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A Short History of Truth - Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily each can become the ...Show more
A Short History of Truth: Consolations for a Post-Truth World by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
How did we find ourselves in a "post-truth" world of "alternative facts"? And can we get out of it? A Short History of Truth sets out to answer these questions by looking at the complex history of truth and falsehood. It identifies ten types of supposed truth and explains how easily each can become the ...Show more
Babette's Feast by Julian Baggini
Category: Art and Design | Series: BFI Film Classics Ser.
On the face of it, Gabriel Axel's Babette's Feast (1989) is a film in which the eyes o and mouths o of religious zealots are opened to the glories of the sensual world. It is a critique of what Nietzsche called life-denying religion in favour of life-affirming sensuality. But to view the film in that wa ...Show more
Complaint : From Minor Moans to Principled Protests (Big Ideas series) by Julian Baggini
Category: Fiction
Complaining is very popular - as shown by the success of Eats, Shoots and Leaves, Crap Towns and Is It Me Or Is Everything Shit? But there has been no book on the actual subject - until now.Conversation would be extremely limited if we stopped moaning. But whereas we once complained about the things tha ...Show more
Complaint : From minor moans to principled protests by Julian Baggini
Category: Culture | Series: Big Ideas
Complaint can be a powerful political tool. Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King both used it to drive social change. So why do we moan about increasingly trivial things - like the weather or public transport? Do Brits complain less than Americans? Do men and women complain about different things? What ...Show more
Do They Think You're Stupid? 100 Ways of Spotting Spin and Nonsense From the Media, Celebrities and Politicians by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Originally published as "The Duck that Won the Lottery", this companion volume to "The Pig That Wants To Be Eaten" provides another rapid-fire selection of short, stimulating and entertaining capsules of philosophy. This time the focus is on the bad argumentative moves people use all the time, in politi ...Show more
Do You Think What You Think You Think? The ultimate philosophy quiz book by Julian Baggini & Jeremy Stangroom (illus Katharine Reeve)
Category: Fiction
Is your brain ready for a thorough philosophical health check? Really, it won't hurt a bit...Is what you believe coherent and consistent? Or is it a jumble of contradictions? If you could design yourself a God, what would He (or She, or It) be like? Can you spot the logical flaw in an argument (even if ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
Freedom Regained: The Possibility of Free Will by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy
Do we have free will? It's a question that has puzzled philosophers and theologians for centuries and feeds into numerous political, social, and personal concerns. Are we products of our culture, or free agents within it? How much responsibility should we take for our actions? Are our neural pathways fi ...Show more
Grayson Perry: My Pretty Little Art Career by Rachel Kent, Grayson Perry, Julian Baggini and Louisa Buck
Category: Art and Design
Grayson Perry (born Chelmsford, Essex 1960) is one of Britain's most acclaimed contemporary artists, known for his ceramic works, sculptures in iron and brass, drawings, prints and tapestries. With a keen eye for detail and a love of the popular and vernacular, Perry infuses his art works with a sly hum ...Show more
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Julian Baggini's How the World Thinks is there to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life' Observer's guide to Autumn in culture In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map of human thought. One of the great unexplained wonders of ...Show more