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The Bedside Book of Philosophy - From the Birth of Western Philosophy to the Good Place: 125 Historic Events and Big Ideas to Push the Limits of Your Knowledge Volume 1

Now is the perfect time to expand your knowledge and learn something new or delve deeper into a topic you've always been interested in. W...

Spheres of Insurrection - Notes on Decolonizing the Unconscious

As the globalized regime of neoliberal capitalism consolidates its grip on the world, it refines the micropolitics proper to the capitali...

The worldly philosophers

Frege: Aufsätze zur Logik und Sprachphilosophie

Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), begründete nicht nur die moderne Logik, sondern auch die Sprachphilosophie. Er erweiterte die funktionale Anal...

Mahatma Gandhi - The Man Who Became One With the Universal Being

A biographical account of the man who became one with the universal being. Gandhi is considered the father of India and was an Indian nat...

Rethinking Responsibility

This volume examines the concept of responsibility amidst current societal challenges that require its rethinking. Assigning responsibili...

On Life

'On Life' and 'What is religion?' were published by the Fee Age Press in England; a publishing house set up to side-step the censorship o...

Creation and Metaphysics - A Genetic Approach to Existential Act

During the last twenty-five years or so, studies in Thomistic existentialism have repeatedly indicated that the notion of creation played...

Ethics

Baruch Spinoza (born Benedito de Espinosa, later Benedict de Spinoza; 24 November 1632 - 21 February 1677) was a Dutch philosopher of Por...

Essential Works of Socialism

Essential Works of Socialism is the most authoritative one-volume collection of major socialist writings to appear in English. Edited by ...

The Idea and Practice of Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon

Gilbert Simondon is mainly known as a "philosopher of technology". He certainly is, but this conventional categorization, centered on the...

Humanly Possible - Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores the great tradition of humanist writers, thin...

In Love with Spoons - A Spiritual Journey for Art Lovers and Food Enthusiasts

Embark on a culinary and spiritual journey with 'In Love With Spoons,' as it masterfully blends memoir, poetry, and art, transforming the...

Jacques Rancière

This book is a critical introduction to contemporary French philosopher Jacques Rancière. It is the first introduction in any language to...

The Birth of Tragedy

Nietzsche's first published book, The Birth of Tragedy is a compelling argument for the necessity of art in life. This landmark work of c...

Contemporary Controversies in Catholic Bioethics

This volume comprises various viewpoints representing a Catholic perspective on contemporary practices in medicine and biomedical researc...

Philosophical Biology in Aristotle's Parts of Animals

This book provides a detailed analysis of Aristotle's Parts of Animals. It presents the wealth of information provided in the biological ...

Der Mensch und Sein Werk 1.Band Jehuda Halevi Fünfundneunzig Hymnen und Gedichte Deutsch und Hebräisch - Der sechzig Hymnen und Gedichte dritte Ausgabe

In einem Brief an Martin Buber schrieb FR, am 25. Oktober 1925, daB sich seine eigentliche "literarische Entwicklung" seit 1920 im Uberse...

Disguised Academic Plagiarism - A Typology and Case Studies for Researchers and Editors

This volume is the first book-length study of disguised forms of plagiarism that mar the body of published research in humanities discipl...

Aristotelian Naturalism - A Research Companion

This book features many of the leading voices championing the revival of Neo-Aristotelian Ethical Naturalism (AN) in contemporary philoso...

Galen and the Early Moderns

This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 ¿ c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short r...

Business Ethics - A Philosophical and Behavioral Approach

In this textbook we examine the extent to which moral values play a role as productive forces for companies and the economy as a whole, a...

Senicide and Old Age Killing - An Overdue Discourse

Raimund Pousset gives in this essential a concise account of senicide, the modern form of cultural killing of the elderly. He sheds light...

Five Lectures on Formal Axiology

During the final decade or so of his life, Hartman frequently delivered a series of lectures in which he outlined the need for a scientif...

Gadamer's Truth and Method - A Polyphonic Commentary

This book offers a fresh look at Gadamer's magnum opus, Truth and Method, which is widely recognized as a ground-breaking text of philoso...

Assemblage Theory and Method - An Introduction and Guide

What do we mean by 'assemblage' in contemporary theory? The constant and seemingly limitless expansion of the concept's range of applicat...

The Special Liveliness of Hooks in Popular Music and Beyond

This book illuminates the aesthetically underrated meaningfulness of particular elements in works of art and aesthetic experiences genera...

Introducing Ken Wilber - Concepts for an Evolving World

Ken Wilber's revolutionary thinking is beginning to shift the orientation of Western culture. Wilber combines his knowledge as mystic, sc...

Does God Exist? - A Rational Investigation

Ever wondered if God exists? We all have our life-time to find out, so no hurry. Answering this question has involved an extensive invest...

Aesthetics of Care - Practice in Everyday Life

Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues that aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected ...

Violence and Nihilism

Nihilism seems to be per definition linked to violence. Indeed, if the nihilist is a person who acknowledges no moral or religious author...

Learning to Be Fair - Equity from Classical Philosophy to Contemporary Politics

Learning to Be Fair excavates the ancient origins of equity in classical Greek and Roman thought and traces their influence on lawyers, p...

Philosophy as a Way of Life - Historical, Contemporary, and Pedagogical Perspectives

In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays b...

Lived-Body Experiences in Virtual Reality - A Phenomenology of the Virtual Body

What is it like to perceive a virtual object through the sensed presence of a virtual body? How do subject-object relations occur and can...

Fragments

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher born in approximately 535 BC in the ancient city of Ephesus, then a part of th...

Aristotle - The Complete Works

In "Aristotle: The Complete Works", the timeless relevance of Aristotle's ideas becomes clear. His relentless pursuit of knowledge, his k...

Death Comes for the Cathedrals

¿"Suppose for a moment that Catholicism had been dead for centuries, that the traditions of its worship had been lost. Only the unspeakin...

Words of Wisdom - A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition

Like their predecessors throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI have emphasized the i...

Do the Humanities Create Knowledge?

There is in certain circles a widely held belief that the only proper kind of knowledge is scientific knowledge. This belief often runs p...

INTERIOR LIGHTS In A Dark Universe

INTERIOR LIGHTS expresses a philosophy of interior self and a defense of metaphysical reality. The bulk of the book is composed of "trech...

Leibniz's Dynamics - Origin and Structure of a New Science

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) launched a new science dedicated to the theory of force. His "dynamics" is an important episode in ...

What I Believe - Humanist ideas and philosophies to live by

An inspiring collection of interviews with prominent humanists about the values, convictions and opinions they live by

The World As Will And Idea (Volume I) - Translated From The German By R. B. Haldane, M.A. And J. Kemp, M.A.; In Three Volumes - Vol. I.

The World As Will And Idea (Volume I): Translated From The German By R. B. Haldane, M.A. And J. Kemp, M.A.; In Three Volumes - Vol. I. Th...

Understanding the Rights of Nature - A Critical Introduction

Rivers, landscapes, whole territories: these are the latest entities environmental activists have fought hard to include in the relentles...

Henri Bergson - The Philosophy Of Change

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notation...

Food Ethics: The Basics

Food Ethics: The Basics is a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the ethical dimensions of the production and eating of food. It of...

Hegel

GWF Hegel has long been considered one of the most influential and controversial thinkers of the nineteenth century, and his work continu...

The War for Children's Minds

The War for Children`s Minds is a candid and controversial call for a liberal, philosophically informed approach to raising children.

On Quality - An Inquiry into Excellence: Unpublished and Selected Writings

Featuring long-awaited selections from Robert M. Pirsig's unpublished writings, from before and after Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maint...

First and Last Notebooks

Introducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Some of Simone Weil's most important thinking was done through the medium of her notebooks....

Theory of the Subject

Theory of the Subject, first published in France in 1982, is without doubt one of Alain Badiou's most important works, laying many of the...

The Humanistic Background of Science

The once-lost introduction to the philosophy of science by Philipp Frank (1884-1966), a leading member of the Vienna circle of philosophe...

Chapel Perilous - The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson

The first biography of the late countercultural novelist and underground philosopher Robert Anton Wilson. Chapel Perilous: The Life and T...

A Heated Debate - Meta-Theoretical Studies on Current Climate Research and Public Understanding of Science

Ever since climate change has been identified as one of the most significant challenges of humanity, climate change deniers have repeated...

Tasting Coffee - An Inquiry into Objectivity

Draws upon the situated work of professional coffee tasters in over a dozen countries to shed light on the methods we use to convert subj...

Byung-Chul Han - A Critical Introduction

Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea t...

Fernando Pessoa - Imagination and the Self

In this short book about the philosophy of the poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Jonardon Ganeri highlights connections with earlier phil...

What is Man?

This was Twain's most serious, philosophical and private book. He kept it locked in his desk, considered it to be his Bible, and spoke of...

Concepts and Categories - Philosophical Essays - Second Edition

"In a dark century, he showed what a life of the mind should be: skeptical, ironical, dispassionate and free."--Michael Ignatieff

How Great Thou Art - Reverse Path Back Home

The Greatest Stories Ever Written & Retold by the Greatest Saints that ever Walked upon the Earth. They Lived & Evolved unto the Highest ...