Kathleen L Higgins

A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy

Readers eager to acquire a basic familiarity with the history of philosophy but intimidated by the task will find in A Passion for Wisdom a lively, accessible, and highly enjoyable tour of the world's great ideas. Here, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins tell the story of philosophy's development w...

The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)

The opening essay of this Companion provides a chronologically organized introduction to and summary of Nietzsche's published works, while also providing an overview of their basic themes and concerns. It is followed by three essays on the appropriation and misappropriation of his writings, and a gr...

The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy

Solomon and Higgins's engaging text covers philosophy's central ideas in an accessible, approachable manner. You'll explore timeless "big questions" about the self, God, justice, and other meaningful topics, gaining the context you need for an understanding of the foundational issues, as well as the...

Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science

This book offers a lively and unorthodox analysis of Nietzsche by examining a neglected aspect of his scholarly personality--his sense of humor. While often thought of as ponderous and melancholy, the Nietzsche of Higgins's study is a surprisingly subtle and light-hearted writer. She presents a clos...

The Music between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

From our first social bonding as infants to the funeral rites that mark our passing, music plays an important role in our lives, bringing us closer to one another. InThe Music between Us, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins investigates this role, examining the features of human perception that enabl...

Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings

Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the hist...

The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy

It's time for an introduction to philosophy textbook that you can relate to and enjoy reading! THE BIG QUESTIONS: A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY tackles the tough issues and helps you form your own opinions about course topics while presenting the best philosophical selections available.

A Short History of Philosophy

In this accessible and comprehensive work, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins cover the entire history of philosophy--ancient, medieval, and modern, from cultures both East and West--in its broader historical and cultural contexts. Major philosophers and movements are discussed along with less well...

Thirteen Questions in Ethics & Social Philosophy

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Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-Mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais

"Licentious Liberty" in a Brazilian Gold-mining Region: Slavery, Gender and Social Control in Eighteenth-Century Sabara, Minas Gerais

Icentious Liberty in a Brazilian Gold-mining Region: Slavery, Gender, and Social Control in Eighteenth-century Sabara, Minas Gerais

Reading Nietzsche

A Short History of Philosophy