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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780861546138 | ISBN 10: 086154613x
The challenges we face are enormous. But we can still secure a positive future for our planet, and for everyone on it.
In What We Owe The Future, philosopher William MacAskill persuasively argues for longtermism, the idea that positively inf ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781529112184 | ISBN 10: 1529112184
WINNER OF THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN
AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK
Elizabeth Anscombe: defiantly brilliant, chain-smoking, trouser-wearing Catholic and (eventual) mother of seven.
Phili ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781350190412 | ISBN 10: 1350190411
We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonizing pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. But, despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781623175627 | ISBN 10: 1623175623
A spiritual, political, and interdisciplinary anthology of wisdom stories from Black liberation leaders and teachers.
Afrikan Wisdom represents an intersectional, cross-pollinated exploration of Black life–past, present, and future. Award-winn ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781408898956 | ISBN 10: 1408898950
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief h ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783528011 | ISBN 10: 178352801x
Where are the women philosophers? The answer is right here. The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you've probably heard the names Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Locke - but what about Hypatia, Arendt, Oluwole and Young?
The Philo ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786897268 | ISBN 10: 1786897261
Figuring explores the complexities of love and the human search for truth and meaning through the interconnected lives of several historical figures across four centuries - beginning with the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who discovered the laws of pla ... more
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£14.95 hardback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781789142273 | ISBN 10: 178914227x
Today, "simple living" is a rallying cry for anti-consumerists, environmentalists, and anyone concerned with humanity's effect on the planet. But what is so revolutionary about a simple life? And why are we so fascinated with simplicity today?
... more
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£15.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781629637068 | ISBN 10: 1629637068
More than ever, “the body” is today at the center of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans, ecological movements — all look at the body in its manifold manifestations as a ground of confrontation with the state and a v ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780198830788 | ISBN 10: 0198830785
Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Born in 1926 in France, over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving to understand the deep concepts of identity, knowl ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787631984 | ISBN 10: 1787631982
Ubuntu is an ancient Southern African philosophy about how to live life well, together. It is a belief in a universal human bond, which says: I am only because you are. It means that if you can see everyone as fully human, connected to you by their h ... more
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£14.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781912559145 | ISBN 10: 1912559145
Visionary thinker John Berger and Turkish artist Selçuk Demirel came together came together for the last time to create this precious little volume about time.
What Time Is It? is a playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Our per ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783782307 | ISBN 10: 1783782307
In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought.
One of the great unexplained wonders of human history is that written philosophy flowered entirely separatel ... more
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£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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£16.99 hardback (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781783526901 | ISBN 10: 1783526904
When Jet McDonald cycled four thousand miles to India and back, he didn't want to write a straightforward travel book. He wanted to go on an imaginative journey. Mind is the Ride takes the reader on a physical and intellectual adventure from West to ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781788731003 | ISBN 10: 178873100x
A radical call for solidarity between humans and non-humans.
What is it that makes humans human? As science and technology challenge the boundaries between life and non-life, between organic and inorganic, this ancient question is more timel ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780300233353 | ISBN 10: 0300233353
A trenchant analysis of sacrifice as the foundation of the modern, as well as the ancient, social order.
The modern conception of sacrifice is at once cast as a victory of self-discipline over desire and condescended to as destructive and ar ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786488893 | ISBN 10: 1786488892
The thinking person's tonic for our troubling times.
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex histor ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781783784578 | ISBN 10: 1783784571
This fascinating book charts the relationship between Mark Rowlands, a rootless philosopher, and Brenin, his extraordinarily well-travelled wolf. More than just an exotic pet, Brenin exerted an immense influence on Rowlands as both a person, and, str ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786633408 | ISBN 10: 178663340x
The writings that underpinned the Chinese revolution, introduced by Slavoj Žižek.
These early philosophical writings underpinned the Chinese revolutions, and Mao’s clarion call to insurrection has lost none of its ability to stir the blo ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780300226447 | ISBN 10: 0300226446
In a virtuoso display of erudition, thoughtfulness and humour, Terry Eagleton teases apart the concept of hope as it has been (often mistakenly) conceptualised over six millennia, from ancient Greece to today. He distinguishes hope from simple optimi ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781784785697 | ISBN 10: 1784785695
Who were the Frankfurt School — Benjamin, Adorno, Marcuse, Horkheimer—and why do they matter today?
