Brilliant illustrated guide to the best-known and most controversial continental philosopher of the latter 20th century.
Jacques Derrida is the most famous philosopher of the late 20th century. Yet he has undermined the rules of philosophy, rejected its methods, broken its procedures and contaminated it with literary styles of writing. Derrida's philosophy is a puzzling array of oblique, deviant a…
Introducing philosophy: a graphic guide
by Robinson, Dave, Groves, Judy
fromIntroducing
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? This book is a comprehensive graphic guide to the thinking of various philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrid…
Introducing philosophy
by Appignanesi, Richard, Robinson, Dave, Groves, Judy
fromIntroducing
Introducing philosophy: a graphic guide
by Robinson, Dave, Groves, Judy
fromIntroducing
Philosophers have always enjoyed asking awkward and provocative questions, such as: What is the nature of reality? What are human beings really like? This book is a comprehensive graphic guide to the thinking of various philosophers of the Western world from Heraclitus to Derrid…
Introducing Capitalism: a Graphic Guide
by Piero, Cryan, Dan, Shatil, Sharron
fromIntroducing
Capitalism has influenced everything in the 21st-century world. This work tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise. Tracing capitalism from its beginning, it looks at its practical and th…
Introducing capitalism: a graphic guide
by Piero, Cryan, Dan, Shatil, Sharron
fromIntroducing
Capitalism has influenced everything in the 21st-century world. This work tells the story of its remarkable and often ruthless rise, evolving through strife and struggle as much as innovation and enterprise. Tracing capitalism from its beginning, it looks at its practical and th…
Introducing Heidegger: a graphic guide
by Collins, Jeff, Selina, Howard
fromIntroducing
Introducing anthropology
by Piero, Appignanesi, Richard, Davies, Merryl Wyn
fromIntroducing
Anthropology originated as the study of 'primitive' cultures. But the notion of 'primitive' exposes presumptions of 'civilized' superiority and the right of the West to speak for 'less evolved' others. With the fall of Empire, anthropology became suspect and was torn by dissensi…
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of Friedrich Nietzsche for our epoch. This title serves as a guide to the philosopher.