What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophy--from Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieu--the history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans, common people, proletarians, the masses? Why have philosophers made the shoemaker, in particular, a remarkably ubiquitous presence in this history? Does philosophy itself depend on this thinking about the poor? If so, can it ever refrain from...
What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made ...
This new and expanded edition provides a way to approach the Bible as millions of ordinary people have, for many hundreds of years. Mesters suggests that the Bible can be considered the Christian family album, and its contents a guide for discovering who we are, where we came from, and where God is in our lives.
This new and expanded edition provides a way to approach the Bible as millions of ordinary people have, for many hundreds of years. Mesters suggests t...
