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Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life

Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life

Author: David Shoemaker
ISBN: 9780226832968
Format: Hardback
$190.95

A philosopher's case for the importance of good—if ethically questionable—humor. A good sense of humor is key...  Read More >>

JOHNSTONE April 24: Biden's Bloodlust

JOHNSTONE April 24: Biden's Bloodlust

Author: Timothy P Foley ,  Caitlin Johnstone
ISBN: 9780648234531
Format: Paperback
$47.52

A monthly magazine-style publication of essays, articles, poems, art and short stories about the end of illusions....  Read More >>

Salafi Jihadi Discourse of Sunni Islam in the 21st century (Revised): The discourse of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Anwar al-Awlaki and Abu Musab al-Suri

Salafi Jihadi Discourse of Sunni Islam in the 21st century...

Author: Daurius Figueira
ISBN: 9789769678897
Format: Paperback
$36.93

This text first published in 2014 presented a deconstruction of 21st century Salafi Jihadi discourse of Jihad is...  Read More >>

Proclus: Commentary on Plato's 'Republic'

Proclus: Commentary on Plato's 'Republic'

Author: Dirk Baltzly (University of Tasmania) ,  John F. Finamore (University of Iowa)
ISBN: 9781316608319
Format: Paperback
$77.60

The second volume of a three-volume edition presenting the first complete translation of Proclus' commentary on...  Read More >>

Nietzsche Now|

Nietzsche Now|

Author: Glenn Wallis
ISBN: 9781962572415
Format: Paperback
$52.67

For readers both acquainted with and new to the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche NOW! frames and explains...  Read More >>

La Representation Contre La Democratie: de Thomas Hobbes a John Stuart Mill

La Representation Contre La Democratie: de Thomas Hobbes...

Author: Ludmilla Lorrain
ISBN: 9782406168478
Format: Paperback
$132.00

This book, which asks whether democracy can be representative, proposes a genealogy of representative regimes, from...  Read More >>

Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China

Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism,...

Author: Philippe Major
ISBN: 9781438495491
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation...  Read More >>

The Republican Hero: From Homer to Batman

The Republican Hero: From Homer to Batman

Author: Michael Lusztig
ISBN: 9781438495361
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Explores the question of whether heroes matter in the modern republic.  Read More >>

La Representation Contre La Democratie: de Thomas Hobbes a John Stuart Mill

La Representation Contre La Democratie: de Thomas Hobbes...

Author: Ludmilla Lorrain
ISBN: 9782406168485
Format: Hardback
$279.84

This book, which asks whether democracy can be representative, proposes a genealogy of representative regimes, from...  Read More >>

J.D. Ponce �ber Thomas Hobbes: Eine Akademische Analyse des Leviathan

J.D. Ponce �ber Thomas Hobbes: Eine Akademische Analyse...

Author: J D Ponce
ISBN: 9798223311423
Format: Paperback
$47.49

"Dieser spannende Aufsatz konzentriert sich auf die Erkl�rung und Analyse von Thomas Hobbes' ""Leviathan"", einem...  Read More >>

Nationalism

Nationalism

Author: Rabindranath Tagore
ISBN: 9789362139306
Format: Paperback
$29.76

A profound examination of the impact of nationalism on society and individual identity.  Read More >>

Hannah Arendt’s Ambiguous Storytelling: Temporality, Judgment, and the Philosophy of History

Hannah Arendt’s Ambiguous Storytelling: Temporality,...

Author: Marcin Moskalewicz
ISBN: 9781350295872
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendt’s historiography, Marcin Moskalewicz reveals an under-acknowledged...  Read More >>

The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics

The Women Are Up to Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe,...

Author: Benjamin J. Bruxvoort Lipscomb (Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Honors Program, Houghton University)
ISBN: 9780197689967
Format: Paperback
$37.95

The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe,...  Read More >>

Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures

Temporal Politics: Contested Pasts, Uncertain Futures...

Author: Adrian Little
ISBN: 9781399504652
Format: Paperback
$51.72

Adrian Little demonstrates how different conceptions of past, present and future contribute to the nature of political...  Read More >>

The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and Hume

The Unconscious of Thought in Leibniz, Spinoza, and...

Author: Gil Morejon
ISBN: 9781399504812
Format: Paperback
$51.72

The works ofLeibniz, Spinoza and Hume show that thought is not, as such, a matter of consciousness.Gil Morejon explores...  Read More >>

Towards a Critical Existentialism: Truth, Relevance and Politics

Towards a Critical Existentialism: Truth, Relevance...

Author: A. Jeffrey Bell
ISBN: 9781399508339
Format: Paperback
$64.66

Jeffrey Bell developsa critical existentialism and provides a new way of integrating the concerns of existentialist...  Read More >>

Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life

Wisecracks: Humor and Morality in Everyday Life

Author: David Shoemaker
ISBN: 9780226832982
Format: Paperback
$41.95

A philosopher's case for the importance of good—if ethically questionable—humor. A good sense of humor is key...  Read More >>

The Pause: Experiencing Time Interrupted

The Pause: Experiencing Time Interrupted

Author: Julian Jason Haladyn
ISBN: 9780228020813
Format: Paperback
$60.59

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism

Deleuze and Guattari and Fascism

Author: Rick Dolphijn ,  Rosi Braidotti
ISBN: 9781399505239
Format: Paperback
$77.60

In the first volume to place Deleuze and Guattari's philosophy in the context of contemporary fascism, international...  Read More >>

Deleuze and Guattari and Terror

Deleuze and Guattari and Terror

Author: Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha ,  Saswat Samay Das
ISBN: 9781399509879
Format: Paperback
$64.66

This collection of essays considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical ideas in forging a...  Read More >>

Second Treatise of Government

Second Treatise of Government

Author: John Locke
ISBN: 9798869284310
Format: Paperback
$29.01

John Locke's book puts forward major concepts of political philosophy: popular sovereignty, the establishment of...  Read More >>

Peter L. Berger on Religion: The Social Reality of Religion

Peter L. Berger on Religion: The Social Reality of Religion...

Author: Titus Hjelm
ISBN: 9781032746241
Format: Paperback
$77.99

This book provides an overview and critical assessment of the work of one of the most influential sociologists of...  Read More >>

The Pause: Experiencing Time Interrupted

The Pause: Experiencing Time Interrupted

Author: Julian Jason Haladyn
ISBN: 9780228020806
Format: Hardback
$198.00

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