Agamben and Colonialism
Marcelo Svirsky, Simone Bignall (eds)
Edinburgh University Press, PB, 9780748643936
Svirsky and Bignall assemble leading figures to explore the rich philosophical linkages and the political concerns shared by Agamben and postcolonial theory. Agamben's theories of the 'state of exception' and 'bare life' are situated in critical relation to the existence of these phenomena in the colonial/postcolonial ... More/Buy
The Big Lebowski and Philosophy Series: Keeping Your Mind Limber with Abiding Wisdom (Blackwell Philosophy & Pop Culture
Peter S. Fosl (ed)
Wiley, PB, 9781118074565
Celebrate the Dude with an abiding look at the philosophy behind The Big Lebowski Is the Dude a bowling-loving stoner or a philosophical genius living the good life? Naturally, it's the latter, and The Big Lebowski and Philosophy explains why. Enlisting the help of great thinkers like Plato and Nietzsche, the book explores the movie's hidden philosophical layers, cultural reflection, and ... More/Buy
Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, HB, 9780253002310
This volume consists of two lecture series given by Heidegger in the 1940s and 1950s. The lectures given in Bremen constitute the first public lectures Heidegger delivered after World War II, when he was officially banned from teaching. Here, Heidegger openly resumes thinking that deeply engaged him with Holderlin's poetry and themes developed in his earlier works. In the Freiburg lectures ... More/Buy
Contributions to Philosophy: Of the Event
Martin Heidegger
Indiana University Press, HB, 9780253001139
Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy reflects his famous philosophical 'turning'. In this work, Heidegger returns to the question of being from its inception in Being and Time to a new questioning of being as event. Heidegger opens up the essential dimensions of his thinking on the historicality of being that underlies all of his later writings. Contributions was composed as a ... More/Buy
The God Problem: The Five Heresies or the Big Bang Tango
Howard Bloom
Prometheus, HB, 9781616145514
How does the cosmos do something it has long been thought that only gods could achieve? How does an inanimate universe generate stunning new forms and unbelievable new powers without a Creator? How does the cosmos create? Howard Bloom finds clues in strange places. Why ‘a’ does not equal ‘a’. Why one plus one does not equal two. How the Greeks ... More/Buy
The Imagination
Jean-Paul Sartre
Routledge, PB, 9780415776196
L'Imagination was published in 1936 when Jean-Paul Sartre was thirty years old. Long out of print, this is the first English translation in many years. The Imagination is Sartre's first full philosophical work, presenting some of the basic arguments concerning phenomenology, consciousness and intentionality that were to later appear in his master works and be so influential in the course of ... More/Buy
On Loyalty
Troy Jollimore
Routledge, PB, 9780415782272
Loyalty is a highly charged and important issue, often evoking strong feelings and actions. What is loyalty? Is loyalty compatible with impartiality? How do we respond to conflicts of loyalties? In a global era, should we be trying to transcend loyalties to particular political communities? Drawing on a fascinating array of literary and cinematic examples - The Remains of the Day, ... More/Buy
Phenomena of Awareness: Husserl, Cantor, Jung
Cecile Tougas
Routledge, PB, 9780415685917
What is awareness? How is dreaming different from ordinary awareness? What does mathematics have to do with awareness? Are different kinds of awareness related? "Awareness" is commonly spoken of as "mind, soul, spirit, consciousness, the unconscious, psyche, imagination, self, and other." The Phenomena of Awareness is a study of awareness as it is directly experienced. From the start, Cecile T. Tougas ... More/Buy
Philosophers in the Republic: Plato’s Two Paradigms
Roslyn Weiss
Cornell University Press, HB, 9780801449741
In Plato’s Republic, Socrates contends that philosophers make the best rulers because only they behold with their mind’s eye the eternal and purely intelligible Forms of the Just, the Noble, and the Good. When, in addition, these men and women are endowed with a vast array of moral, intellectual, and personal virtues and are appropriately educated, surely no one could doubt ... More/Buy
Philosophical Logic
John P Burgess
Princeton University Press, HB, 9780691137896
This is a concise critical survey of nonclassical logics of philosophical interest. After giving an overview of classical logic, John Burgess introduces five central branches of nonclassical logic (temporal, modal, conditional, relevantistic, and intuitionistic), focusing on the sometimes problematic relationship between formal apparatus and intuitive motivation. Requiring minimal background and arranged to make the more technical material optional, the book offers ... More/Buy
Spider Man & Philosophy: The Web of Inquiry
Jonathan J Sanford (ed)
Wiley, PB, 9780470575604
Untangle the complex web of philosophical dilemmas of Spidey and his world - in time for the release of "The Amazing Spider-Man" movie. Since Stan Lee and Marvel introduced "Spider-Man in Amazing Fantasy number 15" in 1962, everyone's favorite webslinger has had a long career in comics, graphic novels, cartoons, movies, and even on Broadway. In this book some of history's ... More/Buy
What if Derrida was wrong about Saussure?
Russell Daylight
Edinburgh University Press, PB, 9780748649402
Over the past 100 years there has been no more important reading of Saussurean linguistics than that of Jacques Derrida. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the importance of that reading and what it means for cultural studies, philosophy, linguistics and literary theory ... More/Buy
When Buddhists Attack: The Curious Relationship between Zen and the Martial Arts
Jeffrey K Mann
Tuttle Publishing, PB, 9784805312308
Film, television and popular fiction have long exploited the image of the serene Buddhist monk who is master of the deadly craft of hand-to-hand combat. While these media overly romanticize the relationship between a philosophy of non-violence and the art of fighting, When Buddhists Attack shows this link to be nevertheless real, even natural. Exploring the origins of Buddhism and the ... More/Buy
Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze and Aesthetics
Steven Shaviro
MIT, PB, 9780262517973
Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, ‘Why is there something, rather than nothing?’ Whitehead asks, ‘How is it that there is always something new?’ In a world where everything from ... More/Buy