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  • The Ethics of Resistance

    Tyranny of the Absolute

    by Drew M. Dalton ...
    Opening a new debate on ethical reasoning after Kant, Drew Dalton addresses the problem of the absolute in ethical and political thought. Attacking the foundation of European philosophical morality, he critiques the idea that in order for ethical judgement to have any real power, it must attempt to discover and affirm some conception of the absolute good. Without rejecting the essential role the ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism

    by Richard Rorty ...
    The last book by the eminent American philosopher and public intellectual Richard Rorty, providing the definitive statement of his mature philosophical and political views.Richard Rorty’s Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism is a last statement by one of America’s foremost philosophers. Here Rorty offers his culminating thoughts on the influential version of pragmatism he began to articulate ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Giving an Account of Oneself

    Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a new preface by the author

    by Judith Butler ...
    What does it mean to lead a moral life?In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice—one responsive to the need for critical autonomy yet grounded in the opacity of the human subject.Butler takes as their starting point one’s ability to answer the questions “What have I done?” and “What ought I to do?” They show that these ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Pragmatic Turn

    by Richard J. Bernstein ...
    In this major new work, Richard J. Bernstein argues that many of the most important themes in philosophy during the past one hundred and fifty years are variations and developments of ideas that were prominent in the classical American pragmatists: Charles S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey and George H Mead. Pragmatism begins with a thoroughgoing critique of the Cartesianism that dominated so ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth: Volume 1

    Philosophical Papers

    by Richard Rorty ...
    Richard Rorty's collected papers, written during the 1980s and now published in two volumes, take up some of the issues which divide Anglo-Saxon analytic philosophers and contemporary French and German philosophers and offer something of a compromise - agreeing with the latter in their criticisms of traditional notions of truth and objectivity, but disagreeing with them over the political ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Pragmatism

    An Introduction

    by Michael Bacon ...
    Pragmatism: An Introduction provides an account of the arguments of the central figures of the most important philosophical tradition in the American history of ideas, pragmatism. This wide-ranging and accessible study explores the work of the classical pragmatists Charles Sanders Peirce, William James and John Dewey, as well as more recent philosophers including Richard Rorty, Richard J. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Zizek

    A Reader's Guide

    by Kelsey Wood ...
    A comprehensive overview of Slavoj Zizek's thought, including all of his published works to date.Provides a solid basis in the work of an engaging thinker and teacher whose ideas will continue to inform philosophical, psychological, political, and cultural discourses well into the futureIdentifies the major currents in Zizek's thought, discussing all of his works and providing a background in ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD

  • The Essential Marcuse

    Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse

    by Herbert Marcuse ...
    The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism. His words are as relevant to today's ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Lonergan and Historiography

    The Epistemological Philosophy of History

    by Thomas J. McPartland ...
    Although Bernard Lonergan is known primarily for his cognitional theory and theological methodology, he long sought to formulate a modern philosophy of history free of progressive and Marxist biases. Yet he never addressed this in any single work, and his reflections on the subject are scattered in various writings.In this pioneering work, Thomas McPartland shows how Lonergan’s overall ... Read more

    $53.89 CAD

  • Pragmatism as a Way of Life

    The Lasting Legacy of William James and John Dewey

    by Hilary Putnam, Ruth Anna Putnam ...
    Throughout his diverse and highly influential career, Hilary Putnam was famous for changing his mind. As a pragmatist he treated philosophical “positions” as experiments in deliberate living. His aim was not to fix on one position but to attempt to do justice to the depth and complexity of reality. In this new collection, he and Ruth Anna Putnam argue that key elements of the classical pragmatism ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD