Explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our efforts to find spiritual and intellectual certainty in the realms of religion and philosophy. This title underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human life seems particularly vulnerable and uncertain.
A work in comparative literature and philosophy that offers a fresh and important way of thinking the ethical capacity of human subjectivity. It posits a universal ethics based neither on rational mental structures nor on moral principles, but on the extra-rational powers of the imagination.
Thirty women philosophers explore topics of pressing interest for today. Their ideas are discussed in lively interviews from Philosophy Bites, the world's foremost philosophy podcast. These conversations illuminate diverse aspects of being human-personal, social, and political-for anyone interested in philosophical reflection on our world.
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.
Defines the common thread linking the world's greatest economic thinkers and explores the philosophies that motivate them. This work enables us to see more deeply into our history, and provides the new theme that connects thinkers as different as Adam Smith and Karl Marx: the desire to understand how a capitalist society works.
This second book in Zizek's Essays sees Slavoj Zizek utilise Lenin's 'zero point' formula as model for responding to the antagonisms of the global order.