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John Stuart Mill: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductionsb: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
John Stuart Mill (1806-73) is widely regarded as the leading liberal philosopher, economist, and political theorist of nineteenth century Bri- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Claeys, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0198749996
- Language: English
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Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America’s Soul
$19.99 Read moreFrom the New York Times best-selling author of The Accidental President comes the thrilling story of the 1948 presidential election, one of the greatest election stories of all time, as Truman mounted… [more below]
- Author: Baime, A. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 358522498
- Language: English
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French Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrench culture is unique in that philosophy has played a significant role from the early-modern period onwards, intimately associated with political, religious, and literary debates, as well as with e… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gaukroger, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198829175
- Language: English
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Meditations on First Philosophy
$9.99 Add to cartDescartes’s Meditations on First Philosophy, the fundamental and originating work of the modern era in Western philosophy, is presented here in completely revised edition of his well-established trans
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 9562916170
- Language: English
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THE Matter and Memory
$6.90 Add to cartMatter and Memory presents an analysis of the classical philosophical problems concerning this relation. Within that frame the analysis of memory serves the purpose of clarifying the problem. Matter a… [more below]
- Author: Bergson, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: April 15 2019
- ISBN10: 8026892445
- Language: English
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The Anti-Christ
$6.95 Add to cartThis is Nietzsche’s last book and a fitting capstone to his career. It’s succinct, biting, and encapsulates the criticisms of Christianity found in his other works. This edition contains an 8,000-word… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 91
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1884365205
- Language: English
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What Is Subjectivity?
$22.95 Add to cartJean-Paul Sartre, at the height of his powers, debates with Italy’s leading intellectuals
In 1961, the prolific French intellectual Jean-Paul Sartre was invited to give a talk at the Gramsci Institute- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1784781371
- Language: English
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The Essential William James
$18.00 Add to cartWilliam James (1842-1910) was one of the most original and influential American thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a professor at Harvard University he published many works that ha… [more below]
- Author: Shook, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144394
- Language: English
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The Infidel and the Professor: David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought
$19.95 Read moreThe story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships–and how it influenced modern thought
David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his l- Author: Rasmussen, Dennis C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0691192286
- Language: English
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The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas – Second Edition
$24.95 Add to cart“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”–Immanuel Kant
Isaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century–an activist of the intellec- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691155933
- Language: English
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Selected Essays
$13.95 Read moreIn his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collection, drawing largely on his Essays Mortal, Political, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540306
- Language: English
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Foxe’s Book of Martyrs: Select Narratives
$17.95 Add to cart“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man: we shall this day light such a candle by God’s grace in England, as, I trust, shall never be put out.” Hugh Latimer’s famous words of consolation … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Foxe, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199236844
- Language: English
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Madness: The Invention of an Idea
$14.99 Add to cartMichel Foucault’s first exploration of insanity as a social construct–and his debut work of criticism, published nearly a decade before Madness and Civilization—Madness offers an invaluable lens thr… [more below]
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0062007181
- Language: English
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The Jesuits: A History
$66.58 Add to cartThe most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world
Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus–more commonl- Author: Friedrich, Markus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 872
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0691180121
- Language: English
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Hegel Contra Sociology
$19.95 Add to cartGillian Rose is among the twentieth century’s most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative t… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673545
- Language: English
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Gilles Deleuze: An Introduction
$30.00 Add to cartOther books have tried to explain Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995), one of the twentieth century’s most important and elusive thinkers, in general terms. However, Todd May organizes his introduction around … [more below]
- Author: May, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: January 10 2005
- ISBN10: 0521603846
- Language: English
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History as a System, and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History
$22.99 Add to cartFour stimulating essays: “The Sportive Origin of the State,” “Unity and Diversity of Europe,” “Man the Technician,” and “History as a System.” The essays by Ortega in this volume were originally publi… [more below]
- Author: Ortega y. Gasset, Jose
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: March 27 2008
- ISBN10: 0393001229
- Language: English
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Theology After Wittgenstein
$21.99 Add to cartThe philosopher Wittgenstein is considered by many to be the most influential and significant of the 20th century. This book introduces him to students of theology and focuses on his writings dealing … [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Fergus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 21 1997
- ISBN10: 0281050635
- Language: English
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The Foucault Effect: Studies in Governmentality: With Two Lectures by and an Interview with Michel Foucault
$31.00 Add to cartBased on Michel Foucault’s 1978 and 1979 lectures at the Collé‘’e de France on governmental rationalities and his 1977 interview regarding his work on imprisonment, this volume is the long-awaited seq… [more below]
- Author: Burchell, Graham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 09 1991
- ISBN10: 0226080455
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$6.40 Add to cartIn “Beyond Good and Evil” Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. The work moves into the realm “beyon… [more below]
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: December 14 2020
- ISBN10: 8027337097
- Language: English
