True Conservatism
Reclaiming Our Humanity in an Arrogant Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300277036,
Yale University Press,
May 2025
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
Drawing on the riches of the Western tradition, Anthony T. Kronman defends a humane conservativism for our enlightened age.
As the party of the left has grown more strident, its conservative critics have responded in kind. Each year conservatives d...
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25.00 GBP
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Little History of Philosophy
New Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780300283266,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
272 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
272 pp., 19,8x12,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A lucid guide to humankind's greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer.
Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his days in the ancient Athenian marketplace asking...
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10.99 GBP
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Paradox of Morality
ISBN: HB: 9780300269260,
Yale University Press,
April 2025
264 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
264 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm
The last work by "one of the most singular voices of twentieth-century French philosophy" (Critical Inquiry) on the complexities of love in public and private life.
Vladimir Jankelevitch stands alongside Emmanuel Levinas as one of the most admired...
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18.99 GBP
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Love's Braided Dance
Hope in a Time of Crisis
ISBN: HB: 9780300272659,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
200 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
200 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A moving exploration of the place of hope in the world today, drawing on agrarian principles.
In this series of meditations, Norman Wirzba recasts hope not as something people have, like a vaccine to prevent pain and trouble, but as something peopl...
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20.00 GBP
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Naples 1925
Adorno, Benjamin, and the Summer That Made Critical Theory
ISBN: HB: 9780300259308,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
200 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 22 black&white illus.
200 pp., 19,8x12,9 cm, 22 black&white illus.
The untold story of how the volcanic landscape surrounding Naples influenced a crucial moment in twentieth-century intellectual history.
In the 1920s, the Gulf of Naples was a magnet for European intellectuals in search of places as yet untouched b...
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18.99 GBP
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Philosophy of Translation
ISBN: HB: 9780300247374,
Yale University Press,
January 2025
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A deep dive into the nature of translation from one of its most acclaimed practitioners.
Avoiding theoretical debates and cliched metaphors, award‑winning translator Damion Searls has written a fresh, approachable, and convincing account of what tr...
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20.00 GBP
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Ignorance and Bliss
On Wanting Not to Know
ISBN: HB: 9781911723523,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2024
256 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
256 pp., 19,0x12,6 cm
A dazzling exploration of our wishes for innocence and ignorance – and their consequences.
Aristotle claimed that "all human beings want to know". Yet we also want not to know. Centuries after the Enlightenment, mesmerised crowds still follow prep...
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18.99 GBP
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All Things Are Full of Gods
Mind, Life, and Language
ISBN: HB: 9780300254723,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
416 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
416 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
A world-renowned philosopher's genre-defying exploration of the mystery of consciousness.
In a blossoming garden located far outside all worlds, a group of aging Greek gods have gathered to discuss the nature of existence, the mystery of mind, and...
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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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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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