philosophy
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Caravan of Dreams
- £12.00
- Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the worldÕs leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating historical patterns, and presenting philosophical…
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David Hume (Great Thinkers)
- £8.00
- Through his pursuit of a naturalistic grounding for morality and his forceful critique of supernaturalism, Scottish philosopher David Hume significantly undermined confidence in orthodox Christianity. Professor, minister, and philosopher James Anderson summarizes the major points of Hume's thought and offers a critical assessment from a distinctively Reformed perspective. He shows…
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Existentialism and Humanism
- £50.00
- Over the past 70 years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to…
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Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
- Add to basket
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From Modernism to Postmodernism An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
- £15.00
- Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. Places contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Chronologically and thematically arranged. Indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies
- Add to basket
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Home Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- £12.00
- Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares…
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Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
- Add to basket
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Impossible People: Christian Courage And The Struggle For The Soul Of Civilization
- £15.00
- The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural…
- Add to basket
-
Lessing’s Theological Writings
- £20.00
- From A & C Black's A Library of Modern Religious Series which reprinted writing of historical importance; each contains an introduction, in this case by Lessing's translator and future Regius Professor, Henry Chadwick.
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Life’s Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
- £35.00
- Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks. By synthesizing three distinct approaches -- topical, historical, and worldview/conceptual systems -- it affords students a breadth and depth of perspective previously unavailable in standard introductory texts. Part One, Six Conceptual Systems, explores the philosophies of: naturalism, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine,…
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Liquid Love: On The Frailty Of Human Bonds
- £16.00
- This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, Ôliquid modernÕ times Ð the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the…
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Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
- £15.00
- In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking…
- Add to basket
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Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
- £20.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors…
- Add to basket
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On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- £11.00
- As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. 'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the…
- Add to basket
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On Language
- £20.00
- Shaw was almost as prolific in his writing on politics, philosophy and linguistics as he was as a playwright. This posthumous anthology of his writing on language was published 13 years after his death in 1950.
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On Presence: Variations and Reflections
- £15.00
- The Reverend Ralph Harper, a philosopher and theologian, has been credited with introducing existentialism to North America in 1948 with his work Existentialism: A Theory of Man. Forty years later, Harper delved deeper into the interior life of the human imagination in On Presence: Variations and Reflections. Winner of the…
- Add to basket
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Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA
- £15.00
- In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles Ñ they're illegally produced clones, and someone is having them killed. Law enforcement is powerless to help. The clones are forced to form their own Clone Club to defend themselves. Orphan Black raises philosophical issues, as…
- Add to basket
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Philosophical Fragments by Johannes Climacus
- £15.00
- A Christian philosophical work written by Danish philosopher S¿ren Kierkegaard in 1844. It was the second of three works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus; the other two were De omnibus dubitandum est in 1841 and Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments in 1846.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- £10.00
- What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered…
- Add to basket
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The Age Of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death Of God
- £15.00
- From one of EnglandÕs most distinguished intellectual historians comes Òan exhilarating rideÉthat will stand the test of time as a masterful account ofÓ (The Boston Globe) one of the WestÕs most important intellectual movements: Atheism. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that ÒGod is deadÓ and ever since tens of thousands…
- Add to basket
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The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
- £22.00
- Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen…
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The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
- £22.00
- Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life…
- Add to basket
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The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard
- £35.00
- Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. The contributors to this Companion probe the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive…
- Add to basket
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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology
- £22.00
- Postmodernity allows for no absolutes and no essence. Yet theology is concerned with the absolute, the essential. How then does theology sit within postmodernity? Is postmodern theology possible, or is such a concept a contradiction in terms? Should theology bother about postmodernism or just get on with its own thing?…
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The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
- £28.00
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889Ð1951) is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They chart…
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The Clue to Pascal
- £10.00
- Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today. The author of this study of his personality and work claims that Pascal was 'one of the profoundest thinkers of all time.'
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The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
- £30.00
- Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four…
- Add to basket
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The Concept of Dread
- £15.00
- Kierkegaard's classic work translated with notes by Walter Lowrie (orig. published in 1944)
- Add to basket
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The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
- £35.00
- Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular…
- Add to basket
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The Divine-Human Encounter
- £25.00
- One of the best known works of the celebrated Swiss neo-orthodox theologian, Emil Brunner (1899-1966). He was a contemporary of Karl Barth and Professor of Theology at University of Zurich.
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The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
- £30.00
- Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern that it can now only be corrosively negative.…
- Add to basket
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The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
- Add to basket
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The Idea of a Christian Society
- £25.00
- The three lectures Eliot gave at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in March 1939.
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The Last Years [The First English Translation Of The Kierkegaard Journals, 1853-1855]
- £22.00
- One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. His private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality with a freedom not seen in works he published during his lifetime. A combination of theoretical argument, vivid natural…
- Add to basket
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The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
- Add to basket
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The Principles Of Art (Galaxy Books)
- £10.00
- This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a…
- Add to basket
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The Re-Inherited Mind: Recovering The Judaeo-Christian Inheritance In Western Christendom
- £15.00
- In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with…
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The Rebel (L’Homme Révolté)
- £250.00
- A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. Translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt…
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The Recovery of Belief: a Restatement of Christian Philosophy
- £100.00
- From the dustjacket: Joad is not a sentimental preacher, exhorting us to 'return to religion'. He is a thinker, a philosopher, who has found himself slowly compelled by his reason to concede the unique claim of the Christian religion. He has set out to tell us what has happened in…
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The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
- £12.00
- The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that…
- Add to basket
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The Sickness unto Death
- £65.00
- One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may…
- Add to basket
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The Sun Shines Bright
- £12.00
- Essays discuss the sun, stars, planets, the moon, elements, the cell, scientists, human nature, secret weapons, population growth, and altruism
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The World Turned Upside Down
- £20.00
- The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies.…
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There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
- £7.00
- In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
- £40.00
- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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Caravan of Dreams
- £12.00
- Caravan of Dreams distills the essence of Eastern thought in a feast of stories, sayings, poems and allegories, collected by one of the worldÕs leading experts in Oriental philosophy. Idries Shah builds up a complete picture of a single consciousness, relating mythology to reality, illuminating historical patterns, and presenting philosophical…
- Add to basket
-
David Hume (Great Thinkers)
- £8.00
- Through his pursuit of a naturalistic grounding for morality and his forceful critique of supernaturalism, Scottish philosopher David Hume significantly undermined confidence in orthodox Christianity. Professor, minister, and philosopher James Anderson summarizes the major points of Hume's thought and offers a critical assessment from a distinctively Reformed perspective. He shows…
- Add to basket
-
Existentialism and Humanism
- £50.00
- Over the past 70 years the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre have probably been more influential in the West than those of any other philosopher and literary figure. In his theoretical writings, Sartre laid the foundation for an original doctrine of Existentialism. His concern, however, was to relate his theory to…
- Add to basket
-
Faith in Fakes: Travels in Hyperreality
- £7.00
- Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the Rose.
- Add to basket
-
From Modernism to Postmodernism An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies)
- £15.00
- Cahoone's classic anthology provides an unparalleled collection of the essential readings in modernism and postmodernism. Places contemporary debate in the context of the criticism of modernity since the seventeenth century. Chronologically and thematically arranged. Indispensable and multidisciplinary resource in philosophy, literature, cultural studies, social theory, and religious studies
- Add to basket
-
Home Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
- £12.00
- Sapiens showed us where we came from. In our increasingly uncertain times, Homo Deus shows us where we're going. 'Spellbinding' Guardian The world-renowned historian and intellectual Yuval Noah Harari envisions a near future in which we face a new set of challenges. Homo Deus explores the projects, dreams and nightmares…
- Add to basket
-
Immortality: the quest to live forever
- £9.00
- Who wants to live forever? According to Stephen Cave, we all do - every single one of us. And the evidence is all around. Eluding the Grim Reaper is humanity's oldest and most pervasive wish. It is embedded in our very nature and provides the real driving force behind every…
- Add to basket
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Impossible People: Christian Courage And The Struggle For The Soul Of Civilization
- £15.00
- The church in the West is at a critical moment. While the Gospel is exploding throughout the global South, Western civilization faces militant assaults from aggressive secularism and radical Islam. Will the church resist the seductive shaping power of advanced modernity? More than ever Christians must resist the negative cultural…
- Add to basket
-
Lessing’s Theological Writings
- £20.00
- From A & C Black's A Library of Modern Religious Series which reprinted writing of historical importance; each contains an introduction, in this case by Lessing's translator and future Regius Professor, Henry Chadwick.
