Empiriomonism
Empiriomonism is Alexander Bogdanov's scientific-philosophical substantiation of Marxism. In Books One and Two, he combines Ernst Mach's and Richard Avenarius's neutral monist philosophy with the theory of psychophysical parallelism and systematically demonstrates that human psyches are thoroughly natural and are subject to nature's laws. In Book Three, Bogdanov argues that empiriomonism is superior to G. V. Plekhanov's outdated materialism and...Paperback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEmpiricism and Subjectivity
At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to empiricism. Presenting a challenging reading of David Hume's philosophy, the work is invaluable for understanding the progress of Deleuze's thought.Paperback$10600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEmotion and Virtue
A novel approach to the crucial role emotion plays in virtuous action. What must a person be like to possess a virtue in full measure? What sort of psychological constitution does one need to be an exemplar of compassion, say, or of courage? Focusing on these two examples, Emotion and Virtue ingeniously argues that certain emotion traits play an indispensable...Hardback$10000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEmotional Inheritance
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'A powerful, lucid, deeply empathic exploration of the legacy of generational trauma' Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance 'Atlas's heady and beautiful book offers much insight, as well as tools for beginning to unpack the stories we're living, stories that aren't actually ours to live' Oprah Daily Past family trauma can keep us unconsciously connected to the past....Paperback$2799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEmilia
Winner of the Noel Coward Award for Best Entertainment or Comedy at the 2020 Olivier Awards In 1611, Emilia Bassano wrote a volume of radical, feminist, and subversive poetry. It was one of the first published collections of poetry written by a woman in England. The little we know of Emilia Bassano is restricted to the possibility that she may...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEmancipation After Hegel
Hegel is making a comeback. After the decline of the Marxist Hegelianism that dominated the twentieth century, leading thinkers are rediscovering Hegel's thought as a resource for contemporary politics. What does a notoriously difficult nineteenth-century German philosopher have to offer the present? How should we understand Hegel, and what does understanding Hegel teach us about confronting our most urgent challenges?...Paperback$10800Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEmbodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders
Embodiment and the Treatment of Eating Disorders refers to the attunement of the inner and outer self. Cognitions are aligned with the sensing and feeling body. Furthermore, in an attuned experience of self, positive embodiment is maintained by a set of internally focused tools, such as self-care practices that support physiological health, emotional well-being, and effective cognitive functioning. For those...Paperback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksElectras
Michael Davis revisits questions of interpretation in Greek tragedy emerging in the thought of the late Seth Benardete. While this is not the book Benardete would have written, it wrestles with problems that bear his indelible mark. In the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, only one story is treated by all three––the tale of Electra. Davis endeavors to...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEffective Altruism
As the world faces increasingly complex problems – from pandemics to global poverty and climate change – how do we decide where to concentrate our efforts and resources to do the most good possible? Effective Altruism offers a way to do just that, focusing on evidence and rational arguments to identify crucial issues and the most impactful ways of solving...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEducational Psychology
O'Donnell et al.'s Educational Psychology provides pre-service teachers with a comprehensive framework for implementing effective teaching strategies aimed at enhancing students' learning, development, and potential. Through a meticulous examination of relevant psychological theories, supplemented by contemporary local case studies, and detailed analysis of lesson plans, the text offers a nuanced understanding of educational psychology without resorting to specialised terminology. Central...Paperback$16499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEdith Stein's On the Problem of Empathy
Empathy (Einfühlung)—as a crucial concept for understanding ourselves, others, and communities—was a central topic of interest in the first half of the twentieth century amongst philosophers and in the emerging sciences of psychology and sociology. Edith Stein’s dissertation and inaugural publication, On the Problem of Empathy, introduces her unique take on empathy, embodiment, phenomenology, and intersubjectivity. Her immersion in phenomenology...Hardback$31600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEcrits
Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan's work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete works offers welcome, readable access to Lacan's seminal thinking on diverse subjects touched upon over the course of his inimitable intellectual career. Ecrits is a crucial text for those interested...Paperback$7599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEclogues. Garden of the Hesperides
A renowned Renaissance poet's homage to Naples makes its debut in modern English translation. Giovanni Pontano (1429–1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of quattrocento Naples, Pontano produced literary works...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEclipse of Reason
In his most important work, Max Horkheimer surveys and demonstrates the gradual ascendancy of Reason in Western philosophy, its eventual total application to all spheres of life, and what he considers its present reified domination. First published in 1947, Horkheimer explores the ways in which Nazism— that most irrational of political movements—co-opted ideas of rationality for its own ends. Ultimately,...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEast Timor, René Girard and Neocolonial Violence
