Latest Readings (PB) by Clive James
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own impending death In 2010, Clive James was diagnosed with terminal leukemia. Deciding that "if you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do," James moved his librar ...Show more
Islam & the Future of Tolerance - A Dialog by Maajid Nawaz; Sam Harris
$37.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In this deeply informed exchange, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz present an antidote to the polarizing rhetoric and obscurantism that define our time: honest dialogue. Guided by a commitment to the belief that no idea is above scrutiny and no people beneath dignity, Harris and Nawaz challenge each other, a ...Show more
Dymphna by Judith Armstrong
$39.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Dymphna Lodewyckx was a brilliant linguist who easily won prizes and scholarships but cannot be said to have pursued a career; instead, she married Manning Clark, who earned great fame as an Australian historian. Occasional translations and classes gave Dymphna much pleasure and some pride, but they wer ...Show more
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.
The God That Failed by Richard Crossman
$110.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate the fate ...Show more