Category - Philosophy
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of Powers
HardcoverOriginal price $34.99 - Original price $34.99Original price $34.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /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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"Protagoras" and "Meno" / Edition 1
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John Dee's Conversations with Angels: Cabala, Alchemy, and the End of Nature
PaperbackOriginal price $30.99Original price $30.99 - Original price $30.99Original price $30.99Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Elizabethan England's most famous natural philosopher John Dee recorded his reflections on the natural world, the practice of natural philosophy,...
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
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Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /As an increasingly polarized America fights over the legacy of racism, Susan Neiman, author of the contemporary philosophical classic Evil in Mod...
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Why We Are Restless: On the Modern Quest for Contentment
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 compelling exploration of how our pursuit of happiness makes us unhappy We live in an age of unprecedented prosperity, yet everywhere we see si...
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The Consolation of Philosophy: Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspira...
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J. G. Fichte: Foundation of the Entire Wissenschaftslehre and Related Writings, 1794-95
PaperbackOriginal price $36.99 - Original price $36.99Original price $36.99$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Wissenschaftslehre or "doctrine of science" was the great achievement of the German idealist philosopher J. G. Fichte. Daniel Breazeale prese...
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The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts / Edition 1
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The Myth of the 20th Century
PaperbackOriginal price $64.17 - Original price $64.17Original price $64.17$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /Alfred Rosenberg was one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper Völkischer Beobachter. Originally published i...
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Catherine & Diderot: The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it ...
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The Cause of Hitler's Germany
PaperbackOriginal price $29.00Original price $29.00 - Original price $29.00Original price $29.00Current price $26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /"A truly revolutionary idea... Clear, tight, disciplined, beautifully structured, and brilliantly reasoned."--Ayn Rand Self-sacrifice, Oriental m...
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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"
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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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Rethinking Life: Italian Philosophy in Precarious Times
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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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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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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /A NEW YORKER ESSENTIAL READ - From the best-selling author of The Invention of Nature comes an exhilarating story about a remarkable group of young...
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The Myth of the 20th Century
HardcoverOriginal price $64.17 - Original price $64.17Original price $64.17$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /Alfred Rosenberg was one of the principal ideologues of the Nazi Party and editor of the Nazi paper V lkischer Beobachter. Originally published in ...
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A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /"Teeming with Oxford characters [and] lively storytelling . . . [recasts] the history of philosophy at Oxford in the mid-twentieth century by conve...
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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and ...
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781984897992 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication Date: 10-10-2023 Pages: 528 Pro...
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