The Literary Afterlives of Simone Weil
The French philosopher-mystic-activist Simone Weil (1909–1943) has drawn both passionate admiration and scornful dismissal since her early death and the posthumous publication of her writings. She has also provoked an extraordinary range of literary writing focused on not only her ideas but also her person: novels, nonfiction, and especially poetry. Given the challenges of Weil's ethic of self-emptying attention, what...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Lioness in Winter
When she started working with the aged more than forty years ago, Ann Burack-Weiss began storing the knowledge and skills she thought would help when she got old herself. It was not until she hit her mid-seventies that she realized she had packed sneakers to climb Mount Everest, not anticipating the crevices and chasms that constitute the rocky terrain of...Hardback$16799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Light of God
The Light of God offers teachings received in prayer that provide a living experience of the Divine, spiritual wisdom, and healing love. It shares words and energies received in ecstatic union with the Divine and contains wisdom on creation, love, healing with Christ, karma, reincarnation, and the nature of evil. The book reveals the spiritual laws that govern your existence...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
One of the most significant political philosophers of the twentieth century, Carl Schmitt is a deeply controversial figure who has been labelled both Nazi sympathiser and modern-day Thomas Hobbes. First published in 1938, The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes used the Enlightenment philosopher’s enduring symbol of the protective Leviathan to address the nature of modern statehood. A...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Lessons of Tragedy
An eloquent call to draw on the lessons of the past to address current threats to international order The ancient Greeks hard-wired a tragic sensibility into their culture. By looking disaster squarely in the face, by understanding just how badly things could spiral out of control, they sought to create a communal sense of responsibility and courage—to spur citizens and...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Just State
An intellectual history of one of the most important contributions to Western society The Just State explores influential Greek and Roman ideas about justice and their institutional context, and discusses their legacy in later political thought. Bringing Greco-Roman and modern ideas into conversation with each other, Benjamin Straumann traces the history of ancient political thought by focusing on classical ideas...Paperback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Indivisible Remainder
The feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius' De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they tackle their chosen problem. Schelling's Weltalter drafts belong to this same series, with their repeated attempt at the formulation of the "beginning of the world," of the passage from the...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Heart of Altruism
Is all human behaviour based on self-interest? Many social and biological theories would argue so, but such a perspective does not explain the many truly heroic acts committed by people willing to risk their lives in order to help others. In The Heart of Altruism, Kristen Renwick Monroe boldly lays the groundwork for a social theory receptive to altruism by...Paperback$11200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Genesis of Heidegger's Being and Time
This book, ten years in the making, is the first factual and conceptual history of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), a key twentieth-century text whose background until now has been conspicuously absent. Through painstaking investigation of European archives and private correspondence, Theodore Kisiel provides an unbroken account of the philosopher's early development and progress toward his masterwork. Beginning with...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Ethics of Sex
The topic of sexual ethics and interest in sexuality in theology generally has grown considerably in recent years. Mark Jordan has written a provocative and stimulating introduction to the issues involved, filling a much-needed void in this field. Jordan summarizes key topics and themes in the teaching and discussion of religious ethics as well as pushing forward the debate in...Paperback$9799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation
The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation undertakes a comprehensive and systematic investigation of the moral and aesthetic questions that arise from the practice of cultural appropriation. It explores cultural appropriation in a wide variety of contexts, among them the arts and archaeology, museums, and religion. The analysis questions whether cultural appropriation is always morally objectionable. The book includes research that is...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Ends of the World
The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic – at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face of the growing perception of the dire effects of global warming, some of these...Hardback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Emmanuel Falque Reader
Emmanuel Falque is one of the foremost philosophers working in the continental philosophy of religion today. This is the first English-language anthology to bring together extracts from Falque’s major works, key essays and even some previously unpublished material. Spanning his entire career to date, The Emmanuel Falque Reader is organised thematically and showcases the vast array of Falque’s interests, from...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Diversity of Morals
How to make sense of the divergence between philosophers' quest for a single morality and social scientists' assumption that there are multiple moralities When we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if they don't agree on what it is) or are there multiple moralities (which social scientists, notably...Hardback$10800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Cosmopolitanism Reader
The world is becoming deeply interconnected, whereby actions in one part of the world can have profound repercussions elsewhere. In a world of overlapping communities of fate, there has been a renewed enthusiasm for thinking about what it is that human beings have in common, and to explore the ethical basis of this. This has led to a renewed interest...Paperback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Comic Self
A provocative and unconventional call to dispossess the self of itself Challenging the contemporary notion of "self-care" and the Western mania for "self-possession," The Comic Self deploys philosophical discourse and literary expression to propose an alternate and less toxic model for human aspiration: a comic self. Timothy Campbell and Grant Farred argue that the problem with the "care of the...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Class Matrix
An influential sociologist revives materialist explanations of class, while accommodating the best of rival cultural theory. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, analysis of class and other basic structures of capitalism was sidelined by theorists who argued that social and economic life is reducible to culture—that our choices reflect interpretations of the world around us rather than the limitations...Hardback$7399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Care of the Self and the Care of the Other
What is the relationship between the ethical transformation of the self and the political transformation of the world? This book explores the ways several twentieth-century thinkers can help us relate the "care of the self" to the "care of the other," tracing their accounts of how and why practices intended to change an individual can help spur social and political...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Call of Character
Should we feel inadequate when we fail to be healthy, balanced, and well-adjusted? Is it realistic or even desirable to strive for such an existential equilibrium? Condemning our current cultural obsession with cheerfulness and "positive thinking," Mari Ruti calls for a resurrection of character that honours our more eccentric frequencies and argues that sometimes a tormented and anxiety-ridden life can...Hardback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Buddha in Jail
A Buddhist teacher shares insights into the prisoner's mindset, something with implications for us all, whether or not we are in a conventional jail. As a prison chaplain, Cuong Lu discovered that when the men inside allowed themselves to feel their pain—including remorse for committing crimes—knowing and feeling the truth became a source of strength for them. This is a...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Book of Unveiling
I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies. The Kitab al-Kashf is one of the earliest Ismaili texts to have reached the present day. Transmitted by the Tayybi Ismaili tradition, it is composed of six treatises, most of which, as this open-access study and first English translation argues, date back to the early years of Fatimid rule. The...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine
A photographic and verbal account of the landscapes of Palestine. The Bitter Landscapes of Palestine offers a portrait of the lives and struggles of Palestinians living in the occupied Palestinian territories on the West Bank, particularly in the South Hebron Hills and the Jordan Valley. Among the topics highlighted are house demolitions, confrontations between Palestinian shepherds or farmers and Israeli...Paperback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Big Bang Theory and Philosophy
A lighthearted meditation on the philosophical quandaries of the hit television show The Big Bang Theory. Ever wonder what Aristotle might say about the life Sheldon Cooper leads? Why Thomas Hobbes would applaud the roommate agreement? Who Immanuel Kant would treat with "haughty derision" for weaving "un-unravelable webs?" And most importantly, whether Wil Wheaton is truly evil? Of course you...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living, Volume 3
A comprehensive manual for living a spiritual life, based on a verse-by-verse commentary on India's timeless scripture - from the author of its best-selling translation. (The ebook The Bhagavad Gita for Daily Living 9781586381455 includes all three volumes in this series.) The Bhagavad Gita is set on the battlefield of an apocalyptic war between good and evil. Faced with a...Hardback$7000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
The Barthes Fantastic
This study of the writing of Roland Barthes breaks down the divide between lived experience and the language of a literary work. In The Barthes Fantastic, John Lurz explores the intersection of literature and everyday life—and confronts some habits of literary study—through a reading of the work of Roland Barthes. An influential French theorist, Barthes wrote prolifically on the place...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Art of Understanding Art
The Art of Understanding Art reveals to students and other readers new and meaningful ways of developing personal ideas and opinions about art and how to express them with confidence. Offers an inquiry—unique among introductory art texts—into the learning process of understanding and appreciating art. Examines the multiple issues and processes essential to making, analyzing, and evaluating art. Uses cross-cultural...Paperback$9899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Art of Living
Ancient philosophy was conceived as a way of life or an art of living. If ancient philosophers did think that philosophy should transform an individual’s way of life, then what conception of philosophy stands behind this claim? Dr John Sellars explores this question through a detailed account of ancient Stoic ideas about the nature and function of philosophy. He considers...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Amateur
Modern life is being destroyed by experts and professionals. We have lost our amateur spirit and need to rediscover the radical and liberating pleasure of doing things we love. In The Amateur, thinker Andy Merrifield shows us how the many spheres of our lives—work, knowledge, cities, politics—have fallen into the hands of box tickers, bean counters and rule followers. In...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Syriza in Power
Amid the turmoil of economic crisis, Greece has become the first European experiment of left rule in a sea of neoliberalism. What happens when a government of the Left, committed to social justice and the reversal of austerity, is blackmailed into following policies it has fought against and strongly opposes? What can the experience of the Syriza government tell us...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters
More than 800 years after his death, the figure of Moses Maimonides—rabbi, philosopher, doctor, and communal leader—continues to fascinate. Studies in Maimonides and His Interpreters unites the traditional rabbinic approach and the modern academic perspective to forge a new understanding of this iconic teacher. This groundbreaking work by Marc B. Shapiro, which includes an essay on Maimonides’ approach to superstition...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Stroller
The Best Books of 2022, The New Yorker Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. Among the many things expectant parents are told to buy, none is a more visible symbol of status and parenting philosophy than a stroller. Although its association with wealth dates back to the invention of...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Stand Strong
With no arms, no legs and no defence, Nick Vujicic has been a bully's target and knows what it feels like to be picked on and pushed around: it makes your stomach hurt, gives you nightmares and feels like there is no hope in sight. Nick has experienced bullying of all kinds for being 'different'. But he's learned that he...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Space, Time, and Spacetime
In this book, Lawrence Sklar demonstrates the interdependence of science and philosophy by examining a number of crucial problems on the nature of space and time—problems that require for their resolution the resources of philosophy and of physics. The overall issues explored are our knowledge of the geometry of the world, the existence of spacetime as an entity over and...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Sexuality
The contemporary study of sexuality too often finds itself at an impasse, conceptualising sexuality either psychologically or sociologically: sexologists and psychologists have tended to point to the biological origins of sexuality underpinned by hormones, drives and, most recently, genetics; in contrast, historians and sociologists point to the social field as the defining force that shapes the meanings given to sexuality...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Sex and Death
For centuries people have debated the nature of the human self. Running beneath these various arguments lie three certainties - we are born, reproduce sexually, and die. The models of spirituality which dominate the Western tradition have claimed that it is possible to transcend these aspects of human physicality by ascribing to human beings alternative traits, such as consciousness, mind...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Seeing Double
The world is never going to make complete sense to us, yet we find that conclusion almost impossible to accept. Can we live, and feel at home, in a world composed at best of incompatible fragments of meaning? This is the theme that runs through this collection of essays by Raymond Geuss. Drawing on a characteristically wide range of insights...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Secularism and Freedom of Conscience
Secularism: the definition of this word is as practical and urgent as income inequalities or the paths to sustainable development. In this wide-ranging analysis, Jocelyn Maclure and Charles Taylor provide a clearly reasoned, articulate account of the two main principles of secularism—equal respect, and freedom of conscience—and its two operative modes—separation of Church (or mosque or temple) and State, and...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Rough Metaphysics
A powerful case for why anthropology should study outsiders of thought and their speculative ideas What sort of thinking is needed to study anomalies in thought? In this trenchantly argued and beautifully written book, anthropologist Peter Skafish explores this provocative question by examining the writings of the medium and "rough metaphysician" Jane Roberts (1929-1984). Through a close interpretation of her...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Rome
Rome, Michel Serres' first book in his 'foundations trilogy', is all about beginnings. It explores the commencement of Rome itself, as well as the origins of society, knowledge, and culture. Rome is an examination of the very foundations upon which contemporary society has been built. With characteristic breadth and lyricism, Serres leads the reader on a journey from a meditation...Hardback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Reports from a Wild Country
