Category - Philosophy
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of t...
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After Hegel: German Philosophy, 1840-1900
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Leibnizing: A Philosopher in Motion
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Everybody: A Book about Freedom
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /"Astute and consistently surprising critic" (NPR) Olivia Laing investigates the body and its discontents through the great freedom movements of t...
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We Have Only This Life to Live: The Selected Essays of Jean-Paul Sartre, 1939-1975
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Jean-Paul Sartre was a man of staggering gifts, whose accomplishments as philosopher, novelist, playwright, biographer, and activist still comman...
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The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration
PaperbackOriginal price $7.00 - Original price $7.00Original price $7.00$9.99$9.99 - $9.99Current price $9.99| /The first of these two highly influential documents refutes the concept of monarchy's divine right. The second argues for a broad acceptance of a...
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Revolution of Everyday Life
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Originally published just months before the May 1968 upheavals in France, Raoul Vaneigem’s The Revolution of Everyday Life offered a lyrical and ...
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Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern s...
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Ars Vitae: The Fate of Inwardness and the Return of the Ancient Arts of Living
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Despite the flood of self-help guides and our current therapeutic culture, feelings of alienation and spiritual longing continue to grip modern s...
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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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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 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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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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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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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Mauri
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the...
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How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
HardcoverOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /"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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The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Obligations Towards the Human Being
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /French philosopher Simone Weil's best known work that promotes mindful living and instructs readers how they can once again feel rooted, in a cul...
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Frederick the Great's Philosophical Writings
PaperbackOriginal price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /The first modern English edition of diverse Enlightenment-era writings by Prussian monarch Frederick the GreatFrederick II of Prussia (1712–1786)...
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Hegel: The Philosopher of Freedom
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A monumental new biography of a pivotal yet poorly understood pioneer in modern philosophy. When a painter once told Goethe that he wanted to paint...
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Curious Kin in Fictions of Posthuman Care
HardcoverOriginal price $85.00 - Original price $85.00Original price $85.00$101.99$101.99 - $101.99Current price $101.99| /Over the past decade cultural theory has seen a number of 'turns' - the materialist turn, the animal turn, the affective turn - that address the hu...
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