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Key Concepts eBook Series

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  • Toleration

    by Andrew Jason Cohen ...
    Series series Key Concepts
    In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration? What should be tolerated? Why is toleration important?Beginning with some key insights into what we mean by toleration, Cohen goes on to investigate what should be tolerated and why. We should not be free to do everythingÑmurder, rape, ... Read more

    $19.00 USD

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  • How to Live

    Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

    by Sarah Bakewell ...
    Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for BiographyHow to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Interrogating the Real

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Revelations
    Slavoj iek is one of the worlds foremost cultural commentators: a prolific writer and thinker, whose vividly adventurous, unorthodox and wide-ranging writings have won him a unique place as one of the most high profile thinkers of our time. Covering psychoanalysis, philosophy and popular culture and drawing on a heady mix of Marxist politics, Hegelian dialectics and Lacanian psychoanalysis, the ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • The Great Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Saint Thomas Aquinas

    by Jeremy Stangroom, James Garvey ...
    Series series The Great Philosophers
    No matter how you view philosophy, regardless of what you think it is, this series from The Independent will give you a strong sense of the life and work of the very best thinkers in the philosophical neighbourhood, dealing carefully and rationally with the most human of questions, the hardest questions, the questions which matter most.William James, in his last great work Some Problems of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wizard of Oz and Philosophy

    Wicked Wisdom of the West

    Edited by Randall E. Auxier, Phil Seng ...
    Series Book 37 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    From the bedtime story by L. Frank Baum to the classic 1939 film, no story has captured the imaginations of generations of children - and adults - like The Wizard of Oz. The story of Dorothy’s journey through Oz, the colorful characters, places, songs, and dialogue have permeated popular culture around the world. The contributors to this volume take a very close look at The Wizard of Oz and ask ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Hume

    Edited by David Fate Norton, Jacqueline Taylor ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    Although best known for his contributions to the theory of knowledge, metaphysics, and philosophy of religion, Hume also influenced developments in the philosophy of mind, psychology, ethics, political and economic theory, political and social history, and aesthetic theory. The fifteen essays in this volume address all aspects of Hume's thought. The picture of him that emerges is that of a thinker ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Rethink

    The Surprising History of New Ideas

    by Steven Poole ...
    An “engaging and enlightening” (The Wall Street Journal) argument that innovation and progress are often achieved by revisiting and retooling ideas from the past rather than starting from scratch—from Guardian columnist and contributor to The Atlantic, Stephen Poole.Innovation is not always as innovative as it may seem. Rethink is the story of how old ideas that were mocked or ignored for ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Kant's Construction of Nature

    A Reading of the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science

    by Michael Friedman ...
    Kant's Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science is one of the most difficult but also most important of Kant's works. Published in 1786 between the first (1781) and second (1787) editions of the Critique of Pure Reason, the Metaphysical Foundations occupies a central place in the development of Kant's philosophy, but has so far attracted relatively little attention compared with other works of ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Dummett

    Philosophy of Language

    by Karen Green ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Michael Dummett stands out among his generation as the only British philosopher of language to rival in stature the Americans, Davidson and Quine. In conjunction with them he has been responsible for much of the framework within which questions concerning meaning and understanding are raised and answered in the late twentieth-century Anglo-American tradition. Dummett's output has been prolific and ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Introducing Descartes

    A Graphic Guide

    by Dave Robinson ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    René Descartes is famous as the philosopher who was prepared to doubt everything- even his own physical existence. Most people know that he said 'I think, therefore I am', even if they are not always sure what he really meant by it.Introducing Descartes explains what Descartes doubted, and why he is usually called the father of modern philosophy. It is a clear and accessible guide to all the ... Read more

    $5.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Global Intellectual History

    Edited by Samuel Moyn, Andrew Sartori ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in International and Global History
    Where do ideas fit into historical accounts that take an expansive, global view of human movements and events? Teaching scholars of intellectual history to incorporate transnational perspectives into their work, while also recommending how to confront the challenges and controversies that may arise, this original resource explains the concepts, concerns, practice, and promise of "global ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy

    Edited by Ken Gemes, Simon May ...
    The principal aim of this volume is to elucidate what freedom, sovereignty, and autonomy mean for Nietzsche and what philosophical resources he gives us to re-think these crucial concepts. A related aim is to examine how Nietzsche connects these concepts to his thoughts about life-affirmation, self-love, promise-making, agency, the 'will to nothingness', and the 'eternal recurrence', as well as to ... Read more

    $46.79 USD