Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Ideas Explained eBook Series

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results
Skip side bar filters
  • Sartre Explained

    From Bad Faith to Authenticity

    by David Detmer ...
    Series series Ideas Explained
    The French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (19051980) was the major representative of the philosophical movement called existentialism,” and he remains by far the most famous philosopher, worldwide, of the postWorld War Two era.This book will provide readers with all the help they will need to find their own way in Sartre’s works. Author David Detmer provides a clear, accurate, and accessible guide ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Phenomenology Explained

    From Experience to Insight

    by David Detmer ...
    Series Book 9 - Ideas Explained
    Phenomenology is one of the most important and influential philosophical movements of the last one hundred years. It began in 1900, with the publication of a massive two-volume work, Logical Investigations, by a Czech-German mathematician, Edmund Husserl. It proceeded immediately to exert a strong influence on both philosophy and the social sciences. For example, phenomenology provided the central ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • Contributions to Philosophy

    (Of the Event)

    Translated by Richard Rojcewicz ...
    Series series Studies in Continental Thought
    Heidegger's second magnum opus after Being and Time, laying the groundwork for his later writing, in a translation of "impeccable clarity and readability" (Peter Warnek).Martin Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy, written in the late 1930s and published posthumously in 1989, is now widely viewed as his second magnum opus, after Being and Time. Here, Heidegger lays the groundwork for a new ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Existentialism

    A Beginner's Guide

    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A lively introduction to this celebrated philosophical tradition.Existentialism pervades modern culture, yet if you ask most people what it means, they won’t be able to tell you. In this lively and topical introduction, Wartenberg reveals a vibrant mode of philosophical inquiry that addresses concerns at the heart of the existence of every human being. Wartenberg uses classic films, novels, and ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Existentialism: Bullet Guides

    Open this book and you willUnderstand existential thoughtLearn about the foundersClarify difficult conceptsExamine its relevance ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Essays in Aesthetics

    Translated by Wade Baskin ...
    R enowned French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre references artists such as Tintoretto, Calder, Lapoujade, Titian, Raphael, and Michaelangelo in discussing how great art of the past relates to the challenges of his eraEssays in Aesthetics is a provocative collection that considers the nature of art and its meaning. Sartre considers the artist's "function," and the relation of art and the artist to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nietzsche Made Simple: Flash

    by Roy Jackson ...
    The books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Nietzsche Made Simple is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to Nietzsche. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover all his ideas, from the Superman to the Will to Power. Ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • MIND THE GAP: Gurdjieffian Institutes with Ouspensky, Roles, Nicoll, Fenwick

    The subject of this thesis is the spiritual practices taught by Gurdjieff (1870-1949) and the legacy of these teachings in the major spiritual groups that have aspired to follow this path. I argue that at the core of these spiirtual techniques are the practices that Gurdjieff referred to as "self-remembering" and "transition" and that by an analysis of these it is possible to articulate Gurdjieff ... Read more

    $10.51 USD

  • Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy: Two Theories of the Self

    Two Theories of the Self

    by Anoop Gupta ...
    Series series Philosophica
    In Kierkegaard's Romantic Legacy, Anoop Gupta develops an original theory of the self based on Kierkegaard's writings. Gupta proceeds by historical exegesis and considers several important ways of thinking about self outside of the natural sciences. His study moves theories of the self from theology toward sociology, from a God-relationship to a social one, and illustrates how a loss in ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Paranoia

    Paranoia is a profound exploration of the human psyche, delving into themes of existential dread, societal alienation, and the struggle for self-identity. Through a blend of philosophical musings, dark introspection, and sharp social critique, Plamen Chetelyazov crafts a narrative that is as haunting as it is thought-provoking.Set against the backdrop of everyday life, the protagonist's journey is ... Read more

    Free

  • A Literary Review

    While ostensibly commenting on the work of a contemporary novelist, Kierkegaard used this review as a critique of his society and age. The influence of this short piece has been far-reaching. The apocalyptic final sections are the source for central notions in Heidegger's Being and Time. Later readers have seized on the essay as a prophetic analysis of our own time. Its concepts have been drawn ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Emmanuel Levinas

    The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics

    by E. Wyschogrod ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Emmanuel Levinas recounts the main events of his life in a brief essay, "Signature," appended to a collection of essays on social, political and religious themes entitled Dillicile Uberti. He was born in I905 in Lithu ania and in I9I7, while living in the Ukraine, experienced the collapse of the old regime in Russia. In I923 he came to the University of Strasbourg where Charles Blondel, Halbwachs, ... Read more

    $49.49 USD