The Privatized State
Seminary Co-op Notable Books for 2020 Why government outsourcing of public powers is making us less free Many governmental functions today—from the management of prisons and welfare offices to warfare and financial regulation—are outsourced to private entities. Education and health care are funded in part through private philanthropy rather than taxation. Can a privatized government rule legitimately? The Privatized State...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Prince (Hero Classics)
Part of the Hero Classics series "Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are." The Prince is generally labeled as a cynical and overly pragmatic account of gaining and retaining political power. It is a significant deviation from the righteous meditations of Plato and Aristotle, which emphasise the goodness of human nature. Living in a...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Precariat
This book presents the new Precariat – the rapidly growing number of people facing lives of insecurity, on zero hours contracts, moving in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives. The delivery driver who brings your packages, the Uber driver who gets you to work, the security guard at the mall, the carer looking after our...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Practical Researcher
In The Practical Researcher, Dana S. Dunn's student-friendly writing style and personal tone provide readers with a practical and engaging introduction to research methods in psychology. Using basic theory, solid research practices, and step-by-step techniques, the author leads students through the process of conducting a project from start to finish. The importance of learning to search, read, and critique the...Paperback$25299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Power of Words
There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good. In these selected writings by Simone Weil—philosopher, activist, mystic—she explores the influence of language employed by the powerful, an individual's rights and responsibilities, and foods of the soul such as liberty, truth, security, and equality. Provocative, eloquent, and deeply...Paperback$2100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Power of Negative Emotion
Mindfulness, kindness, and positivity can take us far. But they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions like anger, anxiety, or doubt might be uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. Kashdan and Biswas-Diener explain the importance of developing our emotional agility—the ability to access our full range of...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Power of Cute
An exploration of cuteness and its immense hold on us, from emojis and fluffy puppies to its more uncanny, subversive expressions. Cuteness has taken the planet by storm. Global sensations Hello Kitty and Pokémon, the works of artists Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, Heidi the cross-eyed opossum, and E.T. all reflect its gathering power. But what does "cute" mean, as...Hardback$7400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Power of Art
We live in an era of aesthetics. Art has become both pervasive and powerful – it is displayed not only in museums and galleries but also on the walls of corporations and it is increasingly fused with design. But what makes art so powerful, and in what does its power consist? According to a widespread view, the power of art...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Poverty of Ethics
The Poverty of Ethics stands the usual moral-political dichotomy on its head. It argues that moral principles do not, in fact, underlie or inform political decisions. Instead, it is the conceptual primacy of political discourse that rescues ethics from its poverty. Our ethical convictions receive their substance from historical narratives, political analyses, empirical facts, literary-educational models, political activity, and personal...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Poverty of Our Freedom
There is no normative concept more appealing today than the idea of individual freedom. Political party manifestos are drawn up, legal reforms are defended, military interventions are undertaken, even decisions in personal relationships are justified – all in the name of individual freedom. But our understanding of freedom is impoverished if we try to grasp its essence merely in terms...Hardback$14399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Poverty Of Affluence
In his 1983 classic The Poverty of Affluence, Paul Wachtel examines the psychological underpinnings of our insatiable desire for growth and endless quest for 'more'—whether in jobs, relationships or any other sphere of life. He suggests that our commitment to consumption is, in fact, an increasingly desperate attempt to replace the sense of community that our very growth has torn...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Postmodern Predicament
One of our most influential political theorists offers a boundary-breaking—and liberating—perspective on the meaning of life in the internet age. Human beings have taken one thing for granted since our earliest days: we are bodily creatures dealing with one another on a face-to-face basis. The internet has shattered this fundamental feature of human existence. We are suddenly living our lives...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Pornographic Age
Offering a piercing indictment of what we have let ourselves become, this short, critical work is a damning critique of the current age and of the democratic systems that characterise it. Alain Badiou argues that any truly radical politics must begin with dismantling the obscene (or pornographic) qualities of neoliberal capitalism. In The Pornographic Age, he asks us to hold...Paperback$3699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Polymath
Every human is born with multifarious potential. Why, then, do parents, schools and employers insist that we restrict our many talents and interests; that we 'specialise' in just one? We've been sold a myth, that to 'specialise' is the only way to pursue truth, identity, or even a livelihood. Yet specialisation is nothing but an outdated system that fosters ignorance,...Hardback$6500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Politics of Language
In The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information. This new view of language, they argue, has dramatic consequences for free speech, democracy, and a range of...Hardback$7999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Political Clinic
The Political Clinic by Carolyn Laubender is the Winner of the 2025 Book Prize of the American Psychoanalytic Association. For decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and technique for treatment. In what ways is clinical practice significant for critical thought? What...Paperback$12100Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Political Writings from Alienation and Freedom
Frantz Fanon’s political impact is difficult to overestimate. His anti-colonialist, philosophical, and revolutionary writings were among the most influential of the 20th century. The essays, articles, and notes published in this volume cover the most politically active period of his life and encapsulate the breadth, depth, and urgency of his writings. In particular, they clarify and amplify his much-debated views...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Pocket Guide to Neuroscience for Clinicians
Louis Cozolino helps clinicians to broaden their thinking and deepen their clinical toolbox through an understanding of neuroscience, brain development, epigenetics, and the role of attachment in brain development and behaviour. The effective therapist must have knowledge of evolution and neuroanatomy, as well as the systems of our brains and how they work together to give rise to who we...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Plotinus Reader
The Plotinus Reader provides a generous selection of translations from the fifty-four treatises that together make up the Enneads of Plotinus, a central work in the history of philosophy. They were prepared by a team of specialists in ancient philosophy and edited by Lloyd P. Gerson. Based on the definitive critical edition of the Greek, along with decades of additional...Hardback$9999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Playful Life
Do you find yourself wanting more out of life? It’s time to bring play to your every day. Play is not just for kids! There are many reasons we need play in our lives. The Playful Life shows you why and how to bring more playfulness to all aspects of your life. You’ll explore how to create meaningful, relevant, and...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Pivotal Generation
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming Climate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet, despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catastrophe, global carbon emissions continue to rise, hitting an all-time high in 2019. Unless humanity rapidly transitions to renewable energy, it may be too late...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Philosophy of Virginia Woolf
Towards the end of her life, Virginia Woolf defined her “philosophy”—the “constant idea” that “makes her a writer.” She wrote that this idea had given her “the strongest pleasure known to [her].” She called these “exceptional moments,” or “moments of being.” Thomas Nail contends that Woolf is a philosopher of being, and these "moments of being" form a unique process...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
The Philosophy of the Yogasutra
Karen O'Brien-Kop's introduction to the Yogasutra highlights its status as a significant work of philosophy. Approaching the Yogasutra as living philosophy, this book elucidates philosophical conceptions of yoga, recognises the logical structure the sutras follow and explains the rules and principles that have sustained Patañjali’s system of thought for centuries. Moving beyond standard interpretations of Patañjali's text and commentary as...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhadkrishnan, Volume 8
The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Volume 8 explores the mind and legacy of a prominent philosophical figure, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. A peer to Gandhi, Nehru, and Tagore, and a former Ambassador to the Soviet Union now serving as Vice-President of India, Radhakrishnan is celebrated as the greatest living thinker of the East. He stands as the foremost representative of its rich...Paperback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Philosophy of Movement
An influential thinker distills years of work on the philosophy of movement into one accessible account. Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyse and understand the depth of the reasons, Thomas Nail suggests that...Paperback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Philosophy of Living
This volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present. Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary—to be alive—and the absoluteness of our aspiration—finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In The Philosophy of Living, François Jullien meditates on Far Eastern thought and philosophy to...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Philosophy of Philosophy
The Philosophy of Philosophy The Blackwell / Brown Lectures in Philosophy The Philosophy of Philosophy presents an original, unified concept of philosophy as a non-natural science. In this provocative work, distinguished philosopher Timothy Williamson challenges widely-held assumptions and clarifies long-standing misconceptions about the methodology and nature of philosophical inquiry. The author rejects the standard narratives of contemporary philosophy developed from...Hardback$16699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam
Hilary Putnam, who turned 88 in 2014, is one of the world's greatest living philosophers. He currently holds the position of Cogan University Professor Emeritus of Harvard. He has been called "one of the 20th century's true philosophic giants" by Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson in Prospect magazine. Putnam has been highly influential in several different areas of philosophy: philosophy of mathematics,...Hardback$52564Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Philosophy of Body
The body has often been neglected in favour of the mind by philosophers. However, interest is growing in the philosophical consequences of human embodiedness. This timely collection brings together new discussions of the body from seven leading contributors with a wide variety of philosophical outlooks. The papers address the role of the body in the concept of the self, in...Paperback$5399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Philosophy Gym
Where did the universe come from? Is time travel possible? Are genetically designed babies morally acceptable? If you have ever asked yourself such questions, then you have already begun to think philosophically. This book is for those who want to take the next step. Stephen Law poses questions about some of the most important philosophical issues of today—and yesterday. Light-hearted...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Philosophical Hitchcock
