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  • Imagination and Truth

    Creative Discovery in the Platonic Tradition

    by John V. Garner ...
    In dialogue with contemporary continental and Anglo-American philosophers, John V. Garner explores the ancient idea that imagination plays a fundamental role in the expression of reality.Inspired in particular by Plato, Aristotle, Proclus, and Islamic Neoplatonism, this book argues that, far from merely a personal projection by the psyche, the act of imagining can also be a mode of creative ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Democracy and Relativism

    A Debate

    by Cornelius Castoriadis ...
    Translated by John V. Garner ...
    Series series Reinventing Critical Theory
    In this vibrant debate with intellectuals influenced by Marcel Mauss, including Alain Caillé and Chantal Mouffe, the incisive Greek-French activist and philosopher Cornelius Castoriadis addresses the challenge of critical thinking in an international context.The first half explores the tradition of radical self-critique and the prospect of affirming its value in a non-ethnocentric way. While ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

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  • The Philosopher's Toolkit

    A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

    by Julian Baggini, Peter S. Fosl ...
    The second edition of this popular compendium provides the necessary intellectual equipment to engage with and participate in effective philosophical argument, reading, and reflectionFeatures significantly revised, updated and expanded entries, and an entirely new section drawn from methods in the history of philosophyThis edition has a broad, pluralistic approach--appealing to readers in both ... Read more

    $23.95 USD

  • The Philosopher's Toolkit

    A Compendium of Philosophical Concepts and Methods

    by Peter S. Fosl, Julian Baggini ...
    A new edition of the bestselling guide to the study of philosophy: the ideal intellectual ‘toolkit’ for sharpening analytical skills and building philosophical acuityWhether used as a guide to basic principles or a resource for key concepts and methods, The Philosopher's Toolkit equips readers with all the intellectual ‘tools’ necessary for engaging closely with philosophical argument and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • A New Stoicism

    Revised Edition

    by Lawrence C. Becker ...
    What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical theory, if it had coped successfully with the challenges of modern philosophy and experimental science? A New Stoicism proposes an answer to that question, offered from within the stoic tradition but without the metaphysical and psychological assumptions that modern philosophy and science have ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The False Dialectic between Christians and Atheists

    by Tom Donovan ...
    Could it be that atheism and belief in God are both forms of avoidance behavior? It's easier to focus on belief than it is to take up a new practice of living. Perhaps both are ideological distractions that mystify the nature of reality and what knowledge is. What if we admit that we are neither believers nor atheists: Does that mean we're nothing?Philosophy aims to help us understand the world ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Oneself as Another

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Translated by Kathleen Blamey ...
    Paul Ricoeur has been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of the century. Oneself as Another, the clearest account of his "philosophical ethics," substantiates this position and lays the groundwork for a metaphysics of morals.Focusing on the concept of personal identity, Ricoeur develops a hermeneutics of the self that charts its epistemological path and ontological status. ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics

    Aristotle, Lonergan, and Nussbaum on Emotions and Moral Insight

    by Robert J. Fitterer ...
    Since the Enlightenment, a great deal of ethical philosophy has presumed that rational human beings must set aside their emotions when seeking to make objective and sound moral decisions. Love and Objectivity in Virtue Ethics challenges this presumption, arguing that emotions such as compassion and love are powerful aids in the complex process of attaining objective moral truths in decisions and ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Spinoza

    Basic Concepts

    by Andre Santos Campos ...
    Spinoza is among the most pivotal thinkers in the history of philosophy. He has had a deep and enduring influence on a wide range of philosophical subjects, and his work is encountered by all serious students of Western philosophy. His Ethics is one of the seminal works of metaphysical, moral, religious and political thought; his Theological-Political Treatise inaugurated a novel method of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Back to the Rough Ground

    Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique

    by Joseph Dunne ...
    Series series Revisions: A Series of Books on Ethics
    Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a range of disciplines such as education, psychotherapy, medicine, management, and law. Through reflection on key modern thinkers who have revived cardinal ... Read more

    $37.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Irigaray

    by Rachel Jones ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    The work of French Philosopher Luce Irigaray has exerted a profound influence on feminist thinking of recent decades and provides a far-reaching challenge to western philosophy's entrenched patriarchal norms.This book guides the reader through Irigaray's critical and creative transformation of western thought. Through detailed analysis of her most important text, Speculum of the Other Woman, ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • Meaning in Life

    by Thaddeus Metz ...
    What makes a person's life meaningful? Thaddeus Metz offers a new answer to an ancient question which has recently returned to the philosophical agenda. He proceeds by examining what, if anything, all the conditions that make a life meaningful have in common. The outcome of this process is a philosophical theory of meaning in life. He starts by evaluating existing theories in terms of the classic ... Read more

    $36.89 USD