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  • The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy
    A shorter and less technical treatment of its subject than the author's acclaimed Buddhism As Philosophy (second edition, Hackett, 2021), Mark Siderits's The Buddha's Teachings As Philosophy explores three different systems of thought that arose from core claims of the Buddha. By detailing and critically examining key arguments made by the Buddha and developed by later Buddhist philosophers, Siderits investigates...
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  • The Body Never Lies
    An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world's leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the experiences of her patients along with the biographical stories of literary giants such as Virginia Woolf, Franz Kafka, and Marcel Proust, Miller...
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  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Plato
    This essential reference text on the life, thought, and writings of Plato uses over 160 short, accessible articles to cover a complete range of topics for both the first-time student and seasoned scholar of Plato and ancient philosophy. It is organised into five parts illuminating Plato’s life, the whole of the Dialogues attributed to him, the Dialogues’ literary features, the...
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  • The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability
    The Bloomsbury Guide to Philosophy of Disability is a revolutionary collection encompassing the most innovative and insurgent work in philosophy of disability. Edited and anthologised by disabled philosopher Shelley Lynn Tremain, this book challenges how disability has historically been represented and understood in philosophy. It critically undermines the detrimental assumptions that various subfields of philosophy produce, resists the institutionalised ableism...
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  • The Bloomsbury Companion to Philosophy of Psychiatry
    This book explores the central questions and themes lying at the heart of a vibrant area of philosophical inquiry. Aligning core issues in psychiatry with traditional philosophical areas, it presents a focused overview of the historical and contemporary problems dominating the philosophy of psychiatry. Beginning with an introduction to philosophy of psychiatry, the book addresses what psychiatry is and distinguishes...
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  • The Blackwell Guide to the Modern Philosophers
    This guide brings together eighteen original interpretations of the modern philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. The contributors succeed brilliantly in placing their figures within a rich historical, cultural, and philosophical context, noting some of the important ways in which their ideas and arguments were shaped by the intellectual currents of the time, and how they in turn shaped subsequent philosophical...
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  • The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic
    The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic offers a definitive introduction to twenty core areas of philosophical logic. It covers a wide range of topics including classical logic, modal logic, and alternative logics. This volume also provides close examinations of key logical concepts, making it an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand the foundational aspects of philosophical logic.
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  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
    The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy “The style is fresh and engaging, and it gives a broad and accurate picture of the western philosophical tradition. It is a pleasure to browse in, even if one is not looking for an answer to a particular question.”David Pears “Its entries manage to avoid the obscurities of an exaggerated brevity without stretching themselves...
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  • The Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory
    Building on the strengths of the highly successful first edition, the extensively updated Blackwell Guide to Ethical Theory presents a complete state-of-the-art survey, written by an international team of leading moral philosophers. This new edition of the successful and highly regarded Guide is now reorganised and updated with the addition of significant new material. It includes 21 essays written by...
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  • The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism
    The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism “This is a terrific volume … by a long way, the best currently available anthology on dualism, and a worthy addition to Blackwell’s distinguished series of Companions.” Tim Crane, Central European University “A major contribution to an ongoing transformation of analytic philosophy of mind.” Howard Robinson, Central European University “This high quality volume offers...
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  • The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness
    Updated and revised, the highly-anticipated second edition of The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness offers a collection of readings that together represent the most thorough and comprehensive survey of the nature of consciousness available today. Features updates to scientific chapters reflecting the latest research in the field. Includes 18 new theoretical, empirical, and methodological chapters covering integrated information theory, renewed interest...
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  • The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder
    Contrary to popular belief, borderline personality disorder is NOT a life sentence! If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD), you already know how painful it can be. But take heart — recovery is possible! The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder offers advice from someone who's been there and speaks from inside BPD, with empathy, care, and insight. Author...
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  • The Betrayal of Substance
    Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit exerts a unique influence on contemporary philosophy. Major figures such as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Judith Butler were shaped in large part through their engagement with Hegel's challenging masterwork. It unfolds a grand narrative of the ways of thinking and acting that comprise human experience. Along the way, Hegel seeks to incorporate all...
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  • The Being Human Collection
    Written by a specialist in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, the Being Human series features four narratives that delve into the complexities of our shared human experience. As humans, we are all prone to psychological struggle. Life is full of challenges, hardships, and emotional pain. The Being Human series seeks to equip readers with the psychological resilience and flexibility to live...
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  • The Beginning of Knowledge
    The Beginning of Knowledge brings together almost all of Gadamer’s essays on the Presocratics. In each of the essays, Gadamer discusses the origins of knowledge in the western philosophical tradition. Beginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments, he moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists and the Presocratic cosmologists. In the final two essays,...
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  • The Beginning of Philosophy
    In The Beginning of Philosophy, Gadamer explores the layers of interpretation and misinterpretation that have built up over 2500 years of Presocratic scholarship. Using Plato and Aristotle as his starting point, his analysis moves effortlessly from Simplicius and Diogenes Laertius to the 19th-century German historicists, right through to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger. Gadamer shows us how some of the earliest...
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  • The Bataille Reader
    Since the publication in France of his Oeuvres Completes in the mid-1970s, the breadth of Bataille's writing and influence has become increasingly apparent across the disciplines in, for example, the fields of literature, art, art history, philosophy, critical theory, sociology, economics, and anthropology. He is now held by many to be one of the most profound thinkers of the century,...
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  • The Avengers and Philosophy
    An engaging look at the philosophical underpinnings of Earth's Mightiest Heroes Avengers assemble! Tackling intriguing dilemmas and issues that no single great philosopher can withstand, this powerful book enlists the brainpower of an A-list team of history's most prominent thinkers to explore the themes behind the action of Marvel Comics' all-star superhero team. Arms you with new insights into the...
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  • The Atlas of Unusual Languages
    We communicate through the spoken and written word, and language has evolved over the centuries. Many languages have survived, although only in small pockets throughout the world. This book explores a selection of those languages and some that have now been lost forever. Selection of languages included: Islands of Language Isolates Basque language, Spain/France Ainu, Japan/Russia Burushaski, Pakistan Huave language,...
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  • The Art of War
    The Art of War is perhaps the most influential book of strategy in the world today. This classical Chinese text is a penetrating study of organisations in conflict. Compiled over two thousand years ago by Sun Tzu, a mysterious Chinese warrior-philosopher, the text addresses competition and conflict on every level from the interpersonal to the international. This unique volume includes...
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  • The Art of War
    Sun Tzu's ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and unexpected lessons...
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  • The Art of Wandering
    The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical. From Rousseau and De Quincey to Virginia Woolf and Werner Herzog, this seemingly innocuous activity has inspired a...
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  • The Art of Verbal Warfare
    We use salty or artful language to win arguments, slander, cheat, and bully, as well as to express feelings of joy or frustration by swearing or "blowing off steam." Rik Smits delves into the magic of oaths and profanity, art and advertising, the lure of fake news and propaganda, as well as invective and off-colour jokes the world over. This...
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  • The Art of Reasoning
    Students learn logic by practicing it—by working through problems, analysing existing arguments, and constructing their own arguments in plain language and symbolic notation. The Art of Reasoning not only introduces the principles of critical thinking and logic in a clear, accessible, and logical manner—thus practicing what it preaches—but it also provides ample opportunity for students to hone their skills and...
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  • The Art of Living
    For much of its history, philosophy was not merely a theoretical discipline but a way of life, an "art of living." This practical aspect of philosophy has been much less dominant in modernity than it was in ancient Greece and Rome, when philosophers of all stripes kept returning to Socrates as a model for living. The idea of philosophy as...
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  • The Art Of Listening
    'It is a beautiful book to read; it is not about psychoanalytic technique, but evidence of his warm empathy and humanistic view of his patients' - Betty Gould, Self & Society Though thought of as a brilliant social commentator, Erich Fromm was first and foremost one of the great psychoanalysts of our time. These posthumous writings combine two aspects of...
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  • The Art of C. G. Jung
    A lavishly illustrated volume of C.G. Jung’s visual work, from drawing to painting to sculpture. The landmark publication of C.G. Jung’s The Red Book spurred enormous interest in Jung not just as a founding figure in modern psychology, but also as a creative man with tremendous figurative and ornamental flair and a vibrant eye for colour. Expanding beyond that singular...
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  • The Art of Chinese Philosophy
    A smart and accessible introduction to the most important works of ancient Chinese philosophy—the Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi. The Art of Chinese Philosophy provides an unmatched introduction to eight of the most important works of classical Chinese philosophy. Combining accessibility with the latest scholarship, Paul Goldin, one of the world's leading authorities...
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  • The Art of Being Posthuman
    This book offers a comprehensive reflection on the existential condition of the 21st century. A visionary introduction to existential posthumanism, it takes the form of eight meditations. This posthuman journey of self-inquiry engages with a wide range of knowledge and wisdom: from the Paleolithic times to the futures of radical life extension, from multi-species evolutions to the rights of Nature,...
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  • The Archaeology of Mind
    What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioural and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach—which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviours that all...
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  • The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2
    An in-depth history of the linguistic turn in analytic philosophy, from a leading philosopher of language. This is the second of five volumes of a definitive history of analytic philosophy from the invention of modern logic in 1879 to the end of the twentieth century. The Analytic Tradition in Philosophy, Volume 2 by Scott Soames, a leading philosopher of language...
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  • The Anatomy of Grief
    An original, authoritative guide to the impact of grief on the brain, the heart, and the body of the bereaved. Dorothy Holinger's exploration of the contours of grief is wise, moving, thought-provoking, and, best of all, extraordinarily helpful. Beautifully written and humane, it is a balm for the bereaved.—Barry Bearak, Pulitzer Prize winner for international reporting What’s central for Holinger...
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  • The Analects
    A fresh translation of one of the most recognised texts of the premodern world: The Analects is a must-read for those interested in China's past, present, and future. This new translation by renowned East Asian scholar Moss Roberts offers a fresh interpretation of this classic work, sharpening and clarifying Confucius's positions on ethics, politics, and social organisation. While no new...
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  • The Americans and Philosophy
    The Americans, a dark, tense, action thriller with comic touches, has been hailed by many critics as currently the best show on television. The story, created by a former CIA spy, centres on two Soviet agents posing as an ordinary American couple, Philip and Elizabeth Jennings, in 1980s Washington DC. They have two teenage children who know nothing of their...
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  • The American Mind
    In a book written out of a passionate belief in the staying powers of the democratic principles, a noted historian has written a major work that may be described as an interpretation of American thought and character since the 1880s. "Impressive in its inclusive sweep." - Joseph Wood Krutch, New York Times
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  • The Ahuman Manifesto
    We are in the midst of a growing ecological crisis. Developing technologies and cultural interventions are throwing the status of "human" into question. It is against this context that Patricia MacCormack delivers her expert justification for the “ahuman”. An alternative to “posthuman” thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn’t dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces...
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  • The Age of Reform, 1250-1550
    Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges. The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In The Age of Reform, 1250-1550, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting...
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  • The Adventure Of English
    English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing, and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs through the heart of world finance, medicine, and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in its early years....
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  • The Accursed Share
    The three volumes of The Accursed Share address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. The first volume, the only one published before Bataille's death, treated this paradox in economic terms, showing that "it is not necessity but its...
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  • The Abuse of Casuistry
    In this engaging study, the authors put casuistry into its historical context, tracing the origin of moral reasoning in antiquity, its peak during the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, and its subsequent fall into disrepute from the mid-seventeenth century.
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  • Terrorist Minds
    What makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism change someone? And how can people become deradicalised? John Horgan—one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of terrorism—takes readers on a globe-spanning journey into the terrorist mindset. Drawing on groundbreaking personal interviews as well...
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  • Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism
    Undoubtedly, the events of September 11, 2001, served as a wake-up call to the scourge of global terrorism facing twenty-first-century societies. But was the attack on the World Trade Center a crime or an act of war? Is seemingly indiscriminate violence inflicted on civilians ever morally justified? And should society's response always be in kind—with blind, destructive violence? For that...
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  • Self-Censorship
    There is no such thing as free, unconstrained speech. Laws and constitutions may protect us from the state when we speak our minds. But the state is just one possible constraint. Glenn Loury, one of America’s most outspoken and important intellectuals, provides a provocative and dazzling analysis of the powerful social forces that can prevent speakers from voicing unpopular views...
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  • Terminator and Philosophy
    Are cyborgs our friends or our enemies? Was it morally right for Skynet to nuke us? Is John Connor free to choose to defend humanity, or not? Is Judgment Day inevitable? The Terminator series is one of the most popular sci-fi franchises ever created, captivating millions with its edgy depiction of the struggle of humankind for survival against its own...
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  • Telling Lies
    In this revised edition, Paul Ekman, a renowned expert in emotions research and nonverbal communication, adds a new chapter to present his latest research on his groundbreaking inquiry into lying and the methods for uncovering lies. Ekman has figured out the most important behavioural clues to deceit; he has developed a one-hour self-instructional programme that trains people to observe and...
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  • Technology and Values
    This anthology features essays and book excerpts on technology and values written by preeminent figures in the field from the early 20th century to the present. It offers an in-depth range of readings on important applied issues in technology as well. Useful in addressing questions on philosophy, sociology, and theory of technology Includes wide-ranging coverage on metaphysics, ethics, and politics,...
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  • Technic and Magic
    We take for granted that only certain kinds of things exist – electrons but not angels, passports but not nymphs. This is what we understand as ‘reality’. But in fact, ‘reality’ varies with each era of the world, in turn shaping the field of what is possible to do, think, and imagine. Our contemporary age has embraced a troubling and...
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  • Teaching Psychology
    A guide to an evidence-based approach for teaching college-level psychology courses Teaching Psychology offers an evidence-based, student-centred approach that is filled with suggestions, ideas, and practices for teaching college-level courses in ways that contribute to student success. The authors draw on current scientific studies of learning, memory, and development, with specific emphasis on classroom studies. They offer practical advice for...
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  • Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording
    A lively and thorough exploration of the aesthetic, metaphysical, ethical, political, and legal implications of Taylor Swift’s ongoing project of re-recording her first six studio albums. When Taylor Swift’s record label was sold in 2019, the six studio albums she recorded for them came under the control of a person with whom she has had years of bad blood: Kanye...
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  • Taoist Yoga
    Taoist Yoga by Lu K'uan Yu offers a comprehensive course of Taoist yoga, providing readers with detailed instructions. In this classic work, the teachings and guidance of ancient enlightened patriarchs and masters are translated here for the first time.
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  • Taste
    Taste is a lyric meditation on one of our five senses, which we often take for granted. Structured as a series of "small bites," the book considers the ways that we ingest the world, how we come to know ourselves and others through the daily act of tasting. Through flavorful explorations of the sweet, the sour, the salty, the bitter,...
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  • Talking Cure
    An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our...
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  • Talking Cure
    An invigorating exploration of the pleasures and social benefits of conversation Talking Cure is a timely and enticing excursion into the art of good conversation. Paula Marantz Cohen reveals how conversation connects us in ways that social media never can and explains why simply talking to each other freely and without guile may be the cure to what ails our...
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  • Surplus-Enjoyment
    Contemporary life is defined by excess. There must always be more; there is never enough. We need a surplus to what we need to be able to truly enjoy what we have. Slavoj Žižek’s guide to surplus (and why it’s enjoyable) begins by arguing that what is surplus to our needs is by its very nature unsubstantial and unnecessary. But,...
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  • Surfaces and Essences
    Is there one central mechanism upon which all human thinking rests? Cognitive scientists Douglas Hofstadter and Emmanuel Sander argue that there is. At this core is our incessant proclivity to take what we perceive, to abstract it, and to find resemblances to prior experiences—in other words, our ability to make analogies. In Surfaces and Essences, Hofstadter and Sander show how...
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  • Superhumanity
    Superhumanity seeks to explore and challenge our understanding of "design" by engaging with and departing from the concept of the "self." This volume brings together more than fifty essays by leading scientists, artists, architects, designers, philosophers, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists, probing the idea that we are and always have been continuously reshaped by the artifacts we shape.
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  • Summa Philosophica
    Next to the Socratic Method, the best method for organising a logical debate over a controversial philosophical or theological issue is the method St. Thomas Aquinas uses in the Summa Theologiae. As the charm of the Socratic dialogue is its dramatic length, uncertainty, and the psychological dimension of a clash between live characters, the charm of the Summa method is...
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  • Subaltern Social Groups
    Antonio Gramsci is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker in Western Marxism. Among the most central aspects of his enduring intellectual legacy is the concept of subalternity. Developed in the work of scholars such as Gayatri Spivak and Ranajit Guha, subalternity has been extraordinarily influential across fields of inquiry stretching from cultural studies, literary theory, and postcolonial criticism...
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  • Studiolo
    A brief study of select Western art from Italy's foremost philosopher. In Renaissance palaces, the studiolo was a small room to which the prince withdrew to meditate or read, surrounded by paintings he particularly loved. This book is a kind of studiolo for its author, Giorgio Agamben, as he turns his philosophical lens on the world of Western art. Studiolo...
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  • Studies in Empirical Philosophy
    Studies in Empirical Philosophy was published in 1962 shortly after Anderson's death and had been prepared by him to include most of his published articles from the Australasian Journal of Philosophy and Psychology. It also includes a couple of articles written especially for the book. It remains the main published source of material on Anderson's systematic philosophy. John Passmore has...
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  • Stress and Freedom
    In this short book, Peter Sloterdijk offers a genealogy of the concept of freedom from Ancient Greece to the present day. This genealogy is part of a broader theory of the large political body, according to which Sloterdijk argues that political communities arise in response to a form of anxiety or stress. Through a highly original reading of Rousseau’s late...
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  • Straight Sex
    Is heterosexual sex inherently damaging to women? Is it possible for women to enjoy sensuality and pleasure with men that does not increase male power? Lynne Segal's unflinching examination of feminist thinking on sexuality over the past twenty-five years tackles these questions head on. Only two decades ago, politically aware women often declared themselves both sexual liberationists and feminists—their right...
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  • Storythinking
    Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan—and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business proposal, and technological breakthrough—starts with "what if?" Linking causes to effects, considering hypotheticals and counterfactuals, asking how other people will react: these are the essence of narrative. So why do we keep overlooking story's importance to intelligence in favour...
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  • Stop Thief!
    Many contemporary philosophers – including Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, and Giorgio Agamben – ascribe an ethical or political value to anarchy, but none ever called themselves an “anarchist.” It is as if anarchism were unmentionable and had to be concealed, even though its critique of domination and of government is poached by the philosophers. Stop Thief! calls out the plundering...
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  • Stop Being Reasonable
    SHORTLISTED for Australian Book Design Awards 2020Best Designed Autobiography/Biography/Memoir Nonfiction Cover What if you're not who you think you are? What if you don't really know the people closest to you? And what if your most deeply-held beliefs turn out to be... wrong? In Stop Being Reasonable, philosopher Eleanor Gordon-Smith tells gripping true stories that show the limits of human...
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  • Stoic Wisdom
    Reflect on timeless wisdom that's as meaningful today as it was thousands of years ago. "It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." This advice from Roman philosopher Epictetus rings true in our modern world, providing a stalwart pillar of guidance in a complex world. Stoic Wisdom offers the insight of the Stoic philosophers...
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  • Stoicism and the Art of Happiness
    The Stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition – insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 301 BC, endured as an active movement for almost 500 years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as Cicero, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius helped create...
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  • Still Moving Field Guide
    The companion to the bestselling book on leading change, Still Moving Still Moving Field Guide is a companion to the bestselling Still Moving: How to Lead Mindful Change. Designed as a practical resource, the Field Guide takes the reader on a journey to hone their leadership skills in order to lead change with confidence. Step by step, readers will progress...
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  • States of Denial
    Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognise their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments...
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  • State of Exception
    Two months after the attacks of 9/11, the Bush administration, in the midst of what it perceived to be a state of emergency, authorised the indefinite detention of noncitizens suspected of terrorist activities and their subsequent trials by a military commission. Here, distinguished Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben uses such circumstances to argue that this unusual extension of power, or state...
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  • Stalking and Psychosexual Obsession
    The recent increased focus on high-profile stalking cases has led to the raising of public awareness and professional concern. However, only recently has there been substantial scientific research into the area. Stalking and Psychosexual Obsession represents a showcase of contemporary research and theory never before assembled in one book. The contributions, which are drawn from the diverse spheres of psychology,...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Welcome to our Philosophy & Psychology section, where profound questions meet insightful answers. If you’re curious about the nature of existence, the workings of the mind, or the foundations of human behavior, this collection offers a wide range of books to deepen your understanding.

Discover classic works from great philosophers, contemporary explorations of ethics, logic, and metaphysics, and engaging texts that bridge philosophy with modern psychology. Whether you’re interested in the philosophical underpinnings of human thought or the psychological theories that explain why we think, feel, and act the way we do, there’s something here for every inquiring mind.

From thought-provoking essays and groundbreaking studies to accessible introductions and comprehensive guides, our Philosophy & Psychology books invite you to explore new ideas and perspectives. Dive in and start your journey of self-discovery and reflection today.