Chronological Period/Modern
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Hegel’s Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason
$40.00 Add to cartThis book is the most detailed commentary on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit available and develops an independent philosophical account of the general theory of knowledge, culture, and history contai… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 26 1996
- ISBN10: 052156834X
- Language: English
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Kant
$44.99 Add to cartThis is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful and influential in contemp… [more below]
- Series: Biography
- Author: Kuehn, Manfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0521524067
- Language: English
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Napoleon’s Egypt: Invading the Middle East
$22.99 Add to cartIn this vivid and timely history, Juan Cole tells the story of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. Revealing the young general’s reasons for leading the expedition against Egypt in 1798 and showcasing his f… [more below]
- Author: Cole, Juan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0230606032
- Language: English
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Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartMartin Heidegger, considered by some to be the greatest charlatan ever to claim the title of “philosopher,” by some as an apologist for Nazism, and by others as an acknowledged leader in continental p… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Inwood, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0198828667
- Language: English
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The Holy Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVoltaire’s description of the Holy Roman Empire as “neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire” is often cited to underline its worthlessness. German historians traditionally despised it because it had al… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Whaley, Joachim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0198748760
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Conversations and Phenomenological Essays
$22.99 Add to cartThis is the first translation into English of early phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysical Conversations, originally published in 1921. Conrad-Martius was one of Husserl’s first students,… [more below]
- Series: Women Philosophers Heritage Collection #1
- Author: Conrad-Martius, Hedwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3110764393
- Language: English
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The Maniac in the Bushes: More Tales of Cleveland Woe
$13.95 Add to cart“Morbidly fascinating and wickedly entertaining.” — The Plain Dealer
The second volume in Bellamy’s popular series includes 13 more incredible true stories of Cleveland crime and disaster, including .
- Series: Ohio
- Author: Bellamy, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: October 31 1997
- ISBN10: 1886228191
- Language: English
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Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism
$19.95 Add to cartBeginning with Buber’s seminal essay on mysticism, this book offers texts down the centuries from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim sources. It aims to convey som
- Series: Martin Buber Library
- Author: Buber, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 01 1996
- ISBN10: 081560422X
- Language: English
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John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
$32.00 Add to cartElizabethan England’s most famous natural philosopher John Dee recorded his reflections on the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse in a series of conversations with a… [more below]
- Author: Harkness, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0521027489
- Language: English
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One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps
$22.99 Add to cartA groundbreaking, haunting, and profoundly moving history of modernity’s greatest tragedy: concentration camps.
For over 100 years, at least one concentration camp has existed somewhere on Earth. Firs- Author: Pitzer, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0316303569
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Communication, New Edition
$15.95 Read moreBaudrillard’s essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.
- Series: Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1584350571
- Language: English
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Philosophy: An Introduction Through Literature
$29.95 Read morePhilosophy and literature are natural allies–philosophy supplying perennial themes raised anew from one generation to the next, literature providing vivid illustrations of the meaning and poignancy o… [more below]
- Author: Kleiman, Lowell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 618
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1557785392
- Language: English
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A History of African Popular Culture
$45.33 Add to cartPopular culture in Africa is the product of everyday life: the unofficial, the non-canonical. And it is the dynamism of this culture that makes Africa what it is. In this book, Karin Barber offers a j… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to African History #11
- Author: Barber, Karin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 11 2018
- ISBN10: 1107624479
- Language: English
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Modern Social Imaginaries
$26.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about id… [more below]
- Series: Public Planet Books
- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0822332930
- Language: English
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bo
- Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0804733260
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future
$11.95 Add to cartNietzsche’s mature masterpiece, Beyond Good and Evil considers the origins and nature of Judeo-Christian morality; the end of philosophical dogmatism and beginning of perspectivism; the questionable v… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537070
- Language: English
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The Passions of the Soul and Other Late Philosophical Writings
$17.95 Add to cart‘Those most capable of being moved by passion are those capable of tasting the most sweetness in this life.’
Descartes is most often thought of as introducing a total separation of mind and body. But- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Descartes, Rene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0199684138
- Language: English
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Philosopher of the Heart: The Restless Life of Søren Kierkegaard
$25.99 Add to cartPhilosopher of the Heart is the groundbreaking biography of renowned existentialist S ren Kierkegaard’s life and creativity, and a searching exploration of how to be a human being in the world.
S ren- Author: Carlisle, Clare
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1250798426
- Language: English
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El Narco: Inside Mexico’s Criminal Insurgency
$18.99 Read more“Essential reading.”-Steve Coll, NewYorker.com
A gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation’s democracy and reaches acro- Author: Grillo, Ioan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1608194019
- Language: English
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
$34.95 Add to cartThe first volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity’s engagement with intimate spaces.
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Sloterdijk, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1584351047
- Language: English
