Hyperobjects
Having set global warming in irreversible motion, we are facing the possibility of ecological catastrophe. But the environmental emergency is also a crisis for our philosophical habits of thought, confronting us with a problem that seems to defy not only our control but also our understanding. Global warming is perhaps the most dramatic example of what Timothy Morton calls hyperobjects—entities...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHyperculture
In the wake of globalization, cultural forms of expression have become increasingly detached from their places of origin, circulating in a hyper-domain of culture where there is no real difference anymore between indigenous and foreign, near and far, the familiar and the exotic. Heterogeneous cultural contents are brought together side by side, like the fusion food that makes free use...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHydrojustice
This is a book about justice, but not as we know it. Andreas Philippopoulos-Mihalopoulos argues that justice is always hydrojustice – that is, always defined in relation to water, the element that constitutes and unites all bodies, human and nonhuman. Hence justice is not an ideal state reached through merely human procedures (legal, political, economic, etc.) but also a planetary...Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHuman Nature
This major study examines the most fundamental categories in terms of which we conceive of ourselves, critically surveying the concepts of substance, causation, agency, teleology, rationality, mind, body, and person, and elaborating the conceptual fields in which they are embedded. Human Nature is the culmination of 40 years of thought on the philosophy of mind and the nature of mankind....Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHumanistic Narratives
Following the narratives explored in Hominescence, Incandescent and The Bough, Michel Serres continues and concludes his 'grand story' of humanity and humanism. Humanistic Narratives weaves together and condenses the overriding philosophical narratives of the previous books and reflects upon Serres' own humanist theoretical system. With characteristic breadth and imagination, in telling the story of humanity, Serres also tells us why...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHuman Flourishing in the Age of Digital Capitalism
With a distinctive theoretical framework combining Aristotle, Marx, and Alasdair MacIntyre, the essays in this volume ask how forms of artificial intelligence and technologies of automation in digital capitalism affect human flourishing, and what meaningful work looks like under these conditions. As technology advances, how do we decide what activities should be automated? Is the end of work through automation...Paperback$4099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow We Became Post-Liberal
Liberalism is in trouble. As a set of ideas, it has lost much of its historical authority in guiding public policy and personal behaviour. In this post-liberal climate, Russell Blackford asks whether liberalism is truly over. How We Became Post-Liberal examines how Western liberal democracies became nations where traditional liberal principles of toleration (religious and otherwise), individual liberty and freedom...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Win Every Argument
In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using—and indeed abusing—logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arguments in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook, and in 140 characters (on Twitter), Pirie provides the complete guide to triumphing in altercations ranging...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Think Like a Woman
As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange world we find ourselves in? In college, she discovered philosophy and fell in love with its rationality, its abstractions, its beauty. What Penaluna didn't realise was that philosophy—at least the canon that's taught in...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Think about War
An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and war. Why do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders...Hardback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Think about God
A vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero's influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divine Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods - from Jupiter, Minerva, and Mars to countless local divinities, household gods, and ancestral spirits. One of the most influential Roman perspectives on religion came from a nonreligious belief system...Hardback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow To Think
How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we're not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. Most of us don't want to think, writes the American essayist Alan Jacobs. Thinking is trouble. It can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Tell a Story
Aristotle's Poetics is the most important book ever written for writers and readers of stories—whether novels, short fiction, plays, screenplays, or nonfiction. Aristotle was the first to identify the keys to plot, character, audience perception, tragic pleasure, and dozens of other critical points of good storytelling. Despite being written more than 2,000 years ago, the Poetics remains essential reading for...Hardback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHow to Tell a Joke
Can jokes win a hostile room, a hopeless argument, or even an election? You bet they can, according to Cicero, and he knew what he was talking about. One of Rome's greatest politicians, speakers, and lawyers, Cicero was also reputedly one of antiquity's funniest people. After he was elected commander-in-chief and head of state, his enemies even started calling him...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Talk about Love
Explore the nature of love in this charming new translation of selections from Plato's great dramatic work, the Symposium. What is love? In poetry, songs, fiction, movies, psychology, and philosophy, love has been described, admired, lamented, and dissected in endless ways. Is love based on physical attraction? Does it bring out our better selves? How does it relate to sex?...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Say No
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient writings about the philosophers who advocated simple living and rejected unthinking conformity. The Cynics were ancient Greek philosophers who stood athwart the flood of society's material excess, unexamined conventions, and even norms of politeness and thundered 'No!' Diogenes, the most famous Cynic, wasn't shy about literally extending his middle finger to the world,...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow To Read Machiavelli
'Men are infamous and detestable who are destroyers of religion, squanderers of kingdoms and republics, and enemies of the virtues.' Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527) is one of the most influential modern political thinkers. His works are still passionately discussed in the intellectual community and continue to generate new visions of political action. Against the trite commonplace that Machiavelli was a teacher...Paperback$2499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow To Read Hume
'Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.' - David Hume David Hume is generally recognised as the UK's greatest philosopher, as well as a notable historian and essayist, and a central figure of the Enlightenment. Yet his work is delicately poised between scepticism and naturalism, between despair at the limited powers of the mind and...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow To Read Heidegger
Heidegger is perhaps the most influential, yet least readily understood, philosopher of the last century. Wrathall pays particular attention to Heidegger's revolutionary analysis of human existence as inextricably shaped by a shared world. This leads to an exploration of his views on the banality of public life, and the possibility of authentic anticipation of death as a response to that...Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Make Money
An enriching collection of classical writings about how ancient Romans made and thought about money Ancient Romans liked money. But how did they make a living and sometimes even become rich? The Roman economy was dominated by agriculture, but it was surprisingly modern in many ways: the Romans had companies with CEOs, shareholders, and detailed contracts regulated by meticulous laws;...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Make a Home
An entertaining and enlightening collection of ancient Roman writings about home design and decoration. The idea that our homes can communicate professional as well as personal identities may seem as new as the work-from-home revolution. But it was second nature to the ancient Romans, for whom the home was in many ways the centre of public and private life. Roman...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Lose Yourself
Inviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion and why giving it up can free us from suffering. From self-realisation and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Listen When Markets Speak
The first investment playbook to make sense of our radically reshaped global economy, with new strategies to get ahead of the market in uncertain times. 'Any investor with skin in the game needs to buy this book.' — Niall Ferguson From Wall Street to the White House, the fantasy of an eventual 'return to normal' is still alive and well....Paperback$3200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Keep Your Cool
Timeless wisdom on controlling anger in personal life and politics from the Roman Stoic philosopher and statesman Seneca In his essay On Anger (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-65 AD) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: 'No plague has cost the human race more dear.' This was proved by his own life, which he...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Keep an Open Mind
Along with Stoicism and Epicureanism, Skepticism is one of the three major schools of ancient Greek philosophy that claim to offer a way of living as well as thinking. How to Keep an Open Mind provides an unmatched introduction to skepticism by presenting a fresh, modern translation of key passages from the writings of Sextus Empiricus, the only Greek skeptic...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Have Willpower
Lively new translations of two classical works that offer wise advice about how to resist temptation. How to Have Willpower brings together two profound ancient meditations on how to overcome pressures that encourage us to act against our own best interests. Plutarch's essay, On Dysopia or How to Resist Pressure, and Prudentius's poetic allegory, Psychomachia or How to Slay Your...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Innovate
When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions - democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural canons, drama, lifelike sculpture, and competitive athletics. None of this happened by accident. Recognising the power of the...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Have a Life
A vibrant new translation of Seneca's On the Shortness of Life, a pointed reminder to make the most of our time. Who doesn't worry sometimes that smartphones, the Internet, and TV are robbing us of time and preventing us from having a life? How can we make the most of our time on earth? In the first century AD, the...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Grow Old
Worried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too? Well, Cicero has some good news for you. In How to Grow Old, the great Roman orator and statesman eloquently describes how you can make the second half of life the best part of all - and why you might discover that reading...Hardback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksHow to Grieve
An engaging new translation of a timeless masterpiece about coping with the death of a loved one. In 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from complications of childbirth. But from the depths of despair, Cicero fought his way back. In an effort to cope with his loss, he wrote a consolation...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Give
To give and receive well may be the most human thing you can do, but it is also the closest you can come to divinity. So argues the great Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BCE–65 CE) in his longest and most searching moral treatise, On Benefits (De Beneficiis). James Romm's splendid new translation of essential selections from this work...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Eat
A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction. Social media, advertising, food packaging, diet books, and doctors all have advice on what, how much, and when to eat. This would have been no surprise to ancient Greeks and Romans. Their doctors were intensely interested...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Get Over a Breakup
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid's Remedies for Love—a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love. Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse's death was ranked as more stressful than a marital split. Is there any treatment for a breakup? The ancient Roman poet Ovid thought so....Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Drink
A spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet Vincent Obsopoeus (ca. 1498-1539) thought so. In the winelands of sixteenth-century Germany, he witnessed the birth of a poisonous new culture of bingeing, hazing, peer pressure, and competitive...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Do Things with Emotions
An expansive look at how culture shapes our emotions – and how we can benefit, as individuals and a society, from less anger and more shame. The world today is full of anger. Everywhere we look, we see values clashing and tempers rising, in ways that seem frenzied, aimless, and cruel. At the same time, we witness political leaders and...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to be Radical in Philosophy
Radicality is at the very heart of philosophy. Sustaining this lifeblood of progressive thinking means refashioning philosophy constantly. It means engaging with the fundamental issues of living, working, thinking, and dying. Otherwise, philosophy loses touch with what matters and dies away itself. How to be Radical in Philosophy presents five very different ways philosophy can stay radically engaged: by taking...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Be Queer
An irresistible anthology of ancient Greek writings that explore queer desire and love 'Eros, limb-loosening, whirls me about again, that bittersweet, implacable creature.' Sappho The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. How to Be Queer is an...Hardback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to be Good
What is goodness? Is goodness achievable, and if so, how? If being a good person is a matter of doing the right thing, then what is the right thing to do? Is it acting rationally, promoting happiness, exercising moderation in all things, or respecting the freedom of others, or is it somehow a concoction of all these abilities, wisely adjusted...Paperback$3899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Be Content
What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE), has been cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his wisdom about how to live a good life—above all else, a life of contentment in...Hardback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow To Be A Philosopher
Do life's big questions perplex you? This book, now available in paperback, will give you answers to some of them while revealing that others have no answer. A humorous but informed instruction manual to questions philosophers have been asking and attempting to answer for centuries, How to Be A Philosopher will help you: • Think, talk, argue and persuade like...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Be a Marxist in Philosophy
In How to Be a Marxist in Philosophy, one of the most famous Marxist philosophers of the 20th century shares his concept of what it means to function fruitfully as a political thinker within the discipline and environs of philosophy. This is the first English translation of Althusser's provocative and often controversial guide to being a true Marxist philosopher. Althusser...Paperback$5299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Be a Friend
A splendid new translation of one of the greatest books on friendship ever written. In a world where social media, online relationships, and relentless self-absorption threaten the very idea of deep and lasting friendships, the search for true friends is more important than ever. In this short book, one of the greatest ever written on the subject, the famous Roman...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to be a Failure and Still Live Well
In consumer economies, success has increasingly been defined in terms of material attainment and the achievement of status. This model of ‘the good life’ and its formulas for success ignore the haunting possibility that one may not succeed and as a result be deemed ‘a failure’. How to be a Failure and Still Live Well explores that often neglected theme...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Be a Bad Emperor
What would Caligula do? What the worst Roman emperors can teach us about how not to lead If recent history has taught us anything, it's that sometimes the best guide to leadership is the negative example. But that insight is hardly new. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Suetonius wrote Lives of the Caesars, perhaps the greatest negative leadership book of all...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow to Be
A Times Book of the Year What is the nature of things? Must I think my own way through the world? What is justice? How can I be me? How should we treat each other? Before the Greeks, the idea of the world was dominated by god-kings and their priests, in a life ruled by imagined metaphysical monsters. 2,500 years...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow the World Is Made
In How the World Is Made, his final book, John Michell sums up and lays out for anyone to follow his many astonishing (re)discoveries of the way numbers, geometry, and patterns work and how they underlie our whole world and the best of the well-ordered societies and states that have flourished since ancient times. Step by step, from first principles,...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow the French Think
A warm yet incisive exploration of the French intellectual tradition, and its exceptional place in a nation's identity and lifestyle. Winner of the Grand Prix du Livre d'Idées The French—serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving—and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ......Paperback$3000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow Philosophy Works
From Socrates to Jean-Paul Sartre and dualism to existentialism, discover the key philosophers and theories which have shaped the way we view the world. Demystifying the key ideas of the world's greatest philosophers and exploring all of the most important branches of thought, including philosophy of science, philosophy of religion, and feminist philosophy in a uniquely visual way, this book...Hardback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow Socrates Became Socrates
Plato dispersed his account of how Socrates became Socrates across three dialogues. Thus, Plato rendered his becoming discoverable only to readers truly invested. In How Socrates Became Socrates, Laurence Lampert recognizes the path of Plato’s strides and guides us through the true account of Socrates’ becoming. He divulges how and why Plato ordered his Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium chronologically to...Hardback$9399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHow Nietzsche Came in From the Cold
Nietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shadow. It was only when two ambitious antifascist Italians, Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, began to comb through the archives that anyone warmed to the idea of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHow Logic Works
A concise introduction to logic that teaches you not only how reasoning works, but why it works. How Logic Works is an introductory logic textbook that is different by design. Rather than teaching elementary symbolic logic as an abstract or rote mathematical exercise divorced from ordinary thinking, Hans Halvorson presents it as the skill of clear and rigorous reasoning, which...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHow Grammar Works
Your English teacher wasn't kidding. Nothing says more about you than your command of language. Here is a quick and easy way to brush up on the intricate system of grammar that powers the English language. The updated and expanded edition of this proven guide is a painless way to master parts of speech, syntax, and all the rules of...Paperback$3599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHow Emotions Work
Many of the ways in which we express and react to emotions make very little sense. From the tears that mark both the best and worst moments in our lives to the rages sparked by the most trivial of traffic annoyances, emotions surprise us—they lead us to act in ways contrary to our better judgement, and they always seem to...Paperback$6299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHow Does Analysis Cure?
