Princeton Classics
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The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology
$29.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has permitt
- Series: Princeton Classics #22
- Author: Kantorowicz, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 632
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0691169233
- Language: English
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The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition
$39.95 Add to cartOriginally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and so
- Series: Princeton Classics #25
- Author: Pocock, John Greville Agard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 664
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691172234
- Language: English
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Justice and the Politics of Difference
$22.95 Add to cartA landmark work of political theory on the central importance of group identity and cultural pluralism in political life
Justice and the Politics of Difference challenges the prevailing reduction of s- Series: Princeton Classics #122
- Author: Young, Iris Marion
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0691235163
- Language: English
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
$23.95 Add to cartWhen it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers d
- Series: Princeton Classics #30
- Author: Rorty, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178151
- Language: English
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Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
$27.95 Add to cartA compelling look at the problem of evil in modern thought, from the Inquisition to global terrorism
Evil threatens human reason, for it challenges our hope that the world makes sense. For eighteenth-- Series: Princeton Classics #74
- Author: Neiman, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168504
- Language: English
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Leviathan and the Air-Pump: Hobbes, Boyle, and the Experimental Life
$26.95 Add to cartLeviathan and the Air-Pump examines the conflicts over the value and propriety of experimental methods between two major seventeenth-century thinkers: Thomas Hobbes, author of the political treatise L
- Series: Princeton Classics #32
- Author: Shapin, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 069117816X
- Language: English
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Twelve Who Ruled: The Year of Terror in the French Revolution
$27.95 Add to cartThe Reign of Terror continues to fascinate scholars as one of the bloodiest periods in French history, when the Committee of Public Safety strove to defend the first Republic from its many enemies, cr
- Series: Princeton Classics #28
- Author: Palmer, R. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 04 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175926
- Language: English
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The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph
$22.95 Add to cartIn this volume, Albert Hirschman reconstructs the intellectual climate of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to illuminate the intricate ideological transformation that occurred, wherein the pur
- Series: Princeton Classics #2
- Author: Hirschman, Albert O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160252
- Language: English
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Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartIn Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet’s father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him
- Series: Princeton Classics #4
- Author: Greenblatt, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160244
- Language: English
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist
$27.95 Add to cartThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewe
- Series: Princeton Classics #3
- Author: Kaufmann, Walter A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: October 20 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160260
- Language: English
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Hou… [more below]
- Series: Princeton Classics #39
- Author: Tatar, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 069118299X
- Language: English
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Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature – New and Expanded Edition
$27.95 Add to cartThe classic book that has taught generations how to read Western literature
More than half a century after its translation into English, Erich Auerbach’s Mimesis remains a masterpiece of literary crit- Series: Princeton Classics #1
- Author: Auerbach, Erich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 06 2013
- ISBN10: 0691160228
- Language: English
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Racism: A Short History
$22.95 Add to cartA concise history of racism from its emergence in the late Middle Ages to today
Are antisemitism and white supremacy manifestations of a general phenomenon? Why didn’t racism appear in Europe before t- Series: Princeton Classics #106
- Author: Fredrickson, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167052
- Language: English
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The Ethics of Identity
$19.95 Add to cartA bold vision of liberal humanism for navigating today’s complex world of growing identity politics and rising nationalism
Collective identities such as race, nationality, religion, gender, and sexual- Series: Princeton Classics #132
- Author: Appiah, Kwame Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254079
- Language: English
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
$22.95 Add to cartA landmark work of literary criticism
Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with th- Series: Princeton Classics #69
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202567
- Language: English
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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
$19.95 Add to cartA landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West
The Great Divergence sheds light on one of the great questions of history: Why did su- Series: Princeton Classics #117
- Author: Pomeranz, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 404
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0691217181
- Language: English
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The Open Society and Its Enemies
$29.95 Add to cartA landmark defense of democracy that has been hailed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century
One of the most important books of the twentieth century, The Open Society and Its Enem- Series: Princeton Classics #115
- Author: Popper, Karl R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 808
- Publish Date: September 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210845
- Language: English
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Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay
$16.95 Add to cartNamed one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time by the Modern Library
Anne Carson’s remarkable first book about the paradoxical nature of romantic love Since it was first published, Eros the Bi- Series: Princeton Classics #130
- Author: Carson, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691247935
- Language: English
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Men, Women, and Chain Saws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFrom its first publication in 1992, Men, Women, and Chain Saws has offered a groundbreaking perspective on the creativity and influence of horror cinema since the mid-1970s. Investigating the populari
- Series: Princeton Classics #15
- Author: Clover, Carol J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 26, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166293
- Language: English
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The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History – Abridged Edition
$24.95 Add to cartThe Muqaddimah, often translated as “Introduction” or “Prolegomenon,” is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khald甁 (d
- Series: Princeton Classics #13
- Author: Khaldûn, Ibn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: April 27, 2015
- ISBN10: 0691166285
- Language: English
