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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart  Publisher Comments This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authorsand born vaudevilliansThomas Cathcart...
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Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson
by Jennifer Mich Hecht Publisher Comments <<Hecht is right that doubts story deserves to be told ... (and) she tells it in just the right spirit.>>...
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Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington: Understanding Political Doublespeak Through Philosophy and Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein Publisher Comments Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein, authors of the national bestseller Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar, aren't falling for any election year claptrap — and they don't want their readers to either! In Aristotle and an Aardvark Go to Washington...
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From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
by T Z Lavine Publisher Comments "From Socrates To Satre" presents a rousing and readable introduction to the lives, and times of the great philosophers. This thought-provoking book takes us from the inception of Western society Plato's Athens to today when the commanding power of...
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The Philosopher's Toolkit
by Julian Baggini Publisher Comments "<BR> The Philosophers' Toolkit" provides all the intellectual equipment necessary to engage with and participate in philosophical argument, reading and reflection. Each of its 87 entries explains how to use an important concept or argumentative...
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Philosophical Tales: Being an Alternative History Revealing the Characters, the Plots, and the Hidden Scenes That Make Up the True Story of
by Martin Cohen Publisher Comments Enlightening and entertaining, Philosophical Tales examines a few of the fascinating biographical details of history's greatest philosophers (alas, mostly men) and highlights their contributions to the field. By applying the true philosophical approach...
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The Philosophy of the Enlightenment
by Ernst Cassirer Review At long last Cassirer's famous study of the Enlightenment comes to the English-reading public and in an excellent translation that calls for high praise. Here is a remarkable synthesis of the multiple and variant expressions of eighteenth-century thought;...
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A Guide to Philosophy in Six Hours and Fifteen Minutes
by Witold Gombrowicz Publisher Comments Witold Gombrowicz (1904-1969), novelist, essayist, and playwright, was one of the most important Polish writers of the twentieth century. A candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, he was described by Milan Kundera as "one of the great...
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The Consolations of Philosophy
by Alain de Botton 
Publisher Comments From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. <BR>Solace for the broken heart...
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The Middle Way: Finding Happiness in a World of Extremes
by Lou Marinoff Publisher Comments Today, our global village is filled with strife, caused primarily by extremists of every kind, all unwilling to compromise. But there is a better way—a middle way—where we might discover common ground for peace, both personally and...
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Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind
by Steven M. Nadler Publisher Comments Why was the great philosopher Spinoza expelled from his Portuguese-Jewish community in Amsterdam? Nadler's investigation of this simple question gives fascinating new perspectives on Spinoza's thought and the Jewish religious and philosophical tradition...
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A History of Philosophy, Volume 2: Medieval Philosophy
by Frederick Copleston Publisher Comments Conceived originally as a serious presentation of the development of philosophy for Catholic seminary students, Frederick Copleston's nine-volume "A History Of Philosophy has journeyed far beyond the modest purpose of its author to universal acclaim as...
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Latinos in America
by Jorge J. E. Gracia Publisher Comments A first-of-its-kind book that seriously and profoundly examines what it means philosophically to be Latino and where Latinos fit in American society. Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejecting...
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Socrates Cafe: A Fresh Taste of Philosophy
by Christopher Phillips
Publisher Comments Christopher Phillips is a man on a mission: to revive the love of questions that Socrates inspired long ago in ancient Athens. "Like a Johnny Appleseed with a master's degree, Phillips has gallivanted black and forth across America, to cafe's and coffee...
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Pride (Seven Deadly Sins)
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments Oxford and the New York Public Library bring together seven prominent writers and thinkers to pen book-length meditations that illuminate both sin and sinner. Of the Seven Deadly Sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. When taken too far, as...
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Intellectuals
by Paul Johnson Publisher Comments A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sarte, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillan Hellman, Cyril...
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The History of Philosophy: A Reader's Guide
by Donald Phill Verene Publisher Comments With the aim of guiding readers along, in Hegel’s words, “the long process of education towards genuine philosophy,” this introduction emphasizes the importance of striking up a conversation with the past. Only by looking to past...
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Hegel's 'Phenomenology of Spirit': A Critical Guide (Cambridge Critical Guides)
by Dean (edt) Moyar Publisher Comments Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, first published in 1807, is a work with few equals in systematic integrity, philosophical originality and historical influence. This collection of newly-commissioned essays, contributed by leading Hegel scholars, examines...
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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts)
by David Hume Publisher Comments David Hume's aim in writing An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (1748) was to introduce his philosophy to a European culture in which many educated people read original works of philosophy. He gives an elegant and accessible presentation of...
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Nietzsche: Untimely Meditations
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche Publisher Comments These four essays are key documents for understanding the development of Nietzsche??'s thought....
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