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The Enneads: Abridged Edition
$21.00 Read moreHere is a highly original synthesis of Platonism, mystic passion, ideas from Greek philosophy, and variants of the Trinity and other central tenets of Christian doctrine by the brilliant thinker who h… [more below]
- Series: Classics S
- Author: Plotinus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: November 05 1991
- ISBN10: 014044520X
- Language: English
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault has become famous for a series of books that have permanently altered our understanding of many institutions of Western society. He analyzed mental institutions in the remarkable Madne… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 1980
- ISBN10: 039473954X
- Language: English
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Deconstruction
$15.95 Add to cartAn accessible introduction to a concept often considered impossibly abstruse, demonstrating its power as a conceptual tool in the twenty-first century.
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Gunkel, David J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0262542471
- Language: English
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The Enchiridion: A Stoic’s Guide to Contentment and Tranquility
$12.95 Read moreThis lovely hardcover keepsake offers the timeless precepts of one of the most important Greek Stoic philosophers. Epictetus (ca. 50-ca. 130 CE) was born into slavery and had a permanent physical disa… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0486851958
- Language: English
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Emerson Essays and Lectures: Nature; Addresses, and Lectures/Essays: First and Second Series/Representative Men/English Traits/The Conduct of Life
$40.00 Add to cartOur most eloquent champion of individualism, Emerson acknowledges at the same time the countervailing pressures of society in American life. Even as he extols what he called “the great and crescive se… [more below]
- Series: Library of America #1
- Author: Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1150
- Publish Date: November 15 1983
- ISBN10: 0940450151
- Language: English
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Aristotle’s Metaphysics
$34.95 Read moreJoe Sachs has followed up his brilliant translation of Aristotle’s Physics with a new translation of Metaphysics. Sachs’s translations bring distinguished new light onto Aristotle’s works, which are f… [more below]
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 365
- Publish Date: March 01 1999
- ISBN10: 1888009039
- Language: English
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Seneca: Selected Letters
$13.95 Add to cartSeneca’s letters to his friend Lucilius are powerful moral essays that also yield illuminating insight into Seneca’s personal life and the truly turbulent times in which he lived. One of the great Sto… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0199533210
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra
$12.00 Add to cartA tremendously influential philosophical work of the late nineteenth century, Thus Spake Zarathustra is also a literary masterpiece by one of the most important thinkers of modern times. In it, the an… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 05 1999
- ISBN10: 0486406636
- Language: English
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Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from Sixty Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today.
$35.99 Add to cartA collection of simple – and surprisingly relevant – tools from great thinkers throughout history.
Focusing on important ideas from Western and Eastern philosophy, sociology, psychotherapy, art, archi
- Series: School of Life Library
- Author: The School of Life
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: January 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0993538703
- Language: English
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Las Meditaciones de Marco Aurelio / Meditations: Todo Mi Ser Se Reduce a Esto: La Carne, El EspÃritu, La Facultad Rectora
$10.95 Read moreIdeas que han cambiado el mundo.
A lo largo de la historia, algunos libros han cambiado el mundo. Han transformado la manera en que nos vemos a nosotros mismos y a los dem?s. Han inspirado el debate,- Author: Aurelius, Marco
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 21 2021
- ISBN10: 8430601031
- Language: Spanish
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In Search of Being: The Fourth Way to Consciousness
$27.95 Read moreOver one hundred years ago in Russia, G. I. Gurdjieff introduced a spiritual teaching of conscious evolution–a way of gnosis or “knowledge of being” passed on from remote antiquity. Gurdjieff’s early… [more below]
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 20 2021
- ISBN10: 161180082X
- Language: English
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Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals’ Abuse of Science
$22.00 Add to cartIn 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text–an influential academic journal of cultural studies–touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern p
- Author: Sokal, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0312204078
- Language: English
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Sobre La Felicidad Y La Brevedad de la Vida: C?mo Alcanzar La Felicidad Atrevi?ndote a Ser Tu Mismo
$8.95 Read moreEl tiempo que tenemos no es corto; es que perdemos mucho.
Si Séneca es un clásico es porque fue capaz de acuñar reflexiones que han interpelado a lectores de todas las épocas hasta nuestros dÃas… [more below]
- Author: S?neca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 6070796217
- Language: Spanish
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Myth and Thought Among the Greeks
$34.00 Add to cart“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new editi
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 13 2006
- ISBN10: 1890951609
- Language: English
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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
$19.00 Read more“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some per… [more below]
- Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 052555968X
- Language: English
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Plato
$19.99 Read moreA surprising intellectual ally to Christians, Plato critiqued the relativism, materialism, and hedonism of his day. However, Talcott shows that he fell short in notable ways–making our discernment vi… [more below]
- Series: Great Thinkers
- Author: Talcott, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1629958697
- Language: English
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Critical Essays: Volume 1: 1944-1948 Volume 1
$30.00 Add to cartThis first book in a three-volume collection of Georges Bataille’s essays introduces English readers to his philosophical and critical writings.
In the aftermath of the Second World War, French think- Series: French List
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 180309060X
- Language: English
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Dialogues and Essays
$18.95 Add to cartAlain de Botton’s bestselling The Consolations of Philosophy–later made into a six-part TV series–has helped popularize ancient philosophy and especially the work of Seneca. This superb volume offer… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Seneca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 31 2009
- ISBN10: 0199552401
- Language: English
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza’s Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
$19.95 Add to cartThe story of one of the most important–and incendiary–books in Western history
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever- Author: Nadler, Stefen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 24 2013
- ISBN10: 069116018X
- Language: English
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The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure
$18.00 Read moreIn this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality.
Through- Series: History of Sexuality #02
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 14 1990
- ISBN10: 0394751221
- Language: English
