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A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1945, Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject — unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit... (read more) Your price: $12.95 Used - Book Club Hardcover 
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Being and Time by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments One of the most important philosophical works of our time -- a work that has had tremendous influence on philosophy, literature, and psychology, and has literally changed the intellectual map of the modern world.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder Publisher Comments One day when Sophie comes home from school, she finds two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it, she is pondering all the great questions of Western philosophy (from the Greeks to Kant, to Marx... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.00 Used - Mass Market
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Chomsky-foucault Debate (06 Edition) by Noam Chomsky Publisher Comments Two of the 20th century's most influential thinkers debate a perennial question--is there such a thing as "innate" human nature independent of experiences and external influences?... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Foucault Reader (84 Edition) by Michael Foucault Publisher Comments Michel Foucault was one of the most influential thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Problems from Locke by John L Mackie Publisher Comments This book deals with problems raised in Locke's Essay concerning Human Understanding that remain of interest to contemporary philosophers. The main topics discussed are primary and secondary qualities, representative theories of perception, substance... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Western Philosophy (45 Edition) by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 2: The Use of Pleasure by Michael Foucault Publisher Comments In this sequel to The History of Sexuality, Volume I: An Introduction, the brilliantly original French thinker who died in 1984 gives an analysis of how the ancient Greeks perceived sexuality. <BR>Throughout The Uses of Pleasure Foucault analyzes... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition by Thomas S Kuhn Publisher Comments Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Phenomenology of Spirit by G W F Hegel Publisher Comments This brilliant study of the stages in the mind's necessary progress from immediate sense-consciousness to the position of a scientific philosophy includes an introductory essay and a paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of the text to help the reader... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson Publisher Comments Building on the unimaginable success of the Web site which propels the debate on evolution versus intelligent design with a new theory--that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM)--this book explains the world's newest "religion."... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction by Michel Foucault Publisher Comments The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea by Arthur Onck Lovejoy Publisher Comments From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Violence: Big Ideas/Small Books by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Philosopher, cultural critic, and agent provocateur Slavoj Žižek constructs a fascinating new framework to look at the forces of violence in our world. Using history, philosophy, books, movies, Lacanian psychiatry, and jokes, Slavoj Ži... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Philosophy and Social Hope by Richard Rorty Publisher Comments Since Plato most philosophy has aimed at true knowledge, penetrating beneath appearances to an underlying reality. Against this tradition, Richard Rorty convincingly argues, pragmatism offers a new philosophy of hope. One of the most controversial... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Philosophy the Classics 2ND Edition by Nigel Warburton Synopsis This text may be thought of as an introduction to philosophy, with four new chapters on classics by Boethius, Machiavelli, Spinoza and Rawls included in this second edition. Nigel Warburton takes the reader on a tour through philosophy's greatest works... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ludwig Wittgenstein : the Duty of Genius (90 Edition) by Ray Monk Publisher Comments Wittgenstein possessed one of the most acute philosophical minds of the 20th century. In this incisive portrait, Monk offers a unique insight into the life and work of a modern genius who radically redirected philosophical thought in our time.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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