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  • The Cartesian Mind

    Edited by Jorge Secada, Travis Tanner, Cecilia Wee ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophical Minds
    Descartes is widely acknowledged as a central figure in the origins of modernity. The nature of his thought and of the role it played is, however, a matter of considerable dispute among experts. The Cartesian Mind is a significant contribution to this debate. It covers the full extent of his work, not only placing it in its historical context but also exploring its reception, legacy, and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Material Falsity and Error in Descartes' Meditations

    by Cecilia Wee ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy
    Material Falsity and Error in Descartes’s Meditations approaches Descartes’s Meditations as an intellectual journey, wherein Descartes’s views develop and change as he makes new discoveries about self, God and matter. The first book to focus closely on Descartes’s notion of material falsity, it shows how Descartes’s account of material falsity – and correspondingly his account of crucial notions ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Onion and Philosophy

    Fake News Story True Alleges Indignant Area Professor

    by Sharon M. Kaye ...
    Series Book 54 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    The Onion, with its unique brand of deadpan satirical humor, has become a familiar part of the American scene. The newspaper has a readership of over a million, and reaches millions more with its spin-off books and Onion News Network.The Onion has shown us that standard ways of thinking about the news have their grotesque and silly side, and this invites philosophical examination. Twenty-one ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Nietzsche

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Robert Wicks ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Discover the truth about the much-misunderstood thinkerOften quoted yet highly divisive, Nietzsche remains an enigma long after his death. This clear primer moves deftly through the controversy to examine the philosopher's work in the context of his tumultuous childhood and Christian upbringing. Discussing his infamous declaration that God is dead, his posthumous association with Nazism, and his ... Read more

    $5.99 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

  • The Messianic Reduction

    Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time

    by Peter Fenves ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he became a ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Absolute and Star Trek

    by George A. Gonzalez ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This volume explains how Star Trek allows viewers to comprehend significant aspects of Georg Hegel’s concept the absolute, the driving force behind history.Gonzalez, with wit and wisdom, explains how Star Trek exhibits central elements of the absolute. He describes how themes and ethos central to the show display the concept beautifully. For instance, the show posits that people must possess the ... Read more

    $58.49 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

  • Dante's Broken Hammer

    by Graham Harman ...
    In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy transforms one of the classic poets of the Western canon, Dante Alighieri, into an edgy stimulus for contemporary continental thought. It is well known that Dante's poetic works interpret love as the moving force of the universe: as embodied in his muse Beatrice from La Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabiting Paradiso. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Dimensions of Arthur C. Clarke

    by Steve Lehman ...
    Science fiction is replete with brilliant crackpots, some of whom are crammed full of cracked genius. A few only appear cracked because the broken lens of our mundane myopia distorts their image. Occasionally, an SF writer survives the near sighted negativity of various vested interests and ascends to prophetic status. Arthur C. Clarke is our contemporary, secular Elijah. Let's open the doors of ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Marx

    by Étienne Balibar ...
    Translated by Chris Turner, Gregory Elliott ...
    A rich and accessible introduction to Marx’s fundamental concepts from a key intellectual—now updatedWritten by one of political theory’s leading thinkers, The Philosophy of Marx examines all the key areas of Marx’s writings in their wider historical and theoretical context—including the concepts of class struggle, ideology, humanism, progress, determinism, commodity fetishism, and the state. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Indifference to Difference

    On Queer Universalism

    by Madhavi Menon ...
    Indifference to Difference organizes around Alain Badiou’s suggestion that, in the face of increasing claims of identitarian specificity, one might consider the politics and practice of being indifferent to difference. Such a politics would be based on the superabundance of desire and its inability to settle into identity. Madhavi Menon shows that if we turn to another kind of universalism—not one ... Read more

    $17.99 USD