Philosophy
Filters
Knowledge: A Very Short Introduction
Jennifer Nagel
Paperback
• Author(s): Jennifer Nagel • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EpistemologyWhat is knowledge? How does it differ from mere belief? Do you need to be able to justify a claim in orde...
View full detailsGenius (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Andrew Robinson
Paperback
• Author(s): Andrew Robinson • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralAbout the Book Genius is the name we give to a quality of work that transcends fashion, ...
View full detailsEvil (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Russell, Luke
Paperback
• Author(s): Russell | Luke • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralThe code of conduct for a leading tech company famously says "Don't Be Evil." But what exactly is evil? Is it jus...
View full detailsThe Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory
Guru Gopal; SarukkaiSundar
Paperback
• Author(s): Guru Gopal; SarukkaiSundar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: GeneralWestern constructs giving precedence to ideas over experience have, for long, dominated theoriza...
View full detailsObjectivity (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Stephen Gaukroger
Paperback
• Author(s): Stephen Gaukroger • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyObjectivity is both an essential and elusive philosophical concept. This Very Short...
View full detailsThe Right to Sex
Amia Srinivasan
Paperback
• Author(s): Amia Srinivasan • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Theory and Methods in Political Science
Vivien Lowndes
Paperback
• Author(s): Vivien Lowndes • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Acad Indi • Subject: Politics and Current AffairsA broad-ranging and pluralistic textbook which highlights the rich variety of approaches to studying politics. Wr...
View full detailsThe Meaning Of Relativity
Albert Einstein
Paperback
• Author(s): Albert Einstein • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - RelativityThe world would be a very different place if it were not for Albert Einstein. Lik...
View full detailsDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Paperback
• Author(s): Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Publisher: E-Artnow • Publisher Imprint: E-Artnow • BISAC: PoliticalRousseau first exposes in Discourse on the Origin of Inequality his conception of a human state of nature, presented as a philosophical ficti...
View full detailsThe Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Paperback
• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Sanage Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Sanage Publishing House • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe Problems of Philosophy is a 1912 book by the philosopher Bertrand Russell, in which the author attempts to cre...
View full detailsThe Self: A Very Short Introduction
Marya Schechtman
Paperback
• Author(s): Marya Schechtman • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Mind & BodyVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring 'Know thyself' is said to have been one of the...
View full detailsPostmodernism (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Christopher Butler
Paperback
• Author(s): Christopher Butler • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernPostmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade....
View full detailsThe Synthesis Of Yoga
Sri Aurobindo
Hardcover
• Author(s): Sri Aurobindo • Publisher: Sabda • Publisher Imprint: Sabda The Synthesis of Yoga is Sri Aurobindo's principal work on yoga: an examination of the traditional systems and an explanation of his own method of Integral Yoga."Truth of ph...
View full detailsBelieve In Yourself Life Lessons From Swami Vivekananda
Edited By Nanditha Krishna
Hardcover
• Author(s): Edited By Nanditha Krishna • Publisher: Aleph Book Company • Publisher Imprint: Aleph Book CompanyIndia has produced some of the world’s greatest religious leaders, sages, saints, philosophers, and spiritual thinkers. They were monks...
View full detailsThe Legend of the Goddess
Swami Om
Hardcover
• Author(s): Swami Om • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing House“If there’s only one sadhana you could do to invoke the Goddess of opulence, it would be the one of Sri Suktam,” says the bestselling author Om...
View full detailsLanguage, Limits, and Beyond: Early Wittgenstein and Rabindranath Tagore
Priyambada Sarkar
Hardcover
• Author(s): Priyambada Sarkar • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: LanguageAbout the Book Ludwig Wittgenstein's interest in the writings of Rabindranath Tagore, is recognized among sch...
View full detailsHume (VSI): Very Short Introduction
James A. Harris
Paperback
• Author(s): James A. Harris • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernDavid Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the gr...
View full detailsStoicism (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Brad Inwood
Paperback
• Author(s): Brad Inwood • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyStoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that ...
View full detailsThe Prospects Of Industrial Civilisation
Bertrand Russell
Paperback
• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: History • BISAC: GeneralFirst published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertr...
View full detailsOur Knowledge Of The External World
Bertrand Russell
Paperback
• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: EpistemologyOur Knowledge of the External World is a compilation of lectures Bertrand Russell deli...
View full detailsVedic Hymns (Vol. 1)
F. Max Muller, H. Oldenberg
Hardcover
• Author(s): F. Max Muller | H. Oldenberg • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThese volumes of the Sacred Books of the East series include transaltions of all the most important works of the seven...
