Aesthetics of the Unavoidable: Aesthetic Variations in Human Appearance by Ossi Naukkarinen
$16.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. It provides tools for understanding and structuring the complex field of the aesthetics of normal, daily life. The book indicates what kinds of things we should pay attention to if we want to make sense of the aesthetics of the everyday world and compare different instances of it with each ...Show more
African Art in Transit - The Production of Value and Mediation of Knowledge in the African Art Trade by Christopher B. Steiner
$17.50 NZD
Category: Art, Design & Photography
African Art in Transit is an absorbing account of the commodification and circulation of African art objects in the international art market. Christopher Steiner's analysis of the role of the African middleman in linking those who produce and supply works of art in Africa with those who buy and collect ...Show more
An Inquiry into the Human Mind, on the principles of Common Sense (Seventh Edition) by Thomas Reid
$350.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Aristotle (The Great Philosophers) by Kenneth Mcleish
$19.99 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Series: The\Great Philosophers Ser.
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was one of the greatest philosophers that has ever lived. Taught by Plato, he was the first genuine scientist i ...Show more
Beyond: How Humankind Thinks About Heaven by Catherine Wolff
$30.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
"Beautifully written, expertly researched and masterfully presented, this tour of how heaven has been understood throughout history is absolutely fascinating." -James Martin, SJ, author of Jesus- A Pilgrimage A smart and thought-provoking cultural history of heaven. What do we think of when we think abo ...Show more
Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant
$25.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
In THE CRITIQUE OF JUDGMENT (1790), Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) seeks to establish the a priori principles underlying the faculty of judgement, just as he did in his previous critiques of pure and practical reason. The first part deals with the subject of our aesthetic sensibility; we respond to certain n ...Show more
Critiques And Addresses by Thomas Henry Huxley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Administrative nihilism -- The school boards: what they can do, and what they may do -- On medical education -- Yeast -- On the formation of coal -- On coral and coral reefs -- On the methods and results of ethnology -- On some fixed points in British ethnology -- Palaeontology and the doctrine of evolu ...Show more
Ethics, Evil, and Fiction by Colin McGinn
$21.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy
Secondhand. McGinn's latest brings together moral philosophy and literary analysis in a way that illuminates both. Setting out to enrich the domain of moral reflection by showing the value of literary texts as sources of moral illumination, McGinn starts by setting out an uncompromisingly realist ethic ...Show more
First & Last Things: A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life by H. G. Wells
$65.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
"First and Last Things - A Confession of Faith and Rule of Life" by H. G. Wells is a work of philosophy that set forth his beliefs in four "books" entitled "Metaphysics," "Of Belief," "Of General Conduct," and "Some Personal Things." The book was written at a time when Wells's "private life was to a con ...Show more
God's Funeral by A.N. Wilson
$17.50 NZD
Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good
In this work, A.N. Wilson's account shows how the decline of religious certainty in Victorian times had its origin with the 18th-century sceptics, and brought a devastating sense of emotional loss which extends to our own times.