In a new historical interpretation of the relationship between Australia and East Timor, Susan Connelly draws on the mimetic theory of René Girard to show how the East Timorese people were scapegoated by Australian foreign policy during the 20th century. Charting key developments in East Timor’s history and applying three aspects of Girard’s framework – the scapegoat, texts of persecution...Paperback$6899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksEarly Modern Philosophy
For anyone in search of the philosophers who influenced one of the richest moments in Western intellectual history, this inclusive reader is the place to start. Early Modern Philosophy showcases an unrivalled range of thinkers. Through them, you are introduced to a selection of their texts that return important philosophical ideas and debates to our understanding of modern philosophy. Addressing...Paperback$12000Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume VIII
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labelled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume VII
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers, often labelled the Presocratics, have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume VI
A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labeled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume V
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labelled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume IX
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labelled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume IV
A major new edition of the so-called Presocratics. The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labelled the 'Presocratics') have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume III
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers, often labelled the Presocratics, have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume II
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labelled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksEarly Greek Philosophy, Volume I
The fragments and testimonia of the early Greek philosophers (often labelled the Presocratics) have always been not only a fundamental source for understanding archaic Greek culture and ancient philosophy but also a perennially fresh resource that has stimulated Western thought until the present day. This new systematic conception and presentation of the evidence differs in three ways from Hermann Diels's...Hardback$5999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDriven to Distraction at Work
From the bestselling author of Driven to Distraction, the world's leading expert on ADD and ADHD tackles attention deficit inside today's workplaces. Ned Hallowell, known for his work with children and adults, now identifies the underlying reasons why people really lose their ability to focus at work—where many of today's adults feel distracted and unproductive. He explains why commonly offered...Hardback$6499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom
A surprising look at how Rousseau defended the philosophic life as the most natural and best of lives. Dreaming of Justice, Waking to Wisdom reveals what could be thought of as the capstone of Rousseau’s thought, even if that capstone has been nearly invisible to readers. Despite criticizing philosophy for its corrosive effects on both natural goodness and civic virtue,...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDreamwork
Dreamwork is a book about the ideas, dreams, dreads, and ideals we have regarding work. Its central argument is that, although we depend on the idea of work for our identity as humans, we feel we must disguise from ourselves the fact that we do not know what work is. There is no example of work that nobody might under...Hardback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE
Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing, diet, senses, desires, sexuality, and even their dreams. Yet, compared with waking life, dreams are incongruous and unpredictable—in a word, strange. How,...Hardback$11899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE–800 CE
Practitioners of any of the paths of self-cultivation available in ancient and medieval China engaged daily in practices meant to bring their bodies and minds under firm control. They took on regimens to discipline their comportment, speech, breathing, diet, senses, desires, sexuality, even their dreams. Yet, compared with waking life, dreams are incongruous, unpredictable—in a word, strange. How, then, did...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDoublespeak
Doublespeak is the language of non-responsibility, carefully constructed to appear to communicate when in fact it doesn't. In this lively and eye-opening expose, originally published in 1989, linguist William Lutz identifies the four most common types of doublespeak—euphemism, jargon, gobbledygook or 'bureaucratese' and inflated language—showing how each is used in business, advertising, medicine, government and the military. In this seminal...Paperback$5300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDoorknob Bombshells in Therapy
It's a near-universal experience among mental health practitioners: a patient drops a bombshell—a critical disclosure that moves the treatment forward—on their way out, with a hand on the doorknob. This "doorknob moment" creates a stressful dilemma for clinicians, especially when the patient is distraught. Should the clinician end the session on time, or run over and be late for the...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDon't Forget to Live
The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot’s final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. In his final book, renowned philosopher Pierre Hadot explores Goethe’s relationship with ancient spiritual exercises—transformative acts of intellect, imagination, or will. Goethe sought both an intense experience of the present moment as well as a kind of cosmic...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDoing Metaphysics in a Diverse World
In a world increasingly interconnected and fractious, cross-cultural dialogue about metaphysics matters more than ever. This essential resource introduces us to the multitude of ways philosophers make sense of things. Drawing on China, Japan, the Indic world, Islamic and European thought, as well as pre-colonial African and pre-Spanish Meso-American traditions, a team of leading philosophers and historians of ideas bring...Paperback$5499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDoing Psychotherapy
