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
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
The Lichen Museum by Laurie A. Palmer
$49.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Art after Nature Ser.
A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations Serving as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name, The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological characteristics of lichens provide a valuable template for rei ...Show more
The History of Sexuality: 4: Confessions of the Flesh by Michel Foucault
$28.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The final, previously unpublished volume of one of the twentieth century's seminal works Foucault's History of Sexuality changed the way we think about power, selfhood and sexuality. In this fourth and final volume, he turns his attention to early Christianity, exploring how ancient ideas of pleasure we ...Show more
Traditionalism - The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order by Mark Sedgwick
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Pelican Bks.
The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, present and futureTraditionalism is founded on ancient teachings that, its followers argue, have been handed down from time immemorial, forming a basis of the sacred or ...Show more
Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Animal Liberation started a worldwide movement when it revealed the abuse of animals in factory farms and laboratories. It demonstrated that these and other practices were the cause of appalling and unnecessary suffering and therefore morally indefensible. In the fifty years since, science has further v ...Show more
Lost in Thought - The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life by Zena Hitz
$30.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendours of a life of learning.In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everybody is judged by its usefulness, where can we turn for escape, lasting pleasure, contemplation, or conn ...Show more
Aristotle: Understanding the World's Greatest Philosopher by John Sellars
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Why has Aristotle had such an astounding influence on the world? What are his key ideas? What can he still teach us today? There is in Athens a rather plain ruin; a simple courtyard lined with fragments of wall. Yet, this little patch of land has a claim to be the most significant place in human history ...Show more
Reality+: Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J. Chalmers
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From one of our leading thinkers, a dazzling philosophical journey through virtual worlds In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds ...Show more
How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question by Mike Schur
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER* From the writer and executive producer of the award-winning Netflix series The Good Place that made moral philosophy fun: a foolproof guide to making the correct moral decision in every situation you ever encounter, anywhere on earth, forever *'An absolute breeze to read; ...Show more
This Book Will Make You Think: Philosophical Quotes and What They Mean by Alain Stephen
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: I Used to Know That ...
An informative and accessible guide to all of the great philosophers' best-known theories, explained through their most famous quotes. We may have heard of Socrates, Plato, Descartes and Nietzsche, but what did they believe? What were their famous aphorisms? And what did these actually mean? This Book W ...Show more
I Think, Therefore I Am: All the Philosophy You Need to Know by Lesley Levene
$25.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: I Used to Know That ...
Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And ...Show more