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The Gay Science
$10.00 Read moreAlthough dour in appearance and formidable in reputation, Friedrich Nietzsche was an ardent practitioner of the art of poetry–known in twelfth-century Proven al as “the gay science.” This extensive c… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 21 2020
- ISBN10: 0486841685
- Language: English
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Nothing: A Philosophical History
$28.99 Add to cartAn entertaining history of the idea of nothing – including absences, omissions, and shadows – from the Ancient Greeks through the 20th century
How can nothing cause something? The absence of something- Author: Sorensen, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0199742839
- Language: English
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Plato: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis lively and accessible book focuses on the philosophy and argument of Plato’s writings, drawing the reader into Plato’s way of doing philosophy and the general themes of his thinking. It discusses… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #79
- Author: Annas, Julia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: May 15 2003
- ISBN10: 019280216X
- Language: English
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On Indigenuity: Learning the Lessons of Mother Earth
$16.95 Add to cartMother Earth is calling on us to act–the collective wisdom of thousands of years of Indigenous knowledge can guide us. Indigenuity, or Indigenous ingenuity, stems from an ancient idea and practice th… [more below]
- Series: Speaker’s Corner
- Author: Wildcat, Daniel R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1682753441
- Language: English
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Fear and Trembling
$18.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037579
- Language: English
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Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
$22.00 Add to cart” This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the ‘Westt’s mainstream high culture’ and the ‘radically changing world’ of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and sch… [more below]
- Author: Tarnas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 16 1993
- ISBN10: 0345368096
- Language: English
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Enchiridion
$5.00 Add to cartAlthough he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus (ca. 50-ca. 130 CE) maintained that all people are free to control their lives and live in harmony with nature…. [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epictetus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: January 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0486433595
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of History
$24.99 Add to cartHegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history — a novel concept in the early nineteenth century. With this work, he created the history of philosoph… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 457
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0486437558
- Language: English
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Gorgias: The Transnational Politics of Contemporary Native Culture
$14.95 Add to cartWith a masterful sense of the place of rhetoric in both thought and practice and an ear attuned to the clarity, natural simplicity, and charm of Plato’s Greek prose, James H. Nichols, Jr., offers a pr
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Plato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: October 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0801485274
- Language: English
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The Stone Reader: Modern Philosophy in 133 Arguments
$25.00 Add to cartOnce solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York
- Author: Catapano, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091495
- Language: English
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Philosophy for Dummies
$27.99 Add to cartYou think, therefore you are. Get a straightforward rundown on philosophy from the ancient world to today
If you’ve ever pondered your existence over your morning coffee or considered the nature of cr
- Author: Morris, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1119875676
- Language: English
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Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume II: Medieval Philosophers Volume 2
$19.95 Add to cartPeter 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: 168
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780113
- Language: English
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How to Drink: A Classical Guide to the Art of Imbibing
$16.95 Add to cartA spirited new translation of a forgotten classic, shot through with timeless wisdom
Is there an art to drinking alcohol? Can drinking ever be a virtue? The Renaissance humanist and neoclassical poet- Series: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers
- Author: Obsopoeus, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 14 2020
- ISBN10: 0691192146
- Language: English
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Spinoza’s Ethics
$27.95 Add to cartAn authoritative edition of George Eliot’s elegant translation of Spinoza’s greatest philosophical work
In 1856, Marian Evans completed her translation of Benedict de Spinoza’s Ethics while living in- Author: Spinoza, Benedictus De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 14 2020
- ISBN10: 069119324X
- Language: English
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Return to Center
$23.00 Add to cartTokala Two Elk was born in a chicken coop on the Pine Ridge Reservation, home of the Oglala Lakota Nation . . .
From his humble beginnings, Tokala became a man whose life would be shaped by Spirit, c
- Author: Two Elk, Tokala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: March 18 2024
- ISBN10: 1935052993
- Language: English
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The Chomsky-Foucault Debate: On Human Nature
$15.95 Add to cartIn this historic 1971 debate, two of the twentieth century’s most influential thinkers discuss whether there is such a thing as innate human nature.
In 1971, at the height of the Vietnam War and at a- Author: Chomsky, Noam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 18 2006
- ISBN10: 1595581340
- Language: English
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The Nicomachean Ethics
$17.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the most important philosophical works of all time
A Penguin Classic Aristotle’s classic treatise is based on his famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates takin- Author: Aristotle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: August 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0140455477
- Language: English
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What Is Philosophy?
$26.95 Add to cartCalled by many France’s foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with F?ix Guattari have established
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 23 1996
- ISBN10: 0231079893
- Language: English
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The Roots of Romanticism: Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cartA brilliant brief account of romanticism and its influence from one of the most important philosophers and intellectual historians of the twentieth century
In The Roots of Romanticism, one of the twen- Series: Bollingen #45
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 0691156204
- Language: English
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Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
$28.99 Add to cartHow do we find calm in times of stress and uncertainty? How do we cope with sudden losses or find meaning in a world that can easily rob us of what we most value? Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, M… [more below]
- Author: Sherman, Nancy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 11 2021
- ISBN10: 0197501834
- Language: English
