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To define 'progress' is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask:...

The 'most dangerous philosopher in the West' returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis of our global predicament We hear all the time that we're moments from doomsday. Around us,...

Author: Christopher Kul-Want Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly. Zizek's...

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Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more, there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what...

Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. Zizek argues this is precisely the temptation to...

A panoramic view of the cosmos must begin with the tension of a single political moment. In Quantum History , Slavoj Zizek brings together Hegelian dialectics, Lacan psychoanalysis and quantum...

Psychoanalysis as a navigation device for the cultural maze of the twenty-first century. "Can Freud be 'updated' in the twenty-first century, or is he a venerated but outmoded genius?" asks...

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this book created instant controversy in its analysis of modern society that had allowed itself to be hypnotized by socio-political doctrines, and to...

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the...

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What would a fair and equal society actually look like? The world-renowned economist and bestselling author presents his radical and subversive answer 'A landmark work' Brian Eno Imagine a world...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodIn the summer of 1902, Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — philosopher, statesman, and future founding president of Czechoslovakia — delivered a remarkable series of lectures...

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Translated into at least 24 languages and with over 16 million copies sold worldwide, Man's Search for Meaning is one of the seminal pieces of literature to emerge from the...

The west's Orientalism - its construction of an Arab or Islamic 'Other' - has been exposed and examined under the critical theory microscope and thoroughly expelled, it seems, from academic...

A series of interviews with Noam Chomsky, the world's greatest living public intellectual, about the pressing issues of our time In this illuminating collection of interviews, Noam Chomsky shares his...

The book titled The Future Belongs to Freedom by the author Eduard Shevardnadze. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Author: Konstantin Kolenda (editor)Binding: HardbackPublished: Principia Press of Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a collection of philosophical essays. These...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsAlexander Solzhenitsyn’s Lenin In Zürich: Chapters reconstructs a pivotal period in Vladimir Lenin’s life, offering a biographical account of his...

A comprehensive account of the simmering discontents that threaten the future of humankind - from world-leading public intellectual Noam Chomsky What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren?...

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...

Two Harvard professors explain the stages in which governments collapse - and how we can prevent this Democracies can die with a coup d'etat - or they can die slowly....

The book titled Stalin: The Glasnost Revelations by the author Walter Laqueur (Center for Strategic and International Studies). This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A new collection of essays from the world's most influential political thinker In this collection of essays from 1969-2013, many in book form for the first time, Noam Chomsky exposes...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. A gripping work of political non-fiction, Ten...

Robert Solomon here brings together a collection of his published articles, focusing on key issues in the writings of major continental philosophers, including Hegel, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus.

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the chaotic aftermath of the Russian Revolution, one writer captured the absurdity of Soviet life with an...

From one of the world's great philosophers, an illuminating posthumous collection of essays In these essays, one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century writes about communism and...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of superpower tension, Noam Chomsky — one of the most provocative and incisive...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat does it truly mean to be free — and why does humanity so often recoil from the...

Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for...

An accessible, powerful overview of Noam Chomsky's political thought In sixteen extended talks with Alternative Radio's David Barsamian, Noam Chomsky explains why the 'war on drugs' is really a war...

What kind of world are we leaving to our grandchildren? How are the discontents kindled today likely to blaze and explode tomorrow? From escalating climate change to the devastation in...

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The Cold War roots of liberalism's present crisis "[A] daring new book."-Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post "A fascinating and combative intellectual history."-Gideon Rachman, Financial Times By the middle of the twentieth...

Author: Noam Chomsky Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 664 Conducted from 1984 to 1996, these interviews first appeared in the books Chronicles of Dissent, Keeping the Rabble in Line, and...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA darkly comic masterpiece of absurdist theatre, Vatzlav: A Play in 77 Scenes chronicles the picaresque misadventures of...

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Horowitz's newest book provides the first map of his intellectual development. Complementing his acclaimed autobiography, Radical Son, the selections in Left Illusions range from his first book, published over 40...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis historical novel, Lenin In Zürich, reconstructs a pivotal period in Vladimir Lenin's life, offering a compelling portrait of the...

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