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Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers
$26.85 Add to cartEight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a Toronto International Film Festival premiere
Examined Life boldly takes philosophy out of the dark corners of the acad
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584471
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays
$48.00 Add to cartWith the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as ‘incomparably more pop… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 701
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1108436528
- Language: English
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Hegel
$50.00 Add to cartThis is a major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier histor… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 596
- Publish Date: May 12 1977
- ISBN10: 0521291992
- Language: English
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Language and Myth
$8.95 Add to cartAnalyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.
- Author: Cassirer, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 1953
- ISBN10: 0486200515
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLudwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. G… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #46
- Author: Grayling, A. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854119
- Language: English
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Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘on the Concept of History’
$19.95 Add to cartThis illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the futur- Author: Lowy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1784786411
- Language: English
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First and Last Notebooks
$48.00 Add to cartIntroducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Some of Simone Weil’s most important thinking was done through the medium of her notebooks. She used them in several inter-related ways. First, she used t… [more below]
- Series: Simone Weil: Selected Works
- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1498239196
- Language: English
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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975
$26.99 Add to cartFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is prou
- Series: Lectures at the College de France #4
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424051
- Language: English
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Gnosis Volume III: Esoteric Cycle: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy
$33.00 Add to cartVolume III of Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis contains ancient keys to a tradition of Christian esotericism that was necessarily hermetized 1800 years ago and has since remained unpublished, surviving to th
- Series: Gnosis
- Author: Mouravieff, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1872292127
- Language: English
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Gnosis Volume II: Mesoteric Cycle: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy
$33.00 Add to cartThe three volumes of Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis describe the inner doctrines of Eastern Christianity: Volume I the exoteric teaching, this Volume (II) the practical or mesoteric teaching, and Volume II
- Series: Gnosis, Mesoteric Cycle
- Author: Mouravieff, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: August 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1872292119
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of the Present
$14.99 Add to cartGeorge Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book repre… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Mead, George Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929484
- Language: English
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Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason
$40.00 Add to cartThis book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contai… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 26 1996
- ISBN10: 052156834X
- Language: English
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Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMartin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of “philosopher,” by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental p… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Inwood, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0198828667
- Language: English
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John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
$32.00 Add to cartElizabethan England’s most famous natural philosopher John Dee recorded his reflections on the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse in a series of conversations with a… [more below]
- Author: Harkness, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0521027489
- Language: English
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Power
$38.23 Add to cartPart of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault’s articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher’s influential thinking on the machinations of power in society
“A rare op
- Series: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback) #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2001
- ISBN10: 1565847091
- Language: English
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Philosophy: An Introduction Through Literature
$29.95 Read morePhilosophy and literature are natural allies–philosophy supplying perennial themes raised anew from one generation to the next, literature providing vivid illustrations of the meaning and poignancy o… [more below]
- Author: Kleiman, Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 618
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1557785392
- Language: English
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Modern Social Imaginaries
$26.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about id… [more below]
- Series: Public Planet Books
- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0822332930
- Language: English
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bo
- Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0804733260
- Language: English
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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
$17.95 Add to cart‘Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.’
Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199684138
- Language: English
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
$34.95 Add to cartThe first volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity’s engagement with intimate spaces.
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Sloterdijk, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1584351047
- Language: English
