Philosophers
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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Zunz, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254141
- Language: English
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Love’s Work
$16.95 Add to cartLove’s Work is at once a memoir and a work of philosophy. Written by the English philosopher Gillian Rose as she was dying of cancer, it is a book about both the fallibility and the endurance of love,… [more below]
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: May 31 2011
- ISBN10: 1590173651
- Language: English
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Hypatia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr
$29.99 Add to cartIn the late fourth and early fifth centuries of our era, Hypatia of Alexandria was the world’s greatest living mathematician and astronomer. A strikingly beautiful woman and a devoted celibate, she li… [more below]
- Author: Deakin, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 222
- Publish Date: July 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591025206
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
$19.99 Add to cart“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Be
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: De Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060825197
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$15.00 Add to cartKnown 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0226826600
- Language: English
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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
$32.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein’s Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue morality from nihilism
Derek Parfit (1942-2017) is the- Author: Edmonds, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691225230
- Language: English
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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Mauri
$21.99 Add to cartNamed one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the … [more below]
- Author: Bakewell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1590518896
- Language: English
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When Reason Goes on Holiday: Philosophers in Politics
$29.99 Add to cartPhilosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right?
Wro- Author: Sesardic, Neven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: 15-Nov-16
- ISBN10: 1594038791
- Language: English
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The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
$32.00 Read moreNamed a best book of 2024 by The New Yorker and Vulture
“Nimble and engrossing. . . [An] exemplary work of public intellect
Named a most anticipated book of 2024 by Foreign Policy Lit Hub The Millions- Author: Shatz, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0374176426
- Language: English
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The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
$32.00 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,
- Author: Egginton, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 29, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593316304
- Language: English
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A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
$28.99 Read more“Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy at Oxford in the mid-twentieth century by conveying not only what made it influential in its time bu… [more below]
- Author: Krishnan, Nikhil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0525510605
- Language: English
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A Yogi’s Autobiography
$30.00 Add to cartThe author Sri ‘M’ is an extraordinary individual. His uniqueness lies not only in the fact that at the young age of 19 and a half, he travelled to snow clad Himalayas from Kerala, and there he met an
- Author: M, Sri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 12, 2017
- ISBN10: 8191009609
- Language: English
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
$20.99 Add to cart
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly Possible
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love–su… [more below]- Author: Bakewell, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 1590514831
- Language: English
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We Are Free to Change the World: Hannah Arendt’s Lessons in Love and Disobedience
$32.00 Add to cartA timely guide on how to live–and think–through the challenges of our century drawn from the life and thought of political theorist Hannah Arendt, one of the twentieth century’s foremost opponents o… [more below]
- Author: Stonebridge, Lyndsey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0593229738
- Language: English
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The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
$19.95 Add to cartJoseph Campbell, arguably the greatest mythologist of the twentieth century, was certainly one of our greatest storytellers. This masterfully crafted book interweaves conversations between Campbell an
- Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 11, 2014
- ISBN10: 1608681890
- Language: English
