Philosophers
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Time of the Magicians: Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer, Heidegger, and the Decade That Reinvented Philosophy
$19.00 Read more“[A] fascinating and accessible account . . . In his entertaining book, Mr. Eilenberger shows that his magicians’ thoughts are still worth collecting, even if, with hindsight, we can see that some per… [more below]
- Author: Eilenberger, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 052555968X
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Happy Failure
$18.95 Read moreAlice von Hildebrand is a household name to many who know her from her countless EWTN appearances, her books, and her extensive articles and essays. What is little known is the story of her life, nota… [more below]
- Author: Von Hildebrand, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1505130751
- Language: English
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Where the Shadows Dance
$24.95 Read moreHe got sober,
I got brokenIt would be easy to say Where the Shadows Dance is a memoir about a marriage–but marriage is simply the setting. Dana Killion dives deep into what we do for love, what we
- Author: Killion, Dana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1637556411
- Language: English
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Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical Imagination
$34.95 Read moreWhat does it mean to be a politically committed writer?
Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethica- Author: Shatz, Adam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1804290599
- Language: English
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Maimonides: Faith in Reason
$26.00 Read moreAn exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles
Moses ben Maimon, or Maim- Series: Jewish Lives
- Author: Manguel, Alberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0300217897
- Language: English
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Sayings and Anecdotes: With Other Popular Moralists
$15.95 Add to cartDiogenes the Cynic is famed for walking the streets with a lamp in daylight, looking for an honest man. His biting wit and eccentric behavior were legendary, and it was by means of his renowned aphori… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Diogenes the Cynic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 16 2012
- ISBN10: 0199589240
- Language: English
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Nietzsche in Italy
$16.95 Add to cartA fascinating classic account of Nietzsche’s travels in Italy at the end of the nineteenth century, where he found inspiration for his major works
First published in 1929, Nietzsche in Italy has neve… [more below]- Author: De Pourtales, Guy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1782277285
- 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 Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the celebrated British author and historian: a brilliant new book combining historical inquiry and storytelling lan to paint an unprecedentedly vivid portrait of Socrates and the Golden Age of c… [more below]
- Author: Hughes, Bettany
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: February 14 2012
- ISBN10: 1400076013
- Language: English
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In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility
$19.95 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Charming and brilliant.” —Times Literary Supplement
“Provocative, stimulating, wise―the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read.”―To- Author: Bradatan, Costica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0674297202
- Language: English
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The Essential William James
$18.00 Add to cartWilliam James (1842-1910) was one of the most original and influential American thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a professor at Harvard University he published many works that ha… [more below]
- Author: Shook, John R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 422
- Publish Date: May 24 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144394
- Language: English
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Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World
$15.95 Add to cartThe three texts this book, all written in vastly different eras —The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Marx and Engels, Reform or Revolution (1899) by Rosa Luxemburg and Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965) … [more below]
- Series: The Che Guevara Library
- Author: Luxemburg, Rosa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644212803
- Language: English
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Giordano Bruno: Philosopher / Heretic
$22.00 Add to cartGiordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowland’s biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Sha
- Author: Rowland, Ingrid D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0226730247
- Language: English
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The Great Philosophers: Wittgenstein
$7.99 Read more‘Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself’ Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein overturned centuries of philosophical reflection on the nature of ‘the inner’, of our subjective experience and of our know- Series: Great Philosophers
- Author: Hacker, Peter
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1474616771
- Language: English
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Places of Mind: A Life of Edward Said
$32.99 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
Both controversi
The first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth century.- Author: Brennan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1250829682
- Language: English
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The Man on Whom Nothing Was Lost: The Grand Strategy of Charles Hill
$25.99 Add to cartPsychologically astute and passionately written, Molly Worthen’s remarkable debut charts the intricate relationship between student and teacher, biographer and subject. As a Yale freshman, Worthen fou… [more below]
- Author: Worthen, Molly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 16 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872671
- Language: English
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
$32.50 Add to cartThe philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau burst unexpectedly onto the eighteenth-century literary scene as a provocateur whose works electrified readers. An autodidact who had not written anything of sign… [more below]
- Author: Damrosch, Leo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 14 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872027
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Biography
$60.00 Add to cartOne of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 812
- Publish Date: June 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0521003873
- Language: English
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
$22.99 Add to cartWorshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powerful thinker whose views on government and markets sh
- Author: Burns, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 019983248X
- Language: English
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Truth Imagined
$13.95 Add to cartBlind as a child, Eric Hoffer–one of America’s most important thinkers–regained his sight at the age of fifteen and became a voracious reader. At eighteen, fate would take his remaining family, send
- Author: Hoffer, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: December 25 2005
- ISBN10: 1933435011
- Language: English
