Nietzsche and Metaphor by Sarah Kofman; Duncan Large (translator)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

This book addresses the question of metaphor in Nietzsche. It provides an unusual reading of Nietzsche's ideas (particularly of the central concept of "will to power") and an incisive method for investigating his style. Developing work on Nietzsche undertaken by Derrida and the post-structuralists, Kofm an shows how Nietzsche's style influences his ideas and how these ideas are to be understood. Since its first publication in France in 1972, this work has been a major influence on readings of Nietzsche and this English-language translation should be widely welcomed. ...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

The Veil of Isis - An essay on the history of the idea of nature by Pierre Hadot

$15.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Wise Words - The Philosophy of everyday life by Stephen Trombley

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking. Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for ob servations that reflect the seriousness, the joy and the strangeness of human existence, counterpointing these words of wisdom with episodes - sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant, sometimes plain odd - from the lives of the great philosophers. WISE WORDS includes, on each of its themes, the thoughts of philosophers from the distant past to the present. The result is a multi-dimensional treatment of each theme that crosses temporal, national and ideological boundaries. ...Show more

The Archeology Of Knowledge & The Discourse On Language by Michel Foucault

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar by Thomas Cathcart

$8.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors - and born vaudevillians - Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's "Weeken d Edition." Lively, original, and powerfully informative, Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is a not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical thinkers and traditions, from Existentialism ("What do Hegel and Bette Midler have in common?") to Logic ("Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything"). Philosophy 101 for those who like to take the heavy stuff lightly, this is a joy to read - and finally, it all makes sense! ...Show more

Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers by Astra Taylor (ed)

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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

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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 aped by technologies, and that with the advent of computers, smart phones, and the Internet, a new human is being born. These new humans beings are our children--thumbelina (petite poucette) and tom thumb (petit poucet)--but technologies have been changing so fast that parents scarcely know their children. Serres documents this cultural revolution, arguing that there have been several similar revolutions in the past: from oral cultures to cultures focused on reading and writing; the advent of the printing press; and now the complex changes brought about by the new information technologies--changes that are taking place at an accelerated pace and that affect us all. ...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 on to contemporary terrorism, Susan Neiman explores who we have become in the three centuries that separate us from the early Enlightenment. In the process, she rewrites the history of modern thought and points philosophy back to the questions that originally animated it. Whether expressed in theological or secular terms, evil poses a problem about the world's intelligibility. It confronts philosophy with fundamental questions: can there be meaning in a world where innocents suffer? Can belief in divine power or human progress survive a cataloging of evil? Is evil profound or banal? Neiman argues that these questions impelled modern philosophy. Traditional philosophers from Leibniz to Hegel sought to defend the Creator of a world containing evil. ...Show more

The Cambridge Companion to Duns Scotus by Thomas Williams (Editor)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Ser. | Reading Level: very good

Each volume in this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation s uch readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. John Duns Scotus (1265/6-1308) was (along with Aquinas and Ockham) one of the three principal figures in medieval philosophy and theology, with an influence on modern thought arguably even greater than that of Aquinas. The essays in this volume systematically survey the full range of Scotus' thought. They take care to explain the technical details of his writing in lucid terms and demonstrate the relevance of his work to contemporary philosophical debate. New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Scotus currently available. ...Show more