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John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Bri- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Claeys, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198749996
- Language: English
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French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrench culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with e… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gaukroger, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198829175
- Language: English
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Meditations on First Philosophy
$9.99 Add to cartDescartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in completely revised edition of his well-established trans
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 9562916170
- Language: English
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
$19.95 Read moreThe story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships–and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his l- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192286
- Language: English
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas – Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cart“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”–Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century–an activist of the intellec- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691155933
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Read moreIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Hegel Contra Sociology
$19.95 Add to cartGillian Rose is among the twentieth century’s most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative t… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673545
- Language: English
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Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction
$30.00 Add to cartOther books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around … [more below]
- Author: May, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: January 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0521603846
- Language: English
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History as a System, and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
$22.99 Add to cartFour stimulating essays: “The Sportive Origin of the State,” “Unity and Diversity of Europe,” “Man the Technician,” and “History as a System.” The essays by Ortega in this volume were originally publi… [more below]
- Author: Ortega y. Gasset, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393001229
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$6.40 Add to cartIn “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm “beyon… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: December 14 2020
- ISBN10: 8027337097
- Language: English
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The Perennial Scope of Philosophy
$16.00 Add to cartThe text of six lectures in which Karl Jaspers redefines the position of philosophy in the world today, particularly in relation to science and theology, and defines and outlines his own philosophy.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 01 1949
- ISBN10: 080652961X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
$22.95 Add to cartThe Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher’s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and mo
- Series: Cornell Paperbacks
- Author: Vico, Giambattista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 15 1963
- ISBN10: 080149088X
- Language: English
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Locke: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJohn Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #84
- Author: Dunn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803948
- Language: English
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The Indivisible Remainder: On Schelling and Related Matters
$19.95 Add to cartThe feature which distinguishes the great works of materialist thought, from Lucretius’ De rerum natura through Capital to the writings of Lacan, is their unfinished character: again and again they ta… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: January 17 2007
- ISBN10: 1844675815
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
$42.00 Add to cartImmanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on al… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Guyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0521710111
- Language: English
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The Sources of Normativity
$35.00 Add to cartEthical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. But where does their authority over us come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies a… [more below]
- Author: Korsgaard, Christine M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 28 1996
- ISBN10: 052155960X
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #43
- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 192853597
- Language: English
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Habermas: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJ?gen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It analyzes both the theoretical underpinnings of Haberma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Finlayson, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840959
- Language: English
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Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
$26.99 Read moreThe most important written work in English before the Norman Conquest, newly translated. Made up of annals written in the monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterborough, Abingdon, and Worcester, … [more below]
- Series: Monks of the Monasteries of Winchester, Canterbury, Peterbor
- Author: Swanton, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1842120034
- Language: English
