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  • Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727

    by K. Gevirtz ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea. ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

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  • The Best Works of David Hume's Philosophy: [An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume/ A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume/ An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume]

    by David Hume ...
    Philosophical Work 1: Engage with profound reflections on morality in “An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume.” David Hume delves into the foundations of ethics, exploring the nature of moral judgments, the role of sentiment, and the principles that guide human behavior. This work offers a thought-provoking exploration of the moral landscape from Hume's empirically grounded ... Read more

    $1.36 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ecce Homo

    How One Becomes What One is

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Translated by R. J. Hollingdale ...
    In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche traces his life, work and development as a philosopher, examines the heroes he has identified with, struggled against and then overcome - ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Unpopular Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    A classic collection of Bertrand Russell’s more controversial works, reaffirming his staunch liberal values, Unpopular Essays is one of Russell’s most characteristic and self-revealing books. Written to "combat… the growth in Dogmatism", on first publication in 1950 it met with critical acclaim and a wide readership and has since become one of his most accessible and popular books. ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Hegel

    by Frederick Beiser ...
    Series series The Routledge Philosophers
    Hegel (1770-1831) is one of the major philosophers of the nineteenth century. Many of the major philosophical movements of the twentieth century - from existentialism to analytic philosophy - grew out of reactions against Hegel. He is also one of the hardest philosophers to understand and his complex ideas, though rewarding, are often misunderstood.In this magisterial and lucid introduction, ... Read more

    $53.99 CAD

  • The Long Life

    by Helen Small ...
    The Long Life invites the reader to range widely from the writings of Plato through to recent philosophical work by Derek Parfit, Bernard Williams, and others, and from Shakespeare's King Lear through works by Thomas Mann, Balzac, Dickens, Beckett, Stevie Smith, Philip Larkin, to more recent writing by Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and J. M. Coetzee. Helen Small argues that if we want to understand ... Read more

    $44.79 CAD

  • Digimodernism

    How New Technologies Dismantle the Postmodern and Reconfigure Our Culture

    by Dr. Alan Kirby ...
    A bold new challenge to postmodern theoryThe increasing irrelevance of postmodernism requires a new theory to underpin our current digital culture. Almost without anybody noticing, a new cultural paradigm has taken center stage, displacing an exhausted and increasingly marginalized postmodernism. Alan Kirby calls this cultural paradigm digimodernism, a name comprising both its central technical ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Melancholy

    by László F. Földényi (Foldenyi) ...
    Translated by Tim Wilkinson ...
    Alberto Manguel praises the Hungarian writer László Földényi as “one of the most brilliant essayists of our time.”  Földényi’s extraordinary Melancholy, with its profusion of literary, ecclesiastical, artistic, and historical insights, gives proof to such praise. His book, part history of the term melancholy and part analysis of the melancholic disposition, explores many centuries to explore ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Notes on My Books

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    "Notes on My Books" by Joseph Conrad is a reflective work that delves into the author's thoughts and insights regarding his literary creations. In this collection, Conrad provides a unique glimpse into his writing process, the themes he explores, and the characters he develops. His candid commentary reveals the complexities of his artistic vision and the personal experiences that shaped his ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Campoamor, Spain, and the World

    by Ronald Hilton ...
    Series series Heritage
    Like the fame of Pardo-Bazán, the reputation of Campoamor has suffered a rapid decline. The renown of the poet was flimsier and more ephermal than that of Spain's most notable woman writer. It contained more enthusiasm and less respect. Most of his prose works and many of his dramas died young, whereas Dõna Emilia's infinitely more copious production was uniformly living and vigorous . The ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Politics and the Passions, 1500-1850

    Edited by Victoria Kahn, Neil Saccamano, Daniela Coli ...
    Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham. Contributors address the crisis of moral and philosophical discourse in the early modern period; the necessity of inventing a new way of describing the ... Read more

    $58.29 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Günter Grass

    Edited by Stuart Taberner ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Günter Grass is Germany's best-known and internationally most successful living author, from his first novel The Tin Drum to his recent controversial autobiography. He is known for his tireless social and political engagement with the issues that have shaped post-War Germany: the difficult legacy of the Nazi past, the Cold War and the arms race, environmentalism, unification and racism. He was ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD