Penguin Classics, March 1990. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt" In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant.....
Vintage, November 1988. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Michel Foucault's most admired book is an incisive history of changing attitudes toward mental illness of Western Europe between 1500 and 1800. Madness and Civilization investigates the archeology of madness, tracing shifting perceptions through changes in the culture, laws, politics, philosophy, and.....
Penguin Classics, May 2009. Trade Paperback. A new copy. An "introduction to the nonfascist life" (Michel Foucault, from the Preface) When it first appeared in France, Anti-Oedipus was hailed as a masterpiece by some and "a work of heretical madness" by others. In it, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari set.....
Penguin Classics, September 1999. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of the foundation-stones of modern philosophy Descartes was prepared to go to any lengths in his search for certainty--even to deny those things that seemed most self-evident. In his Meditations of 1641, and in the Objections and Replies that were.....
Routledge, 2017. Hardcover. A very good hardcover copy; no dust jacket. The Animal Ethics Reader is an acclaimed anthology containing both classic and contemporary readings, making it ideal for anyone coming to the subject for the first time. It provides a thorough introduction to the central topics, controversies, and ethical.....
Vintage, September 1995. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - Twenty-three political essays that focus on the victims of history, from the fallen maquis of the French Resistance to the casualties of the Cold War. In the speech he gave upon accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature in.....
Penguin Classics, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A unique and fascinating look at violent political change by one of the most profound thinkers of the twentieth century and the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism Hannah Arendt's penetrating observations on the modern world, based.....
University of Chicago Press, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A classic work of political thought, more relevant today than ever The twenty-first century has seen a resurgence of interest in the political thinker Hannah Arendt, "the theorist of beginnings," whose work probes the logics underlying unexpected transformations--from totalitarianism.....
Penguin Classics, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In late 1888, only weeks before his final collapse into madness, Nietzsche (1844-1900) set out to compose his autobiography, and Ecce Homo remains one of the most intriguing yet bizarre examples of the genre ever written. In this extraordinary work Nietzsche.....
Vintage Books, August 1989. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A revelatory primer on what it means to be human and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence, by "perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West" (Los Angeles Times). At the root of.....
Princeton University Press, August 2025. Hardcover. A new copy. Over one million copies sold worldwide The international and #1 New York Times bestseller The anniversary edition of the acclaimed book that reveals why bullshit is more dangerous than lying One of the most prominent features of our world is that.....
Arcturus, November 2022. Hardcover. A new copy.
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, August 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "Human history began with an act of disobedience, and it is not unlikely that it will be terminated by an act of obedience."--from On Disobedience One of the great psychological and social philosophers of the twentieth century, Erich Fromm.....
Vintage, March 1994. Trade Paperback. A new copy. With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how classical systems of knowledge, which linked all of nature within a great chain of being and analogies between the stars in the heavens and the features.....
The MIT Press, 1988. Hardcover. 220 pages. Originally published in German as a special supplemental volume of the journal PHILOSOPHISCHE RUNDSCHAU in 1967. A very good copy with spotting to the page block; in a dust jacket with color fading to the spine. For two decades the German edition of.....
Routledge, 2001. Trade Paperback. A gently used copy. The Existentialist Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic philosophical writings from eight key existentialist thinkers: Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Jaspers, Marcel, Merleau-Ponty, and Ortega y Gasset. These substantial and carefully selected readings consider the distinctive concerns of existentialism: absurdity, anxiety.....
Bison Books, November 1997. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Simone Weil, the French philosopher, political activist, and religious mystic, was little known when she died young in 1943. Four years later the philosopher-farmer Gustave Thibon compiled La pesanteur et la grâce from the notebooks she left in his keeping. In.....
Penguin Classics, January 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The masterpiece of the father of modern philosophy A seminal text of modern philosophy, Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) made history by bringing together two opposing schools of thought: rationalism, which grounds all our knowledge in reason, and empiricism.....
Penguin Classics, May 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In his most famous and controversial book, Utopia, Thomas More imagines a perfect island nation where thousands live in peace and harmony, men and women are both educated, and all property is communal. Through dialogue and correspondence between the protagonist Raphael.....
Open Road Media, May 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir's The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with.....
Penguin Classics, November 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A new translation of the influential teachings of the great Stoic philosopher Despite being born into slavery, Greco-Roman philosopher Epictetus became one of the most influential thinkers of his time. Discourses and Selected Writings is a transcribed collection of informal lectures.....
Verso, July 2012. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. The Adventure of French Philosophy is essential reading for anyone interested in what Badiou calls the "French moment" in contemporary thought. Badiou explores the exceptionally rich and varied world of French philosophy in a number of.....
University of California Press, September 1998. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Clean inside. No highlighting or underlining. Habermas on Law and Democracy: Critical Exchanges provides a provocative debate between Jurgen Habermas and a wide range of his critics on Habermas's contribution to legal and.....
Harper Perennial, August 2019. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The Present Age shows just how original Kierkegaard was. He brilliantly foresaw the dangers of the lack of commitment and responsibility in the Public Sphere. When everything is up for endless detached critical comment as on blogs and cable news, action.....
Penguin Books, June 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers.....