The Austro-American psychoanalyst Heinz Kohut was one of the foremost leaders in his field and developed the school of self-psychology, which sets aside the Freudian explanations for behaviour and looks instead at self/object relationships and empathy to shed light on human behaviour. In How Does Analysis Cure? Kohut presents the theoretical framework for self-psychology and carefully lays out how the...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHow All Politics Became Reproductive Politics
Today all politics are reproductive politics, argues esteemed feminist critic Laura Briggs. From longer work hours to the election of Donald Trump, our current political crisis is above all about reproduction. Households are where we face our economic realities as social safety nets get cut and wages decline. Briggs brilliantly outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction—stories of Black “welfare...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHopeful Pessimism
Why 'hopeful pessimism' is not a contradiction in terms but a powerful source of moral and political commitment The climate debate is rife with calls for optimism. While temperatures rise and disasters intensify, we are asked to maintain optimism and hope, as if the real threat is pessimism and despair. In this erudite and engaging book, Mara van der Lugt...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHominescence
According to Michel Serres, a process of 'hominescence' has taken place throughout human history. Hominescence can be described as a type of adolescence; humanity in a state of growing, a state of constant change, on the threshold of something unpredictable. We are destined never to be the same again, but what does the future hold? In this innovative and passionately...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHistory of Modern Psychology
Jung's lectures on the history of psychology—in English for the first time Between 1933 and 1941, C. G. Jung delivered a series of public lectures at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich. Intended for a general audience, these lectures addressed a broad range of topics, from dream analysis to yoga and meditation. Here for the first time...Hardback$7900Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHistory of Animals, Volume I
In History of Animals, Aristotle analyses differences in parts, activities, modes of life, and character across the animal kingdom, in preparation for establishing their causes, which are the concern of his other zoological works. Over 500 species of animals are considered: shellfish, insects, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and mammals—including human beings. In Books I–IV, Aristotle provides a comparative survey of...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHistory for Tomorrow
One of Britain's most popular public philosophers presents unexpected, hopeful lessons from human history that could help us to overcome the global challenges facing humanity in the 21st century. 'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author...Hardback$5500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHistory and Will
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived programme, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. History and Will was originally published in 1973.Hardback$18099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHistory and Will
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived programme, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. History and Will was originally published in 1973.Paperback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHistory and Philosophy of Psychology
History and Philosophy of Psychology is a lively introduction to the historical development of psychology. Its distinct inclusion of ideas from both Eastern and Western philosophies offers students a uniquely broad view of human psychology. Whilst covering all the major landmarks in the history of psychology, the text also provides students with little-known but fascinating insights into key questions —...Paperback$7899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHistory and Imperialism
Writings on History brings together a selection of texts by Louis Althusser dating from 1963 to 1986, including essays, a lecture, notes to his collaborators, and the transcript of an informal 1963 discussion of literary history. The centrepiece of this collection is Althusser’s previously unpublished Book on Imperialism, a theorisation of globalised capitalism that remained unfinished. All these writings are...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHidden Healers
A gripping and deeply-felt examination of incarcerated women's lives With unflinching clarity, Hidden Healers cuts through the myths about incarcerated women to expose the all-too-real brutalities they face within a criminal legal system never designed for them. Backed by three decades' experience providing therapeutic programs inside prisons across the United States, trauma specialist Dr. Stephanie Covington has used her unique...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHermeneutics between History and Philosophy
Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu, and Habermas and their ongoing legacies. This volume also includes a preface by the editors, who...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHermeneutics and Phenomenology
The relationship between these two central theoretical and philosophical approaches, which we thought we knew, is more complex and interesting than our standard story might suggest. It is not always clear how hermeneutics—that is, post-Heideggerian hermeneutics as articulated by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paul Ricoeur, and a large number of thinkers working under their influence—regards the phenomenological tradition, be it in its...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHermann Cohen – Writings on Neo–Kantianism and Jewish Philosophy
Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was among the most accomplished Jewish philosophers of modern times—if not the single most significant. However, his work has not yet received the attention it deserves. This newly translated collection of his writings—most of which are appearing in English for the first time—illuminates his achievements for student readers and rectifies lapses in his intellectual reception by prior...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHere and There
The first posthumous collection from the writings of Stanley Cavell, shedding new light on the distinctive vision and intellectual trajectory of an influential American philosopher. For Stanley Cavell, philosophy was a matter of responding to the voices of others. Throughout his career, he articulated the belief that words spring to life in the concrete circumstances of speech: the significance and...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHeraclitus
Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe. This important volume consists of two lecture courses given by Heidegger at the University of Freiburg over the summers of 1943 and 1944 on the thought of Heraclitus. These lectures shed important light on Heidegger’s understanding of Greek thinking, as well as his understanding of Germany, the...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHelping Children with ADHD
Combining the latest research evidence with the authors’ practical expertise, Helping Children with ADHD offers a complete intervention programme for flexibly delivering behavioural and cognitive interventions to children aged 6-12 with ADHD and associated conditions. Redefines and develops best practice in the application of cognitive and behavioural techniques to help children aged 6-12 with ADHD and associated comorbid conditions, including...Paperback$7899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHeidegger's Being and Time
This important new book condenses and rephrases, paragraph by paragraph, the entirety of Heidegger's magnum opus Being and Time. Leading Heidegger scholar Thomas Sheehan renders the text in reader-friendly language that avoids the worst of the Heideggerese that persists in the wider scholarship. He helpfully outlines each of the six chapters and, in turn, each of the eighty-three individual sections...Paperback$10962Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHeidegger's 'Being and Time'
Heidegger’s Being and Time is one of the most influential and controversial philosophical treatises of the 20th century. But what exactly are the ideas that so profoundly impacted Sartre’s existentialism, influenced Gadamer’s hermeneutics, and paved the way for the emergence of deconstruction? And what or who is ‘Dasein’? Answering these questions and more, this guide is an essential resource for...Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHeidegger and the Jews
Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These thousand-odd pages of jotted observations profoundly challenge our image of the quiet philosopher's exile in the Black Forest, revealing the shocking...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHeidegger
Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential figures of twentieth-century philosophy, but his reputation was tainted by his associations with Nazism. The posthumous publication of the Black Notebooks, which reveal the shocking extent of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, has only cast further doubt on his work. Now more than ever, a new introduction to Heidegger is needed to reassess his work...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHeidegger
Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida’s first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida first coming to terms with the German philosopher and his magnum...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksHegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit'
Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit is probably his most famous work. First published in 1807, it has exercised considerable influence on subsequent thinkers from Feuerbach and Marx to Heidegger, Kojève, Adorno, and Derrida. The book contains many memorable analyses, for example, the master/slave dialectic, the unhappy consciousness, Sophocles' Antigone, and the French Revolution. It is one of the most important works...Paperback$6099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHegel's Ladder Volumes 1 & 2
Hegel's Ladder aspires to be...a 'literal commentary' on Die Phanomenologie des Geistes...It was the conscious goal of my thirty-year struggle with Hegel to write an explanatory commentary on the book; and with its completion, I regard my own 'working' career as concluded... The prevailing habit of commentators...is founded on the general consensus of opinion that whatever else it may be,...Hardback$19000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHegel on Being
Hegel on Being provides an authoritative treatment of Hegel’s entire logic of being. Stephen Houlgate presents the Science of Logic as an important and neglected text within Hegel’s oeuvre that should hold a more significant place in the history of philosophy. In the Science of Logic, Hegel set forth a distinctive conception of the most fundamental forms of being through...Set$15399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksHegel, Marx and Vygotsky
Andy Blunden's Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky, Essays in Social Philosophy presents his novel approach to social theory in a series of essays. Blunden aims to use the cultural psychology of Lev Vygotsky and the Soviet Activity Theorists to renew Hegelian Marxism as an interdisciplinary science. This allows psychologists and social theorists to share their insights through concepts equally valid in...Paperback$11400Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks