A provocative study of the ‘non-space’ which defines our age’s love for excess of information and space
Looks at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. This book explores the ideological fantasies of wholeness and exclusion which make up human society.
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, cared for and accepted?
We are in the midst of a global crisis of care. How do we get out of it?
A passionately urgent call for all of us to unlearn imperialism and repair the violent world we share.
What is wrong with capitalism, and how can we change it?
';It is only ideas gained from walking thathave any worth.'Nietzsche In A Philosophy of Walking, a bestsellerin France, leading thinker FredericGros charts the many different wayswe get from A to B the pilgrimage,the promenade, the protest march, thenature rambleand reveals what theysay about us. Gros draws attention to otherthinkers who also saw walking assomething central to their practice.On his travels he ponders Thoreau's eagerseclusion in Walden Woods; the reasonRimbaud walked in a fury, while Nervalrambled to cure his melancholy. Heshows us how Rousseau walked in orderto think, while Nietzsche wanderedthe mountainside to write. In contrast,Kant marched through his hometownevery day, exactly at the same hour, toescape the compulsion of thought.Brilliant and erudite, A Philosophyof Walking is an entertaining andinsightful manifesto for putting onefoot in front of the other.
A brilliant study of violent self-defense in the struggle for liberation by an award-winning philosopher
Slavoj A iA ek's masterwork on the Hegelian legacy.
A comprehensive philosophy of contemporary life and politics, by one of the sharpest critics of the present
Following the death of Henry Kissinger, his legacy is assessed
How Google, Facebook and Amazon threaten our Democracy
Contemporary philosophy of science has paid close attention to the understanding of scientific practice, in contrast to the previous focus on scientific method. This work shows the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about the nature of knowledge. It argues that the only feasible explanation of any scientific success is a historical account.
A major new work from the world's leading writer on artLandscapes, the companion volume to John Berger's highly acclaimed Portraits, explores what art tells us about ourselves. ';Berger's work is an invitation to reimagine; to see in different ways,' writes Tom Overton in the introduction to this volume. As a master storyteller and thinker John Berger challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. In this brilliant collection of diverse piecesessays, short stories, poems, translationswhich spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He pays homage to the writers and thinkers who infuenced him, such as Walter Benjamin, Rosa Luxemburg and Bertolt Brecht. His expansive perspective takes in artistic movements and individual artistsfrom the Renaissance to the presentwhile never neglecting the social and political context of their creation. Berger pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his artist's eye makes him a storyteller in these essays, rather than a critic. With ';landscape' as an animating, liberating metaphor rather than a rigid defnition, this collection surveys the aesthetic landscapes that have informed, challenged and nourished John Berger's understanding of the world. Landscapesalongside Portraitscompletes a tour through the history of art that will be an intellectual benchmark for many years to come.
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