Philosophy and Thought

Jurgen Habermas - The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity - Twelve Lectures - HB ( Translated by Frederick Lawrence )

Hardcover, second printing, 1987, published by MIT Press Cambridge . Translated from the German by Frederick Lawrence .  This critique of French philosophy and the history of German philosophy is a...

Alister E. McGrath / The Twilight Of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World

Atheism

Kaja Silverman / Male Subjectivity at the Margins (Large Paperback)

In Male Subjectivity at the Margins Kaja Silverman provides a feminist and psychoanalytic reading of a variety of masculinities which fall outside the phallic pale -- masculinities which defy the...

Jamie Carlin Watson / What's Good on TV? - Understanding Ethics Through Television (Large Paperback)

    What's Good on TV? Understanding Ethics Through Television presents an introduction to the basic theories and concepts of moral philosophy using concrete examples from classic and contemporary...

Steven Pinker / The Stuff of Thought - Language as a Window into Human Nature(Large Paperback)

  In The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature, Steven Pinker looks at how the relationship between words and thoughts can help us understand who we are. Why do so many swear words...

Hans Urs von Balthasar - The Glory of the Lord A Theological Aesthetics. Theology : The New Covenant · Volume 7

The Glory of the LordA Theological Aesthetics. Theology : the new covenant · Volume 7 In this final volume of his great work, von Balthasar reflects on the New Testament vision of God's revelation of...

Richard Kearney - The Wake of Imagination : Ideas of Creativity in Western Culture - PB

With his remarkable range of vision, the author takes us on a voyage of discovery that leads from Eden to Fellini, from paradise to parody - plotting the various models of the imagination as:...

Michael Laver - Invitation to Politics - PB

An examination of the theory of politics - what do governments do, what should they do, how power is used and transferred , theories of political power , controls, flaws, and influence.  Originally...

Rudolf Steiner / On Fear (Large Paperback)

James N. Powell / Postmodernism for Beginners - Illustrated (Large Paperback)

Jim Powell, Joe Lee (Illustrator)

Rick Hanson / Buddha's Brain (Large Paperback)

The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom Jesus, Moses, the Buddha, and other great teachers were born with brains built essentially like anyone else's. Then they used their minds to...

Michael Bhaskar / Human Frontiers (Large Paperback)

The Future of Big Ideas Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge.The history of humanity is the history...

Peter-Paul Verbeek / Moralizing Technology (Large Paperback)

Understanding and Designing the Morality of Things Technology permeates nearly every aspect of our daily lives. Cars enable us to travel long distances, mobile phones help us to communicate, and...

Oxford Publishing / The Thought Box : Very Short Introductions A Mini 19th Century Philosophy Library (6 Book Box Set)

The Thought Box: Very Short Introductions A Mini 19th Century Philosophy Library (6 Book Box Set)   hegel  kierkegaard marx nietzsche schopenhauer everything

Paul Ormerod / Positive Linking (Large Paperback)

Bradley Studies / The Jourrnal of the Bradley Society 1990s (7 Book Collection)

Bradley Studies: The Jourrnal of the Bradley Society 1990s (7 Book Collection) Bradley Studies was a peer-reviewed journal published by the Bradley Society in the United Kingdom. Established in 1995,...

Edmond Grace / Democracy and Public Happiness (Large Paperback)

Democracy and Public HappinessPoliticians claim to govern in the name of ‘the people’ but do we need them? Not if their only interest is in seeking attention for themselves and to enjoy the perks of...

Robert Greene / The Concise 48 Laws Of Power

The perfect gift book for the power hungr

Andrew Flew / A Dictionary Of Philosophy

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Joe Bailey / Pessimism (Large Paperback)

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Antony Flew - A Dictionary of Philosophy - PB - 1984

Published in this revised edition, Pan UK.  A guidebook to the history of ideas, a handbook for the student of philosophy, or for the general reader seeking a concise definition and explanation of...

Roy Bhaskar / Meta-Reality (Large Paperback)

This new

Thomas a Kempis / The Imitation of Christ

This cla

R. G. H. Siu / The Tao of Science (Exact Copy)

''An essay on western knowledge and Eastern Wisdom'', originally 1964.  Siu applies Oriental philosophy to the problems of Western executives and program directors. The picture shown is the actual...

Ilpo Koskinen / Professional Mobile Image (Large Paperback)

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Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore)

Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in...

Czeslaw Milosz / The Captive Mind

Written in Paris in the early 1950s, this

W.B Gallie - Peirce and Pragmatism - Vintage Pelican PB 1952

Condition - spine darkened heavily, internally very good, light tanning only.  Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions...

Richard L. Gregory / The Oxford Companion to the Mind (Hardback)

With over 900 entries, ranging from brief definitions to substantial essays on major topics, The Oxford Companion to the Mind takes the reader on a dazzling tour of this endlessly fascinating...

Winin Pereira / From Western Science to Liberation Technology (Vintage Paperback)

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Jeffrey J. Kripal / Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion (Hardback)

Jeffrey Kripal here recounts the spectacular history of Esalen, the institute that has long been a world leader in alternative and experiential education and stands today at the center of the human...

Jon Elster, Steven Rendall / Reason and Rationality (Hardback)

One of the world's most important political philosophers, Jon Elster is a leading thinker on reason and rationality and their roles in politics and public life. In this short book, he crystallizes...

Aldous Huxley / Brave New World Revisited

Written 27 years after the 1932 publicati

Sam Harris / Free Will (Large Paperback)

Belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of...

Jean Vanier / Jean Vanier : Essential Writings (Large Paperback)

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A.C. Grayling / The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism

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Sohrab Ahmari / The Unbroken Thread : Discovering the Wisdom of Tradition in an Age of Chaos (Hardback)

For millennia, philosophical, ethical and theological reflection was commonplace among the intellectually curious. But the wisdom that some of the greatest minds across the centuries continue to...

A.C. Grayling / What Is Good?: The Search for the Best Way to Live (Hardback)

  In his major new book A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different...

Simon Blackburn / Being Good: A Short Introduction to Ethics (Hardback)

From political scandals at the highest levels to inflated repair bills at the local garage, we are seemingly surrounded with unethical behavior, so why should we behave any differently? Why should we...

Alan Macfarlane / Letters to Lily : On How the World Works (Hardback)

What is love? Why are families so difficult? How do we get justice? Who is God? What makes us individuals? And why are we here in the first place? In responding to his granddaughter’s challenging...

Damian Thompson / Counterknowledge (Hardback)

We are being swamped by dangerous nonsense. From 9/11 conspiracy theories to Holocaust denial, creationism to alternative medicine, we are all experiencing an epidemic of demonstrably untrue...

Craig Storti / Cross-Cultural Dialogues: 74 Brief Encounters with Cultural Difference (Large Paperback)

Culture affects everything we the simplest phrase can be so steeped in cultural context that even seemingly innocent exchanges between people are loaded with cultural differences waiting to expand...

Robert B. Stewart / The Future of Atheism (Large Paperback)

Containing the transcript of a lively dialogue between Alister McGrath and Daniel Dennett on the topic of the status of atheism, this book highlights points of agreement and disagreement between the...

Vincent MacNamara / New Life for Old: On Desire and Becoming Human (Large Paperback)

MacNamara takes as his starting point the human condition, specifically, human desire. He considers the desires that drive us, the patterns we develop, and the disappointments we suffer. He leads us...

Guy P. Harrison / 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True (Large Paperback)

Maybe you know someone who swears by the reliability of psychics or who is in regular contact with angels. Or perhaps you're trying to find a nice way of dissuading someone from wasting money on a...

Richard Girling / Greed

A timely polemic on how it drove our ancesters out of their caves but is now sending us careening towards our destruction.Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very...

Hans Küng - On Being a Christian - HB -1977

Hardcover, first English language edition, 1977, ( originally 1974) translated by Edward Quinn.  An international bestseller by one of this century's most prominent theologians, On Being a...

Noam Chomsky / Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time

One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' Arundhati RoyIn these incisive interviews, Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the deterioration...

J. Krishnamurti / Freedom From the Unknown

Freedom from the known is a book that provides much needed insight into the monotonous quality our lives have adapted into the book does an in-depth exploration of the idea that life as we know it is...

Conor Cruise O'Brien / Passion & Cunning: Essays On Nationalism, Terrorism & Revolution (Hardback)

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Hannelore Bublitz - Judith Butler zur Einführung - PB -2005

Judith Butler (geb. 1956) ist eine der profiliertesten Vertreterinnen poststrukturalistischer Theorie. Bekannt geworden ist sie mit ihrem Buch Das Unbehagen der Geschlechter, das zum Schlüsselbuch...

Kazuaki Tanahashi / Essential Zen (Hardback)

 Wonderfully lucid, presented here are many classic writings which are the core of Zen. Includes a lively history of Zen and its practice.     All of our books are second hand, and while you may...