In 1923, a group of young radical German thinkers and intellectuals came together to at Victoria Alle 7, Frankfurt, determined to explain ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781629632285 | ISBN 10: 1629632287
William Godwin (1756–1836) was one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. He was not only a radical philosopher but a pioneer in libertarian education, a founder of communist economics, and an acute an ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781846685224 | ISBN 10: 1846685222
An entertaining miscellany of logical curiosities - from anecdotes and proofs to puzzles and puns - found outside the classroom.
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absenc ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099554882 | ISBN 10: 0099554887
Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781780237473 | ISBN 10: 1780237472
Loneliness is a difficult subject to address, because it has such negative connotations. But the truth is that wherever there are people, there is loneliness: everyone is lonely at some point in their lives. You can be
lonely in a crowd or at home, ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780198777175 | ISBN 10: 0198777175
Four people with radically different outlooks on the world meet on a train and start talking about what they believe. Their conversation varies from cool logical reasoning to heated personal confrontation. Each starts off convinced that he or she is ... more
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£18.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780415717847 | ISBN 10: 0415717841
Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality is one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century and has been instrumental in shaping the study of Gender, Feminist Theory and Queer Theory. But Foucault’s writing can be a dif ... more
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£12.99 hardback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780746562 | ISBN 10: 1780746563
"If one keeps on walking, everything will be alright.” So said Danish writer Søren Kierkegaard, and so thought philosophy buff Gary Hayden as he set off on Britain's most challenging trek: to walk from John O'Groats to Land's End. But it wasn't al ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781847089502 | ISBN 10: 184708950x
Myshkin was born on a certain day and died on a certain day - and some things happened to him in between. These things presented him with ethical questions and this book is a record of his attempt to answer those questions. Discovered by his son afte ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781904263920 | ISBN 10: 1904263925
How do you tell what's right from what's wrong? Can you always? What's the difference between deduction, induction and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound? In this fascinating little book, the smallest ... more
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£5.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781904263937 | ISBN 10: 1904263933
What is a good life, and how is it related to a happy one? What are virtues, and how do they affect the nature of friendships? Ethicists Gregory Beabout and Mike Hannis describe various approaches, ancient and modern, to those timeless question ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408864623 | ISBN 10: 1408864622
A. C. Grayling's lucid and stimulating books, based on the idea that philosophy should engage with the world and make itself useful, are immensely popular.
The Challenge of Things joins earlier collections like The Reason of Things and Think ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781408871348 | ISBN 10: 1408871343
Drawing on the wisdom of 2,500 years of contemplative non-religious writing on all that it means to be human from the origins of the universe to small matters of courtesy and kindness in everyday life A. C. Grayling, Britains most popular and wi ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783604197 | ISBN 10: 1783604190
What happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised and misrepresented.
Challenging, pugnacious and stylis ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780141979540 | ISBN 10: 0141979542
In Trouble in Paradise, Slavoj Zizek, one of our most famous, most combative philosophers, explains how by drawing on the ideas of communism, we can find a way out of the crisis of capitalism.
There is obviously trouble in the global capitalist ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780199683673 | ISBN 10: 0199683670
In the history of philosophy, few topics are so relevant to today's cultural and political landscape as philosophy in the Islamic world. Yet, this remains one of the lesser-known philosophical traditions.
In this Very Short Introduction, Pe ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781472583550 | ISBN 10: 1472583558
Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics brings together some of Jacques Rancire's most recent writings on art and politics to show the critical potential of two of his most important concepts: the aesthetics of politics and the politics of aesthetics. ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781847084101 | ISBN 10: 1847084109
Barbara Ehrenreich is an acclaimed social critic on both sides of the Atlantic, renowned for her trenchant, witty polemics, her pieces of journalism, and her trademark intelligence. She writes with unparalleled precision, insight and a rationalist's ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781781688373 | ISBN 10: 1781688370
"A long walk, Gros suggests, allows us to commune with the sublime."(New York Times)
"It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth."(Nietzsche)
By walking, you escape from the very idea of identity, the temptation to be someone, to ... more
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£18.99 hardback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781612193748 | ISBN 10: 1612193749
From the author of the blockbuster international bestseller Debt: The First 5,000 Years comes a revelatory account of the way bureaucracy rules our lives.
Where does the desire for endless rules, regulations, and bureaucracy come from? How did we ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781849010016 | ISBN 10: 1849010013
Big ideas sometimes come from the strangest places. In this wide ranging introduction, James M Russell takes the fear out of philosophy and selects seventy-six works - from Plato, Descartes and Wittgenstein to Philip K Dick and the Moomins as well as ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781848316928 | ISBN 10: 1848316925
Walter Benjamin is often considered the key modern philosopher and critic of modern art.
Tracing his influence on modern aesthetics and cultural history, Introducing Walter Benjamin highlights his commitment to political transformation of the art ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780875972 | ISBN 10: 1780875975
Can it ever be right to kill? Is terrorism ever justified? Should euthanasia be legal? Are some people superior to others? Do animals have rights?
Some ethical judgements are easy: one side is wrong and the other is right. But how do we hand ... more
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£20.00 hardback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781781685754 | ISBN 10: 1781685754
This collection of the legendary thinkers 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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£7.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781848316133 | ISBN 10: 1848316135
Richard Appignanesi goes on a personal quest of Existentialism in its original state. He begins with Camus question of suicide: Must life have a meaning to be lived? Is absurdity at the heart of Existentialism? Or is Sartre right: is Existentialis ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780141031811 | ISBN 10: 0141031816
Missing Out is a meditation on reality and opportunity by Adam Phillips.
We all have two lives - the life we live and the life of our fantasies. But it is the life unlived - the person we have failed to be - that can trouble and even haunt ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781780765532 | ISBN 10: 1780765533
When you have been wandering the cosmos from one end of eternity to another for nearly a thousand years, what's your philosophy of life, the universe, and everything? Doctor Who is 50 years' old in 2013. Through its long life on television and beyond ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9780745672298 | ISBN 10: 0745672299
Where are we today and what is to be done? Slavoj Zizek ponders these questions in this unique and timely book. Based on live interviews, the book captures Zizek at his irrepressible best, elucidating such topics as the uprisings of the Arab Spring ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781846043215 | ISBN 10: 1846043212
In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844086450 | ISBN 10: 1844086453
Fiercely intelligent, always provocative, Joanna Bourke turns to the subject of the human animal.
In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact t ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846683947 | ISBN 10: 1846683947
There are many ways to try to improve our lives - we can turn to the wisdom of philosophers, the teachings of religions or the latest experiments of psychologists. But we rarely to look to history for inspiration - and when we do it can be surprising ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781441106377 | ISBN 10: 1441106375
In this new book, crucial for understanding her journey, Luce Irigaray goes further than in Speculum and questions the work of the Pre-Socratics at the root of our culture. Reminding us of the story of Ulysses and Antigone, she demonstrates how, from ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780300187793 | ISBN 10: 0300187793
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780857892584 | ISBN 10: 0857892584
'As soon as we abandon our own reason', wrote Bertrand Russell, 'and are content
to rely upon authority, there is no end to our troubles.'
For over forty years, Christopher Hitchens has proclaimed truth where others have spun falsehood and ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781781680421 | ISBN 10: 1781680426
The renowned philosopher finds a utopian future in worldwide protests.
Call it the year of dreaming dangerously: 2011 caught the world off guard with a series of shattering events. While protesters in New York, Cairo, London, and Athens took to th ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780571234585 | ISBN 10: 0571234585
In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chteau, situated a few miles north of the Dordogne in south western France, to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his be ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781848313774 | ISBN 10: 1848313772
Should we be happy pessimists?
How much should we care about our appearance?
What should you do before you die?
Philosopher Julian Baggini and therapist Antonia Macaro present their unique brand of self-help with a distin ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781444003345 | ISBN 10: 1444003348
The brilliantly entertaining The Philosophy Files and The Philosophy Files 2 in one omnibus edition.
Is there a God, should I eat meat, where does the universe come from, could I live for ever as a robot? These are the big questions readers ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848313026 | ISBN 10: 1848313020
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He co-authored the infamous Principia Mathematica, the most difficult book ever written on the logic of mathematics. A pioneer in logical analysis, he was a resolute empiricist who tackled many puz ... more
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£9.99 hardback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408815755 | ISBN 10: 1408815753
What is What? Could it be that noted author Mark Kurlansky has written a very short, terrifically witty, deeply thought-provoking book entirely in the form of questions? A book that draws on philosophy, religion, literature, policy indeed, all of c ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780415610247 | ISBN 10: 0415610249
Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful book, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract; in economics in the pursuit of self interest; and in science the idea of human beings ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848312937 | ISBN 10: 1848312938
A brand-new Introducing title on the worlds most dangerous philosopher.
Slavoj Zizek is one of those rare philosophers writing today whose fame exceeds academia and who is widely known publicly.
Zizeks work and writings ... more
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£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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£14.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199586127 | ISBN 10: 0199586128
Is it ever OK to be dishonest? Is it wrong to enjoy violent video games, or to cheat on one's tax returns? Should we be vegetarians? When is war justified? Are there any moral facts, or is morality relative?
Life throws ethical questions ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780199569694 | ISBN 10: 019956969x
Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it?
In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780192803450 | ISBN 10: 019280345x
Jacques Derrida, the French philosopher, developed his critical technique known as 'deconstruction'. His work is associated with ideas surrounding both post-structuralism and post-modern philosophy, and he was known to have challenged some of the unq ... more
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£13.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677139 | ISBN 10: 1844677133
Undermining the liberal-democratic consensus that enables the designation of totalitarianism.
In some circles, a nod towards totalitarianism is enough to dismiss any critique of the status quo. Such is the insidiousness of the neo-liberal ideo ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781616144111 | ISBN 10: 1616144114
Members of the Heavens Gate suicide cult believed they were taking a ride to heaven aboard a UFO. Muslim suicide bombers expect to be greeted after death by seventy-two heavenly virgins. Significant numbers of people believe that aliens built the py ... more
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£31.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781608461165 | ISBN 10: 1608461165
The influence of Antonio Gramsci's thought is only exceeded by the diverse interpretations to which it has been subjected, resulting in contradictory images of the true Gramsci.
Drawing on the recent flurry of linguistic work on his P ... more
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£17.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781569023389 | ISBN 10: 1569023387
Philosophical Essays seeks to present the idea of democracy systematically beginning with the ancient philosophers and ending with the modern philosopher, John Rawls. Democracy as we have come to know it is associated with the Greek Philosophers, Pla ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781848312074 | ISBN 10: 1848312075
An illustrated guide to the controversial sociologist Jean Baudrillard, who died in 2007.
Did the Gulf War take place? Is it possible to fake a bank robbery? Was sexual liberation a disaster? Jean Baudrillard has been hailed as one of France ... more
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£26.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780745330860 | ISBN 10: 074533086x
Post-anarchism has been of considerable importance in the discussions of radical intellectuals across the globe in the last decade. In its most popular form, it demonstrates a desire to blend the most promising aspects of traditional anarchist theory ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099485155 | ISBN 10: 009948515x
Part biography, part self-help, an original, funny and moving portrait of Montaigne, Renaissance nobleman and essayist.
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?
... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781846270741 | ISBN 10: 184627074x
Being wrong is an inescapable part of being alive. And yet, we go through life tacitly assuming (or loudly insisting) that we are right about nearly everything - from our political beliefs to our private memories, from our grasp of scientific fact to ... more
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£20.00 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781401310332 | ISBN 10: 1401310338
In this digital, turbocharged era, few of us stop to consider lifes big questions. Rainn Wilson, known for his deft portrayal of Dwight on NBCs The Office, would like to change that. Together with some friends, he launched a Web site called SoulPan ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781444330274 | ISBN 10: 1444330276
Covering interesting and varied philosophical terrain, Cycling: Philosophy for Everyone explores in a fun but critical way the rich philosophical, cultural, and existential experiences that arise when two wheels are propelled by human energy.
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£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780753826188 | ISBN 10: 0753826186
'Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels'.
This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can, and does, change the world. ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780300159011 | ISBN 10: 0300159013
What would it be like to be privy to the mind of one of the twentieth centurys greatest thinkers? John Gerassi had just this opportunity; as a child, his mother and father were very close friends with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781851686889 | ISBN 10: 1851686886
Philosophy means "love of wisdom" in Greek. Unfortunately, as much as we all love wisdom, we dont all have the time to spend acquiring it! This fabulous little book provides the perfect antidote. Split into 60 one-minute chapters, Andrew Pessin offe ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781906069063 | ISBN 10: 1906069069
In this dazzling history of the imagination, Patrick Harpur links together fields as far apart as Greek philosophy and depth psychology, Renaissance magic and tribal ritual, Romantic poetry and modern models of the Universe, to trace how myths have b ... more
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£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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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851685936 | ISBN 10: 1851685936
Existentialism pervades modern culture, yet if you ask most people what it means, they wont be able to tell you.
In this lively and topical introduction, Wartenberg reveals a vibrant mode of philosophical inquiry that addresses concerns at the h ... more
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£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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£12.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780553819908 | ISBN 10: 0553819909
Can we do without religion?
Can we have ethics without God?
Is there such thing as 'atheistic spirituality'?
In this powerful book, the internationally bestselling author Andr Comte-Sponville presents a philosophical exploration of athe ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780141191591 | ISBN 10: 0141191597
A fascinating examination of ethics, religion and psychology, this selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Bud ... more
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£14.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781847921079 | ISBN 10: 1847921078
For most of us, having a baby is the most profound, intense, and fascinating experience of our lives. Now scientists and philosophers are starting to appreciate babies, too.
The last decade has witnessed a revolution in our understanding of ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781846680274 | ISBN 10: 1846680271
Does the advent of capitalism and, indeed, civilisation cause more violence than it prevents? Is there violence in the simple idea of 'the neighbour'? And could the appropriate form of action against violence today simply be to contemplate, to think? ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781934389218 | ISBN 10: 1934389218
Existentialism For Beginners is an entertaining romp through the history of a philosophical movement that has had a broad and enduring influence on Western culture. From the middle of the Nineteenth Century through the late Twentieth Century, existen ... more
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£22.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781405159319 | ISBN 10: 1405159316
Reflecting the profound influence he continues to exert on popular consciousness, Camus examines the complete body of works of French author and philosopher Albert Camus, providing a comprehensive analysis of Camus most important works most notabl ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781848310087 | ISBN 10: 1848310080
Are humans really selfish and greedy, or generous and kind?
Does anyone have the right to tell you what good and bad mean?
Is morality about obeying a set of rules or thinking about the consequences?
Ethics affects everyone. Moral d ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780199532179 | ISBN 10: 0199532176
'Philosophers have an infuriating habit of analysing questions rather than answering them', writes Terry Eagleton, who, in these pages, asks the most important question any of us ever ask, and attempts to answer it. So what is the meaning of life? &n ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781844672530 | ISBN 10: 1844672530
"A profound and much-needed contribution... In the spirit of Enlightenment thinkers, he both reveals the contradictions and hypocrisies of contemporary politcs, and also points a way forward..."(Joel Bakan, author of The Corporation)
"Since Septem ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781851685608 | ISBN 10: 185168560x
In The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the supercomputer Deep Thought pronounces 42 as the answer to life, the Universe, and everything. Three decades after the publication of this iconic book, acclaimed philosopher Mark Vernon returns to the truth ... more
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£11.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781934389058 | ISBN 10: 1934389056
The unorthodox life and ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche come alive in this documentary history. Nietzsche For Beginners presents a clear picture of the time in which this revolutionary philosopher lived and worked.
We meet the luminaries of the age ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781840468533 | ISBN 10: 184046853x
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? What is special about the human mind and consciousness? Are we free to choose who we are and what we ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780199218462 | ISBN 10: 0199218463
Games are everywhere: Drivers manoeuvring in heavy traffic are playing a driving game. Bargain hunters bidding on eBay are playing an auctioning game. A firm negotiating next year's wage is playing a bargaining game. The opposing candidates in an ele ... more
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£15.99 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780415771986 | ISBN 10: 0415771986
Exploring womens experiences of motherhood, abortion, the AIDS crisis and the beauty industry, this book presents one of the most important thinkers of our day in her own words.
A passionate celebrator of 'sexual difference', Luce Irigaray ... more
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£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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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780192804280 | ISBN 10: 0192804286
Existentialism was one of the leading philosophical movements of the twentieth century. Focusing on its seven leading figures, Sartre, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Kierkegaard, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty and Camus, this Very Short Introduction provides a cl ... more
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£19.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415357784 | ISBN 10: 0415357780
Paul Ricoeur was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century. In this short and accessible book, he turns to a topic at the heart of much of his work: What is translation and why is it so important?
Reminding us that Th ... more
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£39.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415951760 | ISBN 10: 0415951763
A critical introduction to the political thought of one of the most important, original and enigmatic philosophers writing today. Zizek's Politics provides an original interpretation and defence of the Slovenian philosopher's radical critique of libe ... more
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£15.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781904859406 | ISBN 10: 1904859402
Rebel Alliances offers an applied philosophical perspective on contemporary class-struggle anarchism in Britain. It identifies the main principles distinguishing this tradition from competing Leninist, liberal and social-democratic groupings. F ... more
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£62.00 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781860649530 | ISBN 10: 186064953x
Luce Irigaray is one of the foremost philosophers and feminist thinkers of our day. Her work has had an enormous impact on the visual arts and is widely taught and read across the field - yet the actual implications of this influential body of though ... more
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£6.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078635 | ISBN 10: 1862078637
Existentialism is not a unified doctrine in any convential sense. It breaks ranks with all previous philosophy, unsettles orthodox religion, and questions the supremacy of science. However, the question it poses is of fundamental importance to us all ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023922 | ISBN 10: 0141023929
Voltaire's short, radical and iconoclastic essays on philosophical ideas from angels to idolatry, miracles to wickedness, make wry observations about human beliefs, and mock hypocrisy and extravagant piety - his call to his fellow men to act with rea ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023939 | ISBN 10: 0141023937
The Father of Existentialism, Kierkegaard transformed philosophy with his conviction that we must all create our own nature; in this great work of religious anxiety, he argues that a true understanding of God can only be attained by making a personal ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023991 | ISBN 10: 0141023996
Inspired by the myth of a man condemned to ceaselessly push a rock up a mountain and watch it roll back to the valley below, The Myth of Sisyphus transformed twentieth-century philosophy with its impassioned argument for the value of life in a world ... more
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£4.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780141023847 | ISBN 10: 0141023848
Plato's retelling of the discourses between Socrates and his friends on such subjects as love and desire, truth and illusion, spiritual transcendence and the qualities of a good ruler, profoundly affected the ways in which we view human relationships ... more
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£16.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780826480392 | ISBN 10: 082648039x
One of Judaism's most distinctive and challenging ideas is its ethics of responsibility. We have been given the gift of freedom and we in turn have to honour and enhance the freedom of others. More than in any previous generation, we have been tempte ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781843541059 | ISBN 10: 184354105x
A bold and strikingly innovative study of how basic emotions rule the world. Walton contends that in the last two hundred and fifty years there have been big changes in the unwritten rules that govern what can be expressed in public and in private. ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2003) - ISBN 13: 9780192803955 | ISBN 10: 0192803956
This book introduces readers to the concepts of political philosophy. It starts by explaining why the subject is important and how it tackles basic ethical questions such as 'how should we live together in society?'
It looks at politica ... more
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£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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£7.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780192801807 | ISBN 10: 0192801805
Poststructuralism changes the way we understand the relations between human beings, their culture, and the world.
Following a brief account of the historical relationship between structuralism and poststructuralism, this Very Short Introduc ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780192802569 | ISBN 10: 0192802569
Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), one of the most original thinkers of the nineteenth century, wrote widely on religious, psychological, and literary themes. This book shows how Kierkegaard developed his views in emphatic opposition to prevailing opinions ... more
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£10.99 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780060931360 | ISBN 10: 0060931361
If you're facing a dilemma - whether it's handling a relationship, living ethically, dealing with a career change, or finding meaning in life - the world's most important thinkers from centuries past will help guide you toward a solution compatible w ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780192854148 | ISBN 10: 0192854143
The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretati ... more
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£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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£15.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780415325103 | ISBN 10: 0415325102
Considered one of the most blasphemous documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today could not be more relevant. Russell snatches away religion's comfortable responses to the etern ... more
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