Philosophy

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat does art reveal about the human soul? In Art and the Spirit of Man, renowned French art historian and Member of the Académie Française,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodCondition remarks: dj repaired with tape. At the turbulent crossroads of art, politics, and modernity stands Farewell to an Idea, T.J. Clark's...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodWhat does it mean to make art, and where does that primordial urge truly begin? On the Origin of Art is a landmark anthology...

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Isn't it time you started treating yourself with the same love, kindness and respect, you give the other important people in your life? So many people are looking outside of...

Enjoy insightful classic quotes, artfully crafted into beautiful images. Ryan McArthur's modern, minimalist illustrations presents the inspiring quotes of beloved writers and thinkers such as Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Oscar Wilde, Samuel...

In Entre Nous Grant Farred examines the careers of international football stars Lionel Messi and Luis Suarez, along with his own experience playing for an amateur township team in apartheid...

`Enriches the concpetual arsenal for interdisciplinary analysis of political, social and cultural change... stimulates more nuanced thinking about the cultural and political legacy of the Reformation era... manages both to...

Those who would know Kierkegaard, the intesely religious humorist, the irrepressibly witty critic of his age and ours, can do no better than to begin with this book. [In it]...

'Rigorous, rationally optimistic and ultimately empowering' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A deeply-considered - and funny - treatise on complacency' ALEX McDOWELL 'Essential ' DAVID EAGLEMAN 'A rare and wondrous thing' STEPHEN FRY...

'An old world is dying; a new world is being born; now is the time of monsters' Antonio Gramschi Solnit maps the extraordinary revolution of ideas and rights that we've...

'The book of you is dominated by night-black seas, sprinkled with shining island sentences: tiny islets of remembrance, glimmering in the night.' Memory isn't all that we think it is....

How we live is shaped by how we eat. You can see this in the vastly different approaches to growing, preparing and eating food around the world - from the...

Humans are the most inquisitive, emotional, imaginative, aggressive and baffling animals on the planet. But how well do we really know ourselves? How to Be Animal writes a remarkable story...

This volume broadens our concept of reasoning and rationality to allow for a more pluralistic and situational view of human thinking as a practical activity. Drawing on contributors across disciplines...

Why the tools of philosophy offer a powerful antidote to today's epidemic of irrationality There is an epidemic of bad thinking in the world today. An alarming number of people...

The book titled Bergson by the author Leszek Kolakowski. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Part of the acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Machiavelli is a superb portrait of the brilliant and revolutionary political philosopher--history's most famous theorist of "warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed"--and the age...

If, as Walter Benjamin claimed, "it is the function of artistic form...to make historical content into a philosophical truth" then it is the function of criticism to recover and to...

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media is the companion book to the celebrated film of the same name about world-renowned linguist and social theorist Noam Chomsky. Winner of 15...

Written by Dr Roy Jackson, who Senior Lecturer at the University of Gloucestershire, Plato: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one...

From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first...

The Ideology of the Aesthetic presents a history and critique of the concept of the aesthetic throughout modern Western thought. As such, this is a critical survey of modern Western...

Visuality before and beyond the Renaissance examines the phenomenon of "seeing" through a study of art works from Ancient Mesopotamia, China, Africa, and European works ranging from Antiquity to the...

The first volume in the series Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts offers a range of responses by distinguished philosophers and art historians to some crucial issues generated by...

BEAUTY is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics but Umberto Eco draws on the histories of both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that...

Daniel Russell examines Plato's subtle and insightful analysis of pleasure and explores its intimate connections with his discussions of value and human psychology. Russell offers a fresh perspective on how...

This book consists of fifteen dialogues between Bryan Magee and some of the outstanding thinkers of the twentieth century. It is based on a highly successful BBC television series which...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Pause and look around: you will see that you are surrounded by glass....

In this new accessible philosophy of friendship, Mark Vernon links the resources of the philosophical tradition with numerous illustrations from modern culture to ask what friendship is, how it relates...

To observe a dog's guilty look. to witness a gorilla's self-sacrifice for a wounded mate, to watch an elephant herd's communal effort on behalf of a stranded calf--to catch animals...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Some moisture damageMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn a literary landscape crowded with mediocrity and fashionable obscurantism, Stephen Vizinczey's Truth &...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacket - cloth/board in good conditionPages: GoodOne of the most wickedly brilliant satires ever written, Candide chronicles the misadventures of its relentlessly optimistic young...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageSet against the turbulent intellectual and political landscape of Europe in the first half of the twentieth century,...

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Edition: First US EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom one of the twentieth century's most authoritative interpreters of Hindu philosophy and religion comes...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it mean to live not one life, but three — each separated by death, each carrying...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the flickering tradition of mystical autobiography, Candlelight presents another chapter in the extraordinary spiritual odyssey of T....

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBehind one of the twentieth century's most captivating and controversial literary personas lies a story that defies easy...

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