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 Nature of Law: Authority, Obligation, and the Common GoodChallenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in command and in the law's orientation to the common good.When and why do we have an obligation to obey the law? Prevailing...
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Selected Writings on Visual Arts and Culture: Detour to the ImaginaryStuart Hall's work on culture, politics, race, and media is familiar to readers throughout the world. Equally important was his decades-long commitment to visual art. As the first collection to bring together Hall's work on the visual, this volume assembles two dozen of Hall's...
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The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to MarxHow the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequality Economic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and...
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What Gender Should BeWhat is gender? What should gender look like in the 21st century? This book brings together philosophy with insights from feminist and transgender theory to argue for gender pluralism: that there should be more than two genders, and that each gender term should have...
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The Disappearance of Ethics: The Gifford LecturesThe capstone lectures of esteemed ethicist Oliver O'Donovan What is the future of ethics? Oliver O'Donovan addresses a discipline in crisis in The Disappearance of Ethics. Based on the 2021 Gifford Lectures, this book contends that contemporary ethics has lost its object (good), frontier...
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Spirits of Life and Perception: Albert's Early and Mature Psychophysiology in Light of His Arabic SourcesDoes a plant shrink at night and swell in the day, like an animal breathing in and out? For a long time, the Galenic concept of spiritus provided a causal explanation for human and animal life and perception. Albert the Great (1200-1280), whose honorific...
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Playing Possum: How Animals Understand DeathHow animals conceive of death and dying--and what it can teach us about our own relationships with mortality When the opossum feels threatened, she becomes paralyzed. Her body temperature plummets, her breathing and heart rates drop to a minimum, and her glands simulate the...
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Visual Methods for Digital Research: An IntroductionOver the last decade, images have become a key feature of digital culture; at the same time, they have made a mark on a wide range of research practices.Visual Methods for Digital Research is the first textbook to bring the fields of visual methods...
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Logic: An IntroductionThe methods of logic are essential to an understanding of philosophy and are crucial in the study of mathematics, computing, linguistics and many other subjects. Introducing the major concepts and techniques involved in the study of logic, this authoritative book explores both formal and...
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The New Frontier of Religion and Science: Religious Experience, Neuroscience and the TranscendentThis is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion. It considers eastern forms of religious experience as well as Christian viewpoints and challenges the idea of a mind identical to, or a by-product of, brain activity. It explores religion as...
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Reading in Al-Mushtarak: A System for Democratic SocialismIbrahim Allawi's classic, Reading in Al-Mushtarak: A System for Democratic Socialism offers an important and timely exploration of revolutionary theory through a lens of Arab-Islamic history and socialist thought. Edited and translated for the very first time into the English language by Ali Al-Assam...
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Life in Progress: The First Step into the Left-Hand PathLife in Progress is comprised of nine poems that will take you on a journey through a world of corruption and its origins.This collection is an invitation to reflect on cause and effect; it will inspire you to apply the knowledge shared to stop...
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The Aesthetic of the AestheticThe Aesthetic of the AestheticDo our aesthetic judgements distort our social reality? Does the modern world create space for sustained contemplation and reflection? What significance does the work of art have in contemporary thought? Using concepts from Continental philosophy, literary theory, art history and...
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The Idea of Prison AbolitionAn incisive and sympathetic examination of the case for ending the practice of imprisonment Despite its omnipresence and long history, imprisonment is a deeply troubling practice. In the United States and elsewhere, prison conditions are inhumane, prisoners are treated without dignity, and sentences are...
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Tech Agnostic: How Technology Became the World's Most Powerful Religion, and Why It Desperately Needs a ReformationAn urgently needed exploration of global technology worship, and a measured case for skepticism and agnosticism as a way of life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Good without God. Today's technology has overtaken religion as the chief influence on twenty-first century life...
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Contemporary Capitalism and Mental Health: Rhythms of Everyday LifeRather than individualising mental health, Conor Heaney takes seriously the notion of a shared mental environment and the importance of theorising everyday life in our endeavours to grasp and transform our everyday experience. Drawing particularly on the work of F?lix Guattari, Gilles Deleuze, Bernard...
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El Pr?ncipe / The PrinceCualquiera ve lo que pareces, pero pocos se dan cuenta de lo que realmente eres. Considerado el primer tratado moderno sobre el arte de gobernar, El Príncipe constituye la obra clave para entender el pensamiento político de Nicolás Maquiavelo. En él detalla los secretos...
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Democracy in AmericaThis classic analysis of America's unique political character is quoted heavily by politicians and perennially pops up on history professors' reading lists. The enduring appeal of Democracy in America lies in the eloquent, prophetic voice of Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859), a French aristocrat who...
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EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD HIEROGLYPH TRANSLATIONS USING THE TRILINEAR METHOD Volume 2: : Understanding the Mystic Path to Enlightenment Through DirectTranslations of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic chapters and sections of the Book of the Dead with Trilinear translation format. Understanding the Mystic Path to Enlightenment Through Direct Readings of the Sacred Signs and Symbols of Ancient Egyptian Language With Trilinear Deciphering Method. This new volume...
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Can Political Violence Ever Be Justified?Violence - from state coercion to wars and revolutions - remains an enduring global reality. But whereas it is often believed that the point of constitutional politics is to make violence unnecessary, others argue that it is an unavoidable element of politics. In this...
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