Diving for Pearls - A Thinking Journey with Hannah Arendt by Kathleen B. Jones
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Kathleen B. Jones brings a scholar's insights and a lyrical voice to this philosophical memoir about her thirty-year fascination with Hannah Arendt, one of the 20th century's most controversial thinkers. With Arendt as her guide, Jones recounts stories from her own life interwoven with Arendt's life and ...Show more
There Are Two Errors in the the Title of This Book: A Sourcebook of Philosophical Puzzles, Problems, and Paradoxes. Robert M. Martin by Robert M Martin
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Why was Sartre afraid of lobsters? What makes art great? Are the jokes in Kant’s Critique of Judgment funny? Does philosophy actually make philosophers wiser? As this book richly and entertainingly demonstrates, philosophy is as much the search for the right questions as it is a search for the right ans ...Show more
The Golden Compass and Philosophy - God Bites the Dust by Richard Greene (Editor); Rachel Robison (Editor)
$37.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy Ser.
The popularity of theHis Dark Materials trilogy has generated a major motion picture, a stage play, video games, and a new prequel. The series has also been highly controversial with its use of exciting adventure stories for children to comment on organized religion. These books have piqued the interest ...Show more
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible by Charles Eisenstein
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Sacred Activism Ser.
"In a time of mounting chaos and crumbling institutions, how can we as individuals do anything to make the world a better place? This inspirational and thought-provoking book serves as an empowering antidote to the cynicism, frustration, paralysis, and overwhelm so many of us are feeling, replacing it w ...Show more
Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
$36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that ar ...Show more
When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher by MARIE ROBERT
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
How can Kant comfort you when you get dumped via text message? How can Aristotle cure your hangover? How can Heidegger make you feel better when your dog dies? When You Kant Figure It Out, Ask a Philosopher explains how pearls of wisdom from the greatest Western philosophers can help us face and make li ...Show more
The Good State - On the Principles of Democracy by A C Grayling
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power ...Show more
Philosophical Posthumanism by Francesca Ferrando; Rosi Braidotti (Preface by, Series edited by)
$180.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Theory in the New Humanities Ser.
The notion of 'the human' is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term 'posthuman' provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the cri ...Show more
Disobey: A Guide to Ethical Resistance by Frederic Gros
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent act for everyone. In this provocative essay, Fr d ric Gros explores the roots of political obedience, social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutional consensus. Examining the various styles of obedi ...Show more
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy by William Irwin
$31.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
This is the perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's remake of "Alice in Wonderland" releasing in March 2010. "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is treasured by people of all ages who have followed young Alice on her trip down a rabbit hole and into a fantasy world fil ...Show more
A Thousand Plateaus by Gilles Deleuze
$46.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
A Thousand Plateaus is the second part of Deleuze and Guattari's landmark philosophical project, Capitalism and Schizophrenia - a project that still sets the terms of contemporary philosophical debate. Written over a seven year period, A Thousand Plateaus provides a compelling analysis of social phenome ...Show more
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times by Michael Ignatieff
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes - war, famine, pandemic - we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, ...Show more