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
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