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Category: Philosophy
$39.95
Ethics of Liberation
Duke University Press Books |
February 8, 2013 |
715 pages
DIVAvailable in English for the first time, a masterwork by Enrique Dussel, one of the world's foremost philosophers, and a cornerstone of the philosophy of liberation, which he helped to found and develop./div
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$31.00
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
W. W. Norton |
May 6, 2013 |
384 pages
One of the world's leading philosophers offers aspiring thinkers his personal trove of mind-stretching thought experiments.
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$24.95
Arts of the Political
Duke University Press Books |
March 22, 2013 |
253 pages
DIVIn the West, "the Left," understood as a loose conglomeration of interests centered around the goal of a fairer and more equal society, still struggles to make its voice heard and its influence felt, even amid an overwhelming global recession. In Arts of the Political: New Openings for the Left,... More Info
$21.95
On Changing the World
Haymarket Books |
December 11, 2012 |
200 pages
Michael Löwy highlights the cultural, ?spiritual,” and ethical dimensions of Marxist thought largely neglected by most of the existing literature.
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Wild Comfort
Trumpeter |
March 9, 2010 |
256 pages
In an effort to make sense of the deaths in quick succession of several loved ones, Kathleen Dean Moore turned to the comfort of the wild, making a series of solitary excursions into ancient forests, wild rivers, remote deserts, and windswept islands to learn what the environment could teach her in... More Info
World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements
Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
April 2, 2013 |
272 pages
An experienced, award-winning educator discusses his years practicing a game with his fourth grade class, describing the conflict resolution and collective problem-solving utilized by nine-year-olds to fight for and negotiate world peace in the classroom.
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Poetry, Language, Thought
Harper Perennial Modern Classics |
November 6, 2001 |
256 pages
Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opened up appreciation of Martin Heidegger beyond the confines of philosophy to the reaches of poetry. In Heidegger's thinking, poetry is not a mere amusement or form of culture but a force that opens up the... More Info
$37.95
Hitler's Philosophers
Yale University Press |
May 21, 2013 |
328 pages
Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader" and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt explores Hitler's relationship with philosophers and uncovers... More Info
$25.95
Post-History
Univocal Pub Llc |
February 1, 2013 |
170 pages
Is there any room left for freedom in a programmed world? This is the essential question that Vilém Flusser asks in Post-History. Written as a series of lectures to be delivered at universities in Brazil, Israel, and France, it was subsequently developed as a book and published for the first time... More Info
Speech Begins After Death
March 1, 2013 |
96 pages
Speech Begins after Death is a transcript of critic Claude Bonnefoy's interview with Michel Foucault in which he reflects on his approach to the written word throughout his life, from his school days to his discovery of the pleasure of writing. Never before published in English, this is one of... More Info
$14.99
Why Internet Porn Matters
February 27, 2013 |
152 pages
This book examines the impact of the internet on pornography's social and political effects and provides a new theory of sex, speech, and power in light of today's drive toward self-exposure.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Anchor Canada |
April 2, 2013 |
512 pages
Two systems drive the way we think and make choices, Daniel Kahneman explains: System One is fast, intuitive, and emotional; System Two is slower, more deliberative, and more logical. Examining how both systems function within the mind, Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities as well as the... More Info
$26.95
Being and Time
Suny Press |
July 1, 2010 |
482 pages
A revised translation of Heidegger's most important work.
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$29.95
The Enigma of Perception
McGill Queens Univ |
May 1, 2013 |
232 pages
An innovative exploration of how we acquire knowledge and the principle on which that theory depends.
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$32.95
Marxism and Ethics
January 2, 2013 |
249 pages
Marxism and Ethics is a comprehensive and highly readable introduction to the rich and complex history of Marxist ethical theory as it has evolved over the last century and a half. Paul Blackledge argues that Marx s ethics of freedom underpin his revolutionary critique of capitalism. Marx s... More Info
$30.50
Deleuze Beyond Badiou
February 24, 2013 |
232 pages
First published in 1997, Alain Badiou's Deleuze: The Clamor of Being cast Gilles Deleuze as a secret philosopher of the One. In this work, Clayton Crockett rehabilitates Deleuze's position within contemporary political and philosophical thought, advancing an original reading of the thinker's major... More Info
$38.00
Plato's Republic
December 18, 2012 |
400 pages
Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2,500 years after its original composition? Alain Badiou breathes life into Plato's landmark text and revives its universality. Rather than... More Info
$25.50
L'Incident D'Antioche
Columbia University Press |
February 10, 2013 |
216 pages
Offers an English-French bilingual edition of a noted philosopher's play, in which statesmen, workers and revolutionaries struggle to reconcile the nature and practice of politics. Reprint.
