Philosophy.
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy (FSG Classics)
$23.97 USD
– Sold Outby : Jostein Gaarder (Author), Paulette Moller (Translator)
Two Arrows Meeting in Midair: The Zen Koan
$4.23 USD
by : John Daido Loori
Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics
$7.05 USD
by : Leslie Paul Thiele
What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy,
$18.33 USD
– Sold Outby : Kristin Shrader-Frechette | Dec 12, 2011 What Will Work makes a rigorous and compelling case that energy efficiencies and renewable energy-and not nuclear fission or "clean coal"-are the...
Norms and Practices
$14.10 USD
by : James D. Wallace | Nov 15, 2008 We spend a great deal of time learning our vocations and avocations as we work at jobs, participate in home life,...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic
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by : Claudia Baracchi | Dec 1, 2001 Baracchi has identified pivotal points around which the Republic operates; this allows a reading of the entire text to unfold.... a very...
Rousseau's 'The Social Contract': A Reader's Guide (Reader's Guides)
$11.28 USD
– Sold Outby Christopher D. Wraight
What Philosophy Can Tell You about Your Dog
$12.69 USD
– Sold Outby : Steven D. Hales | Nov 1, 2008 Do dogs live in the same world as humans? Is it wrong to think dogs have personalities and emotions? What are...
Grounded Consequence for Defeasible Logic
$15.51 USD
This is a title on the foundations of defeasible logic, which explores the formal properties of everyday reasoning patterns whereby people jump to conclusions, reserving the right to retract them...
Antiques: The History of an Idea
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– Sold Outby : Leon Rosenstein | Dec 11, 2008 The notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans. Often our most...
Magic Language of the Fourth Way: Awakening the Power of the Word
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– Sold OutAn application of Gurdjieffian principles to fully and properly activate the power of language - Explains the relationship between the Gurdjieff enneagram and sacred geometry and harmonics - Shows that...
The Legacy of Parmenides: Eleatic Monism and Later Presocratic Thought
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Parmenides of Elea was the most important and influential philosopher before Plato. Patricia Curd here reinterprets Parmenides' views and offers a new account of his relation to his predecessors and...
Wandering: Brush and Pen in Philosophical Reflection
$16.92 USD
Exploring the rich moral and philosophical implications of Chinese calligraphy as it is alive in the meeting of East-West, this volume pairs the works of two philosophers who are deeply...
The Wisdom of Zhuang Zi on Daoism:
$21.15 USD
– Sold OutThis book is concerned with the philosophy of Daoism based on the adapted beliefs of Zhuang Zi (369-286 B.C.), and not the religion of Daoism, which developed centuries later. A...
Why the Romantics Matter (Why X Matters Series)
$11.28 USD
With his usual wit and élan, esteemed historian Peter Gay enters the contentious, long-standing debates over the romantic period. Here, in this concise and inviting volume, he reformulates the definition...
One and Many in Aristotle's Metaphysics: The Central Books
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On Tocqueville: Democracy and America (Liveright Classics)
$11.28 USD
n On Tocqueville, Alan Ryan brilliantly illuminates the observations of the French sociologist Alexis de Tocqueville, who first journeyed to the United States in 1831 and went on to catalog...
On Changing the World: Essays in Marxist Political Philosophy,
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– Sold OutThis collection of essays--including several translated to English for the first time--covers a wide range of topics and figures too often neglected by the dominant trends in Marxist literature. With...
Minding the Earth, Mending the World: Zen and the Art of Planetary Crisis
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Shunryu Suzuki Roshi founded the San Francisco Zen Center in 1962, and after fifty years we have seen a fine group of Zen masters trained in the west take up...
The Gnostic Faustus: The Secret Teachings behind the Classic Text
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The Faust legend seen as a transmission of core Gnostic teachings disguised as a morality tale • Shows the 16th-century Faust text to be a coded, composite Gnostic creation myth...
Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy: Powers of the False, Volume 1
$15.51 USD
Although much has been written about Deleuze’s engagement with the arts, Gilles Deleuze and the Fabulation of Philosophy concerns the art of his philosophy. Gregory Flaxman suggests that Deleuze’s notorious...
Desperate Clarity: Chronicles of Intellectual Life, 1942
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hese articles gradually outline a practical project that both looks back to the radical artistic doctrines of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and anticipates the most original developments...
Confrontation: A Conversation with Aude Lancelin
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– Sold OutEverything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents,...
Eye for an Eye
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Analyzing the law of the talion--an eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth--literally, William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of "pay back". Miller's unique theory...
A Confusion of Prophets
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From the 1830s, horoscopic astrology staged a comeback among the urban middle-classes in England. Part of the popular Victorian fascination with mesmerism, magic and the occult, astrology was particularly disturbing...
Paradoxical Life: Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice
$21.15 USD
What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it’s an information superhighway...
The Half-life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date
$21.15 USD
by : Samuel Arbesman Facts change all the time. Smoking has gone from doctor recommended to deadly. We used to think the Earth was the center of the universe and that...
Faithful to the Earth: Nietzsche and Whitehead on God and the Meaning of Human Life
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On the surface, Friedrich Nietzsche and Alfred North Whitehead represent very different positions on God and the meaning of human life. Put simply, Nietzsche is an atheist--belief in God, he...
Alchemists, Mediums, and Magicians: Stories of Taoist Mystics
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Here is an introduction to the magical and mystical realm of Taoism through biographical and historical sketches of Taoist adepts over two thousand years. This panoramic view of the many...
Berkeley's 'Principles of Human Knowledge
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Berkeley's Principles of Human Knowledge is a key text in the history of British Empiricism and 18th-century thought. As a free-standing systematic exposition of Berkeley's ideas, this is a hugely...
The Shambhala Guide to Kendo
$21.15 USD
Kendo is the art of swordsmanship that was cultivated by the samurai in medieval Japan and it is an increasingly popular martial art studied in the West today. While most...
Appointment Denied
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In the spring of 1940, the Great Depression was still spreading misery throughout the world, and war in Europe threatened to drag America into the conflict. Amid these global troubles...
Essential History: Jacques Derrida and the Development of Deconstruction
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– Sold OutHowever widely--and differently--Jacques Derrida may be viewed as a "foundational" French thinker, the most basic questions concerning his work still remain unanswered: Is Derrida a friend of reason, or philosophy,...
Action, Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
$18.33 USD
Arthur C. Danto is unique among philosophers for the breadth of his philosophical mind, his eloquent writing style, and the generous spirit embodied in all his work. Any collection of...