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Mental Models - A Step by Step Guide to Improving Your Critical Thinking (A Collection of Thinking Tools Helping You to Manage... Mental Models - A Step by Step Guide to Improving Your Critical Thinking (A Collection of Thinking Tools Helping You to Manage Productivity) (Paperback)
Esther Humble
R475 R439 Discovery Miles 4 390 Save R36 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Awaiting the Impossible (Paperback): See Seng Tan Awaiting the Impossible (Paperback)
See Seng Tan; Foreword by Gordon Wong
R544 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Alienation (Hardcover): Rahel Jaeggi Alienation (Hardcover)
Rahel Jaeggi; Translated by Frederick Neuhouser; Edited by Frederick Neuhouser; Translated by Alan Smith
R910 R809 Discovery Miles 8 090 Save R101 (11%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Hegelian-Marxist idea of alienation fell out of favor during the post-metaphysical rejection of humanism and essentialist views of human nature. In this book Jaeggi draws on phenomenological analyses grounded in modern conceptions of agency, along with recent work in the analytical tradition, to reconceive of alienation as the absence of a meaningful relationship to oneself and others, which manifests itself in feelings of helplessness and the despondent acceptance of ossified social roles and expectations. A revived approach to alienation helps critical social theory engage with phenomena, such as meaninglessness, isolation, and indifference, which have broad implications for issues of justice. By severing alienation's link to a problematic conception of human essence while retaining its social-philosophical content, Jaeggi provides resources for a renewed critique of social pathologies, a much-neglected concern in contemporary liberal political philosophy. Her work revisits the arguments of Rousseau, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger, placing them in dialogue with Thomas Nagel, Bernard Williams, and Charles Taylor.

Prophetic Voice Now - Crafting Space for Visionary Thinking and Practice (Paperback): Rich Murphy Prophetic Voice Now - Crafting Space for Visionary Thinking and Practice (Paperback)
Rich Murphy
R1,144 R951 Discovery Miles 9 510 Save R193 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Expired Mindsets - Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well (Paperback): Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc Expired Mindsets - Releasing Patterns That No Longer Serve You Well (Paperback)
Dr Charryse Johnson Lcmhc Ncc
R493 R460 Discovery Miles 4 600 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
My Perfect World (Paperback): Adam Wiseman My Perfect World (Paperback)
Adam Wiseman
R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Althusser Revisited. Problematic, Symptomatic Reading, ISA and History of Marxism (Paperback): Yibing Zhang Althusser Revisited. Problematic, Symptomatic Reading, ISA and History of Marxism (Paperback)
Yibing Zhang; Edited by Cem Kizilcec
R622 Discovery Miles 6 220 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This original textological analysis work reads the epoch making texts of outstanding Marxist philosopher, Althusser's For Marx (1965), Reading Capital (1965), Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays (1971) which includes, Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses and the author delves into other texts of him to support the analysis. Althusser, again and again becomes a major topic of discussion. Behind him stood two others: the young, morbid Catholic one and the older, gloomy Pre-Modernity classical materialist one. Putting it more precisely, these existential figures are factual images that Althusser had, in the past, intentionally concealed. This leads to an interpretative dramatization and an inexplicable mystery. A formerly dazzling yet fictive sage and a multi-faceted yet intentionally-concealed person both present themselves in the research realm. Traditional academic circles were thrown into disorder and discomfiture when the accepted, singular conception of a scientific, Marxist Althusser's original consistent image is destroyed, leaving only a mist that gradually dissipates. As Lacan put it, with the shedding of its coverings, the original vacancy further revealed itself. This is another victory of "the Other." Nanjing's keen researcher Zhang Yibing, whom we know from his three other successful textological readings, discovers Marxist Althusser shifting to an Althusser with four distinct facets. Zhang argues, the precondition of exploring this mystery is to demonstrate Althusser's complex, painful and obscure life and the mystery of his paradoxical thoughts. Contemporary researchers only make a distinction between the four different Althussers, but they fail to find integrated research logic. According to my understanding, there still exists continuity between the four Althussers. This is an anti-teleological viewpoint of non-subject and pseudo-subject that takes the absence of individual subject as the core.

