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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
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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)
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A History of Western Philosophy
by Bertrand Russell
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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)
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The Trial and Death of Socrates: Four Dialogues (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Plato
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Among the most important and influential philosophical works in Western thought: the dialogues entitled "Euthyphro, Apology, Crito" and "Phaedo," Translations by distinguished classical scholar Benjamin Jowett.... ( read more)
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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
by Jostein Gaarder
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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)
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The Prince (Bantam Classics)
by Machiavelli And Donno
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Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power. Astonishing in its candor The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. ... ( read more)
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
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One of the most informed journalists in the country (he seems to have been everywhere, met everyone, and read everything), he is also one of the most entertaining. His command of the language is legendary; his wit ferocious. His skill in marshalling... ( read more)
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
by Christophe Hitchens
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From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali... ( read more)
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Cosmos and Psyche: Intimations of a New World View
by Richard Tarnas
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From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of... ( read more)
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The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Paperback Reference)
by Simon Blackburn
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The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager, Buridan's Ass, Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to... ( read more)
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Three Dialogues Between Hylas & Philonous
by George Berkley
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'Three Dialogues Between Hylas And Philonous'. Edited by Kenneth Winkler.... ( read more)
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Political Writings (Norton Critical Edition)
by Jean Jacqu Rousseau
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This Norton Critical Edition includes the three most important of Rousseau's political writings: Discourse on Inequality, Discourse on Political Economy, and On Social Contract. Each piece is fully annotated. Backgrounds includes a sketch of Rousseau's... ( read more)
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The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, and Other Writings on Media
by Walter Benjamin
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Benjamin’s famous "Work of Art" essay sets out his boldest thoughts (on media and on culture in general) in their most realized form, while retaining an edge that gets under the skin of everyone who reads it. In this essay the visual arts of the... ( read more)
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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
by Harold Bloom
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In this inspiring book, Harold Bloom, our preeminent literary critic, takes us from the Bible to twentieth-century writing, searching for the ways in which literature can inform our lives. Through comparisons of the Book of Job and Ecclesiastes; Plato... ( read more)
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Hegel : Phenomenology of Spirit (77 Edition)
by Georg W. Hegel
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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)
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Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy 2ND Edition
by Robert Audi
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A second edition of the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary of philosophy available in English.... ( read more)
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
by Ray Monk
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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)
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Passion of the Western Mind
by Richard Tarnas
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" (This) magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to... ( read more)
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Republic of Plato 2ND Edition
by Allen Bloom
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Long regarded as the most accurate rendering of Plato’s Republic that has yet been published, this widely acclaimed work is the first strictly literal translation of a timeless classic. This second edition includes a new introduction by Professor... ( read more)
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Six Questions of Socrates: A Modern-Day Journey of Discovery Through World Philosophy
by Christophe Phillips
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What is virtue? Courage? Justice? Piety? Moderation? Good? Phillips poses Socrates' questions to people with disparate backgrounds all over the world, from veiled Muslim women in Detroit to the indigenous inhabitants of Chiapas, Mexico.... ( read more)
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The Open: Man and Animal
by Giorgio Agamben
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In "The Open," contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben examines the ways in which, throughout the history of Western culture, man has been distinguished from animal, and in his inquiry discovers that the human arises not from the "conjunction... ( read more)
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