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The Propensity of Things: Toward a History of Efficacy in China
$31.00 Add to cartIn this strikingly original contribution to our understanding of Chinese philosophy, Fran ois Jullien uses the Chinese concept of shi — disposition or circumstance, power or potential — as a touchst
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Jullien, Francois
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 10 1999
- ISBN10: 0942299957
- Language: English
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Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece
$35.00 Add to cartJean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, the a… [more below]
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Vernant, Jean-Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: October 17 1990
- ISBN10: 0942299191
- Language: English
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Kierkegaard’s Writings, VI, Volume 6: Fear and Trembling/Repetition
$35.00 Add to cartPresented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of S ren Kierkegaard’s pseudonymous writings.
- Series: Kierkegaard’s Writings #20
- Author: Kierkegaard, Søren
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 21 1983
- ISBN10: 0691020264
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Epicurus
$12.00 Add to cartDespite its modern-day connotations of hedonism, “Epicureanism” has more to do with living a mindful, uncomplicated life. Epicurus — who was born at Samos, Greece, in 341 BC and died at Athens in 270… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Epicurus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0486833038
- Language: English
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Reality: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIs matter real? Are persons real? Is time real? This Very Short Introduction discusses what, if anything, is “real” by looking at a variety of arguments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Westerhoff, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0199594414
- Language: English
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The Hindus: An Alternative History
$25.00 Add to cart“Don’t miss this equivalent of a brilliant graduate course froma feisty and exhilarating teacher.” –The Washington Post
An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth, The Hindus- Author: Doniger, Wendy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: November 30 2010
- ISBN10: 014311669X
- Language: English
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Metaphysical Conversations and Phenomenological Essays
$22.99 Add to cartThis is the first translation into English of early phenomenologist Hedwig Conrad-Martius’ Metaphysical Conversations, originally published in 1921. Conrad-Martius was one of Husserl’s first students,… [more below]
- Series: Women Philosophers Heritage Collection #1
- Author: Conrad-Martius, Hedwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 3110764393
- Language: English
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How to Be an Epicurean: The Ancient Art of Living Well
$30.00 Add to cartA leading philosopher shows that if the pursuit of happiness is the question, Epicureanism is the answer
Epicureanism has a reputation problem, bringing to mind gluttons with gout or an admonition to … [more below]- Author: Wilson, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1541672631
- Language: English
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Why?: The Philosophy Behind the Question
$30.00 Add to cartA philosopher explores the many dimensions of a beguilingly simple question.
Why did triceratops have horns? Why did World War I occur? Why does Romeo love Juliet? And, most importantly, why ask why?
- Series: Square One: First-Order Questions in the Humanities
- Author: Huneman, Philippe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1503628906
- Language: English
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Ecstatic Confessions: The Heart of Mysticism
$19.95 Add to cartBeginning with Buber’s seminal essay on mysticism, this book offers texts down the centuries from oriental, pagan, Gnostic, Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim sources. It aims to convey som
- Series: Martin Buber Library
- Author: Buber, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: November 01 1996
- ISBN10: 081560422X
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle
$22.00 Add to cartThis long-awaited reissue of the 1969 Cornell edition of Alfarabi’s Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle contains Muhsin Mahdi’s substantial original introduction and a new foreword by Charles E. Butterw
- Series: Agora Editions
- Author: Alfarabi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0801487161
- Language: English
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John Dee’s Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
$32.00 Add to cartElizabethan England’s most famous natural philosopher John Dee recorded his reflections on the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy, and the apocalypse in a series of conversations with a… [more below]
- Author: Harkness, Deborah E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: November 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0521027489
- Language: English
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The Essence of Christianity
$11.95 Read moreDid God create man? Or did man create God? Famed German philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach explores the answer in this, his most influential work, published in German in 1841 and translated by celebrated En… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Feuerbach, Ludwig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 11 2008
- ISBN10: 0486454215
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Communication, New Edition
$15.95 Add to cartBaudrillard’s essential crib-book, lexicon, and companion piece to any and all of his books and a prescient portrait of our contemporary condition.
- Series: Semiotext(e) Foreign Agents
- Author: Baudrillard, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: November 30 2012
- ISBN10: 1584350571
- Language: English
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Power
$38.23 Add to cartPart of the definitive collection of Michel Foucault’s articles, interviews, and seminars, this volume lays out the philosopher’s influential thinking on the machinations of power in society
“A rare op
- Series: Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984 (Paperback) #03
- Author: Foucault, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2001
- ISBN10: 1565847091
- Language: English
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Matter and Memory
$31.00 Read more“Since the end of the last century,” Walter Benjamin wrote, “philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the ‘true’ experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardi
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Bergson, Henri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0942299051
- Language: English
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Outlines of Pyrrhonism
$13.99 Add to cartThroughout history philosophers have sought to define, understand, and delineate concepts important to human well-being. One such concept is “knowledge.” Many philosophers believed that absolute, cert… [more below]
- Series: Great Books in Philosophy
- Author: Empiricus, Sextus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: May 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0879755970
- Language: English
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Modern Social Imaginaries
$26.95 Add to cartOne of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about id… [more below]
- Series: Public Planet Books
- Author: Taylor, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: December 29 2003
- ISBN10: 0822332930
- Language: English
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The Instant of My Death /Demeure: Fiction and Testimony
$22.00 Add to cartThis volume records a remarkable encounter in critical and philosophical thinking: a meeting of two of the great pioneers in contemporary thought, Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Derrida, who are also bo
- Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
- Author: Blanchot, Maurice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0804733260
- Language: English
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A Treatise of Human Nature
$24.95 Read more“One of the greatest of all philosophical works, covering knowledge, imagination, emotion, morality, and justice.” — Baroness Warnock, The List
Published in the mid-18th century and received with indi- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hume, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 455
- Publish Date: November 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0486432505
- Language: English
