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Posthumanities eBook Series

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  • Prosthetic Immortalities

    Biology, Transhumanism, and the Search for Indefinite Life

    by Adam R Rosenthal ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    Examining the links between today’s ideas of radical life extension and age-old notions of immortalityFrom Plato’s notion of generation to Derrida’s concept of survival to such modern phenomena as anti-aging treatments, cryogenics, cloning, and whole-brain uploads, Adam Rosenthal’s Prosthetic Immortalities shows how the dream of indefinite life has always been a technological one: a matter of ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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  • The Wisdom of Sartre

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    An invaluable introduction to the leading French intellectual of the twentieth centuryThe Wisdom of Sartre offers key excerpts from the eloquent French writer, playwright, and philosopher's masterpiece, Being and Nothingness. From this collection, readers will discover the strongest themes in his early philosophical work: an ontological account of what it means to be human, and the role of ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understand Philosophy: Teach Yourself

    by Mel Thompson ...
    This book is the essential introduction to the history of Western thought. Covering all the key thinkers, both ancient and modern, and all the major branches of philosophy, it will give you new insights about the world we live in. Packed full of examples and clear explanations, and with key terms defined and explained, it is ideal whether you are student looking for a quick refresher or just want ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: Descartes

    by John Cottingham ...
    ***'***The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.' Descartes'It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.'Descartes is often called the father of modern philosophy. He was certainly one of the most important figures in the emergence of modern philosophy and science and his work and ideas have resonated through the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Plant-Thinking

    A Philosophy of Vegetal Life

    by Michael Marder ...
    The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He identifies the existential features of plant behavior and the vegetal heritage of human ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • Making Sense in Common

    A Reading of Whitehead in Times of Collapse

    by Isabelle Stengers ...
    Translated by Thomas Lamarre ...
    Series series Posthumanities
    A leading philosopher seeks to recover “common sense” as a meeting place to reconcile science and philosophyWith her previous books on Alfred North Whitehead, Isabelle Stengers not only secured a reputation as one of the premier philosophers of our times but also inspired a rethinking of critical theory, political thought, and radical philosophy across a range of disciplines. Here, Stengers ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Thinking It Through

    An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy

    by Kwame Anthony Appiah ...
    Here is a thorough, vividly written introduction to contemporary philosophy and some of the most crucial questions of human existence: the nature of mind and knowledge, the status of moral claims, the existence of God, the role of science, and the mysteries of language, among them. In Thinking It Through, esteemed philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah shows us what it means to "do" philosophy in our ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • A Brief History of the Soul

    by Stewart Goetz, Charles Taliaferro ...
    Series series Brief Histories of Philosophy
    This book is a clear and concise history of the soul in western philosophy, from Plato to cutting-edge contemporary work in philosophy of mind.Packed with arguments for and against a range of different, historically significant philosophies of the soulAddresses the essential issues, including mind-body interaction, the causal closure of the physical world, and the philosophical implications of the ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Ultrahuman

    by Steve Madison ...
    The Ultrahuman is coming. The Ultrahuman is a member of a higher community. The Ultrahuman is our destiny. The Ultrahuman is the ordinary human’s designated replacement. Everything is about to change. The greatest and final paradigm shift is coming. The Ultrahuman is the being associated with this final phase, when humanity starts to understand its own divinity. The medieval eschatologist Joachim ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • What's These Worlds Coming To?

    by Jean-Luc Nancy, Aurélien Barrau ...
    Translated by Travis Holloway, Flor Méchain ...
    Series series Forms of Living
    The eminent philosopher and an emerging astrophysicist return to the ancient art of cosmology in a study of plural worlds and their rebuilding.Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lacan and the Limits of Language

    by Charles Shepherdson ...
    "Stages refreshing encounters between Lacanian psychoanalysis and its others: Kristeva, Heidegger, Derrida, or Foucault, to name just a few thinkers." —Ewa Ziarek, author of An Ethics of DissensusThis book weaves together three themes at the intersection of Jacques Lacan and the philosophical tradition. The first is the question of time and memory. How do these problems call for a revision of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Different Modes of Existence

    by Étienne Souriau ...
    Translated by Erik Beranek, Tim Howles ...
    Series series Univocal
    What relation is there between the existence of a work of art and that of a living being? Between the existence of an atom and that of a value like solidarity? These questions become our own each time a reality—whether it is a piece of music, someone we love, or a fictional character—is established and begins to take on an importance in our lives. Like William James or Gilles Deleuze, Souriau ... Read more

    $19.99 USD