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10 Moral Paradoxes

By: Saul Smilansky

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Presenting ten diverse and original moral paradoxes, this cutting edge work of philosophical ethics makes a focused, concrete case for the centrality of paradoxes within morality. Explores what these paradoxes can teach us about morality and the human condition Considers a broad range of subjects, from familiar topics to rarely posed questions, among them "Fortunate Misfortune", "Beneficial Retirement" and "Preferring Not To Have Been Born" Asks whether the existence of moral paradox is a good or a bad thing Presents analytic moral philosophy in a provocative, engaging and entertaining way; posing new questions, proposing possible solutions, and challenging the reader to wrestle with the paradoxes themselves

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140516087X

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9781405160872

10 Moral Paradoxes

By: Saul Smilansky

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By: Saul Smilansky

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470695862

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9780470695869

The Victim

By: Saul Bellow

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The Victim

By: Saul Bellow

It's sweltering summer in New York City, and Asa Leventhal is alone. His co-workers ignore or condescend to him, his wife is away with her mother, and his estranged brother has run off, abandoning his wife and two sons. One night, Leventhal is confronted by a stranger--'one of those guys who want you to think they can see to the bottom of your soul'--who reveals himself to be a marginal figure from his distant past. Leventhal, accused of ruining the man's life, becomes shocked and dismissive, vehemently denying any part in the man's unhappy lot. But as time passes, he is increasingly unable to separate his own good fortune from the bad luck of this down-and-out stranger, who will not leave him be. A brief, haunting rumination on the vagaries of fate and responsibility, The Victim is, in the words of Norman Rush, Saul Bellow's "purest creation.

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Odyssey Editions

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1623730198

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9781623730192

More Die of Heartbreak

By: Saul Bellow

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More Die of Heartbreak

By: Saul Bellow

Kenneth Trachtenberg, the witty and eccentric narrator of More Die ofHeartbreak, has left his native Paris for the Midwest. He has come to benear his beloved uncle, the world-renowned botanist Benn Crader, self-described "plant visionary." While his studies take him around the world, Benn, a restless spirit, has not been able to satisfy his longings after his first marriage and lives from affair to affair and from "bliss to breakdown." Imagining that a settled existence will end his anguish, Benn ties the knot again, opening the door to a flood of new torments. As Kenneth grapples with his own problems involving his unusual lady-friend Treckie, the two men try to figure out why gifted and intelligent people invariably find themselves "knee-deep in the garbage of a personal life.

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Penguin UK

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0141913770

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9780141913773

Ravelstein

By: Saul Bellow

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Ravelstein

By: Saul Bellow

Encouraged by his friend, Chick, to write down his ideas about humankind, university professor Abe Ravelstein receives unexpected acclaim and bounty and invites Chick to join his his success, a situation that sparks a philosophical journey for both.

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Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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1568951272

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9781568951270

The Dean's December

By: Saul Bellow

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The Dean's December

By: Saul Bellow

After being widely portrayed as a virulent racist and a traitor to his city, Professor Albert Corde, dean of the faculty of Journalism, is forced to leave Chicago. Corde is ill-equipped to handle the outrage that faces him, both as the author of several articles on Chicago’s endemic corruption, and as an outspoken figure in the controversial trial of two black men charged with killing a white student. Travelling to Bucharest to visit his ailing mother-in-law, he is unable to escape the comparisons in his mind between the corrupt and dehumanizing aspects of the communist regime, and the abandoned streets of his home city. Meditating on the juxtaposition between two distant worlds, and obsessing over events that begin to unfold both in Chicago and Bucharest, he begins to concede defeat. In this tormented tale, amid the swirling forces that threaten to drown his humanity, Corde slides ever closer to the brink of desolation.

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1623730341

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9781623730345

Collected Stories

By: Saul Bellow

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Collected Stories

By: Saul Bellow

This is the definitive collection of short stories by Saul Bellow. Abundant, precise, various, rich and exuberant, the stories display the stylistic and emotional brilliance which characterizes this master of prose. Some stories recount the events of a single day, some are contained in a wider frame; each story is a characteristic combination of observation and a celebration of humanity.

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Penguin UK

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014138929X

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9780141389295

Seize the Day

By: Saul Bellow

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Seize the Day

By: Saul Bellow

Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from his wife and children, at odds with his vain, successful father, failed in his acting career (a Hollywood agent once placed him as 'the type that loses the girl') and in a financial mess. In the course of one climactic day he reviews his past mistakes and spiritual malaise, until a mysterious, philosophizing con man grants him a glorious, illuminating moment of truth and understanding, and offers him one last hope ...

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0141913754

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9780141913759

Mr. Sammler's Planet

By: Saul Bellow

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Mr. Sammler's Planet

By: Saul Bellow

Who is Mr. Sammler? A Jewish intellectual educated in Western philosophy, a one-eyed Holocaust survivor, the future author of the greatest biography ever written of H.G. Wells ... or merely the trusted confidant of countless eccentric New Yorkers, a "registrar of follies"? Through the chaotic streets of the Upper West Side old Artur Sammler paces, meditating on the human condition; attentive to everything and appalled by nothing; haunted by his past, present, and future. His world seems on the brink of apocalypse; both the recent moon landing and the death of his beloved benefactor have him furiously speculating on the end. With his inimitable tragicomic mastery Saul Bellow delves once again, and the reader with him, into a contemporary and chaotic universe in which the most profound reflections on the meaning of life mingle with the absurd, histrionic, endless minutiae of the every day.

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1623730317

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9781623730314

Saul Bellow

Letters

By: Saul Bellow

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Saul Bellow

Letters

By: Saul Bellow

A never-before-published collection of letters - an intimate self-portrait as well as the portrait of a century. Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness and complexity. Friends, lovers, wives, colleagues, and fans all cross these pages. Some of the finest letters are to Bellow's fellow writers-William Faulkner, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Martin Amis, Ralph Ellison, Cynthia Ozick, and Wright Morris. Intimate, ironical, richly observant, and funny, these letters reveal the influcences at work in the man, and illuminate his enduring legacy-the novels that earned him a Nobel Prize and the admiration of the world over. Saul Bellow: Letters is a major literary event and an important edition to Bellow's incomparable body of work.

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1101445327

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9781101445327

The Actual

By: Saul Bellow

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The Actual

By: Saul Bellow

The story behind The Actual belongs to Harry Trellman, an aging, astute businessman who has never belonged anywhere.

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0141917814

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9780141917818

A Theft

By: Saul Bellow

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A Theft

By: Saul Bellow

Many years ago, Teddy gave Clara an emerald ring that she has cherished as a symbol of her passion for him. The ring is lost and after many years - eventually - discovered.

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0140119698

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Leaving the Yellow House

By: Saul Bellow

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Leaving the Yellow House

By: Saul Bellow

She had lived by delays; she had meant to stop drinking; she had put off the time, and now she had smashed her car. At once harsh and tender, expansive and acutely funny, this is the story of an elderly and self-destructive dipsomaniac in a Western desert town, who finds herself faced with a final, impossible choice. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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0241339006

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9780241339008

Humboldt's Gift

By: Saul Bellow

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Humboldt's Gift

By: Saul Bellow

The memory of an erratic poete serves to redeem the disintegrating life of a midwestern man of letters. Winner of the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for fiction. Strong language. 1975.

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New York : Viking Press

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0670386553

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9780670386550

Something to Remember Me by

Three Tales

By: Saul Bellow

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Something to Remember Me by

Three Tales

By: Saul Bellow

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Harvill Secker

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0436201178

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10 Moral Paradoxes

10 Moral Paradoxes

10 Moral Paradoxes

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The Victim

The Victim

More Die of Heartbreak

More Die of Heartbreak

Ravelstein

Ravelstein

The Dean's December

The Dean's December

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Seize the Day

Seize the Day

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Mr. Sammler's Planet

Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow

The Actual

The Actual

A Theft

A Theft

Leaving the Yellow House

Leaving the Yellow House

Humboldt's Gift

Humboldt's Gift

Something to Remember Me by

Something to Remember Me by

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