On the surface, The Philosophical Hitchcock: Vertigo and the Anxieties of Unknowingness is a close reading of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 masterpiece Vertigo. This, however, is a book by Robert B. Pippin, one of our most penetrating and creative philosophers, and so it is also much more. Even as he provides detailed readings of each scene in the film, and its...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Philosopher's Toolkit
A new edition of the bestselling guide to the study of philosophy: the ideal intellectual ‘toolkit’ for sharpening analytical skills and building philosophical acuity. Whether used as a guide to basic principles or a resource for key concepts and methods, The Philosopher's Toolkit equips readers with all the intellectual ‘tools’ necessary for engaging closely with philosophical argument and developing fluency...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Philosopher's Plant
Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and aesthetic approaches to select species of plants. In...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Philosopher
What would the global history of philosophy look like if it were told not as a story of ideas but as a series of job descriptions—ones that might have been used to fill the position of philosopher at different times and places over the past 2,500 years? The Philosopher does just that, providing a new way of looking at the...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Philosopher Anaesthetist: Essays From Behind the Ether Screen
The Philosopher Anaesthetist: Essays From Behind the Ether Screen offers a unique perspective on medical and health philosophy through the eyes of an anaesthetist. This book is a collection of manuscripts where Dr. Papadimos served as both the senior author and corresponding author. The book navigates the complexities of health care by drawing on the works of renowned philosophers and...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Personality Puzzle
David Funder's masterful writing, his ability to explain important ideas and new research in a compelling way, and the new addition of InQuizitive, Norton's adaptive quizzing tool, make The Personality Puzzle the best learning tool for students - all at an affordable price. The Eighth Edition includes a new chapter on relationships and work, and new coverage of replication and...Set$18999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The People vs. Democracy
New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Everyone worried about the state of contemporary politics should read this book." -Anne-Marie Slaughter "A trenchant survey from 1989, with its democratic euphoria, to the current map of autocratic striving." -David Remnick, New Yorker The world is in turmoil. From Russia and Turkey across Europe to the United States, authoritarian populists have seized...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Pecking Order
A trenchant case for a novel philosophical position: that our political thinking is driven less by commitments to freedom or fairness than by an aversion to hierarchy. Niko Kolodny argues that, to a far greater extent than we recognise, our political thinking is driven by a concern to avoid relations of inferiority. In order to make sense of the most...Hardback$10999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Pay Off
‘Fascinating and entertaining… What happens when we make a payment is literally a multi-billion pound question.’ Dharshini David, author of The Almighty Dollar How we pay is so fundamental that it underpins everything – from trade to taxation, stocks and savings to salaries, pensions and pocket money. Rich or poor, criminal, communist or capitalist, we all rely on the same...Paperback$2299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Passions
An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author. The Passions by Robert C. Solomon delves into the intricate world of human emotions, offering a profound exploration and understanding of what drives our feelings and behaviour. This edition retains the essence of the original text while providing new insights through the author’s...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Passage to Europe
The untold story of the crises and compromises that united a continent “A work of impressive scholarship and historical imagination, . . . unlike anything written about the EU before or since”—Perry Anderson, London Review of Books As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders and global markets, it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Paradox of Morality
The last work by "one of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy" (Critical Inquiry) on the complexities of love in public and private life. Vladimir Jankélévitch stands alongside Emmanuel Levinas as one of the most admired French ethicists of the twentieth century, known for his work on everything from the possibility of forgiveness after the Holocaust to the...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Palliative Society
Our societies today are characterised by a universal algophobia: a generalised fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophobia extends into society: less and less space is given to conflicts and controversies that might prompt painful discussions. It takes hold of politics too: politics becomes a...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Oxherd Boy
Inspired by thousands of years of Chinese thought, The Oxherd Boy is an enchanting and heart-opening illustrated fable about a young boy who explores the many ways to make meaning and find joy in the everyday. Sometimes you can only do a small, small thing. And that can make all the difference. In this exquisitely illustrated parable grounded in the...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Other Renaissance
A natural heir of the Renaissance and once tightly conjoined to its study, continental philosophy broke from Renaissance studies around the time of World War II. In The Other Renaissance, Rocco Rubini achieves what many have attempted to do since: bring them back together. Telling the story of modern Italian philosophy through the lens of Renaissance scholarship, he recovers a...Hardback$9199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Theory of the Gimmick
Christian Gauss Award ShortlistWinner of the ASAP Book PrizeA Literary Hub Book of the Year "Makes the case that the gimmick is of tremendous critical value. Lies somewhere between critical theory and Sontag's best work."- Los Angeles Review of Books "Ngai exposes capitalism's tricks in her mind-blowing study of the time- and labour-saving devices we call gimmicks."- New Statesman "One...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Theory and Practice
Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting. Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of “theory and practice” was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx...Hardback$7299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Theory and Practice
Now in paperback, nine lectures from Jacques Derrida that challenge the influential Marxist distinction between thinking and acting. Theory and Practice is a series of nine lectures that Jacques Derrida delivered at the École Normale Supérieure in 1976 and 1977. The topic of "theory and practice" was associated above all with Marxist discourse and particularly the influential interpretation of Marx...Paperback$10400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
The Origins of You
From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your family of origin - the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves, and the world around us. None of us had a perfect childhood; we are all carrying around behaviours that don't serve us - and may in...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Origins of You
A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year "Brings the groundbreaking research of the top developmental psychologists of the past quarter-century to a wider audience. A masterpiece!" - Dante Cicchetti, Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota "Deliver[s] a flood of insights around the book's central question: To what degree do our childhood personalities and behaviours predict our adult...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
“A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski’s dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg.”—Kirkus Reviews “A delightful look at the inquiring mind.”—Library Journal In this eloquent volume, Jacob Bronowski, mathematician and scientist, presents a succinct introduction to the state of modern thinking about...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Origin of Language
The Professor Emerita at the University of Sydney makes a radical, compelling new account of the birth of language that puts women at the centre of the story. Conventional explanations for how humans became ‘the language animal’ (proposed by men such as Noam Chomsky, Steven Pinker and Yuval Noah Harari) focus on our need to cooperate to hunt, fight or...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Theories of Personality
Theories of Personality is the best book on theories ever published. The fourth edition is theory-oriented and has been reorganised into four parts examining theories of psychodynamics, personality structure, growth and perceived reality, and learning. This edition also includes new chapters on Eysenck, Bandura, Kelly, and social learning theories.Paperback$26799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Theories of Multiculturalism
Theories of Multiculturalism by George Crowder delves into one of the most controversial ideas in contemporary politics—multiculturalism. In this book, Crowder examines the leading responses to multiculturalism, presenting both supportive and critical perspectives found in the work of recent political theorists. The book offers a clear and accessible introduction to an array of thinkers who have engaged with multiculturalism. These...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Theories in Social Psychology
Theories in Social Psychology develops a deeper, more robust understanding of the theoretical framework underlying the field. Providing rich insights into the central theories and perspectives that continue to shape the discipline, this edited volume brings together a panel of distinguished scholars to address thirteen social psychological theories relating to social cognition, social comparison, social reinforcement, and self. In-depth critical...Paperback$12699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Theories of Infant Development
This volume provides an authoritative, up-to-date survey of theories of infant development. The contributors, who are all leaders in their field, present a wide range of theoretical perspectives on development in infancy. Each one provides advanced treatment of the issues and addresses current theoretical controversies in their area of expertise. The book is divided into three major sections, covering the...Paperback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Theoretical Writings
Alain Badiou is arguably the most original and influential philosopher working in France today. Working against the tide of postmodern orthodoxy, Badiou revitalises philosophy's perennial attempt to provide a systematic theory of truth. Theoretical Writings presents, in Badiou’s own words, ‘the theoretical core of [his] Philosophy’. Beginning with the controversial assertion that ontology is mathematics, the chapters guide the reader...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
The Ordinary Virtues
Winner of the Zócalo Book PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Combines powerful moral arguments with superb storytelling." —New Statesman What moral values do we hold in common? As globalization draws us together economically, are the things we value converging or diverging? These twin questions led Michael Ignatieff to embark on a three-year, eight-nation journey in search of...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Open Society and Its Enemies
A landmark defence of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defence of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. An immediate sensation when it was first...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The One
Alain Badiou's 1983–1984 lecture series on "the One" is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no "One": there is no fundamental unit of being; being...Hardback$24699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The One
Alain Badiou's 1983–1984 lecture series on the One is the earliest of his seminars that he has chosen to publish. It focuses on the philosophical concept of oneness in the works of Descartes, Plato, and Kant—a crucial foil for his signature metaphysical concept, the multiple. Badiou declares that there is no "One": there is no fundamental unit of being; being...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
The Old English Boethius
The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The Consolation of Philosophy. Condemned to death for treason around 525 CE, the Roman scholar Boethius turned to philosophy to transform his personal distress into a powerful meditation on fate, free will, and the human capacity for virtue in a flawed, fallen world....Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Object Relation
The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is right there, and like all other unfulfilled creatures, she is in search of what she can devour, quaerens quem devoret. What the child once found as a means of quashing the symbolic unfulfilment is what he may possibly find...Paperback$7700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
The Object Relation
The unfulfilled and unsatisfied mother around whom the child ascends the upward slope of his narcissism is someone real. She is right there, and like all other unfulfilled creatures, she is in search of what she can devour, quaerens quem devoret. What the child once found as a means of quashing the symbolic unfulfilment is what he may possibly find...Hardback$13299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy: After Kant
Presenting an unparalleled collection of primary texts in two flexible, portable volumes, The Norton Anthology of Western Philosophy also provides the rich editorial apparatus—introductions, headnotes, explanatory annotations, and bibliographies—for which Norton Anthologies have been known and trusted by professors and students alike for more than fifty years. A comprehensive history of both the European interpretive tradition in one volume and...Paperback$17199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Noumenal Republic
All human beings are born with equal dignity and possess equal rights. This statement appears normatively just as irrefutable as it is empirically refuted every day. But what are the grounds of this principle, and how should we think about its realisation? Its philosophical truth can best be explained by going back to (and beyond) Kant’s notion of a noumenal...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Nietzsche Reader
The Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche's writings, along with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche's life and importance, and introductions to his major works and philosophical ideas. Includes selections from all the major texts, including The Birth of Tragedy, The Gay Science, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, The Anti-Christ, and...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Nazi Doctors (Revised Edition)
In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in the Nazi genocide. Now updated with a new preface, The Nazi Doctors remains the definitive work on the Nazi medical atrocities, a chilling expose of the banality of evil at its epitome, and a sobering...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
The Neural Mind
Offers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics. What is an idea, and where does it come from? We experience thought as if it were abstract, but every thought is actually a physical thing, carried out by the neural systems of our brains. Thought does not occur neuron-by-neuron; it...Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Network Society
In The Network Society, Darin Barney provides a compelling examination of the social, political, and economic implications of network technologies and their application across a wide range of practices and institutions. Are we in the midst of a digital revolution? Have new information and communication technologies given birth to a new form of society, or do they reinforce and extend...Hardback$11999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
The Natural Law Reader
The Natural Law Reader features a selection of readings in metaphysics, jurisprudence, politics, and ethics that are all related to the classical Natural Law tradition in the modern world. Features a concise presentation of the natural law position that offers the reader a focal point for discussion of ancient and contemporary ideas in the natural law tradition. Draws upon the...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
The Myths We Live By
In this witty and mischievous book, philosopher Peter Cave dissects the most controversial disputes today and uses philosophical argument to reveal that many issues are less straightforward than we'd like to believe. Leaving no sacred cow standing, Cave uses ingenious stories and examples to challenge our most strongly held assumptions. Is democracy inherently a good thing? What is the basis...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Mystery of Things
"Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in our world; at the same time it recognises and honours the mystery in things too." In this collection, A.C. Grayling extends the range of his previous two books to show how much understanding people can gain about themselves and their world...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Myth of Closure
The COVID-19 pandemic has left many of us haunted by feelings of anxiety, despair, and even anger. In this book, pioneering therapist Pauline Boss identifies these vague feelings of distress as caused by ambiguous loss—losses that remain unclear and hard to pin down, and thus have no closure. Collectively, the world is grieving as the pandemic continues to change our...Hardback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Mystery of Existence
This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting question of all: why is anything here—or anything anywhere? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not nothing? It includes the thoughts of dozens of luminaries from Plato and...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Murder of Professor Schlick
*New Statesman, Books of the Year *FiveBooks, One of Nigel Warburton's Best Philosophy Books of 2020 On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
The Mother's Hands: Desire, Fantasy and the Inheritance of the Maternal
In this book, the bestselling author and psychoanalyst Massimo Recalcati offers a fundamental re-examination of what being a mother means today, in a world where new social and sexual freedoms mean that motherhood is no longer the sole destiny of women. Questioning the belief that a mother’s love is natural and unconditional, he paints a more complex and troubling picture...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Moral Powers
A milestone in the study of value in human life and thought, written by one of the world’s preeminent living philosophers. The Moral Powers: A Study of Human Nature is a philosophical investigation of the moral potentialities and sensibilities of human beings, of the meaning of human life, and of the place of death in life. It is an essay...Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
The Moral Fool
Justice, equality, and righteousness—these are some of our greatest moral convictions. Yet in times of social conflict, morals can become rigid, making religious war, ethnic cleansing, and political purges possible. Morality, therefore, can be viewed as pathology—a rhetorical, psychological, and social tool that is used and abused as a weapon. An expert on Eastern philosophies and social systems theory, Hans-Georg...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
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