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New translation for the greatest masterpiece of the man many regard as the most important modern philosopher Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy....

Author: Christopher Kul-Want Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 176 A comprehensive introduction to the work of Immanuel Kant, the pre-eminent philosopher of the Enlightenment. Immanuel Kant's contributions to metaphysics, epistemology,...

One of the greatest modern philosophers wrestles with the existence of God and the nature of a reasonable religion

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears, chipped along spine and folds. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Intact. Few works in the history...

Edition: 3rd pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - some tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Two-volume set, both present. At the heart of Western philosophy stands Immanuel Kant's...

Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...

Author: James B. Hartman (editor)Binding: PaperbackPublished: McGraw-Hill Book Company., 1967Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowed cover with minor peels at edges.Selections representative of the mainstream of...

Throughout his life, Kant was concerned with questions about empirical psychology. He aimed to develop an empirical account of human beings, and his lectures and writings on the topic are...

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...

Thomas E. Hill, Jr., interprets, explains, and extends Kant's moral theory in a series of essays that highlight its relevance to contemporary ethics. The book is divided into four sections....

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explore the greatest enigmas of the universe in this scintillatingly original book about the limits of human knowledge 'Fascinating' Carlo Rovelli 'Remarkable... Exciting,...

'Remarkable... Exciting, provocative, and illuminating' John Banville, Wall Street Journal Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges was madly in love when his life was shattered by painful heartbreak. But the breakdown...

The Age of Enlightenment of the 18th century, also called the Age of Reason, was so named for an intellectual movement that shook the foundations of Western civilization. In championing...

This collection features 16 monumental works of non-fiction, encompassing philosophy, politics, autobiography, and practical advice. Spanning over two millennia, from the ancient wisdom of Confucius and Marcus Aurelius to the...

A collection of Schopenhauer's powerful and inventive philosophy One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by...

First published in 1940, Sartre's The Imaginary is a cornerstone of his philosophy. Sartre had become acquainted with the philosophy of Edmund Husserl in Berlin and was fascinated by his...

A new collection of Albert Camus' most brilliant speeches and lectures 'Truth is mysterious, fleeting, always to be won. Freedom is dangerous, as hard to live as it is exalting'...

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Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and...

Brilliant and innovative, Jacques Lacan\'s work lies at the epicenter of modern thought about otherness, subjectivity, sexual difference, the drives, the law, and enjoyment. This new translation of his complete...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

Best known for his revolutionary free-market economics treatise The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith was first and foremost a moral philosopher. In his first book, The Theory of Moral Sentiments,...

The book which marks the start of Nietzsche's mature philosophical writings Written after Nietzsche had ended his friendship with Richard Wagner and had been forced to leave academic life through...

Penguin Classics relaunch. In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man's natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth,...

Schopenhauer believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. These writings depict individuals struggling in a Godless...

'A n uplifting work: complex, precise and bracing' Susie Boyt, Financial Times 'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us...

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We...

Brings together the major writings of the great Italian philosopher. In his reflections on Christianity, Saint Thomas Aquinas forged a unique synthesis of ancient philosophy and medieval theology. Preoccupied with...

New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death,...

A spiritual biography of Albert Einstein that reveals for the first time the scientific and religious origins of his ethical philosophy Nearly everyone is familiar with Einstein's scientific accomplishments-but few...

The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau In a short period - from the early 1640s to...

Condition remarks: Condition: Fair. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed, tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact but worn. In one of the most celebrated philosophical lectures of...

The I Ching, or Book of Changes, a common source for both Confucianist and Taoist philosophy, is one of the first efforts of the human mind to place itself within...

Edition: 2nd ed., 5th pr.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - small tears. Page Condition: Yellowed. Markings: Name penned on fep. Usual shelf-wear. At the intersection of logic, metaphysics, and...

'A profound book about the intrication of literature and life, about the modest, miraculous ways art helps us to live' Garth Greenwell 'I can think of few writers capable of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: Tanning and foxingWhat does it mean to be human, and how has that question shaped the course of Western civilization? History and Human Nature by...

Fascinating and influential, these works formed the foundation of the empirical movement that led directly to the thought of John Stuart Mill, and the later Linguistic Phenomenalism of A. J....

Schiller's famous treatise on art, politics and society 'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time...

Giacomo's famous Canti, available in Penguin Classics for the first time 'So my mind sinks in this immensity: and foundering is sweet in such a sea' Revisited and reorganized over...

Hiking with Nietzsche: Becoming Who You Are is a tale of two philosophical journeys - one made by John Kaag as an introspective young man of nineteen, the other seventeen...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerAt the intersection of rigorous philosophy and profound faith, John Baillie's Our Knowledge of God presents one of...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt a time when conformity threatens to extinguish the human spirit, Erich Fromm — one of the twentieth...