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Classic Thinkers eBook Series

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  • Berkeley

    by Daniel E. Flage ...
    Series series Classic Thinkers
    Irish philosopher George Bishop Berkeley was one of the greatest philosophers of the early modern period. Along with David Hume and John Locke he is considered one of the fathers of British Empiricism. Berkeley is a clear, concise, and sympathetic introduction to George Berkeley’s philosophy, and a thorough review of his most important texts. Daniel E. Flage explores his works on vision, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

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  • Introducing Slavoj Zizek

    A Graphic Guide

    by Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek deftly ... Read more

    $4.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • New Science

    by Giambattista Vico ...
    Translated by David Marsh ...
    Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • On Generation and Corruption

    by Aristotle ...
    "On Generation and Corruption" is a philosophical treatise written by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. The work is concerned with the nature of change and the principles that govern the transformation of substances in the natural world.Aristotle argues that everything in the natural world is composed of four basic elements: earth, air, fire, and water. These elements have different ... Read more

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  • Manhunts

    A Philosophical History

    by Grégoire Chamayou ...
    Translated by Steven Rendall ...
    A comprehensive history of manhunting in the West, from ancient times to the presentTouching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Resistance

    A Philosophy of Defiance

    by Professor Howard Caygill ...
    No word is more central to the contemporary political imagination and action than 'resistance'. In its various manifestations - from the armed guerrilla to Gandhian mass pacifist protest, from Wikileaks and the Arab Spring to the global eruption and violent repression of the Occupy movement - concepts of resistance are becoming ubiquitous and urgent. In this book, Howard Caygill conducts the first ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue

    by Ryan Patrick Hanley ...
    Recent years have witnessed a renewed debate over the costs at which the benefits of free markets have been bought. This book revisits the moral and political philosophy of Adam Smith, capitalism's founding father, to recover his understanding of the morals of the market age. In so doing it illuminates a crucial albeit overlooked side of Smith's project: his diagnosis of the ethical ills of ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Global Intellectual History

    Edited by Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Environmental Philosophy

    An Introduction

    by Simon P. James ...
    Climate change, habitat loss, rising extinction rates - such problems call for more than just new policies and practices. They raise fundamental questions about the world and our place in it. What, for instance, is the natural world? Do we humans belong to it? Which parts of it are we morally obliged to protect?Drawing on an exceptionally wide range of sources, from virtue ethics to Buddhism, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Art of Reconciliation

    Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel, and Derrida

    by D. Petersson ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The basic question is this: why does dialectical metaphysics fail to keep what it promises? What is it about dialectics, that makes it fall into irreducibly distinct variations of itself, when all it promises is to synthesize, to reconcile and make whole ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Interpreting Avicenna

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Peter Adamson ...
    Avicenna is the greatest philosopher of the Islamic world. His immense impact on Christian and Jewish medieval thought, as well as on the subsequent Islamic tradition, is charted in this volume alongside studies which provide a comprehensive introduction to and analysis of his philosophy. Contributions from leading scholars address a wide range of topics including Avicenna's life and works, ... Read more

    $40.19 USD

  • The Impact of Idealism: Volume 2, Historical, Social and Political Thought

    The Legacy of Post-Kantian German Thought

    by Nicholas Boyle, Liz Disley ...
    The first study of its kind, The Impact of Idealism assesses the impact of classical German philosophy on science, religion and culture. This second volume explores German Idealism's impact on the historical, social and political thought of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Each essay focuses on an idea or concept from the high point of German philosophy around 1800, tracing ... Read more

    $112.39 USD