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  • Philosophical Essays on Free Stuff

    by Robyn Ferrell ...
    In Philosophical Essays on Free Stuff, Robyn Ferrell depicts figures of freedom in consumer culture, a world made image by the internet and globalization. Through word and image associations, Ferrell links the question of "free" to the effects of instrumentalism in the political sphere. The discussion proceeds through these images which allow the question to come into focus through diverse ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Genres of Philosophy

    by Robyn Ferrell ...
    Philosophy is textual - it is written and it is read - yet today much of philosophy regards itself as a kind of science, sometimes reducing itself to a species of intellectual bureaucracy. It is important to see these qualities as having their own aesthetic. Even realism is a genre. The aesthetic of the empirical and the bureaucratic, the aesthetic of the rhapsodic and of the clinical ... in each ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sacred Exchanges

    Images in Global Context

    by Robyn Ferrell ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    As the international art market globalizes the indigenous image, it changes its identity, status, value, and purpose in local and larger contexts. Focusing on a school of Australian Aboriginal painting that has become popular in the contemporary art world, Robyn Ferrell traces the influence of cultural exchanges on art, the self, and attitudes toward the other.Aboriginal acrylic painting, produced ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Between the Psyche and the Social

    Psychoanalytic Social Theory

    by Tamsin Lorraine, Robyn Ferrell, Kelly Oliver, Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, Frances Restuccia, E Ann Kaplan, Catherine Peebles, Emily Zakin, Lisa Walsh0, Cynthia Willett1 ...
    Between the Psyche and the Social is the first collection of its kind to offer original, interdisciplinary essays on questions of social subjectivity. Contributors engage the disciplines of feminism, psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, postcolonial theory, film theory, literary criticism, and philosophy to transform the psychoanalytic study of social oppression. The book considers such questions ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

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  • Kant: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but also one of the most difficult. Roger Scruton tackles his exceptionally complex subject with a strong hand, exploring the background to Kant's work and showing why the Critique of Pure Reason has proved so enduring. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Philosopher's Toolkit

    A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

    by Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl ...
    The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflectionFeatures significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophyThis edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both ... Read more

    $23.95 USD

  • Modern Philosophy

    An Introduction and Survey

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Roger Scruton is one of the most widely respected philosophers of our time, whose often provocative views never fail to simulate debate. In Modern Philosophy he turns his attention to the whole of the field, from the philosophy of logic to aesthetics, and in so doing provides us with an essential and comprehensive guide to modern thinking. ... Read more

    $12.69 USD

  • A Short History of Modern Philosophy

    From Descartes to Wittgenstein

    by Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well as the general reader, the renowned writer Roger Scruton provides a survey of modern philosophy. Always engaging, Scruton takes us on a fascinating tour of the subject, from founding father Descartes to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • A Short History of Modern Philosophy

    From Descartes to Wittgenstein

    by Roger Scruton ...
    A Short History of Modern Philosophy is a lucid, challenging and up-to-date survey of the philosophers and philosophies from the founding father of modern philosophy, René Descartes, to the most important and famous philosopher of the twentieth century, Ludwig Wittgenstein.Roger Scruton has been widely praised for his success in making the history of modern philosophy cogent and intelligible to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

    Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

    by Richard Rorty, David Bromwich ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Philosophy in the Modern World

    A New History of Western Philosophy, Volume 4

    by Anthony Kenny ...
    Series series New History of Western Philosophy
    Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have ... Read more

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  • Spinoza

    by Michael Della Rocca ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    Renowned for his metaphysics, Spinoza made significant contributions to understanding the human mind, the emotions, moral philosophy, and political philosophy.Beginning with an overview of Spinoza's life, Michael Della Rocca carefully unpacks and explains Spinoza's philosophy: his metaphysics of substance and argument at the center of his whole system that God is the sole independent substance; ... Read more

    $36.99 USD