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Native American Wisdom
$16.00 Read moreWe recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection wit… [more below]
- Series: Classic Wisdom Collections
- Author: Mengelkoch, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0931432782
- Language: English
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Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
$20.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28 1988
- ISBN10: 067972110X
- Language: English
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Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
$49.99 Add to cartKant’s Critique of Pure Reason is one of the most important works in the Western philosophical tradition, which made seminal contributions to epistemology, metaphysics, and the foundations of moral ph… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant
- Author: Guyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 764
- Publish Date: November 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1009600052
- Language: English
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Read My Desire: Lacan Against the Historicists
$26.95 Add to cartIn Read My Desire, Joan Copjec stages a confrontation between the theories of Jacques Lacan and those of Michel Foucault, protagonists of two powerful modern disciplines–psychoanalysis and historicis… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Copjec, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 1781688885
- Language: English
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For Marx
$29.95 Add to cartThis is the work in which Louis Althusser formulated some of his most influential ideas. For Marx, first published in France in 1968, has come to be regarded as the founding text of the school of “str… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Althusser, Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 17 2006
- ISBN10: 184467052X
- Language: English
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Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous
$17.00 Add to cartWhether viewed as extreme skepticism or enlightened common sense, the writings of Berkeley are a major influence on modern philosophy. Bishop Berkeley (1685-1753) was one of the great British empirica… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Berkeley, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 05 1988
- ISBN10: 0140432930
- Language: English
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Hegel: The Essential Writings
$18.99 Add to cartHegel’s major works; dialectic; metaphysics; science; experience; philosophic truth; Absolute Spirit.
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0061318310
- Language: English
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The Nietzsche Reader
$21.50 Add to cartThe Nietzsche Reader brings together in one volume substantial selections from the entire body of Nietzsche’s writings, together with illuminating commentary on Nietzsche’s life and importance, and in… [more below]
- Series: Wiley Blackwell Readers
- Author: Ansell-Pearson, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: January 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0631226540
- Language: English
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Kant: A Revolution in Thinking
$29.95 Add to cartA foremost Kant expert takes us on a lively tour through the revolutionary ideas of the founder of modern philosophy.
Immanuel Kant is undoubtedly the most important philosopher of the modern era. His- Author: Willaschek, Marcus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0674296109
- Language: English
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The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities
$21.99 Add to cartThe Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations
- Author: Yaqob, Zara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: June 30 2025
- ISBN10: 3112214110
- Language: English
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Leviathan
$15.99 Add to cart‘He that is to govern a whole Nation, must read in?himself, not this, or that particular man; but Man-kind.’
Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan?is not just one of the greatest philosophical?texts in the Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Hobbes, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0192868748
- Language: English
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A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science, and Spirituality
$19.95 Read moreA concise, comprehensive overview of the “M Theory” and its application in today’s world, by a renowned American philosopher
Ken Wilber has long been hailed as one of the most important thinkers of ou- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 16 2001
- ISBN10: 1570628556
- Language: English
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gutting, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198830785
- Language: English
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Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one’s daily life
With Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to “destroy, mercilessly . .- Series: Compass
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140194738
- Language: English
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Bergsonism
$27.95 Add to cartWhat is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant of contemporary philosophers, this question of “novelty” is the major problem posed by Bergson’s work
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299078
- Language: English
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
$26.95 Add to cartSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the field… [more below]
- Series: Essential Zizek
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673006
- Language: English
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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
$11.00 Add to cartA lively new translation of Rousseau’s best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rou- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141191759
- Language: English
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
$29.95 Read moreA shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
- Author: Brown, Norman O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0819561444
- Language: English
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Read moreIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- Language: English
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Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing
$21.99 Add to cartThe most intriguing…and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 521
- Publish Date: March 16 1981
- ISBN10: 0156519925
- Language: English
