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In the long river of human history, if one person can represent the civilization of a whole nation, it is perhaps Master Kong, better known as Confucius in the West. If there is one single book that can be upheld as the common code of a whole people, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679600008Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 890gDimensions(mm)...

What is 'truth' in today's freewheeling, pluralistic world, without certainties or fixed ideas? Does it lie in the Reason of Descartes and Kant? Is it Derrida's idea of an event, still being made? Or, according to Nietzsche, an ensemble of fictions?...

Heretical Essays is Patocka's final work, and one of his most exciting and iconoclastic. Patocka begins with prehistory, approached through the "natural world" as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger.According to Patocka, nature is as an alien construct,...

The prizewinning author of The Ungrateful Refugee asks who is believed in our society, who is not - and why?'An ambitious and moving exploration of the borders we draw around credible victimhood that will cement Nayeri's position as a master storyteller...

This paperback edition reproduces the complete text of the Essay as prepared by professor Nidditch for The Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The Register of Formal Variants and the Glossary are omitted and Professor Nidditch has written a...

Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they "think"? Film as Philosophy is the first book to explore this fascinating question historically, thematically, and...

Baudrillard sees the power of the terrorists as lying in the symbolism of slaughter-not merely the reality of death, but in a sacrifice that challenges the whole system. Where previously the old revolutionary sought to conduct a struggle between real...

Topics in Stoicism.Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, born at Corduba (Cordova) ca. 4 BC, of a prominent and wealthy family, spent an ailing childhood and youth at Rome in an aunt's care. He became famous in rhetoric, philosophy, money-making, and imperial service...

The New York Times have praised Dave Chappelle as "an American folk hero" for his ability to communicate across lines of race, class, and culture at a time when Americans are more polarized than they have ever been. Dave Chappelle and Philosophy...

`My present intention is to clear myself of any suspicion of partiality by presenting the views of the generality of philosophers concerning the nature of the gods.' Cicero's philosophical works are now exciting renewed interest, in part because he...

When most people think of anime, they think of large-eyed adolescents fighting fearsome monsters (kaiju). On the surface, Neon Genesis Evangelion is just the same, filled with destructive explosions and gigantic EVA missiles that can only be piloted by...

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's wounds The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671725013Author Robert NozickFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590178942Author Friederich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781453621738Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint CreateSpacePublisher CreateSpaceWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 133mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for National Book Critics Circle Awards 2011.Book InformationISBN 9780307744500Author Jonathan LethemFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Vintage...

In a promotional video for the eighth season of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David appears as Godzilla, walking through the streets of New York City, terrorizing everyone who sees him. People scream and run for their lives. Larry, meanwhile, has a...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394719436Author P. D. OuspenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 79gDimensions(mm) 184mm *...

"All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind." Karl Marx might have been thinking of punk rock when he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781640320932Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

What does feminism have to say to the Anthropocene? How does the concept of the Anthropocene impact feminism? This book is a daring and provocative response to the masculinist and techno-normative approach to the Anthropocene so often taken by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971663589Author Brian GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Untimely BooksPublisher Untimely BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

"A genial exercise in public philosophy" (Kirkus, starred review) from one of the world's best-known popular philosophers"Simon Critchley is an international treasure-that rare and real philosopher who embraces Rousseau's 'feeling of existence,' David...

Frank Herbert's Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse. Dune and Philosophy raises intriguing questions...

Provocative essays on real-world ethical questions from the world's most influential philosopherPeter Singer is often described as the world's most influential philosopher. He is also one of its most controversial. The author of important books such as...

In Doctor Who and Philosophy, a team of mostly human philosophers (who are also fans) looks at the deeper issues raised by the Doctor's mind-blowing adventures. They discuss, among other topics, the Doctor's philosophy of science, the ethics of a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800319721Author Marcus AureliusFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint HeroPublisher Legend Press LtdWeight(grams) 500g

The new bestseller from one of Britain's most pre-eminent philosophers and arguably the best known, A.C. GraylingEveryone wishes to live a life that is satisfying and fulfilling, in which there is achievement and pleasure, and which has the respect of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358484472Author Bertrand RussellPage Count 794Imprint Happy Hour BooksPublisher Happy Hour Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789994800490Author Marcien TowaFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Denden, LLCPublisher Denden, LLCWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 7mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807008836Author Cornel WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and university classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the...

A selection of the best papers written by Brazilian Kant scholars. Kant in Brazil is a collected volume of essays conceived at the 2005 International Kant Congress in Sao Paulo as a way to make accessible to Anglophone Kant scholars some of the best...

Is mathematics a discovery or an invention? Do numbers truly exist? What sort of reality do formulas describe?The complexity of mathematics - its abstract rules and obscure symbols - can seem very distant from the everyday. There are those things that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596052802Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick (1928--1982) is the giant imagination behind so much recent popular culture--both movies directly based on his writings, such as Blade Runner (based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?), Total Recall,...

"A superb translation that captures the rhetorical brilliance of the Greek. . . . The translation is faithful in the very best sense: it reflects both the meaning and the beauty of the Greek text. . . . The footnotes are always helpful, never obtrusive...