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Breakfast with Socrates: An Extraordinary (Philosophical) Journey Through Your Ordinary Day
$18.99 Add to cartWhat is the philosophy of sweat? Reality TV? Domestic warfare? Making up and having sex? Take a sparkling ride through an ordinary day with hilarious philosophical gadfly Robert Rowland Smith in Break… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Robert Rowland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1439148686
- Language: English
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Meditations
$9.99 Add to cartMarcus Aurelius, one of the great rulers of the Roman Empire, sets forth a series of self-reflective essays intended as a guide for his own self-improvement. Written during the turning points of his l
- Author: Aurelius, Marcus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 12 2022
- ISBN10: 9235568390
- Language: English
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The Principles of Philosophy
$19.99 Read moreOver the millennia, the great thinkers of the world have sought to come up with rules for how to live better lives, how to govern better and how to understand the world around us. This fascinating gui
- Author: Moore, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1398830070
- Language: English
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Schopenhauer: Parerga and Paralipomena: Volume 2: Short Philosophical Essays
$48.00 Add to cartWith the publication of Parerga and Paralipomena in 1851, there finally came some measure of the fame that Schopenhauer thought was his due. Described by Schopenhauer himself as ‘incomparably more pop… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Edition of the Works of Schopenhauer
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 701
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 1108436528
- Language: English
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Heroes of History: A Brief History of Civilization from Ancient Times to the Dawn of the Modern Age
$18.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces The Story of Civilization and The Lessons of History, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Will Durant traces the lives and ideas of those who have hel… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0743235940
- Language: English
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Hegel
$50.00 Add to cartThis is a major and comprehensive study of the philosophy of Hegel, his place in the history of ideas, and his continuing relevance and importance. Professor Taylor relates Hegel to the earlier histor… [more below]
- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 596
- Publish Date: May 12 1977
- ISBN10: 0521291992
- Language: English
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Language and Myth
$8.95 Add to cartAnalyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.
- Author: Cassirer, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 1953
- ISBN10: 0486200515
- Language: English
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The Enlightenment: The Science of Freedom
$40.99 Add to cartThe Science of Freedom completes Peter Gay’s brilliant reinterpretation begun in The Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism. In the present book, he describes the philosophes’ program and their vi… [more below]
- Series: Enlightenment an Interpretation
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 746
- Publish Date: September 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0393313662
- Language: English
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On the Soul: And Other Psychological Works
$14.95 Add to cart“…the more honourable animals have been allotted a more honourable soul…”
What is the nature of the soul? It is this question that Aristotle sought to answer in De Anima (On the Soul). In doing so- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 019958821X
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartLudwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was an extraordinarily original thinker, whose influence on twentieth-century thinking far outside the bounds of philosophy alone. In this engaging Introduction, A.C. G… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #46
- Author: Grayling, A. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 28 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854119
- Language: English
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Fire Alarm: Reading Walter Benjamin’s ‘on the Concept of History’
$19.95 Add to cartThis illuminating study of Benjamin’s final essay helps unlock the mystery of this great philosopher
Revolutionary critic of the philosophy of progress, nostalgic of the past yet dreaming of the futur- Author: Lowy, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 1784786411
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Praxis: Marx, Lukács and the Frankfurt School
$29.95 Add to cartThe early Marx called for the “realization of philosophy” through revolution. Revolution thus became a critical concept for Marxism, a view elaborated in the later praxis perspectives of Luk cs and th… [more below]
- Author: Feenberg, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 1781681724
- Language: English
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The Odic Force: Letters on Od and Magnetism
$15.95 Add to cart- Author: Von Reichenbach, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: January 20 2000
- ISBN10: 1585090018
- Language: English
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First and Last Notebooks
$48.00 Add to cartIntroducing the Selected Works of Simone Weil Some of Simone Weil’s most important thinking was done through the medium of her notebooks. She used them in several inter-related ways. First, she used t… [more below]
- Series: Simone Weil: Selected Works
- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1498239196
- Language: English
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Dear Fellow Time-Binder: Letters on General Semantics
$12.00 Add to cartThis is a series of short summaries and brief overviews of
many main ideas within general semantics, all couched in the style of
personal letters. It is designed to give people an intimate view into
many
- Author: Mayer, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 166
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1970164166
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$12.95 Add to cartA HANDBOOK FOR LIFE
The Enchiridion, or Handbook of Epictetus, is a short manual of Stoic ethical advice which was compiled by Arrian, who was a 2nd-century disciple of the Greek philosopher Epictetus- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1722503823
- Language: English
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How Are We to Live?: Ethics in an Age of Self-Interest
$23.99 Add to cart“Is there still anything worth living for? Is anything worth pursuing, apart from money, love, and caring for one’s own family?” Internationally known social philosopher and ethicist Peter Singer has … [more below]
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0879759666
- Language: English
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The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real
$29.95 Add to cartThe Matrix conveys the horror of a false world made of nothing but perceptions. Based on the premise that reality is a dream controlled by malevolent forces, it is one of the most overtly philosophica… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture and Philosophy #3
- Author: Irwin, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 28 2002
- ISBN10: 081269502X
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard’s Writings, VIII, Volume 8: Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin
$29.95 Add to cartThis edition replaces the earlier translation by Walter Lowrie that appeared under the title The Concept of Dread. Along with The Sickness unto Death, the work reflects from a psychological point of v
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings #18
- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: February 21 1981
- ISBN10: 0691020116
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics
$42.00 Add to cartThis volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three ways: through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; and… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Inwood, Brad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: May 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0521779855
- Language: English
