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Think - A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

This is a book about the big questions in life: knowledge, consciousness, fate, God, truth, goodness, justice. It is for anyone who think...

I Am a Strange Loop

Douglas Hofstadter's long-awaited return to the themes of Gödel, Escher, Bach- an original and controversial view of the nature of consci...

Lying

As it was in "Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, " and "Othello, " so it is in life. Most forms of private vice and public evil are kindled an...

A Therapeutic Journey - Lessons from the School of Life

The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of THE SCHOOL OF LIFE. De Botton follows the arc from mental crisis and ...

Thinking and Reasoning: A Very Short Introduction

Thinking is the essence of what it means to be human and defines us more than anything else as a species. Jonathan Evans explores cogniti...

Consolations - The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words

A poetic and thoughtful in-depth analysis of the meanings of everyday words, extending this into a philosophical and emotional reflection...

The Stoic Guide to a Happy Life - 53 Brief Lessons for Living

'Bursting with practical wisdom and engaging stories ... a Stoicism 2.0 for twenty-first century happiness' Skye Cleary 'A bold, contempo...

How to Tell a Joke - An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor

Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was ta...

I've Been Thinking - Adventures in Philosophy

'A generous book written by a figure who has made a significant impact on philosophy ... Anyone interested in philosophy should read it' ...

Reality+ - Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy

Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chal...

End Times

Could an incoming asteroid cause human beings to go the way of the dinosaurs? Will artificial intelligence make the world a better place-...

Surfaces and Essences - Analogy as the Fuel and Fire of Thinking

Analogy is the core of all thinking. This is the simple but unorthodox premise that Pulitzer Prize-winning author Douglas Hofstadter and ...

Math with Bad Drawings - Illuminating the Ideas That Shape Our Reality

A hilarious and bestselling reintroduction to mathematics, illustrating the ideas with stories, humor, and stick figures. In Math with Ba...

The Little Book of Psychology - An Introduction to the Key Thinkers and Theories You Need to Know

A whirlwind tour of the highlights of psychology, giving authoritative introductions to the work of Freud, Jung, Milgram, Maslow and others.

Zoopolis - A Political Theory of Animal Rights

For many people animal rights suggests campaigns against factory farms, vivisection or other aspects of our woeful treatment of animals. ...

How to Focus - A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction

"A new translation of selections from the 5th century monk John Cassian's writings on ways to avoid distraction and enhance our concentra...

Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It - Wisdom of the Great Philosophers on How to Live

A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling coauthor of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . ...

Meaningful Relations - The Enactivist Making of Experiential Worlds

Diese Sammlung von Aufsätzen leistet einen Beitrag zur Debatte um das Geist-Körper-Problem aus der Sicht des enaktiven Ansatzes mit einem...

The Gift and the Common Good - An Intercultural Perspective

What do we live and work for? What holds us together? In the Western tradition, the answer to these questions has always relied on the co...

Scheler's Socratesism - The New Perspective of his Phenomenological Ethics

Scheler claimed that "ultimately ethics is 'a damned bloody affair', and if it can give me no directives concerning how 'I' 'should' be a...

Philosophy and Life - Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live

'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects' Steven Pinker 'An enthusiastic thinker who embraces humour, common sense and luci...

How to Think like a Philosopher - Twelve Key Principles for More Humane, Balanced, and Rational Thinking

"By now, it should be clear: in the face of disinformation and disaster, we cannot hot take, life hack, or meme our way to a better futur...

The Godless Gospel - Was Jesus A Great Moral Teacher?

Even if we don't believe that Jesus was the son of God, we tend to think he was a great moral teacher. But was he? And how closely do ide...

The Philosophers' Library - Books that Shaped the World

This is a unique collection of the works that trace the development of philosophy from classical times to the new millennium. Written by ...

The Superfluity of the Human - Reflections on the Posthuman Condition

The author claims that concerning the "progress" and "development" of the technoscientific mind in the application of artificial intellig...

Philosophers Who Changed History

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas. Philos...

A Therapeutic Journey - Lessons from the School of Life

AS HEARD ON THE DIARY OF A CEO PODCAST WITH STEVEN BARTLETT From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The School of Life A healthy mind...

Theory of the Gimmick - Aesthetic Judgment and Capitalist Form

Acclaimed critic Sianne Ngai theorizes the gimmick as an aesthetic category reflecting the fundamental laws of capitalism. Gimmicks make ...

Friedrich Nietzsche

This book "" Friedrich Nietzsche "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten...

War and Violence

It is not sufficient to speak of violence alone: sexual violence, racial violence, the violence of exploitation. In capitalism - Maurizio...

