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Times of Crisis: What the Financial Crisis Revealed and How to Reinvent Our Lives and Future by Michel Serres
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
For Michel Serres, economic crises are earthquakes caused by societal tectonic plates. The current crisis erupted because of the widening discrepancy between major social changes and institutions that have remained the same since WWII. Serres, one of the first to bring nature into the political, writes, ...Show more
The Judgement of Paris by Kevin D. S. Murray (ed.)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
French Philosophers in Conversation by Raoul Mortley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A collection of interviews with such French philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas. Each thinker represents one or more strand of the Parisien philosophical scene and feminism, literature, phenomenology and semiotics are subjects covered within this book.
The Myth of the Other - Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Bataille by Franco Rella; Nelson Moe (Translator, Foreword by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: PostModernPositions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
On Liberty by John Stuart Mill
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
'Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign'. To this 'one very simple principle' the whole of Mill's essay "On Liberty" is dedicated. While many of his immediate predecessors and contemporaries, from Adam Smith to Godwin and Thoreau, had celebrated liberty, it was Mill who or ...Show more
Thumbelina - The Culture and Technology of Millennials by Michel Serres; Daniel W. Smith (Translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and sh ...Show more
Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisiti ...Show more
Thinker on Stage - Nietzsche's Materialism by Peter Sloterdijk
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Theory and History of Literature Volume 56 | Reading Level: very good
Thinker on Stage is Peter Sloterdijk's audacious, empathetic reading of Friedrich Nietzche's first published work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. Intended originally as a postscript to a new edition of Nietzsche's book, Sloterdijk's text grew and became a book in its own right. Sloterd ...Show more
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism by Andreas Huyssen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Language, Discourse, Society Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Today's challenge to the divide between mass culture and modernism goes by the name of the postmodern. Huyssen argues that postmodernism itself cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as its artistic and political strategies are indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity - ...Show more
Philosophy & Architecture - Journal of Philosophy and the Visual Arts by Nicola Kearton (Editor)
$15.00 NZD
Category: Architecture | Reading Level: very good
Heidegger and the Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates by Thomas Cathcart; Daniel Klein
$10.00 NZD
Category: Humour | Reading Level: very good
Featuring Freud! Groucho Marx! Socrates! Lily Tomlin! Kierkegaard! Buddha! New Yorker cartoonists! Zombies! And of course, Heidegger! Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. Now they tur ...Show more
Understanding the Political Philosophers from Ancient to Modern Times by Alan Haworth
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good