Most books about doing psychotherapy are tied to particular psychotherapeutic practices. Here, seasoned clinical author Robin Shapiro teaches readers the ins and outs of a trauma- and attachment-informed approach that is not tied to any one model or method. This book teaches assessment, treatment plans, enhancing the therapeutic relationship, and ethics and boundary issues, all within a general framework of...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDoing Justice
Pablo Oyarzun is one of the foremost Benjamin scholars in Latin America. His writings have shaped the reception of Benjamin’s work in Latin America and have been central to the effort to identify the tasks and responsibilities of the kind of critical theory that would interrupt social violence. In this book, Oyarzun examines some of the key concepts in Benjamin’s...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDoctor Strange and Philosophy
Explore the mind and world of the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme Doctor Stephen Strange Marvel Comics legends Stan Lee and Steve Ditko first introduced Doctor Stephen Strange to the world in 1963—and his spellbinding adventures have wowed comic book fans ever since. Over fifty years later, the brilliant neurosurgeon-turned-Sorcerer Supreme has finally travelled from the pages of comics to the big...Paperback$3099Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDissemination
First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session', and 'Dissemination'. The essays present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse. They explore the relationship and interplay between language, literature, and philosophy. The text includes a substantial introduction and additional notes on...Paperback$5899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDissemination
In Dissemination - more than in any previous work - Derrida weaves a complex pattern of puns, verbal echoes and allusions, intended to 'deconstruct' both the pretension of criticism to tell the truth about literature, and the pretension of philosophy to be the literature of truth." New Statesman Jacques Derrida (1930-) is Professor of Philosophy at École Normale Supérieure, Paris....Paperback$9600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDisputed Questions on Virtue
The third volume of The Hackett Aquinas is a series of central philosophical treatises by Aquinas, presented in new, state-of-the-art translations. This edition is accompanied by a thorough commentary on the text. In Disputed Questions on Virtue, Thomas Aquinas explores the complexities of virtue and ethical behaviour, offering insights that remain relevant and thought-provoking. This indispensable work serves as both...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDisney and Philosophy
Take a magic carpet ride through Disney’s wonderful world of films and entertainment experiences, and discover the wisdom within its most popular and enduring stories. Philosophy begins in wonder, and there’s no question that Disney’s immersive worlds and iconic characters have enchanted generations of children and adults alike, inviting us to escape the mundane into a world of fantasy, imagination,...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDisenchanting the Caliphate
The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the Caliphate offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence...Paperback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDiscovering Philosophy
Are we free or determined? Are things really the way they appear to be? What's the difference between right and wrong? Can God's existence be demonstrated? Discovering Philosophy looks at these and other fundamental questions that have bedevilled thinkers for centuries. Designed for students who are more comfortable with secondary than primary sources, Discovering Philosophy is both accessible and intellectually...Paperback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDiscovering Indian Philosophy
Indian Philosophy: An Introduction helps readers discover how the many and varied schools of Indian thought can answer some of the great questions of life: Who are we? How can we live well? How do we tell truth from lies? Accessibly written for readers new to Indian philosophy, the book takes you through the main traditions of thought, including Buddhist,...Paperback$4999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDiscourses of the Elders
Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in...Hardback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDiscourses of the Elders
Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove false, or at least deeply misleading? The Aztecs of central Mexico had a rich philosophical tradition, recorded in...Paperback$3199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
The Norton Library edition of Rousseau's Discourse on the Origin of Inequality features an inviting and readable translation by Julia Conaway Bondanella that makes the text accessible to the modern English reader while faithfully preserving the power and clarity of Rousseau's voice and style of argumentation. A thorough introduction by Frederick Neuhouser—"one of the most brilliant philosophical readers of Rousseau...Paperback$1699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDiscourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition.Paperback$1399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDisavowal
This book argues that the psychoanalytic concept of disavowal best renders the structure underlying our contemporary social response to traumatic and disturbing events, from climate change to unsettling tectonic shifts in our social tissue. Unlike denialism and negation, disavowal functions by fully acknowledging what we disavow. Zupančič contends that disavowal, which sustains some belief by means of ardently proclaiming the...Hardback$9599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDinner Pieces
An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the many-sided "Renaissance man." A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking,...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDinner Pieces
An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man." Leon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range of abilities as a writer, architect, art theorist, and scientist made him the original model for the many-sided "Renaissance man." A collection of stories meant to be read while dining and drinking,...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDignity
A noted conflict-resolution expert explores dignity, its role in human conflict, and its power to improve relationships. Drawing on her extensive experience in international conflict resolution and on insights from evolutionary biology, psychology, and neuroscience, Donna Hicks explains what the elements of dignity are, how to recognise dignity violations, how to respond when we are not treated with dignity, how...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDigital Wellbeing
Digital Wellbeing masterfully explores the intersection of technology and human potential. This book is a must-read for those who want to leverage the power of AI to unlock their creativity and imagination and ultimately invent new means of expression that will go way beyond human language, art, and science of today.” —Ray Kurzweil, inventor, futurist, and author of New York...Hardback$5699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDigital Touch
Touch matters. It is fundamental to how we know ourselves and each other, and it is central to how we communicate. Digital touch is embedded in many technologies, from wearable devices and gaming hardware to tactile robots and future technologies. What would it be like if we could hug or touch digitally across distance? How might this shape our sense...Paperback$4299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDigital Souls
Social media is full of dead people. Nobody knows precisely how many Facebook profiles belong to dead users, but in 2012, the figure was estimated at 30 million. What do we do with all these digital souls? Can we simply delete them, or do they have a right to persist? Philosophers have been almost entirely silent on the topic, despite...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDifficult Mothers
Mother love is often seen as sacred, but for many children, the relationship is a painful struggle. Using the newest research on human attachment and brain development, Terri Apter, an internationally acclaimed psychologist and writer, unlocks the mysteries of this complicated bond. She showcases the five different types of difficult mothers: the angry mother, the controlling mother, the narcissistic mother,...Paperback$2999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDialogues
Giovanni Pontano (1426–1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was the most important Latin poet of the fifteenth century as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Aragonese kings of Naples. His Dialogues are our best source for the humanist academy of Naples, which Pontano led for several decades. They provide a vivid picture of literary...Hardback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDexter and Philosophy
What explains the huge popular following for Dexter, a show which sympathetically depicts a serial killer driven by a cruel compulsion to brutally slay one victim after another? Although Dexter Morgan kills only killers, he is not a vigilante animated by a sense of justice but a charming psychopath animated by a lust to kill, ritualistically and bloodily. In Dexter...Paperback$3999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDevelopmental Psychology
This accessible introduction to developmental psychology examines how children develop, from language development to social learning and the development of emotion. Comprehensive and engaging, it is the ideal introduction for A-level and undergraduate students, and for anyone interested in learning more about development in childhood.Paperback$4995Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDetecting Lies and Deceit
Why do people lie? Do gender and personality differences affect how people lie? How can lies be detected? Detecting Lies and Deceit provides the most comprehensive review of deception to date. This revised edition offers an up-to-date account of deception research and discusses the workings and efficacy of the most commonly used lie detection tools, including: Behaviour Analysis Interview Statement...Paperback$11899Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDetecting Deception
Detecting Deception offers a state-of-the-art guide to the detection of deception, focusing on how new cognitive psychology-based approaches can improve practice and results in the field. Includes comprehensive coverage of the latest scientific developments in the detection of deception and their implications for real-world practice. Examines current challenges in the field, such as counter-interrogation strategies, lying networks, cross-cultural deception, and...Paperback$15300Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDesire and its Interpretation
Desire and its Interpretation by Jacques Lacan reveals that desire is not a biological function. It is not correlated with a natural object, and its object is fantasised. Hence, desire is extravagant and cannot be grasped by those who attempt to master it. It plays tricks on them, and if unrecognised, it produces symptoms. In psychoanalysis, the goal is to...Hardback$14399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDesire and its Interpretation
What does Lacan show us? He shows us that desire is not a biological function; that it is not correlated with a natural object; and that its object is fantasized. Because of this, desire is extravagant. It cannot be grasped by those who might try to master it. It plays tricks on them. Yet if it is not recognised, it...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDescartes′s Grey Ontology – Cartesian Science and Aristotelian Thought in the Regulae
Hardback$6699Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDerrida, Deconstruction and Education
A collection of original essays exploring the significance of Derrida's thought for education, pedagogy, and the ethics of teaching and research. Derrida, Deconstruction and Education recognises that Derrida is a profound educational thinker, concerned with questions of pedagogy. Written by a team of international scholars.Paperback$5199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDemocracy in the Political Present
Presentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo- and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism. In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and...Paperback$4499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDementia and Memory
