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  • The Essence of Being. Karate Do and Oriental Religions

    by Christopher Hamilton ...
    A book for everyone that is seeking the secrets of the universe, which entrails the secrets of Karate Do's practice and the oriental religions that influenced its creation and development. Reaching beyond its martial aspect, the reader can attain that whichIn this brief publication, the author takes us through the way of understanding the secrets of The Way of the Empty Hand, and how this allows ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rapture

    by Christopher Hamilton ...
    Series series No Limits
    What is it like to experience rapture? For philosopher Christopher Hamilton, it is a loss of self that is also a return to self—an overflowing and emptying out of the self that also nourishes and fills the self. In this inviting book, he reflects on the nature of rapture and its crucial yet unacknowledged place in our lives.Hamilton explores moments of rapture in everyday existence and aesthetic ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Faith's Shelter

    A Tale of Love, Lust, Grace, and Redemption

    by Christopher Hamilton ...
    Viorica never saw him coming. A leader in her church, a woman with a plan, a heart on fire for God-until Archer walked in and set her world ablaze.He's bold. He's relentless. He looks at her like she's the only thing that matters. And against all reason, against every warning in her soul, she can't help but look back.One glance turns into whispered conversations. A stolen moment becomes a scandal. ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Philosophy of Tragedy

    by Christopher Hamilton ...
    A Philosophy of Tragedy explores the tragic condition of man in modernity. Nietzsche knew it, as have countless characters in literature, and the modern age places us squarely before it: the sheer contingency and instability of our existence, our homelessness, our unredeemed suffering, our fractured relation to morality.Christopher Hamilton draws as much on literature, including the tragic theatre ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Autobiography

    Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others

    by Christopher Hamilton ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavell’s claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of reflection, first by seeking to develop an outline of a philosophy of autobiography, and then by exploring the issue from the side of five autobiographical works. Christopher Hamilton argues in the volume ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Middle Age

    by Christopher Hamilton ...
    Series series The Art of Living
    Middle age, for many, marks a key period for a radical reappraisal of one's life and way of living. The sense of time running out, both from the perspective that one's life has ground to a halt, and from the point of view of the greater closeness of death, and the sense of loneliness engendered by the compromised and wasteful nature of life, become ever clearer in mid-life, and can lead to a ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

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  • A Philosophy of Boredom

    by Lars Svendsen ...
    Translated by John Irons ...
    It has been described as a "tame longing without any particular object" by Schopenhauer, "a bestial and indefinable affliction" by Dostoevsky, and "time's invasion of your world system" by Joseph Brodsky, but still very few of us today can explain precisely what boredom is. A Philosophy of Boredom investigates one of the central preoccupations of our age as it probes the nature of boredom, how it ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael Tanner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) was almost wholly neglected during his sane life, which came to an abrupt end in 1889. Since then he has been appropriated as an icon by an astonishingly diverse spectrum of people, whose interpretations of his thought range from the highly irrational to the firmly analytical. Thus Spoke Zarathustra introduced the 'superman' and The Twilight of the ... Read more

    $7.59 CAD

  • Virginia Woolf

    The Will to Create as a Woman

    by Ruth Gruber ...
    This groundbreaking study of the work and legacy of Virginia Woolf is also an account of the intertwined lives of two extraordinary women.In 1932, Ruth Gruber earned her PhD—the youngest person ever to do so—with a stunning doctoral dissertation on Virginia Woolf. Published in 1935, the paper was the first-ever feminist critique of Woolf's work and inspired a series of correspondences between the ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nihilism, Modernism, and Value

    by John Fraser ...
    Nihilism, Modernism, and Value consists of three jargon-free lectures addressed to the general reader. It explores a variety of ways in which writers responded to the phenomenon of nihilism in the 19th and early 20th centuries, By "nihilism" here is meant a sense, at times paralyzing, of the instability and perhaps groundlessness of all values. The book goes into some of the factors— psychological ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Soul and Form

    Translated by Anna Bostock ...
    by Georg Lukács ...
    Series series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
    György Lukacs was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Grotesque

    by Philip Thomson ...
    Series series The Critical Idiom Reissued
    First published in 1972, this book provides a helpful overview of the grotesque and its use in a number of literary genres including novels, drama and poetry. After providing a historical summary of the term, the book discusses the various defining aspects of the grotesque and its relationship to other terms and modes of literature, such as satire, the comic and parody. The final chapter presents ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD