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Utopia
A major new translation by Dominic Baker-Smith of More's perenially popular Latin text 'Even if you can't eradicate harmful ideas or remedy established evils, that's no reason to turn your...
On the Genealogy of Morals
The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of...
The Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotole's examination of the nature of happiness In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in 'activity of the soul...
Beyond Good and Evil
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and...
How To Be a Stoic
'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond our control? These...
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' How can...
God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's devastating...
The Decay of Lying
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive - and witty - explorations of his aesthetic philosphy- 'The Decay...
On Liberty and the Subjection of Women
A prodigiously brilliant thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age, the political and social radical John Stuart Mill was the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century....
The Precipice: Neoliberalism, the Pandemic and the Urgent Need for
An incredible, absorbing new collection of interviews on contemporary society from Noam Chomsky - 'the world's greatest public intellectual' Observer In this powerful collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky exposes the...
In Ascension: Winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award 2024
'Monumental' Telegraph 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Transcendent' New Scientist Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the...
The Arrest
The Arrest isn't post-apocalypse. It isn't a dystopia. It isn't a utopia. It's just what happens when much of what we take for granted - cars, guns, computers, and airplanes,...
Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'In story after page-turning story, Lives of the Stoics brings ancient philosophers to life.' - David Epstein, bestselling author of Range 'Wonderful' - Chris Bosh,...
The Ethical Omnivore: A practical guide and 60 nose-to-tail recipes for sustainable meat eating
Can you have your meat and eat it too? An ethical cookbook for readers of Michael Pollan, Jonathan Safran Foer's Eating Animals, Fergus Henderson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Matthew Evans. 'Heartfelt...
The Choice Of Hercules: Pleasure, Duty And The Good Life In The 21st
Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher A.C Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book.He shows us how much...
Light in the Darkness: Black Holes, The Universe and Us
As featured in THE EDGE OF ALL WE KNOW - the new Netflix documentary about Black HolesFor readers of Stephen Hawking, a fascinating account of the universe from the perspective...
Worlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960's
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Author: Owen BarfieldBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber, 1963, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsWorlds Apart: A Dialogue of the 1960's is a fictional conversation among eight...
Lessons From Nature As Manifested In Mind And Matter
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Author: St George MivartBinding: HardbackPublished: John Murray, 1876, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the relationship between natural phenomena and their implications...
Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics - Bemerkungen über die Grundlagen der Mathematik
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Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein; edited by G.H. von Wright, R. Rhees, G.E.M. Anscombe ; translated by G.E.M. AnscombeBinding: HardbackPublished: Basil Blackwell, 1956, First EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No...
The Psychological Consultant
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Author: J. J. Platt; R. J. WicksBinding: HardbackPublished: Grune & Stratton, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThis book provides insights into the role of psychological...
Animal Liberation: A New Ethics for Our Treatment of Animals (SIGNED)
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Author: Peter SingerBinding: HardbackPublished: Distributed by Random House, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionIn 'Animal Liberation,' Peter Singer challenges the traditional views on the treatment of...
Ethics for Modern Life
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The Everyday I Ching
An insightful guide on how to use the ancient wisdom of the I Ching for guidance through the trials of modern life The I Ching is one of the oldest...
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature contains 23 newly commissioned essays by major philosophers and literary scholars that investigate literature as a form of attention to human life. Various...
John Locke Bibliography
This bibliography documents John Locke's works published from 1654 through 1800. It includes the publishing history of all known editions and translations, as well as material published in journals, and...
The Imagination Muscle
'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone -...
The Tides of Mind: Uncovering the Spectrum of Consciousness
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The holy grail of psychologists and scientists for nearly a century has been to understand and replicate both human thought and the human mind. In fact, it's what attracted the...
Wolfish: The stories we tell about fear, ferocity and freedom
Wolves abound through cultural folklore and through literature - vilified and venerated in equal measure. In Wolfish, Erica Berry examines these depictions, alongside her own research of the wolf for...
Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient
'A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter' New York Times'An ebullient, irrepressible spirit invests this book. It is erudite and...
On Quality: An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected
Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, an original collection illuminating the central theme of Pirsig's thought:...
In The Hotel Abyss: An Hegelian-marxist Critique Of Adorno: Studies in
This volume is a critical analysis of Adorno's work, framed by several essential concerns: his method of analysis; the absences of a theory of social change; his approach to the...
In Search of a New Image of Thought: Gilles Deleuze and Philosophical
Gregg Lambert demonstrates that since the publication of Proust and Signs in 1964 Gilles Deleuze's search for a new means of philosophical expression became a central theme of all of...
Frege: A Philosophical Biography
Gottlob Frege (1848-1925) is one of the founding figures of analytic philosophy, whose contributions to logic, philosophical semantics, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mathematics set the agenda for future...
Plural Logic
Alex Oliver and Timothy Smiley provide a natural point of entry to what for most readers will be a new subject. Plural logic deals with plural terms, plural predicates, and...
The Ethics of Deference: Learning from Law's Morals
Do citizens have an obligation to obey the law? This book differs from standard approaches by shifting from the language of obedience (orders) to that of deference (normative judgments). The...
The Notion of Authority
In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojeve uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their...
Force from Nietzsche to Derrida
In this book, Clare Connors sets out to answer the question: What is the pervasive character of the world?, tracing a genealogy of the idea of force through the writings...
Pity and Power in Ancient Athens
Ancient Athenians resemble modern Americans in their moral discomfort with empire. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic...
Season of Death: A Memoir
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Philosophical Provocations: 55 Short Essays
Pithy, direct, and bold- essays that propose new ways to think about old problems, spanning a range of philosophical topics.In Philosophical Provocations, Colin McGinn offers a series of short, sharp...
Philosophy of Dreams
A sweeping reconstruction of human consciousness and its breakdown, from the Stone Age through modern technology Why has humankind developed so differently from other animals? How and why did language,...
Derrida and the Time of the Political
An intellectual event, Derrida and the Time of the Political marks the first time since Jacques Derrida's death in 2004 that leading scholars have come together to critically assess the...
Virtue, Rules, and Justice: Kantian Aspirations
Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets, explains, and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. The book is divided into four sections....
Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan
This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time,...
Individual and Community in Nietzsche's Philosophy
According to Bertrand Russell, Nietzsche's only value is the flourishing of the exceptional individual. The well-being of ordinary people is, in itself, without value. Yet there are passages in Nietzsche...
Nietzsche and the Drama of Historiobiography
In this extraordinary contribution to Nietzsche studies, Robert Alejandro offers an original interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy viewed as a complete whole. Alejandro painstakingly traces the different ways in which...
Philosophy and the Jewish Question: Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and
Drawing together two critical moments in the history of European Jewry-its entrance as a participant in the Enlightenment project of religious and political reform and its involvement in the traumatic...
How to Deal With Idiots: (and stop being one yourself)
Idiocy is all around us, whether it's the uncle spouting conspiracy theories, the colleagues who repeat your point but louder, or the commuters who still don't know how to use...