Chronological Period/Modern
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The Perennial Scope of Philosophy
$16.00 Add to cartThe text of six lectures in which Karl Jaspers redefines the position of philosophy in the world today, particularly in relation to science and theology, and defines and outlines his own philosophy.
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- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 01 1949
- ISBN10: 080652961X
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Giambattista Vico
$22.95 Add to cartThe Autobiography of Giambattista Vico is significant both as a source of insight into the influences on the eighteenth-century philosopher’s intellectual development and as one of the earliest and mo
- Series: Cornell Paperbacks
- Author: Vico, Giambattista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 15 1963
- ISBN10: 080149088X
- Language: English
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The Construction of Social Reality
$20.00 Add to cartThis short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social mean… [more below]
- Author: Searle, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0684831791
- Language: English
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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
$42.00 Add to cartThis book explores Africa’s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, i… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Comparative World History
- Author: Thornton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0521627249
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Biography
$60.00 Add to cartOne of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 812
- Publish Date: June 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0521003873
- Language: English
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The Souls of Black Folk
$18.00 Read moreFirst 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1435172817
- Language: English
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Locke: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJohn Locke (1632-1704) one of the greatest English philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, argued in his masterpiece, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, that our knowl… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #84
- Author: Dunn, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 31 2003
- ISBN10: 0192803948
- Language: English
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Queen Consort (Formerly the Duchess): The Life of Queen Camilla
$20.99 Add to cart“Thoroughly well-written, this is a believable portrait of a woman who did not seek publicity or a royal role but instead to support the love of her life, Prince Charles.” — Library Journal (starred
- Author: Junor, Penny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0062471112
- Language: English
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In Emergency, Break Glass: What Nietzsche Can Teach Us about Joyful Living in a Tech-Saturated World
$22.95 Read moreWho has not found themselves scrolling endlessly on screens and wondered: Am I living or distracting myself from living? In Emergency, Break Glass adapts Friedrich Nietzsche’s passionate quest for mea
- Author: Anderson, Nate
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1324004797
- Language: English
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Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason
$19.95 Add to cartFrom sex and music to religion and politics, a history of irrationality and the ways in which it has always been with us-and always will be
In this sweeping account of irrationality from antiquity to- Author: Smith-Ruiu, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210519
- Language: English
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A Fuller View: Buckminster Fuller’s Vision of Hope and Abundance for All
$19.95 Add to cart“The most important thing about Spaceship Earth – an instruction book didn’t come with it.”
— Bucky FullerKnown as a “Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century,” engineer, designer, inventor, and fu
- Author: Sieden, L. Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: April 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1611250099
- Language: English
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On John Stuart Mill
$14.95 Add to cartJohn Stuart Mill expressed many of the central tenets of liberalism with unsurpassed clarity and enduring influence. Yet Mill’s apparent victory in the marketplace of ideas has numbed us to the power
- Series: Core Knowledge
- Author: Kitcher, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0231204159
- Language: English
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The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
$23.99 Add to cartThe Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France,
- Author: Zuckerman, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 25 1999
- ISBN10: 0865475784
- Language: English
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A Violent Evangelism: The Political and Religious Conquest of the Americas
$50.00 Add to cartIn this thought-provoking book, Luis Rivera argues that evangelical reasoning and symbolism were appropriated to justify the armed seizure of people and land in the New World and to validate the conve
- Author: Rivera, Luis N.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 19 1992
- ISBN10: 0664253679
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
$42.00 Add to cartImmanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason, first published in 1781, is one of the landmarks of Western philosophy, a radical departure from everything that went before and an inescapable influence on al… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Guyer, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 476
- Publish Date: June 14 2010
- ISBN10: 0521710111
- Language: English
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The Sources of Normativity
$35.00 Add to cartEthical concepts are, or purport to be, normative. They make claims on us: they command, oblige, recommend, or guide. But where does their authority over us come from? Christine Korsgaard identifies a… [more below]
- Author: Korsgaard, Christine M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: June 28 1996
- ISBN10: 052155960X
- Language: English
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Repetition and Philosophical Crumbs
$15.95 Add to cart“The love of repetition is in truth the only happy love.” So says Constantine Constantius on the first page of Kierkegaard’s Repetition. Life itself, according to Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous narrator, … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199214190
- Language: English
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The Allure of Battle: A History of How Wars Have Been Won and Lost
$40.99 Add to cartHistory has tended to measure war’s winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that they could be considered “decisive.” Marathon, Cannae, Tours… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Cathal J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 728
- Publish Date: February 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0195383788
- Language: English
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Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this enlightening new Very Short Introduction, Simon Critchley shows us that Continental philosophy encompasses a distinct set of philosophical traditions and practices, with a compelling range of … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #43
- Author: Critchley, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: June 07 2001
- ISBN10: 192853597
- Language: English
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Habermas: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartJ?gen Habermas is the most renowned living German philosopher. This book aims to give a clear and readable overview of his philosophical work. It analyzes both the theoretical underpinnings of Haberma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Finlayson, Gordon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 25 2005
- ISBN10: 0192840959
- Language: English