View full detailsA Peep into India’s Timeless Values
Shimla
Paperback
• Author(s): Shimla • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe values are the principles of behavioural conduct, that help in distinguishing between right and wrong, or good and bad. They guide the h...
View full detailsPlato (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Julia Annas
Paperback
• Author(s): Julia Annas • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalThis lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Pl...
View full detailsEpicureanism (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Catherine Wilson
Paperback
• Author(s): Catherine Wilson • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalEpicureanism is commonly associated with a carefree view of life and...
View full detailsWorld Mythology in Bite-Sized Chunks
Mark Daniels
Paperback
• Author(s): Mark Daniels • Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books • Publisher Imprint: Michael O'Mara Books • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalFrom the signs of the zodiac to literature and art, the influence of world mythology can...
View full detailsThe Great Philosophers: Marx
Terry Eagleton
Paperback
• Author(s): Terry Eagleton • Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson • Publisher Imprint: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson • BISAC: Individual Philosophers'We are free when, like artists, we produce without the goad of physical necessity' ...
View full detailsBushido: The Way of the Samurai
Tsunetomo Yamamoto
Paperback
• Author(s): Tsunetomo Yamamoto • Publisher: Square One Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Square One Publishers • BISAC: Ethics & Moral PhilosophyIn eighteenth-century Japan, Tsunetomo Yamamoto created the Hagakure, a document that served as th...
View full detailsThe First Philosophers: The Presocratics and Sophists
Robin Waterfield
Paperback
• Author(s): Robin Waterfield • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalAristotle said that philosophy begins with wonder, and the first Wester...
View full detailsTwilight of the Idols: Or How to Philosophize with a Hammer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Paperback
• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - GeneralTwilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended...
View full detailsAn Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
David Hume
Paperback
• Author(s): David Hume • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, USA • BISAC: EpistemologyDavid Hume's Enquiry concerning Human Understanding is the definitive statement of the greatest philosopher i...
View full detailsThus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
Friedrich Nietzsche
Paperback
• Author(s): Friedrich Nietzsche • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modernhus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Ni...
View full detailsThe Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France, 1978-1979
Michel Foucault
Paperback
• Author(s): Michel Foucault • Publisher: MixBZ • Publisher Imprint: MixBZ • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: PoliticalPicador is proud to publish the sixth volume in Foucault's prestigious, groundbreaking series of lectures at the Co...
View full detailsOn Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays
John Stuart Mill
Paperback
• Author(s): John Stuart Mill • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: English Literature • BISAC: Ethics & Moral Philosophy'it is only the cultivation of individuality which produces, or can produce, well developed hu...
View full detailsHumankind
Rutger Bregman
Paperback
• Author(s): Rutger Bregman • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt LtdTHE SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Guardian, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman and Daily Express Book o...
View full detailsMeditations
Marcus Aurelius
Paperback
• Author(s): Marcus Aurelius • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Peacock • Subject: Religion and Philosophy"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts." Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, first published in 1558, is...
View full detailsThe Hidden Splendor
Osho
Paperback
• Author(s): Osho • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseDiscovering Your Inner Beauty This book is a pilgrimage in search of that indefinable something that all of us, at some time or other in our lives, ...
View full detailsThe Great Secret: Talks On The Songs Of Kabir
Osho
Paperback
• Author(s): Osho • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing HouseThis quest has been going on for countless lives. Sometimes you call it the search for truth. But you have never known truth, so how can you lose it?...
View full detailsOf Mystics & Mistakes
Sadhguru
Paperback
• Author(s): Sadhguru • Publisher: Jaico Publishing House • Publisher Imprint: Jaico Publishing House“THERE ARE ONLY TWO TYPES OF PEOPLE: MYSTICS AND MISTAKES,” says Sadhguru, leaving readers in no doubt of the category to which they belong! Th...
View full detailsMoral Ambition
Rutger Bregman
Paperback
• Author(s): Rutger Bregman • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERGives us hope, humour and guidance at a time when all are in short supply' TIMOTHY SNYDERThe rar...
View full detailsOverdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in its Place
Robert B. Talisse
Paperback
• Author(s): Robert B. Talisse • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: PoliticalAbout the Book We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the ri...
View full detailsThe Glance of the Medusa: The Physiognomy of Mysticism
László F. Földényi
Hardcover
• Author(s): László F. Földényi • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralAbout the Book In the Glance of the Medusa, lászó f földényi gives a mesmerising examination of t...
