How to Think Like a Roman Emperor - The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius by Donald Robertson

$12.00 NZD

Category: Ancient History | Reading Level: very good

The life-changing principles of Stoicism taught through the story of its most famous proponent. Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius was the final famous Stoic philosopher of the ancient world.The Meditations, his personal journal, survives to this day as one of the most loved self-help and spiritual classics of all time. InHow to Think Like a Roman Emperor, psychotherapist Donald Robertson weaves stories of Marcus's life from the Roman histories together with explanations of Stoicism--its philosophy and its psychology--to enlighten today's listeners. He discusses Stoic techniques for coping with everyday problems, from irrational fears and bad habits to anger, pain, and illness. How to Think Like a Roman Emperor takes listeners on a transformative journey along with Marcus, following his progress from a young noble at the court of Hadrian--taken under the wing of some of the finest philosophers of his day--through to his reign as emperor of Rome at the height of its power. Robertson shows how Marcus used philosophical doctrines and therapeutic practices to build emotional resilience and endure tremendous adversity, and guides listeners through applying the same methods to their own lives. Combining remarkable stories from Marcus's life with insights from modern psychology and the enduring wisdom of his philosophy,How to Think Like a Roman Emperor puts a human face on Stoicism and offers a timeless and essential guide to handling the ethical and psychological challenges we face today. ...Show more

Derrida Downunder by Laurence Simmons and Heather Worth (eds)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

This book developed from a visit to New Zealand in 1999 by Jacques Derrida, the foremost 'postmodern' philosopher of the late 20th century. It contains a collection of essays and discussions of his work, as well as an article by Derrida himself.

Paroxysm by Jean Baudrillard and Phillippe Petit

$12.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason by T. D. Weldon

$25.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

The Good State: On the Principles of Democracy by A. C. Grayling

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy?   A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary - among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age at which you can marry, gamble, join the army and must pay taxes if you work) - to ensure the intentions of such a constitution could not be subverted or ignored. As democracies around the world show signs of decay, the issue of what makes a good state, one that is democratic in the fullest sense of the word, could not be more important.   To take just one example: by the simplest of measures, neither Britain nor the United States can claim to be truly democratic. The most basic tenet of democracy is that no voice be louder than any other. Yet in our 'first past the post' electoral systems a voter supporting a losing candidate is unrepresented, his or her voice unequal to one supporting a winning candidate, who frequently does not gain a majority of the votes cast. This is just one of a number of problems, all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world.   ...Show more

The Basic Writings of Martin Heidegger Key Selections from Being and Time to The Task of Nothing by Martin Heidegger

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

An Introduction to Western Philosophy - Ideas and Argument from Plato to Sartre by Antony Flew

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

Michel Foucault, Philosopher - Essays Translated from the French and German by Timothy J. Armstrong

$16.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

This collection of essays on the philosophy of Foucault assesses his various work from a variety of perspectives: his place in the history of philosophy; his style and method of philosophical expression; his notions of political power; his ethical thought; and his attitude to psychoanalysis.

MIchel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture - Interviews and Other Writings, 1977-1984 by Lawrence D. Kritzman (Editor); Alan Sheridan (Translator); Michel Foucault

$20.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Politics, Philosophy, Culture contains a rich selection of interviews and other writings by the late Michel Foucault. Drawing upon his revolutionary concept of power as well as his critique of the institutions that organize social life, Foucault discusses literature, music, and the power of art while al so examining concrete issues such as the Left in contemporary France, the social security system, the penal system, homosexuality, madness, and the Iranian Revolution. ...Show more

Marxism and Philosophy by Karrl Korsch

$8.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

Body/Text in Julia Kristeva - Religion, Women, and Psychoanalysis by David Crownfield (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

Julia Kristeva works at a crucial intersection of contemporary disciplines: psychoanalysis, linguistics, semiotics, literary criticism, feminism, postmodern philosophy, and religious studies. This volume examines this rich body of work and the ways in which its interdisciplinary style gives insight into problems in understanding religion. Special attention is given to two related themes: the understanding of woman in relation to religion and the role of mother (especially of mother's body) in the formation of self and of a religious discourse. Issues recurrent in the essays include the problem of ethics; the relation between discourse and the life of the body; the formation and sublimation of narcissism; the pre-Oedipal function of the father; the functions of fantasy, imagination, and art; the relation of religion to the negation of woman; and the possibility of positive and playful religion. The themes of the relation between the symbolic structures of language and a pre-symbolic semiotics of the infant body, of the split and decentered subject, and of the opposition between desire and Jouissance (ecstatic enjoyment) participate in organizing the discussion. Abjection and sacrifice in religion, the dynamics of Christian love and faith, the relation between the doctrine of the Virgin Mary and the experience of motherhood, and the question of feminism and its sometimes quasi-religious forms are also thematic. ...Show more

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good