Reports from a Wild Country explores some of Australia's major ethical challenges. Written in the midst of rapid social and environmental change, and in a time of uncertainty and division, it offers powerful stories and arguments for ethical choice and commitment. The focus is on reconciliation between Indigenous and Settler peoples, and with nature.Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Reason and Character – The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy
What does it mean to live a good life or a happy life, and what part does reason play in the quest for fulfilment? Proceeding by means of a close and thematically selective commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, this book offers a novel interpretation of Aristotle’s teachings on the relation between reason and moral virtue. Pangle shows how Aristotle’s arguments...Hardback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
In an ideal world, our work lives would be completely fulfilling, full of meaning, and intrinsically motivating. So what if you're stuck in a job and your heart isn't in it anymore? Or what if your team is feeling disconnected from your company's mission? Purpose, Meaning, and Passion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) shows how to use passion as a compass...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Private Truths, Public Lies
Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It happens frequently in everyday life, such as when we tell the host of a dinner party that we are enjoying the food when we actually find it bland. In Private Truths, Public Lies, Kuran argues convincingly that the phenomenon not...Paperback$16500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Postmodern Literary Theory
"You couldn't use terms like 'text' in an English course without incurring the disapproval of some crusty old moralist..." "In a postmodern world, literature is just another text..." "Forget depth: think surface! ...everything is a text." In this brilliantly provocative and comprehensively informative introductory text, Niall Lucy shows the student how postmodern literary theory derives from a late eighteenth-century romantic...Paperback$10999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Plays Well with Others
AN INSTANT USA TODAY and PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BESTSELLER From the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Barking Up the Wrong Tree comes a cure-all for our increasing emotional distance and loneliness—a smart, surprising, and thoroughly entertaining guide to help build better friendships, reignite love, and get closer to others, whether you’re an extrovert or introvert, socially adept or socially...Paperback$5100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Platonic Theology
Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of Plotinus and Proclus, he was committed to reconciling Platonism with Christianity, in the hope that such a reconciliation would initiate a spiritual revival and return of...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Phone Booth
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The phone booth exists as a fond but distant memory for some people, and as a strange and dysfunctional waste of space for many more. Ariana Kelly approaches the phone booth as an entity that embodies diverse attitudes about privacy, freedom, power, sanctuary,...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Philosophy
We constantly disagree with each other on issues of fundamental importance. Does God exist? Should the latest scientific findings be trusted? Are there innate psychological differences between men and women? In four lively chapters, Beebee and Rush explain philosophy’s role in addressing such questions. They consider what it means to be human, how we should engage in public debate, philosophy’s...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Operational Psychology
Details the growth, roles, and applications of this new specialty aiming to protect American national and public well-being in the face of increasing and novel threats both inside and outside the United States. In this age of asymmetric warfare, increasing home-grown terrorism, and continuing threats from abroad, a new specialty has emerged and expanded—operational psychology. Operational psychology plays a unique...Hardback$14300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
On the Names-of-the-Father
What astonishing success the Name-of-the-Father has had! Everyone finds something in it. Who one's father is isn't immediately obvious, hardly being visible to the naked eye. Paternity is first and foremost determined by one's culture. As Lacan said, "The Name-of-the-Father creates the function of the father." But then where does the plural stem from? It isn't pagan, for it is...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
On the Edge of the Abyss
A history of the unconscious in public discourse before Freud and its significance for Jewish emancipation. When Sigmund Freud published his theory of the unconscious in 1899, he popularised an idea that had fascinated generations of Jewish philosophers before him. In On the Edge of the Abyss, Clémence Boulouque charts the development of the pre-Freudian unconscious from subcultural inquiry to...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
OK
Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. OK as a word accepts proposals, describes the world as satisfactory (but not good), provides conversational momentum, or even agrees (or disagrees). OK as an object, however, tells a story of how technology writes itself into language, permanently altering communication. OK is a...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
