Chronological Period/Modern
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries — from their rise to power to their eventual downfall.
In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dy… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1541644506
- 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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Fatal Discord: Erasmus, Luther, and the Fight for the Western Mind
$24.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
A deeply textured dual biography and fascinating intellectual history that examines two of the greatest minds of European history–Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther–w
- Author: Massing, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063143437
- Language: English
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The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin
$26.00 Add to cartAn expert in Teilhardian thought brings together for the first time Teilhard in conversation with other significant religious thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, including Kant, Whitehead, Barbour… [more below]
- Author: Haught, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1626984492
- Language: English
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After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
$24.00 Add to cartTamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this m
- Author: Darwin, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1596916028
- Language: English
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Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity
$26.95 Add to cartJean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the most famous of the existentialists, and by far the most famous philosopher of the post-war era. Sartre was a highly prolific writer and thinker, and delving into his no… [more below]
- Series: Ideas Explained #06
- Author: Detmer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 28 2008
- ISBN10: 081269631X
- Language: English
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Empire’s Crossroads: A History of the Caribbean from Columbus to the Present Day
$22.00 Add to cartEver since Christopher Columbus stepped off the Santa Maria and announced that he had arrived in the Orient, the Caribbean has been a stage for projected fantasies and competition between world powers… [more below]
- Author: Gibson, Carrie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: November 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0802124313
- 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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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the foremost resources on existentialism from renowned philosopher, poet, and Nietzsche translator Walter Kaufmann–a must-read for philosophers, both armchair and professional.
Existentialism … [more below]- Series: Meridian S
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0452009308
- 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
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Modern India: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIndia is widely recognized as a new global powerhouse. It has become one of the world’s emerging powers, rivaling China in terms of global influence. Yet people still know relatively little about the … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Jeffrey, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198769342
- 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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The Essence of Christianity
$13.99 Add to cartIn this, one of the most influential works of the post-Hegelian era, Feuerbach captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead and the rational and material … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879755598
- Language: English
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Pragmatism
$6.95 Read moreA profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce’s theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486282708
- Language: English
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Two Treatises of Government
$9.95 Add to cartJohn Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority e… [more below]
- Series: Everyman
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0460873563
- Language: English
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Violence: Six Sideways Reflections
$20.00 Add to cartPhilosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Zizek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world.
Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacani- Series: Big Ideas//Small Books
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 22 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427182
- Language: English
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Modern Loss: Candid Conversation about Grief. Beginners Welcome.
$27.99 Add to cartInspired by the website that the New York Times hailed as “redefining mourning,” this book is a fresh and irreverent examination into navigating grief and resilience in the age of social media, offeri
- Author: Soffer, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 0062499181
- Language: English
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Rebel in the Ranks
$17.99 Add to cartWhen Martin Luther published his 95 Theses in October 1517, he had no intention of starting a revolution. But very quickly his criticism of indulgences became a rejection of the papacy and the Catholi
- Author: Gregory, Brad S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2020
- ISBN10: 006247118X
- Language: English
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Discourse on Thinking: A Translation of Gelassenheit
$16.99 Add to cartDiscourse on Thinking questions that must occur to us the moment we manage to see a familiar situation in unfamiliar light.
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Heidegger, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 19 1969
- ISBN10: 0061314595
- Language: English
