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Surfaces and Essences by Douglas Hofstadter Publisher Comments Analogy is at the core of thinking. From this singular premise, Pulitzer-Prize winning author Doug Hofstadter and French psychologist Emmanuel Sander construct a broad argument that explains how analogies help us find order out of the chaos of the world.... (read more) Available September 2012 Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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Climate Matters: Ethics in a Warming World (Amnesty International Global Ethics) by John Broome Publisher Comments Esteemed philosopher John Broome avoids the familiar ideological stances on climate change policy and examines the issue through an invigorating new lens. As he considers the moral dimensions of climate change, he reasons clearly through what universal... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $23.95 New - Hardcover
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The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman by Takuan Soho Publisher Comments Here’s the classic samurai-era text that fused Japanese swordsmanship with Zen, and influenced the direction that the art has taken ever since. Written by the 17th-century Zen master Takuan Sōhō (1573–1645), The Unfettered Mind is a... (read more) Available June 12, 2012 Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Luck: What It Means and Why It Matters by Ed Smith Publisher Comments To what extent do we control our own destiny? Can those who have risen to the top really say it was all down to them? Is lucky success somehow less deserving?... (read more) Available June 5, 2012 Your price: $32.00 New - Hardcover
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The Archaeology of the Soul: Platonic Readings in Ancient Poetry and Philosophy by Seth Benardete Synopsis The Archaeology of the Soul is a testimony to the extraordinary scope of Seth Benardete’s thought. Some essays concern particular authors or texts; others range more broadly and are thematic. Some deal explicitly with philosophy; others deal with... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $64.75 New - Hardcover
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Unmodern Philosophy and Modern Philosophy by John Dewey Publisher Comments In 1947 America’s premier philosopher, educator, and public intellectual John Dewey purportedly lost his last manuscript on modern philosophy in the back of a taxicab. Now, sixty-five years later, Dewey’s fresh and unpretentious take on the... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $70.75 New - Hardcover
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Occupy Everything!: Reflections on "Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere" by Alessio Lunghi Publisher Comments What role has the 'graduate with no future' played in the global wave of unrest that gripped 2011? What connects 'digital natives' and the 'remainder of capital' in struggle? What role will ideologies play in future upheavals and why have some memes... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $18.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Truth of the Christian Religion, with Jean Le Clerc's Additions (Natural Law Paper) by Hugo Grotius Publisher Comments Grotiuss The Truth of the Christian Religion was first published in Leiden in 1627 in Latin. Written in a plain and direct language for his countrymen, this short work aimed to show those who would encounter pagans, Muslims, and Jews that the Christian... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental (Studies in Continental Thought) by John Sallis Publisher Comments Logic of Imagination forges a sweeping vision of the character of thinking and the expanse of the imagination. Continuing the philosophical project of his book Force of Imagination, John Sallis extends his consideration of the powers of the imagination... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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Pursuing Meaning by Emma Borg Publisher Comments Emma Borg examines the relation between semantics (roughly, features of the literal meaning of linguistic items) and pragmatics (features emerging from the context within which such items are being used), and assesses recent answers to the fundamental... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $76.25 New - Hardcover
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Meaning and Value in a Secular Age: Why Eupraxsophy Matters (the Writings of Paul Kurtz) by Paul Kurtz Synopsis Conveniently gathered together in one place for the first time in this volume, written with eloquence and scope, these incisive essays show how Kurtzs brand of humanism moves above and beyond the current new atheism.... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $19.00 New - Trade Paper
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The Church and the Kingdom (Seagull Books - The Italian List) by Giorgio Agamben Publisher Comments Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is the rare writer whose ideas and works have a broad appeal across many fields, and his devoted fans are not just philosophers, but readers of political and legal theory, sociology, and literary criticism as well... (read more) Available June 2012 Your price: $20.00 New - Hardcover
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Freudianism: A Marxist Critique (Radical Thinkers Classics) by Neal Bruss Publisher Comments Freudianism is a major icon in the history of ideas, independently rich and suggestive today both for psychoanalysis and for theories of language. It offers critical insights whose recognition demands a change in the manner in which the fundamental... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Unity of Consciousness by Tim Bayne Publisher Comments In The Unity of Consciousness Tim Bayne draws on philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience in defence of the claim that consciousness is unified. In the first part of the book Bayne develops an account of what it means to say that consciousness is unified.... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $42.50 New - Trade Paper
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Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy) by Edward Willatt Publisher Comments The way in which we read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason has profound consequences for our understanding of his thought in relation to the work of other thinkers. Kant, Deleuze and Architectonics presents a unified reading of this text in order to respond... (read more) Available May 2012 Your price: $36.75 New - Trade Paper
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Ethical in Kierkegaard and Levinas (Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy) by Michael R. Paradiso-michau Publisher Comments The Ethical in Kierkegaard and Levinas investigates the philosophical, ethical, religious, and social-political thought of Soren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas alongside, and in conversation with, one another. Paradiso-Michau disentangles Levinas's... (read more) Available December 2012 Your price: $138.95 New - Hardcover
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Would You Eat Your Cat?: Key Ethical Conundrums and What They Tell You about Yourself by Jeremy Stangroom Publisher Comments Would You Eat Your Cat? challenges you to examine these and many other philosophical questions. This unique collection of classic and modern problems and paradoxes is guaranteed to test your preconceptions. Jeremy Stangroom creates contemporary versions... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Five Pillars of Islam: Laying the Foundations of Divine Love and Service to Humanity by Hussain Publisher Comments The Five Pillars of Islam is a comprehensive and practical manual on the fundamental beliefs and practices of a Muslim and provides an understanding of the true spirit of worship in Islam. Written by a noted Muslim scholar and educationist with a... (read more) Available November 2012 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil (Radical Thinkers) by Alain Badiou Publisher Comments Alain Badiou, one of the most powerful voices in contemporary French philosophy, shows how our prevailing ethical principles serve ultimately to reinforce an ideology of the status quo and fail to provide a framework for an effective understanding of the... (read more) Available January 2013 Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Poetry of the Possible: Spontaneity, Modernism, and the Multitude by Joel Nickels Publisher Comments The Poetry of the Possible challenges the conventional image of modernism as a socially phobic formation, arguing that modernism’s abstractions and difficulties are ways of imagining unrealized powers of collective self-organization. Establishing... (read more) Available July 2012 Your price: $32.50 New - Trade Paper
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