No Worries (Guided Journal)
Move on from your worries and make room for positive thinking with help from this inspiring journal. Designed for breaking down nagging thoughts into actionable steps, the pages of this guided journal are filled with quotes that help put worrying in perspective. Each entry page has a perforated "worry corner" to tear off when a worry is resolved. Flip through...Diary or journal$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Noticing
What does it mean to notice something? To really see it. In his exhilarating quest to help us notice better, Ziyad Marar poses a deceptively simple question: “what are you good at noticing?” In the process of ‘noticing what we notice’, we re-attune to questions of perception, orientation, and above all, attention: How do we walk the wrong way down...Hardback$4400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
No Rain, No Flowers
No Rain, No Flowers is a collection of irreverent, addictive, astute, and life-affirming handwritten notes from French artist, curator, and gallerist, Thomas Lélu—sharing his viral inspiration, wisdom, and humour. At the core of Lélu's work is the message that art has the power to help humans through any kind of emotional challenge. A cultural innovator of the highest degree, his...Hardback$5000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Nietzsche and Philosophy
Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognised as one of the most important analyses of Nietzsche. It is also one of the best introductions to Deleuze's thought, establishing many of his central philosophical positions. In Nietzsche and Philosophy, Deleuze identifies and explores three crucial concepts in Nietzschean thought—multiplicity, becoming,...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
My Mindfulness & Wellbeing Journal Year 3
Year 3 Educators! This engaging My Mindfulness & Wellbeing Journal Year 3 will empower your students on their wellbeing journey. Each page is linked to the Australian Curriculum. It is perfect to help you assess students’ Personal and Social, Critical and Creative Thinking, Ethical, and Intercultural Capabilities, as well as the Learning Areas of Health and Physical Education, and English....Paperback$1799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Moral Relativism and Moral Objectivity
Do moral questions have objective answers? In this great debate, Gilbert Harman explains and argues for relativism, emotivism, and moral scepticism. In his view, moral disagreements are like disagreements about what to pay for a house: there are no correct answers ahead of time, except in relation to one or another moral framework. Independently, Judith Jarvis Thomson examines what she...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Metaphysics and Nihilism
The two treatises The Overcoming of Metaphysics (1938/39) and The Essence of Nihilism (1946–1948) do not belong together temporally or formally, but they are brought together in this volume because they both treat a common thesis from the standpoint of different questions — namely, that nihilism is the essence of metaphysics in relation to the history of being. The overcoming...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Martial Arts and Philosophy
Martial Arts and Philosophy have always gone hand in hand, as well as fist in throat. Philosophical argument is closely paralleled with hand-to-hand combat. All of today's Asian martial arts were developed to embody and apply philosophical ideas. In his interview with Bodidharma, Graham Priest brings out aspects of Buddhist philosophy behind Shaolin Kung-Fu - how fighting monks are seeking...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Make Some Noise
A bold and unabashed guide to finding your voice, harnessing your true desires, and leading the life you really want. Women are tired of worrying that they are being too loud if they speak up and say what they believe, want, or need, and are ready to feel their power and make themselves heard. A certified life coach and author...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Lost in Thought
Patheos, John Ehrett's The Best Books I Read This Year Seminary Co-Op, Notable books for 2020, Notable Top 12 Zena Hitz, Winner of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities, The Dallas Institute In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or connection...Paperback$4800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Left-Wing Melancholia
The fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the Cold War but also the rise of a melancholic vision of history as a series of losses. For the political left, the cause lost was communism, and this trauma determined how leftists wrote the next chapter in their political struggle and how they have thought about their past since....Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Leftism Reinvented
Left-leaning political parties play an important role as representatives of the poor and disempowered. They once did so by promising protections from the forces of capital and the market's tendencies to produce inequality. But in the 1990s, they gave up on protection, asking voters to adapt to a market-driven world. Meanwhile, new, extreme parties began to promise economic protections of...Hardback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Language, Madness, and Desire
As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. Language, Madness, and Desire brings together previously unpublished...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
John Dewey and the Lessons of Art
