The Face of God: The Gifford Lectures
Roger Scruton
Bloomsbury, HB, 9781847065247
Starting with the so-called scientific world view, Scruton argues that this is the real source of our current doubts about belief in God. To Richard Dawkins, human beings are 'survival machines'. To enforce the argument that this is disastrous, two far reaching metaphysical world views are examined. Everything in the natural world happens according to scientific laws. Everything that happens is ... More/Buy
Fate & Philosophy: A Journey through Life's Great Questions
Jim Flynn
AWA Press, PB, 9781877551321
Jim Flynn is on a mission to change how we think about the modern world, our place in it, and the moral choices we make. In The Torchlight List he argued that great literature can change lives. Now in Fate & Philosophy, he looks at tough moral decisions we face and urges us not to be influenced by subconscious conditioning inherited ... More/Buy
The Good Life: The Moral Individual in an Antimoral World
Cheryl Mendelson
Bloomsbury, PB, 9781408833674
The Good Life is a deeply reasoned, yet entertaining look at how the notion of morality has been co-opted by the political right. As our culture increasingly embraces the shallow charms of celebrity, has become blase about relationships and fidelity, and lives comfortably with the notion that most of us are driven by greed. Here is a call to arms to ... More/Buy
Indian Buddhist Philosophy
Amber Carpenter
Acumen Publishing, PB, 9781844652983
Organised in a broadly chronological terms, this book presents the philosophical arguments of the great Indian Buddhist philosophers of the fifth century BCE to the eighth century CE. Each chapter examines their core ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological views as well as the distinctive area of Buddhist ethics that we call today moral psychology. Throughout, the book follows three key themes that ... More/Buy
Manhunts: A Philosophical History
Gregoire Chamayou
Princeton University Press, HB, 9780691151656
Touching on issues of power, authority, and domination, Manhunts takes an in-depth look at the hunting of humans in the West, from ancient Sparta, through the Middle Ages, to the modern practices of chasing undocumented migrants. Incorporating historical events and philosophical reflection, Grégoire Chamayou examines the systematic and organized search for individuals and small groups on the run because they have ... More/Buy
Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time
Tim Maudlin
Princeton University Press, HB, 9780691143095
This concise book introduces nonphysicists to the core philosophical issues surrounding the nature and structure of space and time, and is also an ideal resource for physicists interested in the conceptual foundations of space-time theory. Tim Maudlin's broad historical overview examines Aristotelian and Newtonian accounts of space and time, and traces how Galileo's conceptions of relativity and space-time led to Einstein's ... More/Buy
The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan
George Steiner
New Directions, HB, 9780811219457
Sweeping yet precise, moving from essential detail to bracing illustration, George Steiner spans the entire history of philosophy in the West as it entwines with literature, finding that, as Sartre stated, in all philosophy there is a hidden literary prose. The poetic genius of abstract thought, Steiner believes, is lit, is made audible. Argument, even analytic, has its drumbeat. It is ... More/Buy
Pursuits of Wisdom: Six Ways of Life in Ancient Philosophy from Socrates to Plotinus
John M Cooper
Princeton University Press, HB, 9780691138602
In this major reinterpretation of ancient philosophy, John Cooper traces how, for many ancient thinkers, philosophy was not just to be studied or even used to solve particular practical problems. Rather, philosophy—not just ethics but even logic and physical theory—was literally to be lived. Yet there was great disagreement about how to live philosophically: philosophy was not one but many, mutually ... More/Buy
The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings
Alain Badiou
Verso Books, HB, 9781844678792
In the uprisings of the Arab world, Alain Badiou discerns achoes of the European revolutions of 1848. In both cases, the object was to overthrow despotic regimes maintained by the great powers - regimes desgned o impose the will of financial oligarchies. Both events occurred after what was commonly thought to be the end of a revolutionary epoch: in 1815 the ... More/Buy
Shrink and the Sage: A Guide to Living
Julian Baggini, Antonia Macaro
Icon Books, PB, 9781848313774
Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly cerebral edge, the shrink and the sage - aka Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro - have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning ... More/Buy
Work of Sartre: Search for Freedom and the Challenge of History
Istvan Meszaros
Monthly Review Press, PB, 9781583672921
This landmark book, first published in 1979, met acclaim as a doubly important work of radical philosophy. Its subject, Jean-Paul Sartre, was among the twentieth century's most controversial and influential philosophers; its author, István Meszaros, was himself establishing a reputation for profound contributions to the Marxian tradition, which would continue into the next century. The Work of Sartre was thus considered ... More/Buy