The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution by David Runciman
$37.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What is the history of ideas - and how has it shaped our world today? In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise ...Show more
Philosophy Bites: 25 Philosphers on 25 Intriguing Subjects by David Edmonds
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, s ...Show more
Determined: Life Without Free Will by Robert M Sapolsky
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The instant New York Times bestseller "Excellent...Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys." - Wall Street Journal One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the science and philoso ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explor ...Show more
J.S. Mill's On Liberty in Focus
$78.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This book gathers together for the first time J.S. Mill's On Liberty and a selection of important essays by the eminent scholars Isaiah Berlin, Alan Ryan, John Rees C.L. Ten and Richard Wollheim on Mill's seminal work. This volume brings together J.S. Mills On Liberty and a selection of important essays ...Show more
Free Agents - How Evolution Gave Us Free Will by Kevin J. Mitchell
$49.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many conclude that agency--or free will--is ...Show more
Existentialists and Mystics - Writings on Philosophy and Literature by Iris Murdoch; Peter Conradi (Editor); George Steiner (Foreword by)
$50.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
"Best known for her novels and longer philosophical works, Iris Murdoch is also a brilliant essayist and critic. Existentialists and Mystics gathers together for the first time in one volume the most influential and inspiring of her essays and shorter pieces." "The selection, by Professor Peter Conradi, ...Show more
The Philosopher's Dog by Raimond Gaita
$25.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Filled with wonderful stories about domestic and wild animals, about friendship and love, about the experience of mountaineering and the metaphysical contemplation of landscape, The Philosopher's Dog is a wonderful and moving work.
On Violence by Hannah Arendt
$23.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Arendt's influential essay examining the relationship between violence, power, war and politics now in Penguin Modern Classics for the first time. Written in 1970, with the Holocaust and Hiroshima still fresh in recent memory, the war in Vietnam raging and the streets of Europe and America seething wit ...Show more
Vibrant Matter - A Political Ecology of Things by BENNETT JANE
$48.50 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: A\John Hope Franklin Center Book Ser.
In "Vibrant Matter" the political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and affect, shifts her focus from the human experience of things to things themselves. Bennett argues that political theory needs to do a better job of recognizing the active participation of nonhuman force ...Show more
Mortal Secrets - Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Like Sarah Bakewell's How to Live and Andrea Wulf's Magnificent Rebels, Mortal Secrets is a lively and accessible portrait of major figure - Sigmund Freud - and the unprecedented era of creativity that shaped his ideas Some cities are like stars. When the conditions are right, they ignite, and they burn ...Show more
Life Worth Living - A Guide to What Matters Most by Miroslav Volf; Matthew Croasmun; Ryan McAnnally-Linz
$50.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Life Worth Living is transcendent. A collection of wisdom punctuated by questions of great consequence, this is the only book you need to find your way from where you are to where you are called to be." --Kelly Corrigan, NYT bestselling author, host of Kelly Corrigan W ...Show more