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$15.95
What More Do You Want?
Tuttle Publishing |
April 9, 2013 |
224 pages
We've all had moments in our lives when we've thought, "Something is missing. There must be more to life than this." It is this sense that often brings people to the practice of Zen. By turning to Zen, they acknowledge that this "something" lies not in externals, but rather in seeking to transcend... More Info
Introducing Foucault
Icon Books |
August 1, 2009 |
175 pages
Presents an account, in graphic novel form, of Foucault's life and his philosophies on the concepts of power, authorship, transgression, and sex, and discusses how his ideas have influenced modern society.
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$35.95
Basic Problems of Phenomenology
Continuum |
February 7, 2013 |
208 pages
Basic Problems of Phenomenology presents the first English translation of Martin Heidegger's early lecture course from the Winter of 1919/1920, in which he attempts to clarify phenomenology by looking at the phenomenon of life, which he sees as the primary area of research for phenomenology.... More Info
We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For
The New Press |
November 21, 2007 |
257 pages
In a collection of spiritual and political reflections, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Color Purple offers a voice of serenity, clarity, and insight in an all too chaotic modern world as she shares her thoughts on freedom, environmental awareness, compassion, and peace, both within... More Info
$17.50
Justice
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
August 17, 2010 |
320 pages
“For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport,” The Nation’s reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book—based on his legendary Harvard course—Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated issues and controversies we face in public life today. It has... More Info
$38.99
The End(s) of Community
Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
March 1, 2013 |
220 pages
This book stems from an examination of how Western philosophy has accounted for the foundations of law. In this tradition, the character of the "sovereign" or "lawgiver" has provided the solution to this problem. But how does the sovereign acquire the right to found law? As soon as we ask this... More Info
In the Beginning, She Was
Continuum |
December 27, 2012 |
176 pages
In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from the beginning, Western tradition represents an... More Info
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Penguin Group USA |
January 29, 2013 |
432 pages
Offers a narrative of the United States' history during the past 100 years, not by discussing the events, but by discussing ideas, and highlighting the thoughts and thinkers that helped shape the century. 75,000 first printing.
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Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics
Cambridge University Press |
December 6, 2012 |
204 pages
Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete translation of the work has been available. But the Eudemian Ethics is a masterpiece in its own right,... More Info
$28.00
Foucault Effect: St
University of Chicago Press |
July 9, 1991 |
318 pages
Based on Michel Foucault's 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collège de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited sequel to Power/Knowledge. In these lectures, Foucault examines the art or activity of government both... More Info
The Worldly Philosophers
Touchstone |
May 24, 1999 |
365 pages
The final and most profound revision of this classic bestseller defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them.
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$27.95
Living Thought
December 31, 2012 |
296 pages
This book, itself by a major Italian philosopher, explores the distinctive traits of Italian theory and philosophy, reflecting on why it has been growing in popularity and why people have turned to it for answers to real-world issues and problems.
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Nudge
Penguin Group USA |
February 24, 2009 |
312 pages
Offering a groundbreaking study of the application of the science of choice, a guide that uses colorful examples from all aspects of life demonstrates how it is possible to design environments that make it more likely for us to act in our own interests. Reprint.
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An Introduction to Buddhism
Cambridge University Press |
November 30, 2012 |
552 pages
In this new edition of the best-selling Introduction to Buddhism, Peter Harvey provides a comprehensive introduction to the development of the Buddhist tradition in both Asia and the West. Extensively revised and fully updated, this new edition draws on recent scholarship in the field, exploring... More Info
The Red Book
W. W. Norton |
December 17, 2012 |
600 pages
This portable edition of the infamous journal by the Swiss psychologist presents his thoughts, experiences and everything he felt after a period of time spent seeing visions, hearing voices and inducing hallucinations. 25,000 first printing.
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$28.95
Race, Monogamy, and Other Lies They Told You
Univ of California Press |
June 12, 2012 |
274 pages
Uses scientific evidence from diverse fields to counter three pervasive myths about human behavior--that people are divided into biological races, humans are naturally aggressive, and men and women drastically differ in behavior.
