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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScholars have largely misunderstood Soren Kierkegaard, remembering him chiefly in connection with the development of existentialist philosophy in this century. In a short and unhappy life, he wrote ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #58
- Author: Gardiner, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802569
- Language: English
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The Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Music, and Meaning
$25.00 Read moreDr. Christian Wertenbaker was a practicing physician for forty years, with post-graduate training in neurology, ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology, and neurophysiology. Recently retired from active pr… [more below]
- Series: Codhill Press
- Author: Wertenbaker, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1930337949
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Living
$14.50 Read moreThis volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present.
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary–to be alive–and the absolutenes- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Jullien, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090561
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$20.00 Read moreRepresents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.
Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during hi- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704371
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$22.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$14.99 Read moreBeyond Good and Evil is a captivating philosophical masterpiece that challenges conventional thinking and explores the depths of human nature. Written by Friedrich Nietzsche, this influential work del
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562277
- Language: English
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Tragic Sense of Life
$14.95 Read moreThe acknowledged masterpiece of one of Spain’s most influential thinkers. Between despair and the desire for something better, Unamuno finds that saving incertitude that alone can console us. Dynamic … [more below]
- Author: Unamuno, Miguel de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 1954
- ISBN10: 0486202577
- Language: English
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How to Read Wittgenstein
$14.95 Read moreApproaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction–a personal master class in reading–that brings you fac… [more below]
- Series: How to Read #0
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328201
- Language: English
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The Care of the Self
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillful… [more below]
- Series: History of Sexuality #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0394741552
- Language: English
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Drawn and Quartered
$19.99 Read moreIn this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task,… [more below]
- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1611456967
- Language: English
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madne… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 1980
- ISBN10: 039473954X
- Language: English
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In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness
$27.95 Read moreOver one hundred years ago in Russia, G. I. Gurdjieff introduced a spiritual teaching of conscious evolution–a way of gnosis or “knowledge of being” passed on from remote antiquity. Gurdjieff’s early… [more below]
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 161180082X
- Language: English
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
$18.00 Read moreIn this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Through- Series: History of Sexuality #02
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0394751221
- Language: English
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The Essential Kierkegaard
$29.95 Add to cartA comprehensive anthology of Kierkegaard’s writings that offers an unmatched introduction to one of the most original and influential modern philosophers
This is the most comprehensive anthology of S- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 691254060
- Language: English
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Critique of Judgement
$19.95 Add to cartIn the Critique of Judgement, Kant offers a penetrating analysis of our experience of the beautiful and the sublime. He discusses the objectivity of taste, aesthetic disinterestedness, the relation of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552460
- Language: English
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
$19.00 Add to cartWith vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 29 1994
- ISBN10: 0679753354
- Language: English
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A Life in Letters
$37.95 Add to cartThe inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English.
Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909-1943) liv- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0674292375
- Language: English
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A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism
$69.99 Add to cartPlato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel.These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledg
- Author: Evans, C. Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0830852220
- Language: English
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
$45.00 Read moreHailed as “one of the most significant books ever published,” this work of far-reaching vision is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human consciousness
In this tour de force of scholars- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 1570627444
- Language: English
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A Nietzsche Reader
$16.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
