Second Chances
Shakespeare and Freud
ISBN: HB: 9780300276367,
Yale University Press,
July 2024
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
232 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A powerful exploration of the human capacity for renewal, as seen through Shakespeare and Freud.
In this fresh investigation, Stephen Greenblatt and Adam Phillips explore how the second chance has been an essential feature of the literary imaginati...
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20.00 GBP
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St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 3
ISBN: HB: 9780300238532,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
352 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
352 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the "Cassiciacum dialogues", these four works are of a...
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47.50 GBP
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Soliloquies
St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 4
ISBN: HB: 9780300238549,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
408 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
408 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
The first four works written by St. Augustine of Hippo after his conversion to Christianity are dialogues that have influenced prominent thinkers from Boethius to Bernard Lonergan. Usually called the Cassiciacum dialogues, these four works are of a h...
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50.00 GBP
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Ashoka
Portrait of a Philosopher King
ISBN: HB: 9780300270006,
Yale University Press,
February 2024
408 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 19 colour and black&white illus.
408 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 19 colour and black&white illus.
An illuminating biography reconstructing the life and legacy of a unique king in world history and the most famous emperor in South Asian history.
There are few historical figures more integral to South Asian history than Emperor Ashoka, a third-ce...
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22.00 GBP
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Real Thing
Reflections on a Literary Form
ISBN: HB: 9780300274295,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
176 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
176 pp., 21,0x14,0 cm
A clear-sighted and entertaining defence of literary realism, and an account of its key practitioners.
Realist fiction is one of the most enduring artforms history has ever witnessed. By describing the intricate inner life of its characters, or wid...
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16.99 GBP
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Age of Guilt
The Super-Ego in the Online World
ISBN: HB: 9780300265811,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
192 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age.
Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twitter. How did the Internet, which began as a place for open thought and exchange, become a forum...
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18.99 GBP
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Martin Heidegger's Changing Destinies
Catholicism, Revolution, Nazism
ISBN: HB: 9780300228328,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
720 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
720 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
A portrait of Martin Heidegger as a man and a philosopher/
In this biography of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), now available in English, historian Guillaume Payen synthesizes the connections between the German philosopher's life and work. Critically...
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40.00 GBP
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Of Fear and Strangers
A History of Xenophobia
ISBN: PB: 9780300270389,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 40 black&white illus.
368 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Over the last few years, it has been impossible to ignore the steady resurgence of xenophobia. The European migrant crisis and immigration from Central America to the United States have placed Western advocates of globalization on the defensive, and...
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11.99 GBP
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Why Argument Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780300271072,
ISBN: HB: 9780300244267,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
160 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
160 pp., 19,7x12,7 cm
An impassioned case for argument's central role in human life, by one of America's most distinguished cultural critics.
From Eve's crafty exchange with the serpent, to Martin Luther King's soaring, subtle ultimatums, to the throes of Twitter – argu...
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14.99 GBP
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20.00 GBP
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Heidegger in Ruins
Between Philosophy and Ideology
ISBN: HB: 9780300233186,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
488 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm
What does it mean when a radical understanding of National Socialism is inextricably embedded in the work of the twentieth century's most important philosopher?
Martin Heidegger's sympathies for the conservative revolution and National Socialism hav...
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25.00 GBP
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