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A Holy Tradition of Working - Passages From the Writings of Eric Gill (Hardcover): Eric Gill A Holy Tradition of Working - Passages From the Writings of Eric Gill (Hardcover)
Eric Gill; Edited by Brian Keeble; Preface by Wendell Berry
R746 Discovery Miles 7 460 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Bugbear of Literacy (Hardcover): Ananda K. Coomaraswamy The Bugbear of Literacy (Hardcover)
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy
R703 Discovery Miles 7 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Dark Years? (Hardcover): Jacob L. Goodson The Dark Years? (Hardcover)
Jacob L. Goodson
R1,095 R924 Discovery Miles 9 240 Save R171 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The English Gentlewoman, Drawne out to the Full Body - Expressing, What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe... The English Gentlewoman, Drawne out to the Full Body - Expressing, What Habilliments Doe Best Attire Her, What Ornaments Doe Best Adorne Her, What Complements Doe Best Accomplish Her (Hardcover)
Richard 1588?-1673 Brathwaite
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Futility of Philosophical Ethics - Metaethics and the Grounds of Moral Feeling (Hardcover): James Kirwan The Futility of Philosophical Ethics - Metaethics and the Grounds of Moral Feeling (Hardcover)
James Kirwan
R3,204 Discovery Miles 32 040 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Futility of Philosophical Ethics puts forward a novel account of the grounds of moral feeling with fundamental implications for philosophical ethics. It examines the grounds of moral feeling by both the phenomenology of that feeling, and the facts of moral feeling in operation - particularly in forms such as moral luck, vicious virtues, and moral disgust - that appear paradoxical from the point of view of systematic ethics. Using an analytic approach, James Kirwan engages in the ongoing debates among contemporary philosophers within metaethics and normative ethics. Instead of trying to erase the variety of moral responses that exist in philosophical analysis under one totalizing system, Kirwan argues that such moral theorizing is futile. His analysis counters currently prevalent arguments that seek to render the origins of moral experience unproblematic by finding substitutes for realism in various forms of noncognitivism. In reasserting the problematic nature of moral experience, and offering a theory of the origins of that experience in unavoidable individual desires, Kirwan accounts for the diverse manifestations of moral feeling and demonstrates why so many arguments in metaethics and normative ethics are necessarily irresolvable.

A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant, with an Historical Introduction (Hardcover): Edward Caird A Critical Account of the Philosophy of Kant, with an Historical Introduction (Hardcover)
Edward Caird
R2,218 R1,790 Discovery Miles 17 900 Save R428 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Human, All Too Human (Hardcover): Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Human, All Too Human (Hardcover)
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
R689 Discovery Miles 6 890 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Against Empire (Hardcover): Matthew T. Eggemeier Against Empire (Hardcover)
Matthew T. Eggemeier
R1,145 R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Save R183 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth (unabridged) (Hardcover): Douglas E Harding The Hierarchy of Heaven and Earth (unabridged) (Hardcover)
Douglas E Harding
R2,471 Discovery Miles 24 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Blind In Affliction - The World's Evolving Contradiction (Hardcover): Erik Magnusson Blind In Affliction - The World's Evolving Contradiction (Hardcover)
Erik Magnusson
R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition): George... A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (Large print, Hardcover, Large type / large print edition)
George Berkeley
R526 Discovery Miles 5 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Development of Symbolic Logic (Hardcover): Arthur Thomas Shearman The Development of Symbolic Logic (Hardcover)
Arthur Thomas Shearman
R898 Discovery Miles 8 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Cities and Thrones and Powers - Towards a Plotinian Politics (Hardcover): Stephen R.L. Clark Cities and Thrones and Powers - Towards a Plotinian Politics (Hardcover)
Stephen R.L. Clark
R905 Discovery Miles 9 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Meta Phor - A simple and profound guide for connecting with the Universe (Hardcover): Avalon Sky High Performance Training Meta Phor - A simple and profound guide for connecting with the Universe (Hardcover)
Avalon Sky High Performance Training
R593 Discovery Miles 5 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Humble Creative (Hardcover): Matthew Niermann The Humble Creative (Hardcover)
Matthew Niermann
R880 R758 Discovery Miles 7 580 Save R122 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism (Hardcover): Guillermo M. Jodra On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism (Hardcover)
Guillermo M. Jodra
R2,847 Discovery Miles 28 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This second of a two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized in the Augustinian Rule. A theopolitical synthesis of Antiquity, the Rule is a humble, yet extremely influential example of subjectivity production. In these volumes, Jodra argues that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical proof of a worldview in which the self and the other are not disjunctive components, but mutually inclusive forces. The Augustinian Rule is a culmination of this process and also the beginning of something new: the paradigm of the monastic self as protagonist of the new, medieval worldview. In the previous volume, Jodra gave us the Mediterranean backstory to Augustine's Rule. In this volume two, he develops his solution to socialism, through a kind of Augustinian communitarianism for today, in full. These volumes therefore restore the unity of the Hellenistic and Judaic world as found by the first Christians, proving that the self and the other are two essential pieces in the construction of our world.

