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This book explores the many framings of Moses in modern Germany, from historic lawgiver to founder of a nation. It traces constructions and contestations of Mosaic law across debates in…
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Paul Michael Kurtz
"An annotated translation of Friedemann Boschwitz's holistic analysis of the work of Julius Wellhausen (1844-1918), a formative Old Testament scholar of the nineteenth century. Includes letters and archival documents from…
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Paul Kurtz
A defence of the humanist alternative to a faith in God, which rejects both religious spirituality and nihilism.
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While many people believe that God is necessary to secure moral order, the author argues that it is quite possible for rationalists and freethinkers to lead exemplary lives. This is…
Discusses the historic roots of Humanism, the general problem of definition, the relationship of Humanism to ethics and morality, Humanism and religion, Humanism and atheism and Humanism on the world…
Presents humanist thought to depict the Stoic and Epicurean traditions in the ancient world, the writers of the Renaissance and Enlightenment, as well as significant thinkers in the 19th-and 20th-century…
A document outlining a philosophy for survival and fulfilment. It is signed by Andrei Sakharov, BF Skinner, Corliss Lamont, Betty Friedan, Sir Julian Huxley, Sidney Hook, Jacques Monod, Gunnar Myrdal…
Setts forth the views of scholars and writers in defence of free inquiry, science, reason, and democracy. At a time when religious fundamentalism gains adherents world-wide, this work defends the…
An earlier defender of Marxism, Sidney Hook became its most persistent critic, especially of its totalitarian and revolutionary manifestations. A student of John Dewey’s pragmatism, he has written about most…
Divided in three parts, this book takes on a tour of the chief religious and moral philosophies available to Western man in part I. It develops a positive viewpoint, a…
A collection of essays, which offers a reasoned defence of one of the most venerable ethical, scientific and philosophical traditions within Western civilisation.
A major statement of the nature of happiness from a humanistic perspective.
It is the kind of book that many people will wish they had written and almost everybody will…
Written by sceptics and parapsychologists, this collection of essays combines a history of parapsychology and psychic research with a view of the contemporary status of the field. It deals with…
A collection of essays, and articles, which capture naturalism’s dedication to scientific method and critical intelligence, and pragmatism’s application of rational inquiry to the problems each of us face as…
Describes ways in which secular humanism’s scientific, philosophical, and ethical outlook has exerted a profound influence on civilisation from the ancient world to the present.
Imagining a year in which the Phillies never lose a single game, this idealistic resource identifies the most memorable victory in the team’s history on every single day of the…
Paradoxically, at the same time ancient authoritarian fundamentalist religions have grown in vitriolic intensity along with bizarre New Age, media-driven paranormal belief systems. Also surprising is the resurgence of primitive…
Are there ethical, non-religious choices that will work for a world in crisis? This title describes the means by which humanity can transcend the limitations of traditional religious loyalties and…
A proposal for the development of a planetary ethics based on universal human rights and scientific wisdom. It lays out the basic principles of an ethical approach that calls humanist…
The contemporary world is witness to an intense controversy about secularism
Analyzes the challenge to enlightenment values from resurgent religious, ethnic and mystical/new age outlooks, and from the nihilistic ideology of radical postmodernism. The book defends the scientific, sceptical and rational…
Argues that it is possible to live the good life and be morally responsible, without belief in religion. This book contains chapters on privacy and human rights, and presents ethical…
Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain sceptical that there is common ground between scientific knowledge and religious belief. This book discusses topics such as the Big Bang and…
In this widely acclaimed and controversial book, Paul Kurtz examines the reasons why people accept supernatural and paranormal belief systems in spite of substantial evidence to the contrary. According to…
Addresses the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. This book provides a defence of scientific naturalism and technology. It recommends long-range attainable goals and generates confidence in…
Contains chapters on privacy and human rights that present ethical recommendations as alternatives to the reigning orthodoxies.
A landmark work. Mandatory reading for anyone who wants to learn to be a good skeptic.
In this widely acclaimed and highly controversial book, Paul Kurtz examines the reasons why…
Not simply an intellectual position, eupraxophy expresses convictions about the nature of the universe and how to live one’s life with commitment and dedication. This work maintains that the eupraxsopher…
Paul Kurtz,Vern L. Bullough,Timothy J. Madigan,Tim Madigan
Paul Kurtz has been the dominant voice of secular humanism over the past thirty years
Paul Kurtz,Vern L. Bullough,Timothy J. Madigan
This compilation of his work reveals the scope of his thinking on the basic topics of our time and his many and varied contributions to the cause of free thought.
The myth of Prometheus has inspired countless generations of humanists throughout the ages. Prometheus – who stole fire from the gods and gave it to humans to help them survive…
Jean-Paul Kurtz
Il s'agit d'une version revisitee de ce dictionnaire qui comporte 6 tomes. Chaque definition en francais est suivie de sa definition en anglais. Chaque tome comporte une importante iconographie dont…
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De A a Z, toutes les definitions, les explications, les compositions des ouvrages d'art notamment: de l'etude des sols aux materiaux et materiels employes, beaucoup de sujets sont abordes. Cette…
Version revisitee du Dictionnaire du Genie Civil qui comporte 6 tomes. Chaque definition en francais est suivie de sa definition en anglais. Chaque tome comporte une importante iconographie dont des…
I am pleased to present a work which marks a milestone in the history of public works and, more precisely, in that of permanent structures-a comprehensive dictionary of Civil Engineering…
Avertissement de Collin de Plancy Je ne presume pas que cet ouvrage puisse deplaire, aux veritables chretiens. Je n'attaque ici ni les dogmes de l'evangile ni la vie sainte de…
La reedition de ce livre paru en 1911 est une veritable pepite. Il decrit certaines de nos coutumes et moeurs regionales de l'epoque que nos grands parents ont vecue. Certaines…
L'histoire de Jesus serait-elle la plus enorme supercherie qu'a connu l'Humanite ? La plus grande mystification planetaire. creee par une poignee de mystificateurs ou de dissidents juifs ? Il y…
Cette reedition de l'ouvrage de Leo Taxil paru en 1880 est une compilation des principaux auteurs comme Pigault-Lebrun, Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, etc., qui ont ose critique les dogmes. Cette compilation…
En 1920 Monsieur Edouard Bonnafe a redige un Dictionnaire Etymologique, Lexicologique et Historique des Anglicismes et des Americanismes. Monsieur Bonnafe souhaitait qu'un jour une personne remette a jour son dictionnaire…
