Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? Questions from Great Philosophers by Leszek Kolakowski
27.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see?There are questions that have intrigued the world's great thinkers over the ages, which still touch a c ...Show more
The Black Swan: The Impact Of The Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The Black Swan is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don't understand. The other books in the series are Fooled by Randomness, Antifragile, Skin in the Gam ...Show more
The Divided Self by R.D. Laing
27.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Presenting case studies of schizophrenic patients, Laing aims to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. He also offers an existential analysis of personal alienation.
Looking For Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow And The Feeling Brain by Antonio R. Damasio
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A leading neurologist draws on 17th-century philosopher Spinoza and his own experience with patients to show the role of feelings in human affairs. ?Damasio thinks deeply and writes beautifully... We could not ask for a better guide.? < Eric Kandel, Nobel Laureate, Columbia University. The eminent ...Show more
Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
59.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a pla ...Show more
Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
34.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Flamingo Ser.
Here is the book that brought the mystical implications of subatomic physics to popular consciousness for the very first time--way back in 1975. This special edition celebrates the thirty-fifth anniversary of this early Shambhala best seller that has gone on to become a classic. It includes a new prefac ...Show more
Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
47.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Free Press Paperback
Challenging the Freudian school of thought, this book portrays humans as constantly struggling against inherent ambiguities in themselves and the world, while trying to define themselves to achieve immortality. It sees the denial of death as man's attempt to distinguish himself beyond the grave.