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  • How to Research Like a Dog

    Kafka’s New Science

    par Aaron Schuster ...
    Collections series Short Circuits
    A provocative book that proposes a new and surprising inspiration for philosophy today—the canine thinker from Kafka’s story “Investigations of a Dog.”Written toward the end of Kafka’s life, “Investigations of a Dog” (Forschungen eines Hundes, 1922) is one of the lesser-known and most enigmatic works in the author’s oeuvre. Kafka’s tale of philosophical adventure is that of a lone, maladjusted dog ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Pleasure

    Deleuze and Psychoanalysis

    par Aaron Schuster ...
    Collections series Short Circuits
    An investigation into the strange and troublesome relationship to pleasure that defines the human being, drawing on the disparate perspectives of Deleuze and Lacan.Is pleasure a rotten idea, mired in negativity and lack, which should be abandoned in favor of a new concept of desire? Or is desire itself fundamentally a matter of lack, absence, and loss? This is one of the crucial issues dividing ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Courage to Create

    par Rollo May ...
    What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life, but the fountainhead of human experience? What if our logic and science derive from art forms, rather than the other way around?In this trenchant volume, Rollo May helps all of us find those creative impulses that, once liberated, offer new possibilities for achievement.A renowned therapist and inspiring guide, ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Art of the Novel

    par Milan Kundera ...
    “Incites us to reflect on fiction and philosophy, knowledge and truth, and brilliantly illustrates the art of the essay.” — The New Republic"Every novelist's work contains an implicit vision of the history of the novel, an idea of what the novel is. I have tried to express the idea of the novel that is inherent in my own novels." — Milan KunderaKundera brilliantly examines the evolution, ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Spirit of Hope

    par Byung-Chul Han ...
    Traduit par Daniel Steuer ...
    A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.But it is precisely at such moments of fear and ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    par Lars Svendsen ...
    Traduit par John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... En savoir plus

    $26.99 CAD

  • Existentialism For Beginners

    par David Cogswell ...
    Collections series For Beginners
    Existentialism For Beginners is an entertaining romp through the history of a philosophical movement that has had a broad and enduring influence on Western culture. From the middle of the Nineteenth Century through the late Twentieth Century existentialism informed our politics and art and still exerts its influence today. Tracing the movement's beginnings with close-up views of seminal figures ... En savoir plus

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  • Language and Silence

    Essays on Language, Literature, and the Inhuman

    par George Steiner ...
    The evolution and manipulation of language from the celebrated author of After Babel. "A keenly discriminating literary mind at work on what it loves" ( The New York Times Book Review).Language and Silence is a book about language—and politics, meaning, silence, and the future of literature. Originally published between 1958 and 1966, the essays that make up this collection ponder whether we have ... En savoir plus

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  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Collections series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of The Myth of Sisyphus with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, a philosophical essay which focuses on the issue of suicide in an absurd world. Camus uses Greek mythology to highlight why life, in spite of its inherent pointlessness, is still worth living, coming ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Nietzsche

    A Beginner's Guide

    par Robert Wicks ...
    Collections series Beginner's Guides
    Discover the truth about the much-misunderstood thinkerOften quoted yet highly divisive, Nietzsche remains an enigma long after his death. This clear primer moves deftly through the controversy to examine the philosopher's work in the context of his tumultuous childhood and Christian upbringing. Discussing his infamous declaration that God is dead, his posthumous association with Nazism, and his ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    Collections series BrightSummaries.com
    In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus is a philosophical essay that belongs to the Cycle of the Absurd, along with The Stranger and Caligula. In this essay, the author discusses the absurdity of a meaningless life, the estrangement of Man from the world, and the possibility of suicide as a solution.Find out everything ... En savoir plus

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  • The Great Philosophers: Nietzsche

    par Ronald Hayman ...
    'God is dead', announced Nietzsche - before going on to abolish himself.Envious contemporaries of Nietzsche ridiculed him as a mad man - and yet they came closer than they knew in characterising a philosopher in whose thought ambivalence approximated to disintegration of the self.While the nineteenth century's coherent, consistent systems of certainty came crashing down ingloriously at the very ... En savoir plus

    $2.99 CAD