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Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911193029Author Julian WolfreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Triarchy PressPublisher Triarchy PressWeight(grams) 368g

Heidegger intended to replace metaphysics by a new kind of thought about that which he called 'Sein', but in his works this noun is very far from meaning the act of being such as it has been traditionally conceived by Western philosophy. His explanations...

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. ...

If anything marks the image, it is a deep ambivalence. Denounced as superficial, illusory, and groundless, images are at the same time attributed with exorbitant power and assigned a privileged relation to truth. Mistrusted by philosophy, forbidden and...

First published in 1988 as volume 63 of his Collected Works, Ontology-The Hermeneutics of Facticity is the text of Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Freiburg during the summer of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical...

The first comprehensive scrutiny of the theories associated with new materialisms including speculative realism, new materialism, Object-oriented ontology and actor-network theory. One of the most influential trends in the humanities and social...

Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone...

A comprehensive anthology of Heidegger's early essays.This indispensable volume adds for the first time a comprehensive anthology of the most important of Martin Heidegger's recently discovered early essays. Translated by preeminent Heidegger scholars,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998730219Author Paul Frank SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint By Grace for Glory PublishingPublisher By Grace for Glory PublishingWeight(grams)...

In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical...

Originally a novel by Will Self, Great Apes is a hilarious, disturbing and dazzlingly original take on man's place in the evolutionary chain.When Turner Prize-winning artist Simon Dykes wakes up one morning after a wild night out, he finds his world has...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936594269Author Friedrich NietzscheFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Soho BooksPublisher Soho BooksWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 5mm

Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness introduces the Integrated Process Model (IPM), a new interdisciplinary and interprofessional model for grief research, education, and accompaniment that distinguishes and integrates five dimensions of grief:...

In Being and Time Heidegger gives an account of the distinctive features of human existence, in an attempt to answer the question of the meaning of being. He finds that underlying all of these features is what he calls 'original time'. In this clear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781521711910Author Val N TineFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Val N TinePublisher Val N TineWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm * 10mm

A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures'Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting...'This definitive new collection of Albert Camus' public speeches and lectures gives a compelling insight into one of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062510136Author J. KrishnamurtiFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original philospher, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking goes well beyond philosophy itself. In this book, which aims to make Wittgenstein's thought accessible to the general non-specialist...

A married person falls deeply in love with someone else. A man of average income feels he cannot be truly happy unless he owns an expensive luxury car. A dieter has an irresistible craving for ice cream. Desires often come to us unbidden and unwanted,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533379Author Byung-Chul HanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 178mm * 114mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783220Author Ralph Waldo EmersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 880Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm)...

Knowledge in the Age of Digital Capitalism proposes a new critical theory concerning the functioning of capitalism and how we consider knowledge and information. This ambitious book systematically and lucidly introduces contemporary phenomena into the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984986705Author Paris WilliamsFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Sky's Edge PublishingPublisher Sky's Edge PublishingWeight(grams) 633g

On Extinction takes us on a breathtaking philosophical journey through desperate territory. As we face 'the end of all things', Ben Ware argues we must face our apocalyptic future without flinching. In fact, extinction is the very lens through which we...

"One is not born a woman, but becomes one", Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious...

What is 'nothing'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - a void - exist? This Very Short Introduction explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via...

Countersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a...

'Bristles with provocative insights into the tangled liaisons of sex and self' Times Higher EducationIn the third volume of his acclaimed examination of sexuality in modern Western society, Foucault investigates the Golden Age of Rome to reveal a ...

Walking Inside Out is the first text that attempts to merge the work of literary and artist practitioners with academics to critically explore the state of psychogeography today. The collection explores contemporary psychogeographical practices, shows...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262621601Author Dominique LaporteFormat PaperbackPage Count 175Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 146mm *...

The final major work by one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth centuryIn the fourth and final volume of his far-reaching and influential study of human sexuality, Foucault turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient...

Feminist theorist and philosopher Donna Haraway has substantially impacted thought on science, cyberculture, the environment, animals, and social relations. This long-overdue volume explores her influence on feminist theory and philosophy, paying...

In his monumental 1687 work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, known familiarly as the Principia, Isaac Newton laid out in mathematical terms the principles of time, force, and motion that have guided the development of modern physical...

Communicology is Vilem Flusser's first thesis on his concepts of technical images and technical imagination. In this foundational text he lays the groundwork for later work, offering a philosophical approach to communication as a phenomenon that...

A challenging reappraisal of the history of antipsychotics, revealing how they were transformed from neurological poisons into magical cures, their benefits exaggerated and their toxic effects minimized or ignored.About the AuthorJoanna Moncrieff is a...

In Speculation as a Mode of Production: Forms of Value Subjectivity in Art and Capital, Marina Vishmidt offers a new perspective on one of the main categories of capitalist life in the historical present. Writing not under the shadow but in the spirit of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781087754390Author Carl R. TruemanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint LifeWay Christian ResourcesPublisher LifeWay Christian Resources

Hartmut Rosa advances an account of the temporal structure of society from the perspective of critical theory. He identifies three categories of change in the tempo of modern social life: technological acceleration, evident in transportation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900045Author Amilcar CabralFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...