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101 Dilemmas for the Armchair Philosopher
by Eric Chaline
In a democracy, should everyone - absolutely everyone - get a vote? Does it really matter if tigers become extinct? Why does murder carry a heavier penalty than attempted murder? If you don't like the socks your grandma gives you for Christmas, ...
ISBN: 9780857625069
Binding: Hardback
$19.99
Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books
by Tom Butler-Bowdon
ISBN: 9781473655423
Binding: Paperback
$19.99
$24.99
A Common Humanity: Thinking About Love, & Truth& Justice
by Raimond Gaita
Our sense of the preciousness of other people is connected with their power to affect us in ways we cannot fathom and in ways against which we can protect ourselves only at the cost of becoming shallow. There is nothing reasonable in the fact ...
ISBN: 9781876485412
Binding: Paperback
$24.95
A Curiosity of Doubts: Penguin Special
by T. L. Uglow
While society generally espouses the value of logic and certainty, we grow because we doubt. Humans have not spent millennia traversing oceans and experimenting with explosives because of confidence in their beliefs. Culture and science are ...
ISBN: 9780143782520
Binding: Paperback
$9.99
by Rebecca Solnit
Solnit's revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics ...
ISBN: 9781786890511
Binding: Paperback
$22.99
The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
by William B. Irvine
ISBN: 9780195374612
Binding: Hardback
$31.95
by Michael Ruse
Does human life have any meaning? Does the question even make sense today? For centuries, the question of the meaning or purpose of human life was assumed by scholars and theologians to have a religious answer: life has meaning because humans ...
ISBN: 9780190933227
Binding: Hardback
$33.95
A New History of Western Philosophy
by Anthony Kenny
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy--the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece through the Middle Ages and
ISBN: 9780199656493
Binding: Paperback
$44.95
Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity
by Manuel DeLanda
In <i>A New Philosophy of Society</i> Manuel DeLanda offers a fascinating look at how the contemporary world is characterized by an extraordinary social complexity. Since most social entities, from small communities to <br>large nation-states ...
ISBN: 9781350096738
Binding: Paperback
$39.99
A Philosophical Commentary on the Politics of Aristotle
by Peter L. Phillips Simpson
ISBN: 9780807853573
Binding: Paperback
$89.00
A Practical Guide to Philosophy for Everyday Life
See the Bigger Picture
by Trevor Curnow
An Introducing Practical Guide to how philosophy can be used in everyday life. ...
ISBN: 9781785783258
Binding: Paperback
$12.99
by E. M. Cioran
'The fanatic is incorruptible- if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.' <BR><BR><i>A Short History of Decay </i>(1949) is E. M. Cioran's nihilistic and witty ...
ISBN: 9780241343463
Binding: Paperback
$22.99
Consolations for a Post-Truth World
by Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9781786488886
Binding: Hardback
$19.99
Consolations for a Post-Truth World
by Julian Baggini
ISBN: 9781786488893
Binding: Paperback
$19.99
A Biography
by Stefan Müller-Doohm
'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. ?It can only be defined in a living context together with others.? In this major new biography, Stefan Müller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a ...
ISBN: 9780745631097
Binding: Paperback
$48.95
by Theodor W. Adorno
<p>This volume of lectures on aesthetics, given by Adorno in the winter semester of 1958–9, formed the foundation for his later <i>Aesthetic Theory</i>, widely regarded as one of his greatest works. </p> <p>The lectures cover a wide range ...
ISBN: 9780745679402
Binding: Paperback
$39.95
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