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$39.95
Lincoln's Tragic Pragmatism
Harvard University Press |
January 7, 2013 |
832 pages
In their famous debates, Lincoln and Douglas struggled with how to behave when an ethical conflict like slavery strained democracy’s commitment to rule by both consent and principle. What conscience demands and what it can persuade others to agree to are not always the same. Ultimately, this... More Info
$14.95
The Ecstasy of Communication
Semiotext |
December 14, 2012 |
128 pages
"The need to speak, even if one has nothing to say, becomes more pressing whenone has nothing to say, just as the will to live becomes more urgent when life has lost itsmeaning."--from The Ecstasy of Communication Firstpublished in France in 1987, The Ecstasy of Communication was... More Info
Walter Benjamin
January 9, 2013 |
320 pages
Arguing that the importance of painting and other visual art for Benjamin's epistemology has yet to be appreciated, Weigel undertakes the first systematic analysis of their significance to his thought. She does so by exploring Benjamin's dialectics of secularization, an approach that allows... More Info
$13.95
The Uprising
Semiotext |
October 26, 2012 |
160 pages
The Uprising is an Autonomist manifesto for today's precarioustimes, and a rallying cry in the face of the catastrophic and irreversible crisis that neoliberalismand the financial sphere have established over the globe. In his newest book, Franco"Bifo" Berardi argues that the notion of economic... More Info
Migrating Texts and Traditions
December 15, 2012 |
400 pages
Philosophy is deeply influenced by the culture in which it is developed: classical Greek culture inspired Greek philosophy, Christianity influenced medieval Western philosophy, Asian culture shaped Buddhism and Confucianism. Even today, philosophical approaches such as postmodernism and conceptual... More Info
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Predictably Irrational
HarperCollins |
April 27, 2010 |
349 pages
Explores the reasons why irrational thought often overcomes level-headed practices, explaining the structural patterns that cause people to make the same mistakes repeatedly, with new insight into the financial crisis.
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On Living and Dying Well
Penguin Classics |
November 27, 2012 |
240 pages
Philosophical writings on “the good life” by the great Roman orator, in a vital new translation In the first century BC, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator, statesman, and defender of republican values, created these philosophical treatises on such diverse and trenchant topics as friendship,... More Info
The Fair Society
University of Chicago Press |
October 1, 2012 |
251 pages
We’ve been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we’re wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power—and more, the duty—to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us to do so. That’s the provocative argument... More Info
$19.95
Fundamentalism:The Search For Meaning
OUP Oxford |
March 24, 2005 |
260 pages
Since the end of the Cold War fundamentalism has been seen as the major threat to world peace and prosperity, a concern that was exacerbated by the events of 9/11, and the 'War against Terrorism'.But what does 'fundamentalism' really mean? Since it was coined by American Protestant evangelicals in... More Info
$20.95
Before the Law
University of Chicago Press |
December 10, 2012 |
151 pages
Animal studies and biopolitics are two of the most dynamic areas of interdisciplinary scholarship, but until now, they have had little to say to each other. Bringing these two emergent areas of thought into direct conversation in Before the Law, Cary Wolfe fosters a new discussion about the status... More Info
$21.00
Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx
University of Chicago Press |
October 8, 2012 |
91 pages
Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol, Yves Klein, and Marcel Duchamp form an unlikely quartet, but they each played a singular role in shaping a new avant-garde for the 1960s and beyond. Each of them staged brash, even shocking, events and produced works that challenged the way the mainstream art world... More Info
$34.50
Walter Benjamin
University of Chicago Press |
August 15, 2012 |
244 pages
Seven decades after his death, German Jewish writer, philosopher, and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) continues to fascinate and influence. Here Uwe Steiner offers a comprehensive and sophisticated introduction to the oeuvre of this intriguing theorist. Acknowledged only by a small... More Info
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere
Columbia Univ Pr |
February 1, 2011 |
137 pages
The Power of Religion in the Public Sphere represents a rare opportunity to experience a diverse group of preeminent philosophers confronting one pervasive contemporary concern: what role doesùor shouldùreligion play in our public lives?
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Subjects of Desire
June 12, 2012 |
268 pages
This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in "Phenomenology of Spirit" to its appropriation by Koj?ve, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots... More Info
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