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Hegel Contra Sociology
$19.95 Add to cartGillian Rose is among the twentieth century’s most important social philosophers. In perhaps her most significant work, Hegel Contra Sociology, Rose mounts a forceful defence of Hegelian speculative t… [more below]
- Series: Radical Thinkers
- Author: Rose, Gillian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 09 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673545
- Language: English
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Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole
$19.00 Add to cartThis book identifies eight key mechanisms that can transform a set of ideas into a psychological flytrap. The author suggests that, like the black holes of outer space, from which nothing, not even li… [more below]
- Author: Law, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 1616144114
- Language: English
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How We Walk: Frantz Fanon and the Politics of the Body
$24.95 Read more“In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Beaumont reminds us that walking is far from a neutral activity. With the help of Frantz Fanon, Beaumont locates freedom at the level of the body; free from… [more below]
- Author: Beaumont, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1804290076
- Language: English
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Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
$19.95 Add to cartIn this seminal work, Dr. Szasz examines the similarities between the Inquisition and institutional psychiatry. His purpose is to show “that the belief in mental illness and the social actions to whic
- Author: Szasz, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: April 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0815604610
- Language: English
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Grief: A Philosophical Guide
$16.95 Add to cartAn engaging and illuminating exploration of grief–and why, despite its intense pain, it can also help us grow
Experiencing grief at the death of a person we love or who matters to us–as universal as- Author: Cholbi, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0691232733
- Language: English
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El Amor Es Imposible
$22.95 Add to cartEl nuevo libro de DarÃo Sztajnszrajber.
Qué significa que el único amor verdadero sea el amor imposible? Es el amor lo que suponemos que es? O antes que eso, es lo imposible aquello definido como
- Author: Sztajnszrajber, DarÃo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 6075694447
- Language: Spanish
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The Second Treatise of Civil Government
$12.99 Add to cartAs one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the origins of civil society.Endeavoring to reconstruct the … [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Locke, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: March 01 1986
- ISBN10: 0879753374
- Language: English
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Six Great Ideas
$16.99 Add to cartEach summer, Mortimer J. Adler conducts a seminar at the Aspen Institute in Colorado. At the 1981 seminar, leaders from the worlds of business, literature, education, and the arts joined him in an in-… [more below]
- Author: Adler, Mortimer J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 28 2010
- ISBN10: 068482681X
- Language: English
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Utopia
$12.00 Add to cartA major new translation of Thomas More’s popular work of philosophical fiction
In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in p- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: More, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141442328
- Language: English
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Subjectivity and Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1980-1981
$25.99 Add to cartFoucault must be reckoned with. —The New York Times Book Review
Praise for Foucault’s Lectures at the Coll ge de France Series
“Ideas spark off nearly every page…The words may have been spoken in t- Series: Lectures at the Coll?ge de France #12
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 125019508X
- Language: English
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On Inequality
$17.95 Read moreFrom the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, the case for worrying less about the rich and more about the poor
Economic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time. Y- Author: Frankfurt, Harry G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 29 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167141
- Language: English
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Abnormal: Lectures at the College de France 1974-1975
$26.99 Add to cartFrom 1971 until his death in 1984, Foucault gave public lectures at the world-famous College de France. Attended by thousands, these were seminal events in the world of French letters. Picador is prou
- Series: Lectures at the College de France #4
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 374
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312424051
- Language: English
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Economic Theory and Community Development: Why putting community first is essential to our survival
$26.95 Add to cartThis book critiques not just neoliberal economics but also the fundamental separation among humans that all economic theories presuppose. Excessive reliance on economic assumptions and practices has c
- Author: Richards, Howard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 458
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1952292085
- Language: English
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A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life
$25.99 Add to cartIn this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher Andr? Comte-Sponville reexamines the classical virtues to help us understand “what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live.” In the p
- Author: Comte-Sponville, Andr?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0805045562
- Language: English
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On Human Nature
$14.95 Add to cartA brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton
In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of hum- Author: Scruton, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0691183031
- Language: English
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Reason and Resonance: A History of Modern Aurality
$31.00 Read moreHearing has traditionally been understood as the second sense — less rational and modern than seeing, the master of all senses, the first sense. Reason and Resonance is the first full-length study to
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Erlmann, Veit
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1935408054
- Language: English
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This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive
$28.00 Read moreAn acclaimed philosopher and new father argues that engaging with beauty can make life worth living
You didn’t choose to live this life, in this body, in these conditions–this delicate and difficult
- Author: Riggle, Nick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1541675509
- Language: English
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Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life
$24.95 Add to cartAn invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning
In an overloaded, superficial, technological world, in which almost everything and everyb- Author: Hitz, Zena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 0691178712
- Language: English
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Bug Music
$21.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 2013, the cicadas in the Northeastern United States emerged from their seventeen-year cycle–the longest gestation period of any animal. Those who experienced this great sonic invasio
- Author: Rothenberg, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1250045053
- Language: English
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Wild Thought: A New Translation of “La Pensée Sauvage”
$34.50 Read moreAs the most influential anthropologist of his generation, Claude L vi-Strauss left a profound mark on the development of twentieth-century thought. Through a mixture of insights gleaned from linguisti
- Author: Lévi-Strauss, Claude
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: February 22, 2021
- ISBN10: 022641308X
- Language: English
