The Age of Nothing: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God by Peter Watson
$59.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The closing months of 2008 saw the world's nations united in financial uncertainty. Amid endless reports of collapsing stock markets, failed banks, fiscal fraud and snowballing unemployment, THE AGE OF NOTHING offers a compelling insight into the demise of capitalism and the beginning of a new era. Pete ...Show more
The Girard Reader by Rene Girard
$85.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In one volume, an anthology of seminal work of one of the twentieth century's most original thinkers.
Playground by Nadia Wheatley; Ken Searle (Illustrator); Jackie Huggins (Contribution by)
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
With stunning photographs and illustrations, this book is a fascinating insight, from earliest times to today, into the experiences of Indigenous children, whose land was, and is, their playgroundThere are things which Indigenous children have been doing for thousands upon thousands of years. In traditi ...Show more
An Introduction to Dialectics by Theodor W. Adorno
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
This volume comprises Adorno?s first lectures specifically dedicated to the subject of the dialectic, a concept which has been key to philosophical debate since classical times. While discussing connections with Plato and Kant, Adorno concentrates on the most systematic development of the dialectic in H ...Show more
Literary St. Petersburg - A Guide to the City and Its Writers by Elaine Blair
$26.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Much of Russian literature is St. Petersburg literature: set in the city, about the city, or written by writers who lived there. For each of the fifteen profiled writers, there is a biographical sketch focusing on his or her relationship to the city and a sense of his or her work, along with a list of S ...Show more
Fallen Heroes: Sixteen Master Villain Archetypes by Tami Cowden
$38.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The villain is the hero of his own story - and is every bit as important as the heroic characters. This book contains the lectures and exercises from Tami Cowden's popular online class on villain archetypes. The workshop identifies and examines the motivations of the 16 literary villain archetypes, and ...Show more
A Summer with Montaigne by Antoine Compagnon; Tina Kover
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Michel de Montaigne embodies the Humanist ideal. Curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does Montaigne have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short, erudite and lively chapters written over a single summer, Antoine Compagno ...Show more
The Order of Things by Michel Foucalt
$34.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Traces the evolution of man's study of himself from seventeenth-century human sciences.
Fear and Trembling (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Søren Kierkegaard (Editor); Alastair Hannay (Translator)
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
As one of Soren Kierkegaard's most widely read works, FEAR and TREMBLING presents careful arguments about important biblical topics. Most notably, Kierkegaard acts more-or-less as a defense attorney for Abraham for his even contemplating the murder of his son. In the book, Kierkegaard considers whether ...Show more
The Communist Manifesto (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Gareth Stedman Jones (Introduction by)
$9.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto has become one of the world?s most influential political tracts since its original 1848 publication. Part of the Rethinking the Western Tradition series, this edition of the Manifesto features an extensive introduction by Jeffrey C. Isaac, and essays by Vladimir Tis ...Show more
Animal Crisis - A New Critical Theory by Alice Crary; Lori Gruen
$32.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction, and catastrophic climate change, they issue a cla ...Show more
General Theory of Magic by Marcel Mauss
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Routledge Classics
First written by Marcel Mauss and Henri Humbert in 1902, A General Theory of Magic gained a wide new readership when republished by Mauss in 1950. As a study of magic in 'primitive' societies and its survival today in our thoughts and social actions, it represents what Claude Levi-Strauss called, in an ...Show more