History & Surveys
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Devil’s Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain
$28.99 Add to cartA devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond …
From ancient times to the modern world, the idea of the Faustian bargain–the exchange of- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1685891047
- Language: English
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Out of One, Many: Ancient Greek Ways of Thought and Culture
$35.00 Add to cartA sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversity
Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conque- Author: Roberts, Jennifer T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0691181470
- Language: English
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How to Get Over a Breakup: An Ancient Guide to Moving on
$18.95 Add to cartA modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love–a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love
Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Ovid
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0691220301
- Language: English
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How Nietzsche Came in from the Cold: Tale of a Redemption
$29.95 Read moreNietzsche’s reputation, like much of Europe, lay in ruins in 1945. Giving a platform to a philosopher venerated by the Nazis was not an attractive prospect for Germans eager to cast off Hitler’s shado
- Author: Felsch, Philipp
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 29 2024
- ISBN10: 150955761X
- Language: English
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The Art of Rhetoric
$17.00 Add to cartWith the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential skill for politicians in the Assemblies and Councils – and even for ordinary… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 03 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445102
- Language: English
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
$45.00 Read moreHailed as “one of the most significant books ever published,” this work of far-reaching vision is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human consciousness
In this tour de force of scholars- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 1570627444
- Language: English
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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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A Nietzsche Reader
$16.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
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Early Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartThe works collected in this volume form the true foundation of Western philosophy–the base upon which Plato and Aristotle and their successors would eventually build. Yet the importance of the Pre-So… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Various
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 26 2002
- ISBN10: 0140448152
- Language: English
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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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Embattled: How Ancient Greek Myths Empower Us to Resist Tyranny
$35.00 Add to cartAn incisive exploration of the way Greek myths empower us to defeat tyranny.
As tyrannical passions increasingly plague twenty-first-century politics, tales told in ancient Greek epics and tragedies p
- Author: Anhalt, Emily Katz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1503628566
- 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 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 Golden Sayings of Epictetus
$14.23 Add to cartEpictetus was a Greek Stoic philosopher. He was probably born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (present day Pamukkale, Turkey), and lived in Rome until his exile to Nicopolis in northwestern Greece, whe… [more below]
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 31 2009
- ISBN10: 1615341242
- Language: English
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Epitome of Copernican Astronomy and Harmonies of the World
$14.99 Add to cartThe brilliant German mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), one of the founders of modern astronomy, revolutionized the Copernican heliocentric theory of the universe with his three laws of motion… [more below]
- Series: Great Minds
- Author: Kepler, Johannes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 01 1995
- ISBN10: 1573920363
- Language: English
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The Myths That Stole Christmas
$14.99 Add to cartIn The Myths that Stole Christmas, Johnson argues that Christmas has been hijacked by seven different myths-seven myths that control how people conceive of and celebrate the holiday. Myth #1: Jesus Is… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David Kyle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 20 2015
- ISBN10: 0931779677
- 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
