Vintage, January 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution. For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against.....
Critical Editions, May 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 'The Debordian analysis of modern life resonates more deeply and darkly than perhaps even its creator thought possible...' - The New Yorker 'Never before has Debord's work seemed quite as relevant as it does now' - The Guardian 'Guy Debord is.....
Tuttle Publishing, June 1995. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Penguin Classics, March 1978. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Friedrich Nietzsche's most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes.....
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically.....
Vintage Books, August 1989. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A revelatory primer on what it means to be human, from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life" (Deepak Chopra)--and a mind-opening manual of initiation into the central mystery of existence. At the root of human conflict is our.....
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.....
Vintage, November 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER - An internationally acclaimed author delivers one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, showing a way out of despair and reaffirming the value of existence. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of.....
Martino Fine Books, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). 2014 Reprint of Original 1959 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This book by one of the world's foremost philosophers of science presented a striking new picture of the logical character.....
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.....
HarperCollins Publishers, November 2008. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "A profound book of great distinction and originality. . . . A brilliant synthesis of the evidence with respect to man's evolutionary direction. . . . I cannot imagine anyone reading this book who will not be profoundly influenced by it.....
Simon & Schuster, January 1985. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Dodd, Mead, January 1955. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Princeton University Press, June 2019. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). The story of the greatest of all philosophical friendships--and how it influenced modern thought David Hume is arguably the most important philosopher ever to have written in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great.....
University of Notre Dame Press, 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1936. Very good in wrappers (paperback). In this book (a translation of his well-known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale), Etienne Gilson undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the.....
Yale University Press, July 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A fresh translation of two seminal works of existentialism "To understand Jean-Paul Sartre is to understand something important about the present time."--Iris Murdoch "Sartre matters because so many fundamental points of his analysis of the human reality are right and.....
Princeton University Press, January 2005. Hardcover. A new copy. A #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most.....
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.....
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.....
NYRB Classics, December 2015. Trade Paperback. A remainder copy. AN NYRB Classics Original In 1869, at the age of twenty-four, the precociously brilliant Friedrich Nietzsche was appointed to a professorship of classical philology at the University of Basel. He seemed marked for a successful and conventional academic career. Then the.....
NYRB Classics, September 1999. Trade Paperback. A remainder copy. Translated from the Danish by Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Alexander Dru The Danish philosopher Kierkegaard is one of the master thinkers of the modern age, a defining influence on existentialism and on twentieth-century theology, and this brilliantly tailored selection from.....
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.....
Mariner Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. At the heart of this classic, seminal book is Julian Jaynes's still-controversial thesis that human consciousness did not begin far back in animal evolution but instead is a learned process that came about only three thousand years ago and is still developing. The implications.....
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2007. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One.....
Penguin Books, September 2005. Trade Paperback. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves--and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and destroyed them. Now, Penguin brings you the.....