The History of Sexuality 3 - The Care of the Self (Penguin Modern Classics) by Michel Foucault
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Michel Foucault's landmark account explores our evolving attitudes to sex, and shows how are making a science of sex which is devoted to the analysis of desire rather than the increase in pleasure.
The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
$36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more releva ...Show more
The Meaning of Things - Applying Philosophy to Life by A C Grayling
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
A refreshing distillation of insights into the human condition, by one of the best-known and most popular philosophers in the UK. Thinking about life, what it means and what it holds in store does not have to be a despondent experience, but rather can be enlightening and uplifting. A life truly worth li ...Show more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this highly anticipated new book, the bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation call for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Sam Harris discovered that ...Show more
The Open Society and Its Enemies - New One-Volume Edition by Alan Ryan (Introduction by); Karl R. Popper; E. H. Gombrich (Contribution by)
$74.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin. He taught in Aus ...Show more
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
'How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times' Washington PostHannah Arendt's chilling analysis of the conditions that led to the Nazi and Soviet totalitarian regimes is a warning from history about the fragility of freedom, explor ...Show more
The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women by Rebecca Buxton, Lisa Whiting
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you've probably heard of Plato, Kant, Nietzsche and Locke - but what about Hypatia, Arendt, Oluwole and Young? The Philosopher Queens is a long-awaited book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy. It brings to centre stage twenty prominent ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained by DK
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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The Pleasures of Leisure by Robert Dessaix
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever. Yet so many of us lack a talent for it. We are working longer hours, consuming more than ever before; technology erodes the work-life balance further; increasingly, people feel that only work gives existence ...Show more
The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward by Daniel H. Pink
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
From the internationally bestselling author of When, Drive and To Sell is Human, a new book about the transforming power of that crucial and misunderstood emotion: regret. 'Regret is not dangerous or abnormal, it is healthy and universal, an integral part of being human', Daniel H. Pink writes in his pr ...Show more
The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
$11.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
With notes and an apparatus, a new translation of Hegel's essay "Machiavelli's The Prince and Italy," and the first pages of The Prince in the original Italian At the end of an industrious political career in conflict-riven Italy, the Florentine diplomat Niccolò Machiavelli composed his masterpiece The ...Show more
The Prince (Leather Bound) by MACHIAVELLI, NICCOLO
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions
"[I]t is safer to be feared than loved." These words embody the spirit of The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli's classic work of political philosophy. Machiavelli's advice for how a ruler should acquire and ruthlessly exercise power over others continues to be relevant to contemporary readers more than five ...Show more