How We Became Human by Tim Dean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Over thousands of years, humans have developed mechanisms to help us live together in ever-larger social groups. We developed a set of 'moral emotions' such as empathy, guilt and outrage, as well as a tendency to favour people in our in-groups and a propensity to punish perceived wrongdoers. Our cultur ...Show more
Disobey! - A Philosophy of Resistance by Frederic Gros; David Fernbach (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory
Exploring the philosophy of disobedience The world is out of joint, so much so that disobeying should be an urgent question for everyone. In this provocative essay, Fr d ric Gros explores the roots of political obedience. Social conformity, economic subjection, respect for authorities, constitutiona ...Show more
The Selected Works of Edward Said - 1966-2006 by Edward Said; Moustafa Bayoumi (Editor); Assistant Professor of English Andrew Rubin (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Theory
A definitive volume expanded and updated to do justice to the four decade career of one of the most important cultural and intellectual thinkers of the 21st century. The renowned literary and cultural critic and political thinker Edward Said was one of our era's most provocative and important thinkers. ...Show more
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
$39.99 AUD
Category: Theory
To the colonized, the term 'research' is conflated with European colonialism; the ways in which scientific research has been implicated in the throes of imperialism remains a painful memory for many of the world's colonized peoples. Here, an indigenous researcher issues a clarion call for the decoloniza ...Show more
On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Theory
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we t ...Show more
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
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Category: Theory | Series: Free Press Paperback
Challenging the Freudian school of thought, this book portrays humans as constantly struggling against inherent ambiguities in themselves and the world, while trying to define themselves to achieve immortality. It sees the denial of death as man's attempt to distinguish himself beyond the grave.
The Force of Nonviolence - An Ethico-Political Bind by Judith Butler
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Category: Theory
"Judith Butler is the most creative and courageous social theorist writing today. - Cornel West "Judith Butler is quite simply one of the most probing, challenging, and influential thinkers of our time." - J. M. Bernstein Judith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected t ...Show more
The Fourfold Remedy: Epicurus and the Art of Happiness by John Sellars
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Category: Theory
What do we really need in order to live a happy life? Over two thousand years ago the Greek philosopher Epicurus offered a seemingly simple answer: pleasure. All we really want is pleasure. Today we tend to associate the word 'Epicurean' with the enjoyment of fine food and wine and decadent self-indulge ...Show more
The Politics of Public Space, Volume 02 - Public Lectures in Contentious Places by Office (Editor); Tom Muratore (Editor); Jack Self; et al
$27.99 AUD
Category: Theory
The Politics of Public Space is a quarterly publication of transcripts that speak directly to the city and the way we read it. The publication is edited and published by not for profit, design and research practice, OFFICE. Beginning in 2018 at OFFICE curated a series of informal lectures within content ...Show more
The Care Manifesto by The Care Collective
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Category: Theory
The Care Manifesto puts care at the heart of the debates of our current crisis- from intimate care childcare, healthcare, elder care to care for the natural world. We live in a world where carelessness reigns, but it does not have to be this way. The Care Manifesto puts forth a vision for a truly caring ...Show more
Mutual Aid - Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade
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Category: Theory
Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality. As governments fail to respond ...Show more
Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics by Georg Hegel
$9.95 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For if the artists of classical Greece could find the perfect fusion of content and form, modernity faced comp ...Show more