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.....
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.....
Berkley, March 1996. Mass Market Paperback. One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: Who are you? and Where does the world come from? Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant.....
Penguin Classics, February 1969. Trade Paperback.
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.....
Penguin Books, June 1950. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Penguin Classics, January 1994. Trade Paperback. The first book by the author of the classic philosophical text Beyond Good and Evil. The youthful faults of this work were exposed by the author himself in the brilliant Attempt at a Self-Criticism, which he added to the new edition of 1886. But.....
Routledge & Kegan Paul. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Routledge, January 1985. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., May 1978. Trade Paperback. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Univ of Alabama Pr, June 1988. Hardcover. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket.
Free Press, January 1970. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback).
Anchor, September 1962. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A complete summary of the views of the most important philosophers since the beginning of Western civilization. Each major field of philosophic inquiry is treated in a separate chapter, so that each chapter can be read as a complete unit.....
Penguin Books, February 1999. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "Remarkable" said "The Wall Street Journal" about Roger Scruton's "Modern Philosophy." "It will be enjoyed by academic specialists and armchair philosophers alike." Now this emminent philosopher takes the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism, " presenting it in an empirical.....
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 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.....
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.....
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.....
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 2018. Trade Paperback. A new copy. One of the most influential works of this century, The Myth of Sisyphus--featured here in a stand-alone edition--is a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. Influenced by works such as Don Juan and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation.....
Sternberg Press, September 2017. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). A study of walking as artistic action, from Surrealism to Fluxus. Walking, that most basic of human actions, was transformed in the twentieth century by Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus into a tactic for revolutionizing everyday life. Each.....
Routledge, August 1994. Trade Paperback. Divergent beliefs about humanity's relationship to nature collide as the second millenium ends. One belief emphasizes that a distinctive characteristic of humans--reason--enables them to reshape and master nature. Another insists that nature is not so plastic, hence humans must adapt to nature and render development.....
Oxford University Press, November 1992. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1972, and a past president of both the Organization of American Historians and the American Historical Association, Carl Degler is one of America's most eminent living historians. He is also.....
University of Illinois Press, September 1987. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). "An excellent book that provides a systematic account of Rand's work as a philosopher.... The Philosophic Thought of Ayn Rand gathers contributions from professional philosophers (some of them quite renowned) to tackle the various components --- metaphysical/epistemological.....