Alain De Botton 
Consolations of Philosophy [EPUB ebook] 

Hegel After Derrida provides a much needed insight not only into the importance of Hegel and the importance of Derrida”s work on Hegel, but also the very foundations of postmodern and deconstruction …

The recognition of women’s human rights to migrate and work as sex workers is disregarded and dismissed by anti-trafficking discourses of rescue in the latest United Nation’s definition of traffickin …

The notion of ”the human” is in need of urgent redefinition. At a time of radical bio-technological developments, and in light of the political and environmental imperatives of our age, the term ” …

The philosopher Abu Nasr al-Farabi (c. 870-c. 950 CE) is a key Arabic intermediary figure. He knew Aristotle, and in particular Aristotle”s logic, through Greek Neoplatonist interpretations translat …

This is a broad ranging introduction to twenty-first-century anarchism which includes a wide array of theoretical approaches as well as a variety of empirical and geographical perspectives. The book …

The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller”s classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the ca …

Augustine of Hippo (AD 354-430) is arguably the most controversial Christian thinker in history. His positions on philosophical and theological concerns have been the subjects of intense scrutiny and …

Even those who take themselves to be breaking from tradition-from the metaphysical tradition of philosophy, from grand narratives, neoliberalism or Eurocentrism-can remain blindly attached to them. A …

The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History presents the history of one of Western philosophy”s greatest challenges: understanding the nature of knowledge. Divided chronologically into four volumes, it f …

First published in 1999, this volume re-examines Bertrand Russell’s views on modal logic and logical relevance, arguing that Russell does in fact accommodate modality and modal logic. The author, Jan …