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  • Capital Accumulation and Women's Labor in Asian Economies

    by Peter Custers ...
    The global impact of Asian production of the wage goods consumed in North America and Europe is only now being recognized, and is far from being understood. Asian women, most only recently urbanized and in the waged work force, are at the center of a process of intensive labor for minimal wages that has upended the entire global economy. First published in 1997, this prescient study is the best ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Powers of Reading

    From Plato to Audiobooks

    by Peter Szendy ...
    Translated by Olivia Custer ...
    A historical, literary, and philosophical study that transforms our understanding of reading"Peter Szendy offers a subtle, persuasive, and unprecedented account of the time of reading and its scene of address, one that is as archaic as it is contemporary. When we read, are we listening to a voice or being read to? If it is not a private and monologic exercise, how do we understand the populated ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

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    by Hannah Arendt ...
    The brilliant thinker who taught us about the banality of evil explores another brilliant thinker and his concept of love.Hannah Arendt, the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism and The Human Condition, began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine's concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heidegger. ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Hope

    by Byung-Chul Han ...
    Translated by Daniel Steuer ...
    A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.But it is precisely at such moments of fear and ... Read more

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  • In Praise of Love

    by Alain Badiou, Nicolas Truong ...
    Translated by Peter Bush ...
    The renowned French philosopher's "ode to love's power to unite in the face of eternity, and its optimism in the face of pain" ( Publishers Weekly).In a world rife with consumerism, where online dating promises risk-free romance and love is all too often seen as a mere variant of desire and hedonism, Alain Badiou believes that love is under threat. Taking to heart Rimbaud's famous line "love needs ... Read more

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  • The Little Book Of Philosophy

    by Andre Comte-Sponville ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the essential bones of philosophical thought and shows why philosophy is relevant in our day-to-day lives.In his brilliant and concise writing on morality, politics, love, death, knowledge, freedom, God, ... Read more

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  • The Poetry of Thought: From Hellenism to Celan

    From Hellenism to Celan

    by George Steiner ...
    From the distinguished polymath George Steiner comes a profound and illuminating vision of the inseparability of Western philosophy and its living language.With his hallmark forceful discernment, George Steiner presents in The Poetry of Thought his magnum opus: an examination of more than two millennia of Western culture, staking out his claim for the essential oneness of great thought and great ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Art of Philosophy

    Wisdom as a Practice

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    Translated by Karen Margolis ...
    In his best-selling book You Must Change Your Life, Peter Sloterdijk argued exercise and practice were crucial to the human condition. In The Art of Philosophy, he extends this critique to academic science and scholarship, casting the training processes of academic study as key to the production of sophisticated thought. Infused with humor and provocative insight, The Art of Philosophy further ... Read more

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  • The Use of Bodies

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    The renowned philosopher and author of Homo Sacer continues his groundbreaking work with this examination of selfhood and Western ontology.Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the most influential works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of studies investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought. The Use of Bodies represents ... Read more

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  • On Friendship

    by Alexander Nehamas ...
    An eminent philosopher reflects on the nature of friendship, past and presentFriends are a constant feature of our lives, yet friendship itself is difficult to define. Even Michel de Montaigne, author of the seminal essay "Of Friendship," found it nearly impossible to account for the great friendship of his life. Why is something so commonplace and universal so hard to grasp? What is it about the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • ThinKnow Magazine Issue 2

    Magazine of Ideas and Popular Philosophy

    by Dusunbil Publishing ...
    CONTENTEthics in Spinoza’s EthicsSteven Barbone & Jungwoo SeoSpinoza On God And NatureDino JakušićSpinoza’s Political PhilosophySandra Leonie FieldAre Pluralistic Societies Doomed to Collapse? Spinoza and His Conservative CriticsJason WallerMoby Dick: A Spinozist Tritone FugueAhmet AktaşThe Philosopher Spinoza and the SciencesFilip A. A. BuyseSpinoza’s Politics of Immanent Tra... ... Read more

    $6.87 CAD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $104.49 CAD