The Dharma of the Princess Bride: What the Coolest Fairy Tale of Our Time Can Teach Us About Buddhism and Relationships by Ethan Nichtern
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Humorous yet spiritually rigorous in the tradition of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and The Taoof Pooh, drawing from pop culture and from personal experience, The Dharma of "The Princess Bride" teaches us how to understand and navigate our most important personal relationships from a twenty- ...Show more
Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates by Daniel Klein, Thomas Cathcart
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Featuring Freud! Groucho Marx! Socrates! Lily Tomlin! Kierkegaard! Buddha! New Yorker cartoonists! Zombies! And of course, Heidegger! Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein first made a name for themselves with the outrageously funny New York Times bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar. Now they tur ...Show more
Positive Nihilism: My Confrontation with Heidegger by Hartmut Lange
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Category: Philosophy | Series: Untimely Meditations
There is a beyond of reason and unreason. It is the human psyche. -- Positive Nihilism Like many German intellectuals, Hartmut Lange has long grappled with Heidegger. Positive Nihilism is the result of a lifetime of reading Being and Time and offers a series of reflections that are aphoristic, poetic, a ...Show more
Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns by Bruno Latour; Catherine Porter
$54.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
Over the past twenty-five years, Bruno Latour has developed a research protocol different from the actor-network theory with which his name is now associated--a research protocol that follows the different types of connectors that provide specific truth conditions. These are the connectors that prompt a ...Show more
I Think Therefore I Draw - Understanding philosophy through cartoons by Daniel Klein; Thomas Cathcart
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
What's the best way to answer some of the biggest questions in life-questions like- Does God exist? What is the meaning of life? Is there a basic principle for all moral decisions? What is the best way to organise society? How do we know what is true? Are there limits to what we can know? Why do things ...Show more
Seven Types of Atheism by John Gray
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
When you explore older atheisms, you will find some of your firmest convictions - secular or religious - are highly questionable. If this prospect disturbs you, what you are looking for may be freedom from thought.'For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of rel ...Show more
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide by Richard Dawkins
$32.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Should we believe in God? In this new book, written for a new generation, the brilliant science writer and author of The God Delusion, explains why we shouldn't. Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? In twelve chap ...Show more
The Needs of Strangers by Michael Ignatieff
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Category: Philosophy
What do we need in order to survive?Whose needs do we have a right to speak for?Which needs can be satisfied through political actions, and which cannot?To answer these vital questions, Michael Ignatieff returns to the ancient languages of religion, art, and tragedy--and to important texts by Shakespear ...Show more
Morality and Ethics at War: Bridging the Gaps Between the Soldier and the State by Deane-Peter Baker
$44.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
In Morality and Ethics of War, which includes a foreword by Major General Susan Coyle, ethicist Deane-Peter Baker goes beyond existing treatments of military ethics to address a fundamental problem: the yawning gap between the diverse moral frameworks defining personal identity on the one hand, and the ...Show more
The Human Condition: Second Edition by Hannah Arendt
$36.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
The past year has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism to revolution.A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is in many respects more releva ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
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Category: Philosophy
Part of the Hero Classics series "Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth." A collection of personal writings covering an array of topics. Marcus delves into spiritual reflections and exercises, which he developed as a leader, in his struggled to ...Show more
Heidegger in Ruins - Between Philosophy and Ideology by Richard Wolin
$51.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher? Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism have long been well known. As the rector of the University ...Show more