The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement (Hardcover): Paschal M Corby The Hope and Despair of Human Bioenhancement (Hardcover)
Paschal M Corby
R1,500 R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Save R264 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion (Hardcover): James Penney Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion (Hardcover)
James Penney
R3,027 Discovery Miles 30 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing Jean Genet and Jacques Lacan into dialogue, James Penney examines the overlooked similarities between Genet's literary oeuvre and Lacanian psychoanalysis, uncovering in particular their shared ontology of fragility and incompletion. This book exposes the two thinkers' joint and unwavering ontological conviction that the representations that make up the world of appearances are inherently enigmatic: inscrutable, not only on the level of their problematic link to knowledge and meaning, but also, more fundamentally, as concerns the reliability of their existence. According to Genet and Lacan, the signification of words and images will forever remain unfulfilled, just like the whole of reality, as if prematurely removed from the oven, under-baked. Genet, Lacan and the Ontology of Incompletion reveals how, in the same manner as Lacan's psychoanalytic act, Genet's acts of poetry further seek to expose the fragile prop that holds our reality together, baring the fissures in being for which fantasy normally compensates. Moving away from scholarship that considers Genet's plays, novels, sexuality and politics in isolation, Penney explores the whole span of Genet's work, from his early novels to the posthumously-published Prisoner of Love and, combining this with psychoanalysis, opens up new avenues for thinking about Genet, Lacan and our wanting being.

The Baseless Fabric of this Vision - A Quantum-Field-Theoretic Model of Consciousness (Hardcover): Casey Mitchell The Baseless Fabric of this Vision - A Quantum-Field-Theoretic Model of Consciousness (Hardcover)
Casey Mitchell
R729 R650 Discovery Miles 6 500 Save R79 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stoicism - How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness (Hardcover): Jason Hemlock Stoicism - How to Use Stoic Philosophy to Find Inner Peace and Happiness (Hardcover)
Jason Hemlock
R927 R788 Discovery Miles 7 880 Save R139 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
To My Kids (Hardcover): Juan M Valenzuela To My Kids (Hardcover)
Juan M Valenzuela
R656 R583 Discovery Miles 5 830 Save R73 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy - Killing Time (Hardcover): Christopher Bartel Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy - Killing Time (Hardcover)
Christopher Bartel
R3,548 Discovery Miles 35 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Is it ever morally wrong to enjoy fantasizing about immoral things? Many video games allow players to commit numerous violent and immoral acts. But, should players worry about the morality of their virtual actions? A common argument is that games offer merely the virtual representation of violence. No one is actually harmed by committing a violent act in a game. So, it cannot be morally wrong to perform such acts. While this is an intuitive argument, it does not resolve the issue. Focusing on why individual players are motivated to entertain immoral and violent fantasies, Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy advances debates about the ethical criticism of art, not only by shining light on the interesting and under-examined case of virtual fantasies, but also by its novel application of a virtue ethical account. Video games are works of fiction that enable players to entertain a fantasy. So, a full understanding of the ethical criticism of video games must focus attention on why individual players are motivated to entertain immoral and violent fantasies. Video Games, Violence, and the Ethics of Fantasy engages with debates and critical discussions of games in both the popular media and recent work in philosophy, psychology, media studies, and game studies.

Gaga Aesthetics - Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition (Hardcover): Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas Gaga Aesthetics - Art, Fashion, Popular Culture, and the Up-Ending of Tradition (Hardcover)
Adam Geczy, Vicki Karaminas
R3,207 Discovery Miles 32 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Pop art has traditionally been the most visible visual art within popular culture because its main transgression is easy to understand: the infiltration of the "low" into the "high". The same cannot be said of contemporary art of the 21st century, where the term "Gaga Aesthetics" characterizes the condition of popular culture being extensively imbricated in high culture, and vice-versa. Taking Adorno and Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry" and Adorno's Aesthetic Theory as key touchstones, this book explores the dialectic of high and low that forms the foundation of Adornian aesthetics and the extent to which it still applied, and the extent to which it has radically shifted, thereby 'upending tradition'. In the tradition of philosophical aesthetics that Adorno began with Lukacs, this explores the ever-urgent notion that high culture has become deeply enmeshed with popular culture. This is "Gaga Aesthetics": aesthetics that no longer follows clear fields of activity, where "fine art" is but one area of critical activity. Indeed, Adorno's concepts of alienation and the tragic, which inform his reading of the modernist experiment, are now no longer confined to art. Rather, stirring examples can be found in phenomena such as fashion and music video. In addition to dealing with Lady Gaga herself, this book traverses examples ranging from Madonna's Madam X to Moschino and Vetements, to deliberate on the strategies of subversion in the culture industry.

Philosophy of the Unconscious, Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science; Volume 1 (Hardcover):... Philosophy of the Unconscious, Speculative Results According to the Inductive Method of Physical Science; Volume 1 (Hardcover)
Eduard Von Hartmann
R1,039 Discovery Miles 10 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
A Yearn To Discern - Finding Purpose And Fulfillment Through Discernment (Hardcover): R L Maco A Yearn To Discern - Finding Purpose And Fulfillment Through Discernment (Hardcover)
R L Maco
R527 R498 Discovery Miles 4 980 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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