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Ethics the Fundamentals
Paperback,
18/08/2006,
£18.75
£16.88
Ethics: The Fundamentals explores core ideas and arguments in moral theory by introducing students to different philosophical approaches to ethics, including virtue ethics, Kantian ethics, divine command theory, and feminist ethics. * The first volume in the new Fundamentals of Philosophy series.
Western Philosophy: An Anthology
Paperback,
02/11/2007,
£25.99
£23.39
Western Philosophy: An Anthology provides the most comprehensive and authoritative survey of the Western philosophical tradition from ancient Greece to the leading philosophers of today.
Philosophy Book
Hardback,
31/01/2011,
£18.99
£17.09
A guide to more than 2,000 years of thought. It covers the topics ranging from moral ethics to philosophies of religion.
Story of Philosophy
Paperback,
01/04/2010,
£15.99
£14.39
Guides us through the history of ideas and thinking, tracing over 2,500 years of Western philosophy from the Ancient Greeks to modern thinkers. This title helps to discover what philosophy is, how philosophers have questioned the fundamental principles underlying all knowledge and existence.
Spinoza
Paperback,
07/06/2007,
£17.99
£16.19
Benedict de Spinoza is a major philosopher of enduring influence and importance. This title offers an account and analysis of Spinoza's key works and overall philosophical project. It covers his "Ethics" and political treatises. It includes an assessment of Spinoza's influence and his relevance for contemporary philosophical debates and concerns.
Kierkegaard
Paperback,
09/11/2006,
£18.99
£17.09
Soren Kierkegaard was the progenitor of existentialism, as well as a major literary figure and philosopher of ethics and religion. This work offers a comprehensive account of Kierkegaard's philosophy. It also covers the literary and philosophical challenges raised by Kierkegaard's 'direct' and 'indirect' forms of communication.
Anti-Oedipus
Paperback,
25/04/2013,
£19.99
£17.99
"First published in the United States of America by The Viking Press 1977"--T.p. verso.
Truth: Ideas in Profile
Paperback,
02/03/2017,
£8.99
£8.09
The world's leading thinker on truth explains what it is and why it matters in every important aspect of life
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World
Paperback,
05/09/2013,
£12.99
£11.69
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political, social theorists and spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in.
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them
Hardback,
02/01/2014,
£22.00
£19.80
'After two and a half millennia, it's rare to come across a genuinely new idea on the nature of morality, but in this book Josh Greene advances not one but several... Moral Tribes is a landmark in our understanding of morality and the moral sense.' Steven Pinker
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap between Us and Them
Paperback,
05/03/2015,
£10.99
£9.89
'After two and a half millennia, it's rare to come across a genuinely new idea on the nature of morality, but in this book Josh Greene advances not one but several... Moral Tribes is a landmark in our understanding of morality and the moral sense.' Steven Pinker
Plato at the Googleplex
Paperback,
06/08/2015,
£14.99
£13.49
What would the ancient Greek philosopher make of the twenty-first-century Google headquarters? A dazzling exploration of the role of ancient philosophy in modern life from the acclaimed writer and thinker.
Arts, Pedagogy and Cultural Resistance: New Materialisms
Paperback,
11/11/2015,
£32.95
£29.66
This collection demonstrates how physical objects, materials, space and environments teach us, and redefines practice with theory (praxis) as a more-than-human network. The contributions illustrate how the materials, process, pedagogies and theories of Arts making question and disrupt the many forms of cultural dominance that exist in our society.
Absolute Recoil
Paperback,
23/09/2015,
£12.99
£11.69
Zizek's philosophical masterwork, now out in paperback
Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School
Hardback,
20/09/2016,
£18.99
£17.09
This brilliant group biography asks who were the Frankfurt School and why they matter today
Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France, 1974-1975
Paperback,
26/08/2016,
£23.99
£21.59
Michel Foucault remains the essential philosopher of the modern world
Dialectic of Enlightenment
Paperback,
26/08/2016,
£12.99
£11.69
A classic of twentieth-century thought, charting how reason regressed back into myth and superstition
Introducing Derrida
7,
01/09/2005,
£9.99
£8.99
The Introducing series is renowned throughout the world for its ingenious combination of graphic illustration and intelligent, precise text by leading academics on some of the most challenging subjects around. This is an examination of one of the most famous philosophers of the 20th century.
Introducing Rousseau
7,
03/05/2007,
£9.99
£8.99
Introducing Rousseau presents a maverick thinker whose Enlightenment ideas revolutionized our understanding of childhood, education, government and language forever.Did Rousseau inspire the French Revolution? Can we trace Romanticism, psychoanalysis and Existentialism back to him? This great introduction charts Rousseau's turbulent life of lost innocence, persecution and paranoia.
Introducing Machiavelli
Paperback,
06/12/2007,
£9.99
£8.99
'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. This book traces the colourful life of this paradoxical realist whose clear-sighted patriotism made him the first truly modern political scientist. It brings the creative turbulence of Renaissance Italy to life.
GARMENTS OF COURT AND PALACE: MACHIAVELLI AND THE WORLD THAT HE MADE
Hardback,
01/09/2008,
£22.00
£19.80
One of America's leading public intellectuals presents a fascinating portrait of Machiavelli, his most infamous work, The Prince, and the world in which it was written.
Man's Search for Meaning
Paperback,
06/05/2004,
£7.99
£7.19
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest.
Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts
Paperback,
01/09/2012,
£20.99
£18.89
'Pierre Bourdieu: Key Concepts' highlights his most important concepts and examines them in detail. This new edition of the leading text is entirely revised and updated and includes new essays on Methodology, Politics and Social Space.
Culture and Materialism
Paperback,
21/10/2005,
£11.99
£10.79
A comprehensive introduction to the work of one of the outstanding intellectuals of the twentieth century.
Ideology
Paperback,
09/08/2007,
£17.99
£16.19
In the modern world, ideology has never before been so much in evidence as a fact and so little understood as a concept. This book unravels the many different meanings of ideology, and charts the history of the concept from the Enlightenment to postmodernism.
Sublime Object of Ideology
Paperback,
01/01/2009,
£14.99
£13.49
Looks at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. This book explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Mat
Hardback,
22/09/2014,
£20.00
£18.00
Zizek's new philosophical masterwork.
Liberal Delusion: The Roots of Our Current Moral Crisis
Paperback,
05/11/2012,
£12.99
£11.69
Is western civilisation based on a mistaken understanding of humanity? Fundamental to any society is its comprehension of human nature. It shapes attitudes and policies on a whole range of issues: interpersonal relations, child-rearing, discipline and punishment, economics and welfare. This book deals with this topic.
Gilles Deleuze
Hardback,
29/04/1993,
£99.99
£89.99
This work offers a key to understanding the works of Gilles Deleuze, a major figure in the intellectual history of the late-20th century
Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education
Paperback,
18/01/2011,
£5.72
£5.15
Virtuous Educational Research: Conversations on Ethical Practice
Paperback,
14/06/2016,
£43.95
£39.56
This book, built around a set of conversations with the author, aims to illuminate the lived reality of educational research. It explores the experience of research and asks what qualities are needed to face its challenges. Other books present lists of what to do and what not to do. Here, we find out what really happens - and why.
Introducing Ethics For Everyday Life
Paperback,
05/01/2012,
£6.99
£6.29
A Practical Guide to applying the philosophy of ethics to real life.
Introducing Philosophy For Everyday Life
Paperback,
05/04/2012,
£6.99
£6.29
An Introducing Practical Guide to how philosophy can be used in everyday life
Shrink And The Sage
Paperback,
03/05/2012,
£9.99
£8.99
Based on their Financial Times Weekend column, philosopher Julian Baggini and his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to life's questions.
Quest for a Moral Compass
Hardback,
01/05/2014,
£25.00
£22.50
A history that has never been told before: the story of the global search for moral truth.
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World
Hardback,
01/11/2012,
£19.99
£17.99
Fifty Thinkers Who Shaped the Modern World profiles fifty landmark philosophers, scientists, political and social theorists as well as spiritual leaders whose ideas have defined the age we live in. It offers a crisp analysis of their key ideas, and in some cases a re-evaluation of their importance as we proceed into the 21st century.
Theory of Justice
Paperback,
22/03/2005,
£29.95
£26.96
Though the "Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice", published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Illuminations
Hardback,
05/11/2015,
£16.99
£15.29
Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, and Proust.
Ego Trick
Paperback,
01/03/2012,
£9.99
£8.99
'In this entertaining, educative and gracefully written book, Julian Baggini explores the questions of the nature of the self and in what sense it persists through time ... This is one of the best, most readable and most stimulating introductions yet written about this intriguing topic' - AC Grayling
Mill: A Guide for the Perplexed
Paperback,
06/12/2012,
£18.99
£17.09
John Stuart Mill is best known for his moral and political writings, and is a central figure in political philosophy. This book offers an account of Mill's thought, his major works, and the common ideas that permeate them. It introduces the key concepts and themes in Mill's social, political and moral thought.
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