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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Radical Embodied Cognitive ScienceA proposal for a new way to do cognitive science argues that cognition should be described in terms of agent-environment dynamics rather than computation and representation. While philosophers of mind have been arguing over the status of mental representations in cognitive science, cognitive scientists...
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Broken Hegemonies". . . a book of striking originality and depth, a brilliant and quite new interpretation of the nature and history of philosophy." --John SallisIn Broken Hegemonies, the late distinguished philosopher Reiner Schürmann offers a radical rethinking of the history of Western philosophy from...
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Basic ConceptsBasic Concepts, one of the first texts to appear in English from the critical later period of Martin Heidegger's thought, strikes out in new directions. First published in German in 1981 as Grundbegriffe (volume 51 of Martin Heidegger's Collected Works), it is the text...
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The Pre-Platonic PhilosophersSurveying the Greek philosophers from Thales to Socrates, Friedrich Nietzsche (then a philologist) at the University of Basel establishes a chronology for the progression of their natural scientific insights in this text.Author: Friedrich Wilhelm NietzschePublisher: University of Illinois PressPublished: 07/01/2006Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.04lbsSize:...
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Countersexual ManifestoCountersexual Manifesto is an outrageous yet rigorous work of trans theory, a performative literary text, and an insistent call to action. Seeking to overthrow all constraints on what can be done with and to the body, Paul B. Preciado offers a provocative challenge to...
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AlienationThe Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor after the postmetaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Rahel Jaeggi draws on the Hegelian philosophical tradition, phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, and recent work in...
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Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of MaterialityWe believe we know our bodies intimately--that their material reality is certain and that this certainty leads to an epistemological truth about sex, gender, and identity. By exploring and giving equal weight to transgendered subjectivities, however, Gayle Salamon upends these certainties. Considering questions of...
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The Jean Baudrillard ReaderJean Baudrillard (1929-2007) was a controversial social and cultural theorist known for his trenchant analyses of media and technological communication. Belonging to the generation of French thinkers that included Gilles Deleuze, Jean-Fran ois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Lacan, Baudrillard has at times been...
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Scales of Justice: Reimagining Political Space in a Globalizing WorldUntil recently, struggles for justice proceeded against the background of a taken-for-granted frame: the bounded territorial state. With that "Westphalian" picture of political space assumed by default, the scope of justice was rarely subject to open dispute. Today, however, human-rights activists and international feminists...
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Xunzi: Basic WritingsXunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In the most complete, well-ordered philosophical system of his day, Xunzi advocated the counteraction of man's evil through self-improvement, the pursuit...
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Negotiations, 1972-1990A provocative guide to Deleuze by Deleuze, this collection traces the intellectual journey of one of the most important French philosophers and clarifies the key critical concepts in the work of this vital figure who has had an impact on aesthetics, film theory, psychoanalysis...
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The Book of Lieh-Tzŭ: A Classic of the TaoAuthor: A. C. GrahamPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 05/21/1990Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.39w x 0.55dISBN: 9780231072373About the AuthorA.C. Graham is Professor Emeritus of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Among his many translations and writings are Chuang-tzu: The...
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Moral Conscience Through the Ages: Fifth Century Bce to the PresentIn Moral Conscience through the Ages, Richard Sorabji brings his erudition and philosophical acumen to bear on a fundamental question: what is conscience? Examining the ways we have conceived of that little voice in our heads--our self-directed judge--he teases out its most enduring elements,...
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The Body in the Mind: The Bodily Basis of Meaning, Imagination, and Reason"There are books-few and far between-which carefully, delightfully, and genuinely turn your head inside out. This is one of them. It ranges over some central issues in Western philosophy and begins the long overdue job of giving us a radically new account of meaning,...
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The Deepest Human Life: An Introduction to Philosophy for EveryoneWinner of the 2015 Hiett Prize in the Humanities. Sometimes it seems like you need a PhD just to open a book of philosophy. We leave philosophical matters to the philosophers in the same way that we leave science to scientists. Scott Samuelson thinks...
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Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive EditionGeorge Herbert Mead is widely recognized as one of the most brilliantly original American pragmatists. Although he had a profound influence on the development of social philosophy, he published no books in his lifetime. This makes the lectures collected in Mind, Self, and Society...
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The Science God: Thinking, Values, and Faith in the Modern WorldMy book is about the long search by Western philosophy-or one could just as easily say by all philosophies-for a moral code. A code of right and wrong that is universal, that is appropriate for all humans to use. I know very well that...
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The effects of yoga on stress and subjective wellbeing A comparative studyYoga and optimism as a mental wellbeing technique Background: Regular practice of yoga promotes strength, endurance, and flexibility and facilitates characteristics of friendliness, compassion, and greater self-control, while cultivating a sense of peace and well-being. Yoga also leads to important outcomes such as changes...
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Sovereign Masculinity: Gender Lessons from the War on TerrorAfter 9/11/2001, gendered narratives of humiliation and revenge proliferated in the U.S. national imaginary. How is it that gender, which we commonly take to be a structure at the heart of individual identity, is also at stake in the life of the nation? What...
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American RightWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets shaped the conservative movement from its earliest days. Drawing on unprecedented access to...
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