History & Surveys
-
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
-
Utopia
$5.00 Read moreFirst published in Latin in 1516, Utopia was the work of Sir Thomas More (1477-1535), the brilliant humanist, scholar, and churchman executed by Henry VIII for his refusal to accept the king as the su
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 07 1997
- ISBN10: 0486295834
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Library: An Anthology of Ancient Writings Which Relate to Pythagoras and Pythagorean Philosophy
$32.95 Add to cartThis anthology, the largest collection of Pythagorean writings ever to appear in English, contains the four ancient biographies of Pythagoras and over 25 Pythagorean and Neopythagorean writings from t… [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, Kenneth Sylvan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0933999518
- Language: English
-
Ten Philosophical Mistakes
$15.99 Add to cartTen Philosophical Mistakes examines ten errors in modern thought and shows how they have led to serious consequences in our everyday lives. It teaches how they came about, how to avoid them, and how t… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Mortimer Jerome
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 23 2010
- ISBN10: 068481868X
- Language: English
-
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
-
Nature’s God: The Heretical Origins of the American Republic
$34.99 Add to cartAmerica’s founders intended to liberate us not just from one king but from the ghostly tyranny of supernatural religion. Drawing deeply on the study of European philosophy, Matthew Stewart brilliantly
- Author: Stewart, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 580
- Publish Date: July 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351297
- Language: English
-
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
-
Basic Writings of Kant
$20.00 Add to cartIntroduction by Allen W. Wood
The writings of Immanuel Kant became the cornerstone of all subsequent philosophical inquiry. They articulate the r
With translations by F. Max M ller and Thomas K. Abbott- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Kant, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 10 2001
- ISBN10: 0375757333
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein
$7.99 Read more‘Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself’ Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of ‘the inner’, of our subjective experience and of our know- Series: Great Philosophers
- Author: Hacker, Peter
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1474616771
- Language: English
-
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
-
Reading Hegel: The Introductions
$25.00 Add to cartBringing together for the first time all of G.W.F. Hegel’s major Introductions in one place, this book ambitiously attempts to present readers with Hegel’s systematic thought through his Introductions… [more below]
- Series: Transmission
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0980544017
- Language: English
-
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.
Au… [more below]
- Author: Jaspers, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 01 1949
- ISBN10: 080652961X
- Language: English
-
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
-
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
-
The Republic: The Complete and Unabridged Jowett Translation
$13.00 Add to cartA monumental work of moral and political philosophy, a book surpassed only by the Bible in its formative influence on two thousand years of Western thought.
What does it mean to be good? What enables… [more below]- Series: Vintage Classics #0000
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 06 1991
- ISBN10: 0679733876
- Language: English
