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On the Genealogy of Morals
$11.95 Add to cartOn the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about interpretation and the history of ethics which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both. This is the most sustained of Nietzsch… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537089
- Language: English
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The History of Philosophy: A Marxist Perspective
$25.00 Add to cartAlan Woods outlines the development of philosophy from the ancient Greeks, all the way through to Marx and Engels who brought together the best of previous thinking to produce the Marxist philosophica
- Author: Woods, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: September 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1913026248
- Language: English
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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals
$24.00 Add to cartThe decline of religion and ever increasing influence of science pose acute ethical issues for us all. Can we reject the literal truth of the Gospels yet still retain a Christian morality? Can we defe… [more below]
- Author: Murdoch, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: March 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140172327
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard’s Writings, XX, Volume 20: Practice in Christianity
$39.95 Add to cartOf the many works he wrote during 1848, his “richest and most fruitful year,” Kierkegaard specified Practice in Christianity as “the most perfect and truest thing.” In his reflections on such topics a
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings #20
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: November 12 1991
- ISBN10: 0691020639
- Language: English
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A History of Philosophy: The Condensed Copleston
$45.00 Read moreA history of philosophy from the origins of reason in Ancient Greece to the most influential philosophers working today, this long-awaited single volume companion to Frederick Copleston’s historic 11-
- Author: Carroll, Anthony
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1472950763
- Language: English
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The Unity of Philosophical Experience
$21.95 Add to cartThe best summary of this book is in the authors words from the foreword: “It is the proper aim and scope of the present book to show that the history of philosophy makes philosophical sense, and to de… [more below]
- Author: Gilson, Etienne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: August 26 1999
- ISBN10: 089870748X
- Language: English
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Confessions
$12.95 Add to cartIn his Confessions Jean-Jacques Rousseau tells the story of his life, from the formative experience of his humble childhood in Geneva, through the achievement of international fame as novelist and phi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540039
- Language: English
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A Little History of Philosophy
$15.00 Add to cartA lucid guide to humankind’s greatest thinkers, from Aristotle to Peter Singer
Philosophy begins with the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the concerns of Socrates, who spent his- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Warburton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0300283261
- Language: English
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Against Interpretation: And Other Essays
$20.00 Add to cartA reissue of Susan Sontag’s classic first collection, featuring some of her most beloved writing—on art, life, camp, and criticism–that cemented her legacy as one of the brightest thinkers of, and b
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1250374758
- Language: English
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live
$16.00 Add to cartAn entertaining guide to history’s most fascinating philosophers – from Sappho to Kant, and Aristotle to Simone de Beauvoir – which seeks to help us answer life’s big questions.
In showing how the gre- Series: How to Think
- Author: Cave, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1399405950
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard Anthology
$39.95 Read moreThis anthology covers the whole of Kierkegaard’s literary career. The selections range from the terse epigrams of the Journal through the famous “Diary of the Seducer” and the “Banquet” scene, in whic
- Author: Bretall, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 21 1973
- ISBN10: 0691019789
- Language: English
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The Story of Philosophy: A Concise Introduction to the World’s Greatest Thinkers and Their Ideas
$24.95 Read moreExplore 2,500 years of Western philosophy, from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers, with this ultimate guide’s stunning and simple approach to some of history’s biggest ideas.
This essential guide- Series: DK a History of
- Author: Magee, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 17 2016
- ISBN10: 1465445641
- Language: English
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner
$14.00 Read moreTwo representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche’s first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche i- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 1967
- ISBN10: 0394703693
- Language: English
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Deconstruction
$15.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Gunkel, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542471
- Language: English
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Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life
$40.00 Add to cartOur most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive se… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1150
- Publish Date: November 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0940450151
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
$12.00 Add to cartA tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, Thus Spake Zarathustra is also a literary masterpiece by one of the most important thinkers of modern times. In it, the an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0486406636
- Language: English
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The Consolations of Philosophy
$19.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes a remarkable book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day s… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: de Botton, Alain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 03 2001
- ISBN10: 0679779175
- Language: English
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I Think, Therefore I Draw: Understanding Philosophy Through Cartoons
$17.00 Add to cartA hilarious new exploration of philosophy through cartoons from the duo who brought you the New York Times bestselling Plato and a Platypus Walk Into A Bar…
Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klien have bee- Author: Cathcart, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133039
- Language: English
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The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle
$17.95 Read moreFrom the author of Wittgenstein’s Poker and Would You Kill the Fat Man?, the story of an extraordinary group of philosophers during a dark chapter in Europe’s history
On June 22, 1936, the philosopher- Author: Edmonds, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0691211965
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
$8.99 Read moreTranslated by Thomas Common. With an Introduction by Nicholas Davey.
This astonishing series of aphorisms, put into the mouth of the Persian sage Zarathustra, or Zoroaster, contains the kernel of Niet
- Series: Classics of World Literature
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 05 1997
- ISBN10: 1853267767
- Language: English
