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Ways of meaning (Terms and conditions for art and technology)

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:00:21 +0000

An essential guide to the shifting vocabulary of art and technology, written by leading women artists and scholars.

The discourse around art and technology is saturated with hype cycles, accelerating innovation and proliferating terminologies. But what do our words reveal – and what do ..

Price: $36.95

The Laugh of the Medusa

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 01:49:59 +0000

Hélène Cixous’ famous manifesto reemerges in a new definitive translation, articulating a feminist vision of writing both timeless and timely.

Originally published in 1975, The Laugh of the Medusa issued women an ultimatum: to be trapped by a language that does not allo..

Price: $15.95

On Frege Puzzles (Why Propositions Are Not the Objects of Our Mental Attitudes)

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 17:04:47 +0000

This book argues against the received view of propositional theory, according to which mental attitudes—such as believing, knowing, hoping, and wishing—are relations held between agents and propositions.

Price: $64.99

The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:28:08 +0000

Delving into the dynamic and adaptable nature of ethical language and terminology in design, The Adaptive Nature of Design Ethics Discourse argues that it is intrinsically flexible—what can be described as chameleonic.

Price: $64.99

From Plato to Panini to Levinas (The Problem of Language for Philosophy and Theology)

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:32:51 +0000

This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations. It reconnects Plato and philosophy to the issue of theology and religion and the limits of language as an instrument in..

Price: $64.99

Linguistics and Philosophy (An Essay on the Philosophical Constants of Language)

Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:25:26 +0000

This marks the first time Linguistics and Philosophy, published in France in 1969, has been translated into English. Here, philosopher Etienne Gilson examines linguistics—from Descartes to Derrida—as he argues for the irreducibility of thought to language. Reviewing the theories of fig..

Price: $46.00

Why Symbols Mean More Than We Think (A Story of Everything)

Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:43:37 +0000

Reframing Being through the dynamic interplay of matter, time, and information.

Why Symbols Mean More Than We Think develops a dynamic ontology, in which reality evolves through irreducible oppositional structures mediated by Time. Drawing on the works of Prigogine, Smolin,..

Price: $35.95

A Way with Words (Why Language Makes Humans Irreplaceable)

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:12:30 +0000

A brilliant examination of history and language that explains why AI, for all of its wonders, cannot truly speak.

For all of history, the only creature on earth that could speak was man. Then suddenly, with the dawn of artificial intelligence, a machine could talk back..

Price: $30.00

A Śabda Reader (Language in Classical Indian Thought)

Sat, 16 May 2026 22:45:49 +0000

Language (śabda) occupied a central yet often unacknowledged place in classical Indian philosophical thought. Foundational thinkers considered topics such as the nature of language, its relationship to reality, the nature and existence of linguistic units and their capacity to convey mea..

Price: $95.00

Irony (An Historical Introduction)

Thu, 14 May 2026 16:24:17 +0000

Originally published in 1926, this volume analyses the history of irony in ancient writers such as Homer and Lucian and how the use of Irony in modern literature has been shaped and coloured by the Ironical tradition. The works of Tacitus, Shakespeare, Goethe and Jane Austen are among those di..

Price: $42.99