Category - Philosophy
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The Political Logic of Experience: Expression in Phenomenology
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound implications for our understand...
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Seduced by Story: The Use and Abuse of Narrative
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In this spiritual sequel to his influential Reading for the Plot, Peter Brooks examines the dangerously alluring power of storytelling. "There's no...
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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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Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.Produc...
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A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines twentieth-century Mexican literature and philosophy within the broad panorama of Latin American and European existentialisms.Product Detai...
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That Bird Has My Wings: The Autobiography of an Innocent Man on Death Row
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 2022"When I think about the fact that society, a nation, has sentenced me to death, all I can do is turn inside myself, to t...
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly PossibleHow to get along with people, how to deal with v...
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Simulacra and Simulation
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The first full-length translation in English of an essential work of postmodernist thoughtProduct DetailsISBN-13: 9780472065219 Media Type: Paperba...
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The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /In Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction outing, an examination of the meaning (or meaninglessness) of life through an insightful, unsparing argument t...
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Colors of the Mind
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /Recognizing that the field of formal philosophy is only one demonstration of the uses of thought, Fletcher looks for the ways other languages (and ...
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The Limit of the Useful
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95Original price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The first English-language translation of an essential, early work key to understanding the French philosopher's later thought. In the decade prior...
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Don't Forget to Live: Goethe and the Tradition of Spiritual Exercises
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The esteemed French philosopher Pierre Hadot's final work, now available in English. With a foreword by Arnold I. Davidson and Daniele Lorenzini. ...
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How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /From the creator of The Good Place and the cocreator of Parks and Recreation, a hilarious, thought-provoking guide to living an ethical life, drawi...
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The Death of Socrates
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /There were heroic lives and deaths before and after, but none quite like Socrates'. He did not die by sword or spear, braving all to defend home an...
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Heidegger and Literary Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only h...
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Of Effacement: Blackness and Non-Being
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /In Of Effacement, David Marriott endeavors to demolish established opinion about what blackness is and reorient our understanding of what it is not...
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The Other Synaesthesia
PaperbackOriginal price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /This book investigates synaesthesia in philosophy and literature, from Aristotle to Charles Baudelaire to Jean-Luc Nancy and beyond. Its central ...
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A Latin American Existentialist Ethos: Modern Mexican Literature and Philosophy
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /With their emphasis on freedom and engagement, European existentialisms offered Latin Americans transformative frameworks for thinking and writin...
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A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William Blake and Geometry
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /What do Einsteinian relativity, eighteenth-century field theory, Neoplatonism, and the overthrow of three-dimensional perspective have in common?...
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The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and...
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The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $125.00 - Original price $125.00Original price $125.00$152.99$152.99 - $152.99Current price $152.99| /The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole...
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The Counterhuman Imaginary: Earthquakes, Lapdogs, and Traveling Coinage in Eighteenth-Century Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The Counterhuman Imaginary proposes that alongside the historical, social, and institutional structures of human reality that seem to be the sole...
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Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life
PaperbackOriginal price $19.00Original price $19.00 - Original price $19.00Original price $19.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A vibrant portrait of four college friends—Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, ...
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All Things Are Too Small: Essays in Praise of Excess
HardcoverOriginal price $27.99Original price $27.99 - Original price $27.99Original price $27.99Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A glorious call to throw off restraint and balance in favor of excess, abandon, and disproportion, in essays ranging from such topics as mindfuln...
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