Subverting the Leviathan - Reading Thomas Hobbes As a Radical Democrat by James R Martel
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays lip service to the superior interpretive authority of the sovereign, he consistently subverts this authority throughout the book by returning it to the reader. Martel demonstrates that Hobb ...Show more
In Sensible Judgement by Max Deutscher
$65.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
Taking its bearings from classic texts including Plato, Kant, Hegel and Arendt this thoughtful and intriguing book provides philosophical reflection on what it is to judge and what judgement achieves alongside, and sometimes in competition with, thinking and willing. Opening with the landmark Mabo High ...Show more
Karl Popper - A Centenary Assessment Volume I - Life and Times, and Values in a World of Facts by David Miller; Ian Jarvie; Karl Milford
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Without doubt Karl Popper is one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. He first developed his philosophical views in Vienna, taking issue with ideas he encountered here. The contributors to this book aim to discuss his views critically, in accordance with his outlook, since he gave ce ...Show more
Karl Popper - A Centenary Assessment Volume III - Science by David Miller; Ian Jarvie; Karl Milford
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: near fine
Sir Karl Popper (1902 1994) is one of the most controversial and widely read philosophers of the 20th century. His influence has been enormous in the fields of epistemology, logic, metaphysics, methodology of science, the philosophy of physics and biology, political philosophy, and the social sciences, ...Show more
Advancement of Learning/Novum Organum/New Atlantis by Francis Bacon
$12.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Series: Great Books of The Western World 30 | Reading Level: very good
The Right Relationship - Reimagining the Implementation of Historical Treaties by John Borrows (Editor); Michael Coyle (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The relationship between Canada's Indigenous peoples and the Canadian government is one that has increasingly come to the fore. Numerous tragic incidents and a legacy of historical negligence combined with more vehement calls for action is forcing a reconsideration of the relationship between the federa ...Show more
Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought - Ideas that Shaped the World by Kenneth McLeish (Editor)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Reference | Reading Level: very good
Ideas have spurred the way to human progress, from the earliest cave dweller to the latest frontiers of computers and technology.
AnIntelligent Person's Guide to Modern Guilt by Paul Oppenheimer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Guilt makes no compromises. One may be a little in love or a little bit angry, but the idea of degrees of guilt is meaningless. Any guilt, whether of the emotional, religious or legal variety, is fiendishly intense. The word itself points to a mysterious intensity of indebtedness, and this with an absol ...Show more
The Jew of Linz - Wittgenstein, Hitler and their Secret Battle for the Mind by Kimberley Cornish
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
Offering the theory that Hitler and Wittgenstein were in the same class at school, this book proposes that the latter was the specific target of Hitler's bile in Mein Kampf, in which he describes a Jew at school, and that Hitler's beliefs about Jews came from the experience of meeting Wittgenstein at th ...Show more
After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture and Postmodernism by Andreas Huyssen
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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
The Logic of the Gift - Toward an Ethic of Generosity by Alan D. Schrift (Editor)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good-very good
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