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Thinking Theory eBook Series

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  • The Comic Self

    Toward Dispossession

    by Timothy C. Campbell, Grant Farred ...
    Series series Thinking Theory
    A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itselfChallenging the contemporary notion of “self-care” and the Western mania for “self-possession,” The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred argue that the problem with the “care of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

    by Roger Scruton ...
    "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Necessary Angel

    Essays on Reality and the Imagination

    by Wallace Stevens ...
    In this collection of essays, consummate poet Wallace Stevens reflects upon his art. His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing "poetry itself, the naked poem, the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • ThinKnow Magazine Issue 2

    Magazine of Ideas and Popular Philosophy

    by Dusunbil Publishing ...
    CONTENTEthics in Spinoza’s EthicsSteven Barbone & Jungwoo SeoSpinoza On God And NatureDino JakušićSpinoza’s Political PhilosophySandra Leonie FieldAre Pluralistic Societies Doomed to Collapse? Spinoza and His Conservative CriticsJason WallerMoby Dick: A Spinozist Tritone FugueAhmet AktaşThe Philosopher Spinoza and the SciencesFilip A. A. BuyseSpinoza’s Politics of Immanent Tra... ... Read more

    $5.00 USD

  • Rhetoric

    by Jennifer Richards ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Rhetoric has shaped our understanding of the nature of language and the purpose of literature for over two millennia. It is of crucial importance in understanding the development of literary history as well as elements of philosophy, politics and culture. The nature and practise of rhetoric was central to Classical, Renaissance and Enlightenment cultures and its relevance continues in our own ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • History of Philosophy. G.W.F. Hegel. His Life, Works and Thought.

    by Stefano Ulliana ...
    This e-book tries to describe fairly quickly, but at the same time precisely and in an articulated way, the structure in becoming of the thought of G.F.W. Hegel (1870-1831), an idealist German thinker. This work analyzes his thought from its first phase, animated by Jacobin and revolutionary ideals, similar to that ones of his friends Hölderlin and Schelling, to its conclusions, when the Hegelian ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Philosophy

    Principles and Problems

    by Sir Roger Scruton ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    In Philosophy: Principles and Problems Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how philosophy is relevant to life in the modern world. The topics he discusses range from the nature of ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Fate and Freedom

    Essays: Volume 1

    by Andrew Mason ...
    What does fate mean, and how does it work? When we feel we are in the grip of a fate, how can we best disarm that grip and free ourselves from it? And what is freedom? How might we understand better what freedom really entails so as not to lose it quite so easily? In a series of exploratory essays, Fate and Freedom challenges a number of prevailing notions about fate, starting with the idea of a ... Read more

    $8.52 USD

  • Relating Narratives

    Storytelling and Selfhood

    by Adriana Cavarero ...
    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
    Relating Narratives is a major new work by the philosopher and feminist thinker Adriana Cavarero. First published in Italian to widespread acclaim, Relating Narratives is a fascinating and challenging new account of the relationship between selfhood and narration.Drawing a diverse array of thinkers from both the philosophical and the literary tradition, from Sophocles and Homer to Hannah Arendt, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Vision of the Soul

    Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition

    by James Matthew Wilson ...
    "For those for whom conservatism means something more than anti-liberalism . . . who wish to dive deep into the conservative tradition in search of pearls" ( The American Conservative).Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead—an age that asserts mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In ... Read more

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  • On Truth

    by Simon Blackburn ...
    Truth is not just a recent topic of contention. Arguments about it have gone on for centuries. Why is the truth important? Who decides what the truth is? Is there such a thing as objective, eternal truth, or is truth simply a matter of perspective, of linguistic or cultural vantage point? In this concise book Simon Blackburn provides an accessible explanation of what truth is and how we might ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Inclinations

    A Critique of Rectitude

    by Adriana Cavarero ...
    Translated by Adam Sitze, Amanda Minervini ...
    Series series Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
    In this new and accessible book, Italy's best known feminist philosopher examines the moral and political significance of vertical posture in order to rethink subjectivity in terms of inclination. Contesting the classical figure of homo erectus or "upright man," Adriana Cavarero proposes an altruistic, open model of the subject—one who is inclined toward others. Contrasting the masculine upright ... Read more

    $19.69 USD