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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 5,477 ratings — published 1999
A Brief History of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 486,406 ratings — published 1988
The Communist Manifesto (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 204,024 ratings — published 1848
How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 28,487 ratings — published 1940
Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.58 — 525 ratings — published 2018
The Principles of Communism (ebook)
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avg rating 4.12 — 6,016 ratings — published 1847
The Spirituality of the Cross: The Way of the First Evangelicals (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,041 ratings — published 1999
Sophie’s World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 286,935 ratings — published 1991
Introduction to Permaculture (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,263 ratings — published 1991
Socialism: Utopian and Scientific (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 9,322 ratings — published 1880
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 343,016 ratings — published 2020
The Noble Eightfold Path: Way to the End of Suffering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.43 — 1,441 ratings — published 1994
The Philosophers Toolkit: A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 1,007 ratings — published 2001
How to Beat Your Dad at Chess (Chess for Kids)
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avg rating 4.09 — 553 ratings — published 1998
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 211,987 ratings — published 2017
Economics: The User's Guide (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 8,697 ratings — published 2014
How to Read Lacan (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,639 ratings — published 2006
The Problems of Philosophy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 18,914 ratings — published 1912
Film Art: An Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,626 ratings — published 1979
Técnica de Redação (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published
Theorizing Digital Cultures (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published
O que é o marxismo? (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published 2014
Marx: Uma Introdução (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 404 ratings — published 2021
A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 5,695 ratings — published 2024
Classical Indian Philosophy (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #5)
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avg rating 4.20 — 129 ratings — published 2020
Forty Reasons I Am a Catholic (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.06 — 627 ratings — published 2018
The State and Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 19,487 ratings — published 1917
This Book Will Make You Kinder: An Empathy Handbook (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 1,491 ratings — published 2020
The Search for Meaning: A Short History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 89 ratings — published 2007
The Plain Person's Guide to Plain Text Social Science (ebook)
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avg rating 4.67 — 3 ratings — published
The Simpsons and Philosophy: The D'oh! of Homer (Popular Culture and Philosophy, 2)
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avg rating 3.45 — 3,929 ratings — published 2001
A Mathematician's Lament: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 3,529 ratings — published 2009
Introdução ao Estudo do Método de Marx (Pocket Book)
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avg rating 4.35 — 131 ratings — published 2011
Africana Philosophy from Ancient Egypt to the Nineteenth Century (A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps #7)
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avg rating 4.00 — 11 ratings — published
The Official DVSA Guide to Driving Buses and Coaches: DVSA Safe Driving for Life Series (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published
Free to Be: Understanding Kids & Gender Identity (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 395 ratings — published
The Right of Nations to Self-Determination (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 724 ratings — published 1949
Wages, Price and Profit (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 2,107 ratings — published 1898
Introdução à lógica (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.52 — 64 ratings — published 2001
Left-Wing Communism, an Infantile Disorder: A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 3,355 ratings — published 1920
The Lessons of October (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 250 ratings — published 1924
Stalinism and Bolshevism: Concerning the Historical and Theoretical Roots of the Fourth International (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 65 ratings — published 1977
The Programme of the International (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.75 — 32 ratings — published
The Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 599 ratings — published 1938
In Defence of the October Revolution (unknown)
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avg rating 4.58 — 55 ratings — published 1932
Articles on the Revolutionary Press (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.69 — 13 ratings — published 2022
The Official Highway Code (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,629 ratings — published 1931
De wereld als verschijning (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 25 ratings — published
The Little Book of Cosmology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 295 ratings — published
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 68,493 ratings — published 2014
“The desperate piercing scream of horror echoed far above the sharpened tops of the trees wrapped in thin obsidian-transparent mist, and I startled jerkily, tripping again, and almost collapsed onto the cold moist ground.”
