Philosophy
Explore our collection of philosophy books at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on philosophy, philosophical novels, and famous works on stoicism and political philosophy. Discover must-read and best-selling titles that offer deep insights into the world of philosophy.
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Metaphysics of RaceAre races real? Is race a biological or social category? What role, if any, does race play in scientific explanations? This Cambridge Element addresses these and other core questions in the metaphysics of race. It discusses prominent accounts of race such as biological racial...
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Metaphors: Understanding Philosophy Through ImagesA visually stunning journey through some key philosophical concepts, presented through simple metaphors and captivating artwork. The perfect book for a budding philosopher or anyone interested in in exploring profound ideas through art. The word metaphor comes to us from Ancient Greek, in which...
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Making a Canon: Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Sri Lanka, and the Place of Buddhist ArtThe story of how one scholar's experiences in Sri Lanka shaped the contours of the Buddhist visual canon. An early interpreter of Buddhist art to the West, Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy laid the foundation of what would become the South Asian visual canon, particularly through...
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Languages of Belief and Early Sociology in Nineteenth-Century France: The Elementary Forms of Sociological LifeThis book presents a new reading of the history of French social science and religion through an investigation of early sociology's techniques for narrating the category of belief. The author argues that by looking at the history of social sciences in this manner, we...
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Is Morality Real?: A DebateIn this book, Spencer Case and Matt Lutz debate whether objective moral facts exist. We often say that actions like murder and institutions like slavery are morally wrong. And sometimes people strenuously disagree about the moral status of actions, as with abortion. But what,...
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Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship - As Contained in the Rig VedaIndo-Aryan Deities and Worship - As Contained in the Rig Veda offers an insightful exploration into the ancient spiritual landscape of the Indo-Aryan civilization, unveiling the mysteries enshrined in the Rig Veda. In Indo-Aryan Deities and Worship - As Contained in the Rig Veda,...
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Ignorance: A Philosophical StudyIgnorance: A Philosophical Study provides an in-depth exploration of ignorance in its many dimensions. Philosophers have long examined epistemological concepts like belief, knowledge, and understanding, but they have paid less attention to ignorance. Socrates famously claimed to be ignorant about a wide variety of...
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Ibn Khaldūn: Political ThoughtAuthor: Ibn KhaldunPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/23/2025Pages: 291Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61dISBN: 9781009328753
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Husserl's Philosophy of Mathematical PracticeHusserl's Philosophy of Mathematical Practice explores the applicability of the phenomenological method to philosophy of mathematical practice. The first section elaborates on Husserl's own understanding of the method of radical sense-investigation (Besinnung), with which he thought the mathematics of his time should be approached....
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Humor's Privileged Access to Truth, Meaning, and Goodness: The Depth of HumorThis book explores three connected insights into humor. First, that humor provides a privileged access to the deepest kind of truth, the sense as such of its topics and so of their very reality. It is argued that humor allows us to see things...
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Homo Temporalis: German Jewish Thinkers on TimeHomo Temporalis focuses on the importance of temporal concepts for four German Jewish thinkers who profoundly shaped twentieth-century intellectual history: Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan. By analyzing the concept of time, Nitzan Lebovic explores Buber's stress on the temporality of...
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Homo Mimeticus II: Re-Turns to MimesisSecond volume in the Homo Mimeticus mini-series, which advances the emerging transdisciplinary field of mimetic studiesAfter the linguistic and the affective turns, the new materialist and the performative turns, the cognitive and the posthuman turns, it is now time to re-turn to the ancient,...
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Good Friends: Bonds That Change Us and the WorldFRIENDSHIP IS THE GREAT LOVE STORY WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR. Friendship is good for your health. Studies show that loneliness is as deadly as smoking fifteen cigarettes a day. Still, we are not taught how to be good friends to one another. We cancel...
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic TraditionIn 1600, renagade philosopher and theologian Giordano Bruno was burnt at the stake in Rome. His crime was to preach a doctrine of brotherhood, peace and free love. Four centuries later, he is known as the Prophet of the New Age.Author: Frances YatesPublisher: RoutledgePublished:...
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Gary Snyder: Essential Prose (Loa #391)In one volume, the indispensable prose of our "poet laureate of deep ecology" Here is Gary Snyder's own selection of his pathbreaking environmental essays, Buddhist journals, poetic notebooks, and more, including previously unpublished material Gathered for the first time in a single volume and...
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From Tapas to Modern Yoga: Sadhus' Understanding of Embodied PracticesExtensively based on fieldwork material, From Tapas to Modern Yoga primarily analyses embodied practices of ascetics belonging to four religious orders historically associated with the practice of yoga and hatha yoga. This focus on ascetics stems from the fact that yogic techniques probably developed...
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From Patriarchy to Paradise (It's about time)From Patriarchy to Paradise (It's about time)This is our story: where we came from, how is it is we arrived at where we are now, and where we're going. It's an individual story, as well as a collective one.Sex plays a dominant, oversized role,...
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Friendship in an Age of Economics: Resisting the Forces of NeoliberalismFriendship in an Age of Economics is the first book not only to detail the relationships neoliberalism encourages us to have, but also to see how friendship can provide a bulwark of resistance to them. Written in an engaging style, it will be understandable...
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Foucault's Aesthetics of Existence and Shusterman's Somaesthetics: Ethics, Politics, and the Art of LivingBringing together Michel Foucault's aesthetics of existence and Richard Shusterman's somaesthetics, this volume provides a critical comparison of two of the most influential philosophical theories of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Introduced by a comprehensive overview of both concepts by editors Stefano...
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Experiments in Mystical Atheism: Godless Epiphanies from Daoism to Spinoza and BeyondA new approach to the theism-scientism divide rooted in a deeper form of atheism. Western philosophy is stuck in an irresolvable conflict between two approaches to the spiritual malaise of our times: either we need more God (the "turn to religion") or less religion...
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