Metamorphoses of the City - On the Western Dynamic by Pierre Manent; Marc LePain (Translator)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
What is the best way to govern ourselves? The history of the West has been shaped by the struggle to answer this question, according to Pierre Manent. A major achievement by one of Europe's most influential political philosophers, Metamorphoses of the City is a sweeping interpretation of Europe's ambiti ...Show more
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism by Andreas Huyssen
$15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Language, Discourse, Society Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Today's challenge to the divide between mass culture and modernism goes by the name of the postmodern. Huyssen argues that postmodernism itself cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as its artistic and political strategies are indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity - ...Show more
The Contest of Faculties: Deconstruction, Philosophy and Theory by Christopher Norris
$12.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Nation and Narration by Homi K. Bhabha (Editor)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the prof ...Show more
The Political Psyche by Andrew Samuels
$18.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Reading Level: very good
What can depth psychology and politics offer each other? In The Political Psyche Andrew Samuels shows how the inner journey of analysis and psychotherapy and the passionate political convictions of the outer world are linked. He brings an acute psychological perspective to bear on public themes such as ...Show more
The Social Self by David Bakhurst (Editor); Christine Sypnowich (Editor)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Social Science | Series: Inquiries in Social Construction Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Much discussion in recent years has centred on the status of the self, identity and subjectivity in the light of powerful arguments about the social origins of personhood. The Social Selfpresents many dimensions of the debate, spanning psychology, philosophy, politics and feminist theory, and provides a ...Show more
Regulating How We Die - The Ethical, Medical, and Legal Issues Surrounding Physician-Assisted Suicide by Linda L. Emanuel (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Reading Level: very good
The Supreme Court has ruled that states may prohibit physician-assisted suicide. Expressing the views of his fellow justices, Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote, "Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. Our holding ...Show more
A Vital Rationalist: Selected Writings from Georges Canguilhem by Georges Canguilhem; François Delaporte (Editor); Arthur Goldhammer (Translator); Paul Rabinow (Introduction by); Camille Limoges (Contribution by)
$76.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Georges Canguilhem is one of France's foremost historians of science. Trained as a medical doctor as well as a philosopher, he combined these practices to demonstrate to philosophers that there could be no epistemology without concrete study of the actual development of the sciences and to historians th ...Show more
Responsibility Matters by Peter A. French
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Most of us spend a fair amount of time trying to avoid responsibility. That's not too astounding. What is surprising, says Peter French, is that we tend to dodge the good variety as well as the bad. "The problem for most of us, excepting moral masochists, is that responsibility does get doled," he write ...Show more
Practical Reasoning in Bioethics by James F. Childress
$25.00 NZD
Category: Medicine | Series: Medical Ethics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
This is a valuable clarification, re-statement and defence of principlism as an approach to applied ethics. It is strongly recommended to many teachers of bioethics..." --Journal of the American Medical AssociationChildress' book deserves careful study by all concerned with the ethical aspect of contemp ...Show more
Medical Ethics Today - Its Practice and Philosophy by BMA Staff
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This text answers the range of questions commonly raised and relates the long accepted standards which have governed professional behaviour to newly emerging situations. It aims to produce a tool for doctors, whilst recognizing that debate of ethical issues extends beyond the medical profession.
Hare and Critics. Essays on Moral Thinking by Douglas Seanor and N. Fotion (eds)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
This collection of thirteen original essays by such well-known philosophers as Thomas Nagel, Peter Singer, J.O. Urmson, David A.J. Richards, James Griffin, R.B. Brandt, John C. Harsanyi, T.M. Scanlon, and others discusses the philosophy of R.M. Hare put forth in his book Moral Thinking, including his th ...Show more