Addresses the psychology and treatment of diseases that affect the memory of an ageing population The ageing population is growing, with a significant portion of the population over the age of 65. Epidemiological research suggests that rates of age-related conditions like Alzheimer’s disease will increase. Older individuals and their families face a host of problems related to the diagnosis, treatment,...Paperback$18499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDeleuze and Guattari's 'Anti-Oedipus'
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Anti-Oedipus is the first part of a two-volume project entitled Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Challenging the twin orthodoxies of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Althusserian Marxism, Anti-Oedipus is an important and exciting, yet challenging piece of philosophical writing. Ian Buchanan's Reader's Guide to Anti-Oedipus is the ideal companion to one of the twentieth century's most influential philosophical works....Paperback$7199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDeep Thought
Gary Cox guides us through 42 of the most misunderstood, misquoted, provocative and significant quotes in the history of philosophy, providing a witty and compelling commentary along the way. This entertaining and illuminating collection of quotes doesn't merely list who said what and when; it explores who each philosopher is and what they really meant when they said what they...Paperback$2199Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDedicated to the Soul
A richly illustrated collection of never-before-seen writings and drawings from the notebooks, portfolios, and personal papers of C. G. Jung's wife and collaborator. Emma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, yet she kept most of her creative and personal life private. Dedicated to the Soul brings together...Hardback$8999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDeconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism
It is often asserted that postmodernism emerged from 'leftist' Nietzsche-interpretations, but this claim and its implications are rarely explored. Deconstructing Postmodernist Nietzscheanism investigates how Deleuze and Foucault read Nietzsche and apply a hermeneutics of innocence to his philosophy that erases the elitist, anti-democratic, and anti-socialist dimensions. In a clear and incisive analysis, Rehmann shows that this misreading also affects their...Paperback$8600Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDeColonize EcoModernism!
In the 21st century, the old colonial attitude of terra nullius, meaning a vacant place free for the taking, still lurks behind the global economic expropriation of peoples’ lands and bodies. Today, that theft is rationalised internationally by ecomodernist policy. DeColonize EcoModernism! engages with the patriarchal-colonial-capitalist mindset of the contemporary Androcene and its threats to Life-on-Earth, including global warming and...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDecolonial Feminism in Abya Yala
This is a collection of eleven chapters and an introduction that develop key arguments in decolonial feminism, particularly the coloniality of gender, the critique of white and Eurocentric feminisms, the imbrication between gender, race, and colonialism, feminicides, and the coloniality of democracy and public institutions. The introduction addresses the path of decolonial feminism: from a new approach to understanding the...Paperback$6599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDeath Shall Be Dethroned
Death Shall Be Dethroned is the “shadow book” of Los, a Chapter, Hélène Cixous tells us. It came along after Los, but it was always there "hidden" in her notebooks, in the Beethoven notebook, say, the one Jacques Derrida gave her. But when it tapped at the window, she ignored it until the day she had to let it in....Paperback$2399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDeath and Dying
An examination of the contemporary medicalization of death and dying that calls us to acknowledge instead death's existential and emotional realities. Death and Dying is a natural, inevitable, and deeply human process, and yet Western medicine tends to view it as a medical failure. In their zeal to prevent death, physicians and hospitals often set patients and their families on...Paperback$4500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeksDeath Activism
Traditional Western attitudes towards death deal with it as a painful inevitability, something that has to be navigated as a trauma and a taboo. They focus essentially on the ‘management’ of death, an anthropocentric practice prioritising the human life above every other type of existence. Patricia MacCormack explores how we can develop a ‘death activism’ – a variety of tactics...Paperback$4399Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDeath
There is one thing we can be sure of: we are all going to die. But once we accept that fact, the questions begin. In this thought-provoking book, philosophy professor Shelly Kagan examines the myriad questions that arise when we confront the meaning of mortality. Do we have reason to believe in the existence of immortal souls? Or should we...Paperback$3799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeksDavid Bowie and Philosophy
The philosophically rich David Bowie is an artist of wide and continuing influence. The theatrical antics of Bowie ushered in a new rock aesthetic, but there is much more to Bowie than mere spectacle. The visual belies the increasing depths of his concerns, even at his lowest personal moments. We never know what lies in store in a Bowie song,...Paperback$3499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDark Matters
An intellectual history of the philosophers who grappled with the problem of evil, and the case for why pessimism still holds moral value for us today. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, philosophers engaged in heated debates on how God could have allowed evil and suffering in a creation that is supposedly good. Dark Matters traces how the competing philosophical...Hardback$6999Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeksDark Ecology
Timothy Morton argues that ecological awareness in the present Anthropocene era takes the form of a strange loop or Möbius strip, twisted to have only one side. Deckard travels this oedipal path in Blade Runner (1982) when he learns that he might be the enemy he has been ordered to pursue. Ecological awareness takes this shape because ecological phenomena have...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 3-4 weeks