Not Working: Why We Have to Stop by Josh Cohen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world.' - Oscar Wilde. More than ever before, we live in a culture that excoriates inactivity and demonises idleness. Work, connectivity and a constant flow of information are the cultural norms, and a permanent busyness pervades even our quietest ...Show more
Notes from an Apocalypse - A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
"Insightful, affecting, funny, and appropriately terrifying." --Sally Rooney"Harrowing, tender-hearted, and funny as hell." --Jenny Offill By the author of the award-winning To Be a Machine, an absorbing, deeply felt book about our anxious present tense--and coming to grips with the future We're ...Show more
Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
$14.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much gri ...Show more
Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything by Graham Harman
$19.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Pelican Bks.
What is reality, really? Are humans more special or important than the non-human objects we perceive? How does this change the way we understand the world? We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinforced by modern philosophy, which privileges us as ...Show more
On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint by Maggie Nelson
$35.00 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
An expansive, exhilarating work of nonfiction on freedom, by one of the most significant writers of our day *A GUARDIAN 'BOOKS OF 2021' PICK* 'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' - Olivia Laing So often deployed as ...Show more
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Ideas & Philosophy
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th ...Show more
On Getting Off - Sex and Philosophy by Damon Young
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
The curious reader's companion to sex. 'Wit, you know, is the unexpected copulation of ideas.' — Samuel Johnson Why is screwing so funny? How should we think about our most shocking fantasies? What is so captivating about nudity? Inspired by philosophy, literature, and private life, Damon Young explo ...Show more
On Grand Strategy by John Lewis Gaddis
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
A master class in strategic thinking, distilled from the legendary Yale course co-taught by the author for decades For almost two decades, Yale students have competed for admission each year to the "Studies in Grand Strategy" seminar taught by John Lewis Gaddis, Paul Kennedy, and Charles Hill. Its p ...Show more
On Hope by Daisy Jeffrey
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: On ... Series
As extreme weather becomes the norm, scientists agree that our climate is changing. But it seems too many of our leaders aren't listening to the science and are failing to act. In On Hope, one of the lead organisers of the Australian Climate strike, 17-year-old Daisy Jeffrey shows how ordinary people ar ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are ...Show more
On Liberty & The Subjection Of Women by John Stuart Mill
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Two cornerstones of liberalism from the great social radical of English philosophy John Stuart Mill was a prodigious thinker who sharply challenged the beliefs of his age. In On Liberty, one of the sacred texts of liberalism, he argues that any democracy risks becoming a "tyranny of opinion" in which ...Show more
On The Genealogy Of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Category: Ideas & Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics
For the first time in Penguin Classics: Nietzsche's accessible exploration of key ideas in his landmark Beyond Good and Evil--in a lucid new translation Friedrich Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of On the Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in fact the book does mu ...Show more