Sartre for Beginners


Philip Thody - 1998
    Sartre was the most famous and prolific writer in France, and one of line best known philosophers of his day.Philip Thody, a former Professor of French Literature explains the basic ideas that inspired Sartre's existential world view, paying particular attention to his concert of 'personal freedom'.

Introducing Aristotle: A Graphic Guide


Rupert Woodfin - 1997
    Aristotle's authority extended beyond his own lifetime to influence fundamentally Islamic philosophy and medieval scholasticism. For fifteen centuries, he remained the paradigm of knowledge itself. But can Aristotelian realism still be used to underpin our conception of the world today?

Heidegger for Beginners


Jeff Collins - 1994
    The book debates whether Heidegger was offering a deeply conservative mythology, or whether he was actually deconstructing philosophy as the West has known it.

Introducing Hinduism: A Graphic Guide


Vinay Lal - 2001
    Yet the word 'Hindu' is of foreign 18th-century origin. Hinduism is defined as a polytheistic religion, but Mahatma Gandhi famously declared that one can be a Hindu without believing in any god. Hinduism appears to accommodate endless contradictions. It is a religion at least as much of myth as of history - it has no historical founder, no single authoritative book, and few central doctrines." Introducing Hinduism offers a guide to this extraordinarily diverse faith. It untangles the complexities of Hinduism's gods and goddesses, its caste system and its views on sex, everyday life and asceticism. Why do Hindus revere the cow? Must Hindus be vegetarian? Introducing Hinduism explores the links with and differences from Buddhism, Jainism and other religions, and describes the resurgence of Hindu extremism, the phenomenon of Bollywood and the overseas Hindu diaspora.

Introducing Islam: A Graphic Guide


Ziauddin Sardar - 1990
    "Introducing Islam" is a fascinating look into a sometimes misunderstood faith.

Introducing the Enlightenment: A Graphic Guide


Lloyd Spencer - 1997
    This book provides a clear and accessible introduction to the leading thinkers of the age, the men and women who believed that rational endeavour could reveal the secrets of the universe.

Introducing Genetics


Steve Jones - 1993
    Now genetics is exploding, and before long we will have the complete code, written in three thousand million letters of DNA, of what makes a human being.

Introducing Newton


William Rankin - 1993
    There is only one known universe and it fell to Isaac Newton to discover its secrets. Newton was arguably the greatest scientific genius of all time and yet he remains a mysterious figure - a secret heretic, a mystic, an alchemist, and what is often forgotten, the scourge of forgers as England's Master of the Royal Mint.

Introducing Buddha: A Graphic Guide


Jane Hope - 1991
    Superbly illustrated by Borin Van Loon, the book illuminates this process through a rich legacy of stories and explains the practices of meditation, Taoism and Zen. It goes on to describe the role of Buddhism in modern Asia and its growing influence on Western thought.

Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide


Nick Groom - 1997
    His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think. Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely considered the greatest writer ever. They investigate how the Bard has been worshiped at different times and in different places, used and abused to cultural and political ends, and the roots of intense controversies which have surrounded his work. Much more than a biography or a guide to his plays and sonnets, Introducing Shakespeare is a tour through the world of Will and concludes that even after centuries, Shakespeare remains the battlefield on which our very comprehension of humanity is being fought out.

Introducing Chomsky


John Maher - 1993
    This work traces his understanding of the cognitive realities involved in the use of language and the technical apparatus needed to represent it.

Introducing Continental Philosophy: A Graphic Guide


Christopher Kul-Want - 2013
    Christopher Kul-Want is the course director for the MA in Fine Art at Central St. Martins, London, and the author of the popular Graphic Guide Introducing Slavoj Zizek.

Introducing Baudrillard


Chris Horrocks - 1996
    His style and assaults on sociology, feminism and Marxism have exposed him to accusations of being the pimp of postmodernism.

Darwin for Beginners


Jonathan Miller - 1982
    Along the way we meet a fascinating cast of characters: Darwin's scientific predecessors, his contemporaries (including Alfred Russell Wallace, whose anticipation of natural selection forced Darwin to publish), his opponents, and his successors whose work in modern genetics provided necessary modifications to Darwin's own work.Splendidly illustrated, this clever, witty, highly informative book is the perfect introduction to Darwin's life and thought.

Introducing Nietzsche: A Graphic Guide


Laurence Gane - 1997
    His extraordinary insights into human psychology, morality, religion and power seem quite clairvoyant today: existentialism, psychoanalysis, semiotics and postmodernism are plainly anticipated in his writings - which are famously enigmatic and often contradictory."Introducing Nietzsche" is the perfect guide to this exhilarating and oft-misunderstood philosopher.