Consolations: The Solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words by David Whyte
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Category: New Philosophy | Series: Meaning of Everyday Words
In Consolations David Whyte unpacks aspects of being human that many of us spend our lives trying vainly to avoid - loss, heartbreak, vulnerability, fear - boldly reinterpreting them, fully embracing their complexity, never shying away from paradox in his relentless search for truth.Beginning with 'Alon ...Show more
Pathways into the Jungian World - Phenomenology and Analytical Psychology by Roger Brooke (Editor)
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Category: New Philosophy
In Pathways into the Jungian World contributors from the disciplines of medicine, psychology and philosophy look at the central issues of commonality and difference between phenomenology and analytical psychology. The major theme of the book is how existential phenomenology and analytical psychology hav ...Show more
A Social Theory of Freedom by Mariam Thalos
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Category: New Philosophy | Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy Ser.
In A Social Theory of Freedom, Mariam Thalos argues that the theory of human freedom should be a broadly social and political theory, rather than a theory that places itself in opposition to the issue of determinism. Thalos rejects the premise that a theory of freedom is fundamentally a theory of the me ...Show more
Good Story: Exchanges on Truth... by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: New Philosophy
A fascinating dialogue on the human inclination to make up stories between a Nobel Prize-winning writer and a psychotherapist. The Good Story is an exchange between a writer with a long-standing interest in moral psychology and a psychotherapist with a training in literary studies. Arabella Kurtz and J. ...Show more
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, and Justice by Martha C. Nussbaum
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Category: New Philosophy
Anger is not just ubiquitous, it is also popular. Many people think it is impossible to care sufficiently for justice without anger at injustice. Many believe that it is impossible for individuals to vindicate their own self-respect or to move beyond an injury without anger. To not feel anger in those c ...Show more
Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: New Philosophy | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
This revelatory new translation by strips Thus Spoke Zarathustra down to its foundations in Gothic horror, and discovers a much darker book than previously understood. Not content to focus erringly on God is dead, this new translation sings a dithyramb to the earth at the same time as it mercilessly hun ...Show more
The Language Instinct (Popular Penguin) by Steven Pinker
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Category: New Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Steven Pinker's The Language Instinctpropelled him to worldwide fame in 1994. His groundbreaking book's premise - that language is instinctual rather than acquired - so shook the foundations of biological science that the reverberations are still being felt today.
History of Western Philosophy by Nigel Tubbs
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Category: New Philosophy
There remains a need for a reckoning with the 'history of Western philosophy.' This book responds to this need not by the conventional strategy of questioning History, the West, and Philosophy, but by presupposing them, and arguing that such presuppositions are unavoidable for the history of philosophy ...Show more
Either/Or by Soren Kirkegaard
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Category: New Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Published in 1843, this is one of the earliest of Kierkegaard's major works. The author plays devil's advocate putting forward two opposing points of view challenging the reader to question the different alternatives. This book is written to provoke philosophical debate.
THE HIDDEN SPRING by Solms, Mark
$49.99 AUD
Category: New Philosophy
A revolutionary new explanation for sentience from the neuroscientist who discovered how the brain dreams.
Symbols of Transformation by C.G. Jung (tr R F C Hull)
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Category: New Philosophy | Series: Bollingen Series (General) Ser.
A complete revision of Psychology of the Unconscious (orig. 1911-12), Jung's first important statement of his independent position. In 1912, at the age of thirty-seven, Jung published the original version of his work, "Transformation and Symbols of the Libido, " which marked his divulgence from the psy ...Show more
A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy at Oxford 1900-60 by Nikhil Krishnan
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Category: New Philosophy
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In response to these events, thinkers such as G ...Show more