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The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
$27.00 Add to cartIn the tumultuous late 60s and early 70s, a social movement known as the “New Left” emerged as a major cultural influence, especially on the youth of America. It was a movement that embraced “flower-p… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0452011841
- Language: English
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Postmodernism
$12.99 Add to cartPostmodernism has become the buzzword of contemporary society over the last decade. But how can it be defined? In this highly readable introduction the mysteries of this most elusive of concepts are u… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #74
- Author: Butler, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0192802399
- Language: English
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Examined Life: Philosophical Meditations
$18.99 Add to cartOne of this century’s most original philosophical thinkers, Nozick brilliantly renews Socrates’s quest to uncover the life that is worth living. In brave and moving meditations on love, creativity, ha… [more below]
- Author: Nozick, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0671725017
- Language: English
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Pragmatism
$8.99 Read moreA profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philosopher of note, who used Charles S. Peirce’s theories of pragmatism as a basis for his own conception
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: James, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 02, 1995
- ISBN10: 0486282708
- Language: English
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
$25.00 Add to cart“Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk’s life of Wittgenstein is such a one.”–The Christian Science Monitor.
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140159959
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and Nobody
$14.95 Add to carthus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche’s own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537097
- Language: English
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
$24.95 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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Love and Saint Augustine
$22.00 Add to cartHannah Arendt began her scholarly career with an exploration of Saint Augustine’s concept of caritas, or neighborly love, written under the direction of Karl Jaspers and the influence of Martin Heideg… [more below]
- Author: Arendt, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: April 26 1998
- ISBN10: 0226025977
- Language: English
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How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy
$18.00 Add to cartA collection of essays by fifteen philosophers presenting a thoughtful, introductory guide to choosing a philosophy for living an examined and meaningful life.
Socrates famously said “the unexamined l- Author: Pigliucci, Massimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0525566147
- Language: English
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Spinoza: A Life
$31.00 Add to cartA fully updated new edition of the prize-winning and now standard biography of the great seventeenth-century philosopher Spinoza.
- Author: Nadler, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: August 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1108442463
- Language: English
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World as Will & Idea
$12.95 Add to cartThe nineteenth-century idealist philosopher and precursor of Freud
The World as Will and Idea (1819) holds that all nature, including man, is the expression of an insatiable will to life; that the tru- Series: Everyman Paperback Classics
- Author: Schopenhauer, Arthur
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0460875051
- Language: English
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Gnosis Volume I: Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition of Eastern Orthodoxy
$33.00 Add to cartBoris Mouravieff was an enigmatic ‘third man’, known to Gurdjieff and Ouspensky, who found and learned to practice what he clearly believed to be the complete system of which only ‘fragments’ had been
- Series: Gnosis, Exoteric Cycle
- Author: Mouravieff, Boris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1872292100
- Language: English
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Culture and Value
$14.00 Add to cartPeter Winch’s translation of Wittgenstein’s remarks on culture and value presents all entries chronologically, with the German text alongside the English and a subject index for reference.
“It was Wi- Author: Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 195
- Publish Date: May 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0226904350
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartHegel is regarded as one of the most influential figures on modern political and intellectual development. After painting Hegel’s life and times in broad strokes, Peter Singer goes on to tackle some o… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions #49
- Author: Singer, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 06 2001
- ISBN10: 019280197X
- Language: English
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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
$33.99 Add to cartHere at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for “anyone who believes there are big questions out there… [more below]
- Author: Blackburn, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 1999
- ISBN10: 0192100246
- Language: English
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Basic Writings of Nietzsche
$30.00 Add to cartThis captivating collection brings together five of Friedrich Nietzche’s most important philosophical works, exploring themes such as nihilism, metaphysics, and the nature of morality–featuring an in… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: September 05 1992
- ISBN10: 0679600000
- Language: English
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The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays
$30.00 Add to cartIsaiah Berlin was one of the leading thinkers of our time and one of its finest writers. The Proper Study of Mankind brings together his most celebrated writing: here the reader will find Berlin’s fam
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 02 2000
- ISBN10: 0374527172
- Language: English
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The Discourses
$14.00 Add to cart“It is not the well-being of individuals that makes cities great, but the well-being of the community”
Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccol? Machiavelli- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Machiavel, Nicolas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0140444289
- Language: English
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Tertium Organum: A Key to the Enigmas of the World
$26.95 Add to cartThe author combines advanced science and math with Eastern mysticism, symbols, art and Western spiritual traditions to create one of the most unique and interesting books one is likely to encounter. O… [more below]
- Author: Ouspensky, P. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: January 22 2004
- ISBN10: 1585092444
- 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
