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Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWith his well-known idiosyncrasies and aphoristic style, Friedrich Nietzsche is always bracing and provocative, and temptingly easy to dip into. Michael Tanner’s introduction to the philosopher’s life… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #34
- Author: Tanner, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854143
- Language: English
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Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
$18.00 Add to cartNo philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects – despite living in the German golden age of Goethe, Mozart and Schiller. For … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 04 1994
- ISBN10: 014043335X
- Language: English
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The Story of Philosophy
$45.00 Add to cartThere is a pleasure in philosophy, and a lure even in the mirages of metaphysics, which
every student feels until the coarse necessities of physical existence drag him from the
heights of thought into t
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: April 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1087959446
- Language: English
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Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology
$15.00 Add to cartIn this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated “The Practice of Reading Good Books” and award-winning “Playing with Bateson”-Corey Anton brings together some of hi… [more below]
- Author: Anton, Corey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: May 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0982755953
- Language: English
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The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece
$24.95 Add to cartThe Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece traces the odyssey of “truth,” Aletheia, from mythoreligious to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Marcel Detienne’s starting point is a simple observation… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vidal-Naquet, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 12 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299868
- Language: English
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The Archaeology of Knowledge: And the Discourse on Language
$18.00 Add to cartMadness, sexuality, power, knowledge–are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that… [more below]
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 12 1982
- ISBN10: 0394711068
- Language: English
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Nietzsche and Philosophy
$26.95 Add to cartNietzsche and Philosophy has long been recognized as one of the most important accounts of Nietzsche’s philosophy, acclaimed for its rare combination of scholarly rigour and imaginative interpretation… [more below]
- Series: Columbia Classics in Philosophy
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: May 20 1985
- ISBN10: 0231056699
- Language: English
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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct account of ancient Greco-Roman philosophy, emphas- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0198805888
- Language: English
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Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism
$29.95 Add to cartIt is not events that disturb us, but what we believe about them.
In ancient Greece, a group of philosophers developed highly effective techniques to change our thoughts for the better, allowing practi
- Author: Bates, Douglas C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: June 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1896559565
- Language: English
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The Thinking Root: The Poetry of Earliest Greek Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartAcclaimed poet and translator Dan Beachy-Quick offers this newest addition to the Seedbank series: a warm, vivid rendering of the earliest Greek intellects, inviting us to reconsider writing, and thin… [more below]
- Series: Seedbank
- Author: Beachy-Quick, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1571315446
- Language: English
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The Phenomenology of Mind
$24.99 Add to cartIn The Phenomenology of Mind, idealist philosopher Georg Hegel (1770-1831) defied the traditional epistemological distinction of objective from subjective and developed his own dialectical alternativ… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 19 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432513
- Language: English
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Kant: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartImmanuel Kant is arguably the most influential modern philosopher, but is also one of the most difficult. In this illuminating Very Short Introduction, Roger Scruton–a well-known and controversial ph… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #50
- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0192801996
- Language: English
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The Cosmic Vision of Teilhard de Chardin
$26.00 Add to cartAn expert in Teilhardian thought brings together for the first time Teilhard in conversation with other significant religious thinkers, philosophers, and scientists, including Kant, Whitehead, Barbour… [more below]
- Author: Haught, John F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1626984492
- Language: English
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Sartre Explained: From Bad Faith to Authenticity
$26.95 Add to cartJean-Paul Sartre is perhaps the most famous of the existentialists, and by far the most famous philosopher of the post-war era. Sartre was a highly prolific writer and thinker, and delving into his no… [more below]
- Series: Ideas Explained #06
- Author: Detmer, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 28 2008
- ISBN10: 081269631X
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Right
$10.95 Add to cartComplete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher’s influential system. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel applies hi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445631
- Language: English
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The Consolation of Philosophy
$8.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential books in the history of Western thought, The Consolation of Philosophy was written in a prison cell by a condemned man. Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius (c. 480-524) was
- Author: Boethius
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 10 2002
- ISBN10: 0486421635
- Language: English
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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
$24.00 Add to cartIn the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the “New Left” emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced “flower-p… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0452011841
- Language: English
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Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre: Basic Writings of Existentialism by Kaufmann, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Heidegger, and Others
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the foremost resources on existentialism from renowned philosopher, poet, and Nietzsche translator Walter Kaufmann–a must-read for philosophers, both armchair and professional.
Existentialism … [more below]- Series: Meridian S
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0452009308
- Language: English
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Postmodernism
$12.99 Add to cartPostmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #74
- Author: Butler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0192802399
- Language: English
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The Dragon Within
$34.95 Add to cartThe dragons have played a part in the history of the universe since the beginning. We see them sprinkled throughout ancient traditions, religions and philosophies and yet they always hold an air of pu
- Author: Anra, Araya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 12 2019
- ISBN10: 1733098305
- Language: English