Subjective Time - The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality (Paperback): Valtteri Arstila, Dan Lloyd Subjective Time - The Philosophy, Psychology, and Neuroscience of Temporality (Paperback)
Valtteri Arstila, Dan Lloyd
R2,082 Discovery Miles 20 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry (Hardcover): Feng Dong Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry (Hardcover)
Feng Dong
R1,252 Discovery Miles 12 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In the first monograph on W. S. Merwin to appear since his death in 2019, Feng Dong focuses on the dialectical movement of desire and infinity that ensouls the poet's entire oeuvre. His analysis foregrounds what Merwin calls "the other side of despair," the opposite of humans' articulated personal and social agonies. Feng finds these presences in Merwin's evocations of what lingers on the edge of constantly updated socio-symbolic frameworks: surreal encounters, spiritual ecstasies, and abyssal freedoms. By examining Merwin's lifelong engagement with psychic fantasies, anonymous holiness, entities both natural and supernatural, and ghostly ancestors, Feng uncovers a precarious relation with the unarticulated, unrealized side of existence. Drawing on theories from Lacan, Zizek, Levinas, and Heidegger, Desire and Infinity in W. S. Merwin's Poetry reads a metaphysical possibility into the poet's work at the intersection between contemporary poetics, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

Nietzsche Versus Paul (Hardcover): Abed Azzam Nietzsche Versus Paul (Hardcover)
Abed Azzam
R2,113 Discovery Miles 21 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Abed Azzam offers a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's engagement with the work of Paul the Apostle, reorienting the relationship between the two thinkers while embedding modern philosophy within early Christian theology. Paying careful attention to Nietzsche's dialectics, Azzam situates the philosopher's thought within the history of Christianity, specifically the Pauline dialectics of law and faith, and reveals how atheism is constructed in relation to Christianity. Countering Heidegger's characterization of Nietzsche as an anti-Platonist, Azzam brings the philosopher closer to Paul through a radical rereading of his entire corpus against Christianity. This approach builds a compelling new history of the West resting on a logic of sublimation, from ancient Greece and early Judaism to the death of God. Azzam discovers in Nietzsche's philosophy a solid, tangible Pauline structure and virtual, fragile Greek content, positioning the thinker as a forerunner of the recent "return to Paul" led by Badiou, Agamben, Zizek, and Breton. By changing the focus of modern philosophical inquiry from "Nietzsche and philosophy" to "Nietzsche and Christianity," Azzam initiates a major challenge to the primacy of Plato in the history of Western philosophy and narrow certainties regarding Nietzsche's relationship to Christian thought.

The Philosopher's Plant - An Intellectual Herbarium (Hardcover): Michael Marder The Philosopher's Plant - An Intellectual Herbarium (Hardcover)
Michael Marder; Illustrated by Mathilde Roussel
R1,822 R1,710 Discovery Miles 17 100 Save R112 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories out of flowers, trees, and even grass; and recommended appropriate medicinal, dietary, and aesthetic approaches to select species of plants.

In this book, Michael Marder illuminates the elaborate vegetal centerpieces and hidden kernels that have powered theoretical discourse for centuries. Choosing twelve botanical specimens that correspond to twelve significant philosophers, he recasts the development of philosophy through the evolution of human and plant relations. A philosophical history for the postmetaphysical age, The Philosopher's Plant reclaims the organic heritage of human thought. With the help of vegetal images, examples, and metaphors, the book clears a path through philosophy's tangled roots and dense undergrowth, opening up the discipline to all readers.

