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El Arte de Tener Siempre Razón
$20.95HardcoverRead moreCon un tono acre y mordaz, el rey de la controversia nos orienta aqu? sobre c?mo salir siempre victoriosos de una discusi?n y expone 38 estratagemas entre las que tal vez reconozca el lector m?s de un… [more below]
- Series: Pensamiento Ilustrado
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 8418395214
- Language: Spanish
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By: Eco, Umberto
Chronicles of a Liquid Society
$18.99PaperbackAdd to cartA posthumous collection of essays by internationally renowned essayist, literary critic, philosopher, and author of The Name of the Rose–“one of the most influential thinkers of our time” (Los Angele
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1328505855
- Language: English
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By: Bealer, Tracy L.
Neil Gaiman and Philosophy: Gods Gone Wild!
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartNeil Gaiman is the imaginative wizard behind the best-selling novels American Gods (soon to be an HBO series) and The Anansi Boys, the graphic series The Sandman, and popular children’s books like Cor… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy
- Author: Bealer, Tracy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 12 2012
- ISBN10: 0812697650
- Language: English
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The Dethronement of Truth
$11.99PaperbackAdd to cartThis slim volume can be read as a handbook for the restoration of truth to its rightful place at the throne of human reason. In the essays presented here, Dietrich von Hildebrand dismantles the variou
- Author: Von Hildebrand, Dietrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: December 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1939773180
- Language: English
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By: Hoffer, Eric
The Syndicated News Articles
$19.95PaperbackAdd to cartEric Hoffer-one of America’s most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer-was at the height of his popularity in the late 1960s when he wrote a weekly news column that appeared in hundr… [more below]
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1933435372
- Language: English
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By: Greene, Richard
His Dark Materials and Philosophy
$24.95PaperbackAdd to cartPhilosophers explain and criticize many controversial aspects of the ambitious new TV show, His Dark Materials.
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #132
- Author: Greene, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0812694864
- Language: English
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Reveries of the Solitary Walker
$12.95PaperbackAdd to cartRousseau’s last great work, Reveries of the Solitary Walker is part reminiscence, part meditation, as the philosopher tries to come to terms with his isolation and to find happiness in solitude and na… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0199563276
- Language: English
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By: Michaud, Nicolas
Adventure Time and Philosophy: The Handbook for Heroes
$33.95PaperbackAdd to cartAdventure Time and Philosophy is a monster-beating, wild ride of philosophical mayhem. One of the deepest and most thoughtful television shows ever to assault human brain waves, Adventure Time shows u… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #87
- Author: Michaud, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0812698584
- Language: English
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The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
$18.00PaperbackAdd to cartAcclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thin… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1571315446
- Language: English
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By: Zizek, Slavoj
Zizek’s Jokes: (Did You Hear the One about Hegel and Negation?)
$15.95PaperbackAdd to cartZizek as comedian: jokes in the service of philosophy.
“A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.”–Ludwig Wittgenstein
The good news is that this book offers
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: February 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0262535300
- Language: English
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By: Catapano, Peter
Question Everything: A Stone Reader
$40.00HardcoverRead moreWhen The Stone Reader–a landmark collection of 133 essays from the New York Times‘ award-winning philosophy column–first published, in 2015, the world urgently needed insight and wisdom, and for man
- Author: Catapano, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091835
- Language: English
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By: Foroux, Darius
Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
$29.99HardcoverAdd to cartWhy is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it’s a timeless issue.
2000 years ago, the ancient Stoics talked about the exact
- Author: Foroux, Darius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: January 21 2024
- ISBN10: 9083301826
- Language: English
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By: Catapano, Peter
The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
$25.00PaperbackAdd to cartOnce solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York
- Author: Catapano, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091495
- Language: English
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Nature
$13.00PaperbackAdd to cartThrough his writing and his own personal philosophy, the famed philosopher unburdened his young country of Europe’s traditional sense of history and showed Americans how to be creators of their own ci… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Books: Great Ideas
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0141042486
- Language: English
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By: Doris Lessing
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside
$14.99PaperbackAdd to cart“One of the most important writers of the past hundred years.” — The Times (London)
In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to
- Series: Cornelia & Michael Bessie Books
- Author: Lessing, Doris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: October 14 1987
- ISBN10: 0060390778
- Language: English
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Letters from a Stoic
$9.99PaperbackRead moreHarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.
‘Where you arrive does not matter so much as what sort of person you are when you arrive there.’
Lucius Annaeus
- Series: Collins Classics
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 0008590141
- Language: English
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By: Ben Hutchinson
On Purpose: Ten Lessons on the Meaning of Life
$17.99HardcoverRead moreTen brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives.
How do we live successfully?
How do we live fully?
Identifying the meaning
- Author: Hutchinson, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0008588465
- Language: English
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By: Derek Sivers
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
$11.99PaperbackAdd to cartNot quite non-fiction, not quite self-help. It’s a work of art about conflicting philosophies.
Many books believe they know how you should live. But each book disagrees with the next. In “How to Live”,
- Author: Sivers, Derek
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 01, 2022
- ISBN10: 1991152337
- Language: English
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By: Darius Foroux
Focus on What Matters: A Collection of Stoic Letters on Living Well
$13.99PaperbackAdd to cartWhy is it so hard to live well amidst the chaos and noise? While you might think this is a problem of the modern world, it’s a timeless issue.
2000 years ago, the ancient Stoics talked about the exact
- Author: Foroux, Darius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 908330180X
- Language: English
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By: Albert Camus
The Myth of Sisyphus
$16.00PaperbackAdd to cartA Nobel Prize-winning author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence.
Influenced by works such as Don Ju- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Camus, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 06, 2018
- ISBN10: 0525564454
- Language: English
















