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  • Berdyaev’s Philosophy of History

    An Existentialist Theory of Social Creativity and Eschatology

    by David Bonner Richardson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    BERDYAEV AS A PHILOSOPHER How shall a non-Russian, above all a North American, assimilate the extraordinary assemblage of ideas which is Berdyaev's philosophy? Dr. Richardson does not exaggerate the difficulties. And he introduces us with great care (and what a formidable task it must have been) precisely to what is most strange in this writer, his fusion of historical .. eschatological ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • The Voyage Of The Beagle

    by Charles Darwin ...
    Voyage of the Beagle chronicles Charles Darwin's five years as a naturalist on board the H.M.S. Beagle. The notes and observations that he recorded in his diary included Chile, Argentina and Galapagos Islands and encompasses the ecology, geology and anthropology of the places he visits. A fascinating travel memoir the ideas that were later to evolve into Darwin's theory of natural selection find ... Read more

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  • Platform Capitalism

    by Nick Srnicek ...
    Series series Theory Redux
    What unites Google and Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, Siemens and GE, Uber and Airbnb? Across a wide range of sectors, these firms are transforming themselves into platforms: businesses that provide the hardware and software foundation for others to operate on. This transformation signals a major shift in how capitalist firms operate and how they interact with the rest of the economy: the ... Read more

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  • A (Somewhat Irreverent) Introduction to Philosophy for Medical Students and Other Busy People

    by Niall McLaren ...
    During their careers, many students become aware that, lurking in the background, there are complex and conceptually difficult questions that, all too often, their teachers either can't answer, or can't even understand. These are traditionally the questions addressed by philosophy, and this little primer is the result of another student's journey over many years. Niall McLaren MD has spent over ... Read more

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  • Does Anything Really Matter?

    Essays on Parfit on Objectivity

    Edited by Peter Singer ...
    In the first two volumes of On What Matters Derek Parfit argues that there are objective moral truths, and other normative truths about what we have reasons to believe, and to want, and to do. He thus challenges a view of the role of reason in action that can be traced back to David Hume, and is widely assumed to be correct, not only by philosophers but also by economists. In defending his view, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Changing the Subject

    Philosophy from Socrates to Adorno

    by Raymond Geuss ...
    “A history of philosophy in twelve thinkers…The whole performance combines polyglot philological rigor with supple intellectual sympathy, and it is all presented…in a spirit of fun…This bracing and approachable book [shows] that there is life in philosophy yet.”—Times Literary Supplement“Exceptionally engaging…Geuss has a remarkable knack for putting even familiar thinkers in a new light.”—Notre ... Read more

    $24.89 CAD

  • Introducing Empiricism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

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  • The British Aesthetic Tradition

    From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein

    by Timothy M. Costelloe ...
    The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Descartes

    Edited by John Cottingham ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life and the development of his thought, as well as the ... Read more

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  • Melancholy

    by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) ...
    Translated by Tim Wilkinson ...
    Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.”  Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Heidegger's Children

    Hannah Arendt, Karl Löwith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert Marcuse

    by Richard Wolin, Richard Wolin ...
    Martin Heidegger is perhaps the twentieth century's greatest philosopher, and his work stimulated much that is original and compelling in modern thought. A seductive classroom presence, he attracted Germany's brightest young intellects during the 1920s. Many were Jews, who ultimately would have to reconcile their philosophical and, often, personal commitments to Heidegger with his nefarious ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic

    Essays in Honour of Jan Wole?ski

    Edited by K. Mulligan, K. Kijania-PLacek, T. Placek ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy. It contains discussions and reconstructions of aspects of Polish philosophy and logic as well as reactions to and developments of this tradition. ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD