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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975
$26.99 Add to cartFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is prou
- Series: Lectures at the College de France #4
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424051
- Language: English
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The Prayers of Kierkegaard
$20.00 Add to cartSoren Kierkegaard’s influence has been felt in many areas of human thought from theology to psychology. The nearly one hundred of his prayers gathered here from published works and private papers, not… [more below]
- Series: Phoenix Books
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0226470571
- Language: English
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Socrates: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartSocrates has a unique position in the history of philosophy; it is no exaggeration to say that had it not been for his influence on Plato, the whole development of Western philosophy might have been u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Taylor, C. C. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198835981
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life
$18.99 Add to cart“A marvelously wise and expansive book. . . . Ferry writes with warmth, wit, and energy; one could call his prose conversational, but it’s rare to have a conversation quite this wonderful.” — Boston
- Series: Learning to Live
- Author: Ferry, Luc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 07 2014
- ISBN10: 0062215450
- Language: English
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The Art of War
$18.00 Add to cartThe Art of War, by the Chinese general and philosopher Sun Tzu, is one of the most influential books of military strategy ever written. This hardcover edition is packaged distinctively with a beautif… [more below]
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Tzu, Sun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1435172531
- Language: English
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Gnosis Volume III: Esoteric Cycle: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy
$33.00 Add to cartVolume III of Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis contains ancient keys to a tradition of Christian esotericism that was necessarily hermetized 1800 years ago and has since remained unpublished, surviving to th
- Series: Gnosis
- Author: Mouravieff, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: August 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1872292127
- Language: English
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Gnosis Volume II: Mesoteric Cycle: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy
$33.00 Add to cartThe three volumes of Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis describe the inner doctrines of Eastern Christianity: Volume I the exoteric teaching, this Volume (II) the practical or mesoteric teaching, and Volume II
- Series: Gnosis, Mesoteric Cycle
- Author: Mouravieff, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: August 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1872292119
- Language: English
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Julian’s Against the Galileans
$35.99 Add to cartFlavius Claudius Julianus, better known to history by the name imposed by his Christian opponents, Julian “the Apostate,” was a nephew of the first Christian emperor, Constantine I. Julian is one of t… [more below]
- Author: Julian Emperor of Rome
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: November 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1591021987
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of the Present
$14.99 Add to cartGeorge Herbert Mead (1863-1931) had a powerful influence on the development of American pragmatism in the twentieth century. He also had a strong impact on the social sciences. This classic book repre… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Mead, George Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929484
- Language: English
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Wittgenstein’s Vienna
$29.85 Add to cartThe life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I-the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. “An independent work…challe… [more below]
- Author: Janik, Allan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 1566631327
- Language: English
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Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth
$32.57 Add to cartFew philosophers have had as strong an influence on the way we think about power and knowledge as Michel Foucault (1926-1984). His work has influenced the teaching of any number of disciplines and rem
- Series: Essential Works of Michel Foucault, 1954-1984
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 15 1998
- ISBN10: 1565844343
- Language: English
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Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays
$28.00 Add to cartIn this classic collection of wide-ranging and interdisciplinary essays, Stanley Cavell explores a remarkably broad range of philosophical issues from politics and ethics to the arts and philosophy. T… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Philosophy Classics
- Author: Cavell, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1107534232
- Language: English
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Star Wars and Philosophy: More Powerful Than You Can Possibly Imagine
$19.95 Add to cartThe Star Wars films continue to revolutionize science fiction, creating new standards for cinematographic excellence, and permeating popular culture around the world. The films feature many complex th… [more below]
- Series: Popular Culture & Philosophy #12
- Author: Decker, Kevin S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 227
- Publish Date: March 23 2005
- ISBN10: 0812695836
- Language: English
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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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Dream of Reason: A History of Western Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance
$24.95 Read moreAlready a classic, this landmark study of early Western thought now appears in a new edition with expanded coverage of the Middle Ages. This landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the… [more below]
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: August 30 2016
- ISBN10: 393352986
- 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 Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
$31.00 Add to cartIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi — disposition or circumstance, power or potential — as a touchst
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Jullien, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299957
- Language: English
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartJean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the a… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299191
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard’s Writings, VI, Volume 6: Fear and Trembling/Repetition
$35.00 Add to cartPresented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of S ren Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings.
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings #20
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 21 1983
- ISBN10: 0691020264
- Language: English
