Category - Philosophy
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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise and the Birth of the Secular Age
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The story of one of the most important—and incendiary—books in Western historyWhen it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Tr...
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Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction
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In the Dark Places of Wisdom
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found 40 years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent abo...
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Discourse on Method and Related Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $12.00 - Original price $12.00Original price $12.00$13.99$13.99 - $13.99Current price $13.99| /"It is not enough to have a good mind; it is more important to use it well"René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of th...
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All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /An inspirational book that is “a smart, sweeping run through the history of Western philosophy. Important for the way it illuminates life today a...
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Aesthetic Theory: Essential Texts for Architecture and Design
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A collection of pivotal ideas about beauty from throughout history, with an introduction and critical headnotes. This collection of writings on b...
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition / Edition 4
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition
HardcoverOriginal price $52.00 - Original price $52.00Original price $52.00$68.99$68.99 - $68.99Current price $68.99| /A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading o...
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The Last Writings of Thomas S. Kuhn: Incommensurability in Science
HardcoverOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /A must-read follow-up to The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, one of the most important books of the twentieth century. This book contains th...
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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 Secrets of Words
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Scenes of Attention: Essays on Mind, Time, and the Senses
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /Are we paying enough attention? At least since the nineteenth century, critics have alleged a widespread and profound failure of attentiveness--to ...
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions: A Critique of Contemporary Scientism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this book Wolfgang Smith shows how the physical sciences, freed from prevailing misconceptions, actually corroborate a traditional wisdom long t...
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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Misconceptions: A Critique of Contemporary Scientism
HardcoverOriginal price $35.95Original price $35.95 - Original price $35.95Original price $35.95Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /In this book Wolfgang Smith shows how the physical sciences, freed from prevailing misconceptions, actually corroborate a traditional wisdom long t...
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Celtic Mythology: Religion of The Iron Age Celts
HardcoverOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Celtic mythology is one of the most ancient mythologies in the European continent Celtic mythology shows marked similarities between Christian Bi...
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Subject Matter: The Anaesthetics of Habit and the Logic of Breakdown
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A theorization of habit that emphasizes its excessive and unsettling qualities rather than its mediating, adaptive, and stabilizing functions.Sub...
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Kant and the Transformation of Natural History
HardcoverOriginal price $80.00 - Original price $80.00Original price $80.00$96.99$96.99 - $96.99Current price $96.99| /Andrew Cooper presents the first systematic study of Kant's account of natural history. Cooper contends that Kant made a decisive contribution to o...
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The Einsteinian Revolution: The Historical Roots of His Breakthroughs
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$45.99$45.99 - $45.99Current price $45.99| /How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einstei...
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Mind Over Muscle: Writings from the Founder of Judo
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In 1882 Jigoro Kano (1860-1938) founded Kodokan Judo at Eishoji Temple in Tokyo. It was the culmination of a lifelong devotion to the jujutsu of ...
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