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  • The Death of Philosophy

    Reference and Self-reference in Contemporary Thought

    by Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel ...
    Translated by Richard A. Lynch ...
    Philosophers debate the death of philosophy as much as they debate the death of God. Kant claimed responsibility for both philosophy's beginning and end, while Heidegger argued it concluded with Nietzsche. In the twentieth century, figures as diverse as John Austin and Richard Rorty have proclaimed philosophy's end, with some even calling for the advent of "postphilosophy." In an effort to make ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

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    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

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  • Michel Foucault

    by David Macey ...
    Series Book 2 - Critical Lives
    Throughout most of his career, Michel Foucault consistently refused to say much about himself and was reluctant to be defined in either professional or personal terms. His stance was ‘Do not ask who I am, and do not ask me to remain the same’. In the last years of his life, he changed his stance, gave many interviews and began to speak of an 'aesthetics of existence' in which ‘the life’ and ‘the ... Read more

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  • Language As Disclosure

    by Carolyn Norman Slaughter ...
    Written in the 1980's, heyday of Deconstruction in university English Departments, Carolyn Norman Slaughter's study probes the ways that language "works" in the literature of a few American modernist authors. Slaughter's purpose is not to prove the futility and "meaning"lessness of language, as Deconstruction was striving to do at the time, but instead to recover the first-order importance and ... Read more

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  • Everyday Examples

    An Introduction to Philosophy

    by Professor David Cunning ...
    "Free will: mental energy that poofs into existence from scratch?"In pairing key ideas from the history of philosophy with examples from everyday life and culture, David Cunning produces a clear, incisive and engaging introduction to philosophy. Everyday Examples explores historical philosophy and the contemporary theory scene and includes ideas from both the analytic and continental traditions. ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Introducing Empiricism

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Our knowledge comes primarily from experience – what our senses tell us. But is experience really what it seems?The experimental breakthroughs in 17th-century science of Kepler, Galileo and Newton informed the great British empiricist tradition, which accepts a 'common-sense' view of the world – and yet concludes that all we can ever know are 'ideas'.In Introducing Empiricism: A Graphic Guide, ... Read more

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  • What's Wrong with Eating People?

    33 More Perplexing Philosophy Puzzles

    by Peter Cave ...
    The sensational follow-up to the bestselling Can a Robot be HumanIn this stunning sequel to last Christmas' bestselling surprise hit, "Can a Robot be Human?", Peter Cave once again engages the reader in a romp through the best bits of philosophical thought. With the aid of tall stories, jokes, common sense and bizarre insights, Cave tackles some of life's most important questions and introduces ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    by T. K. Seung ...
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number of thematic contradictions. The standard approach has been a method of selective reading, that is, most critics select a few brilliant passages for edification and ignore the rest. This approach has ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Nothingness and the Meaning of Life

    Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity

    by Dr Nicholas Waghorn ...
    What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues ... Read more

    $153.99 USD

  • How to Do Things with Pornography

    by Nancy Bauer ...
    Feminist philosophers have made important strides in altering the overwhelmingly male-centric discipline of philosophy. Yet, in Nancy Bauer’s view, most are still content to work within theoretical frameworks that are fundamentally false to human beings’ everyday experiences. This is particularly intolerable for a species of philosophy whose central aspiration is to make the world a less sexist ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Philosophy after Friendship

    Deleuze’s Conceptual Personae

    by Gregg Lambert ...
    The friend, the enemy, the stranger, the refugee or deportee, and the survivor. In singular and provocative fashion, Gregg Lambert’s Philosophy after Friendship introduces us to the key social personae that have populated modern political philosophy. Drawing on the philosophies of Deleuze and Derrida, as well as the work of Indo-European linguist Émile Benveniste, Lambert constructs a genealogy to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Social and Political Philosophy

    A Contemporary Introduction

    by John Christman ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy
    This accessible book is invaluable to anyone coming to social and political philosophy for the first time. It provides a broad survey of key social and political questions in modern society, as well as clear discussions of the philosophical issues central to those questions and to political thought more generally. Unique among books of this kind is a sustained treatment of specifically social ... Read more

    $55.99 USD