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Decolonizing Dialectics
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03/02/2017,
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George Ciccariello-Maher brings the work of Georges Sorel, Frantz Fanon, and Enrique Dussel together with contemporary Venezuelan politics to formulate a decolonized dialectics that is suited to the struggle against the legacies of slavery and colonialism while also breaking the impasse between dialectics and postcolonial theory.
Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy
Hardback,
14/12/2017,
£125.00
£112.50
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity.
Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy
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27/02/2014,
£30.99
£27.89
Focusing on the rich and variegated cluster of Indic philosophical traditions as they developed from the late Vedic period up to the pre-modern period, Free Will, Agency, and Selfhood in Indian Philosophy offers an understanding, according to each school, of the nature of free will and agency.
Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi
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17/10/2017,
£27.00
£24.30
This book presents an innovative reading of Daoist philosophy that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Moeller and D'Ambrosio show how the Zhuangzi expounds the Daoist art of "genuine pretending": the paradoxical skill of enacting social roles without submitting to them or letting them define one's identity.
Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy: An Introduction to Indian Philosophy
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25/01/2016,
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This introduction is thematically structured, wide-ranging and philosophically rigorous, providing the technical details of Indian philosophical arguments and their theoretical motivations, without being too technical for beginners. Including a glossary, guide to Sanskrit pronunciation and translated texts, it is an essential resource for beginners and advanced students of Indian philosophy.
Classical Indian Philosophy: An Introductory Text
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01/01/2000,
£27.95
£25.16
The author examines the range of Indian philosophy from the Sutra period through to Navya Nyaya. It is divided into three parts that cover epistemology, metaphysics and distinction between subject and object. It also includes a discussion of Indian ethics and social philosophy.
Golden Age of Indian Buddhist Philosophy
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17/05/2018,
£30.00
£27.00
Jan Westerhoff unfolds the story of one of the richest episodes in the history of Indian thought, the development of Buddhist philosophy during the first millennium CE. He aims to offer the reader a systematic grasp of key Buddhist concepts such as non-self, suffering, reincarnation, karma, and nirvana.
Utilitarianism
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Two essays on utilitarianism, written from opposite points of view, by J. J. C. Smart and Bernard Williams. In the first part of the book Professor Smart advocates a modern and sophisticated version of classical utilitarianism. In Part II Bernard Williams offers a sustained and vigorous critique of utilitarian assumptions, arguments and ideals.
Cambridge Companions to Philosophy: The Cambridge Companion to Virtue Ethics
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14/02/2013,
£25.99
£23.39
This volume offers a comprehensive overview of virtue ethics, the implications for specific practical issues and where we can expect virtue ethics to go in the future. Useful for students of virtue ethics and the history of ethics, to understand the changing face of contemporary moral philosophy.
Against Individualism: A Confucian Rethinking of the Foundations of Morality, Politics, Family, and Religion
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08/11/2016,
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This book is both a critique of the concept of the rights-holding, free, autonomous individual and attendant ideology dominant in the contemporary West, and an account of an alternative view, that of the role-bearing, interrelated responsible person of classical Confucianism, suitably modified for addressing the manifold problems of today.
What Am I Doing with My Life?: And other late night internet searches answered by the great philosophers
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08/08/2019,
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Responding to the biggest, existential questions asked online and using the wisdom of Plato, Kant, Kierkegaard and other philosophical greats philosopher, academic, and all-round polymath, Stephen Law, undertakes the challenge and explores our modern-day concerns with tongue-in-cheek sagacity.
Introduction to Existentialism: From Kierkegaard to The Seventh Seal
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19/09/2019,
£22.99
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Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics
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04/04/2019,
£9.99
£8.99
A fascinating exploration of human morality from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Waiting for the Last Bus and Leaving Alexandria
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
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04/04/2019,
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A Sunday Times bestseller, this is a moving and profound exploration of life's greatest mystery from one of the most revered religious figures of our time
Doubts and Loves: What is Left of Christianity
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04/04/2019,
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A re-examination of the state of Christianity from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Waiting for the Last Bus and Leaving Alexandria
Looking In the Distance: The Human Search for Meaning
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04/04/2019,
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An examination of spirituality, from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Leaving Alexandria
Timaeus and Critias
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28/08/2008,
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A Socratic dialogue in two parts. It begins with a theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. It also comprises an account of the rise and fall of Atlantis, an empire ruled by the descendants of Poseidon, which ultimately sank into the sea.
Timaeus and Critias
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13/11/2008,
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£6.99
In Timaeus Plato attempts to describe and explain the structure of the universe: the creator god, the elements, the lower gods, the stars, and men. The companion piece, Critias, is the origin of the story of Atlantis, the lost empire defeated by ancient Athenians. This is the clearest translation yet of these crucial ancient texts.
Poetry from the Future: Why a Global Liberation Movement Is Our Civilisation's Last Chance
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16/04/2019,
£16.99
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What Fanon Said: A Philosophical Introduction to His Life and Thought
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17/08/2015,
£14.95
£13.46
*A concise introduction to Fanon's thought that contextualises it within the world of philosophy.
End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
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06/02/2006,
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Beautifully written, accessible and provocative, THE END OF FAITH is an impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith.
Dignity: A History
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03/07/2017,
£22.99
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In everything from philosophical ethics to legal argument to public activism, it has become commonplace to appeal to human dignity. Dignity refers to the fundamental moral worth or status supposedly belonging to all persons equally. But this is relatively new. In this volume, leading scholars across a range of disciplines attempt to clarify the variegated and murky history of "dignity," and explain how it arrived it is current and historically unusual
meaning.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche's On the Genealogy of Morality
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04/07/2017,
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Written in 1887, when Nietzsche was at the height of his powers as a philosopher and writer, On the Genealogy of Morality criticizes the idea that there is just one acceptable moral code.
John Stuart Mill's On Liberty
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04/07/2017,
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One of the most significant works of political philosophy, John Stuart Mill's On Liberty (1859) defines and defends individual liberty, a cornerstone of classical liberal thinking.
Rene Descartes' Meditations
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04/07/2017,
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Rene Descartes posed questions about the nature of knowledge and the nature of being that philosophers still debate today. In Meditations, Descartes expands on his most famous pronouncement, "I think, therefore I am," which first appeared in an earlier text.
Soren Kierkegaard's The Sickness Unto Death
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04/07/2017,
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Considered the father of the philosophical movement known as Christian existentialism, which focuses on the living human being, Kierkegaard takes readers on a journey from the human self, its spirit, despair and sin, through to faith in this major 1849 work.
Plato's Symposium
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15/07/2017,
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More than 2,500 years after it was written, Symposium remains a key text for philosophers, historians, writers, artists and politicians. Plato imagines seven important historical figures, including the philosopher Socrates, debating eros (human love and desire).
Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations
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15/07/2017,
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In Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein presents a radical approach to the philosophy of language and the mind, setting out a startlingly fresh conception of philosophy itself. Wittgenstein begins from the insight that most philosophical problems trace back to incorrect assumptions about the nature of language.
Alasdair Macintyre's After Virtue
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15/07/2017,
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One of the most vital and controversial works in twentieth-century world moral philosophy, After Virtue (1981) examines how we think about, talk about, and act out our moral views in the modern world.
Plato's The Republic
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04/07/2017,
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What is justice? How should an individual and a society behave justly? And how do they learn how to do so? These are just some of the core questions explored in The Republic, considered by many to be Plato's most important work.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics
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04/07/2017,
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Aristotle, a student of Plato, wrote Nicomachean Ethics in 350 BCE, in a time of extraordinary intellectual development. Over two millennia later, his thorough exploration of virtue, reason, and the ultimate human good still forms the basis of the values at the heart of Western civilization.
Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
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15/07/2017,
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Most likely written between 170 and 180, Meditations is a remarkable work, a unique insight into one of the most conscientious and able Roman emperors, Marcus Aurelius, who ruled at the apex of the empire's power.
Immanuel Kant's Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason
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15/07/2017,
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Do we need religion to be good people? When Immanuel Kant tackled this question in 1793, he produced a book that remains a key text in the shaping of Western religious thought.
Empathy: Why It Matters, And How To Get It
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04/06/2015,
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Argues that our brains are wired for social connection: empathy is at the heart of who we are. Through encounters with actors, activists, designers, undercover journalists, bankers and neuroscientists, the author sets out the six life-enhancing habits of highly empathic people, whose skills enable them to connect with others in extraordinary ways.
Wonderbox: Curious histories of how to live
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01/11/2012,
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Showing the lessons that can be learned from the past, the author explores twelve universal topics, from work and love to money and creativity, and reveals the wisdom that we've been missing. It stepping into the territory of Alain de Botton and Theodore Zeldin, is 'practical history' - using the past to think about our day to day lives.
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