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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807014172Author Herbert MarcuseFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 136mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620325537Author Mary Michael SpanglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

The creation of the Frankfurt School of critical theory in the 1920s saw the birth of some of the most exciting and challenging writings of the twentieth century. It is out of this background that the great critic Theodor Adorno emerged. His finest...

This volume is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades, providing an ambitious history and crucial examination of these concepts while questioning their very bases.Addressing...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak's most engaging essays on works of literature...

Edited by Peter Worley with chapters by: Harry Adamson, Peter Adamson, Alfred Archer, Saray Ayala, Grant Bartley, David Birch, Peter Cave, Miriam Cohen Christofidis, Philip Cowell, James Davy, Andrew Day, Georgina Donati, Claire Field, Berys Gaut, Morag...

'A nuanced and witty meditation on confronting the challenges life throws at us all' Oliver Burkeman Jonathan Rowson's competitive success as a chess Grandmaster and work as an applied philosopher have given him a unique perspective on why the great...

In this 1989 book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of...

There is a radical agency in John Moriarty's work that we as readers don't always spot. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear that there is nothing domestic, nothing tame, about John...

Acclaimed as one of the most exciting books in the history of American letters, this modern epic became an instant bestseller upon publication in 1974, transforming a generation and continuing to inspire millions. A narration of a summer motorcycle trip...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999210093Author Richard L HaightFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Shinkaikan Body, Mind, Spirit LLC.Publisher Shinkaikan Body, Mind, Spirit LLC...

This Hackett edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the seventh (1907) edition as published by Macmillan and Company, Limited.From the forward by John Rawls:In the utilitarian tradition Henry Sidgwick...

Oxford University Press presents a major new edition of the definitive philosophical reference work for readers at all levels. For ten years the original volume has served as a stimulating introduction for general readers and as an indispensable guide...

Named a Best Book of the Year by the Economist, Wall Street Journal & Vox'The father of virtual reality' (Sunday Times) explains why virtual reality presents the ultimate test for humanity.'Essential reading, not just for VR-watchers but for anyone...

Our brains were designed for tribal life, for getting along with a select group of others (Us), and for fighting off everyone else (Them). But modern life has thrust the world's tribes into a shared space, creating conflicts of interest and clashes of...

Although Plato's celebrated work of philosophy describes a society which to some seems the ideal human community and to others like a totalitarian nightmare, it also raises enduring questions about politics, art, education and the general conduct of life...

A rich and stimulating exploration of one of our most maligned emotions and how it might actually help us flourish In the first book to argue for the benefits of boredom, Peter Toohey dispels the myth that it's simply a childish emotion or an existential...

Philosophy, the "love of wisdom", is the product of our endless fascination and curiosity about the world - the child of wonder. Through it, we seek to answer the most fundamental of questions: How do we know what we know? Does God exist? What is beauty?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780876120415Author Paramahansa YoganandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 123Imprint Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S.Publisher Self-Realization Fellowship,U.S...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781489714398Author Carol J Pemrich HauserFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint LiferichPublisher LiferichWeight(grams) 73gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

'Never before has there been so many and such dreadful weapons in so many irresponsible hands.' - Karl Popper, from the PrefaceAll Life is Problem Solving is a stimulating and provocative selection of Popper's writings on his main preoccupations during...

Mou Zongsan (1909-1995), one of the representatives of Modern Confucianism, belongs to the most important Chinese philosophers of the twentieth century. From a more traditional Confucian perspective, this book makes a critical analysis on Mou's "moral...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399973816Author Professor Raymond TallisFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Philosophy NowPublisher Philosophy NowWeight(grams) 276gDimensions(mm)...

Originally published in 1933, this book was developed from a dissertation written at Cambridge University in 1929. The text provides a concise discussion regarding the nature of value and value theories, taking the view that an understanding of value is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899765232Author Martin FriedrichFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Realhistorybooks.Co.UKPublisher Realhistorybooks.Co.UKWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990427183Author Fulton J SheenFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Slice PublishingPublisher Slice PublishingWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612930220Author James AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Tribeca BooksPublisher Tribeca BooksWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990771002Author Josue ReichowFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Cantaro PublicationsPublisher Cantaro PublicationsWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm)...

An informative and accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories, explained through their most famous quotes.We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous...

An informative and accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories, explained through their most famous quotes.We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous...

Erich Fromm fought long and hard for the rights and freedoms of the individual. He also recognized that fundamental to this pursuit is the promotion of self-knowledge. In encouraging people to analyze their own behavior, Fromm identified the crucial link...

Rethinking Life and Death is a book that only the distinguished philosopher Peter Singer could write - a book that creates nothing less than a new set of ethics for the next century. Singer shows just why our traditional ethic of life and death is...

Are we rational creatures? Do we have free will? Can we ever know ourselves? These and other fundamental questions have been discussed by philosophers over millennia. But recent empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience suggest we should...

From Einstein's quest for a unified field theory to Stephen Hawking's belief that we "would know the mind of God" through such a theory, contemporary science-and physics in particular-has claimed that it alone possesses absolute knowledge of the universe...

This fascinating book discusses the role played by psychoactive mushrooms in the religious rituals of ancient Greece, Eurasia, and Mesoamerica. R. Gordon Wasson, an internationally known ethnomycologist who was one of the first to investigate how these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805203516Author Paul RadinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *...

The preeminent explicator of mathematical logic to non-mathematicians, John Allen Paulos is familiar to general readers not only from his bestselling books but also from his media appearances, including The David Letterman Show and National Public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262534369Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm

Enter The Expanse to explore questions of the meaning of human life, the concept of justice, and the nature of humanity, featuring a foreword from author James S.A. Corey The Expanse and Philosophy investigates the philosophical universe of the...

bThe world is encountering multiple crises - climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution./b Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them - how it can solve not cause them...