Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life by Henri Lefebvre
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
Rhythmanalysis displays all the characteristics which made Lefebvre one of the most important Marxist thinkers of the twentieth century. In the analysis of rhythms -- both biological and social -- Lefebvre shows the interrelation of space and time in the understanding of everyday life.With dazzling skil ...Show more
How to Be Alone: The School Of Life by Sara Maitland
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Category: Philosophy
In How to Be Alone, Sara Maitland asks how we have arrived in a culture that values individualism, personal autonomy, independence and fulfilment higher than ever before in human history -- but at the same time is terrified of solitude. Delving in to history to answer this question, she examines our cha ...Show more
In the Freud Archives by Janet Malcolm
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Category: Philosophy
Who will inherit the secrets of Sigmund Freud? Who will protect his reputation? Who may destroy it? Janet Malcolm's investigation into the personalities who clash over Freud's legacy has become a celebrated story of seduction and betrayal, love and hatred, fantasy and reality. It is both a comedy and a ...Show more
The Lot: In Words by Michael Leunig
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Category: Philosophy
Musings from a truly original thinker on eveything under the sun and many things over the moon.There are few aspects of existence to which Michael Leunig has not turned his renaissance mind, as a bemused and committed member of the human plight. From his cartoonist's sensibilities comes a peculiar journ ...Show more
The Question Book by Mikael Krogerus
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Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Tschäppeler and Krogerus Collection
What would be your ideal job if you didn't have to worry about money? Would you like to have more responsibility or less? How far would you go for a promotion? When did you last stand up for what you believe in? What are you afraid of? In this unique handbook to your own life and work, there are no righ ...Show more
The Philosophical Life - Twelve Great Thinkers and the Search for Wisdom from Socrates to Nietzsche by James Miller
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Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good-very good
Before the good life was reduced to a bottle of Prozac, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and what makes a life worth living. In The Philosophical Life, James Miller returns to this vibrant tradition with short, lively biographies of twelve famous ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
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Category: Philosophy
"Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be m ...Show more
Hopes and Prospects by Noam Chomsky
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Category: Philosophy
In this urgent new book, Noam Chomsky surveys the threats and prospects of our early twenty-first century. Exploring challenges such as the growing gap between North and South, American exceptionalism (even under Obama), the fiascos of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Israeli assault on Gaza and the recent fin ...Show more
Great Ideas: Writings from the Zen Masters by PENGUIN GROUP AUSTRALIA
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas
These are unique stories of timeless wisdom and understanding from the Zen Masters. With rich and fascinating tales of swords, tigers, tea, flowers and dogs, the writings of the Masters challenge every perception - and seek to bring all readers closer to enlightenment. Throughout history, some books hav ...Show more
Early Socratic Dialogues by Plató; Chris Emlyn-Jones (Editor); Trevor J. Saunders (Editor, Translator, Introduction by)
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Rich in drama and humour, the Early Socratic Dialogues include the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics. Together, these dialogues provide a definitive portra ...Show more
Timaeus and Critias by Plato
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Category: Philosophy
Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming of man. Timaeus introduces the ...Show more
Atheist & a Christian Walk Into a Bar by Randal Rauser
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Category: Philosophy | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The question of God is simply too important--and too interesting--to leave to angry polemicists. That is the premise of this friendly, straightforward, and rigorous dialogue between Christian theologian Randal Rauser and atheist Justin Schieber. Setting aside the formality of the traditional debate, the ...Show more