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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 279 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Description
Learn to think clearly, shun fallacies, and reach your own conclusions as you confront the questions that have puzzled generations of philosophers.
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Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (67 pages ; 22 cm).
Description
Twelve 30-minute lectures by Oxford University Professor Daniel N. Robinson on consciousness from the perspective of the philosopher, the psychologist, the scientist, and the doctor.
Pub. Date
©2011
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (160 pages ; 19 cm).
Description
"[This series] is an epic, comprehensive survey of the East's most influential philosphers and thinkers. In 36 lectures, [the student will be introduced to] the men and women responsible for molding Asian philosophy and for giving birth to a wide variety of spiritual and ideological systems, including Hinduism, Daoism, Confucianism, Sufism, and Buddhism."--Www.thegreatcourses.com.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Viewers will follow an unnamed character through three seemingly disparate moments in his life: in the midst of a fifteen-person collective on a small Estonian island; in isolation in the majestic wilderness of Northern Finland; and during a concert as the singer and guitarist of a black metal band in Norway.
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An animated documentary on the life of controversial MIT professor, philosopher, linguist, anti-war activist and political firebrand Noam Chomsky. Through complex, lively conversations with Chomsky and brilliant illustrations by Gondry himself, the film reveals the life and work of the father of modern linguistics while also exploring his theories on the emergence of language.
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm).
Description
What seems at first to be a straightforward tale of two people getting to know each other over the course of an afternoon gradually reveals itself as something richer, stranger, and trickier: a mind-bending reflection on authenticity, in art as well as in relationships. Both cerebrally and emotionally engaging, reminds us that love itself is an enigma.
9) I am
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 78 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of a successful Hollywood director, Tom Shadyac, who experienced a life-threatening head injury, and his ensuing journey to try and answer two very basic questions: 'What's wrong with the world?' and 'What can be done about it?' With a film crew of four, Tom visits some of today's great minds, including authors, poets, teachers, religious leaders, and scientists, searching for the fundamental endemic problem that causes all the other problems,...
10) Becoming animal
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An inspired collaboration between filmmakers Emma Davie and Peter Mettler and radical writer and philosopher David Abram, this is an urgent and immersive audiovisual quest, forging a path into the places where humans and other animals meet. It is where humans pry open their senses to witness the so-called natural world, which in turn witnesses humans, prompting them to reflect on the very essence of what it means to inhabit their animal bodies.
11) Hannah Arendt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A brilliant biopic of the influential German-Jewish philosopher and political theorist. Arendt's reporting on the 1961 trial of ex-Nazi Adolf Eichmann in The New Yorker, controversial both for her portrayal of Eichmann and the Jewish councils, introduced her now-famous concept of the 'Banality of Evil.' Using footage from the actual Eichmann trial and weaving a narrative that spans three countries, von Trotta beautifully turns the often invisible...
12) My powerful hair
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (12 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. From the award-winning and bestselling author of We Are Water Protectors comes an empowering picture book about family history, self-expression, and reclaiming identity.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After twelve years of suffering mysterious disappearances of society's most-productive individuals, the nation's economy is on the verge of collapse. As the government pursues policies imposing even greater brutality against those remaining, Dagny Taggart, Vice President of Taggart Transcontinental, must make a choice between saving the nation's collapsing infrestructure or the man she has come to love - the man who would stop the motor of the World....
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
2 DVD-videos (270 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Description
The third season of the series will again follow Academy Award-winning actor Freeman on an international journey as he discovers the power of religion and how it touches all of our lives. Freeman will travel to some of the world's holiest sites and speak with religious leaders, scientists, historians and archaeologists to try to shed light on questions about the divine that have puzzeld us from the beginning.
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
10 videodiscs (1800 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 336 p. ; 19 cm.)
Description
The "Long Debate" on the nature of truth, the scale of real values, the life one should aspire to live, the character of justice, the sources of law, and the terms of civic and political life is encompassed by the name philosophy. Three persistent themes--understood as problems--are knowledge, conduct, and governance, on which there is a storehouse of insights, some so utterly persuasive as to have shaped thought itself. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle,...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 282 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Description
During the final years of his life, Joseph Campbell embarked on a speaking tour in which he drew together all that he had learned about what he called the "one great story" of humanity. These remarkable talks were filmed and are presented here in the order and manner in which Campbell himself intended. Examines the core myths of the great Asian religions; the Buddha and enlightenment, East and West; Yoga and transcendence; Kundalini yoga and the seven...
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. "Paolo Soleri, architect, philosopher and a citizen of the planet. Fans have gone as far as to compare him to DaVinci and Gandhi, but critics believed him to be an ego driven eccentric with a failed experiment out in the desert A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Paolo's Utopian vision has been steadfast, urban sprawl is destroying the planet and the answer is to build mega-structure cities a hundred times the size of the Empire State Building....
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Part two of Ayn Rand's groundbreaking novel. The global economy is on the brink of collapse. Brilliant creators, from artists to industrialists, continue to mysteriously disappear. Dagny Taggart, Vice President in Charge of Operations for Taggart Transcontinental, has discovered what may very well be the answer to a mounting energy crisis, a revolutionary motor that could seemingly power the World. It's a race against the clock to find the inventor...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (12 hr.) : sound, color, 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (153 pages ; 19 cm)
Description
In recent decades, the philosophy of humor has been recognized as a legitimate subfield of philosophy. The reason for this? Because to understand how humor works is to better understand the nature of human experience. In these 24 insightful, informative, illuminating, and (yes) humorous lectures, explore the philosophical theories and explanations of humor, from blatantly obvious puns to complex narratives to sly twists of language. Rooted in analytic...
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynets operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation...
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