Ethics: A Graphic Guide (Introducing....
Dave RobinsonWhat is the place of individual choice and consequence in a post-Holocaust world of continuing genocidal ethnic cleansing? Is "identity" now a last-ditch cultural defence of ethnic nationalisms and competing fundamentalisms? In a clim...
Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles—how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. InIntroducing Bertrand Russellwe meet a passionate eccentric, acti...
Introducing Descartes: A Graphic Guid...
Dave RobinsonUnique graphic introductions to big ideas and thinkers, written by experts in the field.
Introducing Ethics for Everyday Life:...
Dave RobinsonA Practical Guide to ethics and every day decisions. Written by an expert, it includes straightforward, easy-to-follow ways to use ethics in making real life choices in areas such as friendships, marriage, parenting, and work.Dave Rob...
Introducing Kierkegaard: A Graphic Gu...
Dave RobinsonThe philosopher Søren Kierkegaard is regarded as the founder of Existentialism and a forerunner of postmodernism. Philosophy, in Kierkegaard's radical view, was of no use unless it permanently changed people's lives. This graphic gui...
Introducing Political Philosophy
Dave RobinsonIntroducing Political Philosophy explains the subject’s central concepts and presents the major political theorists from Plato to Michel Foucault. How did governments get started? Why should they be obeyed? Could we live without the...
Musician, poet, novelist and botanist, but above all, a philosopher who denied being one, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was the first to ask: What is the value of civilization?” His answer shocked Enlightenment contemporaries and still ch...