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|  | | Heidegger and Whitehead
Comparison of two of the most important and difficult philosophical works of the twentieth century--Martin Heidegger's Being and Time, and Alfred North Whitehead's Process and Reality.
Using Heidegger's method in Being and Time as a model, Cooper uncovers phenomenological currents and a transcendental approach in Whitehead's Process and Reality with particular attention to temporality. Subtilte: A Phenomenological Examination into the Intelligibility of Experience. | |  | | Hume's Fork
Zany satire about philosophy, religion, family, identity, and, of course, professional wrestling. Filled with dazzling wordplay.
Professor Legare Hume travels to a conference he does not want to attend and stays with the family he wants to avoid, causing him to apply his philosophical training to try to make sense of his life. When professional wrestlers grace the philosophy conference, and philosophers turn into wrestlers, why does only Legare find this bewildering?
"A mix of zaniness and erudition, satire and insight . . . as delicious as it is original." Rebecca Goldstein
"One of the funniest novels I've read in a long time." Ron Rash
"A funny, fast-paced, hugely entertaining story that bal | |  | | Purple Jesus
A tragi-comic tale in which three unlikely and desperate characters--a directionless, delusional young man, a determined, but powerless young woman, a silent, angst-ridden monk--are drawn together by fateful shifts in geography and chance.
Purvis Driggers is a South Carolina Low Country loser. With little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents house, home town, and whatever part-time work he can scrounge up, he s sure he s figured a way out: rob an old man of the rumored millions hidden in his house. But all he finds is the old man dead and the money, if there was any, already gone.
Disappointed and defeated, Purvis is drawn to the sound of music across the creek. There, he discovers a beautiful woman in a white gown being baptized in the water. Surely Martha, beautiful Martha, will give Pu |
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