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James T. Patterson (born February 12, 1935, in Old Lyme, Connecticut) is an American historian, [1] who was the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Brown University for 30 years. [2][3] He was educated at Harvard University. His research interests include political history, legal history, and social history, as well as the history of ...
American authors hold the record for the largest book deals made for individual books (Bill Clinton and Britney Spears), and for book series (James Patterson and Barack and Michelle Obama). While Patterson's book deal with Hachette Book Group is by far the largest for a book series, Patterson has disputed the reported amount.
Philosophers define the position in a variety of ways. In Pessimism: A History and a Criticism, James Sully describes the essence of philosophical pessimism as "the denial of happiness or the affirmation of life's inherent misery". [3]: 4 Byron Simmons writes, "[p]essimism is, roughly, the view that life is not worth living". [4]
Joy James (born 1958) is an American political philosopher, academic, and author. [1] James is the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of the Humanities at Williams College.Her books include Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals, Shadowboxing, Imprisoned Intellectuals, The New Abolitionists, Resisting State Violence, In Pursuit of Revolutionary Love: Precarity, Power ...
John Herman Randall, Jr. [18] – A New Philosophy of Life; James Arthur Ray [55] – The Science of Success (2003); Practical Spirituality: How to Use Spiritual Power to Create Tangible Results (2003); Harmonic Wealth: The Secret of Attracting the Life You Want (2008); The Seven Laws of True Wealth: Create the Life You Desire and Deserve (2009)
Mary Beatrice Midgley (née Scrutton; 13 September 1919 – 10 October 2018) [2] was a British philosopher.A senior lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University, she was known for her work on science, ethics and animal rights.
Afro-pessimism is a critical framework that describes the ongoing effects of racism, colonialism, and historical processes of enslavement in the United States, including the transatlantic slave trade and their impact on structural conditions as well as the personal, subjective, and lived experience and embodied reality of African Americans; it is particularly applicable to U.S. contexts.
Martha Nussbaum (/ ˈ n ʊ s b ɔː m /; née Craven; born May 6, 1947) is an American philosopher and the current Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the philosophy department.