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  • The Adventure Illusion

    Why Life is Not a Journey

    by Professor Simon Gusman, Professor Arjen Kleinherenbrink ...
    The Adventure Illusion dismantles one of contemporary culture's most seductive myths: that life itself should be an epic journey of trials, transformation, and triumph.The call to adventure saturates domains ranging from media to marketing, politics to business, and tourism to therapy. Drawing on existentialist philosophy, narrative theory, and cultural critique, this book reveals how the hero's ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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  • Earthly Engagements

    Reading Sartre after the Holocene

    by Joe Balay, Kiki Berk, Michael Butler, Kimberly Engels, Simon Gusman, Paul Gyllenhammer, Arjen Kleinherenbrink, Craig Matarrese, Joshua Tepley, Ronald Aronson, Elizabeth Butterfield, William L. McBride, Dane Sawyer, Austin Hayden Smidt ...
    Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene brings together scholars from the Sartre studies community to think through the planetary ecological crisis. Edited by Matthew C. Ally and Damon Boria, the collection explores ways in which Sartre’s existential thought can be read socio-ecologically, illuminating the tightly imbricated earthly and worldly crises of our post-Holocene epoch. ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Sartre on Subjectivity and Selfhood

    The Self as a Thing Among Things

    by Simon Gusman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book examines the concepts of subjectivity and selfhood developed in the oeuvre of Jean-Paul Sartre. Although Sartre is a prominent philosopher, the reception of his work is shrouded in misguided ideas concerning his alleged subjectivism. This book accurately positions Sartre in debates concerning the two themes which form a guiding thread throughout his work and remain immensely relevant in ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Final Fantasy and Philosophy

    The Ultimate Walkthrough

    by William Irwin ...
    Series Book 24 - The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    An unauthorized look behind one of the greatest video game franchises of all time, Final FantasyThe Final Fantasy universe is packed with compelling characters and incredible storylines. In this book, you'll take a fascinating look at the deeper issues that Final Fantasy forces players to think about while trying to battle their way to the next level, such as: Does Cloud really exist (or should we ... Read more

    $18.00 USD

  • Language and Linguistics

    by John Lyons ...
    This 1981 book is a general introduction to linguistics and the study of language, intended particularly for beginning students and readers with no previous knowledge or training in the subject. There is first a general account of the nature of language and of the aims, methods and basic principles of linguistic theory. John Lyons then introduces in turn each of the main sub-fields of linguistics: ... Read more

    $65.59 USD

  • Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice

    by J.F. Martel ...
    A compelling call to rediscover the transformative power of art in an age of distraction, coercion, and spectacle – featuring an introduction from Pulitzer Prize–winning author Donna TarttIn Reclaiming Art in the Age of Artifice, J. F. Martel offers a compelling and incisive meditation on the nature of art in a world dominated by invasive media, rampant consumer culture, and artificial ... Read more

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  • Introduction to the Reading of Lacan

    The Unconscious Structured Like a Language

    by Joel Dor ...
    Series series Lacanian Clinical Field
    About this Book..."A major and long overdue addition to the America/English psychoanalytic literature. . . . All major concepts—among them the mirror stage, the Name-of-the-Father, metaphor and metonymy, the phallus, the foreclosure of the subject—are developed in depth."-Nicholas Kouretsas, Harvard Medical School ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy

    Raiding the Temple of Wisdom

    Edited by Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox ...
    Series Book 70 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    This volume will convince readers that the swift ascent of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to worldwide popularity in the 1970s and 1980s is the most exciting event in popular culture since the invention of the motion picture.”Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy presents twenty-one chapters by different writers, all D&D aficionados but with starkly different insights and points ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Meaning and Authenticity

    Bernard Lonergan and Charles Taylor on the Drama of Authentic Human Existence

    by Brian J. Braman ...
    The language of self-fulfilment, self-realization, and self-actualization (in short, ‘authenticity’) has become common in contemporary culture. The desire to be authentic is implicitly a desire to shape one’s self in accordance with an ideal, and the concern for what it means to be authentic is, in many ways, the modern form of the ancient question what is the life of excellence? However, this ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Otaku

    Japan's Database Animals

    by Hiroki Azuma ...
    Translated by Jonathan E. Abel, Shion Kono ...
    In Japan, obsessive adult fans and collectors of manga and anime are known as otaku. When the underground otaku subculture first emerged in the 1970s, participants were looked down on within mainstream Japanese society as strange, antisocial loners. Today otaku have had a huge impact on popular culture not only in Japan but also throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States.Hiroki Azuma’s Otaku ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Subjects of Desire

    Hegelian Reflections in Twentieth-Century France

    by Judith Butler ...
    Translated by Damon Young ...
    This classic work by one of the most important philosophers and critics of our time charts the genesis and trajectory of the desiring subject from Hegel's formulation in Phenomenology of Spirit to its appropriation by Kojève, Hyppolite, Sartre, Lacan, Deleuze, and Foucault. Judith Butler plots the French reception of Hegel and the successive challenges waged against his metaphysics and view of the ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Westworld and Philosophy

    If You Go Looking for the Truth, Get the Whole Thing

    by William Irwin ...
    Series series The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
    “We can’t define consciousness because consciousness does not exist. Humans fancy that there’s something special about the way we perceive the world, and yet we live in loops as tight and as closed as the hosts do, seldom questioning our choices, content, for the most part, to be told what to do next.”—Dr. Robert Ford, WestworldHave you ever questioned the nature of your reality? HBO’s Westworld, ... Read more

    $15.00 USD

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