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Spirit Guides and Angels How I Communicate with Heaven

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Religious

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The Turn to Ethics

Marjorie B. Garber

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

Super Cooperators Beyond the Survival of Fittest : why Cooperation, Not Competition, is the Key to Life — Martin A. Nowak

Super Cooperators Beyond the Survival of Fittest : why Cooperation, Not Competition, is the Key to Life

Martin A. Nowak

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language — Justin Khoo

The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

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On Being Awesome A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

The Liberal Delusion The Roots of Our Current Moral Crisis — John Marsh

The Liberal Delusion The Roots of Our Current Moral Crisis

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

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You Didn’t Hear This from Me (Mostly) True Notes on Gossip

Kelsey McKinney

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

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South Park and Philosophy Bigger, Longer, and More Penetrating

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

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Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

How to Justify Torture Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario — Alex Adams

How to Justify Torture Inside the Ticking Bomb Scenario

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

Good News Social Ethics and the Press — Clifford G. Christians

Good News Social Ethics and the Press

Clifford G. Christians

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

California Dreaming Society and Culture in the Golden State — Ronald A. Wells

California Dreaming Society and Culture in the Golden State

Ronald A. Wells

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

American Mania When More is Not Enough — Peter C. Whybrow

American Mania When More is Not Enough

Peter C. Whybrow

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy — Ann Garry

The Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight about Animals — Hal Herzog

Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight about Animals

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

Horrible Workers Max Stirner, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson, and the Charles Manson Circle : Studies in Moral Experience and Cultural Expression — Donald A. Nielsen

Horrible Workers Max Stirner, Arthur Rimbaud, Robert Johnson, and the Charles Manson Circle : Studies in Moral Experience and Cultural Expression

Donald A. Nielsen

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

The Good Citizen’s Handbook A Guide to Proper Behavior — Jennifer McKnight-Trontz

The Good Citizen’s Handbook A Guide to Proper Behavior

Jennifer Mcknight-Trontz

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

The Evolution of Ethics in America Standards Born of Crises — Laurence French

The Evolution of Ethics in America Standards Born of Crises

Laurence French

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

Socially Just Pedagogies Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education — Rosi Braidotti

Socially Just Pedagogies Posthumanist, Feminist and Materialist Perspectives in Higher Education

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

The Moral Foundations of Parenthood — Joseph Millum

The Moral Foundations of Parenthood

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Popular Culture • Philosophy

When Jesus Came to Harvard Making Moral Choices Today — Harvey Cox

When Jesus Came to Harvard Making Moral Choices Today

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Religious • Philosophy

A Beginner’s Guide to the Four Psychic Clair Senses Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Claircognizance, Clairsentience — Kevin Hunter

A Beginner’s Guide to the Four Psychic Clair Senses Clairvoyance, Clairaudience, Claircognizance, Clairsentience

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Religious • Philosophy

Levinas Concordance — Cristian Ciocan

Levinas Concordance

Cristian Ciocan

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Religious • Philosophy

Beyond Individualism Toward a Retrieval of Moral Discourse in America — Donald L. Gelpi, S. J.

Beyond Individualism Toward a Retrieval of Moral Discourse in America

Donald L. Gelpi, S. J.

Themes: Ethics & Moral Philosophy • Religious • Philosophy

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Nostalgia for the Absolute by George Steiner. Connected by Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Popular Culture, Religious. Authors featured include Kevin Hunter, Marjorie B. Garber, Martin A. Nowak, Justin Khoo, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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