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Native American Wisdom
$16.00 Add to cartWe recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection wit… [more below]
- Series: Classic Wisdom Collections
- Author: Mengelkoch, Louise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0931432782
- Language: English
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gutting, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198830785
- Language: English
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Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson: All and Everything, First Series
$35.00 Add to cartA landmark exploration of the human condition with the goal of bringing self-awareness in one’s daily life
With Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, G. I. Gurdjieff intended to “destroy, mercilessly . .- Series: Compass
- Author: Gurdjieff, G. I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1248
- Publish Date: August 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140194738
- Language: English
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Bergsonism
$25.95 Add to cartWhat is needed for something new to appear? According to Gilles Deleuze, one of the most brilliant of contemporary philosophers, this question of “novelty” is the major problem posed by Bergson’s work
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Deleuze, Gilles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0942299078
- Language: English
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The Sublime Object of Ideology
$26.95 Add to cartSlavoj Žižek, the maverick philosopher, author of over 30 books, acclaimed as the “Elvis of cultural theory”, and today’s most controversial public intellectual. His work traverses the field… [more below]
- Series: Essential Zizek
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 05 2009
- ISBN10: 1844673006
- Language: English
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A History of Western Philosophy: From the Pre-Socratics to Postmodernism
$69.99 Add to cartPlato. Aristotle. Augustine. Hume. Kant. Hegel.These names and the philosophies associated with them ring through the minds of every student and scholar of philosophy. And in their search for knowledg
- Author: Evans, C. Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: October 09 2018
- ISBN10: 0830852220
- Language: English
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Of the Social Contract and Other Political Writings
$11.00 Add to cartA lively new translation of Rousseau’s best-known work, accompanied by additional political writings
“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” are the famous opening words of Jean-Jacques Rou- Author: Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0141191759
- Language: English
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A Life in Letters
$37.95 Add to cartThe inspiring letters of philosopher, mystic, and freedom fighter Simone Weil to her family, presented for the first time in English.
Now in the pantheon of great thinkers, Simone Weil (1909-1943) liv- Author: Weil, Simone
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0674292375
- Language: English
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
$29.95 Read moreA shocking and extreme interpretation of the father of psychoanalysis.
- Author: Brown, Norman O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 387
- Publish Date: June 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0819561444
- Language: English
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Representations of the Intellectual
$19.00 Add to cartIn these impassioned and inspiring essays, based on his 1993 Reith Lectures, Edward Said explores what it means to be an intellectual today.
Are intellectuals merely the servants of special interests- Author: Said, Edward W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 02 1996
- ISBN10: 0679761276
- Language: English
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Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition
$59.95 Add to cartHailed as “one of the most significant books ever published,” this work of far-reaching vision is a comprehensive exploration of the evolution of human consciousness
In this tour de force of scholars- Author: Wilber, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 880
- Publish Date: January 02 2001
- ISBN10: 1570627444
- Language: English
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A Nietzsche Reader
$17.00 Read moreThe literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellectual inquiry was left untouched by his iconoclastic genius. The philosopher who announced … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 26 1978
- ISBN10: 0140443290
- Language: English
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Life of the Mind: One/Thinking, Two/Willing
$21.99 Add to cartThe most intriguing…and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist
- Series: Harvest/HBJ Book
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 521
- Publish Date: March 16, 1981
- ISBN10: 0156519925
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartScholars have largely misunderstood Soren Kierkegaard, remembering him chiefly in connection with the development of existentialist philosophy in this century. In a short and unhappy life, he wrote ma… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #58
- Author: Gardiner, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0192802569
- Language: English
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The Enneagram of G. I. Gurdjieff: Mathematics, Metaphysics, Music, and Meaning
$25.00 Add to cartDr. Christian Wertenbaker was a practicing physician for forty years, with post-graduate training in neurology, ophthalmology, neuro-ophthalmology, and neurophysiology. Recently retired from active pr… [more below]
- Series: Codhill Press
- Author: Wertenbaker, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1930337949
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Living
$14.50 Read moreThis volume asks poignant questions about what it means to be alive and inhabit the present.
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary–to be alive–and the absolutenes- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Jullien, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090561
- Language: English
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The Will to Power
$18.95 Read moreRepresents a selection from Nietzche’s notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.
Nietzsche’s notebooks, kept by him during hi- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 12 1968
- ISBN10: 0394704371
- Language: English
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The Rise of Modern Philosophy
$21.99 Add to cartSir Anthony Kenny’s engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy captures the fascinating story of the emergence, from the ea… [more below]
- Series: New History of Western Philosophy #3
- Author: Kenny, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 30 2008
- ISBN10: 0198752768
- Language: English
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Beyond Good and Evil
$14.99 Add to cartBeyond Good and Evil is a captivating philosophical masterpiece that challenges conventional thinking and explores the depths of human nature. Written by Friedrich Nietzsche, this influential work del
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 25 2023
- ISBN10: 9358562277
- Language: English
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The Signature of All Things: On Method
$28.95 Read moreInternationally renowned philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s bold redefinition of methodological inquiry into the human sciences
The Signature of All Things is Giorgio Agamben’s sustained reflection on meth- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Agamben, Giorgio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1890951986
- Language: English
