Gone Primitive - Savage Intellects, Modern Lives by Marianna D. Torgovnick
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions,fears, and longings that have produced Western views of theprimitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields(anthropology, psychology, literature, art, and popularculture), Gone Primitive will engage not justspecialists but an ...Show more
Hegel (The Great Philosophers) by Raymond Plant
$19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it''What and how much I possess is a matter of indifference so far as rights are concerned''Education is the art of making man ethical'Without Hegel, moder ...Show more
How to Survive a Crisis - Twelve Intelligence Strategies for When Disaster Strikes by David Omand
$55.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
'Sir David Omand is undoubtedly one of the most able people to have served in British government since the Second World War' TLS We never really know when a crisis might arise. Some 'black swan' events, like terrorist attacks or natural disasters, blow up suddenly out of a clear sky. But some crises bu ...Show more
Image and Insight by Ellen Handler Spitz
$32.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. First edition and signed by the author. Drawing on psychoanalytic discourse, the author of this work probes the use of words and images in contemporary culture. She draws upon a number of artistic movements and exhibitions to examine the emotional and intellectual responses to art.
Imagination and Interpretation in Kant - The Hermeneutical Import of the Critique of Judgment by Rudolf A. Makkreel
$22.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In this illuminating study of Kant's theory of imagination and its role in interpretation, Rudolf A. Makkreel argues against the commonly held notion that Kant's transcendental philosophy is incompatible with hermeneutics. The charge that Kant's foundational philosophy is inadequate to the task of inter ...Show more
Intellectual Property, Biogenetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge by Graham Dutfield
$27.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Biogenetic resources - the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields - are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use, development, and ownership, and the issues of ethics ...Show more
Kierkegaard: The Difficulty of Being Christian by Edited by Jacques Colette
$19.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Marx's Literary Style by Ludovico Silva
$32.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Marx's Literary Style argues that a true understanding of Marx's work requires a careful study of his literary choices In Marx's Literary Style, the Venezuelan poet and philosopher Ludovico Silva argues that much of the confusion around Marx's work results from a failure to understand his literary mode ...Show more
Philosophers Who Changed History by Simon Blackburn
$65.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Lavishly illustrated with portraits of each philosopher, alongside photographs of their homes and studies, and personal artefacts, Philosophers Who Changed History o ...Show more
Philosophy of Language: a contemporary introduction by Aldiss Brian W
$18.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy