History & Surveys - General
-
Fear and Trembling
$18.00 Add to cartThe perfect books for the true book lover, Penguin’s Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of history’s most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged wit… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Great Ideas
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037579
- Language: English
-
Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View
$22.00 Add to cart” This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the ‘Westt’s mainstream high culture’ and the ‘radically changing world’ of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and sch… [more below]
- Author: Tarnas, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 16 1993
- ISBN10: 0345368096
- Language: English
-
Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers: Volume IV: Contemporary Philosophers Volume 4
$19.95 Read morePeter Kreeft, esteemed philosophy professor and author of over eighty books, has taught college philosophy for sixty years. Throughout those decades, he yearned for a beginner’s philosophy text that
- Series: Socrates’ Children
- Author: Kreeft, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1685780083
- Language: English
-
The Way of Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartPhilosophy is the quest for a life that is fully alive. Drawing on the insights of philosophers through the ages, The Way of Philosophy clarifies what it means to live life intensely. It exposes the s… [more below]
- Author: Engelland, Chad
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: May 12 2016
- ISBN10: 1498220967
- Language: English
-
Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHow ought we to live? What really exists? How do we know? This Very Short Introduction discusses some of the key questions philosophy engages with. Edward Craig explores important themes in ethics, an… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Craig, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 019886177X
- Language: English
-
Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy
$19.99 Read moreDas Kapital, Karl Marx’s seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth … [more below]
- Series: Skeptical Reader
- Author: Marx, Karl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: July 01 1996
- ISBN10: 089526711X
- Language: English
-
Nihilism
$16.95 Add to cartAn examination of the meaning of meaninglessness: why it matters that nothing matters.
When someone is labeled a nihilist, it’s not usually meant as a compliment. Most of us associate nihilism with des
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Gertz, Nolen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 0262537176
- Language: English
-
Works of Love
$19.99 Add to cart“By far the most profound thinker of the 19th century” — Ludwig Wittgenstein
One of Soren Kierkegaard’s most important writings, Works of Love is a profound examination of the human heart, in which th
- Series: Harper Perennial Modern Thought
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 10 2009
- ISBN10: 0061713279
- Language: English
-
Why You Think the Way You Do: The Story of Western Worldviews from Rome to Home
$19.99 Add to cartHow do we come by our worldviews and philosophies? What impact did Christianity have on the worldviews that are common to Western civilization?
Why You Think the Way You Do traces the development of t
- Author: Sunshine, Glenn S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 3, 2009
- ISBN10: 0310292301
- Language: English
-
The Art of Worldly Wisdom
$10.99 Add to cart- Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
- Author: Graci?n, Baltasar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 114
- Publish Date: April 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0486440346
- Language: English
-
Nietzsche for Beginners
$14.95 Read moreNot only does Nietzsche For Beginners delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also give a clear picture of the puzzling time in which he lived. We meet the lum… [more below]
- Series: For Beginners (For Beginners)
- Author: Sautet, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 21 2007
- ISBN10: 1934389056
- Language: English
-
The History of Philosophy
$23.00 Add to cart“A witty, learned, authoritative survey of philosophical thought.” —The New York Times Book Review
The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and- Author: Grayling, A. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: February 2, 2021
- ISBN10: 198487876X
- Language: English
-
The Birth of Tragedy: Out of the Spirit of Music
$13.00 Add to cartThe first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil.
The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism,- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0140433392
- Language: English
-
A Little History of Philosophy
$15.00 Read moreFor readers of E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history’s greatest philosophers to life
“A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely se- Series: Little Histories
- Author: Warburton, Nigel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0300187793
- Language: English
-
The Present Age: On the Death of Rebellion
$14.99 Add to cart“A revolutionary age is an age of action; ours is the age of advertisement and publicity. Nothing ever happens but there is immediate publicity everywhere.”– From The Present Age
In The Present Age (1
- Author: Kierkegaard, Soren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 06, 2019
- ISBN10: 0062930850
- Language: English
-
How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy
$14.99 Add to cart*SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*
‘There to fill the Sapiens-size hole in your life’ Observer
In this groundbreaking global overview of philosophy, Julian Baggini travels the world to provide a wide-ranging map… [more below]- Author: Baggini, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1783782307
- Language: English
-
Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
$23.00 Add to cartIn Either/Or, using the voices of two characters–the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply “A,” and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section–Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: December 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140445773
- Language: English
-
Fear and Trembling
$17.00 Add to cartThe infamous and controversial work that made a lasting impression on both modern Protestant theology and existentialist philosophers such as Sartre and Camus
Writing under the pseudonym of “Johannes- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Eremita, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 1986
- ISBN10: 0140444491
- Language: English
