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  • Culture Counts

    Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged

    par Roger Scruton ...
    Collections series Brief Encounters
    What is culture? Why should we preserve it, and how? In this book renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends Western culture against its internal critics and external enemies, and argues that rumours of its death are seriously exaggerated. He shows our culture to be a continuing source of moral knowledge, and rebuts the fashionable sarcasm which sees it as nothing more than the useless legacy of ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

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  • Beauty

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Roger Scruton ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object - either in art, in nature, or the human form - beautiful, and ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • Violence

    par Slavoj Zizek ...
    Collections series BIG IDEAS//small books
    Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Žižek examines the ways we perceive and misperceive violence. Drawing from his unique cultural vision, Žižek brings new light to the Paris riots of 2005; he questions ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Soul of the World

    par Roger Scruton ...
    A compelling defense of the sacred from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic judgments hint at a transcendent dimension that cannot be understood through the lens of science alone. To ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • You Must Change Your Life

    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. ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Parallax View

    par Slavoj Zizek ...
    Collections series Short Circuits
    In Žižek's long-awaited magnum opus, he theorizes the "parallax gap" in the ontological, the scientific, and the political—and rehabilitates dialectical materialism.The Parallax View is Slavoj Žižek's most substantial theoretical work to appear in many years; Žižek himself describes it as his magnum opus. Parallax can be defined as the apparent displacement of an object, caused by a change in ... En savoir plus

    $35.19 CAD

  • The Age of Atheists

    How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

    par Peter Watson ...
    **A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.**In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant, courageous, ... En savoir plus

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Art of Philosophy

    Wisdom as a Practice

    Traduit par Karen Margolis ...
    In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Uses of Pessimism

    And the Danger of False Hope

    par Roger Scruton ...
    Ranging widely over human history and culture, from ancient Greece to the current global economic downturn, Scruton makes a counterintuitive yet persuasive case that optimists and idealists -- with their ignorance about the truths of human nature and human society, and their naive hopes about what can be changed -- have wrought havoc for centuries. Scruton's argument is nuanced, however, and his ... En savoir plus

    $25.99 CAD

  • Local Knowledge

    Further Essays In Interpretive Anthropology

    par Clifford Geertz ...
    From the preeminent anthropologist, a landmark exploration of how culture shapes human society“Shrewd and often illuminating."—New York TimesOver his storied career, Clifford Geertz pioneered ground-breaking approaches to anthropology, arguing that interpreting and analyzing cultural symbols was central to understanding a wide range of societies. In Local Knowledge, he revisits and expands the ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Modern Culture

    What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society.In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Dark Deleuze

    par Andrew Culp ...
    Collections series Forerunners: Ideas First
    French philosopher Gilles Deleuze is known as a thinker of creation, joyous affirmation, and rhizomatic assemblages. In this short book, Andrew Culp polemically argues that this once-radical canon of joy has lost its resistance to the present. Concepts created to defeat capitalism have been recycled into business mantras that joyously affirm “Power is vertical; potential is horizontal!”Culp ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD