Political Ethics
A comprehensive introduction to contemporary political ethics. What is the relationship between politics and morality? May politicians bend moral constraints in the name of political necessity? Is it always wrong for leaders to lie? How much political compromise is too much (or too little)? In Political Ethics, some of the world's leading thinkers in politics, philosophy, and related fields offer...Hardback$17000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Political Ethics
A comprehensive introduction to contemporary political ethics. What is the relationship between politics and morality? May politicians bend moral constraints in the name of political necessity? Is it always wrong for leaders to lie? How much political compromise is too much (or too little)? In Political Ethics, some of the world's leading thinkers in politics, philosophy, and related fields offer...Paperback$7499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Pocket Philosophy: Schopenhauer's Porcupine
Pocket Philosophy: Schopenhauer's Porcupine explores the thoughts of Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860), a German philosopher known for his pessimistic philosophy. Schopenhauer was deeply cynical of love and the desire for children, believing that humans are merely animals—albeit far more unhappy due to our self-awareness. The porcupine dilemma serves as a metaphor for the challenges of human intimacy. Schopenhauer posited that, despite...Hardback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Pocket Philosophy: Epictetus' Raven
Epictetus (c. 50-c. 135 AD) was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He believed that philosophy should be a way of life and not just a theoretical study. In this story, Epictetus is reminding us to focus only on what we can control—our own actions—and not spend time worrying about what we can't control. Happiness can only be achieved when we accept...Hardback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Pleasure Erased
The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of clitoral...Hardback$8399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Pleasure Erased
The clitoris was absent in anatomy books, in paintings and sculptures, absent in spirit and even body; it has long been the organ of erased pleasure. We assume that this oversight has been repaired in our times: today, the clitoris is not forgotten but honoured. Conferences, books, manifestos, and works of art are all devoted to it. The autonomy of...Paperback$8200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Plato's Republic
Plato's Republic is one of the most well-known and widely discussed texts in the history of philosophy, but how might we get to the heart of this work today, 2500 years after it was originally composed? Alain Badiou invents a new genre in order to breathe fresh life into Plato's text and restore its universality. Rather than producing yet another...Hardback$10799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Playing Dead
Lessons learned from tuning into the mind by celebrated actor, author, and podcaster Robert Sheehan. 'A wit and wisdom that harkens back to an age of enlightenment' - RON PERLMAN, ACTOR 'A meditation guide from a man with a mind most unlikely to be conducive to meditation' - MANCHÁN MAGAN, WRITER AND BROADCASTER 'In this beautifully written story, Robert Sheehan...Hardback$4000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 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
Platonic Theology
The 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...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Plato Goes to China
The surprising story of how Greek classics are being pressed into use in contemporary China to support the regime's political agenda. As improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today's China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are interpreting—or is it misinterpreting?—the Greek classics. In Plato Goes to...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the HumanitiesWinner of the Istvan Hont Book Prize An ambitious reinterpretation and defence of Plato's basic enterprise and influence, arguing that the power of his myths was central to the founding of philosophical rationalism. Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought examines Plato's use of myths—such as the Myth of Metals...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Plato and the Tyrant
Plato is one of history's most influential thinkers, the "sublime philosopher" whose writings remain foundational to Western culture. He is known for the brilliant dialogues in which he depicted his teacher, Socrates, discussing ethical truths with prominent citizens of Athens. Yet the image we have of Plato—an ethereal figure far removed from society and politics, who conjured abstract ideas in...Hardback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar
Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Crammed with over one hundred jokes and graced by the occasional cartoon, written in a Marxist style (Groucho's, not...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Plants in Place
Plants are commonly considered immobile, in contrast to humans and other animals. But vegetal existence involves many place-based forms of change: stems growing upward, roots spreading outward, fronds unfurling in response to sunlight, seeds traveling across wide distances, and other intricate relationships with the surrounding world. How do plants as sessile, growing, decaying, and metamorphosing beings shape the places they...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Plain Life
These days, it's easy to get the impression that people are really very anxious. Who? you ask. Well, people you hear about. People who tell you they are. Friends. Lovers. Acquaintances. Colleagues. The Youth. The term is around and people are applying it to themselves, or having it applied to them, willy-nilly. What would it mean to be able to...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Placita
An ancient compendium of ancient philosophy. Placita (Tenets), generally attributed to an author named Aëtius and dating from the late first or early second century AD, was a compendium setting out in summary fashion the principal doctrines and opinions of philosophers and philosophical schools in response to questions and topics in the domain of natural philosophy. Now lost, Placita can...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship
Over the fourteen centuries of its existence, Islamic scholarship has produced numerous individuals who have acquired broad knowledge and deep insight. Pioneers of Islamic Scholarship summarises the thought of ten key personalities whose influence encompasses the vast majority of Muslims living today. It also describes their life, personality, and the civilisation in which they lived.Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Philosophy's Future
Philosophy’s Future: The Problem of Philosophical Progress diagnoses the state of philosophy as an academic discipline and calls it to account, inviting further reflection and dialogue on its cultural value and capacity for future evolution. Offers the most up-to-date treatment of the intellectual and cultural value of contemporary philosophy from a wide range of perspectives. Features contributions from distinguished philosophers...Paperback$10700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Philosophy Smackdown
From its carnival origins to its current status as a global phenomenon, pro wrestling has a unique presence in popular culture. Part sport and part theatre, the impressive antics of its larger-than-life characters have captured the imaginations of generations of fans and prompted endless speculation about behind-the-scenes machinations. Philosophy Smackdown is a study of pro wrestling as distinctive as pro...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy's Big Questions
Certain questions have recurred throughout the history of philosophy. They are the big questions about happiness and the good life, the limits of knowledge, the ultimate structure of reality, the nature of consciousness, the relation between causality and free will, the pervasiveness of suffering, and the conditions for a just and flourishing society. Thinkers in different cultures across the ages...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
An updated and expanded edition of the classic introduction to PPE - philosophy, politics, and economics - coauthored by one of the field's pioneers. Philosophy, Politics, and Economics offers a complete introduction to the fundamental tools and concepts of analysis that PPE students need to study social and political issues. This fully updated and expanded edition examines the core methodologies...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Philosophy of the Medium
Taking the principle of the ‘disappearance of the medium’ into new territory, Philosophy of the Medium by John Lechte questions the pervasive influence of the principle that the ‘medium is the message’. Bold and expansive, this book argues that we have for too long focused on the technical specificities of media, when we should have been focusing on what it...Paperback$13900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Philosophy of Science
By combining excerpts from key historical writings with commentary by experts, Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology provides a comprehensive history of the philosophy of science from ancient to modern times. Philosophy of Science: An Historical Anthology offers: A comprehensive history of the philosophy of science, from antiquity up to the 20th century. Extensive commentary by scholars putting the selected...Paperback$7899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy of Physics
A sophisticated and original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics from one of the world's leading philosophers of physics. In this book, Tim Maudlin, one of the world's leading philosophers of physics, offers a sophisticated, original introduction to the philosophy of quantum mechanics. The briefest, clearest, and most refined account of his influential approach to the subject, the book...Hardback$10500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Philosophy of Painting
What can philosophy reveal about painting and how might it deepen our understanding of this enduring art form? Philosophy of Painting investigates the complex relationship between the painted surface and the depicted subject, opening up current debates to address questions concerning the historicality of art. Embracing contemporary painting, it examines topics such as the post-medium condition and the digital divide,...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy of Modern Music
In this classic work of music theory, Adorno critiques two major composers, Arnold Schoenberg and Igor Stravinsky, whom he presents as dialectically opposed to one another in terms of their musical styles, techniques, and directions. Adorno’s readings, especially of Schoenberg, continue to cause controversy and disagreement among musicians, music lovers, and philosophers today. As always with Adorno, a wide range...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Philosophy of Mind and Cognition
David Braddon-Mitchell and Frank Jackson's popular introduction to the philosophy of mind and cognition is now available in a fully revised and updated edition. Philosophy of Mind and Cognition ensures that the most recent developments in the philosophy of mind and cognitive science are brought together into a coherent, accessible whole. The revisions respond to feedback from students and teachers,...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Philosophy of Computer Science
A unique resource exploring the nature of computers and computing, and their relationships to the world. Philosophy of Computer Science is a university-level textbook designed to guide readers through an array of topics at the intersection of philosophy and computer science. Accessible to students from either discipline, or complete beginners to both, the text brings readers up to speed on...Paperback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy of Action
The Philosophy of Action: An Anthology is an authoritative collection of key work by top scholars, arranged thematically and accompanied by expert introductions written by the editors. This unique collection brings together a selection of the most influential essays from the 1960s to the present day. An invaluable collection that brings together a selection of the most important classic and...Paperback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy in Minutes
Philosophy in Minutes distils 200 of the most important philosophical ideas into easily digestible, bite-sized sections. The core information for every topic - including debates such as the role of philosophy in science and religion, key thinkers from Aristotle to Marx, and introductions to morality and ethics - is explained in straightforward language, using illustrations to make the concepts easy...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy for Non-Philosophers
In 1980, at the end of the most intensely political period of his work and life, Louis Althusser penned Philosophy for Non-philosophers. Available here for the first time in English, Philosophy for Non-philosophers constitutes a rigorous and engaged attempt to address a wide reading public unfamiliar with Althusser’s project. As such, the work is a concentration of the most fundamental...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy for Life: Teach Yourself
Philosophy for Life is the definitive introduction to the history of Western thought, but more than that, it is a toolkit for using philosophy in your daily life. As you read, you will develop your own critical and creative thinking, exploring the key ideas in Western Philosophy and the arguments that continue to shape our world. You will discover what...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy En Noir
Thought necessarily reflects the times. Following the tragedy of the Holocaust, this fact became ever more clear. And it may be the reason postwar philosophical texts are so difficult to understand, since they confront incomprehensibly traumatic experiences. In this first English-language translation of any of his books, Miroslav Petříček—one of the most influential and erudite Czech philosophers, and a student...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy Between the Lines
Philosophical esotericism—the practice of communicating one's unorthodox thoughts "between the lines"—was a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous Encyclopédie of Diderot, for instance, not only discusses this practice in over twenty different articles, but admits to employing it itself. The history of Western thought contains hundreds of such statements by major philosophers testifying to the...Hardback$18899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy as Dialogue
A collection of Hilary Putnam's stimulating, incisive responses to such varied and eminent thinkers as Richard Rorty, Jürgen Habermas, Noam Chomsky, Martha Nussbaum, W. V. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars, John McDowell, and Cornel West. Hilary Putnam (1926–2016) was renowned—sometimes even infamous—for changing his philosophical positions over the course of his long and much-admired career. This collection of essays, the first of...Hardback$9099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy as a Way of Life
In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of the contemporary scholarly world. Philosophy as a Way of Life illustrates how the articulation...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Philosophy as a Way of Life
In this first ever introduction to philosophy as a way of life in the Western tradition, Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure take us through the history of the idea from Socrates and Plato, via the medievals, Renaissance and Enlightenment thinkers, to Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, Foucault and Hadot. They examine the kinds of practical exercises each thinker recommended to transform their...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy and Vulnerability
Issues surrounding precarity, debility, and vulnerability are now of central concern to philosophers as we try to navigate an increasingly uncertain world. Matthew R. McLennan delves into these subjects enthusiastically and sensitively, presenting a vision of the discipline of philosophy which is grounded in real, lived experience. Developing an invigorating, if at times painful, sense of the finitude and fragility...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophy and Real Politics
Many contemporary political thinkers are gripped by the belief that their task is to develop an ideal theory of rights or justice for guiding and judging political actions. But in Philosophy and Real Politics, Raymond Geuss argues that philosophers should first try to understand why real political actors behave as they actually do. Far from being applied ethics, politics is...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Philosophy and Sociology: 1960
In summer 1960, Adorno gave the first of a series of lectures devoted to the relation between sociology and philosophy. One of his central concerns was to dispel the notion, erroneous in his view, that these were two incompatible disciplines, radically opposed in their methods and aims, a notion that was shared by many. While some sociologists were inclined to...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Philosophy and Art in Southeast Asia
Guiding you through the topics that shape aesthetics and the philosophy of art, this introduction explores truth, meaning, taste, aesthetic merit and judgement, creativity and the possibility of machine art, and morality and the possibility of immoral art. Each chapter offers a wealth of examples from Southeast Asia, including the Nanyang style of painting, the mooi indie genre and its...Paperback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Philosophy: A Complete Introduction: Teach Yourself
Sharon Kaye, a Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University, is the perfect choice to write this essential guide, which covers everything you need to succeed at studying philosophy. It outlines the basics in clear jargon-free English, provides added-value features like summaries of key books, and even contains lists of questions that students might be asked in philosophy seminars or...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Philosophy
Philosophy: a Beginner's Guide is unique in its approach to introducing philosophy. Its succinct and self-contained chapters make this jargon-free text accessible to people who have had little or no previous contact with philosophy.Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Philosophy
Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions—what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from?—but philosophy is the interpreter we turn to verify it all. We need it to make sense of the simplest maths and the most esoteric of poetry, and it has even created a science of information itself. We begin...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Philosophy
In Philosophy: Principles and Problems, Roger Scruton shares the ideas and arguments which initially attracted him to the subject and those which have engaged his attention throughout his career. Through discussions of major philosophers, Kant and Wittgenstein in particular, he attempts to show how philosophy is relevant to life in the modern world. The topics he discusses range from the...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Philosophical Writings: Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophical Writings, part of the German Library Series, contains essential portions of the theses that make Nietzsche the most controversial of philosophers. It includes: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science, Untimely Meditations, Human, All too Human, and other works. Included are Preface to Richard Wagner, On Truth and Falsity in their Extramortal Sense, The History...Paperback$8799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
Philosophical Writings: Immanuel Kant
The selections in this anthology have been chosen to illustrate the main branches of Kant's philosophy: his theory of knowledge expounded in Critique of Pure Reason, his ethics represented by Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals, his aesthetics in Critique of Judgement, and his theory of enlightenment in On History. (For other texts on German Philosophy see vols. 5, 23,...Paperback$8799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Philosophical Posthumanism
The notion of ‘the human’ is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term ‘posthuman’ provides an alternative. The philosophical landscape which has developed as a response to the crisis of the human includes several movements, such as: Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Antihumanism, and...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Philosophical Health
What does it mean to become a sound mind in a healthy body and harmonious environment? This engaging introduction to the new field of philosophical health, written by its forerunner, presents the core tenets of the discipline. It explains in clear and elegant prose how a reflexive practice of sense-making can create a eudynamic balance between six existential senses: body,...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Philosophical Fragments as the Poetry of Thinking
Innovatively combining philosophical inquiry and aphoristic writing, this study presents a bold new interpretation of philosophical poetics. Exploring fragments, both thematically and formally, Luke Fischer situates the form as uniquely positioned between philosophy and poetry. Like poetry, fragments condense insights into few words, employ striking metaphors that draw intuitive connections, and make space for creative interpretation. Contrasting with the logical...Hardback$18700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Philosophical and Political Writings: Martin Heidegger
Here is the essential Heidegger, a most controversial figure. Following a cogent introduction by Manfred Stassen, this collection is divided into three sections: The Man - Politics and Ideology; The Method - Philosophy from Phenomenology to "Thanking"; and The Message - From "Being" to "Beyng." All but one of the translations is a classic rendition. Among the content: "The Jewish...Paperback$8499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Philosophers on Consciousness
We know, more intimately than anything else, what it's like to undergo a rich world of experiences: agonising pains, dizzying pleasures, heady rage and existential doubts. Despite the incredible advances of physical science, it seems that we're no closer to an explanation of how this inner world of experiences comes about. No matter how detailed our description of the physical...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Phenomenology