Calm The F*ck Down I'm a juggler - Swear Word Coloring Book For Adults: Humorous job Cusses, Snarky Comments, Motivating... Calm The F*ck Down I'm a juggler - Swear Word Coloring Book For Adults: Humorous job Cusses, Snarky Comments, Motivating Quotes & Relatable juggler Reflections for Work Anger Management, Stress Relief & Relaxation Mindful Book For Grown-ups (Paperback)
Swear Word Coloring Book
R257 Discovery Miles 2 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Year in the Life of Bottle the Curmudgeon (Paperback): Paul Tompkins A Year in the Life of Bottle the Curmudgeon (Paperback)
Paul Tompkins
R611 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Paperback): Joseph Brooker Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing (Paperback)
Joseph Brooker
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Author of Motherless Brooklyn and The Fortress of Solitude, Jonathan Lethem is one of the most celebrated and significant American writers working today. This new scholarly study draws on a deep knowledge of all Lethem's work to explore the range of his writing, from his award-winning fiction to his work in comics and criticism. Reading Lethem in relation to five themes crucial to his work, Joseph Brooker considers influence and intertextuality; the role of genres such as crime, science fiction and the Western; the imaginative production of worlds; superheroes and comic book traditions; and the representation of New York City. Close readings of Lethem's fiction are contextualized by reference to broader conceptual and comparative frames, as well as to Lethem's own voluminous non-fictional writing and his adaptation of precursors from Franz Kafka to Raymond Chandler. Rich in critical insight, Jonathan Lethem and the Galaxy of Writing demonstrates how an understanding of this author illuminates contemporary literature and culture at large.

Head Cases - Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times (Hardcover): Elaine P Miller Head Cases - Julia Kristeva on Philosophy and Art in Depressed Times (Hardcover)
Elaine P Miller
R1,132 R1,074 Discovery Miles 10 740 Save R58 (5%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates the process through which creative acts counteract and transform feelings of violence and depression. Reviewing Kristeva's corpus, Elaine P. Miller considers the intellectual's "aesthetic idea" and "thought specular" in their capacity to reshape depressive thought on both the individual and cultural level. She revisits Kristeva's reading of Walter Benjamin with reference to melancholic art and the imagination's allegorical structure; her analysis of Byzantine iconoclasm in relation to Freud's psychoanalytic theory of negation and Hegel's dialectical negativity; her understanding of Proust as an exemplary practitioner of sublimation; her rereading of Kant and Arendt in terms of art as an intentional lingering with foreignness; and her argument that forgiveness is both a philosophical and psychoanalytic method of transcending a "stuck" existence. Focusing on specific artworks that illustrate Kristeva's ideas, from ancient Greek tragedy to early photography, contemporary installation art, and film, Miller positions creative acts as a form of "spiritual inoculation" against the violence of our society and its discouragement of thought and reflection.

Defilement and Purgation in the Book of Hebrews (Paperback): William G Johnsson Defilement and Purgation in the Book of Hebrews (Paperback)
William G Johnsson
R970 Discovery Miles 9 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Are the Lips a Grave? - A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (Paperback, New): Lynne Huffer Are the Lips a Grave? - A Queer Feminist on the Ethics of Sex (Paperback, New)
Lynne Huffer
R1,028 Discovery Miles 10 280 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Lynne Huffer's ambitious inquiry redresses the rift between feminist and queer theory, traversing the space of a new, post-moral sexual ethics that includes pleasure, desire, connection, and betrayal. She begins by balancing queer theorists' politics of sexual freedoms with a moralizing feminist politics that views sexuality as harm. Drawing on the best insights from both traditions, she builds an ethics centered on eros, following Michel Foucault's ethics as a practice of freedom and Luce Irigaray's lyrical articulation of an ethics of sexual difference.

Through this theoretical lens, Huffer examines everyday experiences of ethical connection and failure connected to sex, including queer sexual practices, sodomy laws, interracial love, pornography, and work-life balance. Her approach complicates sexual identities while challenging the epistemological foundations of subjectivity. She rethinks ethics "beyond good and evil" without underestimating, as some queer theorists have done, the persistence of what Foucault calls the "catastrophe" of morality. Elaborating a thinking-feeling ethics of the other, Huffer encourages contemporary intellectuals to reshape sexual morality from within, defining an ethical space that is both poetically suggestive and politically relevant, both conceptually daring and grounded in common sexual experience.

