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Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations: Ancient Philosophy for Modern Problems
$19.95 Add to cartWhen philosophy rescued him from an emotional crisis, Jules Evans became fascinated by how ideas invented over two thousand years ago can help us today. He interviewed soldiers, psychologists, gangste… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1608682293
- Language: English
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Enlightenment: The Rise of Modern Paganism (Revised)
$37.99 Add to cartIn the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Now a master historian goes back to the sources to give a fully rounded accou… [more below]
- Series: Enlightenment an Interpretation
- Author: Gay, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 590
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0393313026
- Language: English
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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza
$37.00 Add to cartIn this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. F
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: February 04 1992
- ISBN10: 0942299515
- Language: English
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Stoicism and the Art of Happiness: Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
$16.99 Add to cartThe stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition-insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 3… [more below]
- Author: Robertson, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1473674786
- Language: English
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Great Political Theories, Volume 1: A Comprehensive Selection of the Crucial Ideas in Political Philosophy from the Greeks to the Enlightenment
$19.99 Add to cartVolume 1 of the classic anthology of political thought: a comprehensive selection of the crucial ideas in political philosophy from Plato and Aristotle to Locke and Montesquieu
As an introduction to po
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Curtis, M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: March 11, 2008
- ISBN10: 0061351369
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche PB
$22.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 896
- Publish Date: November 28 2000
- ISBN10: 0679783393
- Language: English
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Philosophy: Who Needs It
$9.99 Read moreThis collection of essays was the last work planned by Ayn Rand before her death in 1982. In it, she summarizes her view of philosophy and deals with a broad spectrum of topics.
According to Ayn Rand- Series: Ayn Rand Library
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0451138937
- Language: English
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The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy
$50.00 Add to cartThis book is a study of ancient views about “moral luck.” It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a pers… [more below]
- Author: Nussbaum, Martha C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: January 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0521794722
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
$18.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and sub- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 30 1978
- ISBN10: 0140047484
- Language: English
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Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
$23.95 Add to cartThe forgotten story of Central Asia’s enlightenment–its rise, fall, and enduring legacy
In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown s- Author: Starr, S. Frederick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: June 02 2015
- ISBN10: 0691165858
- Language: English
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Tao Te Ching
$16.95 Read moreThe pursuit of power, happiness, and life’s meaning is as old as history itself, as the Tao Te Ching (The Book of the Way and Its Virtue) attests. Dating from two and a half millennia ago, this timele… [more below]
- Author: Tzu, Lao
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486841901
- Language: English
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Pensées and Other Writings
$11.95 Add to cartFor much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Pascal, Blaise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199540365
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
$27.95 Add to cartBirth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is not solely an issue; it is a fundamental part of the h
- Author: Banks, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1324006390
- Language: English
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The Discourses of Epictetus: The Handbook, Fragments
$9.95 Add to cartFor centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world
The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is- Series: Everyman Library
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 02 1995
- ISBN10: 0460873121
- Language: English
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Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume III: Modern Philosophers Volume 3
$19.95 Read morePeter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner’s philosophy text that
- Series: Socrates’ Children
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780075
- Language: English
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Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life
$19.95 Add to cart“A volume of Adorno is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature.” –Susan Sontag
A reflection on everyday existence in the ‘sphere of consumption of late Capitalism’, this work is Adorno’s l- Author: Adorno, Theodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 31 2020
- ISBN10: 1788738535
- Language: English
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How to Be Content: An Ancient Poet’s Guide for an Age of Excess
$18.95 Read moreWhat the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of contentment
What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome’s greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Horace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0691182523
- Language: English
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Ideas Have Consequences
$34.83 Add to cartOriginally published in 1948, at the height of post-World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses “words hard as cannonballs” to present an unsparing diagno… [more below]
- Author: Weaver, Richard M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 04 2013
- ISBN10: 022609006X
- Language: English
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
$18.00 Add to cartMasterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works.
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche using philsophy,… [more below]- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 17 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724621
- Language: English
