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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Arguing for a Better World: How Philosophy Can Help Us Fight for Social JusticePhilosopher Arianne Shahvisi explains how we can understand, identify, and defend our positions on today's most controversial moral questions in this illuminating and accessible work of popular philosophy. Is it sexist to say that "men are trash"? Can white people be victims of racism?...
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The Metaphysics of Laws of Nature: The Rules of the GameIt can seem obvious that we live in a world governed by laws of nature, yet it was not until the seventeenth century that the concept of a law came to the fore. Ever since, it has been attended by controversy: what does it...
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Pregnancy Without Birth: A Feminist Philosophy of MiscarriagePregnancy is so thoroughly entangled with birth and babies in the popular imagination that a pregnancy which ends in miscarriage consistently appears as a failure or a waste of time - indeed, as not proper to pregnancy at all. But in this compelling book,...
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Anacarnation and Returning to the Lived Body with Richard KearneyThis edited collection responds to Richard Kearney's recent work on touch, excarnation, and embodiment, as well as his broader work in carnal hermeneutics, which sets the stage for his return to and retrieval of the senses of the lived body.Here, fourteen scholars engage the...
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WintermoonIn Wintermoon Robert MacLean distils twenty-five years of living in Kyoto, Japan, into a single seasonal cycle seen through the radically minimalist lens of haiku. Here are 119 precise instants of focus, divided into eleven sequences - 'stepping stones / leading to / a...
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Emerson and New Thought: How Emerson's Essays Influenced the Science of Mind PhilosophyEMERSON'S ESSAYS have become the signature writings of the famous American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson. Not only did these essays turn heads and open eyes in the mid nineteenth century, but they are still doing the same today. His spiritual insights can be seen...
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The Critical Circle: Literature, History, and Philosophical HermeneuticsThe Critical Circle investigates the celebrated hermeneutic circle, especially as it manifests itself in historical inquiry and literary criticism. Formulated variously in different theories of hermeneutics, the circle generally describes how, in the process of understanding an interpretation, part and whole are related in...
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AbusesPart travelogue, part meditation, Abuses is a bold exploration of central themes in Continental philosophy by one of the most passionate and original thinkers in that tradition writing today. A gripping record of desires, obsessions, bodies, and spaces experienced in distant lands, Alphonso Lingis's...
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Cosmos and Transcendence: Breaking Through the Barrier of Scientistic BeliefThe book has a twofold content and aim: on the one hand it offers a radical critique of the modern world, and on the other it seeks to expound a timeless wisdom. And the second end presupposes the first: for so long as we...
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The Ethics of AngerThe Ethics of Anger provides the resources needed to understand the prevalence of anger in relation to ethics, religion, social and political behavior, and peace studies. Providing theoretical and practical arguments, both for and against the necessity of anger, The Ethics of Anger assembles...
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Agency, Freedom, and Responsibility in the Early HeideggerThis book employs Heidegger's work of the 1920s and early 1930s to develop distinctively Heideggerian accounts of agency, freedom, and responsibility, making the case that Heidegger's thought provides a compelling alternative to the mainstream philosophical accounts of these concepts. Hans Pedersen demonstrates that Heidegger's...
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Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political: Essays on DanteAmong today's Italian philosophers, Massimo Cacciari is perhaps the most assiduous commentator of Dante. Philosophy, Mysticism, and the Political collects all of Cacciari's writings on Dante to this day, from his masterful analysis of St. Francis of Assisi in Dante's Paradiso and Giotto's frescoes...
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The Metaphysics of Philosophical DaoismDrawing on evidence from a wide range of classical Chinese texts, this book argues that xingershangxue, the study of beyond form, constitutes the core argument and intellectual foundation of Daoist philosophy. The author presents Daoist xingershangxue as a typical concept of metaphysics distinct from...
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This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of ArtAn engagement with the relation between the world in which an artwork is created--a world that perishes or decays over time--and the new world that the artwork opens up. Gerhard Richter explores the relation between two worlds: the world in which an artwork is...
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The Ethics of War and Peace: An IntroductionThe Ethics of War and Peace is a lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. Focusing on the philosophical questions surrounding the ethics of modern war, Helen Frowe presents contemporary just war theory in a stimulating and accessible...
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Unfolding Consciousness (4 Pack Box Set): Exploring the Living Universe and Intelligent Powers in Nature and Humans (Vol I - IV)These 4 volumes in one set are a veritable tour de force and the sine qua non of any academic or scholarly library. It represents a watershed in the worldwide perennial wisdom literature tradition. In a clear and systematic way, it explores, in the...
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Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next StepAn argument for a non-Cartesian philosophical foundation for cognitive science that combines elements of Heideggerian phenomenology, a dynamical systems approach to cognition, and insights from artificial intelligence-related robotics.Author: Michael WheelerPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 03/01/2007Pages: 358Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 9.12h x 5.22w x 0.70dISBN: 9780262731829Audience: Young...
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Millennials Your Time Has ComeDreams are what activate the creative side of our minds to see things that are not visible to the conscious mind. To see a future that builds the bridges of humanity that will unite our country and tear down the invisible walls of hatred...
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The Fate of the DragonNormal is a wound. Many are suffering from it.Normal is a weapon. Many are controlled by it.Normal is a lie. And refusing to believe it is the beginning of freedom. The Fate of the Dragon: An Illustrated Essay on the New Normal is a...
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Beyond the Fields: A Cherokee Strip Farm, a Baseball Life, and the Love of WisdomBeyond the Fields is a story about a path from wheat fields to baseball fields to a philosophical life fascinated by a relatively new, non-traditional field of inquiry: philosophy of sport. The book moves from dirt and land and playworlds to a world dominated...
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