What Do We Really Know? The Big Questions in Philosophy by Simon Blackburn
27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In What Do We Really Know? Simon Blackburn addresses the twenty most-asked philosophical questions, including 'Can machines think?', 'What is the meaning of life?', 'Is death to be feared?', 'Why be good?', 'What am I?' and 'What do we really know?' Each 3000-word essay examines a question that has eter ...Show more
Seeing the Invisible: On Kandinsky by Michel Henry
36.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
This work provides a unique, philosophical interpretation of a significant twentieth-century painter - Wassily Kandinsky. Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around the theme of life. In contrast to the scie ...Show more
The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In this highly anticipated new book, the bestselling author of The End of Faith and Letter to a Christian Nation call for an end to religion's monopoly on morality and human values. The End of Faith ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Sam Harris discovered that ...Show more
From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest by T. Z Lavine
19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"From Socrates To Satre" presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of f he great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society Plato's Athens to today when the commanding power of Marxism has captured one third of the world. T.Z. Lavi ...Show more
The Uses of Pessimism: and the Danger of False Hope by Roger Scruton
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In this provocative and passionately argued book, Roger Scruton proposes that the greatest harm and havoc has been wrought on the world by those who have presented themselves as optimists and idealists, whether of the left or of the right. Scruton argues that the tragedies and disasters of the history ...Show more
The Hobbit and Philosophy: for When You've Lost Your Dwarves, Your Wizard, and Your Way by William Irwin
25.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
A philosophical exploration of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved classic--just in time for the December 2012 release of Peter Jackson's new film adaptation, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is one of the best-loved fantasy books of all time and the enchanting "prequel" to The Lor ...Show more
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning by Ray Jackendoff
44.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning presents a profound and arresting integration of the faculties of the mind - of how we think, speak, and see the world. Ray Jackendoff starts out by looking at languages and what the meanings of words and sentences actually do. He shows that meanings are more adap ...Show more
Spider-Man and Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry by Jonathan J. Sanford
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
Untangle the complex web of philosophical dilemmas of Spidey and his world - in time for the release of "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie. Since Stan Lee and Marvel introduced "Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy number 15" in 1962, everyone's favorite webslinger has had a long career in comics, graphic novels, ...Show more
The Big Lebowski and Philosophy: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom by William Irwin
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsch ...Show more
The Republic: The Influential Classic by Plato
22.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Capstone Classics
The newest deluxe edition in the bestselling Capstone Classics Series This ancient classic has had a make-over. In recent years these Capstone Classic deluxe editions have caught the book buying public's imagination. The volumes of international bestsellers such as Think and Grow Rich and The Art of War ...Show more
The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness by Gary Cox
36.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
This is an entertaining philosophical guide to life, death, everything and nothing! "The Existentialist's Guide to Death, the Universe and Nothingness" is an entertaining and thoroughly philosophical guide to life, death, everything and nothing. Gary Cox, bestselling author of "How to Be an Existentiali ...Show more
Fate & Philosophy: A Journey Through Life's Great Questions by Jim Flynn
33.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
Jim Flynn is on a mission to change how we think about the modern world, our place in it, and the moral choices we make. In The Torchlight List he argued that great literature can change lives. Now in Fate & Philosophy, he looks at tough moral decisions we face and urges us not to be influenced by s ...Show more