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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 11 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony Appiah
    The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity - by Kwame Anthony Appiah

    £9.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781781259245 | ISBN 10: 1781259240

    We often think identity is personal. But the identities that shape the world, our struggles, and our hopes, are social ones, shared with countless others. Our sense of self is shaped by our family, but also by affiliations that spread out from there, ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously by Slavoj Žižek
    The Courage of Hopelessness: Chronicles of a Year of Acting Dangerously - by Slavoj Žižek

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780141986098 | ISBN 10: 0141986093

    In these troubled times, even the most pessimistic diagnosis of our future ends with an uplifting hint that things might not be as bad as all that, that there is light at the end of the tunnel.   Yet, argues Slavoj Žižek, it is only when we have ... more

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  • Cover image of book Radio Benjamin by Walter Benjamin, edited by Lecia Rosenthal
    Radio Benjamin - by Walter Benjamin, edited by Lecia Rosenthal

    £20.00   hardback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685754 | ISBN 10: 1781685754

    This collection of the legendary thinker’s radio broadcasts brings together some of his most accessible and fascinating thinking.  Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renown ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philosophy and the Hitchhiker
    Philosophy and the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - by Nicholas Joll (Editor)

    £15.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780230291126 | ISBN 10: 0230291120

    This is the 'philosophy and. .' book that really needed to be written – because it is about The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. For (to paraphrase the great man himself) Hitchhiker's is not above a little philosophy in the same way that the sea is ... more

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  • Cover image of book Time by Eva Hoffman
    Time - by Eva Hoffman

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846680434 | ISBN 10: 1846680433

    A radical exploration of our relationship with life's most ineffable element.  Time is the one dimension of experience we cannot elude. But the nature of lived time is changing dramatically. We are living ever longer, but we suffer from e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Islamic Philosophy: A Beginner
    Islamic Philosophy: A Beginner's Guide - by Majid Fakhry

    £9.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781851686254 | ISBN 10: 1851686258

    From the introduction of Greek Philosophy into the Muslim world in the eighth century, right through to modern times, Majid Fakhry charts the evolution and interaction of philosophy, theology, and mysticism in the Islamic context. Highlighting key in ... more

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  • Cover image of book Authority and the Individual by Bertrand Russell
    Authority and the Individual - by Bertrand Russell

    £11.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780415487337 | ISBN 10: 0415487331

    From Ancient Greek philosophy to the French Revolution to the modern welfare state, in Authority and the Individual Bertrand Russell tackles the perennial questions of the balance between authority and human freedom.   With characteristic cl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Paradoxes from A to Z by Michael Clark
    Paradoxes from A to Z - by Michael Clark

    £15.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415420839 | ISBN 10: 0415420830

    This updated second edition is the essential guide to paradoxes and takes the reader on a lively tour of puzzles that have taxed thinkers from Zeno to Galileo and Lewis Carroll to Bertrand Russell. Michael Clark uncovers an array of conundrums, such ... more

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  • Cover image of book Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
    Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction - by Edward Craig

    £7.99   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780192854216 | ISBN 10: 0192854216

    How ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know?  This book introduces important themes in ethics, knowledge, and the self, via readings from Plato, Hume, Descartes, Hegel, Darwin, and Buddhist writers. It emphasizes throughout the poin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thomas Paine Reader. by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)
    The Thomas Paine Reader. - by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)

    £11.99   paperback   (1987) - ISBN 13: 9780140444964 | ISBN 10: 0140444963

    All of Paine's supreme masterpieces are included here: The Rights of Man, a magnificent defence of the French Revolution against Edmund Burke and, according to A.J.P.Taylor, 'the best statement of democratic belief in any language'; Common Sense, who ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Thomas Paine Reader. by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)
    The Thomas Paine Reader. - by Thomas Paine (Michael Foot, Issac Kramnick, eds)

    £11.99   paperback   (0000) - ISBN 13: 9781783528011 | ISBN 10: 178352801x

    All of Paine's supreme masterpieces are included here: The Rights of Man, a magnificent defence of the French Revolution against Edmund Burke and, according to A.J.P.Taylor, 'the best statement of democratic belief in any language'; Common Sense, who ... more

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