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On Presence: Variations and Reflections
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- 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…
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Orphan Black and Philosophy: Grand Theft DNA
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- 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…
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Philosophical Fragments by Johannes Climacus
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- 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
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- 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…
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The Age Of Nothing: How We Have Sought To Live Since The Death Of God
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- 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…
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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
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- 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…
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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…
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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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…
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The Concept of Dread
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- Kierkegaard's classic work translated with notes by Walter Lowrie (orig. published in 1944)
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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…
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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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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…
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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
-
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
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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?…
- Add to basket
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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…
- Add to basket
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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.'
- 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