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Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartWidely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist philosophy ever written, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett speaks eloquently and directly to concerns of the … [more below]
- Author: Barrett, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 314
- Publish Date: July 01 1962
- ISBN10: 0385031386
- Language: English
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Everything, All the Time, Everywhere: How We Became Postmodern
$19.95 Read moreA radical new history of a dangerous idea
Post-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world f- Author: Jeffries, Stuart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1788738233
- Language: English
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The Birth of Tragedy and the Case of Wagner
$14.00 Read moreTwo representative and important works in one volume by one of the greatest German philosophers.
The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche’s first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche i- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 12 1967
- ISBN10: 0394703693
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$22.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- Language: English
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The Analects of Confucius: A Philosophical Translation
$17.00 Read more“To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary–is this not me?”
Confucius is recognized as China’s firs
–Confucius- Series: Classics of Ancient China
- Author: Ames, Roger T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 1999
- ISBN10: 0345434072
- Language: English
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The Light of Hermes Trismegistus: New Translations of Seven Essential Hermetic Texts
$50.00 Read moreA presentation of seven essential texts, central to the Hermetic Tradition, never before published together
– Includes Theogony, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes, The Poem of Parmenides, The Poimandres, The- Author: Stein, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1644114615
- Language: English
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Treatise on Law: Summa Theologica, Questions 90-97
$18.99 Read moreIn his treatise on law comprising questions 90-97 of the Summa Theologica, St. Thomas presents a philosophical analysis of the nature and structure of law. Believing that law achieves its results by i… [more below]
- Author: Aquinas, Saint Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: September 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0895267055
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$14.99 Read moreBeyond Good and Evil is a captivating philosophical masterpiece that challenges conventional thinking and explores the depths of human nature. Written by Friedrich Nietzsche, this influential work del
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562277
- Language: English
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Tragic Sense of Life
$14.95 Read moreThe acknowledged masterpiece of one of Spain’s most influential thinkers. Between despair and the desire for something better, Unamuno finds that saving incertitude that alone can console us. Dynamic … [more below]
- Author: Unamuno, Miguel de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 01 1954
- ISBN10: 0486202577
- Language: English
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How to Read Wittgenstein
$14.95 Read moreApproaching the writing of major intellectuals, artists, and philosophers need no longer be daunting. How to Read is a new sort of introduction–a personal master class in reading–that brings you fac… [more below]
- Series: How to Read #0
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393328201
- Language: English
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How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong
$14.95 Read moreIn a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intr
- Author: LaTour, Bruno
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: January 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1509559477
- Language: English
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Breakfast with Seneca: A Stoic Guide to the Art of Living
$26.95 Read moreStoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most ta
- Author: Fideler, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 14 2021
- ISBN10: 039353166X
- Language: English
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The Care of the Self
$18.00 Add to cartMichel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a subtle but decisive break from the classical Greek vision of sexual pleasure. He skillful… [more below]
- Series: History of Sexuality #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 279
- Publish Date: November 28 1988
- ISBN10: 0394741552
- Language: English
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What Is Posthumanism?: Volume 8
$24.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to think beyond humanism? Is it possible to craft a mode of philosophy, ethics, and interpretation that rejects the classic humanist divisions of self and other, mind and body, socie
- Series: PostHumanities (Paperback) #8
- Author: Wolfe, Cary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0816666156
- Language: English
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Drawn and Quartered
$19.99 Read moreIn this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task,… [more below]
- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1611456967
- Language: English
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Aquinas: A Beginner’s Guide
$15.99 Add to cartCharting the life and thought of this hugely influential medieval thinker.
One of the most influential philosophers and theologians in the history of Western thought, St Thomas Aquinas established the- Series: Beginner’s Guides
- Author: Feser, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1851686908
- Language: English
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Hegel in a Wired Brain
$19.95 Add to cartIn Hegel and the Wired Brain, Slavoj Zizek gives us a reading of philosophical giant G.W.F. Hegel that changes our way of thinking about the new posthuman era. No ordinary study of Hegel, this work in
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1350264040
- Language: English
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The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas
$38.33 Read moreKnown as the “patron saint of all outsiders,” Simone Weil (1909-43) was one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable thinkers, a philosopher who truly lived by her political and ethical ideals. In a… [more below]
- Author: Zaretsky, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 022654933X
- Language: English
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The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca: Essays and Letters
$17.95 Read moreIn The Stoic Philosophy of Seneca, representative selections from Seneca’s writings offer the reader an excellent introduction to the range of his work.
The selections are drawn from the essays, or di… [more below]
- Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 17 1968
- ISBN10: 0393004597
- Language: English
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The Story of Philosophy
$18.00 Read morePulitzer Prize-winning author Will Durant chronicles the lives and ideas of several key philosophical thinkers throughout history in this informative and eminently readable text. Beginning with Socrat… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0486848558
- Language: English
