{"title":"Philosophy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-road-to-wisdom","title":"The Road to Wisdom: On Truth, Science, Faith, and Trust","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 2025 Nautilus Book Awards Gold Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e From “national treasure” Francis Collins (Philip Yancey), the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Language of God \u003c\/i\u003eand former director of the National Institutes of Health, comes a deeply thoughtful guidebook to get us beyond societal divisions and back to the sources of wisdom—\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ethe sort that can save us before it is too late” (Jane Goodall).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the COVID-19 pandemic revealed, we have become not just a hyper-partisan society but also a deeply cynical one, distrustful of traditional sources of knowledge and wisdom. Skepticism about vaccines led to the needless deaths of at least 230,000 Americans. “Do your own research” is now a rallying cry in many online rabbit holes. Yet experts can make mistakes, and institutions can lose their moral compass. So how can we navigate through all this?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e, Francis Collins reminds us of the four core sources of judgement and clear thinking: truth, science, faith, and trust. Drawing on his work from the Human Genome Project and heading the National Institutes of Health, as well as on ethics, philosophy, and Christian theology, Collins makes a robust, thoughtful case for each of these sources—their reliability, and their limits. Ultimately, he shows how they work together, not separately—and certainly not in conflict. It is only when we relink these four foundations of wisdom that we can begin to discern the best path forward in life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ​Thoughtful, accessible, winsome, and deeply wise, \u003ci\u003eThe Road to Wisdom\u003c\/i\u003e leads us beyond current animosities to surer footing. Here is the moral, philosophical, and scientific framework with which to address the problems of our time—including distrust of public health, partisanship, racism, response to climate change, and threats to our democracy—but also to guide us in our daily lives. This is a book that will repay many readings, and resolve dilemmas that we all face every day.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153154298033,"sku":"9780316576307","price":39.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153154330801,"sku":"fceb915c-25c5-3b91-876c-277b2b1e321c","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_abda1f97-d7b3-4f8a-8882-662540a3d407.jpg?v=1763685227"},{"product_id":"georges-bataille","title":"Georges Bataille: Key Concepts","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorges Bataille (1897 - 1962) was a philosopher, writer, and literary critic whose work has had a significant impact across disciplines as diverse as philosophy, sociology, economics, art history and literary criticism, as well as influencing key figures in post-modernist and post-structuralist philosophy such as Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. In recent years, the number of works published on Georges Bataille, as well as the variety of contexts in which his work is invoked, has markedly increased.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn\u003ci\u003eGeorges Bataille: Key Concepts\u003c\/i\u003ean international team of contributors provide an accessible introduction to and survey of Bataille's thought. The editors' introduction provides an overview of Bataille's work, while the chapters in the first section cover the social, political, artistic and philosophical contexts that shaped his thought. In the second part, each chapter engages with a key theme in Bataille's philosophy, including: art, eroticism, evil, inner experience, heterology, religion, sacrifice, and sovereignty. The final chapter addresses Bataille's literary writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eGeorges Bataille: Key Concepts\u003c\/p\u003eis an invaluable guide for students from across the Humanities and Social Sciences, coming to Bataille's work for the first time.\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e Giulia Agostini, Elisabeth Arnould-Bloomfield, Tiina Arppe, Marcus Coelen, Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi, Patrick ffrench, Marina Galletti, Nadine Hartmann, Mark Hewson, Andrew Hussey, Stuart Kendall, Claire Nioche, Gerhard Poppenberg, and Michèle Richman.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153185034417,"sku":"9781138908550","price":281.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153185067185,"sku":"9781138908567","price":63.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153185099953,"sku":"51ce7b50-5c5a-3f6f-94f3-0c1e8294ad6a","price":59.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_eb82bb02-b315-49bf-910a-255c189204da.jpg?v=1763570136"},{"product_id":"forgiveness-from-a-feminist-perspective","title":"Forgiveness from a Feminist Perspective","description":"This philosophical monograph on forgiveness is the first of its kind to be written from a feminist perspective. Kathryn J. Norlock urges scholars to attend to gender when analyzing and recommending forgiveness in practice. She demonstrates that while many academics find the concept of forgiveness both complex and fascinating, they seldom pay attention to the fact that issue of forgiveness intersect with those of gender in many crucial ways. By redefining forgiveness and what constitutes as an act of forgiveness, Norlock encourages readers to consider new questions about the advisability of trying to have a single, universal set of conditions for forgiveness because of the multidimensional nature of its practice and application.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153183002801,"sku":"9781498591218","price":75.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153183035569,"sku":"9780739108574","price":156.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153183068337,"sku":"d202f457-453e-35a9-87f4-7582b2fd6e67","price":54.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1e54605b-88ec-4bc2-843d-bc326b5a34e8.jpg?v=1762813478"},{"product_id":"how-to-constitute-a-world","title":"How To Constitute A World","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEva Brann, who has taught at St. John’s College, Annapolis, for sixty years, wrote these essays largely as clarifying incitements to students who were reading, or ought to have been reading, the works discussed. In her words: \u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"The first essay looks at the 'Pre-Socratics' Heraclitus and Parmenides. They appear to be in radical opposition, but they are really doing the same, new thing: seeing the world as an intelligible whole. Both observe external nature, construing it in their minds—so, from the outside in. The final essay again describes two ways of world-construing from the outside in—one by penetrating the surface of reality, the other by spinning a web of complexity over it.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"The five essays in between focus on works by Kant and display the world as constituted from the human inside out. An appreciative review of the \u003ci\u003eCritique of Pure Reason\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Kant brilliantly justifies a science of nature by making nature itself the construct of our understanding. But he leads us to the abyss of more idealism; externality and realism escape him. The explication of his one absolute moral commandment similarly defines his morality entirely in terms divorced from objective good and concentrated on internal integrity. Finally, his huge unpublished legacy agonizes about bringing a god, first conceived as an inner need, into external existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eEva Brann is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. Her other books include \u003ci\u003eDoublethink \/ Doubletalk, Then \u0026amp; Now, Un-Willing, The Logos of Heraclitus, Feeling Our Feelings, Homage to Americans, Open Secrets \/ Inward Prospects, The Music of the Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHomeric Moments\u003c\/i\u003e (all published by Paul Dry Books).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153222553777,"sku":"9781589881242","price":30.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153222586545,"sku":"93842319-ebf6-39a7-838d-3d822fe435b4","price":13.73,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_9a60fc09-a7ff-40d6-b8b6-7956ff79b7d5.jpg?v=1763408349"},{"product_id":"die-vorsokratiker","title":"Die Vorsokratiker","description":"\u003cp\u003eMit den 'Vorsokratikern' beginnt in Griechenland die Philosophie: Nicht mehr der Mythos, sondern der Logos, die Vernunft gibt nun Antworten auf die immer tiefgründigeren Fragen nach dem Sein der Welt. Der Band vereint die fundamentalen Gedanken, Erkenntnisse und Aussprüche der großen vorsokratischen Philosophen des 7. bis 5. Jahrhunderts v. Chr.: von Thales, Pythagoras und Heraklit bis Parmenides, Zenon und Demokrit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153235398833,"sku":"e0c2324e-3b83-3c95-898a-49f6869103ef","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_a25e8355-17d7-4a19-b83d-ed14ee098caa.jpg?v=1765473242"},{"product_id":"le-temps-instant-et-duree","title":"Le temps, instant et durée: de la philosophie aux neurosciences","description":"A travers une approche transdisciplinaire, cet ouvrage interroge la notion du temps dans la pensée occidentale.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153235955889,"sku":"9782738126184","price":49.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153235988657,"sku":"b1788032-7f78-3d60-8d77-1bbf781e98ae","price":34.