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Melancology addresses the notorious musical genre black metal as a negative form of environmental writing that 'blackens' the cosmos. This book conjures a new word and concept that conjoins 'black' and 'ecology': melancology, a word in which can be heard...

Reid's previously published writings are substantial, both in quantity and quality. This edition attempts to make these writings more readily available in a single volume. Based upon Hamilton's definitive two volume 6th edition, this edition is suitable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781734473544Author Robert Anton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams)...

Philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world represents one of the great traditions of Western philosophy. Inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theology, Arabic philosophers from the ninth century onwards put...

Certain great friendships have left their mark in the annals of philosophy - and, without a doubt, the friendship of Bruno Latour and Isabelle Stengers is among them. Although they wrote very few texts together, their intellectual companionship lasted...

Insults are part of the fabric of daily life. But why do we insult each other? Why do insults cause us such pain? Can we do anything to prevent or lessen this pain? Most importantly, how can we overcome our inclination to insult others? In A Slap in...

Rorty seeks to tie philosophy's past to its future by connecting what he sees as the positive (and neglected) contributions of the American pragmatic philosophers to contemporary European developments. What emerges from his explorations is a revivified...

The relationship between philosophy and theatre is a central theme in the writings of Plato and Aristotle and of dramatists from Aristophanes to Stoppard. Where Plato argued that playwrights and actors should be banished from the ideal city for their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845409562Author Michael OakeshottFormat PaperbackPage Count 620Imprint Imprint AcademicPublisher Imprint AcademicWeight(grams) 600gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was hailed by BertrandRussell as 'one of the supreme intellects of all time'. A towering figurein seventeenth-century philosophy, he was the author of a complexsystem of thought that has been championed and satirized...

In this long-awaited volume, Jeremy Shearmur and Piers Norris Turner bring to light Popper's most important unpublished and uncollected writings from the time of The Open Society until his death in 1994.After The Open Society: Selected Social and...

This volume makes Adorno's lectures on the problems of moral philosophy available for the first time to English-speaking readers. It is one of several volumes of Adorno's unpublished writings which are currently being published in Germany, and which will...

There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken, even decisions in personal relationships are justified -...

'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.' KantIn today's increasingly fractured world of oppression and uncertainty, Kant's moral philosophy is more important than ever before. And never has the need for moral absolutes been more...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262516471Author Anthony ChemeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an active participant. Combining objectivity with incisive questioning, Aron's reading of movements and people...

Buckminster Fuller, the brilliant and eccentric futurist philosopher best known as the inventor of the Geodesic Dome, was one of the most creative contributors to innovative thought and technology in the twentieth century. Incomparable designer,...

'Quietly triumphant.' Donal Ryan 'Ambitious and gentle.' Belinda McKeon 'A terrific book.' Michael Harding In May 2020, John Connell finds himself, like so many others, confined to his local area, the opportunity to freely travel...

Theodor W. Adorno (1903-69) was one of the foremost philosophers and social theorists of the post-war period. Crucial to the development of Critical Theory, his highly original and distinctive but often difficult writings not only advance questions of...

Philosophy for AS is an accessible textbook for the new 2014 AQA Advanced Subsidiary Philosophy syllabus. Structured closely around the AQA specification this textbook covers the two units, Epistemology and Philosophy of Religion, in an engaging and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780991242221Author Michael FlaggFormat PaperbackPage Count 630Imprint USB Vision PressPublisher USB Vision PressWeight(grams) 830gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

"Sellars' s argument in EPM is enormously rich, subtle, and compelling. It is also, for the uninitiated, extraordinarily dense. Willem deVries and Timm Triplett's comprehensive commentary Knowledge, Mind, and the Given provides a much needed guide...

This book has two aims. First, to provide a critical legal examination of the liberal state and liberal rights in the law, and secondly, to present a systematic alternative to liberal approaches to both the law and rights, grounded in a left wing...

In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the...

ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT AND PHILOSOPHY Is George Michael's crush on his cousin unnatural? Is it immoral for Lindsay to lie about stealing clothes to hide her job?Is Gob better off living his life in bad faith?What inferences can we draw from Tobias's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781570628559Author Ken WilberFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

In this book, Dr. Hoodbhoy, a nuclear physicist, eloquently and usefully draws attention to the plight of science and technology in the Muslim world and to the need to do something about it. The book also makes some other helpful insights here and there...

Whether we have children or not we all want the future to be fairer and happier; and Zoe Williams believes that we need to make that happen collectively. GET IT TOGETHER is a rousing call to arms for us all to play our part in creating a more equal...

The first comprehensive collection of the work of Richard Rorty (1931-2007), The Rorty Reader brings together the influential American philosopher's essential essays from over four decades of writings. Offers a comprehensive introduction to Richard...

While a number of secular philosophers have written on global poverty, theologians have either steered clear entirely or simply mimicked the political analysis currently on offer. Christian authors have argued either for a free market solution to global...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865970236Author Adam SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 391Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 645g

Embodied cognition is a recent development in psychology that practitioners often present as a superseding standard cognitive science. In this outstanding introduction, Lawrence Shapiro sets out the central themes and debates surrounding embodied...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916541016Author Christina Tudor-SideriFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Erratum PressPublisher Erratum PressWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 190mm *...

The problem of addiction is one of the major challenges and controversies confronting medicine and society. It also poses important and complex philosophical and scientific problems. What is addiction? Why does it occur? And how should we respond to it,...

First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250235411Author Sarah DeningFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint St. Martin's EssentialsPublisher St. Martin's EssentialsWeight(grams)...

Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is widely considered to be one of the most important moral philosophers of the twentieth century. Reasons and Persons is arguably the most influential of the two books published in his lifetime and hailed as a classic work of...

With this latest book in the series, Stanford continues its English-language publication of the famed Colli-Montinari edition of Nietzsche's complete works, which include the philosopher's notebooks and early unpublished writings. Scrupulously edited so...

Elizabeth Anderson offers a new theory of value and rationality that rejects cost-benefit analysis in our social lives and in our ethical theories. This account of the plurality of values thus offers a new approach, beyond welfare economics and...

This volume reveals the wisdom we can learn from sailing, a sport that pits human skills against the elements, tests the mettle and is a rich source of valuable lessons in life. Unravels the philosophical mysteries behind one of the oldest organized...