View full detailsAugustine (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Henry Chadwick
Paperback
• Author(s): Henry Chadwick • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: ReligiousBy his writings, the surviving bulk of which exceeds that of any other ancient author, Augustine came to influe...
View full detailsSocrates (VSI): Very Short Introduction
C.C.W. Taylor
Paperback
• Author(s): C.C.W. Taylor • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - Ancient & ClassicalSocrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exag...
View full detailsMachiavelli (VSI): Very Short Introduction
Quentin Skinner
Paperback
• Author(s): Quentin Skinner • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Politics and Current Affairs • BISAC: Individual PhilosophersNiccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good ...
View full detailsMedieval Philosophy (VSI): Very Short Introduction
John Marenbon
Paperback
• Author(s): John Marenbon • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: History & Surveys - MedievalReading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a diffe...
View full detailsThe Silent Transformations
Francois Jullien, Krysztof Fijalkowski, Michael Richardson
Hardcover
• Author(s): Francois Jullien | Krysztof Fijalkowski | Michael Richardson • Publisher: Seagull Books • Publisher Imprint: Seagull Books • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: GeneralTo grow up is to grow old. With time, great love can turn i...
View full detailsRediscovering Swami Vivekananda
Amiya K Mazumdar
Hardcover
• Author(s): Amiya K Mazumdar • Publisher: Frontpage Pub. • Publisher Imprint: Frontpage • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyWhen erosion of ethical values is a global experience, human morals are fast decaying, religious fundamentalism is promptin...
View full detailsDr. S. Radhakrishnan: His Life and Philosophy
Chaganti Nagaraja Rao
Hardcover
• Author(s): Chaganti Nagaraja Rao • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThis motivational book explores avenues from the life and works of Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, and provides enough insights...
View full detailsThe Special Theory Of Relativity
David Bohm
Paperback
• Author(s): David Bohm • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Physics and Astronomy • BISAC: Physics - RelativityIn these inspiring lectures David Bohm explores Albert Einstein’s celebrated Theory of...
View full detailsThe Two Fundamental Problems Of The Theory Of Knowledge
Karl Popper
Paperback
• Author(s): Karl Popper • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: EpistemologyIn a letter of 1932, Karl Popper described Die beiden Grundprobleme der Erkenntnistheorie –...
View full detailsThe Scientific Outlook
Bertrand Russell
Paperback
• Author(s): Bertrand Russell • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: EpistemologyAccording to Bertrand Russell, science is knowledge; that which seeks general laws con...
View full detailsBeast And Man: The Roots of Human Nature
Mary Midgley
Paperback
• Author(s): Mary Midgley • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge Classics • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Movements - HumanismPhilosophers have traditionally concentrated on the qualities that make human bein...
View full detailsTheory Of Avatara And Divinity Of Chaitanya
Janmajit Roy
Hardcover
• Author(s): Janmajit Roy • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyThe present book is a comprehensive and comparative study of the origin and development of the concept of AvatÈra in the theological a...
View full detailsSri Aurobindo'S Philosophy Of Social Development
Ram Nath Sharma
Hardcover
• Author(s): Ram Nath Sharma • Publisher: Atlantic • Publisher Imprint: Atlantic • Subject: Religion and PhilosophyScholars, philosophers and sociologists in East and West have been exploring the ideal of social development and suggesting ways to...
View full detailsDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Paperback
• Author(s): Jean-Jacques Rousseau • Publisher: MixGD • Publisher Imprint: MixGD • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: PoliticalIf humans are benevolent by nature, how do societies become corrupt? And how do governments founded upon the def...
View full detailsQuantum Physics Meets the Philosophy of Mind: New Essays on the Mind-Body Relation in Quantum-Theoretical Perspective
Antonella Corradini
Paperback
• Author(s): Antonella Corradini • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Mind & BodyQuantum physics, in contrast to classical physics, allows non-locality and indeterminism in nature. Moreover, the role of the observe...
View full detailsThe Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods
A. G. Sertillanges
Paperback
• Author(s): A. G. Sertillanges • Publisher: Catholic University of America Press • Publisher Imprint: Catholic University of America Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - Modern"Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which d...
View full detailsEnduring Colonialism Classical Presences and Modern Absences in Indian Philosophy
A. Raghuramaraju
Paperback
• Author(s): A. Raghuramaraju • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: EasternThis volume explores the relevance of classical texts and thought-systems alongside contemporary philosophical ...
View full detailsInequality Reexamined
Amartya Sen
Paperback
• Author(s): Amartya Sen • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Economics • BISAC: PoliticalThis book brings together and develops some of the economic, social and ethical ideas explored since 1974. It examines the claim...
View full details