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by Karl Rosenkranz
In this key text in the history of art and aesthetics, Karl Rosenkranz shows ugliness to be the negation of beauty without being reducible to evil, materiality, or other negative terms used it 's conventional condemnation. This insistence on ...
ISBN: 9781350022928
Binding: Paperback
$39.99
by Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell’s world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. ...
ISBN: 9781460796283
Binding: CD-Audio
Audio Book$49.95
by Nikki Gemmell
Nikki Gemmell’s world changed forever when the body of her elderly mother was found and it became clear she had decided to end her own life. After the immediate shock came the guilt and the horror, for Nikki, her family, relatives and friends. ...
ISBN: 9781460796290
Binding: CD-Extra
Audio Book$49.95
by Alasdair MacIntyre
Highly controversial when it was first published in 1981, Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue has since established itself as a landmark work in contemporary moral philosophy. In this book, MacIntyre sought to address a crisis in moral language ...
ISBN: 9781780936253
Binding: Paperback
$29.99
Living Ethically in Compromised Times
by Assistant Professor Alexis Shotwell
<p>In <i>Against Purity</i>, Alexis Shotwell proposes a powerful new conception of social movements as custodians for the past and incubators for liberated futures. <i>Against Purity</i> undertakes an analysis that draws on theories of race, ...
ISBN: 9780816698646
Binding: Paperback
$39.99
by Claire Colebrook
<p>Until recently, "continental" philosophy has been tied either to the German tradition of phenomenology or to French post-structuralist concerns with the conditions of language and textuality. Giorgio Agamben draws upon and departs from both ...
ISBN: 9780745653112
Binding: Paperback
$37.95
Age of Absurdity: Why Modern Life makes it Hard to be Happy
by Michael Foley
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ISBN: 9781847396273
Binding: Paperback
$22.99
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind
by A. C. Grayling
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching <i>Macbeth</i> at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd,
ISBN: 9781408870389
Binding: Paperback
$27.99
Conversations about Retirement, Romance, Wrinkles, and Regret
by Martha C. Nussbaum
We all age differently, but we can learn from shared experiences and insights. The conversations, or paired essays, in Aging Thoughtfully combine a philosopher's approach with a lawyer-economist's.Here are ideas about when to retire, how to
ISBN: 9780190600235
Binding: Hardback
$38.95
Alice in Wonderland and Philosophy
Curiouser and Curiouser
by William Irwin
The perfect companion to Lewis Carroll's classic book and director Tim Burton's March 2010 remake of <i>Alice in Wonderland</i> <p><i>Alice?s Adventures in Wonderland</i> has fascinated children and adults alike for generations. Why does Lewis ...
ISBN: 9780470558362
Binding: Paperback
$26.95
Alien and Philosophy - I Infest, Therefore I Am
by William Irwin
<p><i>Alien and Philosophy: I Infest, Therefore I Am </i>presents a philosophical exploration of the world of <i>Alien</i>, the simultaneously horrifying and thought-provoking sci-fi horror masterpiece, and the film franchise it spawned.</p> ...
ISBN: 9781119280811
Binding: Paperback
$26.95
by Jacques Ranciere
Jacques Ranci re's first major work, <em>Althusser's Lesson</em> appeared in 1974, just as the energies of May 68 were losing ground to the calls for a return to order. Ranci re's analysis of Althusserian Marxism unfolds against this background-
ISBN: 9781350009110
Binding: Paperback
$29.99
The Power of Compassion to Change Yourself and the World
by Matthieu Ricard
The new bestseller from Matthieu Ricard is the result of a lifetime's thought. This inspirational book argues that by understanding kindness and developing it as a skill we can change the world. ...
ISBN: 9780857896995
Binding: Paperback
$32.99
Among the Dead Cities: Is the Targeting of Civilians in War Ever Justified?
by A.C. Grayling
Is it ever right to target civilians in a time of war? Or do the ends sometimes justify the means? The twentieth century - the age of 'total war' - marked the first time that civilian populations came to be seen as legitimate military targets. ...
ISBN: 9781472526038
Binding: Paperback
$25.99
An Awareness of What Is Missing - Faith and Reasonin a Post-secular Age
by Jurgen Habermas
In his recent writings on religion and secularization, Habermas has challenged reason to clarify its relation to religious experience and to engage religions in a constructive dialogue. Given the global challenges facing humanity, nothing is ...
ISBN: 9780745647210
Binding: Paperback
$28.95
Philosophies of Personal Power
by Robert Spillane
This book discusses ten philosophical perspectives, or worldviews, which present original ideas capable of evoking in us values that are guidelines for personal conduct. Harmonising knowledge, values and conduct maximises our personal power and ...
ISBN: 9781613397626
Binding: Paperback
$34.95
by Theodor W. Adorno
<p>This volume comprises Adorno s first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno ...
ISBN: 9780745679440
Binding: Paperback
$42.95
by Theodor W. Adorno
<p>This volume comprises Adorno s first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno ...
ISBN: 9780745693118
Binding: Hardback