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On Balance by Adam Phillips
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Are we too obsessed with excess? What can childhood teach us about bad behaviour? And should we be happy, or is there something better we might be? In On Balance, acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips explores a variety of urgent concerns related to how we attempt to manage our conflicting desires, nee ...Show more
On Balance by Adam Phillips
$45.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In this absorbing and provocative new book from one of Britain's most elegant and original prose stylists, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips addresses a variety of urgent concerns - many centred around the idea of balance. When might we know that enough is enough? Does the road of excess ever lead to the pala ...Show more
On Getting Better by Adam Phillips
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
To talk about getting better - about wanting to change in ways that we might choose and prefer - is to talk about pursuing the life we want; in the full knowledge that our pictures of the life we want, of our version of a good life, come from or come out of what we have already experienced. (We write th ...Show more
On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
$42.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive. To give up or not to give up? The question can feel inescapable but the answer is never simple. Giving up our supposed vices is one thing; giving up on life itself is quite another. One form of self-sacr ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips
$19.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What is kindness? Does it make us happier? And does it have a place in a selfish world? Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips and historian Barbara Taylor present an elegant, thoughtful and concise analysis of kindness in history, in life and in the modern world. Suggesting that acts of kindness occur when we are ...Show more
On Kindness by Adam Phillips & Barbara Taylor
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
The pleasures of kindness have been well known since the dawn of Western thought. Kindness, declared Marcus Aurelius, was mankind's 'greatest delight' - and centuries-worth of thinkers and writers have echoed him. But today many people seem to find these pleasures literally incredible. Instead of embrac ...Show more
On Wanting to Change by Adam Phillips
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
From the UK's foremost literary psychoanalyst, a dazzling new book on the universal urge to change our lives.We live in a world in which we are invited to change - to become our best selves, through politics, or fitness, or diet, or therapy.We change all the time - growing older and older - and how we t ...Show more
One Way and Another: New & Selected Essa by Adam Phillips
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
In the twenty essays gathered here, ranging across his entire oeuvre, psychoanalyst Adam Phillips offers a vivid introduction to his discipline as well as his own unique thinking. Investigating subjects as diverse as desire, family, happiness, tickling, forgetting and even boredom, Phillips proves himse ...Show more
One Way and Another - New and Selected Essays by Adam Phillips
$32.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: very good
One Way and Another is an affirmation of Adam Phillips' position as one of the most literary essayists today. With an introduction by John Banville. Throughout his brilliant career, Adam Phillips has lent a new and incisive dimension to the art of the literary essay, and in so doing revived the form for ...Show more
Promises, Promises by Phillips Adam
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Side Effects by Adam Phillips
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Side effects are things we do not intend. And, in this collection of essays, Adam Phillips examines how the things we don't mean, or mean perhaps to forget, prove to be those that are often most telling about our unconscious lives. Phillips also intends for us to question our conscious pursuit of happin ...Show more