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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The Egyptian Book Of WisdomThe Egyptian Book of Wisdom, written by Grace H. Turnbull, is a comprehensive guide to ancient Egyptian philosophy and spirituality. This book is a compilation of teachings and wisdom from various ancient Egyptian texts, including the Book of the Dead, the Coffin Texts, and...
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The Complex Tapestry of Free Will: A Philosophical OdysseyRobert Kane is one of the most prominent contributors to debates on free will over the last 50 years. Here he discusses the evolution of his views since his 1996 volume The Significance of Free Will, and provides responses to some of the latest...
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The Case Against Travel"Although people like to talk about their travels, few of us like to listen to them. Such talk resembles academic writing and reports of dreams: forms of communication driven more by the needs of the producer than the consumer." In The Case Against Travel...
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The Books of Jeu and the Untitled Text in the Bruce CodexAuthor: SchmidtPublisher: BrillPublished: 06/01/1978Pages: 372Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.90dISBN: 9789004057548Language: Coptic
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TasteItalian philosopher Giorgio Agamben takes a close look at why the sense of taste has not historically been appreciated as a means to know and experience pleasure or why it has always been considered inferior to actual theoretical knowledge. Taste, Agamben argues, is a...
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StupidityIn Stupidity Avital Ronell explores the fading empire of cognition, modulating stupidity into idiocy, puerility, and the figure of the ridiculous philosopher instituted by Kant. Drawing on a range of writers including Dostoevsky, Schlegel, Musil, and Wordsworth, Stupidity investigates ignorance, dumbfounded-ness, and the limits...
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Spirituality and Christian Belief: Life-Affirming Christianity for Inquiring PeopleChristianity is not the only true faith. The Bible is not inerrant. Jesus is not God walking on the earth. Hell is not eternal. What's left? Everything important. The ultimate reality is cosmic mind, which generates the physical universe. Its goal is to liberate...
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Soul! The Soul World: The Home of the DeadThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Sakti Sadhana: Steps to SamadhiThe knowledge that enlightens the aspiring student regarding the mystery of life here and hereafter is found in the Tripura Rahasya, one of the most significant scriptures in the tradition of tantra yoga. Its beauty lies in the fact that it expounds the lofty...
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Revelation Comes from ElsewhereJean-Luc Marion has long endeavored to broaden our view of truth. In this illuminating new book-his deepest engagement with theology to date-Marion proposes a rigorous new understanding of human and divine revelation in a deeply phenomenological key. Although today considered the central theme of...
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Redistribution or Recognition?: A Political-Philosophical Exchange"Recognition" has become a veritable keyword of our time, but its relation to "redistribution" remains undertheorized. This volume remedies the lacuna by staging a sustained debate between two philosophers, one North American, the other European, who hold different views of the matter. Highly attuned...
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Reading Greek Tragedy with Judith ButlerConsidering Butler's "tragic trilogy"-a set of interventions on Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Bacchae, and Aeschylus's Eumenides-this book seeks to understand not just how Butler uses and interprets Greek tragedy, but also how tragedy shapes Butler's thinking, even when their gaze is directed elsewhere.Through close readings...
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Rationality AND Cross-Cultural UnderstandingAuthor: Vasile PirauPublisher: Hawes & JenkinsPublished: 07/18/2024Pages: 334Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781637843932
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Philosophy in the Ancient World: An IntroductionPhilosophy in the Ancient World: An Introduction_an intellectual history of the ancient world from the eighth century B.C.E. to the fifth century C.E., from Homer to Boethius_describes and evaluates ancient thought in its cultural setting, showing how it affected and was affected by that...
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Phenomenology and the Norms of PerceptionIn the philosophical literature, it is customary to think of perception as being assessable with respect to epistemic norms. E.g., the whole discussion around disjunctivism, which is now often considered to be the dominant, if not the default position in philosophy of perception, is,...
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Pensar/ComerEating is the most widespread daily practice in life. It takes place every day, three times a day, from birth to death. However, the philosophical tradition has never directly taken charge of food, since it is not a topic that is part of the...
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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save MoralityFrom the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the most famous philosopher most people have never heard of. Widely regarded as one of the greatest...
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Paranormal States: Psychic Abilities in Buddhist Convert CommunitiesA number of converts to Buddhism report paranormal experiences. Their accounts describe psychic abilities like clairvoyance and precognition, out-of-body experiences, near-death experiences, and encounters with other beings such as ghosts and deities, and they often interpret these events through a specifically Buddhist lens. This...
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Paradoxes from A to ZParadoxes from A to Z is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Author: Michael ClarkPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 09/20/2012Pages: 282Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize:...
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One Billion Seconds Behind The Wall: PariahOne Billion Seconds Behind the Wall: Pariah is the true story of a man who virtually wasted the first billion seconds of his life on reaching outward for things that were not important. This includes his first two years in prison. Then, he was...
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