Philosophers
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Examined Life: Excursions with Contemporary Thinkers
$26.85 Add to cartEight renowned thinkers take philosophy to the streets in interviews drawn from a Toronto International Film Festival premiere
Examined Life boldly takes philosophy out of the dark corners of the acad
- Author: Taylor, Astra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 30 2009
- ISBN10: 1595584471
- Language: English
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It’s Been a Good Life
$28.99 Add to cartNew one-volume autobiography spans Asimov’s life for the first time!As one of the most gifted and prolific writers of the twentieth century, Isaac Asimov became legendary for his inexhaustible creativ… [more below]
- Author: Asimov, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: March 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1573929689
- Language: English
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Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic
$24.00 Add to cartUnderstand the life and teachings of Osho, one of the twentieth century’s most unusual gurus and philosophers, in Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic.
In 1990, Osho prepared for his departu- Author: Osho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 09 2001
- ISBN10: 0312280718
- Language: English
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Kant
$44.99 Add to cartThis is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful and influential in contemp… [more below]
- Series: Biography
- Author: Kuehn, Manfred
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 19 2002
- ISBN10: 0521524067
- Language: English
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Viktor Schauberger: A Life of Learning from Nature
$24.95 Add to cartSecond edition of a concise introduction to Schauberger’s life and thinking.
Viktor Schauberger’s knowledge of natural energies led to inventions which, if properly harnessed, could solve the world’s
- Author: Cobbald, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0863157246
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography
$28.99 Add to cartNo other modern philosopher has proved as influential as Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and none is as poorly understood. In the first new biography in decades, R diger Safranski, one of the foremost… [more below]
- Series: Philosophical Biography
- Author: Safranski, Rudiger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 0393323803
- Language: English
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The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
$35.00 Add to cartA definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy’s greatest champions
In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he- Author: Zunz, Olivier
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0691173974
- Language: English
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African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson, and the Idea of Negritude
$16.99 Read moreThis critically acclaimed study offers a distinct, incisive look at how Senegalese philosopher Senghor sees in African art the most acute expression of Bergson’s philosophy.
L駮pold S馘ar Senghor (1906-- Author: Diagne, Souleymane Bachir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 163542321X
- Language: English
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An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms
$16.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.
- Author: Toms, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 23 1990
- ISBN10: 0060972955
- Language: English
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The Quest for Character: What the Story of Socrates and Alcibiades Teaches Us about Our Search for Good Leaders
$28.00 Read moreThe author of How to Be a Stoic asks what might be philosophy’s ultimate question: can we learn to be better people?
Is good character something that can be taught? In 430 BCE, Socrates set out to te
- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1541646975
- Language: English
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
$38.25 Read moreFrom the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosophy of William James
In 1895, William James, the fathe- Author: Kaag, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0691192162
- Language: English
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Perdurabo, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Life of Aleister Crowley
$34.95 Add to cartA rigorously researched biography of the founder of modern magick, as well as a study of the occult, sexuality, Eastern religion, and more
The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of dia- Author: Kaczynski, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: August 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1556438990
- Language: English
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Albert Camus: A Life
$24.99 Add to cartIn this vibrant, engaging biography of Albert Camus, the internationally acclaimed author of The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall, French writer and journalist Olivier Todd has richly tapped resourc… [more below]
- Author: Todd, Olivier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0786707399
- Language: English
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution
$24.99 Add to cartBrilliantly researched and wonderfully written, Love and Capital reveals the rarely glimpsed and heartbreakingly human side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death.
Drawing upo- Author: Gabriel, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0316066125
- Language: English
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Lion of Light: Robert Anton Wilson on Aleister Crowley
$23.00 Add to cartThis eclectic collection presents a series of articles outlining Robert Anton Wilson’s unique perspective on the notorious scoundrel and mystic, Aleister Crowley – the Man, the Mage and his life’s wor
- Author: Wilson, Robert Anton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 330
- Publish Date: July 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1952746264
- Language: English
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Frantz Fanon
$22.00 Read moreA biography of the revolutionary philosopher and psychiatrist.
Doctor, militant, essayist, ambassador, teacher, journalist, pan-Africanist, Frantz Fanon sought to decolonize mid-twentieth-century cu- Series: Critical Lives
- Author: Williams, James S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1789148316
- Language: English
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Story of Philosophy
$20.99 Add to cartThis brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world’s great philosophers–Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell… [more below]
- Series: Touchstone Books (Paperback)
- Author: Durant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 30 1967
- ISBN10: 067120159X
- Language: English
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Dirty Electricity: Electrification and the Diseases of Civilization
$12.95 Add to cartWhen Thomas Edison began wiring New York City with a direct current electricity distribution system in the 1880s, he gave humankind the magic of electric light, heat, and power; in the process, though
- Author: Milham Mph, Samuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 05 2012
- ISBN10: 193890818X
- Language: English
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Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is–Revised Edition
$15.00 Add to cartIn late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of th… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445153
- Language: English
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Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy
$15.99 Add to cartThe beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.
“The journey began
- Author: Perry, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062230573
- Language: English
