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The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
$21.99 Add to cart- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: Dk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 0593847040
- Language: English
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The Philosophy Book
$29.99 Add to cartGet to grips with the concepts that shaped the way we think about ethics, politics, and our place in the universe.
Explaining the big ideas and groundbreaking theories of key philosophers clearly and- Series: DK Big Ideas
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0744091969
- Language: English
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The Myths That Stole Christmas
$14.99 Add to cartIn The Myths that Stole Christmas, Johnson argues that Christmas has been hijacked by seven different myths-seven myths that control how people conceive of and celebrate the holiday. Myth #1: Jesus Is… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0931779677
- Language: English
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Ten Philosophical Mistakes
$15.99 Add to cartTen Philosophical Mistakes examines ten errors in modern thought and shows how they have led to serious consequences in our everyday lives. It teaches how they came about, how to avoid them, and how t… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Mortimer Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2010
- ISBN10: 068481868X
- Language: English
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Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
$34.99 Add to cartAmerica’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351297
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
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Reading Hegel: The Introductions
$25.00 Add to cartBringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel’s major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present readers with Hegel’s systematic thought through his Introductions… [more below]
- Series: Transmission
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0980544017
- Language: English
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The Principles of Philosophy
$19.99 Read moreOver the millennia, the great thinkers of the world have sought to come up with rules for how to live better lives, how to govern better and how to understand the world around us. This fascinating gui
- Author: Moore, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1398830070
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School
$29.95 Add to cartThe early Marx called for the “realization of philosophy” through revolution. Revolution thus became a critical concept for Marxism, a view elaborated in the later praxis perspectives of Luk cs and th… [more below]
- Author: Feenberg, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681724
- Language: English
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Dear Fellow Time-Binder: Letters on General Semantics
$12.00 Add to cartThis is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of
many main ideas within general semantics, all couched in the style of
personal letters. It is designed to give people an intimate view into
many
- Author: Mayer, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1970164166
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard’s Writings, VIII, Volume 8: Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
$29.95 Add to cartThis edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of v
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings #18
- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 21 1981
- ISBN10: 0691020116
- Language: English
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The Prayers of Kierkegaard
$20.00 Add to cartSoren Kierkegaard’s influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0226470571
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein’s Vienna
$29.85 Add to cartThe life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. “An independent work…challe… [more below]
- Author: Janik, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1566631327
- Language: English
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Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays
$28.00 Add to cartIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. T… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Philosophy Classics
- Author: Cavell, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107534232
- Language: English
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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
$31.00 Add to cartIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi — disposition or circumstance, power or potential — as a touchst
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Jullien, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299957
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard’s Writings, VI, Volume 6: Fear and Trembling/Repetition
$35.00 Add to cartPresented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of S ren Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings.
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings #20
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 21 1983
- ISBN10: 0691020264
- Language: English
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Reality: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIs matter real? Are persons real? Is time real? This Very Short Introduction discusses what, if anything, is “real” by looking at a variety of arguments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Westerhoff, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0199594414
- Language: English
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Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question
$30.00 Add to cartA philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.
Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why?
- Series: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
- Author: Huneman, Philippe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1503628906
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterw
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Alfarabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0801487161
- Language: English
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A Treatise of Human Nature
$24.95 Add to cart“One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.” — Baroness Warnock, The List
Published in the mid-18th century and received with indi- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 455
- Publish Date: November 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432505
- Language: English
