Knopf, September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young rebels--poets, novelists, philosophers--who, through their epic quarrels, passionate love stories, heartbreaking grief, and radical ideas launched Romanticism onto the world stage, inspiring some of.....

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.....

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.....

Baker Academic, December 2009. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). An accessible short introduction to the man who declared "God is dead." What can Christians learn from the man who declared that "God is dead"? Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has often been referred to as one of the first existential.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

Cornell University Press, 1984. Trade Paperback. A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vico's New Science is acknowledged today to be one of the few works of authentic genius in the history of social theory. It represents the most ambitious attempt before Comte.....

Mariner Books, August 2000. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....