“gaita raimond”

During the Spanish Civil War, George Orwell was asked why he could not shoot an enemy soldier who was running holding up his trousers. Orwell replied: 'I have come here to shoot at "Fascists"; but a man who is holding up his trousers isn't a "Fascist".A Common Humanity is a clear, profound and arres... More

Powerful and timely, "A Common Humanity" asks why the language of morality has failed us. Drawing on examples of the Holocaust, the David Irving affair, the case of Mary Bell and the treatment of the Aborigines in Australia, Raimond Gaita challenges our received thinking about evil in this provocati... More

Raimond Gaita, author of the acclaimed "A Common Humanity" returns with a new edition of "Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception," the book which first sparked off much of the current interest in the topic of "evil." In "Good and Evil," Raimond Gaita draws moral philosophy away from the academic stud... More

The philosopher Raimond Gaita has always been fascinated by animals- their obvious intelligence and disturbing brutality, their uncanny responsiveness to our moods and needs, the deep feelings they elicit from us and seem to return. In this marvelous, luminous book, Gaita trains the lens of philosop... More

Written by eminent philosophers from Britain, Europe, America, and Australia, the essays of this collection are a tribute to Peter Winch, whose work is marked by his deep appreciation of the most fundamental aspect of Wittgenstein's legacy: that we cannot detach our concepts from their roots in huma... More

In the fiftieth anniversary of this book??'s first release, Winch??'s argument remains as crucial as ever. Originally published in 1958, The Idea of a Social Science and Its Relation to Philosophy was a landmark exploration of the social sciences, written at a time when that field was still young an... More

Economics can be pretty boring. Drier than Death Valley, the discipline is obsessed with mathematics and compounds this by arrogantly assuming its techniques can be brought to bear on the other social sciences. It wasn't going to be long, therefore, before students started complaining. The vast majo... More

This work is available on its own or as part of the 7 volume set "Selected Works of R. D. Laing"... More

Susan Raimond is a harper in the ancient tradition of masters whose playing touches the emotions of the listeners directly - the magical instrument of legend. Simple and deeply moving are the words that come first to mind. Selections range from lighthearted to haunting evoking the range of human emo... More