History & Surveys
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Cynicism
$15.95 Read moreA short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present.
Everyone’s a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today’s cynics excuse themselves half-hear
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Allen, Ansgar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 0262537885
- Language: English
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Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault
$29.95 Add to cartTracing postmodernism from its roots in Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant to their development in thinkers such as Michel Foucault and Richard Rorty, philosopher Stephen Hicks provides a provoca
- Author: Hicks, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1925826325
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Arabic Philosophy
$48.00 Add to cartRepresenting one of the great traditions of Western philosophy, philosophy written in Arabic and in the Islamic world was inspired by Greek philosophical works and the indigenous ideas of Islamic theo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy (Hardcover)
- Author: Adamson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 09 2004
- ISBN10: 052152069X
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$6.99 Add to cartAlthough he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus maintained that all people are free to control their lives and to live in harmony with nature. We will always b
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: November 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1684115868
- Language: English
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Dream of Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$24.99 Add to cartWestern philosophy is now two and a half millennia old, but much of it came in just two staccato bursts, each lasting only about 150 years. In his landmark survey of Western philosophy from the Greeks
- Author: Gottlieb, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 08 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492969
- Language: English
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The Essence of Christianity
$13.99 Add to cartIn this, one of the most influential works of the post-Hegelian era, Feuerbach captures the synthesis that emerges from the dialectical process of a transcending Godhead and the rational and material … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 01 1989
- ISBN10: 0879755598
- Language: English
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Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations
$18.99 Add to cartOne of this century’s most original philosophical thinkers, Nozick brilliantly renews Socrates’s quest to uncover the life that is worth living. In brave and moving meditations on love, creativity, ha… [more below]
- Author: Nozick, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0671725017
- Language: English
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Pragmatism
$6.95 Read moreA profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce’s theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486282708
- Language: English
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Two Treatises of Government
$9.95 Add to cartJohn Locke laid the groundwork of modern liberalism. He argued that political societies exist to defend the lives, liberties and properties of their citizens and that no government has any authority e… [more below]
- Series: Everyman
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 15 1993
- ISBN10: 0460873563
- Language: English
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
$11.95 Add to cart‘what can be said at all can be said clearly; and of what one cannot talk, about that one must be silent’
Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, first published in German in 1921 and in Englis- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0198861370
- Language: English
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Poetics
$4.50 Add to cartAmong the most influential books in Western civilization, Aristotle’s Poetics is really a treatise on fine art. In it are mentioned not only epic and dithyrambic poetry, but tragedy, comedy, and flute
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 12 1997
- ISBN10: 048629577X
- Language: English
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Difference and Repetition
$26.95 Add to cartThis brilliant exposition of the critique of identity is a classic in contemporary philosophy and one of Deleuze’s most important works. Of fundamental importance to literary critics and philosophers,… [more below]
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 350
- Publish Date: May 18 1995
- ISBN10: 0231081596
- Language: English
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Pensées
$13.00 Add to cartBlaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation no… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140446451
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Thought: A Philosophical Guide to Living
$18.99 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“The most succinct and accessible overview of philosophy I have come across, and perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toe into the waters of philosophy without drowning in inti
- Series: Learning to Live
- Author: Ferry, Luc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 27 2011
- ISBN10: 0062074245
- Language: English
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
$25.00 Add to cart“Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk’s life of Wittgenstein is such a one.”–The Christian Science Monitor.
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140159959
- Language: English
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The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
$11.99 Add to cartEpicureanism is commonly regarded as the refined satisfaction of physical desires. As a philosophy, however, it also denoted the striving after an independent state of mind and body, imperturbability,… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0879758104
- Language: English
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How to Think about God: An Ancient Guide for Believers and Nonbelievers
$18.95 Add to cartA vivid and accessible new translation of Cicero’s influential writings on the Stoic idea of the divine
Most ancient Romans were deeply religious and their world was overflowing with gods–from Jupite- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Cicero, Marcus Tullius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0691183651
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$14.95 Add to carthus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537097
- Language: English
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Aristotle: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe influence of Aristotle, the prince of philosophers, on the intellectual history of the West is second to none. In this book, Jonathan Barnes examines Aristotle’s scientific researches, his discove… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #32
- Author: Barnes, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0192854089
- Language: English