- Add to basket
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Life’s Ultimate Questions: An Introduction to Philosophy
- £35.00
- Life's Ultimate Questions is unique among introductory philosophy textbooks. By synthesizing three distinct approaches -- topical, historical, and worldview/conceptual systems -- it affords students a breadth and depth of perspective previously unavailable in standard introductory texts. Part One, Six Conceptual Systems, explores the philosophies of: naturalism, Plato, Aristotle, Plotinus, Augustine,…
- Add to basket
-
Liquid Love: On The Frailty Of Human Bonds
- £16.00
- This book is about the central figure of our contemporary, Ôliquid modernÕ times Ð the man or woman with no bonds, and particularly with none of the fixed or durable bonds that would allow the effort of self-definition and self-assertion to come to a rest. Having no permanent bonds, the…
- Add to basket
-
Madness and Civilization (Routledge Classics)
- £15.00
- In this classic account of madness, Michel Foucault shows once and for all why he is one of the most distinguished European philosophers since the end of World War II. Madness and Civilization,Foucault's first book and his finest accomplishment, will change the way in which you think about society. Evoking…
- Add to basket
-
Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy
- £20.00
- Standard Edition of Complete Works: Shaw began writing MAN AND SUPERMAN in 1901 and determined to write a play that would encapsulate the new century's intellectual inheritance. Shaw drew not only on Byron's verse satire, but also on Shakespeare, the Victorian comedy fashionable in his early life, and from authors…
- Add to basket
-
On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times
- £11.00
- As read on BBC Radio 4's 'Book of the Week', a timely, moving and profound exploration of how writers, composers and artists have searched for solace while facing loss, tragedy and crisis, from the historian and Booker Prize-shortlisted novelist Michael Ignatieff. 'This erudite and heartfelt survey reminds us that the…
- Add to basket
-
On Language
- £20.00
- Shaw was almost as prolific in his writing on politics, philosophy and linguistics as he was as a playwright. This posthumous anthology of his writing on language was published 13 years after his death in 1950.
- Add to basket
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On Presence: Variations and Reflections
- £15.00
- The Reverend Ralph Harper, a philosopher and theologian, has been credited with introducing existentialism to North America in 1948 with his work Existentialism: A Theory of Man. Forty years later, Harper delved deeper into the interior life of the human imagination in On Presence: Variations and Reflections. Winner of the…
- Add to basket
-
Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA
- £15.00
- In Orphan Black, several apparently unconnected women discover that they are exact physical doubles Ñ they're illegally produced clones, and someone is having them killed. Law enforcement is powerless to help. The clones are forced to form their own Clone Club to defend themselves. Orphan Black raises philosophical issues, as…
- Add to basket
-
Philosophical Fragments by Johannes Climacus
- £15.00
- A Christian philosophical work written by Danish philosopher S¿ren Kierkegaard in 1844. It was the second of three works written under the pseudonym Johannes Climacus; the other two were De omnibus dubitandum est in 1841 and Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments in 1846.
- Add to basket
-
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- £10.00
- What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human. Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered…
- Add to basket
-
The Age Of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death Of God
- £15.00
- From one of EnglandÕs most distinguished intellectual historians comes Òan exhilarating rideÉthat will stand the test of time as a masterful account ofÓ (The Boston Globe) one of the WestÕs most important intellectual movements: Atheism. In 1882, Friedrich Nietzche declared that ÒGod is deadÓ and ever since tens of thousands…
- Add to basket
-
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
- £22.00
- Following the same formula as other Cambridge Companions, this book is written by leading international experts in Christian ethics and is aimed at students on upper-level undergraduate courses, at teachers and at graduate students. It will be useful as well to ministers and other professionals within the church. Its eighteen…
- Add to basket
-
The Cambridge Companion to Descartes
- £22.00
- Descartes occupies a position of pivotal importance as one of the founding fathers of modern philosophy; he is, perhaps the most widely studied of all philosophers. In this authoritative collection an international team of leading scholars in Cartesian studies present the full range of Descartes' extraordinary philosophical achievement. His life…
- Add to basket
-
The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard
- £35.00
- Each volume of this series of Companions to major philosophers contains specially-commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and non-specialists. The contributors to this Companion probe the full depth of Kierkegaard's thought revealing its distinctive…
- Add to basket
-
The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology
- £22.00
- Postmodernity allows for no absolutes and no essence. Yet theology is concerned with the absolute, the essential. How then does theology sit within postmodernity? Is postmodern theology possible, or is such a concept a contradiction in terms? Should theology bother about postmodernism or just get on with its own thing?…
- Add to basket
-
The Cambridge Companion to Wittgenstein
- £28.00
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889Ð1951) is one of the most important, influential, and often-cited philosophers of the twentieth century, yet he remains one of its most elusive and least accessible. The essays in this volume address central themes in Wittgenstein's writings on the philosophy of mind, language, logic, and mathematics. They chart…
- Add to basket
-
The Clue to Pascal
- £10.00
- Pascal was a great scientific thinker and inventor from whose work mankind still profits. He was also a great religious thinker and this is being recognised afresh today. The author of this study of his personality and work claims that Pascal was 'one of the profoundest thinkers of all time.'
