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.....
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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.....
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. 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.....
Princeton University Press, January 2005. Hardcover. 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 people are rather.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
HarperCollins Publishers, November 2008. Trade Paperback. "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, and who will.....
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.....
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, April 2009. Trade Paperback. A new copy. Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm.....
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.....
Hermann, 2016. Trade Paperback. 127 pages. Text in English (black ink) and French (blue ink). Illustrations in color. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). Edition bilingue anglais/francaisReveles au lectorat francais par Pierre Bourdieu, les travaux de Richard Shusterman comptent parmi les plus importants de l'epoque contemporaine. Convaincu par les.....
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.....
Picador Paper, October 2021. Trade Paperback. A new copy. The author of Straw Dogs, famous for his provocative critiques of scientific hubris and the delusions of progress and humanism, turns his attention to cats--and what they reveal about humans' torturous relationship to the world and to themselves. The history of.....
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.....
Beacon Press, 1971. Trade Paperback. 212 pages. Later printing. A near fine copy in wrappers (paperback). In this, his last significant work, an admired French philosopher provides extraordinary meditations on the relations between the imagining consciousness and the world, positing the notion of reverie as its most dynamic point of.....
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.....
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.....
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.....
University of Alabama Press, 1974. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 294 pages. First US edition (first printing). A very good hardcover copy with a 2 inch thin slice to spine head.
Princeton University Press, November 1973. Trade Paperback. Very good in wrappers (paperback). This anthology covers the whole of Kierkegaard's literary career. The selections range from the terse epigrams of the Journal through the famous Diary of the Seducer and the Banquet scene, in which Søren Kierkegaard reveals his great lyric.....