Philosophers
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Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth
$23.00 Add to cartThe first book in the Cosmic Trigger trilogy reveals the enlightening secret of the Illuminati while presenting the daunting metaphor of Chapel Perilous where the unprepared can get lost in a spirited… [more below]
- Series: Cosmic Trigger #2
- Author: Wilson, Robert Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: February 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0998713465
- Language: English
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Walter Benjamin: The Pearl Diver
$28.00 Read moreAn accessible and authoritative biography of Walter Benjamin that guides the reader through the complexity of his intellectual legacy and the turbulence of his time
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) is wide- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Gordon, Peter E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0300216866
- Language: English
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Spinoza: Freedom’s Messiah
$20.00 Add to cartIan Buruma explores the life and death of Baruch Spinoza, the Enlightenment thinker whose belief in freedom of thought and speech resonates in our own time
A New Yorker “Best Book of 2024” Selection “- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Buruma, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300281862
- Language: English
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Arthur Schopenhauer: The Life and Thought of Philosophy’s Greatest Pessimist
$30.00 Add to cartAn engaging biography of one of the most influential Western philosophers and a thought-provoking exploration of how to live with Arthur Schopenhauer’s pessimism.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) almo- Author: Bather Woods, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0226829766
- Language: English
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophy in the Age of Airplanes
$28.00 Add to cartThe first biography in more than three decades of the Austrian-born thinker Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century
According to the philosopher Ludwig- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 0300180470
- Language: English
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Diogenes: The Rebellious Life and Revolutionary Philosophy of the Original Cynic
$30.00 Add to cartThe life and thought of Diogenes the Cynic, an iconoclastic philosopher who pioneered a brash and free-thinking vision of life that inspired the philosophy of Stoicism–“a rich, engaging portrait of i… [more below]
- Author: Kuin, Inger N. I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1541606477
- Language: English
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Goethe: A Life in Ideas
$39.95 Add to cartA new intellectual biography of Goethe, examining the paradox of his thought
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) was a poet, a novelist, a scientist and an essayist on a dizzying range of topics. I- Author: Bell, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 776
- Publish Date: September 09 2025
- ISBN10: 0691153957
- Language: English
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The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
$20.00 Add to cartOne of The New York Times‘s 100 Notable Books of 2024
Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Named a best book
One of the Washington Post‘s 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024- Author: Shatz, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1250347610
- Language: English
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Down-Back
$18.95 Add to cart- Author: Lovelette, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: December 06 2024
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke
$31.99 Add to cartA tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrenc… [more below]
- Author: Stewart, Jeffrey C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0190056053
- Language: English
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Walden
$11.95 Add to cartWalden is Thoreau’s classic autobiographical account of his experiment in solitary living, his refusal to play by the rules of hard work and the accumulation of wealth, and above all the freedom it ga… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Thoreau, Henry David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538069
- Language: English
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
$20.00 Add to cartA NEW YORK TIMES AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe–the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos,… [more below]
- Author: Egginton, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0593315073
- Language: English
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
$32.50 Add to cartGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (indepen
- Author: Kempe, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093943
- Language: English
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A Yogi’s Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreIn this tell-all autobiography, Sri M writes about his fascinating journey as a young man from the southern coast of India to the mystical Himalayan Mountains. At the age of nineteen and a half, he fe… [more below]
- Author: M, Sri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0143458582
- Language: English
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Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
$17.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that- Author: Boucheron, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1590519523
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33 Read moreKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 022654933X
- Language: English
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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
$18.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale.
At the center, the tum- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743748
- Language: English
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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
$19.00 Read more“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some per… [more below]
- Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 052555968X
- Language: English
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Where the Shadows Dance
$24.95 Read moreHe got sober,
I got brokenIt would be easy to say Where the Shadows Dance is a memoir about a marriage–but marriage is simply the setting. Dana Killion dives deep into what we do for love, what we
- Author: Killion, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637556411
- Language: English