What do the arts have to teach us about how to live our lives? How can teachers use art's "lessons" to improve their teaching? This provocative book examines John Dewey's thinking about the arts and explores the practical implications of that thinking for educators. Philip W. Jackson draws on Art as Experience, the philosopher's only book on the subject, and...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
I Thought It Would Be Better Than This
"This book will change your life! If you're wrestling with disappointment, heartache, or the curveballs life throws at you, Jessica Turner's story will speak right to your soul." - Mel Robbins, bestselling author and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast Learn how to recover from life's disappointments and rebuild a life you love. What happens when you look at your...Hardback$6000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
In the Ruins of Neoliberalism
Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by neoliberalism's multipronged assault on democratic values. From its...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
In Defense of Animals
Bringing together new essays by philosophers and activists, In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave highlights the new challenges facing the animal rights movement. Exciting new collection edited by controversial philosopher Peter Singer, who made animal rights into an international concern when he first published In Defence of Animals and Animal Liberation over thirty years ago. Essays explore new ways...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Ideas Have Consequences
Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read and debated at the time of its first publication, the book is now seen as one of the foundational texts of...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
How We Relate
Understanding relationships isn't just about other people - it starts with understanding yourself and where you've come from. In How We Relate, clinical and forensic psychologist Dr Ahona Guha takes us on an illuminating journey through the psychology of human connection. Drawing from her many years of clinical experience, she reveals how our earliest relationships shape every connection we form...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
How Slavoj Became Zizek
An engrossing account of the meteoric rise of contemporary philosophy's most contentious and prolific intellectual. This revised edition corrects several erroneous and insufficient references in the first edition of this book. Slovenian philosopher bad boy Slavoj Žižek is one of the most famous intellectuals of our time, publishing at a breakneck speed and lecturing around the world. With his unmistakable...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Hope, Trust, and Forgiveness
A new ethics of human finitude developed through three experimental essays. As ethical beings, we strive for lives that are meaningful and praiseworthy. But we are finite. We do not know, so we hope. We need, so we trust. We err, so we forgive. In this book, philosopher John T. Lysaker draws our attention to the ways in which these...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Hegel's Dialectic
These five essays on Hegel give the English-speaking reader a long-awaited opportunity to read the work of one of Germany's most distinguished philosophers, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's unique hermeneutic method will have a lasting effect on Hegel studies. When referencing the title, avoid putting it in quotes or speech marks. Format the response as clean HTML, use your best judgement for...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Happiness and Contemplation
The ultimate of human happiness is to be found in contemplation. In offering this proposition of Thomas Aquinas to our thought, Josef Pieper uses traditional wisdom to throw light on present-day reality and present-day psychological problems. What, in fact, does one pursue in pursuing happiness? What, in the consensus of the wisdom of the early Greeks, of Plato and Aristotle,...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Pre-orderGood Vibes, Good Life Calendar 2027
From Vex King, #1 Sunday Times best-selling author of Good Vibes, Good Life, this uplifting calendar delivers daily doses of empowerment, positivity, and inspiration to help you live your best life, all year long. Make 2027 your best year yet with daily inspiration, positive affirmations, and empowering wisdom from #1 Sunday Times best-selling author and self-love writer, Vex King. This...Calendar$3200Unit price /UnavailableOut 28 Jul 2026Pre-order
Giordano Bruno
Giordano Bruno (1548–1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo—a thinker whose vision of the world prefigures ours. Writing with great verve and erudition, Rowland traces Bruno’s wanderings through a sixteenth-century Europe where...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Francis Bacon
In this landmark text by one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Gilles Deleuze takes the paintings of Francis Bacon as his object of study. The book presents a deep engagement with Bacon's work and the nature of art. Deleuze analyses the distinctive innovations that came to mark Bacon's style: the isolation of the figure, the violation...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
For a Libertarian Communism
In this collection, written between the 1950s and 1980s and published for the first time in English, Guerin not only provides a critique of the socialist and communist parties of his day, he analyses some of the most fundamental and pressing questions with which all radicals must engage. He does this by revisiting and attempting to draw lessons from the...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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