The Secrets to a Magical Life - Learn 104 Strategies To Live Before You Die, Your Master Key To Unlock Happiness, Fulfillment &... The Secrets to a Magical Life - Learn 104 Strategies To Live Before You Die, Your Master Key To Unlock Happiness, Fulfillment & Success, The A To Z of Art of Living (Paperback)
Vikram Khaitan
R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Enneagram - The Complete guide to the 9 Personality Types, Self-Discovery and Self-Realization - Improving Yourself and... Enneagram - The Complete guide to the 9 Personality Types, Self-Discovery and Self-Realization - Improving Yourself and Building Healthy Relationships (Paperback)
Peter Hastings
R550 Discovery Miles 5 500 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
How to Unlock the Authentic You (Paperback): Uju Chukwuma How to Unlock the Authentic You (Paperback)
Uju Chukwuma
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dissemination (Paperback): Jacques Derrida Dissemination (Paperback)
Jacques Derrida; Translated by Barbara Johnson
R741 Discovery Miles 7 410 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

First published in 1972, Dissemination contains three of Derrida's most central and seminal works: 'Plato's Pharmacy', 'The Double Session' and 'Dissemination'. The essays present a re-evaluation of the logic of meaning and the function of writing in Western discourse and explore the relationship and interplay between language, literature and philosophy. The text includes a substantial introduction and additional notes on the text by Barbara Johnson.

The Necessity of the Impossible - Philosophy's Quest for Radical Change (Paperback): Nicole Des Bouvrie The Necessity of the Impossible - Philosophy's Quest for Radical Change (Paperback)
Nicole Des Bouvrie
R677 Discovery Miles 6 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Secrets of Erotic Flowers - Alchemical Cyphers (Paperback): Adeeb Kasem The Secrets of Erotic Flowers - Alchemical Cyphers (Paperback)
Adeeb Kasem
R188 Discovery Miles 1 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Not Being God - A Collaborative Autobiography (Hardcover): Gianni Vattimo Not Being God - A Collaborative Autobiography (Hardcover)
Gianni Vattimo; As told to Piergiorgio Paterlini; Translated by William McCuaig
R1,810 R1,698 Discovery Miles 16 980 Save R112 (6%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Gianni Vattimo, a leading philosopher of the continental school, has always resisted autobiography. But in this intimate memoir, the voice of Vattimo as thinker, political activist, and human being finds its expression on the page. With Piergiorgio Paterlini, a noted Italian writer and journalist, Vattimo reflects on a lifetime of politics, sexual radicalism, and philosophical exuberance in postwar Italy. Turin, the city where he was born and one of the intellectual capitals of Europe (also the city in which Nietzsche went mad), forms the core of his reminiscences, enhanced by fascinating vignettes of studying under Hans Georg Gadamer, teaching in the United States, serving as a public intellectual and interlocutor of Habermas and Derrida, and working within the European Parliament to unite Europe.

Vattimo's status as a left-wing faculty president paradoxically made him a target of the Red Brigades in the 1970s, causing him to flee Turin for his life. Left-wing terrorism did not deter the philosopher from his quest for social progress, however, and in the 1980s, he introduced a daring formulation called "weak thought," which stripped metaphysics, science, religion, and all other absolute systems of their authority. Vattimo then became notorious both for his renewed commitment to the core values of Christianity (he was trained as a Catholic intellectual) and for the Vatican's denunciation of his views.

Paterlini weaves his interviews with Vattimo into an utterly candid first-person portrait, creating a riveting text that is destined to become one of the most compelling accounts of homosexuality, history, politics, and philosophical invention in the twentieth century.

The Arc of Being - Epochal Shifting Momenta and QuasiBeing (Paperback): Rex Roland Rygulus The Arc of Being - Epochal Shifting Momenta and QuasiBeing (Paperback)
Rex Roland Rygulus
R1,775 Discovery Miles 17 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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