Goggin, "The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form"
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0786442948 | PDF | pages: 239 | 2.6 mb
These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction. By addressing the topic from a wide range of perspectives, the book offers readers a nuanced and comprehensive picture of current scholarship in the subject area.

Free Download William S. Allen, "Without End: Sade’s Critique of Reason"
English | ISBN: 1501337580 | 2017 | 224 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The reputation of the Marquis de Sade is well-founded. The experience of reading his works is demanding to an extreme. Violence and sexuality appear on almost every page, and these descriptions are interspersed with extended discourses on materialism, atheism, and crime. In this bold and rigorous study William S. Allen sets out the context and implications of Sade’s writings in order to explain their lasting challenge to thought. For what is apparent from a close examination of his works is the breadth of his readings in contemporary science and philosophy, and so the question that has to be addressed is why Sade pursued these interests by way of erotica of the most violent kind.

Free Download Graham M. Jones, "Magic’s Reason: An Anthropology of Analogy"
English | ISBN: 022651868X | 2017 | 240 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In Magic’s Reason, Graham M. Jones tells the entwined stories of anthropology and entertainment magic. The two pursuits are not as separate as they may seem at first. As Jones shows, they not only matured around the same time, but they also shared mutually reinforcing stances toward modernity and rationality. It is no historical accident, for example, that colonial ethnographers drew analogies between Western magicians and native ritual performers, who, in their view, hoodwinked gullible people into believing their sleight of hand was divine.

Free Download Matthew Boyle, "Reason in Nature: New Essays on Themes from John McDowell"
English | ISBN: 0674241045 | 2022 | 392 pages | PDF | 2 MB
A group of distinguished philosophers reflect on John McDowell’s arguments for nonreductive naturalism, an approach that can explain what is special about human reason without implying that it is in any sense supernatural.

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Free Download Maimonides: Faith in Reason (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWFTB5S6 | 2023 | 5 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 324 MB
Author: Alberto Manguel
Narrator: John Lescault
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles. Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides (1138-1204), was born in Córdoba, Spain. The gifted son of a judge and mathematician, Maimonides fled Córdoba with his family when he was thirteen due to Almohad persecution of all non-Islamic faiths. Forced into a long exile, the family spent a decade in Spain before settling in Morocco. From there, Maimonides traveled to Palestine and Egypt, where he died at Saladin’s court.