Philosophy

""This was true mystical vision. This I could never have anticipated. But I knew that we were both on the same galactic journey into the great void that contains us all. I was standing before a boundlessness that could swallow the stars in a heartbeat."--Breakfast at the Victory

Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the impact of new technology on culture, an interest that extended beyond his renowned critical essays. From 1927 to '33, he wrote and presented something in the region of eighty broadcasts using the new medium of radio. Radio Benjamin gathers the surviving transcripts, ...

A radical new history of a dangerous idea

A material analysis of the sign which deepens Marx's critique of political economy for spectacular times.

An inspired and impassioned historical examination of humanity's search for the divine

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What exactly is postmodernism? This graphic guide explains the maddeningly enigmatic concept that has been used to define the world's cultural condition.

What is time? The 5th-century philosopher St Augustine famously said that he knew what time was, so long as no one asked him.

Explaining all aspects of Humanist philosophy, Cave offers several persuasive arguments against God's existence, whilst providing an alternative and valuable conception of life without Him.

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Engaging with contemporary issues responsibly and creatively can become a very abstract activity. We can sometimes find ourselves talking in terms of theories and philosophies which bear very little resemblance to how life is actually lived and experienced. In Thinking in the World, Jill Bennett and ...

You don't need a dusty tome to encounter great ideas.

Can morality exist separately from a belief in God?

This collection contains seven of the most famous military texts of ancient China. These new translations bring to light several texts that display an understanding of strategy and warfare that still has relevance millennia after their original publication. From the 11th-century AD onward, these texts ...

A lively introduction to ancient philosophy and the questions that still send our minds reeling today

A lucid and inspiring consideration of the challenges we and our world now face, and a proposal for a way to overcome them.

Follows the historical development of logic, explains the symbols and methods involved and explores the philosophical issues surrounding the topic. This title takes you through the influence of logic on scientific method and the various sciences from physics to psychology.

Addresses such questions as: What is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? And how do we define "rights", self-interest and civic duties?

Offers a route through the tangled jungle of competing ideas and provides an essential historical context, situating these theories within tradition of critical analysis going back to the rise of Marxism. This book presents the essential methods and objectives of each theoretical school.

The essays of Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, the 16th-century French philosopher, are an obvious addition to the Notting Hill Editions 'Classic Collection' due to the masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal story-telling conveyed in his writing. He popularised the genre of the essay form, ...