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b4ddd6d2-adbb-475f-832d-b9ac59575255.jpg?v=1762934256"},{"product_id":"the-blackwell-guide-to-social-and-political-philosophy","title":"The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e brings together a collection of newly commissioned essays which examine fundamental issues in social and political theory. Written by leading social and political philosophers, each essay provides a map to the history of the issue at hand and a judicious assessment of the main arguments that have been brought to bear upon that issue.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153319645361,"sku":"9780631221272","price":75.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_537f3fa2-ab99-416f-9eb6-846866ae5881.jpg?v=1763341086"},{"product_id":"aristotles-quarrel-with-socrates","title":"Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates: Friendship in Political Thought","description":"brings to the fore the tension that exists between the philosophic life as exemplified by Socrates and the life devoted to politics. It goes on to argue that Aristotle's account of a friendship of the good, based on human excellence, can reduce, not to say eliminate, this tension, enabling the development of a political community that is organized for action in history.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153315745969,"sku":"9781438496719","price":48.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153315778737,"sku":"9781438496702","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153315811505,"sku":"63280609-bee1-3638-a740-946321e2809b","price":38.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_dad89a7e-eff0-4967-b778-f61256688be0.jpg?v=1763136244"},{"product_id":"the-pre-socratics","title":"The Pre-Socratics: A Collection of Critical Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection introduces readers to some of the most respected Pre-Socratic scholarship of the twentieth century. It includes translations of important works from European scholars that were previously unavailable in English and incorporates the major topics and approaches of contemporary scholarship. Here is an essential book for students and scholars alike. \"Students of the Pre-Socratics must be grateful to Mourelatos and his publishers for making these essays available to a wider public.\"--T. H. Irwin, American Journal of Philology \"Mourelatos is a superb editor, and teaching Pre-Socratics in the future with this collection on the reading list will not only be easier but also better.\"--Jorgen Mejer, The Classical World \"The editor has done his work judiciously. It would be difficult to devise a better balance between different parts of the subject.\"--Edward Hussey, Archives internationales d'histoire des sciences \"[This book] will undoubtedly become an indispensable aid for beginning and advanced students of the Pre-Socratics.\"--David E. Hahm, Isis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1994.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153901637809,"sku":"9780691636740","price":372.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153901670577,"sku":"9780691608273","price":156.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_548f00ea-e511-41ef-8aea-b31af6aa033a.jpg?v=1763714734"},{"product_id":"phenomenology-in-an-african-context","title":"Phenomenology in an African Context: Contributions and Challenges","description":"This book has been made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153858547889,"sku":"9781438494869","price":50.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153858580657,"sku":"9781438494876","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153858613425,"sku":"be9d423f-09de-32c2-a0ff-92d490889198","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f7e0a677-8559-4d98-b14c-8d1f4b1a4ab6.jpg?v=1763222161"},{"product_id":"platos-reasons","title":"Plato's Reasons: Logician, Rhetorician, Dialectician","description":"This book explores Plato's implicit understanding of argumentation by reviewing his standing as a logician, rhetorician, and dialectician. The question of his \"standing\" on these matters is approached on his terms (gleaned from the dialogues) rather than simply from the judgments of commentators. Traditionally, arguments are distinguished as logical, rhetorical, or dialectical, and the source of these distinctions is taken to be Aristotle. This book proceeds on the assumption that Aristotle's tripartite theory of argumentation did not arise in a vacuum and explores the different degrees to which substantive antecedents of parts of that model can be traced to Plato.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153882534065,"sku":"9781438495545","price":50.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153882566833,"sku":"9781438495538","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153882599601,"sku":"bf566681-e718-36d5-b310-03458d2c4b8b","price":42.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f2aa276c-bfb5-4851-9e2c-7297c9f633cd.jpg?v=1763136243"},{"product_id":"a-system-of-pragmatic-idealism-volume-ii","title":"A System of Pragmatic Idealism, Volume II: The Validity of Values, A Normative Theory of Evaluative Rationality","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is the second of the three volumes of A System of Pragmatic Idealism, a series that will synthesize the life's work of the philosopher Nicholas Rescher. Rescher's numerous books and articles, which address almost every major philosophical topic, reflect a unified approach: the combination of pragmatism and idealism characteristic of his thinking throughout his career. The three related but independently readable books of the series present Rescher's system as a whole. In combining leading ideas of European continental idealism and American pragmatism in a new way, Rescher has created an integrated philosophical position in which the central concepts of these two traditions become a coherent totality. The initial volume in the series was dedicated to epistemology, the philosophy of science, and the philosophy of nature. In The Validity of Values, Rescher sets out a normative theory of rationality. Looking at issues of value theory, ethics, and practical philosophy, this second volume of the trilogy has as its theme the utility of values for a proper understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. Rescher's key thesis, which is argued from various angles and points of departure, is that rationality as such and in general is bound up with the theory and practice of rational evaluation. The third volume of the series will deal with the nature of philosophical inquiry itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1993.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153895903409,"sku":"9780691632841","price":169.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153895936177,"sku":"9780691603537","price":73.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6c95624a-65da-4837-8267-6c1b03f29dd2.jpg?v=1764380447"},{"product_id":"platos-politics-of-passion","title":"Plato's Politics of Passion: Erôs, Thumos, and Socratic Self-Knowledge in the Charmides, Republic, and Symposium","description":"gives guidance about how to think about the potential connection between Socratic self-knowledge and knowledge of the good and also shows why the characters of Charmides and Critias fail to come to such knowledge. Here we have the Platonic diagnosis of the tyrant, whose soul never wonders at anything beyond itself.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46692186849490,"sku":"9798855803914","price":49.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153880502449,"sku":"9798855803907","price":162.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153880535217,"sku":"c3ce90e7-1fa7-3762-b52f-87f21d8a88ce","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4b1b7d9f-2d68-40a2-8a0f-05e5803cdb85.jpg?v=1763226269"},{"product_id":"merleau-ponty-and-contemporary-philosophy","title":"Merleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy","description":"\u003cb\u003eAssesses the importance of Merleau-Ponty to current and ongoing concerns in contemporary philosophy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaurice Merleau-Ponty is widely recognized as one of the major figures of twentieth-century philosophy. The recent publication of his lecture courses and posthumous working notes has opened new avenues for both the interpretation of his thought and philosophy in general. These works confirm that, with a surprising premonition, Merleau-Ponty addressed many of the issues that concern philosophy today. With the benefit of this fuller picture of his thought, \u003ci\u003eMerleau-Ponty and Contemporary Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e undertakes an assessment of the philosopher's relevance for contemporary thinking. Covering a diverse range of topics, including ontology, epistemology, anthropology, embodiment, animality, politics, language, aesthetics, and art, the editors gather representative voices from North America and Europe, including both Merleau-Ponty specialists and thinkers who have come to the philosopher's work through their own thematic interest.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153871163569,"sku":"9781438476902","price":50.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153871196337,"sku":"9781438476919","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153871229105,"sku":"4f5afb12-a3b7-3680-8288-9cce928b7006","price":42.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_f3c50a54-5745-4b67-adc6-f83d51d59ec7.jpg?v=1763222159"},{"product_id":"ideas-and-mechanism","title":"Ideas and Mechanism: Essays on Early Modern Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor more than three decades, Margaret Wilson's essays on early modern philosophy have influenced scholarly debate. Many are considered classics in the field and remain as important today as they were when they were first published. Until now, however, they have never been available in book form and some have been particularly difficult to find. This collection not only provides access to nearly all of Wilson's most significant work, but also demonstrates the continuity of her thought over time. These essays show that Wilson possesses a keen intelligence, coupled with a fearlessness in tackling the work of early modern philosophers as well as the writing of modern commentators. Many of the pieces collected here respond to philosophical issues of continuing importance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe thirty-one essays gathered here deal with some of the best known early philosophers, including Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza, and Berkeley. As this collection shows, Wilson is a demanding critic. She repeatedly asks whether the philosophers' arguments were adequate to the problems they were trying to solve and whether these arguments remain compelling today. She is not afraid to engage in complex argument but, at the same time, her own writing remains clear and fresh. \u003ci\u003eIdeas and Mechanism\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential collection of work by one of the leading scholars of our era.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1999.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153897935025,"sku":"9780691635088","price":338.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153897967793,"sku":"9780691606309","price":137.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5bb1d8ba-1d60-4efa-b6d0-4658abec16cf.jpg?v=1763679150"},{"product_id":"thinking-unrest","title":"Thinking Unrest: The Unsettled Legacy of German Idealism","description":"gathers original essays from eight leading scholars to reopen the question of what moves thought both within German Idealism and among the movement’s heirs. Through readings of Fichte, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling, as well as more contemporary writers such as Nicolas Abraham, Ernst Bloch, Antonio Gramsci, and Rainer Maria Rilke, contributors expose more broadly what it may mean for philosophy to be a matter of responding to that which provokes, troubles, and withdraws from thought. Drawing on various theoretical perspectives—poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, the history of science, political theory—the volume reconsiders the legacy of German Idealism for thinking unrest today.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46708131889362,"sku":"9798855804317","price":49.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153881256113,"sku":"9798855804300","price":162.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153881288881,"sku":"7dab6bb1-b620-37ce-a323-0eb096e58bbe","price":41.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_115e2c51-4f46-444d-b312-b002dcb3139e.jpg?v=1764392178"},{"product_id":"strangers-to-nature","title":"Strangers to Nature: Animal Lives and Human Ethics","description":"Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inquiry. This volume brings together many of the leading scholars who work to redefine and expand the discourse on animal ethics. The contributors examine the radical developments that change how we think about the status of non-human animals in our society and our moral obligations. Strangers to Nature will engage both scholars and lay-people by revealing the breadth of theorizing about current human\/non-human animal relationships.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153904062641,"sku":"9780739145487","price":99.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153904095409,"sku":"9780739145470","price":186.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153904128177,"sku":"b624fc7f-f795-35ce-8ac0-b1da3cfe8096","price":71.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5db57eef-a589-4588-97cf-6f649f404f98.jpg?v=1762445448"},{"product_id":"opinion-and-reform-in-humes-political-philosophy","title":"Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The picture of Hume clinging timidly to a raft of custom and artifice, because, poor skeptic, he has no alternative, is wrong,\" writes John Stewart. \"Hume was confident that by experience and reflection philosophers can achieve true principles.\" In this revisionary work Stewart surveys all of David Hume's major writings to reveal him as a liberal moral and political philosopher. Against the background of seventeenth-and eighteenth-century history and thought, Hume emerges as a proponent not of conservatism but of reform. Stewart first presents the dilemma over morals in the modern natural-law school, then examines the new approach to moral and political philosophy adopted by Hume's precursors Shaftesbury, Mandeville, Hutcheson, and Butler. Illuminating Hume's explanation of the standards and rules that should govern private and public life, the author challenges interpretations of Hume's philosophy as conservative by demonstrating that he did not dismiss reason as a key factor determining right and wrong in moral and political contexts. Stewart goes on to show that Hume viewed private property, the market, contracts, and the rule of law as essential to genuine civilized society, and explores Hume's criticism of contemporary British beliefs concerning government, religion, commerce, international relations, and social structure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1992.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153897148593,"sku":"9780691634531","price":230.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153897181361,"sku":"9780691605593","price":90.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_3f8197e0-a34a-478b-ac99-5500d35da9c2.jpg?v=1763714733"},{"product_id":"how-to-lose-yourself","title":"How to Lose Yourself: An Ancient Guide to Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInviting new translations of classical Buddhist texts about why the self is an illusion—and why giving it up can free us from suffering\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom self-realization and self-promotion to self-help and the selfie, the modern world encourages us to be self-obsessed. We are even told that finding ourselves is the key to happiness. Better to lose yourself! More than 2,500 years ago, the Buddha argued that the self is an illusion—and that our belief in it is the cause of most, if not all, of our suffering. \u003ci\u003eHow to Lose Yourself\u003c\/i\u003e presents lively, accessible, and expert new translations of ancient Buddhist writings about the central, unique, and powerful Buddhist teaching of “no-self.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawn from three important Buddhist traditions, these essential Indian, Tibetan, and Chinese writings provide a rich sampling of the ways Buddhist philosophers have understood the idea that we are selfless persons—and why this insight is so therapeutic. When we let go of the self, we are awakened to the presence of all things as they truly are, and we let go of the anxiety, fear, greed, and hatred that are the source of all suffering.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComplete with an introduction and headnotes to each selection, and the original texts on facing pages, \u003ci\u003eHow to Lose Yourself \u003c\/i\u003eis a concise guide to a transformative idea.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153878405297,"sku":"9780691252636","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153878438065,"sku":"e953ccfe-6045-3e45-909a-3fd62aedb117","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8474a4c0-f71a-49aa-af5c-c6604744bf10.jpg?v=1764395010"},{"product_id":"boethius-and-dialogue","title":"Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method In The Consolation Of Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book treats Boethius' \u003ci\u003eConsolation of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e as a work of imaginative literature, and applies modern techniques of criticism to his writings. The author's central purpose is to demonstrate the methodological and thematic coherence of \u003ci\u003eThe Consolation of Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1985.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153901539505,"sku":"9780691639321","price":169.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (1990)","offer_id":46153901572273,"sku":"9780520071278","price":40.74,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (2014)","offer_id":46153901605041,"sku":"9780691611310","price":73.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_927a767a-6c62-4ba4-bbda-7c0ed076b391.jpg?v=1763679154"},{"product_id":"the-real-metaphysical-club","title":"The Real Metaphysical Club: The Philosophers, Their Debates, and Selected Writings from 1870 to 1885","description":"\u003cb\u003eA full account of the Metaphysical Club, featuring the members' philosophical writings and four critical essays.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Metaphysical Club, a gathering of intellectuals in the 1870s, is widely recognized as the crucible where pragmatism, America's distinctively original philosophy, was refined and proclaimed. Louis Menand's bestseller about the group was a dramatic publishing success. However, only three actual members-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Charles S. Peirce, and William James-appear in the book, alongside other thinkers who were never in the Club. \u003ci\u003eThe Real Metaphysical Club\u003c\/i\u003e tells the full story of how this influential group shifted the course of philosophy in America. In addition to pioneering pragmatism, the group explored radical empiricism and idealism, and formulated personalism and process philosophy, equally important developments. This volume contains the important writings dating from 1870 to 1885 by the real members of the Metaphysical Club. The first section centers on pragmatism and science; the second part collects writings of the lawyers; and the third part covers idealist and personalist philosophers. Many of these writings have never been reprinted before, and nothing like this impressive collection has ever been attempted. A general introduction provides a narrative history, and the editors' three introductions to the volume's sections vividly bring to life the intense meetings, sustained debates, and pioneering thought of the Metaphysical Club.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153857532081,"sku":"9781438473246","price":51.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153857564849,"sku":"9781438473253","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153857597617,"sku":"1ef5a310-b216-3b40-b4cf-76c3277240de","price":43.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_07c78e81-7990-4cdb-b97c-d981548305c1.jpg?v=1763312271"},{"product_id":"myth-and-authority","title":"Myth and Authority: Giambattista Vico's Early Modern Critique of Aristocratic Sovereignty","description":"argues that Vico's depiction of pagan religion is a refined attempt to explain how oligarchy maintains its stranglehold on power. While Western civilization did not follow the path Vico suggested, it may now be more relevant as concerns grow about the increasing influence of the wealthy on civil institutions.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153873850545,"sku":"9781438490205","price":50.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153873883313,"sku":"9781438490199","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153873916081,"sku":"0eb54ba3-d6df-332f-93c8-564d23d81168","price":42.29,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_ff55ef2b-e192-4171-98db-1d4f53727fb7.jpg?v=1763166522"},{"product_id":"claudia-jones","title":"Claudia Jones: Visions of a Socialist America","description":"\u003cp\u003eActivist, journalist, and visionary Claudia Jones was one of the most important advocates of emancipation in the twentieth century. Arguing for a socialist future and the total emancipation of working people, Jones’s legacy made an enduring mark on both sides of the Atlantic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis ground-breaking biography traces Jones’s remarkable life and work, beginning with her immigration to the United States and culminating in her advocacy for the emancipation of the most oppressed. Denise Lynn reveals how Jones’s radicalism was forged through confronting American racism, and how her disillusionment led to a life committed to socialist liberation. But this activism came at a cost: Jones would be expelled from the US for being a communist. Deported to England, she took up the mantle of anti-colonial liberation movements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDespite the innumerable obstacles in her way, Jones never wavered in her commitments. In her tireless resistance to capitalism, racism, and sexism, she envisioned an equitable future devoted to peace and humanity – a vision that we all must continue to fight for today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153881387185,"sku":"9781509549313","price":29.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153881419953,"sku":"9781509549306","price":83.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153881452721,"sku":"849e3cb3-aa73-3ddc-84e0-7bee438fb1fc","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_edae4017-3b1e-4605-8688-9a7ce13f3814.jpg?v=1763339030"},{"product_id":"the-origin-of-the-family-private-property-and-the-state","title":"The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State","description":"The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (1884), was a provocative and profoundly influential critique of the Victorian nuclear family. Engels argued that the traditional monogamous household was in fact a recent construct, closely bound up with capitalist societies. Under this patriarchal system, women were servants and, effectively, prostitutes. Only Communism would herald the dawn of communal living and a new sexual freedom and, in turn, the role of the state would become superfluous.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153876340913,"sku":"9780141191119","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153876373681,"sku":"5f0b4640-e295-4596-8a0e-9fd95db8732d","price":12.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_2af03fd1-6fee-4b5e-97fe-bc5250a007e5.jpg?v=1763678672"},{"product_id":"political-bodies","title":"Political Bodies: Writings on Adriana Cavarero's Political Thought","description":"ventures beyond the familiar boundaries of Cavarero's own writing and is a testament to the generative encounters that her philosophy makes possible.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46153880043697,"sku":"9781438497099","price":48.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46153880076465,"sku":"9781438497082","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46153880109233,"sku":"71d498c9-17a5-36a1-85c8-03c8603b7f66","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_7a68ddba-9d97-4909-a7cc-00f382b0eb77.jpg?v=1763222159"},{"product_id":"the-essays","title":"The Essays: A Selection","description":"A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics.   To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary case for the equality of the sexes. In On Experience he superbly propounds his thoughts on the right way to live, while other essays touch on issues of an age struggling with religious and intellectual strife, with France torn apart by civil war. These diverse subjects are united by Montaigne's distinctive voice - that of a tolerant man, sceptical, humane, often humorous and utterly honest in his pursuit of the truth.   M.A. Screech's distinguished translation fully retains the light-hearted and inquiring nature of the essays. In his introduction, he examines Montaigne's life and times, and the remarkable self-portrait that emerges from his works.   Michel de Montaigne (1533-1586) studied law and spent a number of years working as a counsellor before devoting his life to reading, writing and reflection.    If you enjoyed The Essays: A Selection, you might like Francis Bacon's The Essays, also available in Penguin Classics.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154196582577,"sku":"9780140446029","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154196615345,"sku":"528b18a7-f0e2-3026-8425-f0033dc23962","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4cef37f2-083e-4194-8606-c7921f6c4694.jpg?v=1764370514"},{"product_id":"ayn-rand-explained","title":"Ayn Rand Explained: From Tyranny to Tea Party","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eFifty-five years after \u003ci\u003eAtlas Shrugged\u003c\/i\u003e, Ayn Rand is more in the news than ever. \u003ci\u003eAyn Rand Explained\u003c\/i\u003e is an accurate and riveting account of Rand’s life, work, and influence, with the emphasis on her ideas.\u003cbr\u003e  The book covers Rand’s career, from youth in Soviet Russia to Hollywood screenwriter and then to ideological guru; her novels and other fiction writings; her work in ethics, epistemology, and metaphysics; her influence on—and personal animosity toward—both conservatism and libertarianism.\u003cbr\u003e  Rand’s Objectivism encompasses the ethics of rational egoism (‘The Virtue of Selfishness’); dedication to rational thinking and acting; rejection of faith in the supernatural, personal freedom from political interference, and a moral defense of limited government and laissez-faire.\u003cbr\u003e  Objectivism was first promoted through the Nathaniel Branden Institute, headed by Rand’s young protégé and designated heir.  The Institute’s phenomenally rapid growth was abruptly cut short when Rand expelled Branden and his followers in 1968. Today Objectivism is represented by different factions, notably the Ayn Rand Institute and the Atlas Society.\u003cbr\u003e  This is a revised, updated edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Ideas of Ayn Rand\u003c\/i\u003e (1991), including new information on Rand’s rocketing influence, new stories about her personal relationships, and new analysis of her life and ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154143629489,"sku":"9780812697988","price":41.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154143662257,"sku":"39dba2ee-34e5-372c-9cdd-e5c2ce1f26cb","price":20.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5268ca65-90a6-4722-91f4-656323b5059c.jpg?v=1763407868"},{"product_id":"the-future-of-the-world-is-open","title":"The Future of the World Is Open: Encounters with Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, Adriana Cavarero, and Rossana Rossanda","description":"examines the work and thought of three prominent Italian feminist philosophers, Lea Melandri, Luisa Muraro, and Adriana Cavarero, as it delves into the significant experiences that shaped them, highlighting their converging and diverging positions. Also appearing here for the first time in English translation are three essays by renowned author, journalist, and political figure Rossana Rossanda. Rossanda's essays offer a critical perspective on some of the contentious theoretical nodes with which Italian feminist thought has wrestled. Written in terse and engaging language, this book explores challenging philosophical and political questions, with themes including masculine domination; the body as the site of sedimented lived experience; sexual difference; the symbolic; the imaginary; feminine political authority; feminine subjectivity; and material humanism. A vivid picture of the socio-political context of Italian feminism emerges-illuminating its strong commitment to practice-and informing and enriching contemporary discussions at the intersection of different disciplinary perspectives.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154136748209,"sku":"9781438489148","price":46.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154136780977,"sku":"9781438489155","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154136813745,"sku":"d60fb818-7b93-3e75-81f8-44b16b003ee1","price":39.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_c437a832-3633-4620-a78a-0b1fe2db6fe0.jpg?v=1763166516"},{"product_id":"history-as-a-visual-art-in-the-twelfth-century-renaissance","title":"History as a Visual Art in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance","description":"\u003cp\u003eKarl Morrison discusses historical writing at a turning point in European culture: the so-called Renaissance of the twelfth century. Why do texts considered at that time to be masterpieces seem now to be fragmentary and full of contradictions? Morrison maintains that the answer comes from ideas about art. Viewing histories as artifacts made according to the same aesthetic principles as paintings and theater, he shows that twelfth-century authors and audiences found unity not in what the reason read in a text but in what the imagination read into it: they prized visual over verbal imagination and employed a circular, or nuclear, spectator-centered perspective cast aside in the Renaissance of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwelfth-century writers assimilated and transformed a tradition of the conceptual unity of all the arts and attributed that unity to the fact that art both conceals and discloses. Recovering that tradition, especially the methods and motives of concealment, provides extraordinary insights into twelfth-century ideas about the kingdom of God, the status of women, and the nature of time itself. It also identifies a strain in European thought that had striking affinities to methods of perception familiar in Oriental religions and that proved to be antithetic to later humanist traditions in the West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1990.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154085269681,"sku":"9780691630793","price":179.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154085302449,"sku":"9780691601014","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_2984c1cb-40b7-4ea6-83b1-15121475810a.jpg?v=1764378698"},{"product_id":"john-stuart-mill-and-representative-government","title":"John Stuart Mill and Representative Government","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough Mill regarded \u003ci\u003eConsiderations on Representative Government\u003c\/i\u003e as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat it less seriously than most of his other major works. Dennis Thompson argues that this neglect has led to inadequate interpretations of Mill's thought on democracy. Drawing where appropriate on other writings by Mill, the author restores a balanced view by studying the structure of the theory expounded in \u003ci\u003eRepresentative Government\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e Representative Government\u003c\/i\u003e is shown to be more coherent and systematic than has generally been assumed. In the first two chapters the author examines separately Mill's views of political participation and competence. He then considers the philosopher's effort to combine participation and competence at any particular time in a theory of government and to reduce conflict between them over time in a theory of development. Basic features of Mill's view are subjected to critical scrutiny, and modifications are suggested to overcome the deficiencies noted. Throughout, Mill's claims are compared with the ideas and findings of recent social science, leading to the conclusion that his theory remains a valuable resource for contemporary thinking about democracy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1976.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154093723825,"sku":"9780691637556","price":162.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154093756593,"sku":"9780691609232","price":72.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5da039b1-961a-4f9b-b43d-5bb10c404cf9.jpg?v=1763714741"},{"product_id":"in-the-swarm","title":"In the Swarm: Digital Prospects","description":"\u003cb\u003eA prominent German thinker argues that—contrary to “Twitter Revolution” cheerleading—digital communication is destroying political discourse and political action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shitstorm represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.\u003cbr\u003e—from \u003ci\u003eIn the Swarm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDigital communication and social media have taken over our lives. In this contrarian reflection on digitized life, Byung-Chul Han counters the cheerleaders for Twitter revolutions and Facebook activism by arguing that digital communication is in fact responsible for the disintegration of community and public space and is slowly eroding any possibility for real political action and meaningful political discourse. In the predigital, analog era, by the time an angry letter to the editor had been composed, mailed, and received, the immediate agitation had passed. Today, digital communication enables instantaneous, impulsive reaction, meant to express and stir up outrage on the spot. “The shitstorm,” writes Han, ”represents an authentic phenomenon of digital communication.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, the public, the senders and receivers of these communications have become a digital swarm—not a mass, or a crowd, or Negri and Hardt's antiquated notion of a “multitude,” but a set of isolated individuals incapable of forming a “we,” incapable of calling dominant power relations into question, incapable of formulating a future because of an obsession with the present. The digital swarm is a fragmented entity that can focus on individual persons only in order to make them an object of scandal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHan, one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, describes a society in which information has overrun thought, in which the same algorithms are employed by Facebook, the stock market, and the intelligence services. Democracy is under threat because digital communication has made freedom and control indistinguishable. Big Brother has been succeeded by Big Data.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154238132401,"sku":"9780262533362","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154238165169,"sku":"34ceaf01-f0f1-324a-98c7-e893286d2407","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_35b5f702-b2a0-493c-a316-a4ad4d9398d1.jpg?v=1764373539"},{"product_id":"black-mirror-and-philosophy","title":"Black Mirror and Philosophy Lib\/E: Dark Reflections","description":"\u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e--the Emmy-winning Netflix series that holds up a dark, digital mirror of speculative technologies to modern society--shows us a high-tech world where it is all too easy to fall victim to ever-evolving forms of social control. In \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e, original essays written by a diverse group of scholars invite you to peer into the void and explore the philosophical, ethical, and existential dimensions of Charlie Brooker's sinister stories. The collection reflects \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e's anthology structure by pairing a chapter with every episode in the show's five seasons--including an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure analysis of \u003ci\u003eBandersnatch\u003c\/i\u003e--and concludes with general essays that explore the series' broader themes. Chapters address questions about artificial intelligence, virtual reality, surveillance, privacy, love, death, criminal behavior, and politics, including: Have we given social media too much power over our lives? Could heaven really, one day, be a place on Earth? Should criminal justice and punishment be crowdsourced? What rights should a cookie have? Immersive, engaging, and experimental, \u003ci\u003eBlack Mirror and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e navigates the intellectual landscape of Brooker's morality plays for the modern world, where humanity's greatest innovations and darkest instincts collide.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook (2020 A)","offer_id":46707140100306,"sku":"9798200246328","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook (2020 C)","offer_id":46154209296561,"sku":"9798200246342","price":59.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook (2020 B)","offer_id":46154209329329,"sku":"9798200246335","price":72.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8e51860c-ab83-48e9-baae-39b289f43b37.jpg?v=1763679140"},{"product_id":"the-era-of-the-individual","title":"The Era of the Individual: A Contribution to a History of Subjectivity","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the publication of \u003ci\u003eFrench Philosophy of the Sixties\u003c\/i\u003e, Alain Renaut and Luc Ferry in 1985 launched their famous critique against canonical figures such as Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, bringing under rigorous scrutiny the entire post-structuralist project that had dominated Western intellectual life for over two decades. Their goal was to defend the accomplishments of liberal democracy, particularly in terms of basic human rights, and to trace the reigning philosophers' distrust of liberalism to an \"antihumanism\" inherited mainly from Heidegger. In \u003ci\u003eThe Era of the Individual\u003c\/i\u003e, widely hailed as Renaut's magnum opus, the author explores the most salient feature of post-structuralism: the elimination of the human subject. At the root of this thinking lies the belief that humans cannot know or control their basic natures, a premise that led to Heidegger's distrust of an individualistic, capitalist modern society and that allied him briefly with Hitler's National Socialist Party. While acknowledging some of Heidegger's misgivings toward modernity as legitimate, Renaut argues that it is nevertheless wrong to equate modernity with the triumph of individualism. Here he distinguishes between individualism and subjectivity and, by offering a history of the two, powerfully redirects the course of current thinking away from potentially dangerous, reductionist views of humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenaut argues that modern philosophy contains within itself two opposed ways of conceiving the human person. The first, which has its roots in Descartes and Kant, views human beings as subjects capable of arriving at universal moral judgments. The second, stemming from Leibniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche, presents human beings as independent individuals sharing nothing with others. In a careful recounting of this philosophical tradition, Renaut shows the resonances of these traditions in more recent philosophers such as Heidegger and in the social anthropology of Louis Dumont.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRenaut's distinction between individualism and subjectivity has become an important issue for young thinkers dissatisfied with the intellectual tradition originating in Nietzsche and Heidegger. Moreover, his proclivity toward the Kantian tradition, combined with his insights into the shortcomings of modernity, will interest anyone concerned about today's shifting cultural attitudes toward liberalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1997.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154089038001,"sku":"9780691633350","price":179.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154089070769,"sku":"9780691604183","price":75.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_42dff3da-a569-49a1-b5f0-3d8088157615.jpg?v=1764382027"},{"product_id":"aime-cesaire","title":"Aimé Césaire: Inventor of Souls","description":"\u003cp\u003eAimé Césaire is arguably the greatest Caribbean literary writer in history. Best known for his incendiary epic poem \u003ci\u003eNotebook of a Return to My Native Land\u003c\/i\u003e, Césaire reinvented black culture by conceiving 'négritude' as a dynamic and continuous process of self-creation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this essential new account of his life and work, Jane Hiddleston introduces readers to Césaire's unique poetic voice and to his role as a figurehead for intellectuals pursuing freedom and equality for black people. Césaire was deeply immersed in the political life of his native Martinique for over fifty years: as Mayor of Fort-de-France and Deputy at the French National Assembly, he called for the liberation of oppressed people at home and abroad, while celebrating black creativity and self-invention to resist a history of racism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCésaire's extraordinary life reminds us that the much-needed revolt against oppression and subjugation can—and should—come from within the establishment, as well as without.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154063741105,"sku":"9781509549788","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154063773873,"sku":"9781509549771","price":104.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154063806641,"sku":"9e1b584f-1ac2-372f-96f6-ed6dc95f1b85","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_2ddce531-3bd5-4f57-9f36-5cd166f05693.jpg?v=1763339423"},{"product_id":"joker-and-philosophy","title":"Joker and Philosophy: Why So Serious?","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA philosophical exploration of Joker and the meaning of the iconic antagonist's murderous escapades\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA diabolically sinister but clownish villain, Joker is a symbolically rich and philosophically fascinating character. Both crazed and cunning, sadistically cruel but seductively charming, the Clown Prince of Crime embodies everything opposed to the positive ideals of order and justice defended by the Batman. With his enigmatic motivations, infectious irreverence, and selfless devotion to evil, Joker never fails to provoke a host of philosophical questions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoker and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e plumbs the existential depths of the most popular of Gotham City's gallery of villains with an abundance of style, wit, and intelligence. Bringing together essays by a diverse panel of acclaimed scholars and philosophers, this engaging, highly readable book delves into the motivations, psychology, and moral philosophy of the character for whom mayhem and chaos are a source of pure delight. Easily accessible yet philosophically substantial chapters address the comics, animated movies, television shows, video games, and live-action films, including memorable portrayals by Heath Ledger in Christopher Nolan's \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Knight\u003c\/i\u003e and Joaquin Phoenix in Todd Phillips' \u003ci\u003eJoker\u003c\/i\u003e and its upcoming sequel \u003ci\u003eJoker: Folie à Deux.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoker and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e offers deep insights into moral and philosophical questions such as: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eWhat is a sane response to a mad world?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCan laughter be liberating?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs civilization a thin veneer over our natural lawlessness?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCan violence ever be justified in response to an unjust social order?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIs one bad day really all it takes to create a villain?\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eExploring a broad range of timeless issues of human nature, the metaphysics of freedom, the nature of identity, good and evil, political and social philosophy, aesthetics, and much more, \u003ci\u003eJoker and Philosophy: Why So Serious?\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-read for all fans of one of the most fascinating villains in the DC comics universe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154075504817,"sku":"9781394198474","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154075537585,"sku":"a3279d6f-6a67-3309-8dad-ab56e57099f6","price":16.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8093d822-c623-48e3-ac48-e7050b9e77c5.jpg?v=1763679156"},{"product_id":"counter-enlightenments","title":"Counter-Enlightenments: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Enlightenment and its legacy are still actively debated, with the Enlightenment acting as a key organizing concept in philosophy, social theory and the history of ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCounter-Enlightenments\u003c\/em\u003eis the first full-length study to deal with the history and development of counter-enlightenment thought from its inception in the eighteenth century right through to the present. Engaging in a critical dialogue with Isaiah Berlin's work, this book analyzes the concept of counter-enlightenment and some of the most important issues and problems it raises.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGraeme Garrard explores the diverse forms of thought in this field, with a wide-ranging review of the principle figures of the past two hundred and fifty years, and an incisive assessment of the persuasiveness of the most common and important criticisms of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154124656817,"sku":"9780415852968","price":122.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154124689585,"sku":"9780415187251","price":346.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154124722353,"sku":"463b6dac-f7a0-4072-baba-72e25ffde298","price":114.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b9b96da8-aca3-404d-8b96-8f5350705f16.jpg?v=1763442979"},{"product_id":"debating-democracy","title":"Debating Democracy: Do We Need More Or Less?","description":"Around the world, faith in democracy is falling. Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela have moved from flawed democracies to authoritarian regimes. Brexit and the rise of far-right parties show that even stable Western democracies are struggling. Partisanship and mutual distrust are increasing. What, if anything, should we do about these problems? In this accessible work, leading philosophers Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore debate whether the solution lies in having less democracy or more. \r\n\r\nBrennan argues that democracy has systematic flaws, and that democracy does not and cannot work the way most of us commonly assume. He argues the best solution is to limit democracy's scope and to experiment with certain voting systems that can overcome democracy's problems. \r\n\r\nLandemore argues that democracy, defined as a regime that distributes power equally and inclusively, is a better way to generate good governance than oligarchies of knowledge. To her, the crisis of \"representative democracy\" comes in large part from its glaring democratic deficits. The solution is not just more democracy, but a better kind, which Landemore theorizes as \"open democracy.\"","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154080583857,"sku":"9780197540824","price":38.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154080616625,"sku":"9780197540817","price":108.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154080649393,"sku":"5159b7fd-b281-30df-90d3-47193b364a47","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6ed82fad-03d0-4059-b7c3-ee076e92e742.jpg?v=1763549165"},{"product_id":"braintrust","title":"Braintrust: What Neuroscience Tells Us about Morality","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative new account of how morality evolved\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat is morality? Where does it come from? And why do most of us heed its call most of the time? In \u003ci\u003eBraintrust\u003c\/i\u003e, neurophilosophy pioneer Patricia Churchland argues that morality originates in the biology of the brain. She describes the \"neurobiological platform of bonding\" that, modified by evolutionary pressures and cultural values, has led to human styles of moral behavior. The result is a provocative genealogy of morals that asks us to reevaluate the priority given to religion, absolute rules, and pure reason in accounting for the basis of morality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoral values, Churchland argues, are rooted in a behavior common to all mammals—the caring for offspring. The evolved structure, processes, and chemistry of the brain incline humans to strive not only for self-preservation but for the well-being of allied selves—first offspring, then mates, kin, and so on, in wider and wider \"caring\" circles. Separation and exclusion cause pain, and the company of loved ones causes pleasure; responding to feelings of social pain and pleasure, brains adjust their circuitry to local customs. In this way, caring is apportioned, conscience molded, and moral intuitions instilled. A key part of the story is oxytocin, an ancient body-and-brain molecule that, by decreasing the stress response, allows humans to develop the trust in one another necessary for the development of close-knit ties, social institutions, and morality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA major new account of what really makes us moral, \u003ci\u003eBraintrust\u003c\/i\u003e challenges us to reconsider the origins of some of our most cherished values.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (2018)","offer_id":46154275324081,"sku":"9780691180977","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (2012)","offer_id":46154275356849,"sku":"9780774818889","price":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154275389617,"sku":"61113c1e-dde4-3fea-8f71-c40675805aee","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d89a63c1-78e8-4c1a-8eb5-fbbb55ade1db.jpg?v=1757123607"},{"product_id":"the-handy-philosophy-answer-book","title":"The Handy Philosophy Answer Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePlato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, Sartre, and many more. Who were they? What did they say? Why should we care? How did changing philosophical thought affect the history of civilization? How does philosophy affect pop culture, politics and government, and our everyday lives?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining a basic history of philosophical thought with the often quirky personal stories of famous philosophers, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handy Philosophy Answer Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e introduces the reader to the world of philosophy. This comprehensive survey analyzes the collective effort of philosophers throughout history in the pursuit of truth and wisdom. It explores the tangible significance of philosophical thought to modern society and civilization as a whole, and answers more than 1,000 questions, including …\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat was the Enlightenment?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhy did the Pythagorians avoid fava beans?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow was Skepticism related to the scientific revolution?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWas Søren Kierkegaard’s life “cursed”?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow did philosopher A. J. Ayer defeat professional heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat are the current trends in philosophy and how are they related to feminism, environmentalism, and African American studies?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eHow is Confucianism relevant to contemporary Western philosophy?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Handy Philosophy Answer Book\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e explains philosophical fundamentals. It looks at the various schools of thought. It explores the deep--and sometimes odd--questions posed by philosophers. This comprehensive survey brings us the lives and the impacts of philosophy's greatest thinkers. With more than 130 photos and illustrations, this tome is richly illustrated, and its helpful bibliography and extensive index add to its usefulness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154139336881,"sku":"9781578592265","price":84.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154139369649,"sku":"d65e5364-e405-3fd5-8e94-8ab0adeb86a5","price":20.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1f38f2c4-591b-405e-adea-917f1e246f80.jpg?v=1763518469"},{"product_id":"the-ethics-of-identity","title":"The Ethics of Identity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexuality clamor for recognition and respect, sometimes at the expense of other things we value. To what extent do they constrain our freedom, and to what extent do they enable our individuality? Is diversity of value in itself? Has the rhetoric of human rights been overstretched? Kwame Anthony Appiah draws on thinkers through the ages and across the globe to explore such questions, developing an account of ethics that connects moral obligations with collective allegiances and that takes aim at clichés and received ideas about identity. This classic book takes seriously both the claims of individuality—the task of making a life—and the claims of identity, these large and often abstract social categories through which we define ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (2023)","offer_id":46154083336369,"sku":"9780691254074","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback (2007)","offer_id":46154083369137,"sku":"9780691130286","price":48.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2023)","offer_id":46154083401905,"sku":"ff5547f9-0d7f-34ca-81b7-f4041d851021","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2010)","offer_id":46154083434673,"sku":"2edf3d1a-db7d-4ce7-a167-a0a03bd5193c","price":38.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_98443968-5d9c-4ce5-9820-1435d133d869.jpg?v=1763635936"},{"product_id":"pour-un-humanisme-vital","title":"Pour un humanisme vital: Lettres sur la vie, la mort et le moment présent","description":"\u003cp\u003e« Nous avons besoin aujourd’hui d’un humanisme vital. Et cela nous ramène à la “valeur” de l’humain qui est la condition de tout humanisme et sur laquelle on s’est beaucoup trompé. Car cette “valeur” n’est pas une propriété simple qui excepterait l’humain du vivant ou qui pourrait être écrasée par lui. Elle réside plutôt dans des inventions humaines, réponses toujours perfectibles à tous les dangers vitaux à la fois. Ainsi, cet humanisme est vital non seulement parce qu’il situe l’humain dans le vivant, mais parce qu’il le considère comme nécessaire et urgent, pour la vie de tous les vivants. L’humanisme suppose encore autre chose : un accès universel à tous les humains. Or, ici, nous partageons bien quelque chose mais n’est-ce pas d’abord une inquiétude ? Oui, en effet. C’est même ce qui m’a poussé à vous écrire. Mais je savais, dès que je m’y suis engagé, que cela nous permettrait aussi de rejoindre nos joies. » F. W. Dans ces lettres adressées à une amie « inquiète et qui sait penser », Frédéric Worms explique pourquoi l’humanisme vital est la réponse philosophique aux dangers de notre temps. Frédéric Worms est professeur de philosophie contemporaine à l’École normale supérieure, dont il est directeur adjoint depuis 2015, et l’auteur remarqué d’ouvrages de philosophie. Il est membre du Comité consultatif national d’éthique et l’un des producteurs, sur France Culture, de l’émission Matières à penser.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154215620785,"sku":"b15e91d8-5b18-3ad3-8c45-d622e627ee01","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_b5347899-ce4d-4f94-a1c8-520c6f4f3451.jpg?v=1762934257"},{"product_id":"states-of-injury","title":"States of Injury: Power and Freedom in Late Modernity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA landmark work from one of our leading political theorists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA sympathetic critique that attempts to free Left politics from its own snares, \u003ci\u003eStates of Injury \u003c\/i\u003eexplores how woundedness became a basis for contemporary political identity. Without condemning identity politics, Wendy Brown carefully probes the varied historical forces generating them today and the ways these formative conditions constrain emancipatory desire. Along the way, she advances a novel feminist critical theory of liberalism and the liberal democratic state. She also develops an original theoretical practice that weaves together Nietzsche, Marx, Weber, Foucault, and cultural theories of gender and race to analyze contemporary political predicaments. In a new preface, Brown places \u003ci\u003eStates of Injury\u003c\/i\u003e in political and intellectual context, including the rise of neoliberalism, and addresses the book’s renewed relevance in today’s political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154210345137,"sku":"9780691270609","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154210377905,"sku":"46285f1d-5e00-320d-aa48-1e4df9c15582","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8935ead2-83f8-4d6e-bc47-19202fac9570.jpg?v=1763631727"},{"product_id":"zionism-and-melancholy","title":"Zionism and Melancholy: The Short Life of Israel Zarchi","description":"Nitzan Lebovic claims that political melancholy is the defining trait of a generation of Israelis born between the 1960s and 1990s. This cohort came of age during wars, occupation and intifada, cultural conflict, and the failure of the Oslo Accords. The atmosphere of militarism and conservative state politics left little room for democratic opposition or dissent. Lebovic and others depict the failure to respond not only as a result of institutional pressure but as the effect of a long-lasting \"left-wing melancholy.\" In order to understand its grip on Israeli society, Lebovic turns to the novels and short stories of Israel Zarchi. For him, Zarchi aptly describes the gap between the utopian hope present  in Zionism since its early days and the melancholic reality of the present. Through personal engagement with Zarchi, Lebovic develops a philosophy of melancholy and shows how it pervades Israeli society.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154177052849,"sku":"9780253041821","price":40.81,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154177085617,"sku":"9780253041814","price":104.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2019 A)","offer_id":46154177118385,"sku":"237334ae-e47b-3a83-9a45-3b50783e40dc","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2019 B)","offer_id":46154177151153,"sku":"78a65901-5bcf-3467-b05b-adfc52c02b60","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6f2bec83-6648-4c02-b8ff-bbd8005dbf0b.jpg?v=1763227513"},{"product_id":"the-general-will-before-rousseau","title":"The General Will before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic","description":"\u003cp\u003ePatrick Riley traces the forgotten roots of Rousseau's concept to seventeenth-century questions about the justice of God. If He wills that all men be saved, does He have a general will that produces universal salvation? And, if He does not, why does He will particularly\" that some men be damned? The theological origin of the \"general will\" was important to Rousseau himself. He uses the language of divinity bequeathed to him by Pascal, Malebranche, Fenelon, and others to dignify, to elevate, and to \"save\" politics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1986.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe \u003cb\u003ePrinceton Legacy Library\u003c\/b\u003e uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154090315953,"sku":"9780691635163","price":185.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154090348721,"sku":"9780691606415","price":79.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_def2fc57-227b-4e9b-ad35-20abfff904cc.jpg?v=1763679153"},{"product_id":"arrested-development-and-philosophy","title":"Arrested Development and Philosophy Lib\/E: They've Made a Huge Mistake","description":"This book steps into the void left by \u003ci\u003eArrested Development\u003c\/i\u003e's premature demise by exploring the fascinating philosophical issues at the heart of the quirky Bluths and their comic exploits. Whether it's reflecting on Gob's self-deception or digging into Tobias's double entendres, you'll watch your favorite scenes and episodes of the show in a whole new way. ● Takes an entertaining look at the philosophical ideas and tensions in the show's plots and themes ● Gives you new insights about the Bluth family and other characters: Is George Michael's crush on his cousin unnatural? Is it immoral for Lindsay to lie about stealing clothes to hide the fact that she has a job? Are the pictures really of bunkers or balls? ● Lets you sound super-smart as you rattle off the names of great philosophers like Sartre and Aristotle to explain key characters and episodes of the show Packed with thought-provoking insights, \u003ci\u003eArrested Development and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-listen for anyone who wants to know more about their late, lamented TV show. And it'll keep you entertained until the long-awaited \u003ci\u003eArrested Development\u003c\/i\u003e movie finally comes out. (Whenever \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e is.)","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook (2020 A)","offer_id":46707451003090,"sku":"9781665192262","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook (2020 B)","offer_id":46154216243377,"sku":"9781665192279","price":51.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook (2020 C)","offer_id":46154216276145,"sku":"9781665192286","price":59.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_95078854-c7dd-4dfc-a069-320bd2f26140.jpg?v=1763680128"},{"product_id":"from-technological-humanity-to-bio-technical-existence","title":"From Technological Humanity to Bio-technical Existence","description":"can be framed as a metaphysics of the present. It starts from the current epoch, an era increasingly marked not only by technology but also by technics in the most general sense, and asks how this affects human existence. The book asks what is called technics, what is called humanity, how these relate to one another, and how changes in these notions oblige us to revise the philosophical notion of existence. It investigates how the idea of technological humanity-of technology as an extension and instrument of the human-is discovered and deconstructed by Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Giorgio Agamben. Finally, the book presents a new idea of bio-technical existence, one that underlies these philosophers' works without being fully elaborated. This idea-of technics as a condition of humanity that humans share with other living and technical beings-is the author's own philosophical proposition and the final result of the book.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154319298737,"sku":"9781438492575","price":50.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154319331505,"sku":"9781438492582","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154319364273,"sku":"1637ea52-78c2-31e1-881e-ab20a32056ea","price":42.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_2522a31d-41e8-4f92-9aee-e80774d4301b.jpg?v=1764385080"},{"product_id":"thinking-the-poetic-measure-of-justice","title":"Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice: Hölderlin-Heidegger-Celan","description":"situates the problem of justice in the interdisciplinary space between philosophy and poetry in an effort to explore the sources of ethical life in a new way. Charles Bambach engages the works of two philosophical poets who stand as the bookends of modernity-Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) and Paul Celan (1920–1970)-offering close textual readings of poems from each that define and express some of the crucial problems of German philosophical thought in the twentieth century: tensions between the native and the foreign, the proper and the strange, the self and the other. At the center of this philosophical conversation between Hölderlin and Celan, Bambach places the work of Martin Heidegger to rethink the question of justice in a nonlegal, nonmoral register by understanding it in terms of poetic measure. Focusing on Hölderlin's and Heidegger's readings of pre-Socratic philosophy and Greek tragedy, as well as on Celan's reading of Kabbalah, he frames the problem of poetic justice against the trauma of German destruction in the twentieth century.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154107748529,"sku":"9781438445816","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154107781297,"sku":"7e1818f8-facb-331c-87fc-cf76b4bc8807","price":42.29,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_46c79828-4eec-43bd-aa71-341eb46e72a3.jpg?v=1763223312"},{"product_id":"reproduction-race-and-gender-in-philosophy-and-the-early-life-sciences","title":"Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences","description":"\u003cb\u003eInvestigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this volume highlights the scientific and philosophical inquiry into heredity and reproduction and the consequences of these developing ideas on understandings of race and gender. Neither the life sciences nor philosophy had fixed disciplinary boundaries at this point in history. Kant, Hegel, and Schelling weighed in on these questions alongside scientists such as Caspar Friedrich Wolff, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Karl Ernst von Baer. The essays in this volume chart the development of modern gender polarizations and a naturalized, scientific understanding of gender and race that absorbed and legitimized cultural assumptions about difference and hierarchy.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154096607409,"sku":"9781438449487","price":50.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154096640177,"sku":"844f61b4-7838-3145-8084-6c0a2c766133","price":42.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_0bb5f0b5-b9a7-4201-910c-d498e6e781a8.jpg?v=1763223778"},{"product_id":"the-attitude-of-agnosticism","title":"The Attitude of Agnosticism","description":"We often describe ourselves as agnostic on a wide range of topics, such as does God exist, is String Theory true, or will the President win re-election? But what, precisely, does it mean to be agnostic? This monograph employs the tools and techniques of analytic philosophy to offer a broad account of what it means to be agnostic in both theological and non-theological contexts, and offers a critical discussion of the major descriptive accounts of agnosticism in the contemporary analytic philosophical literature. Unlike most other volumes on the subject, which approach the question from a theological point of view, this is the first book-length discussion of agnosticism from a purely philosophical, as opposed to theological, point of view. It serves as a natural starting-point for students and specialists in philosophy and anyone who is interested in the topic of agnosticism through the lens of analytic philosophy.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154209231025,"sku":"9781009214728","price":34.82,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46154209263793,"sku":"9781009214735","price":132.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_546f3f1a-e042-4fa2-9bde-687a03ea767e.jpg?v=1763074147"},{"product_id":"utopia-of-understanding","title":"Utopia of Understanding: Between Babel and Auschwitz","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSpeaking and understanding can both be thought of as forms of translation, and in this way every speaker is an exile in language-even in one's mother tongue. Drawing from the philosophical hermeneutics of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer, the testimonies of the German Jews and their relation with the German language, Jacques Derrida's confrontation with Hannah Arendt, and the poetry of Paul Celan, Donatella Ester Di Cesare proclaims Auschwitz the Babel of the twentieth century. She argues that the globalized world is one in which there no longer remains any intimate place or stable dwelling. Understanding becomes a kind of shibboleth that grounds nothing, but opens messianically to a utopia yet to come.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46154099589297,"sku":"9781438442525","price":48.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46154099622065,"sku":"eaea8004-ca17-33c3-a0bb-6fdd745ddf8b","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_7753ffb8-f8b8-4033-8e1a-507f4b924206.jpg?v=1762194585"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/collections\/philosophy.oembed","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}