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The Art of Philosophizing
$12.00 Add to cartThe essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nucl… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0806529083
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
$10.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to l… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0451149165
- Language: English
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The Logic of Sense
$26.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the most important works of one of France’s foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonder
- Series: European Perspectives
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: June 10 1993
- ISBN10: 0231059833
- Language: English
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Discourse on Method and Related Writings
$12.00 Add to cart“It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well”
Ren? Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140446990
- Language: English
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
$17.99 Add to cartPraised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his dea… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476771553
- Language: English
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Parables of Kierkegaard
$27.95 Add to cartThe description for this book, Parables of Kierkegaard, will be forthcoming.
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 21 1989
- ISBN10: 0691020531
- Language: English
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Theodor W. Adorno: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to und- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bowie, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: August 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0198833865
- Language: English
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Heretics!: The Wondrous (and Dangerous) Beginnings of Modern Philosophy
$24.95 Add to cartAn entertaining, enlightening, and humorous graphic narrative of the dangerous thinkers who laid the foundation of modern thought
This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the excitin- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0691168695
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$24.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential, Thus Spoke Zarathustra is translated from the Germ… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library (Hardcover)
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 19 1995
- ISBN10: 679601759
- Language: English
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Spinoza
$12.99 Add to cartFather of the Enlightenment and the last guardian of the medieval world, Spinoza made a brilliant attempt to reconcile the conflicting moral and intellectual demands of his epoch and to present a visi… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 29 2002
- ISBN10: 0192803166
- Language: English
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Why I Am So Wise
$12.00 Add to cartThroughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves–and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, ou… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036343
- Language: English
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The Foucault Reader
$20.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary critici… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 12 1984
- ISBN10: 0394713400
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner’s introduction to the philosopher’s life… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #34
- Author: Tanner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854143
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
$18.00 Add to cartMadness, sexuality, power, knowledge–are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 1982
- ISBN10: 0394711068
- Language: English
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Nietzsche and Philosophy
$26.95 Add to cartNietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche’s philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation… [more below]
- Series: Columbia Classics in Philosophy
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 20 1985
- ISBN10: 0231056699
- Language: English
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The Phenomenology of Mind
$24.99 Add to cartIn The Phenomenology of Mind, idealist philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) defied the traditional epistemological distinction of objective from subjective and developed his own dialectical alternativ… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432513
- Language: English
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartImmanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton–a well-known and controversial ph… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #50
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801996
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Right
$10.95 Add to cartComplete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher’s influential system. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel applies hi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445631
- Language: English
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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
$24.00 Add to cartIn the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the “New Left” emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced “flower-p… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0452011841
- Language: English
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Postmodernism
$12.99 Add to cartPostmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #74
- Author: Butler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0192802399
- Language: English
