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The Princess Bride is the 1987 satirical adventure movie that had to wait for the Internet and DVDs to become the most quoted of all cult classics. The Princess Bride and Philosophy is for all those who have wondered about the true meaning of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994160256Author Adrian AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Threshold PublishingPublisher Threshold PublishingWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm)...

Jewish German philosopher Ernst Cassirer was a leading proponent of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism. The essays in this volume provide a window into Cassirer's discovery of the symbolic nature of human existence-that our entire emotional and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725268364Author Thomas TalbottFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

There are common categories of conspiracy theories, variants of which pop up over and over again. These theories can be used to closely track people's most significant philosophical concerns. In this up-to-date study of conspiracy theories, the authors...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789081709101Author Jeremy FernandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint UitgeverijPublisher UitgeverijWeight(grams) 139gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910881330Author Keith PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 190Imprint Black House PublishingPublisher Black House PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm)...

Habit rules our lives. And yet climate change and the catastrophic future it portends, makes it clear that we cannot go on like this. Our habits are integral to narratives of the good life, to social norms and expectations, as well as to economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945955105Author Phil SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Autonomous PressPublisher Autonomous PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692715185Author David LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 168gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Wide-ranging essays and experimental prose forcefully demonstrate how digital media and computational technologies have redefined what it is to be human Over the past decade, digital media has expanded exponentially, becoming an essential part of daily...

Concept and Form is a two-volume monument to the work of the philosophy journal the Cahiers pour l'Analyse (1966-69), the most ambitious and radical collective project to emerge from French structuralism. Inspired by their teachers Louis Althusser and...

An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before him, Mencius wandered from state to state, lobbying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789144802Author Sarah E WorthFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion BooksWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993952746Author Giorgio BaruchelloFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Northwest Passage BooksPublisher Northwest Passage BooksWeight(grams)...

In Peanuts and Philosophy, twenty philosophers, from a diverse range of perspectives, look at different aspects of the Peanuts canon. How can the thoughts of children, who have yet to become grown-up, help us to become more grown up ourselves? Do we get...

Pioneering essays that demonstrate the significance of the seasons for philosophy, environmental thought, anthropology, cultural studies, aesthetics, poetics, and literary criticism.Although the seasons have been a perennial theme in literature and art,...

Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic. Philosophers of language and epistemologists join forces to elucidate what kind of speech act assertion is,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375750366Author Bryan MageeFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Random House USA PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Steve Jobs represents a whole range of values and ideas in pluralistic American culture. He was a barefoot hippy capitalist who did more to change our everyday lives than anyone since Thomas Edison. Coming from modest means and education, he...

Generations of readers have fallen in love with Jane Austen's timeless tales of eighteenth-century English life. Even casual readers comprehend that these classic novels are not just love stories. They offer keen insights into various aspects of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947623869Author Fred SchurinkFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Adventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows us what the world could be like, challenging everything...

In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles -- they're illegally produced clones, and someone is having them killed. Law enforcement is powerless to help. The clones are forced to form their own...

This excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from several different Latin American countries and from various periods in the history of Latin American thought are...

Provocative essays from one of America's most important cultural criticsThink Again gathers one hundred of the best of Stanley Fish's provocative New York Times essays, pieces that have generated passionate discussion and debate. Addressing controversies...

Our culture values striving, purpose, achievement, and accumulation. This book asks us to get sidetracked along the way. It praises aimlessness as a source of creativity and an alternative to the demand for linear, efficient, instrumentalist thinking and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811201568Author Ezra PoundFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint New Directions Publishing CorporationPublisher New Directions Publishing...

This entertaining collection of essays deserves to exist because Sherlock Holmes sees things others don't. He sees the world in a different way, and by so doing, allows us to see that same world -- and human behavior -- in different ways as well. Oh,...

Deadpool is the super-anti-hero who knows he's in a comic book. His unique situation and blood-stained history give rise to many philosophical puzzles. A group of philosophical Deadpool fans delve into these puzzles in Deadpool and Philosophy. For...

This book completes a landmark six-volume translation of the major writings of Wilhelm Dilthey (1833-1911), a philosopher and historian of culture who continues to have a significant influence on philosophy, hermeneutics, and the theory of the human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940447537Author Andrew M DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Process Century PressPublisher Process Century PressWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992600044Author Edward K ClintFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Onus BooksPublisher Ginger Prince Publications

What makes humans different from other animals, what humans are entitled to do to other species, whether time travel is possible, what limits should be placed on science and technology, the morality and practicality of genetic engineering--these are just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983216902Author Francois LaruelleFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Sequence PressPublisher Sequence Press

In Avengers Infinity Saga and Philosophy, philosophers explore the momentous issues and the fascinating puzzles raised by Marvel's compelling series of movies: Is the Thanos snap truly an answer to overpopulation and famine, or is it simply indefensible...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452298651Author Eric MetaxasFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 308gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm *...

The drama-comedy Girls -- often unfairly written off as Sex and the City for the millennial generation -- has made TV history and provoked controversy for its pitilessly accurate portrayal of four oddly sympathetic twentysomething female characters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780980819793Author Baylee BritsFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Re.PressPublisher Re.PressWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 14mm

In Downton Abbey and Philosophy, twenty-two professional thinkers uncover the deeper significance of this hugely popular TV saga. Millions of viewers throughout the world have been enthralled by this enactment of a vanished world of decorum and...