Introducing Hegel: A Graphic Guide by Lloyd Spencer
15.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing... S.
INTRODUCING guide to the hugely influential German thinker. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel is one of the greatest thinkers of all time. No other philosopher has had such a profound impact on the ideas and political events of the 20th century. Hegel's influential writings on philosophy, politics, history ...Show more
Introducing Machiavelli: A Graphic Guide by Patrick Curry
15.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Introducing... S.
Illustrated guide to the crucial Italian philosopher and author of The Prince. 'Machiavellian' is a popular byword for treachery and opportunism. Machiavelli's classic book on statecraft, The Prince, published over 400 years ago, remains controversial to this day because of its electrifying frankness as ...Show more
The Great Philosophers: The Lives and Ideas of History's Greatest Thinkers by Stephen Law
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The biographical portraits of the 50 most important philosophers in history of Western thought are presented here. Each biography is accompanied by an iconic image of the philosopher, a timeline of key events, and a memorable quotation from a key philosophical concept.
50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Have you ever lain awake at night fretting over how we can be sure of the reality of the external world? Perhaps we are in fact disembodied brains, floating in vats at the whim of some deranged puppet-master? If so, you are not alone and what's more, you are in exalted company. For this question and oth ...Show more
Choice by Renata Salecl
39.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Big Ideas
This is a brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair. We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identity seem to be there for the ...Show more
Violence : Six sideways reflections (Big Ideas series) by Slavoj Zizek
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Slavoj Zizek is one of the most important cultural theorists of our times. Tickets for his lectures sell out weeks in advance and a peer reviewed journal is devoted to his work. But his capacity to fascinate the uninitiated and subvert the rules of academia has taken his fame far beyond the world's lect ...Show more
Freedom From the Known by J. Krishnamurti
29.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Reveals how we can free ourselves radically and immediately from the tyranny of the expected. By changing ourselves, we can alter the structure of society and our relationships. This book stresses on the vital need for change and the recognition of its very possibility form.
Chinese Wisdom by Edward L. Shaughnessy
40.00 NZD
41.00 (2% off)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Eternal Moments
This unique anthology brings together the most inspiring and illuminating thoughts from China's long and magnificent past. The selection ranges widely - from the humane ideals of Confucius and Mencius to the more esoteric thoughts expressed in the Tao Te Ching and the Zhuangzi, the founder texts of Taoi ...Show more
First As Tragedy, Then As Farce by Slavoj Zizek
32.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In this bravura analysis of the current global crisis - following on from his bestselling "Welcome to the Desert of the Real" - Slavoj Zizek argues that the liberal idea of the end of history, declared by Francis Fukuyama during the 1990s, has had to die twice. After the collapse of the liberal-democrat ...Show more
In Defense of Lost Causes by Slavoj Zizek
48.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In this combative major new work, philosophical sharpshooter Slavoj A iA ek takes on the reigning ideology with a plea that we should reappropriate several lost causes,A" and looks for the kernel of truth in th ...Show more
Introducing Kierkegaard by Dave Robinson
23.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Soren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and the first modern theologian. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. His distrust of grand abstract schemes, particularly Hegel's, and his insistence that philosophy is essen ...Show more