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Against All Gods- Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness by A C Grayling
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Oberon Masters | Reading Level: very good
Do religions have an inherent right to be respected? Is atheism itself a form of religion, and can there be such a thing as a 'fundamentalist atheist'? Are we witnessing a global revival in religious zeal, or do the signs point instead to religion's ultimate decline? In a series of bold, unsparing polem ...Show more
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man - A Biography by Christopher Hitchens
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Books That Shook the World | Reading Level: very good
Thomas Paine was one of the greatest advocates of freedom in history, and his Declaration of the Rights of Man, first published in 1791, is the key to his reputation. Inspired by his outrage at Edmund Burke's attack on the French Revolution, Paine's text is a passionate defense of man's inalienable righ ...Show more
The History of Sexuality Volume 1 - An Introduction by Michel Foucault
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: History of Sexuality | Reading Level: very good
Why has there been such an explosion of discussion about sex in the west since the 17th century? Here, one of France's greatest intellectuals explores the evolving social, economic and political forces that have shaped our attitudes to sex. In a book that is at once controversial and seductive, Foucault ...Show more
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life by Soren Kierkegaard
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard's major works. The author plays devil's advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question the different alternatives. This book is written to provoke philosophical debate.
Crimes Against Logic : Exposing the bogus arguments of polititians, priests, journalists, and other serial offenders by Jamie Whyte
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Here's a fast-paced, ruthlessly funny romp through the mulligan stew of illogic, unreason, and just plain drivel served up daily in the media by pundits, psychics, ad agencies, New Age gurus, statisticians, free trade ideologues, business "thinkers", and, of course, politicians. Award-winning young phil ...Show more
The Judgement of Paris by Kevin D. S. Murray (ed.)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
French Philosophers in Conversation by Raoul Mortley
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A collection of interviews with such French philosophers as Jacques Derrida, Luce Irigaray and Emmanuel Levinas. Each thinker represents one or more strand of the Parisien philosophical scene and feminism, literature, phenomenology and semiotics are subjects covered within this book.
The Myth of the Other - Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, Bataille by Franco Rella; Nelson Moe (Translator, Foreword by)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: PostModernPositions Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Plato and A Platypus Walk into A Bar by Thomas Cathcart
$8.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar has been a breakout bestseller ever since authors - and born vaudevillians - Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein did their schtick on NPR's "Weeken ...Show more
Thumbelina - The Culture and Technology of Millennials by Michel Serres; Daniel W. Smith (Translator)
$10.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
The title of this timely and thought-provoking book, a French bestseller, refers to schoolgirls sending text messages to their friends on their smart phones. Michel Serres, one of France's most important living intellectuals, uses this image to get at something far broader: that humans are formed and sh ...Show more
Evil in Modern Thought by Susan Neiman
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-century Europeans, the Lisbon earthquake was manifest evil. Today we view evil as a matter of human cruelty, and Auschwitz as its extreme incarnation. Examining our understanding of evil from the Inquisiti ...Show more
Thinker on Stage - Nietzsche's Materialism by Peter Sloterdijk
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Theory and History of Literature Volume 56 | Reading Level: very good
Thinker on Stage is Peter Sloterdijk's audacious, empathetic reading of Friedrich Nietzche's first published work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music. Intended originally as a postscript to a new edition of Nietzsche's book, Sloterdijk's text grew and became a book in its own right. Sloterd ...Show more