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by Slavoj Zizek  Publisher Comments What happens to our supposedly atheistic, secular beliefs when they meet the internet, consumerism and New Age mysticism? Zizek, the renowned philosopher and cultural critic, shows in his controversial and witty new book that, despite postmodern warnings... (read more)  List Price $17.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by G S Kirk Publisher Comments Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $24.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Isaiah Berlin Publisher Comments The essays collected in this new volume reveal Isaiah Berlin at his most lucid and accessible. He was constitutionally incapable of writing with the opacity of the specialist, but these shorter, more introductory pieces provide the perfect starting-point... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Harry G Frankfurt Publisher Comments This beautifully written book by one of the world's leading moral philosophers argues that the key to a fulfilled life is to pursue wholeheartedly what one cares about, that love is the most authoritative form of caring, and that the purest form of love... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Katz Publisher Comments An atheistic and humorous look at popular religious beliefs. Katz's biting style and his knack for presenting atheistic thinking to general readers help him clearly illustrate that morality and goodness are human creations, not divinely inspired.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John M Dillon Publisher Comments The Sophists, who rose to prominence in democratic Athens during the mid-fifth century b.c., understood the art of rhetoric and the importance of being able to transform effective reasoning into persuasive public speaking. Their inquiries-into the gods... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kwame Anthon Appiah Publisher Comments "A brilliant and humane philosophy for our confused age."—Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell Kwame Anthony Appiah's landmark new work, featured on the cover of the New York Times Magazine, challenges the separatist doctrines espoused in... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by A E Taylor Publisher Comments Foremost Platonist examines Aristotle's thought, historical background, influence, present-day application.... (read more) Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments "For an acquaintance with the thought of Heidegger, "What Is Called Thinking?" is as important as" Being and Time," It is the only systematic presentation of the thinker's late philosophy and . . . it is perhaps the most exciting of his books."--Hannah... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Aristotle Publisher Comments Since the publication of the original edition in 1947, Richard McKeon's "Introduction to Aristotle has become the standard text for a variety of courses in philosophy and the humanities. For this revised and enlarged edition, Professor McKeon has... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Franz Kafka Publisher Comments The essential philosophical writings of one of the twentieth century's most influential writers are now gathered into a single volume with an introduction and afterword by the celebrated writer and publisher Roberto Calasso. Illness set him free to... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alex Barber Publisher Comments What must linguistic knowledge be like if it is to explain our capacity to use language? All linguists and philosophers of language presuppose some answer to this critical question, but all too often the presupposition is tacit. In this collection of... (read more) List Price $72.00 Your price $48.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ilan Stavans Publisher Comments Surprising readers again and again, cultural critic Ilan Stavans creates a dialogue with Vernica Albin to explore love in its many variations.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Russell Publisher Comments In this book, Russell examines Hume's notion of free will and moral responsibility. It is widely held that Hume presents us with a classic statement of the "compatibilist" position--that freedom and responsibility can be reconciled with causation and... (read more) List Price $59.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Rorty Publisher Comments Sixteen essays confront the debate about the relationship between philosophy and its history.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Beresford Publisher Comments In this new edition, two of Platos most accessible dialogues explore the question of what exactly makes good people good.... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bernard Ar Williams Publisher Comments "In this exceptionally brilliant book, ranging effortlessly from Herodotus and Thucydides to Diderot and Nietzsche, Bernard Williams daringly asks--and still more daringly answers--one of the central questions of philosophy: what is the point of telling... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Neil Gross Publisher Comments On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as “one of the world’s most influential contemporary thinkers.” Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $23.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments "To great writers," Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they labor their entire lives." Conceived in Paris in 1927 and still in progress when Benjamin fled the Occupation in 1940, The Arcades Project(in... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $31.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ben Ami Scharfstein Publisher Comments This highly readable volume offers a broad introduction to modern philosophy and philosophers. Ben-Ami Scharfstein contends that personal experience, especially that of childhood, affects philosophers' sense of reality and hence the content of their... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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