Playing games is a basic human activity, and games raise a great number of fascinating philosophical questions. What, exactly, are we doing when we play a game? What is the value of games for human life? What is the ontology of a game? And could gam...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Trade Paperbacks, ISBN-13: 9780593230077)
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Secon...Loe edasi...
An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features never-before-published teachings to abandon the idea there is an “other,” bridging differences and cherishing the beautiful Earth that is our home,...Loe edasi...
An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features never-before-published teachings to abandon the idea there is an “other,” bridging differences and cherishing the beautiful Earth that is our home,...Loe edasi...
This book promotes a novel and nuanced understanding of how the practices of comparative literature have engaged with the politics of nation-building in postcolonial Southeast Asia. It provides readings of Southeast Asian literatures in a comparat...Loe edasi...
The fascinating untold story of one scientist’s pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Don’t Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...Loe edasi...
The fascinating untold story of one scientist’s pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Don’t Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198929444)
What is attention? How do we use it? And why does it matter? In an age of distraction-in which we feel overrun by attention-diverting devices-these questions are as important as ever. While scientists and philosophers have explored these questions in...Loe edasi...
This book offers a sustained defense of Lockes religious epistemology. It puts Locke into conversation with leading figures in contemporary religious epistemology and shows that Lockes views are more plausible than many philosophers of religion and...Loe edasi...
In the 1980s, the arrests of a group of teachers, doctors, and other professionals triggered a wave of protests – the first open resistance against Siad Barre’s regime in northern Somalia – helping to pave the way for Somaliland’s self-declaration...Loe edasi...
Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of Western philosophy. To corroborat...Loe edasi...
The final installment in the New York Times bestselling Stoic Virtues series: the essential, life-changing and hard-won virtue of wisdom...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503644151)
Anthropocentrism, white supremacy, and cishetsexism remain with us. The intransigence of such oppressions, this book proposes, is stayed by the unrecognized force that sovereignty maintains across the domains of Western philosophy. To corroborat...Loe edasi...
In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217168941)
In this much-anticipated final installment in the Stoic Virtues series, Ryan Holiday makes the case for the virtue on which all other virtues depend.Of all the stoic virtues - courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom - wisdom is...Loe edasi...
This book explores democratic fragility, an underdeveloped concept in the analyses of contemporary political regimes. Diagnoses of fragility commonly occur when states are brought to the brink of the abyss. Democracy and Its Fragility: Mapping...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031918780)
This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derrida’s framing of hauntology—in an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226845654)
A reflection on the role of suffering in human existence. It’s right there in the Book of Job: “Man is born unto trouble as the sparks fly upward.” Suffering is an inescapable part of the human condition—which leads to a question...Loe edasi...
Distrust is in the air—of politicians, corporations, and the institutions that claim to protect us. Trust is often seen as the foundation of a better society—but better for whom? While some forms of radical certainty can foster survival, resist...Loe edasi...
