Chronological Period/Modern
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$11.95 Add to cart‘what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent’
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861370
- Language: English
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Difference and Repetition
$26.95 Add to cartThis brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze’s most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,… [more below]
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0231081596
- Language: English
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The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think
$34.95 Add to cartHow do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eig
- Series: Myths That Shape the Way We Think #1
- Author: Buxton, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0500518807
- Language: English
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The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran
$26.99 Add to cartAn immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran’s glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah’s widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials
- Author: Cooper, Andrew Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1250304857
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$9.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1903, The Souls of Black Folk is a masterpiece of American literature, a foundational text of sociology, and a deeply personal answer to the question “What is it like to be a Black
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172833
- Language: English
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
$25.00 Add to cart“Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk’s life of Wittgenstein is such a one.”–The Christian Science Monitor.
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140159959
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$14.95 Add to carthus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537097
- Language: English
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A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning Into Mor
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most significant works of Western philosophy, Hume’s Treatise was published in 1739-40, before he was thirty years old. A pinnacle of English empiricism, it is a comprehensive attempt to ap… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: February 04 1986
- ISBN10: 0140432442
- Language: English
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Hannah Arendt: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) was one of the major intellectual figures of the twentieth century. Born in Konigsberg to secular Jewish parents, she wa- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Villa, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0198806981
- Language: English
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
$23.95 Add to cartWhen it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers d
- Series: Princeton Classics #30
- Author: Rorty, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178151
- Language: English
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
$18.95 Add to cartThe Protestant ethic — a moral code stressing hard work, rigorous self-discipline, and the organization of one’s life in the service of God — was made famous by sociologist and political economist M… [more below]
- Series: Economy Editions
- Author: Weber, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 04 2003
- ISBN10: 048642703X
- Language: English
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Liberalism and Social Action
$14.99 Add to cartIn this, one of Dewey’s most accessible works, he surveys the history of liberal thought from John Locke to John Stuart Mill, in his search to find the core of liberalism for today’s world. While libe… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Dewey, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1573927538
- Language: English
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The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook
$20.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller.
A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we’re living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0735222932
- Language: English
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The Ottomans: Khans, Caesars, and Caliphs
$35.00 Read moreThis major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West.
The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the- Author: Baer, Marc David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 05, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541673808
- Language: English
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Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche & Kafka
$18.00 Add to cartHow four of Europe’s most mysterious and fascinating writers shaped the modern mind.Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Kafka were all outsiders in their societies, unable to fit into the accepted… [more below]
- Author: Hubben, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 13 1997
- ISBN10: 0684825899
- Language: English
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How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life.
Socrates famously said “the unexamined l- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525566147
- Language: English
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The Edge of the Plain: How Borders Make and Break Our World
$30.00 Read moreSince the earliest known marker denoting the edge of one land and the beginning of the next–a stone column inscribed with Sumerian cuneiform–borders have been imagined, mapped, moved, and fought ove
- Author: Crawford, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1324037040
- Language: English
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Central Asia: A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
$29.95 Add to cartA major history of Central Asia and how it has been shaped by modern world events
Central Asia is often seen as a remote and inaccessible land on the peripheries of modern history. Encompassing Uzbeki- Author: Khalid, Adeeb
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0691235198
- Language: English
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Spinoza: A Life
$29.99 Add to cartA fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza.
- Author: Nadler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: August 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1108442463
- Language: English
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World as Will & Idea
$12.95 Add to cartThe nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud
The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the tru- Series: Everyman Paperback Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0460875051
- Language: English
