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  • Finding Meaning in an Imperfect World

    by Iddo Landau ...
    Does life have meaning? Is it possible for life to be meaningful when the world is filled with suffering and when so much depends merely upon chance? Even if there is meaning, is there enough to justify living? These questions are difficult to resolve. There are times in which we face the mundane, the illogically cruel, and the tragic, which leave us to question the value of our lives. However, ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Is Philosophy Androcentric?

    by Iddo Landau ...
    In Is Philosophy Androcentric?, Iddo Landau contends that none of the arguments for viewing philosophy as pervasively androcentric ultimately stand up to rational scrutiny, while the ones that show it to be nonpervasively androcentric do not undermine it in the way that many critics have supposed. “Philosophy emerges, in almost all of its parts,” he concludes, “as human rather than male, and most ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Meaning in Life

    Edited by Iddo Landau ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    A topic of universal concern that touches everyone, philosophy of meaning in life has roots in spiritual and religious movements in almost all cultures. Many of the issues dealt with in these movements, such as human vocation, the life worth living, our relation to what is "greater" than us, and our encounters with suffering and with death, are also discussed (even if in a different manner) in the ... Read more

    $147.99 CAD

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    God and the Habits of Language

    by The Rt Hon Rowan Williams ...
    The Edge of Words is Rowan Williams' first book since standing down as Archbishop of Canterbury.Invited to give the prestigious 2014 Gifford Lectures, Dr Williams has produced a scholarly but eminently accessible account of the possibilities of speaking about God – taking as his point of departure the project of natural theology.Dr Williams enters into dialogue with thinkers as diverse as ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Stories We Are

    An Essay on Self-Creation, Second Edition

    by William Randall ...
    From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole. In The Stories We Are, William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling styles through which people compose their lives. In doing so, he draws on a variety of fields, ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Americanization of Narcissism

    by Elizabeth Lunbeck ...
    American social critics in the 1970s, convinced that their nation was in decline, turned to psychoanalysis for answers and seized on narcissism as the sickness of the age. Books indicting Americans as greedy, shallow, and self-indulgent appeared, none more influential than Christopher Lasch's famous 1978 jeremiad The Culture of Narcissism. This line of critique reached a crescendo the following ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Ernest Becker Reader

    Edited by Daniel Liechty ...
    Ernest Becker (1924-1974) was an astute observer of society and human behavior during America’s turbulent 1960s and 1970s. Trained in social anthropology and driven by a transcending curiosity about human motivations, Becker doggedly pursued his basic research question, "What makes people act the way they do?" Dissatisfied with what he saw as narrowly fragmented methods in the contemporary social ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Art of Loving

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The landmark bestseller that changed the way we think about love: "Every line is packed with common sense, compassion, and realism" ( Fortune ).The Art of Loving is a rich and detailed guide to love—an achievement reached through maturity, practice, concentration, and courage. In the decades since the book's release, its words and lessons continue to resonate. Erich Fromm, a celebrated ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Art of Being

    by Erich Fromm ...
    A guide to well-being from the renowned social psychologist and New York Times –bestselling author of The Art of Loving and Escape from Freedom .Though laptops, smartphones, and TVs have in many ways made life more convenient, they have also disconnected us from the real world. Days are spent going from screen to machine, machine to s... ... Read more

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  • On Human Nature

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Man for Himself

    An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics

    by Erich Fromm ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author and social philosopher explores the function of ethics and morality in the human psyche: "A fascinating volume . . . magnificent in its implications" ( Saturday Review ).Are we primarily determined by nature or nurture? What are the best ways that people can live productively? In Man for Himself, renowned social philosopher Erich Fr... ... Read more

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  • The Problem Of The Soul

    Two Visions Of Mind And How To Reconcile Them

    by Owen Flanagan ...
    Science has always created problems for traditional ways of seeing things, but now the very attributes that make us human -- free will, the permanence of personal identity, the existence of the soul -- are threatened by the science of the mind. If the mind is the brain, and therefore a physical object subject to deterministic laws, how can we have free will? If most of our thoughts and impulses ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD