Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explor ...Show more
Who Rules the World? by Noam Chomsky
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times BestsellerWith a New AfterwordIn an incisive, thorough analysis of the current international situation, Noam Chomsky examines the way that the United States, despite the rise of Europe and Asia, still largely sets the terms of global discourse. Drawing on a wide range of examples, from ...Show more
Meditations (Chartwell Classics) by Marcus Aurelius
$22.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Chartwell Classics Ser.
The classic collection of writings by second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, now distinctively packaged with a beautifully designed jacket by noted illustrator Malika Favre. A compendium of ruminations and reflections by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to th ...Show more
How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind by Regan Penaluna
$39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A timely critique investigating how four women philosophers persevered in a field that often suppressed and disregarded the insights of female thinkers. As a young woman growing up in a small, religious community, Regan Penaluna daydreamed about the big questions: Who are we and what is this strange wor ...Show more
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
$23.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide range of fascinati ...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
Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt
$67.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction
The final book of the brilliant historian and indomitable public critic Tony Judt, "Thinking the Twentieth Century "maps the issues and concerns of a turbulent age on to a life of intellectual conflict and engagement. The twentieth century comes to life as an age of ideas--a time when, for good and for ...Show more
Assholes: A Theory by Aaron James
$27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
What does it mean for someone to be an a**hole? Try as we might to avoid them, a**holes are found everywhere at work, at home, on the road, and in the public sphere. A**hole management begins with a**hole understanding. In the spirit of the bestselling 'On Bullshit' James gives us the concepts to think ...Show more
Philosophy Bites by David Edmonds
$34.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Bites is a selection of the best interviews from the hugely successful podcast of the same name. Leading philosophers discuss a wide range of philosophical issues, from ethics to aesthetics to metaphysics, in a lively, informal, personal way. Time, infinity, evil, friendship, animals, wine, s ...Show more
On Beauty: A History of a Western Idea by Umberto Eco
$59.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
On Beauty is neither a history of art, nor a history of aesthetics, but Umberto Eco draws on both these disciplines to define the ideas of beauty that have informed us from the classical world to modern times. In terms of form and style, On Beauty has been conceived for a vast and diverse readership. Pa ...Show more
On the Shoulders of Giants by Umberto Eco
$75.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The final collection of essays from the internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of The Name of the Rose and The Prague Cemetery, on the subjects of art and culture. In this collection of essays we find Umberto Eco's perennial areas of interest explored in a lively and engaging style, accompani ...Show more