Philosophy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912685905Author Neil VallellyFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Goldsmiths, Unversity of LondonPublisher Goldsmiths, Unversity of London

Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9784770031204Author Tsunetomo YamamotoFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Kodansha International LtdPublisher Kodansha America, IncWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780887068270Author G. W. F. HegelFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York...

Kant's introduction of a distinctive form of philosophical investigation and proof, known as transcendental, inaugurated a new philosophical tradition. Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism assesses the present state and contemporary relevance of this...

"Art is necessary in order that man should be able to recognize and change the world. But art is also necessary by virtue of the magic inherent in it."-Ernst FischerReissued with an introduction by John Berger, The Necessity of Art is a beautifully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780942299519Author Gilles DeleuzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone BooksWeight(grams) 617gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

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SUNDAY TIMES and GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment, and tells their intimate stories: their...

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In volume 1 of this three-volume work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical writing. Now, in volume 2, he examines these relations in fiction and theories of literature. Ricoeur treats the question of just how far...

This book is an accessible introduction to the central themes of contemporary metaphysics. It carefully considers accounts of causation, freedom and determinism, laws of nature, personal identity, mental states, time, material objects, and properties,...

Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it? In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline...

An Introduction to Philosophical Logic has been a popular mainstay among students taking courses in philosophical logic and the philosophy of language since it was first published in 1982.About the AuthorA.C. Grayling is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck...

George Orwell is sometimes read as disinterested in (if not outright hostile) to philosophy. Yet a fair reading of Orwell's work reveals an author whose work was deeply informed by philosophy and who often revealed his philosophical sympathies. Orwell's...

Selected by Christianity Today as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the twentieth century. Leading theological ethicist Stanley Hauerwas shows how discussions of Christology and the authority of scripture involve questions about what...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953303229Author Tony ParsonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Open Secret PublishingPublisher Open Secret PublishingWeight(grams) 356g

'Witty, knowledgeable and mind-expanding' RICHARD FISHER | 'A joyful romp' TOM HARFORD | 'A fun and inspiring teaser for curious minds' JEREMIE HARRISEvery so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything. Vaccinations. Relativity. Fascism. Can...

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) is the founder of modern theater, and his plays are performed all over the world. Yet in spite of his unquestioned status as a classic of the stage, Ibsen is often dismissed as a fuddy-duddy old realist, whose plays are of...

Artificial Knowing challenges the masculine slant in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) view of the world. Alison Adam admirably fills the large gap in science and technology studies by showing us that gender bias is inscribed in AI-based computer systems...

A leading philosopher seeks to recover "common sense" as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophy With her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our...

Giles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key figure in poststructuralism and one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. In "Foucault", Deleuze presents one of the most incisive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486203829Author William JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Mount Qingcheng, one of China's mystical mountains, has been the birth place of discovery, realization and preservation of the recipes that stimulate the deep potential of the human body for generations. This is the book of a Daoist master and spiritual...

In this extensively revised new edition of his excellent guidebook, Christopher Shields introduces the whole of Aristotle's philosophy, showing how his powerful conception of human nature shaped much of his thinking on the nature of the soul and the...

Extremism is one of the most charged and controversial issues of the twenty-first century. Despite myriad programs of deradicalization and prevention around the world, it remains an intractable and poorly understood problem. Yet it is also sometimes...

In God and the New Physics, Paul Davies explains how science has come of age, and can now offer a surer path to divinity than religion.Science is now on the verge of answering our most profound questions about the nature of existence. Here Paul Davies...

Carl Schmitt is one of the most widely read and influential German thinkers of the twentieth century. His fundamental works on friend and enemy, legality and legitimacy, dictatorship, political theology and the concept of the political are read today...

Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060638597Author HeideggerPage Count 218Imprint HarperOnePublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncDimensions(mm) 202mm * 134mm * 12mm

Jean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book—his deepest engagement with theology to date—Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key...

Ranging across both standard philosophical territory and the landscape of cutting-edge cognitive science, Mindware: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Second Edition, is a vivid and engaging introduction to key issues, research, and...

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Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe...

Our existence is increasingly lived at a distance. As we move from flesh to image, we are in danger of losing touch with each other and ourselves. How can we combine the physical with the virtual, our embodied experience with our global connectivity? How...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505114447Author Paul KengorFormat HardbackPage Count 552Imprint Saint Benedict PressPublisher Saint Benedict PressWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 231mm...

When Leonard Cohen passed away in late 2016, he left behind many who cared for and admired him, but perhaps few knew him better than longtime friend Eric Lerner. Lerner, a screenwriter and novelist, first met Cohen at a zen retreat where the two quickly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781952692222Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 176gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590308165Author Khenchen ThranguFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Rising inequality of income and power, along with recent convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet few are attempting this task-most analysts argue that any attempt to...