Philosophy

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375757990Author AristotleFormat PaperbackPage Count 1520Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 850gDimensions(mm) 204mm *...

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Throughout his long career, Jacques Derrida had a close, collaborative relationship with "Critical Inquiry" and its editors. He saved some of his most important essays for the journal, and he relished the ensuing arguments and polemics that stemmed from...

Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990263125Author Karim F. HirjiFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Daraja PressPublisher Daraja PressWeight(grams) 2090g

"Utopia poses a question. Not simply in the sense of a problem to be resolved and at the same time eliminated . . . but in the sense that, within the economy of the human condition, utopia, the aim of social alterity-of all social otherness-is...

Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study,...

Why shouldn't neighbourhoods change? Why is wearing a suit a good way to quit smoking? Why do people think that if you do one thing you're against something else? Is monogamy a trick? Why should making the city more fun for you and your friends be a...

An easy-to-grasp guide to addressing the principles of ethics and applying them to daily life How do you define "good" versus "evil?" Do you know the difference between moral "truth" and moral relativity? Whether or not you know Aristotle from Hume,...

Over the last decade, "New Atheists" such as Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens have pushed the issue of atheism to the forefront of public discussion. Yet very few of the ensuing debates and discussions have managed to provide a full...

Heidegger, Marcuse, and Ellul warned against the rise of a technological mass culture. Philosophy of technology has since turned away from such dystopic views, promoting instead the view that we shape technologies just as technologies shape us. Yet the...

Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension:...

The Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is G. W. F. Hegel's remarkable philosophical text that examines the dynamics of human experience from its simplest beginnings in consciousness through its development into ever more complex and...

WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDEESThe French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows...

Why is sport so important among participants and spectators when its goals seem so pointless? Stephen Mumford's book introduces the reader to a host of philosophical topics found in sport, and argues that sports activities reflect diverse human...

Opening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular...

Parmenides, a lecture course delivered by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1942-1943, presents a highly original interpretation of ancient Greek philosophy. A major contribution to Heidegger's provocative dialogue with the pre-Socratics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861710720Author Bhikkhu BodhiFormat HardbackPage Count 1424Imprint Wisdom Publications,U.S.Publisher Wisdom Publications,U.S.

The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most engaging formulation of American pragmatism. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935209799Author Thich Nhat HanhFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Parallax PressPublisher Parallax PressWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 200mm * 131mm *...

In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting - yet often confusing and difficult - experience that is sex.Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we think we're...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570629174Author Reginald A. RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780029352106Author Alfred North WhiteheadFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint The Free PressPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 251gDimensions(mm)...

It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307212Author Thomas ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

This book introduces student to the three major figures of modern philosophy known as the rationalists. It is not for complete beginners, but it is an accessible account of their thought. By concerning itself with metaphysics, and in particular...

The zany, the cute, and the interesting saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire. In this radiant study, Sianne Ngai offers a theory...

Philosophical Investigations New editions of the Commentary on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations from Wiley-Blackwell Wittgenstein: Understanding and Meaning, Volume 1 of An Analytical Commentary on the Philosophical Investigations Part I:...

Conjoined twins dilemma... Suicide of terminally ill patient... Designer baby transplant success... Woman gives birth at sixty-six... Rarely are human dilemmas out of the news. And what medical science can do and ought to do - or ought not to do -...

'Astute, compassionate, and brilliant' Siri HustvedtVanessa wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life. Toussaint is haunted by voices. Claire loses the use of her hand because of an inexplicable pain. Noga Arikha began studying these...

A bold critique of the spiritual schools, philosophies, and mystical teachers of the 20th century* Examines newer spiritual "systems" of the modern era, from spiritism and theosophy, to parapsychic research and anthroposophism, to psychoanalysis and the...

In this new book, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of contemporary experience.About the AuthorDavid Harvey is Professor of Geography at the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262538282Author Jonathan HaberFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 127mm * 16mm

In this dazzling collection of essays covering a broad range of fields, from Darwinism and the global population explosion to bird watching, distinguished scientist and philosopher Sir Julian Huxley points out new frontiers for scientific research and...

Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was the outstanding philosopher-theologian of the Latin West between Augustine and the thirteenth century. As a public figure, especially as Archbishop of Canterbury, he corresponded with kings and nobles, popes and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985452377Author Jack DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Dissonant HumPublisher Dissonant HumWeight(grams) 145gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 7mm

Concerns about censorship have once again reached a fever pitch across the liberal West. In other historical periods, such concerns may have marked reactions to book bans and burnings. Often, they followed prosecutions and subsequent jailtime for things...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954596115Author Ryuu ShinoharaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Omen PublishingPublisher Omen PublishingWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

The central task of phenomenology is to investigate the nature of consciousness and its relations to objects of various types. The present book introduces students and other readers to several foundational topics of phenomenological inquiry, and...

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the most important philosophical and political thinkers of the twentieth century. His writings had a potency that was irresistible to the intellectual scene that swept post-war Europe, and have left a vital inheritance to...