Bøker av Sebastian Gardner

An illustrated zombie comedy of two brothers trapped in their living room during an apocalyse.

In a reconstruction of the theories of Freud and Klein, Sebastian Gardner asks: what causes irrationality, what must the mind be like for it to be irrational, to what extent does irrationality involve self-awareness, and what is the point of irrationality? Arguing that psychoanalytic theory provides the most penetrating answers to these questions, he rejects the widespread view of the unconscious as a 'second mind', in favour of a view of it as a source of inherently irrational desires seeking expression through wish-fulfilment and phantasy. He meets scepticism about psychoanalytic explanation by exhibiting its continuity with everyday psychology.

As the first book to focus on the theme of art and morality and the relation between the two subjects this presents a balanced and uniform collection of papers from a group of world class contributors.

Sebastian Gardner's painfully funny award-winning debut play 'I Lost My Virginity to Chopin's Nocturne in B-Flat Minor' explores identity, devotion and dependency between two people that hate to love each other.

Tackles one of Sartre's challenging works "Being and Nothingness". This book gives a unified view of the (seemingly disparate) topics discussed in "Being and Nothingness" by taking them as answers to the problem of human freedom. It also shows how Sartre's work can be placed in a tradition of philosophical reflection deriving from Kant.

This GuideBook introduces and assesses Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, arguably the single most important work in western philosophy. It is ideal for newcomers to Kant's thought.