A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities by Roy Sorensen
24.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltair ...Show more
Philosophy Bites Back by David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton
25.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Soc ...Show more
Philosophy Bites Again by David Edmonds; Nigel Warburton
27.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy Bites Again is a brand new selection of interviews from the popular podcast of the same name. It offers engaging and thought-provoking conversations with leading philosophers on a selection of major philosophical issues that affect our lives. Their subjects include pleasure, pain, and humor; ...Show more
Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought by Paul Kleinman
34.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: 101
Discover the world's greatest thinkers and their groundbreaking notions! Too often, textbooks turn the noteworthy theories, principles, and figures of philosophy into tedious discourse that even Plato would reject. Philosophy 101 cuts out the boring details and exhausting philosophical methodology, and ...Show more
Philosophy (Ponderables) by Tom Jackson
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Ponderables Ser.
Here is the essential guide to philosophy. Philosophy: An Illustrated History of Thought is an authoritative yet fun reference book and timeline on the compilation of human knowledge. Both art and science attempt answers to the big questions -- what is truth, how to be good, and where did we come from? ...Show more
The Philosophy Book: From the Vedas to the New Atheists, 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy by Gregory Bassham
59.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: Sterling Milestones
Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality. This accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events and seminal publications in the field. Brief, engaging and beautifully illustrated entries cover a range of topics and cultures, from th ...Show more
Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Daniel;Cathcart Klein
22.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Here's an accusation - Sherlock Holmes never deduced anything. When it comes to language, it all depends on what your definition of 'is' is. And one for the existentialists - you haven't lived until you think about death all the time. Daniel Klein and Thomas Cathcart take philosophy to task with flair a ...Show more
At the Existentialist Cafe - Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
50.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Paris, near the turn of 1933. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking. Pointi ...Show more
Wise Words by Stephen Trombley
39.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
A philosophical miscellany, as diverting as it is instructive, centred on an eclectic sequence of themes, ranging from advice to ageing, from backbiting to bigotry, from freedom to friendship, and from work to walking. Stephen Trombley mines the canon of two and half millennia of Western thought for obs ...Show more
A Cabinet of Philosophical Curiosities: A Collection of Puzzles, Oddities, Riddles and Dilemmas by Roy Sorensen
36.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
If you want to learn how to conform to confound, raze hopes, succeed your successor, order absence in the absence of order, win by losing and think contrapositively, look no further. Here you can unlock the secrets of Plato's void, Wittgenstein's investigations, Schopenhauer's intelligence test, Voltair ...Show more
Philosophy by Kevin Perry
19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Philosophy is to question everything. More than a lifestyle, larger than any single idea, broader than a conviction, philosophy is the love of exploration, of knowledge, of uncertainty, and of that cornerstone of free thinking: doubt. Kevin Perry's "Philosophy" takes the reader on a grand tour of life's ...Show more
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
32.99 NZD
39.99 (17% off)
Category: Philosophy | Series: Little Histories Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking awkward questions, disconcerting the people he met by showing them how little they genuinely understood. This engaging b ...Show more