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  • The Meaning of Being a Man

    by Ole Bjerg ...
    What does it mean to be a man? While this is a key question for at least half the population of the world, Ole Bjerg argues that it has been largely forgotten by philosophy. In his groundbreaking new book, he mobilizes ideas from Martin Heidegger and Hannah Arendt to coin the notion of Being-Man as an alternative to the conventional talk about gender and identity. This leads into an exploration of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poker

    The Parody of Capitalism

    by Ole Bjerg ...
    Poker is an extraordinary worldwide phenomenon with major social, cultural, and political implications, and Poker: The Parody of Capitalism investigates the game of poker as a cultural expression of significance not unlike art, literature, film, or music. Tracing the history of poker and comparing the evolution of the game to the development of capitalism, Ole Bjerg complicates prevalent notions ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Parallax of Growth

    The Philosophy of Ecology and Economy

    by Ole Bjerg ...
    Parallax of Growth explores the ideas of economy and ecology and the factors that have put them on a collision course. Bjerg argues that our current mode of economic organization is characterized by an inherent �debt drive�, whereby the creation of money through the issuance of commercial bank credit has locked our economy into a vicious circle of forced growth and increasing debt.Parallax of ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Making Money

    The Philosophy of Crisis Capitalism

    by Ole Bjerg ...
    What is money? Where does it come from? Who makes our money today? And how can we understand the current state of our economy as a crisis of money itself?In Making Money, Ole Bjerg turns these questions into a matter of philosophical rather than economic analysis. Using the thinking of Slavoj iek, while still engaging with mainstream economic literature, the book provides a genuinely philosophical ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Sociology of Debt

    Over the course of the last ten years the issue of debt has become a serious problem that threatens to destroy the global socio-economic system and ruin the everyday lives of millions of people. This collection brings together a range of perspectives of key thinkers on debt to provide a sociological analysis focused upon the social, political, economic, and cultural meanings of indebtedness.The ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

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  • Economics Rules

    The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science

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  • Philosophy

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    This guide outlines concepts and principles of philosophy in an easy to understand format. Topics covered in this guide include: metaphysics, mind body problems, language games and much more. ... Read more

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  • The Soros Lectures

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    Five lectures George Soros recently delivered at the Central European University in Budapest - which he founded in 1991 - distill a lifetime of thinking on finance, capitalism and open society In a series of lectures delivered at the Central European University in October 2009, George Soros provided a broad overview of his thoughts on economics and politics. The lectures are the culmination of a ... Read more

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  • Queer Phenomenology

    Orientations, Objects, Others

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  • Bodies That Matter

    On the Discursive Limits of Sex

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