Category - Philosophy
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Western Self-Contempt: Oikophobia in the Decline of Civilizations
HardcoverOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Western Self-Contempt travels through civilizations since antiquity, examining major political events and the literature of ancient Greece, Rome, F...
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and ...
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Of an Alien Homecoming: Reading Heidegger's "Hölderlin"
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /The first book-length study in English of the Heidegger-Hölderlin relation, addressing the tension between Heidegger's political commitments durin...
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Essays by Montaigne: The Philosophy Classic
HardcoverOriginal price $15.99 - Original price $15.99Original price $15.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Essais (Essays), the large collection of short essays by Michel de Montaigne was published in 1580. The essays are a reflection of Montaigne's phil...
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95Original price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and s...
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Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /To the extent that we worry about the future, we tend to do so with the apprehension that something may go terribly wrong. Nietzsche and Tocquevill...
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The Art of War: A New Translation
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Using a new translation by James Trapp and including editorial notes, this bilingual edition of The Art of War lays the original Chinese text oppos...
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Singular Pasts: The I in Historiography
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writi...
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The Greeks and the Rational: The Discovery of Practical Reason Volume 76
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /Tracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled perf...
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The Greeks and the Irrational
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Originating from a series of lectures given at Berkeley in 1949, The Greeks and the Irrational by E. R. Dodds is rightly considered a classic in it...
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Timaeus and Critias (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Timaeus is one of Plato's dialogues, written c. 360 BC. Timaeus begins with a distinction between the physical world and the eternal world. The phy...
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Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Fourteen Italian philosophers reflect on how the global experience of vulnerability and precariousness-of which the Covid-19 pandemic is but one ex...
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Beautiful Girlhood
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /PrefaceThose years forming the transition period between childhood and womanhood are filled with wonderful interest and attractiveness, for there i...
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All Things are Possible
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Taking the words of Jesus that "With God, all things are possible", he [Shestov] extrapolates a philosophy of possibility or freedom as opposed to ...
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The Enlightenment: The Pursuit of Happiness, 1680-1790
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /"[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the "Enlighteners.".....
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The Life of Our Lord in Simple Language for Little Children
PaperbackOriginal price $11.62 - Original price $11.62Original price $11.62$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The Life of Our Lord in Simple Language for Little Children, has been acknowledged as a major work throughout human history, and we have taken prec...
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Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /In this revised edition of Man and Technics, Oswald Spengler's predictions have proven remarkably accurate after over ninety years. He foresaw the ...
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Rules: A Short History of What We Live by
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A panoramic history of rules in the Western world Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and s...
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Discourses of the Elders: The Aztec Huehuetlatolli a First English Translation
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human l...
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A Little History of the World
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The international bestseller: E. H. Gombrich's sweeping history of the world, for the curious of all ages "All stories begin with 'Once upon a tim...
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"No single book is as relevant to the present moment."--Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen "One of the defining books of the decade."--Elizabeth Hi...
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Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
PaperbackOriginal price $4.99 - Original price $4.99Original price $4.99$10.99$10.99 - $10.99Current price $10.99| /2019 Reprint of 1957 Edition. Abridged Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Illust...
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The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the winter of 1417, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties plucked a very old manuscript off a dusty shelf in a remote monaster...
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The Landmark Herodotus: The Histories
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"The most densely annotated, richly illustrated, and user friendly edition" of the greatest classical work of history ever written (Daniel Mendelso...
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