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How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell Publisher Comments Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Ecce Homo (79 Edition) by Fridrich W. Nietzsche Synopsis An autobiography completed days before Nietzsche's mental collapse and in every way his last testament. It is a summary of a coming to terms with the work and conflicts of his life, a final statement of his position as philosopher, psychologist and anti... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution by Mary Gabriel Publisher Comments Brilliantly researched and wonderfully written, LOVE AND CAPITAL is a heartbreaking and dramatic saga of the family side of the man whose works would redefine the world after his death. Drawing upon years of research, acclaimed biographer Mary Gabriel... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $23.45 New - Hardcover
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A Dangerous Liasion: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Carole Seymour-jones Publisher Comments A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate, and sometimes-painful story of how two brilliant freethinkers, lovers, and rivals came to share a relationship that lasted more than 50 years. This is the first dual biography of Simone De Beauvoir and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Isaiah Berlin - Selected Letters 1928-1946 by Henry Hardy Publisher Comments The first volume of Isaiah Berlin??'s letters.... (read more) List Price $63.25 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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Nietzsche and Ree: A Star Friendship by Robin Small Publisher Comments During years of close friendship, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and Paul R�e (1849-1901) shared ideas and developed a new and original approach to philosophy and ethics. The course of their partnership, from its origins in shared hopes to its... (read more) Your price: $50.25 New - Trade Paper
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Kant by Satyananda Giri Publisher Comments Immanuel Kant's analysis of the knowledge process puts him in the forefront of the world's greatest philosophers. The new book Kant is a fascinating biography of this eighteenth-century German, whose beliefs were far ahead of his time. Kant greatly... (read more) Your price: $30.95 New - Hardcover
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There Is a River (97 Edition) by Thomas Sugrue Publisher Comments This original biography of Edgar Cayce tells the complete story of America's most well-documented psychic. Explores Cayce's life, work, psychic readings, and phenomenal medical cures. Photos. Index.... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Education of John Dewey: A Biography by Jay Martin Publisher Comments Based on original sources, notably the vast collection of unpublished papers in the Center for Dewey Studies, this book tells the full story of the life and times of the eminent American philosopher, pragmatist, education reformer, and man of letters... (read more) Your price: $65.25 New - Hardcover
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Walter Benjamin: A Philosophical Portrait by Eli Friedlander Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin is often viewed as a cultural critic who produced a vast array of brilliant and idiosyncratic pieces of writing with little more to unify them than the feeling that they all bear the stamp of his “unclassifiable” genius. Eli... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Hardcover
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Betraying Spinoza (06 Edition) by Rebecca Goldstein Publisher Comments In 1656, Amsterdams Jewish community excommunicated Baruch Spinoza, and, at the age of twenty-three, he became the most famous heretic in Judaism. He was already germinating a secularist challenge to religion that would be as radical as it was original... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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In My Own Way: an Autobiography (07 Edition) by Alan Watts Synopsis In this new edition of his acclaimed autobiography — long out of print and rare until now — Alan Watts tracks his spiritual and philosophical evolution from a child of religious conservatives in rural England to a freewheeling spiritual teacher... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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How To Live : Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts At an Answer (10 Edition) by Sarah Bakewell Publisher Comments Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Hardcover
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Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher by Neil Gross Publisher Comments On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the worlds most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty... (read more) Your price: $32.50 New - Hardcover
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Soren Kierkegaard: A Biography by Joakim Garff Publisher Comments Acclaimed as a major cultural event on its publication in Denmark in 2000, this biography, presented in an exceptionally crisp and elegant translation, will be the definitive account of Kierkegaard's life for years to come.... (read more) Your price: $40.25 New - Trade Paper
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Giordano Bruno (09 Edition) by Ingrid D. Rowland Publisher Comments Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) is one of the great figures of early modern Europe, and one of the least understood. Ingrid D. Rowlands biography establishes him once and for all as a peer of Erasmus, Shakespeare, and Galileo—a thinker whose vision... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Hitler's Philosophers by Yvonne Sherratt Publisher Comments Hitler had a dream to rule the world, not only with the gun but also with his mind. He saw himself as a "philosopher-leader" and astonishingly gained the support of many intellectuals of his time. In this compelling book, Yvonne Sherratt... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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Aristotle by Sir David Ross Publisher Comments Written by renowned Aristotelian scholar Sir David Ross, this study has long been established as one of the foremost surveys of Aristotle's life, work and philosophy. With John L. Ackrill's introduction and updated bibliography, created for the sixth... (read more) Your price: $38.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius by Detlev Claussen Publisher Comments Looks at the life and career of the the German philosopher who is credited as the developer of critical theory.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $20.37 Google eBooks - Electronic
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A Companion to Descartes by Janet Broughton Publisher Comments A collection of more than 30 newly commissioned essays, this volume surveys the work of the 17th-century philosopher-scientist commonly regarded as the founder of modern philosophy, while integrating unique essays detailing the context and impact of his... (read more) Your price: $169.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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