Metafysik & ontologi

'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathu...

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Världen som vilja och föreställning är Arthur Schopenhauer s stora, filosofiska livsverk. Hans filosofi erbjuder en världsåskådning, ett sätt att betrakta tillvaron i dess helhet, utifrån en metafysisk grund. Hos honom kombineras västerländsk filo...

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Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, rel...

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As the failures of physicalism begin to shake the confidence of even the most biased of its supporters, a new view on the nature of reality is establishing itself as the only tenable alternative: Analytic Idealism. According to it, there is a worl...

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This book challenges, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity. The author claims that we have a false view of our own nature; that it is often rational to act against our own ...

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Now revised and containing three new chapters, this book provides a clear and accessible introduction to epistemology, or the theory of knowledge. It discusses some of the main theories of justification, including foundationalism, coherentism, rel...

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What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innov...

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'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of t...

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The 25th Anniversary Edition of the beloved novel! Santiago, a young shepherd living in the hills of Andalucia, feels that there is more to life than his humble home and his flock. One day he finds the courage to follow his dreams into distant lan...

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Hur uppkom livet på jorden? Är vi ensamma i universum? Är tidsresor möjliga? Och vad döljer sig bortom det vi kan se? I den här boken ger den bästsäljande författaren och fysikern Lawrence Krauss inblick i de kvarstående mysterier som femhundra år...

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. Provocative and playful, All Art is Ecological explores the strangeness of living in an age of mass extinction, and shows us that emotions and experience are the...

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Selected as one of the Books of the Century by the New York Public Library ¿ "The brilliance, the wealth of illustration, and the aptness of personal application . . . make the reading of these chapters an exciting experience."-W. Norman Pittenger...

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"There are at least two kinds of games," states James P. Carse as he begins this extraordinary book. "One could be called finite; the other infinite. A finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuin...

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LISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE BLACKWELL'S BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Mesmerising' Sunday Times 'Magnificent' Guardian 'Monumental' The Telegraph Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. ...

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In this landmark new book, Iain McGilchrist addresses some of the oldest and hardest questions humanity faces - ones that, however, have a practical urgency for all of us today. Who are we? What is the world? How can we understand consciousness, m...

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In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the¿vita activa¿is producing a crisis in our sense of time.¿ Our attachment to the¿vita activa¿creates an...

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In this wholly original, never-before-seen box set, the New York Times bestselling author who has redefined tarot for the twenty-first century takes seekers on a journey of self-discovery deep into the collective unconscious and through the realm ...

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Hossenfelder stands between us and incomprehension' Daily Mail 'Informative and engaging' TLS Do we have free will? Is the universe compatible with God? Do we live in a computer simulation? Does the universe think? Phy...

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From New York Times bestselling author of The Wild Unknown Tarot who has redefined tarot for the twenty-first century comes an original oracle deck and guidebook that takes seekers on a journey of self-discovery-now in a compact, pocket-sized form...

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Henri Bergson (1859-1941) verkade från år 1900 som professor vid Collége de France i Paris, och många av tidens tänkare och konstnärer samlades kring honom. I sitt minnestal över Bergson i Franska Akademien sa Paul Valéry: "Hans stora insats är at...

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From the world-renowned physicist and bestselling author of The Elegant Universe and The Fabric of the Cosmos, a captivating exploration of deep time and humanity's search for purpose In both time and space, the cosmos is astoundingly vast, and ye...

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An essential balm for these tumultuous times, this thoughtful and inspiring guide features newly gathered teachings to abandon the idea there is an "other," bridging differences and cherishing our lives in the world, from beloved spiritual leader ...

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EN NY REVOLUTIONERADE FRAMTIDSVISION FRÅN FÖRFATTARNA SOM FÖRUTSPÅDDE IT-BUBBLAN OCH 11 SEPTEMBER Cyberfilosoferna och framtidsforskarna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist är tillbaka. Efter Futuricatrilogins träffsäkra profetior har de nu formuler...

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Timaeus and Critias is a Socratic dialogue in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus's theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its ver...

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Cyberfilosoferna och framtidsforskarna Alexander Bard och Jan Söderqvist är tillbaka. Efter Futuricatrilogins träffsäkra profetior har de nu formulerat en metafysik för den digitala tidsåldern. Det här är boken som vågar beskriva individualismen s...

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How can the human mind represent the external world? What is thought, and can it be studied scientifically? Should we think of the mind as a kind of machine? Is the mind a computer? Can a computer think? Tim Crane sets out to answer these question...

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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, this profoundly original work explores the nature of physical suffering. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on tort...

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Federico Faggin is one of the greatest luminaries of high technology alive today. A physicist by education, he is the inventor of the microprocessor and the MOS silicon gate technology, both of which underlie the modern world's entire information ...

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