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In everyday life, we generally assume that we can make our own decisions on matters which concern our own lives. We assume that a life followed only according to decisions taken by other people, …

In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its ob…

Is democracy the best form of government? What does it mean to be ‘free’? Why should we obey the government?<br /> <br /> In this highly accessible and engaging new introductory textb…

Our societies today are characterized by a universal algophobia: a generalized fear of pain. We strive to avoid all painful conditions – even the pain of love is treated as suspect. This algophob…

With irrepressible humor, Slavoj iek dissects our current political and social climate, discussing everything from Jordan Peterson and sex “unicorns” to Greta Thunberg and Chairman Mao. Taking ai…

The Memoirs of General Ulysses Simpson Grant, Part 1 <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-kno…

Your Stars is a daily Dynamic Astrology journal for 2020.Illuminating how the planets may affect us as they move throughout year, and how we can harness this knowledge to avoid negative outcomes,…

The room was completely darkened, his image appeared on the screen. At this moment my perception of space and time disappeared. My body felt like a thunder went through it. Everything around me b…

Modern political revolutions since the 18th century have swept away traditional systems of domination by declaring that ‘all men are created equal’. This declaration of equal rights is a fundamen…

Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unit…

[b]The expanded new edition of one of the most influential and controversial books about the nature of philosophy published in the past several decades [/b]  [i]The Philosophy of Philosophy[/i] p…

In summer 1960, Adorno gave the first of a series of lectures devoted to the relation between sociology and philosophy. One of his central concerns was to dispel the notion, erroneous in his view…

The philosophy of Paul Ricoeur is rarely viewed through the lens of political philosophy, and yet questions of power, and of how to live together in the [i]polis[/i], were a constant preoccupatio…

New Book by International Bestselling Author Rhonda Byrne.Once you know, freedom is yours.The Greatest Secret, the long-awaited major work by Rhonda Byrne, lays out the next quantum leap in a jou…

Voltaire, der «geistreiche Spötter» – kaum ein Klischee über große Literaten ist so verbreitet. Doch das lässt den französischen Denker weit zu harmlos erscheinen. Geistreich und ironiebegabt war…

La importancia de la vida y escritos de Tomás Moro no deja de crecer con el paso de los años. Nacido en 1478 en Londres, fue un importante pensador, abogado, político y humanista, y llegó a ser g…

Images of killer robots are the stuff of science fiction – but also, increasingly, of scientific fact on the battlefield. Should we be worried, or is this a normal development in the technology o…

Los bríos revolucionarios apenas se calmaban en el país, los constitucionalistas consiguieron promulgar una nueva Carta Magna para el país el 5 de febrero de 1917; apenas doce días después de que…

A spirit is haunting contemporary thought – the spirit of Hegel. All the powers of academia have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spirit: Vitalists and Eschatologists, Transcendental…

Esta biografía de José Félix Estigarribia escrita por la historiadora Anahí Soto Vera pretende, como ella misma lo dice, destacar algunos aspectos de la vida de quien fuera el conductor victorios…