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Politics and Poetics
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Author: Aristotle; B. Jowett and S.H. Butcher (translators); Kallen, Horace (translator)Binding: HardbackPublished: Heritage Press, 1964Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book features the works of Aristotle, exploring...
The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality
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Author: Wilhelm ReichBinding: HardbackPublished: Souvenir Press and Academic, 1972Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'The Invasion of Compulsory Sex-Morality', Wilhelm Reich critiques the societal norms surrounding sexuality...
The Pseudo-Science of B. F. Skinner
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Author: Tibor R. MachanBinding: HardbackPublished: Arlington House Publishers, 1974Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book critiques the behaviorist theories of B. F. Skinner, arguing that they lack...
The Heresy of Self Love: A Study of Subversive Individualism
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Author: Paul ZweigBinding: HardbackPublished: Basic Books, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerIn 'The Heresy of Self Love', Paul Zweig explores the complexities of self-esteem and the philosophical...
Sexual Excitement And Sexual Peace
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Author: Suzanne SarnoffBinding: HardbackPublished: M. Evans and Company, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the complexities of human sexuality, discussing both the excitement and...
Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul
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Author: Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel C. DennettBinding: SoftbackPublished: Penguin Books, Limited, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book explores the nature of consciousness and self through a...
What Darwin Really Said
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Author: Benjamin FarringtonBinding: HardbackPublished: Macdonald, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a clear and accessible explanation of Charles Darwin's theories and ideas. It aims to...
Life's Grandeur: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin
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Author: Stephen Jay GouldBinding: SoftbackPublished: Random House, 1996Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsIn 'Life's Grandeur,' Stephen Jay Gould presents an eloquent argument that challenges the anthropocentric...
The Prophet
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Author: Kahlil GibranBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann Ltd, 1972, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPublished in 1923, 'The Prophet' is a narrative of Almustafa, a man preparing to...
Ideas and Opinions
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Author: Albert EinsteinBinding: HardbackPublished: Bonanza Books, 1988Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book is a compilation of speeches, letters, and various writings of Albert Einstein, originally published...
Plato's Republic: A Philosophical Commentary
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Author: R.C. CrossBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1971, ReprintCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book offers a detailed commentary on Plato's Republic, exploring its philosophical themes and implications. The...
History of Western Philosophy
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Author: Bertrand RussellBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 2004Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis comprehensive work explores the development of Western philosophical thought from ancient Greece to...
The I Ching, or Book of Changes
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Author: Richard WilhelmBinding: HardbackPublished: Princeton University Press, 1981, Third EditionCondition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe I Ching, or Book of Changes, is an ancient wisdom text...
The Discourses of Epictetus
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Author: EpictetusBinding: HardbackPublished: Heritage Press, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Aging or markingMarkings: No markingsThe Discourses are a series of extracts of the teachings of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus,...
Love Voltaire Us Apart: A Philosopher's Guide to Relationships
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Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium
At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how...
The Great Philosophers:Kant
'Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.' Kant In today's increasingly fractured world of oppression and uncertainty, Kant's moral philosophy is more important than ever before. And...
Existentialism: All That Matters
WHAT DO YOU HAVE TO DO TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL?That is the question at the heart of existentialism and it informs this book's exploration of the existentialist tradition in 19th...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
Marx and Marxism
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A new biography of Karl Marx, tracing the life of this titanic figure and the legacy of his work Karl Marx remains the most influential and controversial political thinker in...
The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, [...]
How Christian leaders adapted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers in the Abbasid caliphate.The Imam of the Christians examines how Christian leaders adopted and adapted the...
Strategies of Argument: Essays in Ancient Ethics, Epistemology, [...]
This volume features fifteen new papers by an international group of scholars in ancient philosophy, with a particular focus on new work in ancient Greek and Roman ethics, epistemology, logic,...
Context and the Attitudes: Meaning in Context, Volume 1
Context and the Attitudes collects thirteen seminal essays by Mark Richard on semantics and propositional attitudes. These essays develop a nuanced account of the semantics and pragmatics of our talk...
Spectres of False Divinity: Hume's Moral Atheism
Spectres of False Divinity presents a historical and critical interpretation of Hume's rejection of the existence of a deity with moral attributes. In Hume's view, no first cause or designer...
Mortal Gods: Science, Politics, and the Humanist Ambitions of [...]
According to the commonly accepted view, Thomas Hobbes began his intellectual career as a humanist, but his discovery, in midlife, of the wonders of geometry initiated a critical transition from...
Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilisation
Bringing his cosmic perspective to civilization on Earth, Neil deGrasse Tyson, bestselling author of Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, shines new light on the crucial fault lines of our...
Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements, and [...]
To what extent was Machiavelli a "Machiavellian"? Was he an amoral adviser of tyranny or a stalwart partisan of liberty? A neutral technician of power politics or a devout Italian...
Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe
Heidegger's influence in the twentieth century probably outstrips that of any other philosopher, at least in the so-called Continental tradition. The 'revolution' Heidegger brought about with his compelling readings of...
Nietzsche and Ree: A Star Friendship
During years of close friendship, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Paul Ree (1849-1901) shared ideas and developed a new and original approach to philosophy and ethics. The course of their partnership,...
The Soul of the Marionette: A Short Enquiry into Human Freedom
Everyone thinks they want to be free - or do they? John Gray's thought-stirring new book on freedom draws together insights from Gnosticism, science fiction, ancient sacrifice and the occult...
Leviathan
By a deep and careful analysis of the text, enabling a new printing history of Leviathan to be constructed, this edition demonstrates that the traditional picture is substantially wrong. Both...
Hegel's Conscience
This book provides a new interpretation of the ethical theory of G.W.F. Hegel. The aim is not only to give a new interpretation for specialists in German Idealism, but also...
Dispatches from the Vanguard: The Global International African [...]
A collection of writers, poets, artists, social entrepreneurs and political activists in the Global International African Arts Movement speak about their work in the context of Trump, giving a voice...
Moses Mendelssohn's Hebrew Writings
German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786) was one of the most influential thinkers of the Enlightenment. Until now, attention was focused on Mendelssohn's German works-such as his groundbreaking Jerusalem-which have...
Permission to Rest
We all have the power to transform our lives from the inside out by simply slowing down. Resting is one of the most impactful practices we can adopt for self-compassion,...
Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy
This book is the first to explore in detail the role that symbolic representation plays in the architecture of Kant's philosophy. Symbolic representation fulfills a crucial function in Kant's practical...
Symbolic Representation in Kant's Practical Philosophy
This book is the first to explore in detail the role that symbolic representation plays in the architecture of Kant's philosophy. Symbolic representation fulfills a crucial function in Kant's practical...
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy
"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...
Out of Our Minds: What We Think and How We Came to Think It
To imagine - to see that which is not there - is the startling ability that has fuelled human development and innovation through the centuries. As a species we stand...
Fichte: The Self and the Calling of Philosophy, 1762-1799
In this biographical study of the German philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte from his birth in 1762 to the crisis in his university career in 1799, Professor La Vopa uses Fichte's...
Nietzsche's Jewish Problem: Between Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism
For more than a century, Nietzsche's views about Jews and Judaism have been subject to countless polemics. The Nazis infamously fashioned the philosopher as their anti-Semitic precursor, while in the...
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt: A Philosophical Dialogue
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who...
Primitive Man As Philosopher
Primitive Man as Philosopher is influential anthropologist and ethnologist Paul Radin's enduringly relevant survey of an array of aboriginal cultures and belief systems, including those of the Winnebago, Oglala Sioux,...
Descartes: A Biography
Rene Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that...
Summulae de Dialectica
This volume is the first annotated translation in any language of the entire text of the Summulae de dialectica, by the Parisian master of arts John Buridan (1300-1358). One of...
Confessions of a Medical Heretic
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Author: Robert S. MendelsohnBinding: HardbackPublished: Contemporary, 1979Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Confessions of a Medical Heretic', Dr. Robert Mendelsohn critiques the medical establishment, sharing his insights...
Reason, Truth and History
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Author: Hilary PutnamBinding: SoftbackPublished: Cambridge University Press, 1982Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsIn 'Reason, Truth and History', Hilary Putnam explores the nature of human understanding and the...
A Taoist Classic: Chuang-Tzu
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Author: Chuang TzuBinding: HardbackPublished: Foreign Languages Pr, 1997, Fifth PrintingCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsA Taoist Classic: Chuang-Tzu is a revered text in the Chinese spiritual tradition,...