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All Gall Is Divided: The Aphorisms of a Legendary Iconoclast
$17.99 Add to cart“An antidote to a world gone mad for bedside affirmation”–Washington Post.
E. M. Cioran has been called the last worthy disciple of Nietzsche and “a sort of final philosopher of the Western world” wh- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: July 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1948924234
- Language: English
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Logic: The Ancient Art of Reason
$15.00 Read moreHow do you tell what’s right from what’s wrong? Can you always? What’s the difference between deduction, induction, and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound? … [more below]
- Series: Wooden Books
- Author: Fontainelle, Earl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 13 2016
- ISBN10: 1632864452
- Language: English
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Bubbles: Spheres Volume I: Microspherology
$34.95 Add to cartThe first volume in Peter Sloterdijk’s monumental Spheres trilogy: an investigation of humanity’s engagement with intimate spaces.
- Series: Semiotext(e) / Foreign Agents
- Author: Sloterdijk, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 14 2011
- ISBN10: 1584351047
- Language: English
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Parmenides and the Way of Truth
$18.95 Add to cartAn inspiring account gives new life to the Greek philosopher immortalized in his dialogues with Socrates.
- Author: Geldard, Richard G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0976684349
- Language: English
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An Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas
$19.99 Read moreAn Introduction to the Metaphysics of St. Thomas Aquinas is an accessible Aquinas and a solid entry into his work. The format is manageable, and the scope, appropriately limited. James F. Anderson’s s… [more below]
- Author: Aquinas, Saint Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 089526420X
- Language: English
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The Art of Philosophizing
$12.00 Add to cartThe essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nucl… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 01 1968
- ISBN10: 0806529083
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
$10.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to l… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0451149165
- Language: English
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The Logic of Sense
$26.95 Add to cartConsidered one of the most important works of one of France’s foremost philosophers, and long-awaited in English, The Logic of Sense begins with an extended exegesis of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonder
- Series: European Perspectives
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 393
- Publish Date: June 10 1993
- ISBN10: 0231059833
- Language: English
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Presocratic Philosophy
$12.99 Add to cartGenerations of philosophers, both ancient and modern, have traced their inspiration back to the Presocratics. Part of the fascination stems from the fact that little of what they wrote survives. Here … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Osborne, Catherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 16 2004
- ISBN10: 0192840940
- Language: English
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Discourse on Method and Related Writings
$12.00 Add to cart“It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well”
Ren? Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse on Method he o- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Descartes, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0140446990
- Language: English
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The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
$28.00 Read moreThe author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy’s ultimate question: can we learn to be better people?
Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to te
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646975
- Language: English
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Absolute Recoil: Towards a New Foundation of Dialectical Materialism
$34.95 Add to cartA contemporary philosophical masterwork from “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals ” (New York Review of Books)
Philosophical materialism in all its forms – from scientific naturalism t- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1784781991
- Language: English
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Anaxagoras and Universal Mind
$16.95 Add to cartRichard Geldard’s volume on Anaxagoras is the third and final volume in his immensely successful account of Pre-Socratic thought. His first two volumes brought Heraclitus and Parmenides vividly alive … [more below]
- Author: Geldard, Richard G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 27 2008
- ISBN10: 1605854034
- Language: English
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Fallen Leaves: Last Words on Life, Love, War, and God
$17.99 Add to cartPraised as a “revelatory” book by The Wall Street Journal, this is the last and most personal work of Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Will Durant, discovered thirty-two years after his dea… [more below]
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: December 22 2015
- ISBN10: 1476771553
- Language: English
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Kant: Critique of Practical Reason
$30.00 Add to cartThe Critique of Practical Reason is the second of Kant’s three Critiques, one of his three major treatises on moral theory, and a seminal text in the history of moral philosophy. Originally published … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
- Author: Reath, Andrews
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: January 26 2015
- ISBN10: 1107467055
- Language: English
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The Therapy of Desire: Theory and Practice in Hellenistic Ethics
$27.95 Add to cartThe Epicureans, Skeptics, and Stoics practiced philosophy not as a detached intellectual discipline but as a worldly art of grappling with issues of daily and urgent human significance. In this classi
- Series: Princeton Classics #33
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 584
- Publish Date: May 22 2018
- ISBN10: 0691181020
- Language: English
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Parables of Kierkegaard
$27.95 Add to cartThe description for this book, Parables of Kierkegaard, will be forthcoming.
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings (Paperback)
- Author: Kierkegaard, S?ren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 21 1989
- ISBN10: 0691020531
- Language: English
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The Metaphysics
$14.00 Read more“All men by nature are actuated with the desire of knowledge,” declared Aristotle. The philosopher’s works are foundational to the history of science, and his treatise on metaphysics, or “first philos… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0486817490
- Language: English
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On Life and Death
$16.95 Add to cartMarcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), Rome’s greatest orator, had a career of intense activity in politics, the law courts and the administration, mostly in Rome. His fortunes, however, followed those of… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Cicero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199644144
- Language: English
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A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
$23.99 Add to cartCan God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums–for millennia the human mind has found such knott… [more below]
- Author: Sorensen, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0195179862
- Language: English
