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  • On Risk

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Series Libro 1 - Field Notes
    With COVID-19 comes a heightened sense of everyday risk. How should a society manage, distribute, and conceive of it?As we cope with the lengthening effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic, considerations of everyday risk have been more pressing, and inescapable. In the past, everyone engaged in some degree of risky behaviour, from mundane realities like taking a shower or getting into a car to ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Fail Better

    Why Baseball Matters

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Taking seriously the idea that baseball is a study in failure—a very successful batter manages a base hit in just three of every ten attempts—Mark Kingwell argues that there is no better tutor of human failure’s enduring significance than this strange, crooked game of base, where geometry becomes poetry.Weaving elements of memoir, philosophical reflection, sports writing, and humour, Fail Better ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Wish I Were Here

    Boredom and the Interface

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Series Libro 2 - Outspoken
    Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for.Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Architecture

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    A lively and accessible discussion of how architecture functions in a complex world of obligation and responsibility, with a preface offering specific discussion of architecture during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. What are the special ethical obligations assumed by architects? Because their work creates the basic material conditions that make all other human activity possible, architects and ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Ich wünschte, ich wäre hier: Langeweile im Zeitalter des Internets

    Eine Philosophie

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Traducido por Andreas Simon dos Santos ...
    Langeweile ist eine der geläufigsten menschlichen Erfahrungen, trotzdem scheint sie sich beharrlich einem vollständigen Verständnis zu entziehen. Wir alle wissen, wie es sich anfühlt, gelangweilt zu sein, doch was genau den Zustand des Gelangweiltseins auslöst, was ihn ausmacht und was aus ihm folgt, ist weit weniger klar. Ist Langeweile eine Funktion der Muße, sodass es, wie manche meinen, vor ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Question Authority

    A Polemic About Trust in Five Meditations

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Philosopher Mark Kingwell thinks about thinking for yourself in an era of radical know-it-all-ism.“Question authority,” the popular 1960s slogan commanded. “Think for yourself.” But what started as a counter-cultural catchphrase, playful in logic but serious in intent, has become a practical paradox. Yesterday’s social critics are the tone-policing tyrants of today, while those who claim ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Extraordinary Canadians Glenn Gould

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Series series Extraordinary Canadians
    Glenn Gould, one of the world’s most renowned classical musicians of the twentieth century, was also known as an eccentric genius—solitary, headstrong, a hypochondriac virtuoso. Abandoning stage performances in 1964, Gould concentrated instead on mastering the various media: recordings, radio, television, and print. His sudden death at age fifty stunned the world, but his music and legacy continue ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Concrete Reveries

    Consciousness and the City

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    A profound philosophical exploration of urban architecture and its impact on human experience, ideal for those intrigued by the complexity of metropolitan life.In Concrete Reveries, acclaimed philosopher and cultural critic Mark Kingwell offers a thoughtful answer to Socrates’ injunction about the life worth living, using the urban experience to illustrate the dynamic between concreteness and ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Catch and Release

    Trout Fishing and the Meaning of Life

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    This vibrant blend of memoir, travelogue, and reflection on the deep truths of angling is framed around an annual fishing trip that Mark Kingwell and his father and two brothers take each year to British Columbia. Between the drinking, the cigars, and the piloting of a small dingy, Kingwell, previously of the belief that “fishing is stupid,” finds that the sport does allow for one important thing ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Measure Yourself Against the Earth

    Essays

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Mark Kingwell is as at home discussing Battlestar Galactica as he is civility, can find the Plato in popular culture, and sees in idleness a deeply revolutionary gesture. In Measure Yourself Against the Earth, he brings his heady mixture of critical intelligence and infectious enthusiasm to bear on film, aesthetics, politics, leisure, literature and much more, showing us how each can help us to ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • De la pêche à la truite et autres considérations philosophiques

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Traducido por Sophie Cardinal-Corriveau ...
    Tous les pêcheurs sont philosophes, mais qu’arrive-t-il lorsqu’un philosophe – un professeur de philosophie, rien de moins – devient pêcheur ? Mêlant souvenirs d’enfance, récit de voyage et réflexions personnelles sur le sens de la vie, Mark Kingwell offre un livre dont l’approche fait penser au Traité du zen et de l’entretien des motocyclettes de Robert M. Pirsig. À travers la chronique d’un ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Singular Creatures

    Robots, Rights, and the Politics of Posthumanism

    de Mark Kingwell ...
    Anxiety about non-human intelligent machines is a longstanding theme of cultural production and consumption. Examples range from tales of golems and Frankenstein’s monster to the evil overlord scenarios of contemporary film and television franchises: Star Trek, the Alien series, and the Terminator sequence, as well as Her, Black Mirror, Blade Runner, Ex Machina, and many other less mainstream ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD