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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Global Law of Sustainable DevelopmentThis book discusses the emergence of a new concept of law at the global level in the field of sustainable development. It examines the four-decade-long evolution of the concept of sustainable development from the Stockholm Conference of 1972 until the adoption of the Sustainable...
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From the Tree to the LabyrinthThe way we create and organize knowledge is the theme of From the Tree to the Labyrinth, a major achievement by one of the world's foremost thinkers on language and interpretation. Umberto Eco begins by arguing that our familiar system of classification by genus...
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Free Agents: How Evolution Gave Us Free WillAn evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that...
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Critical Theory and the Authoritarian PersonalityThe worldwide resurgence of authoritarianism has sparked renewed interest in the Frankfurt School theory of the authoritarian personality, not as a topic of academic debate but as an urgent political factor. Critical Theory and the Authoritarian Personality brings Theodor Adorno's critique up-to-date in light...
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Christianity Contested: Replies to Critics' Toughest ObjectionsAlthough Christianity has significantly influenced many of Western civilization's cherished ideals and values, it faces ongoing criticism regarding its truth, goodness, and beauty. Critics argue that Christianity is at odds with science, human flourishing, and the dignity of women; that it is disconnected from...
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Chinese Philosophy and Its Thinkers: From Ancient Times to the Present DayAcross a set of three volumes spanning more than three thousand years, this is a survey of thinkers central to the development of philosophical thought in China. From the origins of Chinese thought in the Zhou dynasty to the arrival of Modern thought with...
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Beyond Good and EvilBeyond Good and Evil Friedrich NIETZSCHE (1844 - 1900), translated by Helen ZIMMERN (1846 - 1934) First published in 1886 at Nietzsche's own expense, the book was not initially considered important. In it, Nietzsche denounced what he considered to be the moral vacuity of...
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Bento's SketchbookA deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook....
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Becoming Yourself: Teachings on the Zen Way of LifeThe long-awaited new book on the essence of Zen practice from the beloved author of Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind "Our way of sitting is for you to become yourself." In this long-overdue book from one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the last...
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Atlas of Anomalous AIWhat do the divinatory practices of Ancient Greece's Oracle of Delphi, the Incan knotted quipu counting device, the I Ching, the nine billion names of God and Elizabethan mathematician John Dee have to do with artificial intelligence? The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a...
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A Plea for the WestWith our American Philosophy and Religion series, Applewood reissues many primary sources published throughout American history. Through these books, scholars, interpreters, students, and non-academics alike can see the thoughts and beliefs of Americans who came before us.Author: Lyman BeecherPublisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)Published: 05/05/2009Pages: 196Binding...
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An American Utopia: Dual Power and the Universal ArmyControversial manifesto by acclaimed cultural theorist debated by leading writers Fredric Jameson's pathbreaking essay "An American Utopia" radically questions standard leftist notions of what constitutes an emancipated society. Advocated here are--among other things--universal conscription, the full acknowledgment of envy and resentment as a fundamental...
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America: The Troubled Continent of ThoughtWhat position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated, America incarnates a dark continent whose strangeness and singularity has driven thinkers...
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Alienation. Recuperating the Classical Discussion of Marx Et Al.Nowadays alienation is naturally discussed as an existential condition of human beings, but in the 20th century, a strong Marxist current claimed alienation to be implied by capitalism, in particular by private property and the social division of labor. Alienation should therefore be criticized...
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A Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric EthicA Kind of Pantheism: Escape from Cosmic Pessimism and the Quest for a Biocentric Ethic explores how such nineteenth-century transcendentalists as Henry David Thoreau and John Muir advanced a biocentric ethic that recognized the intrinsic worth of both plants and animals. This ethic required...
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After the Beautiful: Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial ModernismIn his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility--the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. Hegel's approach to art has been influential in a number of different contexts, but in...
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Adorno's Gamble: Harnessing German IdeologyAdorno's Gamble offers a startling reinterpretation of the evolution of Theodor W. Adorno's thought, usually seen as a mix of critical Marxism, Freudian psychoanalysis, aesthetic modernism, and Jewish tradition. Mikko Immanen argues for another, previously unacknowledged source of Adorno's thinking on instrumental reason, dialectic...
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Acts of Meaning: Four Lectures on Mind and CultureJerome Bruner argues that the cognitive revolution, with its current fixation on mind as "information processor," has led psychology away from the deeper objective of understanding mind as a creator of meanings. Only by breaking out of the limitations imposed by a computational model...
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World Tales (Pocket Edition): Book IVHow can it be that the same story is found in Scotland and also in Pre-Columbian America? What can account for the durability and persistence of tales? Was the tale of Aladdin and his wondrous lamp really taken from Wales (where it has been...
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Why We Believe: Finding Meaning in Uncertain TimesBelief: surely it's a relic from the past, a hangover from a superstitious age that is totally out of sync with today's rational, science-led culture? 'A timely, often bracing and always highly stimulating book.' Tom Holland, author of Dominion and co-host of The Rest...
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