Philosophy
Philosophy
Deep Utopia: Life and Meaning in a Solved World
A greyhound catching the mechanical lure—what would he actually do with it? Has he given this any thought? Bostrom’s previous book, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies changed the global conversation on AI and became a New York Times bestseller. It focused on what...
$32.95
Pleasure of Thinking
A yet-untranslated essay collection on the importance of critical thought, from one of the foremost Chinese intellectuals of the 1990s. Wang Xiaobo’s Pleasure of Thinking is an essay collection as riotous as it is contemplative. Between rollicking anecdotes about living between the East...
$25.00
The Science of Self: Man, God, and the Mathematical Language of Nature
THIS BOOK WILL CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE SCIENCEThe Science of Self is a dynamic tour of reality, covering the formation of our universe, the development of life, and the laws that govern these processes and personify themselves as Man. The...
$29.95
Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
Decolonization revolutionized the international order during the twentieth century. Yet standard histories that present the end of colonialism as an inevitable transition from a world of empires to one of nations―a world in which self-determination was synonymous with nation-building―obscure just...
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What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language
$140.00
What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language
In What We Say, Who We Are: Leopold Senghor, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Philosophy of Language, Parker English explores the commonality between Leopold Senghor's concept of "negritude" and Zora Neale Hurston's view of "Negro expression." For English, these two concepts...
$140.00
The Spirituality of African Peoples: The Search for a Common Moral Discourse
Current interest in Afrocentricity is but one moment in the longstanding post-colonial search by African peoples, both on the continent and in the diaspora, for cultural beacons. Preeminent black social ethicist Peter Paris here sharpens and focuses that quest on...
$34.99
Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa
This book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference...
$68.99
The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a...
$72.00
The Quest for Community and Identity: Critical Essays in Africana Social Philosophy
This collection of essays engages two of the most fundamental social and political issues of our time: community and identity. Wrestling with the perplexities of these two issues within the Africana world, the contributors delve into the influences of a...
$184.99
The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization
There exists a very rich, but largely untapped well of African American philosophical thought, in which many Black thinkers were debating the role philosophy played in racial advancement among themselves. One such work that demonstrates this vibrant tradition is William...
$209.00
The Philosophical Treatise of William H. Ferris: Selected Readings from The African Abroad or, His Evolution in Western Civilization
There exists a very rich, but largely untapped well of African American philosophical thought, in which many Black thinkers were debating the role philosophy played in racial advancement among themselves. One such work that demonstrates this vibrant tradition is William...
$71.50
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for...
$32.00
Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
In Ontological Terror Calvin L. Warren intervenes in Afro-pessimism, Heideggerian metaphysics, and black humanist philosophy by positing that the "Negro question" is intimately imbricated with questions of Being. Warren uses the figure of the antebellum free black as a philosophical paradigm for...
$123.50
Nihilism and Negritude: Ways of Living in Africa
There are two common ways of writing about Africa, says Célestin Monga. One way blames Africa’s ills on the continent’s history of exploitation and oppression. The other way blames Africans themselves for failing to rise above poisonous national prejudices and...
$49.00
Miseria de la razón: Racismo, etnocentrismo y nazismo: legados del pasado aún en las ciencias sociales de Occidente- Desde una perspectiva caribeña
Este trabajo se centra en la impertinencia existente en las ciencias sociales, asumiendo que es en ésta donde se juega la posibilidad de superar aquellas conclusiones teóricas inaceptables que son precisamente las que determinan la existencia y el sentido de...
$107.00
Look, A White!: Philosophical Essays on Whiteness
From a celebrated scholar on race, a book on ways of seeing, and seeing through, whiteness
$41.99
Ethics That Matters: African, Caribbean, and African American Sources
In light of globalization, ongoing issues of race, gender, and class, and the rapidly changing roles of institutions, this volume asserts that Christian social ethics must be reframed completely. Three questions are at the heart of this vital inquiry: How...
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Ethics along the Color Line
What is "race"? What role, if any, should race play in our moral obligations to others and to ourselves? Ethics along the Color Line addresses the question of whether black Americans should think of each other as members of an extended racial...
$40.00
Ethics along the Color Line
What is "race"? What role, if any, should race play in our moral obligations to others and to ourselves? Ethics along the Color Line addresses the question of whether black Americans should think of each other as members of an extended racial...
$162.50
El negro, el colonialismo y la política racial europea: Aspectos cognitivos asociados a la violencia racional (Spanish Edition)
Este trabajo de investigación es uno de los mejores con respecto al tema que se haya realizado hasta ahora en el Continente europeo. En él se pretende mostrar de manera amplia, dado que se trata, en cierto modo, de elaborar...
$151.99
The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that...
$182.00
The Desiring Modes of Being Black: Literature and Critical Theory (Global Critical Caribbean Thought)
A critique of theory through literature that celebrates the diversity of black being, The Desiring Modes of Being Black explores how literature unearths theoretical blind spots while reasserting the legitimacy of emotional turbulence in the controlled realm of reason that...
$58.50
Action Has No Season: Strategies and Secrets to Gaining Wealth and Authority
This is a must read for leaders and entrepreneurs; an amazing book of proverbs for decision-making. Taking "action" is the central theme, but the book guides the reader to mine for nuggets of wisdom which will facilitate one's growth and...
$27.99
Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the...
$32.00
Critique of Black Reason (a John Hope Franklin Center Book)
In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the...
$123.99
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Ethics
The field of ancient Greek ethics is increasingly emerging as a major branch of philosophical enquiry, and students and scholars of ancient philosophy will find this Companion to be a rich and invaluable guide to the themes and movements which...
$153.99
The Book of Ephraim
The Book of Ephraim is totally contrary to everything that has been taught through the years. Its pivotal position is that of the gross misunderstanding of what the Bible is trying to impart to the world and the huge blasphemy...
$30.00
Black Quantum Futurism: Theory & Practice (OUT OF PRINT)
Black Quantum Futurism (#BQF) is a new approach to living and experiencing reality by way of the manipulation of space-time in order to see into possible futures, and/or collapse space-time into a desired future in order to bring about that...
$29.99
Anti-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
$41.99
Anti-Music (Suny Series, Philosophy and Race)
Examines how African American jazz music was received in Germany both as a racial and cultural threat and as a partner in promoting the rise of Nazi totalitarian cultural politics.
$124.00