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 Competency Crisis: How the West is Failing ItselfIn an age of eroding values and triumphant mediocrity, has the West lost the very essence of what once made it great?In The Competency Crisis, Will Stickle lays bare the forces driving Western civilization's precipitous decline. From the collapse of meritocracy to the glorification...
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The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human ExperienceAuthor: Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan ThompsonPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 04/01/2025Pages: 328Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780262553032About the AuthorEvan Thompson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, where he is also Associate Member of the Department of Asian Studies and the Department of Psychology....
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The Birth of the Clinic: The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical PerceptionIn the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin...
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The Bhagavad Gita According to GandhiMy first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial. On reading it, I felt a keen desire to read a Gujarati translation. And I read as many translations as I could...
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Subversive Esotericism and Aesthetic Radicalism: The Myths and Rituals of Viennese ActionismIn this book, S?lveig Gu?mundsd?ttir uncovers the crucial role of esotericism in the art of the Vienna Actionists-a group of Austrian neo-avant-garde artists, infamous for their transgressive performance art. Addressing this frequently overlooked aspect of Actionism, Gu?mundsd?ttir traces, historicizes, and examines the esoteric discourses...
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Speaking in TonguesLanguage, historically speaking, has always been slippery. Two dictionaries provide two different maps of the universe: which one is true, or are both false? Speaking in Tongues--taking the form of a dialogue between Nobel laureate novelist J. M. Coetzee and eminent translator Mariana Dim?pulos--examines...
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Sovereign Wisdom: Generating Native American Philosophy from Indigenous CulturesThis book proposes a methodology for formulating a sovereign field of Academic Native American Philosophy. In this groundbreaking metaphilosophical work, the author identifies several recurrent themes in Indigenous North American cultures and argues that such themes can form the foundation of a unique field...
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Social Media in the Age of SocratesSocial Media in the Age of Socrates will capture readers' attention with the historical ways ideas spread and gained popularity long before the age of social media. Written with reluctant readers in mind, considerate text, engaging stories, and intriguing sidebars and photographs will help...
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Restoring Science and the Rule of LawScience and the rule of law are the two pillars of modernity. Even though both result from the attempt to employ reason to limit the exercise of power in the scientific and the political sphere, they bear in themselves the germs of their own...
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Restoration Glass: How Place, Stories, and Critical Thinking Create a Culture of ReconciliationAre you tired of the division and hostility in the world today? Do you long for connection, meaning, and a way forward? In a time when it feels like we've lost touch with who we are and what truly matters, this book offers a...
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Representations of "Japanese Nature": A Historical Overview"Nature" as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that "the pristine nature" is "out there." This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as "pristine" into our psyche, and as something that...
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Philosophical Tools for Technological Culture: Putting Pragmatism to Work"Hickman['s] . . . style of pragmatism provides us with flexible, philosophical 'tools' which can be used to analyze and penetrate various technology and technological cultural problems of the present. He, himself, uses this toolkit to make his analyses and succeeds very well indeed."...
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On Truth in Politics: Why Democracy Demands ItThe "philosopher of truth" (Jill Lepore, The New Yorker) shows why truth is an essential democratic value--and how it can be strengthened Do any of us really care about truth when it comes to politics? Should we? In a world of big lies, denialism,...
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On Marx: Revolutionary and UtopianWhen Karl Marx was buried at Highgate Cemetery in North London in 1883, his longtime friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels, remarked that he was "above all a revolutionary." For Marx, the struggle to accurately describe or interpret the world in rational terms was not...
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On Hobbes: Escaping the War of All Against AllIn Leviathan, one of the greatest works of political philosophy of all time, English philosopher Thomas Hobbes created the idea of a "social contract" and set out to explicate a doctrine for the foundation of states and legitimate forms of government. In On Hobbes,...
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Molecular Red: Theory for the AnthropoceneRadical new critical theory for the twenty-first century In Molecular Red, McKenzie Wark creates philosophical tools for the Anthropocene, our new planetary epoch, in which human and natural forces are so entwined that the future of one determines that of the other. Wark explores...
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MeinongianismMeinongianism (named after Alexius Meinong) is, roughly, the view that there are not only existent but also nonexistent objects. In this book, Meinong's so-called object theory as well as "neo-Meinongian" reconstructions are presented and discussed, especially with respect to logical issues, both from a...
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Meditations: Easy to Read LayoutIt was the doctrine of Marcus Aurelius that most of the ills of life come to us from our own imagination, that it was not in the power of others seriously to interfere with the calm, temperate life of an individual, and that when...
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Love Troubles: A Philosophy of ErosWhat does it mean to love? Does love complete us, giving us purpose and meaning? Or does it tie us down and even harm us? Is erotic desire complicit in oppression, or could it deliver liberation? Are our desires extricable from the wrongs of...
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Love Troubles: A Philosophy of ErosWhat does it mean to love? Does love complete us, giving us purpose and meaning? Or does it tie us down and even harm us? Is erotic desire complicit in oppression, or could it deliver liberation? Are our desires extricable from the wrongs of...
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