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
― Nightmarish Sacrifice
“Doğayı idrak insana özgüdür. Elinizdeki metin günümüz “post-truth” tartışma rüzgarlarının sığlığında, bilimin ve bilimselciliğin birbirine karıştırıldığı, bilim kurumlarının bilimsellikten bile isteye uzaklaştırıldığı, entelektüel kesimin sessizlik yemini ettiği boğucu çoraklığa adeta meydan okumadır. Her meydan okuma rasyonel duyarlılıkla başlar ve duygusal motiflerle ilerler. “Bilim doğası gereği anarşisttir” ancak bir o kadar da insanın doğaya kendi aklını giydirmesi sanatıdır. Bilimi salt nedenselliğin kuru betimlemesi olarak bir listeleme ve tanımlama faaliyeti değil, ayrıca açıklama ve anlama sanatı olarak okumak gerekir. İşte bu nedenle hem doğa üzerine düşünmek hem de yönteme her adımında karşı olmak da gerekir. Felsefi refleksiyonu olmayan biliminsanı bilim dogmasında körleşirse gerçekliği göremez hale gelebilir.
Kanımca okuyucusu, Burak Cem Coşkun’un fragmanlarını birkaç farklı yaklaşımla ele alabilecektir. Coşkun’un dinamik akıl yürütme etkinliği metnin her yerinde size eşlik ederken diğer yandan bilimsel yöntemler tarihine de zaman zaman üstü kapalı bazen de doğrudan atıflarla sesleniliyor. Bu cesur yolculukta kuşkusuz yazarın felsefi sağduyusu sizi rahat bırakmayacaktır. Metinde bilim adına öfke, acıma, kıvanç duyabilirsiniz. Bunu okuyucuda sağlamak yazarın açık başarısıdır.
Bilimi “bilimci” değil “bilimsel” tavırla ele alan meta-metin olma özelliğiyle elinizdeki bu manifesto çıkarımları ve önermeleriyle, iki dilde ifade olanağıyla, bilim-denilen ile bilimsel yöntemin dehlizlerinde gerçeklikle savaşıyor. Manifesto’yu metodolojik değil aynı anda “logic”, “logos”un manifestosu olarak da yaz sıcağında keyifle okudum. Hepimizin temennisi Burak Cem Coşkun’un özlü ifadesiyle kozmik örüntünün mitosunu logos ile birleştirebilecek bir tahayyüle sahip olmak değil mi?
Okuyucusuna açacağı ufuklarda aydınlık günler ve düşler yaratması dileğiyle.
Güncel Önkal
Felsefe Profesörü
Datça, 2025.”
― Doğa Üzerine ve Yönteme Karşı - On Nature & Against Method, Reflections & Propositions
Kanımca okuyucusu, Burak Cem Coşkun’un fragmanlarını birkaç farklı yaklaşımla ele alabilecektir. Coşkun’un dinamik akıl yürütme etkinliği metnin her yerinde size eşlik ederken diğer yandan bilimsel yöntemler tarihine de zaman zaman üstü kapalı bazen de doğrudan atıflarla sesleniliyor. Bu cesur yolculukta kuşkusuz yazarın felsefi sağduyusu sizi rahat bırakmayacaktır. Metinde bilim adına öfke, acıma, kıvanç duyabilirsiniz. Bunu okuyucuda sağlamak yazarın açık başarısıdır.
Bilimi “bilimci” değil “bilimsel” tavırla ele alan meta-metin olma özelliğiyle elinizdeki bu manifesto çıkarımları ve önermeleriyle, iki dilde ifade olanağıyla, bilim-denilen ile bilimsel yöntemin dehlizlerinde gerçeklikle savaşıyor. Manifesto’yu metodolojik değil aynı anda “logic”, “logos”un manifestosu olarak da yaz sıcağında keyifle okudum. Hepimizin temennisi Burak Cem Coşkun’un özlü ifadesiyle kozmik örüntünün mitosunu logos ile birleştirebilecek bir tahayyüle sahip olmak değil mi?
Okuyucusuna açacağı ufuklarda aydınlık günler ve düşler yaratması dileğiyle.
Güncel Önkal
Felsefe Profesörü
Datça, 2025.”
― Doğa Üzerine ve Yönteme Karşı - On Nature & Against Method, Reflections & Propositions
