Vintage, October 1982. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Madness, sexuality, power, knowledge--are these facts of life or simply parts of speech? In a series of works of astonishing brilliance, historian Michel Foucault excavated the hidden assumptions that govern the way we live and the way we think. The Archaeology of.....
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.....
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.....
Bison Books, November 1997. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "A book of Pascalian pensees, touching on many phases of the intellectual and spiritual worlds. Written in prose which is as unadorned as a geometry theorem, it bears clear personal traces of the young genius who was half icy intellectual, half.....
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.....
Oxford University Press, July 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Cicero write On Obligations (De Officiis) in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behavior for aspiring politicians. It has subsequently played a seminal role in the formation of ethical values in western.....
Oxford University Press, May 2001. Trade Paperback. Very good paperback copy. Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient world. He dominated the Roman courts, usually appearing for the defense. His speeches are masterpieces of persuasion. They are compellingly written, emotionally powerful, and sometimes hilariously funny. This book.....
Penguin Classics, December 1992. Trade Paperback. A new copy. In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters--the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply "A," and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section--Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse as Mozart, drama.....
Vintage, November 1988. Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to.....
Modern Library, (n.d.). Hardcover. 368 pages. 'This is Nietzsche's most popular book, and the clearest exposition of his philosophy of the superhuman' -- from the jacket cover. In the jacket style used by the publsiher between 1940 - 1975. Later printing. A very good copy in a very good price-clipped.....
Vintage Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment 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.....
AK Press, July 2005. Trade Paperback. A new copy. "The very notion of the domination of nature by man stems from the very real domination of human by human." With this succinct formulation, Murray Bookchin launches his most ambitious work, The Ecology of Freedom. An engaging and extremely readable book.....
Vintage, November 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. A Nobel Prize-winning 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 Kafka, these essays begin.....
University of Chicago Press, October 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The past year 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 to revolution. A work of striking originality, The Human Condition is.....
Penguin Books, September 2005. Trade Paperback. A new copy. 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.....
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, 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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
Vintage, April 1990. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality--from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power.....
Grand Central Publishing, September 2022. Hardcover. A new copy. From the bestselling authors and hosts of "The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe," a high-tech roadmap of the future in their beloved voice, cracking open the follies of futurists past and how technology will profoundly change our world, redefining what it.....
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.....
W. W. Norton & Company, February 2023. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Virtual reality is genuine reality; that's the central thesis of Reality+. In a highly original work of "technophilosophy," David J. Chalmers gives a compelling analysis of our technological future. He argues that virtual worlds are not second-class worlds.....