Chronological Period/Modern
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Foucault in Warsaw
$15.95 Add to cartIn 1958, Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to work on his thesis–a work that eventually came to be published as The History of Madness. While he was there, he became involved with a number of members… [more below]
- Series: Polish Reportage
- Author: Ryzinski, Remigiusz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: June 29 2021
- ISBN10: 1948830361
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk: With the Talented Tenth and the Souls of White Folk
$25.00 Add to cartA collectible hardcover edition of the landmark book about being black in America, featuring an introduction by Ibram X. Kendi, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist
A Pe- Series: Penguin Vitae
- Author: Du Bois, W. E. B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0143134434
- Language: English
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Aspects of the Novel
$16.99 Add to cartE. M. Forster’s guide sparkles with wit and insight for contemporary writers and readers. With lively language and excerpts from well-known classics, Forster (author of A Passage to India, Howards En… [more below]
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 14 1956
- ISBN10: 0156091801
- Language: English
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Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World
$26.95 Add to cartThe author combines advanced science and math with Eastern mysticism, symbols, art and Western spiritual traditions to create one of the most unique and interesting books one is likely to encounter. O… [more below]
- Author: Ouspensky, P. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: January 22 2004
- ISBN10: 1585092444
- Language: English
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On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings
$14.99 Add to cart“We continue to live within the intellectual shadow cast by Nietzsche.”–New York Times Book Review
Reissued for the age of “fake news,” On Truth and Untruth charts Nietzsche’s evolving thinking on tru
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0062930842
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
$27.95 Add to cartThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewe
- Series: Princeton Classics #3
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160260
- Language: English
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The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World
$19.95 Add to cartA work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the 1750s to the twentieth century, modifying accepted na
- Author: Colley, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1324092386
- Language: English
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You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life
$17.99 Add to cartFrom one of the world’s most celebrated and admired public figures, a wise and intimate book on how to get the most of out life.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.
- Author: Roosevelt, Eleanor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0062061577
- Language: English
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Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (Revised)
$37.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded accou… [more below]
- Series: Enlightenment an Interpretation
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 590
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393313026
- Language: English
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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
$37.00 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. F
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299515
- Language: English
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Rivals: How Scientists Learned to Cooperate
$17.00 Read moreWhy is the scientific community so unified?
In the last 350-odd years, the international “scientific community” has come to be the bastion of consensus and concerted action, especially in the face of- Author: Daston, Lorraine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9.79899E+12
- Language: English
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Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge: From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic
$39.00 Read more“A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledg
- Author: Winchester, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: May 09, 2023
- ISBN10: 006329723X
- Language: English
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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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Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
$18.99 Add to cartA brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by “one of the most influential thinkers of our time” (Sunday Times)
“Why We Drive weaves philosophers, thinkers, an
- Author: Crawford, Matthew B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0062741977
- Language: English
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Everyday Ubuntu: Living Better Together, the African Way
$23.99 Add to cartForeword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Mungi Ngomane, granddaughter of Nobel Peace Prize-winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, offers an introduction to ubuntu, the Southern African philosophy that celebrates t- Author: Ngomane, Mungi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 62977555
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
$7.00 Add to cartAfter kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conven… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 048629868X
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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Iran: A Modern History
$27.00 Read moreA masterfully researched history of Iran from 1501 to 2009
“The defiant spirit of Iran] is brought to life in this monumental history of the past 500 years.”–Richard Spencer, The Times (London) “A- Author: Amanat, Abbas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1008
- Publish Date: September 17 2019
- ISBN10: 0300248938
- Language: English
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Just So: Money, Materialism, and the Ineffable, Intelligent Universe
$18.99 Add to cartFrom the luminary and prophetic Alan Watts, an invitation to embrace pleasure, play, and connection in our ever-evolving world
“If you were God,” asked Alan Watts, “what kind of universe would you cre- Author: Watts, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: February 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1683642945
- 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
