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The History of Philosophy by A. C. Grayling
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world's most eminent thinkers The story of philosophy is an epic tale, spanning civilizations and continents. It explores some of the most creative minds in history. ...Show more
Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
$32.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A Guardian Book to Look Out For in 2020 'Humankind challenged me and made me see humanity from a fresh perspective' Yuval Noah Harari From 'the folk hero of Davos', Fox News antagonist and author of the international bestseller Utopia for Realists comes a radical history of our innate capacity for kin ...Show more
Everytime I Find the Meaning of Life ... by Daniel Klein
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
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
Black Swan The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Category: Theory
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
Men Who Hate Women by Laura Bates
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Imagine a world in which a vast network of misogynists is able to operate, virtually undetected. Imagine a world in which these extremists commit terrorist acts, united by their deep hatred of women. Imagine a world in which they groom and radicalise vulnerable teenage boys, shielded by veils of irony a ...Show more
Examined Life by Stephen Grosz
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A Sunday Times bestseller Longlisted for the Guardian first book award A Radio 4 Book of the Week This book is about learning to live. In simple stories of encounter between a psychoanalyst and his patients, The Examined Life reveals how the art of insight can illuminate the most complic ...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
Lessons in Stoicism by John Sellars; Anon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A deeply comforting and enlightening book on how Stoicism can inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives What aspects of your life do you really control? What do you do when you cannot guarantee that things will turn out in your favour? And what can Stoicism teach us about how to live together? In the pa ...Show more
Think Least of Death - Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die by Steven Nadler
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Category: Theory
From Pulitzer Prize-finalist Steven Nadler, an engaging guide to what Spinoza can teach us about life's big questions In 1656, after being excommunicated from Amsterdam's Portuguese-Jewish community for "abominable heresies" and "monstrous deeds," the young Baruch Spinoza abandoned his family's impo ...Show more
Mythologies by Roland Barthes; Annette Lavers (Translator)
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Category: Theory
'Mythologies' is a series of essays on the codings that command our daily life, from hairstyles in the film Julius Caesar to glossy photographs of gourmet cooking, to the cult of foam in detergents.
Essays and Aphorisms by Arthur Schopenhauer
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Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many ...Show more
INTRODUCTION TO CIVIL WAR by TIQQUN
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Category: Theory
Society is not in crisis, society is at an end. The things we used to take for granted have all been vaporized. Politics was one of these things, a Greek invention that condenses around an equation: to hold a position means to take sides, and to take sides means to unleash civil war. Civil war, positio ...Show more
