Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche by Luce Irigaray; Gillian C. Gill
$53.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Published in France in 1980, Marine Lover is the first in a trilogy in which Luce Irigaray links the interrogation of the feminine in post-Hegelian philosophy with a pre-Socratic investigation of the elements. Irigaray undertakes to interrogate Nietzche, the grandfather of poststructuralist philosophy, ...Show more
Heidegger: The Question of Being and History by Jacques Derrida
$77.00 AUD
Category: Theory
Few philosophers held greater fascination for Jacques Derrida than Martin Heidegger, and in this book we get an extended look at Derrida's first real encounters with him. Delivered over nine sessions in 1964 and 1965 at the École Normale Supérieure, these lectures offer a glimpse of the young Derrida fi ...Show more
Goodbye, Things: On Minimalist Living by Fumio Sasaki
$24.99 AUD
Category: Theory
'There's happiness in having less. If you are anything like how I used to be - miserable, constantly comparing yourself with others, or just believing your life sucks - I think you should try saying goodbye to some of your things'Fumio Sasaki is a writer in his thirties who lives in a tiny studio in Tok ...Show more
Understanding a Photograph by John Berger And Geoff Dyer
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Category: Penguin Modern Classics | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. ...Show more
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful by Edmund Burke
$19.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Edmund Burke was one of the foremost philosophers of the eighteenth century and wrote widely on aesthetics, politics and society. In this landmark work, he propounds his theory that the sublime and the beautiful should be regarded as distinct and wholly separate states - the first, an experience inspire ...Show more
Beyond Good And Evil: Pocket Hardbacks by Friedrich Nietzsche
$22.99 AUD
Category: Theory | Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks Ser.
One of the most iconoclastic philosophers of all time, Nietzsche dramatically rejected notions of good and evil, truth and God. Beyond Good and Evil demonstrates that the world is steeped in false piety and infected with a 'slave morality'. With wit and subversive energy, Nietzsche demands that the indi ...Show more
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Age by Daniel Klein
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Category: Theory
Travels with Epicurus- A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of an Authentic Old Ageis a humorous, uplifting meditation on finding the pleasures of old age, by the New York Times bestselling co-author of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. When philosopher, jokester and septuagenarian Daniel Klein goe ...Show more
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters by Steven Pinker
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Category: Theory
In the twenty-first century, humanity is reaching new heights of scientific understanding - and at the same time appears to be losing its mind. How can a species that discovered vaccines for Covid-19 in less than a year produce so much fake news, quack cures and conspiracy theorizing?In Rationality, Pin ...Show more
The Frontiers of Knowledge: What We Know About Science, History and The Mind by A. C. Grayling
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Category: 2022 04 April New Release
In very recent times humanity has learnt a vast amount about the universe, the past, and itself. But through our remarkable successes in acquiring knowledge we have learned how much we have yet to learn: the science we have, for example, addresses just 5 per cent of the universe; pre-history is still be ...Show more
Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality by Frank Wilczek
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Category: 2022 04 April New Release
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist offers ten insights that illuminate all you need to know about the UniverseOne of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers t ...Show more
Reality+ - Virtual Worlds and the Problems of Philosophy by David J Chalmers
$55.00 AUD
Category: 2022 04 April New Release
'Reading it will change the way you think about the universe' Sean Carroll In the coming decades, the technology that enables virtual and augmented reality will improve beyond recognition. Within a century, world-renowned philosopher David J. Chalmers predicts, we will have virtual worlds that are impos ...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 ...Show more