
Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
Aesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literatu...
View full detailsAesthetics, the second volume of the complete collection of Michel Foucault's courses, articles and interviews, focuses on the philosophy, literatu...
View full details"Empty your mind; be formless, shapeless like water." Bruce Lee is a cultural icon, renowned the world over for his martial arts and film legacy. B...
View full details'It is impossible to live the pleasant life without also living sensibly, nobly and justly' The ancient Greek philosopher and teacher Epicurus argu...
View full detailsBeing Peace was one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s first books published in the United States. Intended for peace activists and as a commentary on the peace ...
View full details'What Japan was she owed to the samurai. They were not only the flower of the nation, but its root as well.' Inazo Nitobe's book, the most influent...
View full detailsFrom jewellery to meditation pillows to tourist retreats, religious traditions - especially those of the East - are being commodified as never befo...
View full detailsMost people now realise that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems. Instead, we need a philosophy and a science which...
View full detailsWe are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally,...
View full detailsHow do we preserve what makes us human in an age of uncertainty? Are we now just consumers shaped by market forces? A sequence of DNA? A collection...
View full detailsThis new collection contains some of Camus' most brilliant political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role of the artist in t...
View full detailsEveryone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly-"I hate to be a cynic, but..."-before making their prono...
View full detailsThe grisly spectacle of public executions and torture of centuries ago has been replaced by the penal system in western society - but has anything ...
View full detailsThe Essential Works of Michel Foucault offers the definitive collection of his articles, interviews and seminars from across thirty years of his ex...
View full detailsThere is no real evidence that humans ever 'domesticated' cats. Rather, it seems that at some point cats saw the potential value to themselves of h...
View full detailsThe material world is itself emptiness.Emptiness is itself the material world. Powerful, mystical and concise, the Heart Sutra is believed to conta...
View full details“It isn’t likely that this collection of journal entries, which I’m calling Fragrant Palm Leaves, will pass the censors… I’ll leave Vietnam tomorro...
View full details'We have left dry land and put out to sea! We have burned the bridge behind us - what is more, we have burned the land behind us!' Nietzsche's deva...
View full detailsIn celebration of the 250th anniversary of the birth of G.W.F. Hegel, Slavoj Žižek gives us a reading of the philosophical giant that changes our w...
View full detailsRace is real because we perceive it. Racism is real because we enact it. But the appeal to science to strengthen racist ideologies is on the rise -...
View full details'Don't hope that events will turn out the way you want, welcome events in whichever way they happen' How can we cope when life's events seem beyond...
View full detailsAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern w...
View full detailsHow can Stoicism inspire us to lead more enjoyable lives? In the past few years, Stoicism has been making a comeback. But what exactly did the Stoi...
View full detailsNearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience a...
View full detailsA compelling portrait of one of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, by one of the bestselling writers of the twentieth. In this vi...
View full detailsIn this short introduction to Zen Buddhism, a practising Japanese monk shares the many lessons he has learned from life inside a temple. With charm...
View full details'One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy' W...
View full detailsThe past is forgotten, and the future is without hope. Dystopia has become a reality. This is the new normal in our apocalyptic politics - but if w...
View full detailsThe third and final volume of the Essential Works of Foucault series, Power brings together his writings on the issues that he helped make the core...
View full details'When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no ...
View full detailsSociety Must Be Defended is Michel Foucault's devastating critique of the systems of power and control inherent in civilization. Taken from a serie...
View full detailsDo we see the world as it truly is? In The Case Against Reality, pioneering cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says no? we see what we need in orde...
View full detailsWhy do we know so much more about the cosmos than our own consciousness? Are there limits to the scientific method? Why do we assume that only scie...
View full detailsJudith Butler's new book shows how an ethic of nonviolence must be connected to a broader political struggle for social equality. Further, it argue...
View full detailsedited by Paul Rabinow This is the ideal introduction to one of the most significant and radical philosophers of the past century. It includes deta...
View full detailsThe story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most creative minds known to humanity. But...
View full details'There are certain words which possess, in themselves, when properly used, a virtue which illumines and lifts up towards the good' The philosopher ...
View full detailsOne of Thich Nhat Hanh’s most beloved books, The Sun My Heart contains the journey, on the path of everyday practice, from mindfulness to insight. ...
View full detailstranslated by Richard Howard In The Trouble With Being Born, E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, ...
View full detailsIn this collection of writings, the logbook of an intelligence always on the move, Carlo Rovelli follows his curiosity and invites us on a voyage t...
View full detailsThe kindness we owe one another goes far beyond the everyday gestures of feeding someone else's parking meter--although it's important not to downp...
View full detailsLeo Bersani's career spans more than fifty years and extends across a wide spectrum of fields--including French studies, modernism, realist fiction...
View full details'I have relinquished all that ties me to the world, but the one thing that still haunts me is the beauty of the sky' These simple, inspiring writin...
View full detailsA grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose...
View full details"The deepest economic crisis in eighty years prompted a shallow revival of Marxism," writes Benjamin Kunkel of the 2008 recession--and the shallown...
View full details'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity' How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human c...
View full detailsOptimism demands action. Optimism is an active choice. Optimism is not naïve and it is not impossible. We are living in an age of turmoil, destruct...
View full details'So the only question is: do animals other than man suffer?' One of the great moral philosophers of the modern age, Peter Singer asks unflinching q...
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