Readings Recommends: Philosophy
Philosophers
$42.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
In this riveting collection twenty-five years in the making, Pyke presents 100 black-and-white portraits of contemporary philosophers, photographed in his distinctive style. The effect of his technique can be startling b... Buy or find out more →
Just The Arguments: 100 Of The Most Important Arguments In Western Philosophy
$29.95 – Paperback book / Wiley
Does the existence of evil call into doubt the existence of God? Show me the argument.
Philosophy starts with questions, but attempts at answers are just as important, and these answers require reasoned argument. Cutting... Buy or find out more →
The Happy Life: The Search For Contentment In The Modern World
$19.95 – Paperback book / Black Inc
In this elegant treatise, David Malouf returns to one of the most fundamental questions and gives it a modern twist: what makes for a happy life?
With grace and profundity, Malouf discusses new and old ways to talk about... Buy or find out more →
A Little History Of Philosophy
$29.95 – Hardcover book / Yale Univ Pr
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the... Buy or find out more →
Phenomenology Of Perception
$32.95 – Paperback book / Routledge
Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront... Buy or find out more →
The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution And Moral Progress
$27.95 – Paperback book / Princeton Univ Press
What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of ... Buy or find out more →
Hope
$24.95 – Paperback book / Acumen Publishing
In his fascinating and thought-provoking investigation into the meaning of hope, Stan van Hooft shows that hope is a fundamental structure of the way we live our lives. For Aristotle being hopeful was part of a well-live... Buy or find out more →
Who Am I? And If So How Many? A Philosophical Journey
$26.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Who Am I? And If So, How Many? a philosophical journey Richard David Precht
The international bestseller that takes you on a journey through your mind and gives you the answers to the big philosophical questions
There ar... Buy or find out more →
Driving With Plato The Meaning Of Lifes Milestones
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Profile
This is the follow-up to international phenomenon "Breakfast with Socrates". It has everything you'll need to know about history's greatest thinkers and on life's big moments. If life is meaningless as Sartre suggests, w... Buy or find out more →
Time And Philosophy History Of Continental Thought
$44.00 – Paperback book / Acumen Publishing
"Time and Philosophy" presents a detailed survey of continental thought through an historical account of its key texts. The common theme taken up in each text is how philosophical thought should respond to time. Looking ... Buy or find out more →
Immortalization Commission Science And The Strange Quest To Cheat Death
$19.95 – Hardcover book / Allen Lane
An obsession with the nature of death lies at the heart of the human experience. For most of our history religion provided a clear explanation for life and the afterlife. This book raises a host of fascinating questions ... Buy or find out more →
Soul Hypothesis Investigations Into The Existence Of The Soul
$29.95 – Paperback book / Continuum Pub Co
Experts from different fields argue that there are good reasons to believe in the existence of the soul as distinct from the physical body. Buy or find out more →
Thirty Second Philosophies
$19.99 – Hardcover book / Pier 9
I Think Therefore I Am, Existentialism, The Socratic Method and Deconstruction. Sure, you know what they all mean. That is, you've heard about them. But do you know enough about them to join a dinner party debate or dazz... Buy or find out more →
Madness The Invention Of An Idea
$16.95 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
Compelling and highly influential, Michel Foucault's "Madness" is an indispensable work for readers who wish to understand the intellectual evolution of one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century... Buy or find out more →
Ideas That Matter: A Personal Guide For The 21st Century
$27.99 – Paperback book / Phoenix House
This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can and does, change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or e... Buy or find out more →
Examined Lives
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Farrar Straus & Giro
We all want to know how to live. But before the good life was reduced to ten easy steps or a prescription from the doctor, philosophers offered arresting answers to the most fundamental questions about who we are and wha... Buy or find out more →
A New History Of Western Philosophy
$79.95$57.95 – Hardcover book / Oxford University Pr
This book is no less than a guide to the whole of Western philosophy -- the ideas that have undergirded our civilization for two-and-a-half thousand years. Anthony Kenny tells the story of philosophy from ancient Greece ... Buy or find out more →
Introducing Philosophy Through Pop Culture: From Socrates To South Park, Hume To House
$37.95 – Paperback book / Wiley Blackwell
What can South Park tell us about Socrates and the nature of evil? How does The Office help us to understand Sartre and existentialist ethics? Can Battlestar Galactica shed light on the existence of God? Buy or find out more →
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Mind Games: 31 Days To Rediscover Your Brain
$22.95 – Paperback book / Wiley Blackwell
This original and innovative book is an exploration of one of the key mysteries of the mind, the question of consciousness. Conducted through a one month course of both practical and entertaining thought experiments', th... Buy or find out more →
On Balance
$35.95 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
It’s hard to find a balance these days, in our society obsessed with material luxury, consumption and competition. In this highly anticipated series of absorbing, provocative essays, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips takes a l... Buy or find out more →
Public Enemies
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
Two of France's most celebrated - and notorious - thinkers clash head-on in an awe-inspiring, hilarious and revealing battle of the literary titans.
In 2008, Michel Houellebecq and Bernard-Henri Levy began a ferocious ex... Buy or find out more →