Philosophers
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Maestros & Monsters: Days & Nights with Susan Sontag & George Steiner
$24.95 Read moreThis is a memoiristic book and a dual portrait, built around intense friendships with two leading public intellectuals who achieved celebrity status–Susan Sontag on a global scale, George Steiner pri… [more below]
- Author: Boyers, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1942134886
- Language: English
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Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life
$35.00 Add to cartSocrates has been hiding in plain sight. We call him the father of Western philosophy, but what exactly are his philosophical views? He is famous for his humility, but readers often find him arrogant
- Author: Callard, Agnes
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1631498460
- Language: English
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Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor
$18.00 Read moreExperience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy
“[Robertson] thoughtfully and readably capture[s] the essenc- Series: Ancient Lives
- Author: Robertson, Donald J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280149
- Language: English
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The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
$32.50 Add to cartGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a “universal genius” who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs in most of them. Leibniz invented calculus (indepen
- Author: Kempe, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093943
- Language: English
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Herald of a Restless World: How Henri Bergson Brought Philosophy to the People
$32.00 Add to cartThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri- Author: Herring, Emily
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1541600940
- Language: English
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The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution
$19.95 Read moreFoucault’s personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politics
Part intellectual history, part critical theory, The Last Man Takes LSD challenges the way w… [more below]- Author: Dean, Mitchell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292648
- Language: English
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Osho: Intimate Glimpses
$14.95 Read moreThe last words Osho spoke before leaving the body:
“Anando will be my medium.”Through a series of poignant memories and anecdotes, Anando offers a glimpse into the private life of the twentieth-centu… [more below]
- Author: Anando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 01 2021
- ISBN10: 8183285694
- Language: English
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Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
$25.62 Read more“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir
A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher- Author: Kirkpatrick, Kate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: August 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1350168432
- Language: English
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Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master: A Yogi’s Autobiography
$19.95 Read moreIn this tell-all autobiography, Sri M writes about his fascinating journey as a young man from the southern coast of India to the mystical Himalayan Mountains. At the age of nineteen and a half, he fe… [more below]
- Author: M, Sri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 27 2022
- ISBN10: 0143458582
- Language: English
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The Soul of a Lion: The Life of Dietrich Von Hildebrand
$17.95 Add to cartDietrich von Hildebrand, widely regarded as one of the great Catholic philosophers of the 20th century, is well-known for his numerous books, but, until this present work, not much has been known of h… [more below]
- Author: Von Hildebrand, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: August 22 2000
- ISBN10: 089870801X
- 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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Machiavelli: The Art of Teaching People What to Fear
$17.99 Read moreA NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE
In a series of poignant vignettes, a preeminent historian makes a compelling case for Machiavelli as an unjustly maligned figure with valuable political insights that- Author: Boucheron, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1590519523
- Language: English
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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
$21.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – An “outstanding new intellectual biography of John Maynard Keynes [that moves] swiftly along currents of lucidity and wit” (The New York Times), illuminating the world of t… [more below]
- Author: Carter, Zachary D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0525509054
- 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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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 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
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Socrates: A Life Worth Living
$19.95 Read moreA lively and accessible introduction to the quintessential philosopher, and the civilized world’s first enemy of the state.
Named a Best Teen & YA Nonfiction title of 2022 by Kirkus Reviews Socrates:- Series: Philosophy for Young People
- Author: Lehmann, Devra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 164421136X
- Language: English
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Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero
$18.00 Read moreFrom acclaimed classical historian, author of Ghost on the Throne a high-stakes drama full of murder, madness, tyranny, perversion, with the sweep of history on the grand scale.
At the center, the tum- Author: Romm, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 02 2014
- ISBN10: 0307743748
- Language: English
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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
$21.00 Read moreNearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true–yet never provable–continues to unsettle mathematics,
- Author: Budiansky, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1324035935
- Language: English
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Private Notebooks: 1914-1916
$24.95 Read moreDuring the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminen… [more below]
- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324090804
- Language: English