The Origins of Life - The Primogenital Matrix of Life and Its Context

Life appears ungraspable, yet its understanding lies at the heart of current preoccupations. In our attempt to understand life through it...

Failures of Forgiveness - What We Get Wrong and How to Do Better

Philosopher Myisha Cherry teaches us the right ways to deal with wrongdoing in our lives and the world Sages from Cicero to Oprah have to...

The Art of Being Posthuman - Who Are We in the 21st Century?

This book offers a comprehensive reflection on the existential condition of the 21st century. A visionary introduction to existential pos...

The Green and The Blue - Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age

The Green and the Blue explores the opportunities in our digital age for combining green environmental policies with blue digital solutio...

How to Think Like a Philosopher - Essential Principles for Clearer Thinking

The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy

The most entertaining and engaging philosophy class you'll ever take! In The Cartoon Introduction to Philosophy, Michael F. Patton and Ke...

The Apotheosis of Nullity - A Transhistorical Genealogy of Human Subjectivity

This massive book is an intensive inquest into the fate of the human subject as it passes through the primitive, despotic, passional and ...

Posthuman Studies Reader - Core readings on Transhumanism, Posthumanism and Metahumanism

The new reader presents an up-to-date collection of seminal texts dedicated to all branches of debates on Posthuman Studies: Transhumanis...

What's That Smell? - A Philosophy of the Olfactory

How our sense of smell engages with philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political economy—and how it can help enrich our understanding of the...

Philosophy at 3: Am - Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers

The 25 interviews collected in this volume were carried out with the aim of confronting widespread ignorance about contemporary philosoph...

Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics - How Technology Transforms Our Ethics

"What if what is permissible and acceptable today is anathema tomorrow? There is a whole canon of scholarly ethics books written with the...

The Concrete and the Plural - Studies in Husserl's Phenomenology

As the motto »To the matters themselves!« (Zu den Sachen selbst!) shows, Husserl's phenomenology seeks to ground philosophy and the scien...

Led Zeppelin and Philosophy - All Will Be Revealed

Philosophers tune into the heady mysteries of Led Zeppelin, one of the world's best-known and best-loved rock bands.

Nasty, Brutish, and Short - Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids

From a Michigan professor of law and philosophy, a delightfully funny and thought-provoking investigation into life's biggest questions w...

Escape into Meaning - Essays on Superman, Public Benches, and Other Obsessions

Producer, editor, and writer behind the highly addictive, informative, and popular YouTube channel The Nerdwriter, Evan Puschak presents ...

I Think, Therefore I Draw - Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons

A hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New York Times bestselling Plato and a Platyp...

Zizek's Jokes - (Did you hear the one about Hegel and negation?)

Zizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy. "A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jok...

Freud and the Legacy of Moses

This important new title by Richard J. Bernstein presents a detailed examination of Freud's last book, MOSES AND MONOTHEISM, to show how ...

Themis

The revolutionary classical scholar Jane Ellen Harrison pieces together the origins of early Greek religion in this seminal 1927 work.

Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction - A Very Short Introduction

Human beings naturally desire knowledge. But what is knowledge? Is it the same as having an opinion? Highlighting the major developments ...

Mini Philosophy - A Small Book of Big Ideas

Why do people enjoy watching scary movies? Should we bet on the existence of God? Why is pleasure better than pain? And when is a duck no...

What We Owe The Future - A Million-Year View

Should our priorities change when we consider all the lives yet to come?

Just Deserts - Debating Free Will

The concept of free will is profoundly important to our self-understanding, our interpersonal relationships, and our moral and legal prac...

Think - In Defence of a Thoughtful Life

A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as homo sapiens. But in a world where experi...

We Are Free to Change the World - Hannah Arendt's Lessons in Love and Disobedience

This bold new take on the life and ideas of political philosopher Hannah Arendt explores her lessons for living in an age of uncertainty....

How to Think Like a Philosopher - Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live

An entertaining guide to history's most fascinating philosophers - from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir - which seeks...

Zen in the Garden - the Japanese art of peaceful gardening

Spring, summer, autumn, and winter: wherever you are, the seasons come and go, bringing changes both welcome and unexpected. Japanese by ...

Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphasizing its freshness and variety of themes, and its approach...

Indiana Jones and Philosophy - Why Did it Have to be Socrates?

INDIANA JONES AND PHILOSOPHY What does it mean to choose wisely? Can heroes seek fortune and glory? Why does Indy take a leap of faith? D...

Rules - A Short History of What We Live By

A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we d...