History & Surveys - Renaissance
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When I Am Playing with My Cat, How Do I Know That She Is Not Playing with Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch with Life
$24.00 Add to cartA celebration of Montaigne, the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers.
In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retire- Author: Frampton, Saul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0307278654
- Language: English
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of one of the most important–and incendiary–books in Western history
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 24 2013
- ISBN10: 069116018X
- Language: English
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Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$24.99 Add to cartWestern philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492969
- Language: English
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Pensées
$13.00 Add to cartBlaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation no… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446451
- Language: English
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The Complete Essays
$28.00 Add to cartMichel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: de Montaigne, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1344
- Publish Date: September 07 1993
- ISBN10: 0140446044
- Language: English
