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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Poems For RebelsSelect poems from the work of journalist, analyst and digital street philosopher Caitlin Johnstone. Show Me An Old RebelDo not show me a young rebel, whose eyes are brightand whose tail is bushy.Young rebels are fine and good, but they are merely doingwhat the...
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Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and MemoryThe fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote...
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Radical Humility: Essays on Ordinary ActsThis innovative essay collection explores the personal and civic function of humility from a range of popular and scholarly perspectives. What does humility mean and why does it matter in an age of golden escalators and billionaire entrepreneurs? How can the cultivation of humility...
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Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of LikenessAn imaginative new theory of likeness that ranges widely across history and subjects, from physics and evolution to psychology, language, and art A butterfly is like another butterfly. A butterfly is also like a leaf and at the same time like a paper airplane,...
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Science Ideated: The Fall of Matter and the Contours of the Next Mainstream Scientific WorldviewLeading-edge empirical observations are increasingly difficult to reconcile with 'scientific' materialism. Laboratory results in quantum mechanics, for instance, strongly indicate that there is no autonomous world of tables and chairs out there. Coupled with the inability of materialist neuroscience to explain consciousness, this is...
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The Philosopher Responds: An Intellectual Correspondence from the Tenth CenturyQuestions and answers from two great philosophers Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past, even if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from...
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Excitable Speech: A Politics of the Performative'When we claim to have been injured by language, what kind of claim do we make?' - Judith Butler, Excitable Speech Excitable Speech is widely hailed as a tour de force and one of Judith Butler's most important books. Examining in turn debates about...
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The Shortest ShadowRestoring Nietzsche to a Nietzschean context--examining the definitive element that animates his work.What is it that makes Nietzsche Nietzsche? In The Shortest Shadow, Alenka Zupančič counters the currently fashionable appropriation of Nietzsche as a philosopher who was "ahead of his time" but whose time...
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Desire: A MemoirIn this meditative and haunting memoir, renowned cultural critic Jonathan Dollimore recounts a life spent dedicated to understanding the delight and disorder of human desire. Through recollections of his struggles with depression, his discovery of love and literature and his adventures cruising in the...
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Marx in Movement: Operaismo in ContextThis first volume in a new trilogy of books by Antonio Negri examines and develops the Italian tradition of radical Marxist thought known as operaismo or 'autonomist Marxism' - the tradition to which Negri himself adheres and in which he is a leading figure....
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The Art of WarThe ultimate Chinese classic. "The Art of War" helps in finding decisions.Author: Sun TzuPublisher: Books on DemandPublished: 10/08/2020Pages: 50Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.12dISBN: 9783752609592This title is not returnable
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Chanakya NitiChanakya's numerous sayings on life and living -- popularized in the wake of his successful strategy to put Chandragupta Maurya on the throne, if legend is to be believed -- have been compiled in numerous collections and anthologies over time. This entire corpus was...
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Ramcharitmanas 2The most popular devotional text recounting the adventures of the Hindu god RamThe Ramcharitmanas, composed by the poet-saint Tulsidas in the sixteenth century during a dynamic period of religious reform, was instrumental in making the story of Ram-and his divine feats against Ravan, the...
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What Is ProgressDoes the idea of progress still apply to our times? If so, what does progress really mean? Today, many believe that progress is a word to be avoided, a relic from a past, the dangerous product of an era of intellectual naivety that would...
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The Eight Realizations of Great Beings: Essential Buddhist Wisdom for Waking Up to Who You AreA pithy guide to the Buddha's instructions to unlock the powerful insights that make us great--by wise, warm, and humorous Brother Phap Hai, the most senior Australian Dharma teacher ordained by Thich Nhat Hanh In this essential sutra for sincere practitioners, the Buddha says,...
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Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada, Third EditionSince its initial release in 2004, Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada has filled a vital need for a single source on professional ethics and law relevant to Canadian psychologists. This important new edition reflects the fourth edition of the Canadian Code...
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Actuality of Being: Dzogchen and Tantric PerspectivesIn this book Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche elaborates on key aspects of the view, meditation and action of Dzogchen practice and outlines the way in which confusion arises; the notions of self-existing wisdom, primordial purity and non-conceptuality; the four levels of mind; the three ways...
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Algorithmic Desire: Toward a New Structuralist Theory of Social MediaIn Algorithmic Desire, Matthew Flisfeder shows that social media is a metaphor that reveals the dominant form of contemporary ideology: neoliberal capitalism. The preeminent medium of our time, social media's digital platform and algorithmic logic shape our experience of democracy, enjoyment, and desire. Weaving...
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Natural: How Faith in Nature's Goodness Leads to Harmful Fads, Unjust Laws, and Flawed ScienceIlluminates the far-reaching harms of believing that natural means "good," from misinformation about health choices to justifications for sexism, racism, and flawed economic policies. People love what's natural: it's the best way to eat, the best way to parent, even the best way to...
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Living Philosophy: A Historical Introduction to Philosophical IdeasLiving Philosophy, Third Edition, is a historically organized, introductory hybrid text/reader that guides students through the story of philosophical thought from the Pre-Socratics to the present, providing cultural and intellectual background and explaining why key issues and arguments remain important and relevant today. Featuring...
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