- Add to basket
-
The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot
- £30.00
- Poet, dramatist, critic and editor, T. S. Eliot was one of the defining figures of twentieth-century poetry. This edition of The Complete Poems and Plays, published for the first time in paperback, includes all of his verse and work for the stage, from Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) to Four…
- Add to basket
-
The Concept of Dread
- £15.00
- Kierkegaard's classic work translated with notes by Walter Lowrie (orig. published in 1944)
- Add to basket
-
The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse
- £35.00
- Prominent observers complain that public discourse in America is shallow and unedifying. This debased condition is often attributed to, among other things, the resurgence of religion in public life. Steven Smith argues that this diagnosis has the matter backwards: it is not primarily religion but rather the strictures of secular…
- Add to basket
-
The Divine-Human Encounter
- £25.00
- One of the best known works of the celebrated Swiss neo-orthodox theologian, Emil Brunner (1899-1966). He was a contemporary of Karl Barth and Professor of Theology at University of Zurich.
- Add to basket
-
The Function of Cynicism at the Present Time
- £30.00
- Cynicism is usually seen as a provocative mode of dissent from conventional moral thought, casting doubt on the motives that guide right conduct. When critics today complain that it is ubiquitous but lacks the serious bite of classical Cynicism, they express concern that it can now only be corrosively negative.…
- Add to basket
-
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah
- £12.00
- The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in…
- Add to basket
-
The Idea of a Christian Society
- £25.00
- The three lectures Eliot gave at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in March 1939.
- Add to basket
-
The Last Years [The First English Translation Of The Kierkegaard Journals, 1853-1855]
- £22.00
- One of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century, Søren Kierkegaard (1814-55) often expressed himself through pseudonyms and disguises. His private reflections reveal the development of his own thought and personality with a freedom not seen in works he published during his lifetime. A combination of theoretical argument, vivid natural…
- Add to basket
-
The Nicomachaean Ethics
- £9.00
- Everyman's Library #547 What does it mean to be a good person? Aristotle's famous series of lectures on ethical topics ranges over fundamental questions about good and bad character; pleasure and self-control; moral wisdom and the foundations of right and wrong; friendship and love in all their forms - all…
- Add to basket
-
The Principles Of Art (Galaxy Books)
- £10.00
- This treatise on aesthetics begins by showing that the word "art" is used as a name not only for "art proper" but also for certain things which are "art falsely so called." These are craft or skill, magic, and amusement, each of which, by confusion with art proper, generates a…
- Add to basket
-
The Re-Inherited Mind: Recovering The Judaeo-Christian Inheritance In Western Christendom
- £15.00
- In this book, Reverend Doctor Scott argues that the Judaeo-Christian tradition contains many excellent insights into what we are as human beings, which we are in grave danger of forgetting, but which we can recall to our infinite advantage if we seek to do so. The book is filled with…
- Add to basket
-
The Rebel (L’Homme Révolté)
- £250.00
- A philosophical exploration of the idea of 'rebellion' by one of the leading existentialist thinkers, Albert Camus' The Rebel looks at artistic and political rebels throughout history, from Epicurus to the Marquis de Sade. Translated by Anthony Bower with an introduction by Sir Herbert Read. The Rebel is Camus' 'attempt…
- Add to basket
-
The Recovery of Belief: a Restatement of Christian Philosophy
- £100.00
- From the dustjacket: Joad is not a sentimental preacher, exhorting us to 'return to religion'. He is a thinker, a philosopher, who has found himself slowly compelled by his reason to concede the unique claim of the Christian religion. He has set out to tell us what has happened in…
- Add to basket
-
The Science Delusion: Freeing the Spirit of Enquiry
- £12.00
- The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book (published in the US as Science Set Free), Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that…
- Add to basket
-
The Sickness unto Death
- £65.00
- One of the most remarkable philosophical works of the nineteenth century, The Sickness Unto Death is also famed for the depth and acuity of its modern psychological insights. Writing under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus, Kierkegaard explores the concept of 'despair', alerting readers to the diversity of ways in which they may…
- Add to basket
-
The Sun Shines Bright
- £12.00
- Essays discuss the sun, stars, planets, the moon, elements, the cell, scientists, human nature, secret weapons, population growth, and altruism
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The World Turned Upside Down
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- The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth, And Power. In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies.…
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There Is a God: How the World’s Most Notorious Atheist Changed His Mind
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- In There Is a God, one of the world's preeminent atheists discloses how his commitment to "follow the argument wherever it leads" led him to a belief in God as Creator. This is a compelling and refreshingly open-minded argument that will forever change the atheism debate.
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Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World
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- How can one European capital be responsible for most of the WestÕs intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens_every aspect of our…
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