Category - Philosophy
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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Notes on Suicide
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Philosophers Who Changed History
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The Philosopher Queens: The lives and legacies of philosophy's unsung women
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy – love it!' Elif Shafak Where are the women philosophers? The answer...
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The Selected Writings of Pierre Hadot: Philosophy as Practice
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Solon the Thinker: Political Thought in Archaic Athens
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Alasdair MacIntyre: An Intellectual Biography
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Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Birth is one of the most fraught and polarized issues of our time, at the center of debates on abortion, gender, work, and medicine. But birth is n...
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How to Think Like a Philosopher: Scholars, Dreamers and Sages Who Can Teach Us How to Live
HardcoverOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In showing how the great philosophers of human history lived and thought - and what they thought about - Peter Cave provides an accessible and enjo...
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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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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
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How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: By Diogenes Laertius
HardcoverOriginal price $56.00Original price $56.00 - Original price $56.00Original price $56.00Current price $54.99$54.99 - $54.99Current price $54.99| /Everyone wants to live a meaningful life. Long before our own day of self-help books offering twelve-step programs and other guides to attain happi...
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Sick Souls, Healthy Minds: How William James Can Save Your Life
HardcoverOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /From the celebrated author of American Philosophy: A Love Story and Hiking with Nietzsche, a compelling introduction to the life-affirming philosop...
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Goddess of the Market: Ayn Rand and the American Right
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Worshipped by her fans, denounced by her enemies, and forever shadowed by controversy and scandal, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand was a powe...
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Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy
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Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /From the bestselling coauthor of Wittgenstein's Poker, an entertaining and illuminating biography of a brilliant philosopher who tried to rescue mo...
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A Terribly Serious Adventure: Philosophy and War at Oxford, 1900-1960
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The Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil, and the Power of Philosophy in Dark Times
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The Marriage Question: George Eliot's Double Life
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I've Been Thinking
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00Original price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Daniel C. Dennett, preeminent philosopher and cognitive scientist, has spent his career considering the thorniest, most fundamental mysteries of th...
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Becoming Foucault: The Poitiers Years
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Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
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The Last Man Takes LSD: Foucault and the End of Revolution
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Foucault's personal and political experimentation, its ambiguous legacy, and the rise of neoliberal politicsPart intellectual history, part critica...
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