Overview :The Society of the Spectacle is a carefully considered effort to clarify the most fundamental tendencies and contradictions of the society i... Read More
Overview :24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep explores some of the ruinous consequences of the expanding non-stop processes of twenty-first-ce... Read More
Overview :'What is it to love another person?' This is to raise one of the deepest, and most puzzling, questions we can put to ourselves. Love is a ce... Read More
Overview :Silver medalist for the IPPY award for Current Events in 2016 Racial Realities and Post-Racial Dreams is a moral call, a harkening and qu... Read More
Overview :Virtually everyone supports religious liberty, and virtually everyone opposes discrimination. But how do we handle the hard questions that a... Read More
Overview :The perfect graduation gift for every young adult entering the real world. In the New York Times bestseller Nick Hornby calls "helpful, stim... Read More
Overview :Kindness is the foundation of the world's great religions and most-enduring philosophies. Why, then, does being kind feel so dangerous? If w... Read More
Overview :Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Yet few would argue that inequality is a greater evil than poverty. The ... Read More
Overview :The philosopher Cristina Bicchieri here develops her theory of social norms, most recently explained in her 2006 volume The Grammar of Socie... Read More
Overview :"Appiah is a writer and thinker of remarkable range... He] has packed into this short book an impressive amount of original reflection... A... Read More
Overview :In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confus... Read More
Overview :Notes and Introduction by Mark G. Spencer, Brock University, Ontario John Locke (1632-1704) was perhaps the most influential English write... Read More
Overview :Henri Lefebvre's magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre's three-volume "Critique of Everyday Life" is... Read More
Overview :There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think... Read More
Overview :Nature is an essay written by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published anonymously in 1836. It is in this essay that the foundation of transcendentali... Read More
Overview :In these seventeen essays, distinguished senior scholars discuss the conceptual issues surrounding the idea of freedom of inquiry and scruti... Read More