24,103円 What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustai...

6,590円 The Bloomsbury Companion to Existentialism is the definitive guide to this key area of modern European philosophy. Now available in paperback, the book covers the fundamental questions asked by existentialism, providing valuable guidance for students and researchers to some of the many important ...

6,380円 “Be true to yourself”ーit is a dictum so ubiquitous that it can seem like both philosophical wisdom and an empty truism. Should we aspire to an ideal of living authentically? What does it mean to be true to yourself? Against Authenticity: Why You Shouldn't Be Yourself is a philosophical explorati...

496円 The Apology is Plato's version of the oration given by Socrates as he defended himself in 399 BC  against the charges of "corrupting the young, and by not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other daimonia that are novel" (24b). "Apology" here has its...

2,123円 Into the Wild meets Waldenーa lyrical memoir for nature lovers and for anyone who has wondered what it would be like to disconnect from our hyper-connected culture and seek more meaningful connections After losing vision in one eye and becoming estranged from his family and friends, a young man s...

0円 For certain if you are a thoughtful reader you would appreciate this book. It is a book for our age, the age of the "Secret". The secret is out that the "Secret" is the scourge of our time. As responsible adults we likely believe in the power and necessity of critical thinking in our personal liv...

496円 An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding is a novel by the Scottish empiricist philosopher David Hume, published in 1748. It was a revision of an earlier effort, Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in London in 1739–40. Hume was disappointed with the reception of the Treatis...

0円 My awakening to the crazy world of self-help and recovery from its vice like grip occurred after a quite fantastical and unique experience. One thing I have learned is that you cannot download anyone else's 'system' or 'process' and make it work for you. I think you need to pick through each pers...

2,115円 Benjamin Fondaneーwho was born and educated in Romania, moved as an adult to Paris, lived for a time in Buenos Aires, where he was close to Victoria Ocampo, Jorge Luis Borges’s friend and publisher, and died in Auschwitzーwas an artist and thinker who found in every limit, in every border, “a tor...

2,783円 What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common? First, they were all faced one day with the most difficult of choices: stay faithful to your ideas and die or renounce them and stay alive. Second, they all chose to die. Their spectacular deaths have become n...

496円 "Nature" is an essay composed by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and published by James Munroe and Company in 1836. In this essay Emerson put forth the foundation of transcendentalism, a belief system that espouses a non-traditional appreciation of nature.  Transcendentalism suggests that th...

0円 The author overhears a conversation about an island called Margarita. Images of the mythical land of Margaritaville fill his head. This sets in motion a chain of events that leads him on a misadventure with his seven year-old daughter in search of that fabled land. They take off from a small town...