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Philosophical Method: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat are philosophers trying to achieve? How can they succeed? Does philosophy make progress? Is it in competition with science, or doing something completely different, or neither?
Timothy Williamson- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Williamson, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198810008
- Language: English
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Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas – Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cartIn this outstanding collection of essays, Isaiah Berlin, one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century, discusses the importance of dissenters in the history of ideas–among them Machiavelli, Vic
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156107
- Language: English
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Mini Philosophy: A Small Book of Big Ideas
$19.99 Read more‘Engaging, smart and wise, Mini-Philosophy is a diverse taster menu of ideas on life, the mind and the world. Nutritious, bite-sized portions of philosophy that whet the appetite for more’ – David Mit
- Author: Thomson, Jonny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1472282175
- Language: English
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Story of Philosophy
$20.99 Add to cartThis brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world’s great philosophers–Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 1967
- ISBN10: 067120159X
- Language: English
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Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits (Revised Edition)
$21.95 Add to cartThis English translation–the first since 1909–restores Human, All Too Human to its proper central position in the Nietzsche canon. First published in 1878, the book marks the philosophical coming of… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: December 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0803283687
- Language: English
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Practical Philosophy
$55.00 Add to cartThis is the first English translation of all of Kant’s writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 706
- Publish Date: June 13 1999
- ISBN10: 0521654084
- Language: English
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Capitalism: A Conversation in Critical Theory
$24.95 Read moreA scintillating conversation on capitalism and crisis from two of our most incisive political philosophers
Capitalism, by the twenty-first century, has brought us an era of escalating, overlapping cri- Author: Fraser, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 1839765119
- Language: English
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Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
$48.00 Add to cartWhat is it to grieve for the death of a parent? More literary and experiential than other philosopical works on emotion, Upheavals of Thought will engage the reader who has ever stopped to ask that qu… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 766
- Publish Date: April 14 2003
- ISBN10: 0521531829
- Language: English
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Introduction to Phenomenology
$35.00 Add to cartThis book presents the major philosophical doctrines of phenomenology in a clear, lively style with an abundance of examples. The book examines such phenomena as perception, pictures, imagination, mem… [more below]
- Author: Sokolowski, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 28 1999
- ISBN10: 0521667925
- Language: English
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Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology
$15.00 Add to cartIn this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated “The Practice of Reading Good Books” and award-winning “Playing with Bateson”-Corey Anton brings together some of hi… [more below]
- Author: Anton, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0982755953
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The most succinct and accessible overview of philosophy I have come across, and perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toe into the waters of philosophy without drowning in inti
- Series: Learning to Live
- Author: Ferry, Luc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0062074245
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgment
$9.95 Add to cartThis 1790 polemic by one of philosophy’s most important and influential figures attempts to establish the principles that support the faculty of judgment. Kant’s third critique — after Critique of Pr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 21 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445437
- Language: English
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Philosophy for Beginners
$14.95 Add to cartWhy does philosophy give some people a headache, others a real buzz, and yet others a feeling that it is subversive and dangerous? Why do a lot of people think philosophy is totally irrelevant? What i
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Osborne, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 1934389021
- Language: English
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Freud And The Non-European
$19.95 Add to cartBanned by the Freud institute in Vienna, this controversial lecture eventually became Edward Said’s final book. Freud and the Non-European builds on Said’s abiding interest in the psychoanalyst’s work… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 14 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681457
- Language: English
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Pensées and Other Writings
$11.95 Add to cartFor much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540365
- Language: English
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Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
$27.95 Add to cartBirth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the h
- Author: Banks, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1324006390
- Language: English
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Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume III: Modern Philosophers Volume 3
$19.95 Read morePeter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner’s philosophy text that
- Series: Socrates’ Children
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780075
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling
$18.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037579
- Language: English
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Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
$22.00 Add to cart” This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the ‘Westt’s mainstream high culture’ and the ‘radically changing world’ of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and sch… [more below]
- Author: Tarnas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 16 1993
- ISBN10: 0345368096
- Language: English
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Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers Volume 4
$19.95 Add to cartPeter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner’s philosophy text that
- Series: Socrates’ Children
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780083
- Language: English
