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Meditations on First Philosophy 3RD Edition
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On Beauty and Being Just
by Elaine Scarry 
Publisher Comments In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from...
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Thus Spake Zarathustra (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments A 19th-century literary masterpiece, tremendously influential in the arts and in philosophy, uses the Persian religious leader Zarathustra to voice the author's views, including the introduction of the controversial doctrine of the Übermensch, or...
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Politics (00 Edition)
by Aristotle Publisher Comments Intellectually stimulating work describes the ideal state and ponders how it can bring about the most desirable life for its citizens. Both heavily influenced by and critical of Plato’s Republic and Laws, Politics is the distillation of a lifetime...
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Ground Zero
by Paul Virilio Publisher Comments How would it be if what we take for human advance were simply a technological progress that literally leaves us out of its equations? What if Progress is not humanity striking out bravely towards the future, but an ultimately destructive force?<P>...
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A Discourse on Inequality (Penguin Classics)
by Jean Jacqu Rousseau Publisher Comments New edition, with an introduction by a leading Rousseau scholar....
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Leviathan (Penguin Classics)
by Thomas Hobbes Publisher Comments Its appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace. Its argument that the state of nature, in which life is 'nasty, brutish and short (and patriarchal), is important, but...
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Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Organic Anthology (Riverside Editions, A13)
by Emerson Publisher Comments The purpose of this volume is to encourage a fresh approach to Emerson. Its aim is to shift attention from the familiar teacher and preacher of the essays to the 'active soul' of his neglected masterwork, the journals....
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Envy (Seven Deadly Sins)
by Joseph Epstein Publisher Comments Malice that cannot speak its name, cold-blooded but secret hostility, impotent desire, hidden rancor and spite--all cluster at the center of envy. Envy clouds thought, writes Joseph Epstein, clobbers generosity, precludes any hope of serenity, and ends...
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Symposium and Phaedrus (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Plato Publisher Comments Two important dialogues offer crucial insights into Platonic doctrine. "Symposium" deals with ultimate manifestation of love, eternal beauty. "Phaedrus" discusses psychology of love, "forms" as objects of transcendental emotion. Jowett translation....
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Book of Tea
by Kazuko Okakura Publisher Comments Minor classic of the Orient. Perhaps the most entertaining, most charming explanation and interpretation of traditional Japanese culture in terms of the tea ceremony. Introduction, notes by E. F. Bleiler....
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Matter and Memory (04 Edition)
by Henri Bergson Publisher Comments A monumental work by an important modern philosopher, Matter and Memory (1896) represents one of the great inquiries into perception and memory, movement and time, matter and mind. Nobel Prize-winner Henri Bergson surveys these independent but related...
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Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century
by Carl L Becker Publisher Comments Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far...
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Teach Yourself Marx (Teach Yourself)
by Gill Hands Publisher Comments Understand Marx inside and out Groundbreaking and far-reaching as they are, the theories and ideas of Karl Marx are often confusing. "Teach Yourself Marx," however, makes clear sense of them all, providing you with easy-to-understand explanations of...
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Pragmatism (95 Edition)
by William James Publisher Comments Noted psychologist and philosopher develops his own brand of pragmatism, based on theories of C. S. Peirce. Emphasis on "radical empiricism," versus the transcendental and rationalist tradition. One of the most important books in American philosophy...
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The Nicomachean Ethics
by Aristotle Publisher Comments This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency,...
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Early Socratic Dialogues: Ion; Laches; Lysis; Charmides; Hippias Major; Hippias Minor; (Penguin Classics)
by Plato Publisher Comments Rich in drama and humor, this volume of seven dialogues includes the controversial Ion, a debate on poetic inspiration; Laches, in which Socrates seeks to define bravery; and Euthydemus, which considers the relationship between philosophy and politics...
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New Science (Penguin Classics)
by Giambattista Vico Publisher Comments Although Vico lived his whole life as an obscure academic in Naples, his New Science is an astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world. It argues...
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The Making of a Philosopher: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy
by Colin McGinn Publisher Comments Part memoir, part study, "The Making of a Philosopher" is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on both sides of the Atlantic. "The Making of a Philosopher" follows Colin McGinn from his early years in England reading...
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Common Sense, Rights of Man (03 Edition)
by Thomas Paine Publisher Comments Noted works by one of the most eloquent proponents of democracy are together in this one volume. Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" is joined by "The Rights of Man, " his defense of the French Revolution, and selections from "The Crisis."...
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