Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
$55.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Derek Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that ar ...Show more
How to Connect with Nature (The School of Life series) by Tristan Gooley
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
How to Connect with Nature is designed to transform the way readers experience the natural world and to encourage a reconnection with our environment. Tristan Gooley strives to reawaken our senses to help us understand and deepen our personal experience of nature, and explains how forming an understandi ...Show more
Scepticism and the Possibility of Knowledge by A.C. Grayling
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This book discusses a subject of particular resonance today when belief - religious and otherwise - can shape the modern world. Complex theories are brought to life by Grayling's skill and accessible style. A book on scepticism from Anthony Grayling is to be greatly valued. Grayling is rare among academ ...Show more
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization by Heinrich Robert Zimmer
$36.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A landmark work that demystifies the rich tradition of Indian art, Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization analyzes key motifs found in legend, myth, and folklore taken directly from the Sanskrit. It provides a comprehensive introduction to visual thinking and picture reading in Indian art and ...Show more
The Twelfth Insight by James Redfield
$34.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Celestine
On 21 December 2012, the Mayan calendar will end. Many see it as an apocalyptic sign. But is it? In The Twelfth Insight, we again follow our Hero and his close friend Wil. They have just received a portion of another ancient and mysterious manuscript that describes a secret approach to spirituality that ...Show more
Existential Psychoanalysis by Jean-Paul Sartre
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Category: Philosophy
In Existential Psychoanalysis, Sartre criticizes modern psychology in general, and Freud's determinism in particular. His often brilliant analysis of these areas and his proposals for their correction indicate in what direction an existential psychoanalysis might be developed. Sartre does all this on t ...Show more
Susan Sontag by Jerome Boyd Maunsell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Critical Lives
'My idea of a writer: someone interested in 'everything", declared Susan Sontag (1933 - 2004). Essayist, diarist, filmmaker, novelist and playwright, her own life seemed to match this ideal. As well as writing in an unusually broad array of genres, Sontag wrote about a startling range of topics - from ...Show more
How to Age (The School of Life series) by Anne Karpf
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The School of Life
As a culture, we are increasingly 'anti-age'. Ageing is either identified entirely with disability, dependency and isolation or, conversely, with the model of the bungee-jumping, jet-skiing, Botoxed baby-boomer who has vanquished age altogether; it is either all-defining or non-existent because powerful ...Show more
Batman, Superman, and Philosophy by Nicolas Michaud
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
Batman or Superman? Which of these heroic figures is morally superior? Which is more dramatically effective? Which is more democratic? Which shows us the better way to fight crime? In Batman, Superman, and Philosophy, 26 philosophers evaluate Superman vs. Batman in order to decide which of them "wins" b ...Show more
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In fear of the horrors of totalitarianism should we submit ourselves to a miserable third way of economic liberalism and government-as-administration? In this major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj Z ...Show more
In Defence of Serendipity by Seb Olma
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"In Defence of Serendipity" is a lively and buccaneering work of investigative philosophy, treating the origins of serendipity, accident and sagacity, both as riddles and philosophical concepts that can be put to a future political use. Taking in Aristotle, LSD, Tony Blair and techno-mysticism, Olma cha ...Show more