philosophy – Page 2 – The Staircase Window

Fame: The Hijacking of Reality

Making Evil: The Science Behind Humanity’s Dark Side

Realizing Reason: A Narrative of Truth and Knowing

Watching the Tree

Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows: An Introduction to Carnism: The Belief System That Enables Us to Eat Some Animals and Not Others

The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy’s unsung women

Glitch Feminism

Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

Dangerous Religious Ideas: The Deep Roots of Self-Critical Faith in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread

Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life

The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion

Not a Novel: A Memoir in Pieces

On Imagination

There Was a Woman: La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture

Goddesses in Everywoman: : Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives

Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters

Demonic Grounds: Black Women And The Cartographies Of Struggle

The Verso Book of Feminism: Revolutionary Words from Four Millennia of Rebellion

Revolutionary Feminisms: Conversations on Collective Action and Radical Thought

Enraged: Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths

The Art of War for Women: Sun Tzu’s Ancient Strategies and Wisdom for Winning at Work

Be Water, My Friend: The Teachings of Bruce Lee

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

War: How Conflict Shaped Us

The Books That Changed My Life: Reflections by 100 Authors, Actors, Musicians, and Other Remarkable People

Framed by Gender: How Gender Inequality Persists in the Modern World

Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong

The Ancient Guide to Modern Life

Hannah Arendt: A Life in Dark Times

The Gift: 12 Lessons to Save Your Life

Having and Being Had

The Womanist Reader: The First Quarter Century of Womanist Thought

Film and the Imagined Image

Chinese Women’s Cinema: Transnational Contexts

Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women

The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)

The Portable Hannah Arendt

Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image

How to be a Failure and Still Live Well: A Philosophy

Men in Dark Times

On Violence

Hannah Arendt: The Last Interview and Other Conversations

The Coming of Lilith: Essays on Feminism, Judaism, and Sexual Ethics, 1972-2003

Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars

x + y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender

Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life

Identity and Capitalism

Medieval Writings on Female Spirituality

On Female Body Experience: Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays

The End of Love: A Sociology of Negative Relations

Love and Other Thought Experiments

The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays

Vamps & Tramps: New Essays

Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All

The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism

The Point is to Change the World: Selected Writings of Andaiye

Simone de Beauvoir and the Colonial Experience: Freedom, Violence, and Identity

Own It: Make Your Anxiety Work for You

Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution

Goddesses in Everywoman

Feminism, Interrupted: Disrupting Power

Ugly Feelings

The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom

Listening to Images

The Faraway Nearby

Teaching To Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

Logic Made Easy: How to Know When Language Deceives You

Revolution And Evolution In The Twentieth Century

Separate and Dominate: Feminism and Racism after the War on Terror

If They Come in the Morning … Voices of Resistance

Gramsci’s Common Sense: Inequality and Its Narratives

A Field Guide to Getting Lost

The Future of Whiteness

Cannibal Culture: Art, Appropriation, And The Commodification Of Difference

Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits of Racial Privilege

Ongoingness: The End of a Diary

300 Arguments

The Guardians: An Elegy for a Friend

Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives

The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis

Rupaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy: Sissy That Thought

How Art Can Make You Happy

Freedom Fallacy: The Limits of Liberal Feminism

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Sexual Politics

Women’s Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter

Dancing at the Edge of the World: Thoughts on Words, Women, Places

All About Love: New Visions

The Dialectic of Sex: The Case for Feminist Revolution

Existential Eroticism: A Feminist Approach to Understanding Women’s Oppression-Perpetuating Choices

The Return of the Political

The Force of Nonviolence: The Ethical in the Political

Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War

Racism: A Very Short Introduction

Against Empire: Feminisms, Racism and the West

Woman’s Estate

The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation

Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable?

State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious

Fortunes of Feminism. From State-Managed Capitalism to Neoliberal Crisis

Beyond the Pale: White Women, Racism, and History

Radical Happiness: Moments of Collective Joy

Out of Time: The Pleasures and the Perils of Ageing

Women’s Work, Men’s Property: The Origins of Gender and Class

The Witch’s Flight: The Cinematic, the Black Femme, and the Image of Common Sense

Woman’s Consciousness, Man’s World

Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain

The Buy Nothing, Get Everything Plan: Discover the Joy of Spending Less, Sharing More, and Living Generously

Systems of Survival: A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics

Straight Sex: Rethinking the Politics of Pleasure

Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies

The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs

Close To Home: A Materialist Analysis Of Women’s Oppression

Constituting Feminist Subjects: The Skybolt Crisis in Perspective

Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life

How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Black Feminism Reimagined: After Intersectionality

The Ethics of Ambiguity

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error

Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement

Social Reproduction Theory: Remapping Class, Recentering Oppression

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born

Finding Your Way in a Wild New World: Reclaim Your True Nature to Create the Life You Want

Xenofeminism

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

When We Are No More: How Digital Memory Is Shaping Our Future

Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons

The Independent Woman: Extracts from The Second Sex

The Creation of Patriarchy

Why Does Patriarchy Persist?

Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women

The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination

The Woman Destroyed

The Empathy Exams

On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

Água viva

In the Name of Women’s Rights: The Rise of Femonationalism

Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny

Made by Humans: The AI Condition

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

The Feminist Papers: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

14,000 Things to Be Happy About: The Happy Book

Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of War

The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future

Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory

Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Am I That Name?: Feminism And The Category Of Women In History

Graphic Design Theory: Readings from the Field

Capitalism: A Ghost Story

We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity

The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men

Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think

Last Days at Hot Slit: The Radical Feminism of Andrea Dworkin

Space Struck

The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History

The New Better Off: Reinventing the American Dream

What If This Were Enough?

Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism

You Do You: How to Be Who You Are and Use What You’ve Got to Get What You Want

Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind

The Interpretation of Fairy Tales

Who Can You Trust?: How Technology is Rewriting the Rules of Human Relationships

The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness

Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

Spellwork for Self-Care: 40 Spells to Soothe the Spirit

The Nordic Theory of Everything: In Search of a Better Life

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto

Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe’s Hidden Dimensions

On Photography

Graphic Design: The New Basics

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes

Females

How Should a Person Be?

The Optimist’s Telescope: Thinking Ahead in a Reckless Age

Undoing Gender

How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War

Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Epistemology of the Closet

Nothing Mat(t)ers: A Feminist Critique of Postmodernism

Critical Thinking Skills: Developing Effective Analysis and Argument

Rebellious Feminism: Camus’s Ethic of Rebellion and Feminist Thought

Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women’s Poetry in America

Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet