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It’s Cool to Be Conscious by Harry O’Brien (Paperback)
R60,00Condition: As new
Harry O’Brien is widely recognised as an elite professional football player in Australian League Football. Less known is the fact that, deep down, Harry is a philosopher at heart. There have been many obstacles in Harry’s personal life. In dealing with these, Harry has developed an appreciation that his story may inspire others to overcome their own challenges. This book includes personal stories from Harry’s life, both on and off the field.
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Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton (paperback)
R60,00In this combative, controversial book, Terry Eagleton takes issue with the prejudice that Marxism is dead and done with. Taking ten of the most common objections to Marxism—that it leads to political tyranny, that it reduces everything to the economic, that it is a form of historical determinism, and so on—he demonstrates in each case what a woeful travesty of Marx’s own thought these assumptions are. In a world in which capitalism has been shaken to its roots by some major crises, Why Marx Was Right is as urgent and timely as it is brave and candid. Written with Eagleton’s familiar wit, humor, and clarity, it will attract an audience far beyond the confines of academia.
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Sartre – The Arguments of the Philosophers by Peter Caws (Hardback)
R80,00This book provides detailed critical introductions to the work of all of the most significant philosophers and schools, with contemporary assessments and historical accounts of the entire course of philosophical thought.
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Illuminations by Walter Benjamin (Paperback)
R50,00The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) rank among the most quietly influential of the post-war era, though only since his death had Benjamin achieved the fame and critical currency outside his native Germany accorded him by a select few during his lifetime. Now he is widely held to have possessed one of the most acute and original minds of the Central European culture decimated by the Nazis. Illuminations contains his two most celebrated essays, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’ and ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’, as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht’s epic theatre, Proust and an anatomy of his own obsession, book collecting. The essay is Benjamin’s domain; those collected in this now legendary volume offer the best possible access to his singular and significant achievement. In a stimulating introduction, Hannah Arendt reveals how Benjamin’s life and work are a prism to his times, and identifies him as possessing the rare ability to think poetically.
