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  • Extinction Rebellion

    Insights from the Inside

    by Rupert Read ...
    'Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander take us deep inside the debates, tactics, and passion that have bound Extinction Rebellion together from its founding days, bringing us radical reflections from the frontlines of rebellion. If you want to understand the movement that is finally waking us up, read this book.'- Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deep Adaptation

    Navigating the Realities of Climate Chaos

    by Jem Bendell, Rupert Read ...
    ‘Deep adaptation’ refers to the personal and collective changes that might help us to prepare for – and live with – a climate-influenced breakdown or collapse of our societies. It is a framework for responding to the terrifying realization of increasing disruption by committing ourselves to reducing suffering while saving more of society and the natural world. This is the first book to show how ... Read more

    $12.00 USD

  • Parents for a Future

    by Rupert Read ...
    That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse.In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • This Civilisation is Finished

    Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

    by Rupert Read, Samuel Alexander ...
    Industrial civilisation has no future. It requires limitless economic growth on a finite planet. The reckless combustion of fossil fuels means that Earth’s climate is changing disastrously, in ways that cannot be resolved by piecemeal reform or technological innovation. Sooner rather than later this global capitalist system will come to an end, destroyed by its own ecological contradictions. ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Why Climate Breakdown Matters

    by Dr Rupert Read ...
    Series series Why Philosophy Matters
    Climate change and the destruction of the earth is the most urgent issue of our time. We are hurtling towards the end of civilisation as we know it. With an unflinching honest approach, Rupert Read asks us to face up to the fate of the planet. This is a book for anyone who wants their philosophy to deal with reality and their climate concern to be more than a displacement activity.As people come ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein’s Liberatory Philosophy

    Thinking Through His Philosophical Investigations

    by Rupert Read ...
    In this book, Rupert Read offers the first outline of a resolute reading, following the highly influential New Wittgenstein ‘school’, of the Philosophical Investigations. He argues that the key to understanding Wittgenstein’s later philosophy is to understand its liberatory purport.Read contends that a resolute reading coincides in its fundaments with what, building on ideas in the later Gordon ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Climate Majority Project

    Setting the Stage for a Mainstream, Urgent Climate Movement

    Edited by Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh ...
    The successful climate movement won’t be radical or moderate. It has to be both – and it has to be now. The Climate Majority Project calls for a new wave of urgent, inclusive, citizen-led climate action; making space for a diversity of people to show up just as they are, and protect what they love. If climate action remains marginal at this late hour, it will fail. The rapid, system-level change ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The New Wittgenstein

    Edited by Alice Crary, Rupert Read ...
    This text offers major re-evaluation of Wittgenstein's thinking. It is a collection of essays that presents a significantly different portrait of Wittgenstein. The essays clarify Wittgenstein's modes of philosophical criticism and shed light on the relation between his thought and different philosophical traditions and areas of human concern. With essays by Stanley Cavell, James Conant, Cora ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • There is No Such Thing as a Social Science

    In Defence of Peter Winch

    by Phil Hutchinson, Rupert Read, Wes Sharrock ...
    Series series Directions in Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
    The death of Peter Winch in 1997 sparked a revived interest in his work with this book arguing his work suffered misrepresentation in both recent literature and in contemporary critiques of his writing. Debates in philosophy and sociology about foundational questions of social ontology and methodology often claim to have adequately incorporated and moved beyond Winch's concerns. Re-establishing a ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Wittgenstein among the Sciences

    Wittgensteinian Investigations into the 'Scientific Method'

    by Rupert Read, Edited by Simon Summers ...
    Series series Philosophy and Method in the Social Sciences
    Engaging with the question of the extent to which the so-called human, economic or social sciences are actually sciences, this book moves away from the search for a criterion or definition that will allow us to sharply distinguish the scientific from the non-scientific. Instead, the book favours the pursuit of clarity with regard to the various enterprises undertaken by human beings, with a view ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

    by Rupert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Aesthetics
    Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films. Each chapter contains a discussion of two films—one explored in greater detail and the other analyzed as a ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The New Hume Debate

    Edited by Rupert Read, Kenneth Richman ...
    For decades scholars thought they knew Hume's position on the existence of causes and objects he was a sceptic. However, this received view has been thrown into question by the `new' readings of Hume as a sceptical realist. For philosophers, students of philosophy and others interested in theories of causation and their history, The New Hume Debate is the first book to fully document the most ... Read more

    $66.99 USD