Philosophy and Thought

Mark Poster / What's the Matter with the Internet? (Large Paperback)

In What's the Matter with the Internet?, leading cultural theorist Mark Poster offers a sophisticated and astute assessment of the potential the medium has to redefine culture and politics. Avoiding the mindless hype and meaningless jargon that has...

Clare O'Farrell / Michel Foucault (Large Paperback)

Michel Foucault′s work is one of the most influential sources of ideas in the humanities and social sciences today. Clare O′Farrell offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to Foucault′s enormous, diverse and challenging...

Peter Pesic / Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature (Large Paperback)

The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice. The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is...

Daniel J. Solove / Understanding Privacy (Large Paperback)

Privacy is one of the most important concepts of our time, yet it is also one of the most elusive. As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many...

Isaiah Berlin / Karl Marx (Exact Copy)

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Ted Honderich - Philosophy Through its Past - PB - 1984

Published by Pelican UK , A collection of  19 essays by modern philosophers and thinkers of the time on older or classic philosophers.   

Toner Quinn & Jerry White ( Editors) - The Radical Thinking of Desmond Fennell - HB - BRAND NEW 2025

TRACKED DELIVERY WITHIN IRELAND IS INCLUDED IN THE COST COPIES ARE SIGNED BY THE CO-EDITOR, TONER QUINN.  How can we create a more vibrant public discourse in Ireland? How do we organise Irish society so that it prospers culturally and economically?...

Martin Heidegger / Discourse on Thinking (Exact Copy)

Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking was published in 1959. It comprises a statement of the point of view of his later thought. Since Heidegger's later thought has evoked so much interest among philosophers and, in the last few years, theologians, it...

R. G. H. Siu / The Tao of Science (Exact Copy)

''An essay on western knowledge and Eastern Wisdom'', originally 1964.  Siu applies Oriental philosophy to the problems of Western executives and program directors. The picture shown is the actual book you will receive. Please be aware that there...

Robert Wright / The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology (Large Paperback)

Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind...

Eviatar Zerubavel / Time Maps: Collective Memory and the Social Shape of the Past (Large Paperback)

Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?As...

William J. Bennett / The Moral Compass (Large Paperback)

Presents a selection of spiritually and morally uplifting literature, organized according to the stages along life's way         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture,...

Joseph Dunne / Back to the Rough Ground: Practical Judgment and the Lure of Technique (Large Paperback)

Back to the Rough Ground is a philosophical investigation of practical knowledge, with major import for professional practice and the ethical life in modern society. Its purpose is to clarify the kind of knowledge that informs good practice in a...

Alfred W. Crosby / The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600 (Large Paperback)

Western Europeans were among the first, if not the first, to invent mechanical clocks, geometrically precise maps, double-entry bookkeeping, precise algebraic and musical notations, and perspective painting. More people in Western Europe thought...

Tess Harper-Molloy / Jung at Heart: Tools for Psychological Hygiene (Large Paperback)

Have you ever wanted to know more about the work of Carl Jung but not quite known how to gain access to it? Although Jung writes beautifully in his 18 Volumes of COLLECTED WORKS they are a bit intimidating as a starting point. ‘Jung at Heart,...

Tom Moylan / Becoming Utopian: The Culture and Politics of Radical Transformation (Large Paperback)

A dream of a better world is a powerful human force that inspires activists, artists, and citizens alike. In this book Tom Moylan – one of the pioneering scholars of contemporary utopian studies – explores the utopian process in its...

Scott Lash / Critique of Information (Large Paperback)

This penetrating book raises questions about how power and resistance operate in contemporary society. Scott Lash argues that critique must take place from within information flows, rather than from the safety of `academic detachment′ and that...

Meredith Williams / Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning (Large Paperback)

Wittgenstein, Mind and Meaning offers a provocative re-reading of Wittgenstein's later writings on language and mind, and explores the tensions between Wittgenstein's ideas and contemporary cognitivist conceptions of the mental. This book addresses...

Albert Borgmann / Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: A Philosophical Inquiry (Large Paperback)

Blending social analysis and philosophy, Albert Borgmann maintains that technology creates a controlling pattern in our lives. This pattern, discernible even in such an inconspicuous action as switching on a stereo, has global it sharply divides life...

Robert Sokolowski / Introduction to Phenomenology (Large Paperback)

This book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, memory, language, and reference, and shows how human...

R.A. Sterling / Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in the Modern World: Unleashing Human Potential (Large Paperback)

"Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in the Modern Unleashing Human Potential" is a thought-provoking exploration of Abraham Maslow's groundbreaking theory and its application in our contemporary society. In a fast-paced and ever-evolving world, understanding...

Wolfgang Welsch / Undoing Aesthetics (Large Paperback)

`The aestheticization of everyday life′ has become a commonplace term, one which often merely scratches the surface of contemporary culture. This study illuminates the deeper dynamics of aesthetic reality from a philosophical perspective...

Alain Badiou / Handbook of Inaesthetics (Large Paperback)

Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close...

David R. Olson / The World on Paper: The Conceptual and Cognitive Implications of Writing and Reading (Large Paperback)

What role has writing played in the development of our modern understanding of language, nature and ourselves? Drawing on recent advances in history, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, the author offers a bold new perspective on how writing...

Geoffrey Nunberg / The Future of the Book (Large Paperback)

The death of the book has been duly announced, and with it the end of brick-and-mortar libraries, traditional publishers, linear narrative, authorship, and disciplinarity, along with the emergence of a more equitable discursive order. These essays...

Lawrence Weschler / Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (Large Paperback)

When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color...

Peter Beilharz / Zygmunt Bauman: Dialectic of Modernity (Large Paperback)

This measured and thoughtful book provides a comprehensive critical commentary on Bauman′s social theory. It explores the roots of his ideas in questions of capital and labour, and explains how these ideas flourished in Bauman′s later...

Ilpo Koskinen / Professional Mobile Image (Large Paperback)

What would you do if you could take photographs, look at them immediately on a camera screen, and send your best shots a minute later to a friend in Australia? What kinds of images would you take? Or send? Would you make up stories? Or put pictures...

Mark Timmons / Moral Theory: An Introduction (Large Paperback)

Moral Theory: An Introduction explores some of the most historically important and currently debated moral theories about the nature of the right and good. Providing an introduction to moral theory that explains and critically examines the theories...

Boethius - The Consolation of Philosophy - Vintage 1933 HB ( Translation by W.V Cooper)

A small format hardcover, published by Dent , here in the third edition 1933, (first issued in this translation in 1902)  Hardcover , without dustjacket , embossed owl emblem on front cover, titles in gilt to spine.  Some pencil notes and...

Joshua D. Greene / Moral Tribes : Emotion, Reason and teh Gap Betweeen Us and Them

Moral philosophy  - a statment of the utilitarian case.         All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing...

Laura Ross ( Editor) / I Ching ( The Book of Changes)

Developed over 3000 years ago in China, the I Ching is a complex, interactive work of philosophy, mysticism and divination. This new edition comprises James Legge's 1899 translation of the main text and the appendices attributed to Confucius, along...

Paul Stathern ( Editor) / The Essential Hume ( Virgin Philosophers Series)

In his day, Hume was acknowledge as the finest philosopher in Europe. Yet "the greatest mind Scotland has ever produced" remained for many years unrecognized. He bore his obscurity and apparent failure with the same good-hearted sanity as his...

Noam Chomsky / Global Discontents

'If I were a voter in Britain, I would vote for [Jeremy Corbyn]' - Noam Chomsky, 2017Global Discontents is an essential guide to geopolitics and how to fight back, from the world's leading public intellectualWhat kind of world are we leaving to our...

John Moriarty - A Hut at the Edge of the Village - PB - BRAND NEW (Edited by Martin Shaw)

The new collection from John Moriarty, edited by Martin Shaw. There is a radical agency in John Moriarty’s work not always acknowledged. As our heads spin with mythological cross-referencing, poetical leaps and the philosophical bent, it is clear...

Karl Marx & Frederick Engels - The Communist Manifesto ( Translated by Samuel Moore)

Translated by Samuel Moore.The Communist Manifesto is perhaps the most influential political pamphlet ever written, having had a huge influence on European and world history, and First published in 1848, its arguments were primarily threefold...

John Moriarty - In His Own Words - PB - BRAND NEW ( Edited by Michael W. Higgins & Seán Aherne)

In Introducing John Moriarty Canadian theologian and academic Michael W. Higgins compiles the essential writings of Irish philosopher and mystic, John Moriarty. This distillation of Moriarty’s texts on ecology, mysticism and spirituality is a...

Susan Stebbing - Thinking to Some Purpose - PB - 1959 ( Originally 1939)

W.W Bartley - Wittgenstein (A Biography) 2nd Edition 1985)

A short and very accessible biography. Austrian philosopher Wittgenstein tends to be widely and divergently interpreted - there is little consensus as to what his philosophy really means. Not helped, also, by his later work (encapsulated in the...

W.B Gallie - Peirce and Pragmatism - Vintage Pelican PB 1952

Condition - spine darkened heavily, internally very good, light tanning only.  Peirce's pragmatism was the first time the scientific method was proposed as an epistemology for philosophical questions. A theory that succeeds better than its rivals in...

Witold Rybczynski / Waiting for the Weekend

Exploring the time we think of as our own, the author discusses the evolution of leisure time in Western civilization, from Aristotle, through the Middle Ages, to the present.      All of our books are second hand, and while you may not...

Martin Heidegger / The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays

"To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume—intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader—call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of...

Louis Menand / The Metaphysical Club : A Story of Ideas in America

The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, founder of modern jurisprudence; William James, the father of modern American psychology;...

Dave Robinson / Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life: A Practical Guide

A Practical Guide to ethics and every day decisions. Written by an expert, it includes straightforward, easy-to-follow ways to use ethics in making real life choices in areas such as friendships, marriage, parenting, and work.Dave Robinson has taught...

Sherry Turkle / Evocative Objects: Things We Think With (Hardback)

For Sherry Turkle, "We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." In Evocative Objects, Turkle collects writings by scientists, humanists, artists, and designers that trace the power of everyday things. These essays reveal...

Theodore Roszak - The Making of a Counter Culture | Where the Wasteland Ends ( 2 Book Lot ) - Vintage PB

Where the Wasteland Ends - Politics and Transcendence in Postindustrial Society - 1973 PB,  Anchor Books USA. A903 - 0385027389 The Making of a Counter Culture - Reflections on the Technocratic Society and its Youthful Opposition - 1969 PB, Anchor...

Steve Fuller / Kuhn vs. Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Hardback)

In 1965 Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper met at the University of London to stage what has turned out to be the most momentous philosophical debate of the 20th century. At stake was no less than the soul of science itself...No discipline remained untouched by...

Winin Pereira / From Western Science to Liberation Technology (Vintage Paperback)

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Paul Savchenko / What is Labour? (Vintage Paperback)

ABC of Social and Political Knowledge Series. A 1987 Soviet era book on the role of labour in Communist society. Translated from the original Russian. Publishged by Progress House, Moscow.      All of our Vintage books are Pre barcode the...

Michael Kaplan ( Editor) / Essential Works of Pavlov (Vintage Paperback)

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Robert Owen / A New View of Society and Other Writings(Vintage Paperback)

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Anthony Flew / Thinking about Thinking (Vintage Paperback)

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