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Philosophy: Who Needs It
$9.99 Read moreThis collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics.
According to Ayn Rand- Series: Ayn Rand Library
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0451138937
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
$18.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and sub- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 30 1978
- ISBN10: 0140047484
- Language: English
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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
$19.95 Add to cart“A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.” –Susan Sontag
A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s l- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1788738535
- Language: English
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Ideas Have Consequences
$34.83 Add to cartOriginally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagno… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 022609006X
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of History
$24.99 Add to cartHegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history — a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 457
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437558
- Language: English
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Return to Center
$23.00 Add to cartTokala Two Elk was born in a chicken coop on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation . . .
From his humble beginnings, Tokala became a man whose life would be shaped by Spirit, c
- Author: Two Elk, Tokala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1935052993
- Language: English
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
$15.95 Add to cartIn this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature.
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581340
- Language: English
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What Is Philosophy?
$26.95 Add to cartCalled by many France’s foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with F?ix Guattari have established
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0231079893
- Language: English
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The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth century
In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twen- Series: Bollingen #45
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156204
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Everything (20th Anniversary Edition)
$19.95 Add to cart“A clarion call for seeing the world as a whole,” this philosophical bestseller takes readers through history, from the Big Bang through the 21st century–now featuring an afterword with the writer-di… [more below]
- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: May 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1611804523
- Language: English
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Basic Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century.” — New York Times
The finest single-volume anthology of the great philosopher’s work, with a new introduction by leading Heidegger scholar Taylo
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 04 2008
- ISBN10: 0061627011
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: The Philosophy Classic
$15.00 Add to cartThus Spoke Zarathustra is a treatise by Friedrich Nietzsche, written in four parts and published in German between 1883 and 1885. The work is among the first of Nietzsche’s mature philosophy and is co
- Series: Capstone Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 05 2022
- ISBN10: 0857089307
- Language: English
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Language, Truth and Logic
$9.95 Add to cart“A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself.” — Bertrand Russell
First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath- Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
- Author: Ayer, Alfred Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 1952
- ISBN10: 0486200108
- Language: English
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Simone Weil: An Anthology
$19.00 Add to cartPhilosopher, theologian, critic, sociologist, political activist — Simone Weil was among the foremost thinkers of our time. Best known in this country for her theological writing, Weil wrote on a gre… [more below]
- Author: Miles, Sian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0802137296
- Language: English
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The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
$15.00 Add to cartThe book Nietzsche called “the most personal of all my books.” It was here that he first proclaimed the death of God–to which a large part of the book is devoted–and his doctrine of the eternal recu… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 12 1974
- ISBN10: 0394719859
- Language: English
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The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt
$18.00 Add to cartBy one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our … [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0679733841
- Language: English
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Essays and Aphorisms
$16.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by ‘will’ – the blind and irrational desire for physical… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 30 1973
- ISBN10: 0140442278
- Language: English
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Latin American Philosophy for the 21st Century: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity
$29.99 Add to cartThis excellent collection is the most complete anthology of Latin American philosophers in English available today. Leading philosophers from several different Latin American countries and from variou… [more below]
- Author: Gracia, Jorge J. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: February 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1573929786
- Language: English
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The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 2: Volume 2
$34.99 Add to cartArthur Schopenhauer’s Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement of one important stream of post-Kantian thought. It i… [more below]
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 01 1966
- ISBN10: 0486217620
- Language: English
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Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies
$11.95 Add to cartHere is a brilliant new translation of Descartes’s Meditations, one of the most influential books in the history of Western philosophy, including the full texts of the Third and Fourth Objections and … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 06 2008
- ISBN10: 0192806963
- Language: English
