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  • A Slow Death or, The Silence of the Old World

    by Alexander J. Ford, Jack R. Parnell ...
    It has been now two hundred thirty-one years since Edmund Burke wrote of the materialistic revolutionaries in France: "The age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever." The passage of time has long since rendered the verdict that those were vatic words rather than reactionary contrivances, nearer to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings

    by Laurence Sterne ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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  • The Fear of Freedom

    by Erich Fromm ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Erich Fromm sees right to the heart of our contradictory needs for community and for freedom like no other writer before or since. In Fear of Freedom, Fromm warns that the price of community is indeed high, and it is the individual who pays. Fascism and authoritarianism may seem like receding shadows for some, but are cruel realities for many. Erich Fromm leaves a valuable and original legacy to ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Finite and Infinite Games

    by James Carse ...
    “There are at least two kinds of games,” states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. “One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.”Finite games are the familiar contests of everyday life; they are played in order to be won, which is when they end. But infinite games are ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Ambiguity

    by Simone de Beauvoir ...
    From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom.In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French contemporaries, philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by arguing that the freedoms in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Closing of the American Mind

    by Allan Bloom ...
    The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition.In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • You Must Change Your Life

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning; rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Evil in Modern Thought

    An Alternative History of Philosophy

    by Susan Neiman, Susan Neiman ...
    A compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorismEvil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Dialectic of Enlightenment

    by Max Horkheimer, Theodor W. Adorno ...
    Translated by Edmund Jephcott ...
    Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
    Dialectic of Enlightenment is undoubtedly the most influential publication of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory. Written during the Second World War and circulated privately, it appeared in a printed edition in Amsterdam in 1947. "What we had set out to do," the authors write in the Preface, "was nothing less than to explain why humanity, instead of entering a truly human state, is sinking ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Courtier and the Heretic

    Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World

    by Matthew Stewart ...
    "Exhilarating…Stewart has achieved a near impossibility, creating a page-turner about jousting metaphysical ideas, casting thinkers as warriors." —Liesl Schillinger, New York Times Book ReviewOnce upon a time, philosophy was a dangerous business—and for no one more so than for Baruch Spinoza, the seventeenth-century philosopher vilified by theologians and political authorities everywhere as “the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Dialogic Imagination

    Four Essays

    by M. M. Bakhtin ...
    Translated by Michael Holquist, Caryl Emerson ...
    These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)—known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky—as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel. The Dialogic Imagination presents, in superb English translation, four selections from Voprosy literatury i estetiki (Problems of literature and esthetics), published in Moscow in 1975. ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Eclipse of Reason

    by Max Horkheimer ...
    In Eclipse of Reason, Horkheimer discusses how the Nazis were able to project their agenda as "reasonable", but also identifies the Pragmatism of John Dewey as problematic, due to his emphasis on the instrumental dimension of reasoning. It is broken into five sections: Means and Ends, Conflicting Panaceas, The Revolt of Nature, The Rise and Decline of the Individual and On the Concept of ... Read more

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