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  • Supervillains and Philosophy

    Sometimes, Evil is its Own Reward

    Edited by Ben Dyer ...
    Series Book 42 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The devil gets his due in the latest entry in the Pop Culture and Philosophy series. Supervillains and Philosophy features an international cabal of philosophers and comics industry professionals conspiring to reveal the dark details - and deeper meanings - lurking behind today’s most popular comic book monsters. Whether it’s their moral justification for world domination or the wavering ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Legend of Zelda and Philosophy

    I Link Therefore I Am

    by Luke Cuddy ...
    Series Book 36 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    With both young and adult gamers as loyal fans, The Legend of Zelda is one of the most beloved video game series ever created. The contributors to this volume consider the following questions and more: What is the nature of the gamer’s connection to Link? Does Link have a will, or do gamers project their wills onto him? How does the gamer experience the game? Do the rules of logic apply in the ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Illuminations

    Essays and Reflections

    by Walter Benjamin, Leon Wieseltier ...
    Translated by Henry Zohn ...
    Essays and reflections from one of the twentieth century's most original cultural critics, with an introduction by Hannah Arendt.Walter Benjamin was an icon of criticism, renowned for his insight on art, literature, and philosophy. This volume includes his views on Kafka, with whom he felt a close personal affinity; his studies on Baudelaire and Proust; and his essays on Leskov and Brecht's epic ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Introducing Slavoj Zizek

    A Graphic Guide

    by Christopher Kul-Want ...
    Series Book 0 - Graphic Guides
    Charting his meteoric rise in popularity, Christopher Kul-Want and Piero explore Zizek's timely analyses of today's global crises concerning ecology, mounting poverty, war, civil unrest and revolution.Covering topics from philosophy and ethics, politics and ideology, religion and art, to literature, cinema, corporate marketing, quantum physics and virtual reality, Introducing Slavoj Zizek deftly ... Read more

    $4.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Human Nature

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger ScrutonIn this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • Against the Current

    Essays in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    In this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas--among them Machiavelli, Vico, Montesquieu, Herzen, and Sorel. With his unusual powers of imaginative re-creation, Berlin brings to life original minds that swam against the current of their times--and still challenge ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • On Humour

    by Simon Critchley ...
    Series series Thinking in Action
    Does humour make us human, or do the cats and dogs laugh along with us? On Humour is a fascinating, beautifully written and funny book on what humour can tell us about being human. Simon Critchley skilfully probes some of the most perennial but least understood aspects of humour, such as our tendency to laugh at animals and our bodies, why we mock death with comedy and why we think it's funny when ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • General Will 2.0

    Rousseau, Freud, Google

    by Hiroki Azuma ...
    Translated by John Person ...
    Stay informed. Talk about the issues. Always be engaged. Liberal societies have encouraged their members to take part—or at least interest—in politics. Yet, even in developed nations where it is said to work, the democratic process as we know it routinely fails to give voice, on the one hand, and to appeal at all, on the other hand, to a good number of citizens.Whatever countervailing hopes the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Engaging Agnes Heller

    A Critical Companion

    by Katie Terezakis, Peter Beilharz, Janos Boros, Amos Friedland, John Grumley, Horst Hutter, Preben Kaarsholm, Dmitri Nikulin, Simon Tormey, Richard J. Bernstein0, Kira Brunner Don1, Bryan S. Turner2, Agnes Heller3 ...
    This collection of essays examines the life and thought of Agnes Heller, who rose to international acclaim as a Marxist dissident in Eastern Europe, then went on to develop one of the most comprehensive oeuvres in contemporary philosophy, putting forward a distinctive ethical theory and analyses of a vast range of topics covering most every philosophical area. Here, philosophers, sociologists, ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Aesthetics and Modernity

    Essays by Agnes Heller

    Edited by John Rundell ...
    Aesthetics and Modernity brings together Agnes Heller's most recent essays around the topics of aesthetic genres such as painting, music, literature and comedy, aesthetic reception, and embodiment. The essays draw on Heller's deep appreciation of aesthetics in all its forms from the classical to the Renaissance and the contemporary periods. Heller's recent work on aesthetics explores the complex ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Nietzsche's Jewish Problem

    Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism

    by Robert C. Holub ...
    The first comprehensive account of Nietzsche's views of Jews and JudaismFor more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the past thirty years the pendulum has swung in the opposite direction. The increasingly popular view today is that Nietzsche was ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lonergan and Kant

    by Giovanni B. Sala ...
    Lonergan's Insight has frequently been compared with Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Giovanni B. Sala, an internationally acknowledged Kant scholar, contrasts the cognitional theory of his former teacher Lonergan with the positions of Kant that have proved so influential, and in many ways so intractable, over the past two centuries.The first essay is one of the most influential papers ever written ... Read more

    $27.99 USD