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  • Question Authority

    A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism.“Question authority,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase, playful in logic but serious in intent, has become a practical paradox. Yesterday’s social critics are the tone-policing tyrants of today, while those who claim ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On Risk

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series Book 1 - Field Notes
    With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Catch and Release

    Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    This vibrant blend of memoir, travelogue, and reflection on the deep truths of angling is framed around an annual fishing trip that Mark Kingwell and his father and two brothers take each year to British Columbia. Between the drinking, the cigars, and the piloting of a small dingy, Kingwell, previously of the belief that “fishing is stupid,” finds that the sport does allow for one important thing ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Fail Better

    Why Baseball Matters

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure—a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts—Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becomes poetry.Weaving elements of memoir, philosophical reflection, sports writing, and humour, Fail Better ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Ethics of Architecture

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    A lively and accessible discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Concrete Reveries

    Consciousness and the City

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    A profound philosophical exploration of urban architecture and its impact on human experience, ideal for those intrigued by the complexity of metropolitan life.In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Wish I Were Here

    Boredom and the Interface

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Series Book 2 - Outspoken
    Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for.Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in ... Read more

    $29.49 USD

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  • A Civil Tongue

    Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking about how to justify the choices they make—or, in brief, "just talking."As part of the general trend ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Singular Creatures

    Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein’s monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many other less mainstream ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Wage Slave's Glossary

    by Joshua Glenn ...
    follow-up to well-received Idler's Glossary4 x 6 pocket sized formatdesigned and illustrated by Seth, with 3-4 full page internal illustrations and dozens of thumbnailsdoes well as counter/display impulse purchase titleboth authors and the illustrator/designer have loyal followings in the US and elsewhere ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Adventurer's Glossary

    by Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell ...
    Adventure is always escapist and often utopian, yet we find solidarity with others and Kafkaesque existential rabbit holes within the words we use to celebrate high-flying escapades. Even when adventures are small in the cosmic scope, the terminology of thrilling exploits promotes a life lived at a high pitch. This go-to glossary for the philosophical explorer delves into these contradictions and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Singular Creatures

    Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

    by Mark Kingwell ...
    Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein’s monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many other less mainstream ... Read more

    $28.99 USD