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  • The Need for Roots

    Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations towards the Human Being

    by Simone Weil ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz ...
    A new translation of Simone Weil's best-known work: a political, philosophical and spiritual treatise on what human life could beWhat do humans require to be truly nourished? Simone Weil, one of the foremost philosophers of the last century, envisaged us all as being bound by unconditional, eternal obligations towards every other human being. In The Need for Roots, her most famous work, she argued ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Becoming Beauvoir

    A Life

    by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    PROSE Award for Excellence in Biography and Autobiography Finalist 2020“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sartre and Theology

    by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Philosophy and Theology
    Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in ways that have not previously been acknowledged. In Sartre and Theology, Kirkpatrick examines Sartre's philosophical formation and rarely discussed early work, demonstrating how, and which, theology shaped Sartre's thinking. She also shows that Sartre's ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought

    Being, Nothingness, Love

    by George Pattison, Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Contemporary Theological Explorations in Mysticism
    At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philosophy, not least its interpretation of human existence in terms of nothingness, evoked the language of so-called mystical writers. This book takes on this observation and explores the evidence for the influence of mysticism on the ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Sartre on Sin

    Between Being and Nothingness

    by Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Oxford Theology and Religion Monographs
    Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and did so by connecting consciousness with nothingness. Focusing on Being and Nothingness, Kate ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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    Becoming Beauvoir

    A Life

    by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    Narrated by Rachel Atkins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 59 min

    Bloomsbury presents Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick, read by Rachel Atkins.“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • Gravity and Grace

    by Simone Weil, Carlos Kennedy ...
    Gravity and Grace is a profound and thought-provoking book by French philosopher and mystic Simone Weil, first published posthumously in 1947. The work is a collection of her reflections, aphorisms, and meditations, offering a deep exploration of the human condition, the tension between materiality and spirituality, and the path toward transcendence.Weil’s reflections are deeply rooted in her ... Read more

    $9.96 USD

  • Love in the Void

    Where God Finds Us

    by Simone Weil ...
    Series series Plough Spiritual Guides
    Simone Weil, the great mystic and philosopher for our age, shows where anyone can find God.Why is it that Simone Weil, with her short, troubled life and confounding insights into faith and doubt, continues to speak to today’s spiritual seekers? Was it her social radicalism, which led her to renounce privilege? Her ambivalence toward institutional religion? Her combination of philosophical rigor ... Read more

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  • Story of Philosophy

    by Will Durant ...
    This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books of our time.Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • 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

    $16.00 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • On Revolution

    by Hannah Arendt ...
    A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of TotalitarianismHannah Arendt’s penetrating observations on the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the past, have been fundamental to our understanding of our political landscape. On Revolution is her classic ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Transcendence for Beginners

    Life Writing and Philosophy

    by Clare Carlisle ...
    A lyrical work of philosophy that draws from the work of Spinoza, George Eliot, biographers, memoirists, and more to examine how wisdom and goodness are transmitted by individual human lives.Transcendence for Beginners is an innovative book about philosophy and life writing, exploring how each practice might complement the other and so contribute to a greater understanding of human existence. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD