Aspects (Academic)/Philosophical
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How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic
$32.95 Add to cartIn the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using – and indeed abusing – logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arg
- Author: Pirie, Madsen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 07 2015
- ISBN10: 147252912X
- Language: English
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Tao Te Ching
$15.95 Read moreHaving masterfully translated a wide range of ancient Chinese poets and philosophers, David Hinton is uniquely qualified to offer the definitive contemporary English version of Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching…. [more below]
- Author: Hinton, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1619025566
- Language: English
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What Is Posthumanism?: Volume 8
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, socie
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #8
- Author: Wolfe, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0816666156
- Language: English
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History and Utopia
$17.99 Read more“Only a monster can allow himself the luxury of seeing things as they are,” writes E. M. Cioran, the Romanian-born philosopher who has rightly been compared to Samuel Beckett.
In History and Utopia, C- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1628724250
- Language: English
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The Numerical Discourses of the Buddha: A Complete Translation of the Anguttara Nikaya
$85.00 Read moreDiscover with the original teachings of the Buddha in this thorough translation of some of the oldest Buddhist texts in the world.
Like the River Ganges flowing down from the Himalayas, the entire Bu- Series: Teachings of the Buddha
- Author: Bodhi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1944
- Publish Date: October 16 2012
- ISBN10: 1614290407
- Language: English
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas – Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cart“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”–Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century–an activist of the intellec- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691155933
- Language: English
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Naming the Elephant: Worldview as a Concept
$26.99 Add to cartWhat is a worldview? What lies behind your thoughts about almost everything? For more than thirty years, James W. Sire has grappled with this issue. In his widely used textbook The Universe Next Door,
- Author: Sire, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 201
- Publish Date: January 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0830840737
- Language: English
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Neil Gaiman and Philosophy: Gods Gone Wild!
$19.95 Add to cartNeil Gaiman is the imaginative wizard behind the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO series) and The Anansi Boys, the graphic series The Sandman, and popular children’s books like Cor… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
- Author: Bealer, Tracy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0812697650
- Language: English
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Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text
$44.95 Add to cartHenri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society.
Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twenti- Author: Lefebvre, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 1781683174
- Language: English
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
$34.95 Add to cartThe first volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity’s engagement with intimate spaces.
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Sloterdijk, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1584351047
- Language: English
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
$17.99 Add to cartPraised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his dea… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476771553
- Language: English
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Humanism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPeople of faith often argue that without God, there can be no morality. Indeed, without religion, our lives are left without meaning and are likely to degenerate into moral chaos. In this Very Short I… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Law, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 11 2011
- ISBN10: 0199553645
- Language: English
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas – Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartIn this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas–among them Machiavelli, Vic
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156107
- Language: English
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The Cause of Hitler’s Germany
$29.00 Add to cart“A truly revolutionary idea… Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned.”–Ayn Rand
Self-sacrifice, Oriental mysticism, racial “truth,” the public good, doing one’s- Author: Peikoff, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0142181471
- Language: English
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Humour: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHumour is a universal feature of human life. It has been discovered in every known human culture, and thinkers have discussed it for over two thousand years. In this Very Short Introduction Noel Carro… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Carroll, Noel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0199552223
- Language: English
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Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes
$33.95 Add to cartAdventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows u… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #87
- Author: Michaud, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0812698584
- Language: English
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Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology
$15.00 Add to cartIn this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated “The Practice of Reading Good Books” and award-winning “Playing with Bateson”-Corey Anton brings together some of hi… [more below]
- Author: Anton, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0982755953
- Language: English
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Understanding Beliefs
$18.95 Add to cartWhat beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them.
Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about cultu
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Nilsson, Nils J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 0262526433
- Language: English
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The Consolation of Philosophy: With an Introduction and Contemporary Criticism
$8.95 Read moreWritten in the sixth century, The Consolation of Philosophy was one of the most popular and influential works of the Middle Ages. Boethius composed the masterpiece while imprisoned and awaiting the de
- Series: Ignatius Critical Editions
- Author: Boethius, Anicius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 25 2012
- ISBN10: 1586174371
- Language: English
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
$34.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the fo- Author: Bostrom, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2014
- ISBN10: 0199678111
- Language: English
