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  • The Scottish Enlightenment

    Race, Gender, and the Limits of Progress

    by Silvia Sebastiani ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The Scottish Enlightenment shaped a new conception of history as a gradual and universal progress from savagery to civil society. Whereas women emancipated themselves from the yoke of male-masters, men in turn acquired polite manners and became civilized. Such a conception, however, presents problematic questions: why were the Americans still savage? Why was it that the Europeans only had ... Read more

    $125.09 USD

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  • Ideas That Matter

    The Concepts That Shape the 21st Century

    by A. C. Grayling ...
    Ideas can, and do, change the world. Just as Marxism, existentialism, and feminism shaped the last century, so fundamentalism, globalization, and bioethics are transforming our world now. In Ideas that Matter, renowned philosopher A.C. Grayling provides a personal dictionary of the ideas that will shape our world in the decades to come. With customary wit, fire, and erudition, Grayling ranges ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Sickness Unto Death

    A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification and Awakening by Anti-Climacus

    Translated by Alastair Hannay ...
    by Alastair Hannay, Søren Kierkegaard ...
    One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may be described as living in this state of bleak abandonment - including some ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • The Philosophical Child

    by Jana Mohr Lone ...
    What does it mean to be good? Why do people die? What is friendship? Children enter the world full of questions and wrestle with deep, thoughtful issues, even if they do not always wonder them aloud. Many parents have the desire to discuss philosophical ideas with their children, but are unsure how to do so. The Philosophical Child offers parents guidance on how to gently approach philosophical ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Shadows

    Unlocking Their Secrets, from Plato to Our Time

    by Roberto Casati ...
    In this original, wide-ranging, and endlessly thought-provoking work of popular nonfiction, a leading science writer uncovers the pervasive presence of shadows in our world.For Plato, shadows were the symbol of our limitations. For Galileo, they knocked the Earth from the center of the cosmos. They are a source of fear and a symbol of ignorance, and they loom large in art and design, mythology and ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question

    by Richard J. Bernstein ...
    Hannah Arendt is increasingly recognised as one of the most original social and political thinkers of the twentieth century. In this important book, Richard Bernstein sets out to show that many of the most significant themes in Arendt's thinking have their origins in their confrontation with the Jewish Question. By approaching her mature work from this perspective, we can gain a richer and more ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

  • 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

    $15.89 USD

  • Everyday Examples

    An Introduction to Philosophy

    by Professor David Cunning ...
    "Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?"In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, incisive and engaging introduction to philosophy. Everyday Examples explores historical philosophy and the contemporary theory scene and includes ideas from both the analytic and continental traditions. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • A Critical Introduction to Properties

    by Dr Sophie Allen ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Critical Introductions to Contemporary Metaphysics
    What do blue things have in common? Or electrons? Or planets? Distinct things appear to share properties; but what are properties and what is the best philosophical account of them? A Critical Introduction to Properties introduces different ontological accounts of properties, exploring how their formulation is shaped by the explanatory demands placed upon them.This accessible introduction begins ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • The Philosophy of Tragedy

    From Plato to Žižek

    by Julian Young ...
    This book is a full survey of the philosophy of tragedy from antiquity to the present. From Aristotle to Žižek the focal question has been: why, in spite of its distressing content, do we value tragic drama? What is the nature of the 'tragic effect'? Some philosophers point to a certain kind of pleasure that results from tragedy. Others, while not excluding pleasure, emphasize the knowledge we ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Kant

    Edited by Paul Guyer ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The fundamental task of philosophy since the seventeenth century has been to determine whether the essential principles of both knowledge and action can be discovered by human beings unaided by an external agency. No one philosopher contributed more to this enterprise than Kant, whose Critique of Pure Reason (1781) shook the very foundations of the intellectual world. Kant argued that the basic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Antipodean Philosopher

    Interviews on Philosophy in Australia and New Zealand, Volume 2

    Edited by Graham Oppy, N. N. Trakakis, Lynda Burns, Steve Gardner, Fiona Leigh, Michelle Irving ...
    In this second volume of The Antipodean Philosopher, Graham Oppy and N.N. Trakakis have brought together fourteen leading Australasian philosophers, inviting them to speak in a frank and accessible way about their philosophical lives: for example, what drew them to a career in philosophy, what philosophy means to them, and their perceptions and criticisms of the ways in which philosophy is studied ... Read more

    $121.49 USD