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Why does a colleague's promotion disturb us more than our own stalled career? Why do capuchin monkeys reject perfectly good food after watching another monkey receive something better? Why might artificial intelligence systems develop competitive behaviors they were never programmed to have? The Anatomy of Envy presents a unified theory of one of the most pervasive yet least understood phenomena in psychology: the disturbance that arises from perceiving oneself as disadvantaged relative to others.

Critical Social Justice or wokeism is a relatively new phenomena that has dominated the recent culture wars since the antiracism movement intensified in the wake of George Floyd's death.

Something is changing in the way we talk to each other and most of us have not noticed yet. Millions of people now spend hours each day in conversation with AI systems. They draft emails with AI assistance, test arguments against AI partners, and develop ideas in dialogues of a depth and patience that ordinary human exchange rarely permits. Then they close their laptops and return to the world of interrupted thoughts, half-finished sentences, and conversations that go nowhere. And they notice the difference.

In an era defined by rapid technological advancement and evolving societal norms, we face unprecedented challenges. In the U.S., politicians and media drive societal division, overshadowing facts with opinions and sensationalism. Human issues such as homelessness, poor health care, unemployment, and immigration, are buried behind the heading of ‘politics’. It doesn’t have to be this way.

For centuries, debates about God's existence have gone in circles. Believers and atheists argue past each other, repeating the same moves, reaching no resolution. This audiobook explains why—and offers a way forward.

What remains of a human being when the oldest instinct—self-preservation—is silenced? In a world where survival has become both an obsession and a constraint, Stripped of Self-Preservation: Between Fear and Freedom asks what it means to live when the impulse to avoid harm dominates every gesture, every thought, every choice. This book unravels the instinct that once protected life, now turned into a force that limits it. Through the lens of philosophy, psychology, neurobiology, and cultural analysis, it explores how fear shapes not only bodies but entire civilizations.

Telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition, and telekinesis: these attributes of the paranormal mind are widely dismissed as nonsense, but what can an exploration of such pseudoscientific phenomena tell us about accepted scientific and cultural thought? In Parascientific Revolutions, Derek Lee traces...

This book is not about holidays. It is about you. For forty-five years, I stood behind a chair and listened. Men don’t talk about philosophy in a barbershop. They talk about real life. Why they feel excited for certain days. Why some holidays feel empty. Why one day in the year feels more important than all the others. Some say: “I don’t even know why I celebrate this anymore.”

Years before his breakout hit Timenergy, featuring an acclaimed Foreward by Slavoj Žižek, David McKerracher (publishing then as Theory Pleeb) introduced his groundbreaking concept and unique approach in this, his first audiobook.

Le 10 Domande è un viaggio intelligente, toccante e ironico verso l’ignoto — una guida per chi si chiede cosa potrebbe esserci dopo, ma preferisce farlo con un sorriso. Mescolando riflessione esistenziale, umorismo intelligente e tocchi di tenerezza umana, questo breve libro esplora la vita dopo la morte da una prospettiva curiosa, aperta e non dogmatica. Non è un trattato teologico — è un compagno leggero ma significativo per quei momenti in cui affiorano le grandi domande.

From birth, the intimate, face-to-face encounters of life form each person in a natural, everyday philosophy. Mother’s delighted welcome invites her tiny child into a fundamental vision of reality and models flourishing involvement with it. Sustained and matured in the gaze of certain friends throughout life, seeing oneself being seen with delight grows a “yes” to the world, a sense of one’s existence, a regard for others, and a lifelong desire for the face of God.

Klickzahlen, Fitnesstracker, Bestsellerlisten, Politikerrankings: Unsere Gesellschaft ist besessen von Scores. Der Philosoph C. Thi Nguyen deckt auf, wie Scores zu einem der prägendsten Werkzeuge unserer Zeit geworden sind – und warum wir dringend ihre Wirkungsweise verstehen müssen. Nguyen demonstriert an lebensnahen Beispielen, dass diese scheinbar harmlosen Zahlen uns tatsächlich dazu verleiten, fremde Werte unhinterfragt zu übernehmen. Wenn aber in unserer Beziehung zu unserer Gesundheit, unseren Jobs oder Lieblingsbeschäftigungen nur noch Scores zählen, verarmt unser Leben.

Bienvenue dans un voyage à travers le labyrinthe de l'existence humaine – un voyage qui se demande non seulement ce que nous sommes, mais comment nous sommes devenus ainsi, et plus urgent, pourquoi . « C'est pour ça que nous sommes ! Comment ? We Are ? » est une exploration, une réflexion, et peut-être une confrontation aux contradictions saisissantes qui nous définissent.

The Modern Mirror is Cracked. We live in an age of Surgical Blindness. When you look into your kitchen, your grocery store, or your dinner table, you are seeing the 1% Reality. You see the "Standardized Unit," the "Plastic-Wrapped Asset," and the "Nuggetized Soul". You see a world where the Math of Profit has successfully deleted the "Presence" of the living.

Can science truly explain everything? Or are some of its deepest assumptions rarely examined? In The Science Spell, Chris Spark does not reject science. He puts it in context. He pushes its critical thinking further than most scientists do. He looks under logs our most respected authorities often ignore.

What if everything we thought we knew about conflict and cooperation was backwards? For centuries, philosophers, economists, and scientists have asked: why do humans cooperate? The question assumes that conflict is natural and cooperation is the puzzle requiring explanation. This groundbreaking book inverts that assumption entirely. Drawing on evolutionary game theory, Nobel Prize-winning research on commons governance, and evidence from biology to artificial intelligence, A Unified Theory of Self-Organizing Systems presents a radical reframing.

For a century, the collective unconscious has been one of the most provocative and most dismissed ideas in the history of psychology. Carl Gustav Jung claimed that human beings share a deep symbolic substrate set of recurring patterns he called archetypes that shapes our dreams, myths, and stories with a regularity no single culture invented. Science rejected the claim. The theory was vague, unfalsifiable, and steeped in mysticism. The verdict seemed final.

What if everything that makes you you could fit on two pages? Boris Kriger lost his mother when his son was four. Years later, using nothing but memory and a language model, he rebuilt her as a digital interlocutor. His son sat down and talked to her for over an hour. He did not recognize a program. He recognized his grandmother.

El mito de Sísifo es el ensayo fundacional de la filosofía del absurdo, una obra mayúscula que dio a conocer el gran talento de Albert Camus. Publicada en 1942, el mismo año que El extranjero, fue una de las primeras obras que revelaron al público la inteligencia y la sensibilidad del autor.

A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.