The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy by Wolfram Eilenberger
$55.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An enthralling intellectual adventure, starring the four women who created new ways of thinking from the ruins of totalitarianism and war, by the acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians The year is 1933. Hannah Arendt escapes Berlin, seeking refuge among the stateless gathering in Paris. Simone de Be ...Show more
The Zen of Cat: An A–Z of Japanese feline philosophy by Carla Francis
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
There's no doubt cats are a meaningful feature of Japanese culture. It's believed that felines first appeared in Japan with the arrival of Buddhism, and they've left a giant paw print on the culture. From folklore to fashion, cat shrines to cat islands, what can we learn from these philosophical felines ...Show more
Voltaire (The Great Philosophers) by John Gray
$14.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Great Philosophers Ser.
'Judge a man by his questions, rather than by his answers.' VoltaireVoltaire was one of the first philosophers to be commercially successful internationally. Famous for his strong views on the importance of civil liberties, he was equally renowned for his wit. A prolific letter writer, he was also the a ...Show more
200 Words to Help You Talk About Philosophy by Anja Steinbauer
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: 200 Words Ser.
If you have ever felt at a disadvantage when joining in a conversation on a subject that you aren't confident about, this new series is for you. Each book features definitions of two hundred words frequently used to describe and discuss a smart subject. Philosophy can be baffling, as well as fascinating ...Show more
50 Philosophy Classics: Thinking, Being, Acting Seeing - Profound Insights and Powerful Thinking from Fifty Key Books by Tom Butler Butler Bowdon
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
For over 2000 years, philosophy has been our best guide to the experience of being human, and the true nature of reality. From Aristotle, Plato, Epicurus, Confucius, Cicero and Heraclitus in ancient times to 17th century rationalists Descartes, Leibniz and Spinoza, from 20th-century greats Jean-Paul Sar ...Show more
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need To Know by Ben Dupre
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know Series
Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone - and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and o ...Show more
A Companion to Philosophy in Australia & New Zealand by Graham Oppy and N N Trakakis
$70.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An updated and expanded edition which now includes Australian Aboriginal Philosophy, History and Philosophy of Science and The Oxbridge Connection.
A Left That Dares to Speak Its Name - 34 Untimely Interventions by Slavoj Zizek
$30.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
With irrepressible humor, Slavoj ?i?ek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex "unicorns" to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking aim at his enemies on the Left, Right, and Center, he argues that contemporary society can only be properly u ...Show more
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
$41.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearA Globe and Mail Best Book of the YearA Publishers Weekly Best Book of the YearA Tablet Best Book of the YearWinner of a Christianity Today Book Award "One finds big nuggets of insight, useful to almost anybody with ...Show more
Age of Genius: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind: The Seventeenth Century and the Birth of the Modern Mind by A. C. Grayling
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of the natural order that ghosts could burst from the ground, and 1649, when a large crowd, perhaps including some who had seen Macbeth forty-four years earl ...Show more
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry by Bertrand Russell; Michael Potter (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics Ser.
An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 when Bertrand Russell was 25 years old. It marks his first major foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. It provides a brilliant insight into Russell's early philosophic ...Show more
Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
2018 EISNER AWARD-WINNER - BEST HUMOUR PUBLICATION In Baking with Kafka, Tom Gauld asks the questions no one else dares ask about civilisation as we know it. - How do you get published during a skeleton apocalypse? - What was the secret of Kafka's lemon drizzle cake? - And what plot possibilities does ...Show more