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Everytime I Find the Meaning of Life ... by Daniel Klein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college student studying philosophy, Daniel Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could. Now ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The history of philosophy has been a predictably tragic or comical succession of palliatives for human disquiet. Thinkers from Spinoza to Berdyaev have pursued the perennial questions of how to be happy, how to be good, how to be loved, and how to live in a world of change and loss. But perhaps we can l ...Show more
All About Love: New visions by Bell Hooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Love Song to the Nation Ser.
THE ACCLAIMED FIRST VOLUME IN HER "LOVE SONG TO THE NATION" "The word 'love' is most often defined as a noun, yet . . . we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the ...Show more
The Analects by Confucius
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
The Analects are a collection of Confucius's sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together they express a philosophy, or a moral code, by which Confucius, one of the most humane thinkers of all time, believed everyone should live. Upholding the ideals of wisdom, self ...Show more
Portable Hannah Arendt by Peter Baehr (Introduction by); Hannah Arendt
$37.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A collection of writings by a groundbreaking political thinker, including excerpts from The Origins of Totalitarianism and Eichmann in Jerusalem She was a Jew born in Germany in the early twentieth century, and she studied with the greatest German minds of her day--Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers ...Show more
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft; Miriam Brody (Introduction by)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
Written during a time of great political turmoil, social anxiety, and against the backdrop of the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft's argument continues to challenge and inspire. This revised and expanded Third Edition is again based on the 1792 second-edition text and is accompanied by revised and expa ...Show more
Great Ideas: On The Shortness Of Life by Seneca
$12.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Timeless advice on the art of living well, from the celebrated Penguin Great Ideas series The writings of the ancient Roman philosopher Seneca offer powerful insights into stoicism, morality and the importance of reason, and continue to provide profound guidance to many through their eloquence, lucidity ...Show more
Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton; John Armstrong;
$24.95 AUD
Category: Art & Photography
" What is art's purpose? In this engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain de Botton and art historian John Armstrong propose a new way of looking at familiar masterpieces, suggesting that they can be useful, relevant, and - above all else - therapeutic for their viewer ...Show more
Confabulations by John Berger
$16.99 AUD
Category: Theory
'Language is a body, a living creature ...and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and pol ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
$12.99 AUD
Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
Feline Philosophy: Cats and the Meaning of Life by John Gray
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A playful yet profound examination of what cats can teach us about life and how to live it 'When I play with my cat, how do I know she is not passing time with me rather than I with her?' Montaigne There is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather it seems that at some point cats sa ...Show more
Noise by Daniel Kahneman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory
From the multi-million copy bestselling author of Thinking Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman, the co-author of the million-copy bestseller Nudge Cass Sunstein, and the eminent professor and writer on strategic thinking Olivier Sibony, a new book about how to make better decisions. We make thousands of decis ...Show more