A classic in its field, this comprehensive book introduces the core history of phenomenology and assesses its relevance to contemporary psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. It provides a jargon-free explanation of central themes in the works of Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty. From artificial intelligence to embodiment and enactivism, Käufer and Chemero go on to trace how phenomenology...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Phaedo
This is an English translation of one of Plato's great dialogues featuring Socrates discussing death, dying, and the soul in light of his impending execution. Included is an introduction and a glossary of key terms. Focus Philosophical Library translations are close to and non-interpretative of the original text, with the notes and the glossary intending to provide the reader with...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Person Means Relation
In Person Means Relation, David Walsh offers a moving reflection on personhood, beginning from the connection between person and relation established in the Trinitarian theology of St. Thomas Aquinas. Although Thomas did not apply this insight to persons more generally, Walsh argues, there is enough to suggest the path he might have taken. To know persons, we can now see,...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Person-Based Cognitive Therapy for Distressing Psychosis
This book provides a practical framework for using a person-based cognitive therapy approach for addressing the range of problems experienced by people with psychosis. Chapters 1-4 provide a context for the approach, and chapters 5-12 cover the clinical application of the approach. Key features include the integration of the author’s work on Mindfulness, a simple meditation technique that is currently...Paperback$12399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Personality
A comprehensive and accessible approach to personality theory and research with a renewed focus on contemporary findings In the newly revised 15th edition of Personality: Theory and Research, Professor Daniel Cervone delivers balanced and up-to-date coverage of the major theories of personality and the latest psychological research on the subject. The book offers consistent theory-by-theory discussions of personality structures, processes,...Paperback$19299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Personal Identity, Second Edition
This volume brings together the vital contributions of distinguished past and contemporary philosophers to the important topic of personal identity. The essays range from John Locke's classic seventeenth-century attempt to analyse personal identity in terms of memory, to twentieth-century defences and criticisms of the Lockean view by Anthony Quinton, H.P. Grice, Sydney Shoemaker, David Hume, Joseph Butler, Thomas Reid, and...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Perjury and Pardon, Volume II
An exploration of the political dimensions of forgiveness and repentance from Jacques Derrida. Perjury and Pardon is a two-year seminar series given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris during the late 1990s. In these sessions, Derrida focuses on the philosophical, ethical, juridical, and political stakes of the concept of responsibility. His primary...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Perjury and Pardon, Volume I
An inquiry into the problematic of perjury, or lying, and forgiveness from one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. “One only ever asks forgiveness for what is unforgivable.” From this contradiction begins Perjury and Pardon, Volume I, a two-year series of seminars given by Jacques Derrida at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris...Hardback$8599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Perfect Me
How looking beautiful has become a moral imperative in today's world. The demand to be beautiful is increasingly important in today's visual and virtual culture. Rightly or wrongly, being perfect has become an ethical ideal to live by, and according to this ideal, we judge ourselves a success or failure. Perfect Me explores the changing nature of the beauty ideal,...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Peacemongers
In his first major prose work since 2002's Broken Song, Barry Hill has written an epic — a travel book, a history book, a peace book. His odyssey begins with a pilgrimage to Bodhi Gaya in India, where the Buddha received enlightenment and ends after he reaches Nagasaki, Japan, in the aftermath of its atomic bomb. His travelling is imbued...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Pathologies of Reason
Axel Honneth has been instrumental in advancing the work of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists, rebuilding their effort to combine radical social and political analysis with rigorous philosophical inquiry. These eleven essays reclaim the relevant themes of the Frankfurt School, which counted Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Jürgen Habermas, Franz Neumann, and Albrecht Wellmer as members. They...Paperback$4599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Passwords
In his analysis of the deep social trends rooted in production, consumption, and the symbolic, Jean Baudrillard touches the very heart of the concerns of the generation currently rebelling against the framework of the consumer society. With the ever-greater mediatization of society, Baudrillard argues that we are witnessing the virtualization of our world, a disappearance of reality itself, and perhaps...Paperback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks
Passions of the Soul
Table of Contents: Translator's Introduction Introduction by Genevieve Rodis-Lewis The Passions of the Soul: Preface Part I: About the Passions in General, and Incidentally about the Entire Nature of Man Part II: About the Number and Order of the Passions, and the Explanation of the Six Primitives Part III: About the Particular Passions Lexicon: Index to Lexicon Bibliography Index Index...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks-
Partial Truths
A fast-food chain once attempted to compete with McDonald's quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger, only for it to fail because consumers mistakenly thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound, reasoning that three is less than four. Similarly, a surge of suicides among teenagers who played Dungeons and Dragons prompted panic among parents and the media, leading...Paperback$4199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Partial Truths
A fast-food chain once tried to compete with McDonald's quarter-pounder by introducing a third-pound hamburger—only for it to flop when consumers thought a third pound was less than a quarter pound because three is less than four. Separately, a rash of suicides by teenagers who played Dungeons and Dragons caused a panic in parents and the media. They thought D&D...Hardback$17699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks -
Parmenides
This is an English translation of one of the more challenging and enigmatic of Plato's dialogues between Socrates and Parmenides and Zeno of Elea, that begins with Zeno defending his treatise of Parmenidean monism against those partisans of plurality. Parmenides is part of the Focus Philosophical Library translations, which are close to and non-interpretative of the original text. The notes...Paperback$1899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Parallax
Parallax, or the change in the position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight—and more precisely, the assumption that this adjustment is not only due to a change of focus, but a change in that object’s ontological status—has been a key philosophical concept throughout history. Building upon Slavoj Žižek’s The Parallax View, this volume shows how parallax...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks 
Pandemic! 2
What do sex doll sales, locust swarms and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything—according to that “Giant of Lubliana,” the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, Žižek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing—and the increasingly unruly...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks
Out of the Woods
A little optimism goes a long way. Wise, wonderful Betsy … I am blown away by her courage and wisdom. – Fearne Cotton Betsy is the most gloriously wonderful, positive, cute, inspiring girl … Her disability has become her unique ability. – Davina McCall As she finds her way home out of the woods, Betsy Griffin takes us on a...Paperback$5600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks-
Out of the Woods
Seventy deeply troubled teenagers spend weeks, months, even years on a locked psychiatric ward. They are not just failing in school or merely using drugs. They are out of control — violent or suicidal, in trouble with the law, unpredictable, and dangerous. Their futures are at risk. Twenty years later, most of them still struggle. Yet, astonishingly, a handful are...Paperback$10299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks 
Out of Sight, Into Mind
Most Indian and Tibetan religious traditions have some theory of yogic perception — a profound type of sentience afforded by meditative practice. Most consider it the bedrock of their religious authority, the primary means by which one gains spiritual insight. Disagreements about what yogis perceive abound, however, spanning many philosophical topics, including epistemology, ontology, phenomenology, and language. Out of Sight,...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Our Time Is Now
For over sixty years, Selma James has been organising from the perspective of unwaged women who, with their biological and caring work, reproduce the whole human race—whatever else they do. This work goes on almost unnoticed everywhere, in every culture. It is not prioritised economically, politically, or socially, and women are discriminated against and impoverished for doing it. This much-anticipated...Paperback$4700Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
Our Minds, Our Selves
An original history of psychology told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs—and the men and women who made them. In Our Minds, Our Selves, distinguished psychologist and writer Keith Oatley provides an engaging, original, and authoritative history of modern psychology. The book is told through the stories of its most important breakthroughs and the men and women who...Paperback$8400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks 
Our Inner Conflicts
Here Karen Horney develops a dynamic theory of neurosis centered on the basic conflict among attitudes of "moving forward" "moving against," and "moving away from" people. Unlike Freud, Horney does not regard neurosis as rooted in instinct. In her words, her theory is contructive because "it allows us for the first time to tackle and resolve neaurotic hopelessness. . ....Paperback$3399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks-
Our Great Purpose
Hanley shows how Smith set forth a vision of the worthy life that is uniquely suited to people today. Full of invaluable insights on topics ranging from happiness and moderation to love and friendship, Our Great Purpose enables modern readers to see Smith in an entirely new light—and along the way, learn what it truly means to live a good...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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