Everytime I Find the Meaning of Life ... by Daniel Klein
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the acclaimed author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college student studying philosophy, Daniel Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he could. Now ...Show more
I Think, Therefore I Am: All the Philosophy You Need to Know by Lesley Levene
15.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: I Used to Know That ...
Philosophers certainly like to make life sound awfully complicated, whether they're wondering if a falling tree still makes a sound if there's nobody around to hear it (Berkeley) or declaring that everything in the universe is in a state of flux (Heraclitus). But is philosophy really so complicated? And ...Show more
Liberalism: The Life of an Idea by Edmund Fawcett
40.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism--the first in English for many decades--traces liberalism's ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinker ...Show more
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life... by Daniel Klein
37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
A humorous and philosophical trip through life, from the New York Times-bestselling author of Travels with Epicurus. As a young college student studying philosophy, Klein filled a notebook with short quotes from the world's greatest thinkers, hoping to find some guidance on how to live the best life he ...Show more
Live This Book by Tom Chatfield
25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Do you want to spend more quality time with the people, ideas and passions that matter most in your life? In an age of weightless, disposable digital products, here's a book to help you live more fully: that invites you to explore your beliefs, ambitions, friendships, memories and flights of imagination ...Show more
Nein - A Manifesto by Eric Jarosinski
26.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Nein. A Manifesto. is an irreverent philosophical investigation into the everyday that sounds the call to rediscover its strangeness. Inspired by the philosophical aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinski's epigrammatic style reinvents short-form philosophy f ...Show more
Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
28.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"Imagine that Plato came to life in the twenty-first century and embarked on a multi-city speaking tour. How would he mediate a debate between a Freudian psychoanalyst and a 'tiger mum' on how to raise the perfect child? How would he handle the host of a right-wing news program who denies there can be m ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
37.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
Quest for a Moral Compass: History/Ethic by Kenan Malik
29.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
The story of the global search for moral truths In this remarkable and groundbreaking book, Kenan Malik explores the history of moral thought as it has developed over three millennia, from Homer's Greece to Mao's China, from ancient India to modern America. It tells the stories of the great philosophe ...Show more
Tao Te Ching: Traditional Wisdom by Lao Tzu and Stephen Mitchell
23.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Stephen Mitchell's translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way) has sold over half a million copies worldwide. In this edition, Mitchell's text is set against ancient Chinese paintings selected by Asian art expert, Dr Stephen Little. 'What is rooted is easy to nourish What is recent is e ...Show more