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  • Curb Your Enthusiasm and Philosophy

    Awaken the Social Assassin Within

    Edited by Mark Ralkowski ...
    Series Book 69 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    In a promotional video for the eighth season of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David appears as Godzilla, walking through the streets of New York City, terrorizing everyone who sees him. People scream and run for their lives. Larry, meanwhile, has a quizzical look on his face and asks, What, are you people nuts?”What makes Larry a monster, and why doesn’t he know that he’s a monster? Curb Your ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Louis C.K. and Philosophy

    You Don't Get to Be Bored

    Edited by Mark Ralkowski ...
    Series Book 99 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Charlie Rose has called Louis C.K. the philosopher-king of comedy,” and many have detected philosophical profundity in Louis’s comedy, some of which has been watched tens of millions of times on YouTube and elsewhere. Louis C.K. and Philosophy is designed to help Louis’s fans connect the dots between his pronouncements and living philosophical themes.Twenty-five philosophers examine the wisdom of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Heidegger's Platonism

    by Dr Mark A. Ralkowski ...
    Series series Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
    Heidegger's Platonism challenges Heidegger's 1940 interpretation of Plato as the philosopher who initiated the West's ontological decline into contemporary nihilism. Mark A. Ralkowski argues that, in his earlier lecture course, On the Essence of Truth, in which he appropriates Plato in a positive light, Heidegger discovered the two most important concepts of his later thought, namely the ... Read more

    $55.99 CAD

  • Plato’s Trial of Athens

    by Dr Mark A. Ralkowski ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Ancient Philosophy
    What can we learn about the trial of Socrates from Plato's dialogues? Most scholars say we can learn a lot from the Apology, but not from the rest. Plato's Trial of Athens rejects this assumption and argues that Plato used several of his dialogues to turn the tables on Socrates' accusers: they blamed Socrates for something the city had done to itself. Plato wanted to set the record straight and ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Time and Death

    Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude

    by Carol J. White, edited by Mark Ralkowski ...
    Series series Intersections: Continental and Analytic Philosophy
    In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin Heidegger's work which grows out of a new understanding of what he was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging that the discussion of this issue in Heidegger's major work Being and Time is often far from clear, White presents a new interpretation of Heidegger which short-circuits many of the traditional criticisms. ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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  • Feel Free

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  • Immanuel Kant: Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

    That Will Be Able to Come Forward as Science: With Selections from the Critique of Pure Reason

    by Immanuel Kant, Gary Hatfield ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Kant is the central figure of modern philosophy. He sought to rebuild philosophy from the ground up, and he succeeded in permanently changing its problems and methods. This revised edition of the Prolegomena, which is the best introduction to the theoretical side of his philosophy, presents his thought clearly by paying careful attention to his original language. Also included are selections from ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Heidegger's Being and Time

    Critical Essays

    by Karin de Boer, Charles Guignon, William McNeill, Günter Figal, Hubert L. Dreyfus, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Jeffrey Andrew Bara, Jean Grondin, Graeme Nicholson, Theodore Kisiel, Steven Crowell, Dieter Thomä ...
    Series series Critical Essays on the Classics Series
    Heidegger's Being and Time: Critical Essays provides a variety of recent studies of Heidegger's most important work. Twelve prominent scholars, representing diverse nationalities, generations, and interpretive approaches deal with general methodological and ontological questions, particular issues in Heidegger's text, and the relation between Being and Time and Heidegger's later thought. All of ... Read more

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  • Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...

    Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes

    by Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein ...
    New York Times Bestseller: This entertaining-yet-enlightening crash course on philosophy is "an extraordinary read" ( Orlando Sentinel).Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent journey through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers. It's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some of the Big Ideas covered are ... Read more

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  • Heidegger

    Thinking of Being

    by Lee Braver ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
    Martin Heidegger is among the most important philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Within the continental tradition, almost every great figure has been deeply influenced by his work. For this reason, a full understanding of the course of modern philosophy is impossible without at least a basic grasp of Heidegger. Unfortunately, his work is notoriously difficult, both because of his innovative ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's Being and Time

    Edited by Mark A. Wrathall ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger's 'Being and Time' contains seventeen chapters by leading scholars of Heidegger. It is a useful reference work for beginning students, but also explores the central themes of Being and Time with a depth that will be of interest to scholars. The Companion begins with a section-by-section overview of Being and Time and a chapter reviewing the genesis of this ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD