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by Christina Howells  Publisher Comments This book is an unusually readable and lucid account of the development of Derrida's work, from his early writings on phenomenology and structuralism to his most recent interventions in debates on psychoanalysis, ethics and politics. Christina Howells... (read more)  List Price $30.50 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Richard Wollheim Publisher Comments Distinguished philosopher Richard Wollheim's rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions considers what emotions are, how they arise in our lives, and how standard and "moral" emotions differ. Drawing on insights from literature, psychoanalysis... (read more) Your price $25.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J Thomas Cook Publisher Comments The Ethics is one of the undisputed masterworks of early modern philosophy. This title explains the philosophical background against which the book was written and the key themes inherent in the text. It explores the historical and philosophical context... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Annette C Baier Publisher Comments A powerful tradition in philosophy, of which Descartes is an influential proponent, holds that mind is something possessed by each individual human, independently of membership in a culture and society. But there is a dissenting tradition, which takes... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Pierre Bayle Publisher Comments The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Hamilton Publisher Comments Revised edition of a classic translation of Plato's dialogue on morality and power in government.... (read more) List Price $9.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kant And Bernard Publisher Comments Kant's attempt to establish the principles behind the faculty of judgment remains one of the most important works on human reason. This third of the philosopher's three "Critiques" forms the very basis of modern aesthetics by establishing the almost... (read more) Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-271) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David Owen Publisher Comments Written in a clear and engaging style, this text demonstrates Nietzsche's significance as a philosopher and as a political theorist by highlighting his critique of liberalism (in both its philosophical and political forms) and by elaborating the form of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $27.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Marsilio Ficino Publisher Comments The Platonic Theologyis a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. A student of the Neoplatonic schools of... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $21.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Theodor W Adorno Publisher Comments This short masterwork in twentieth-century philosophy provides both a major reinterpretation of Hegel and insight into the evolution of Adorno's critical theory. The first study focuses on the relationship of reason, the individual, and society in Hegel,... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hazel Barnes Publisher Comments Best known as the writer who introduced French existentialism to English-speaking readers through her translation of Sartre's Being and Nothingness, Hazel E. Barnes has written an autobiography that is both the success story of a professional woman as... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $14.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Falk Publisher Comments Some call it folk psychology; others call it the perennial philosophy. According to Arthur Falk, author of Desire and Belief, it's the traditional account of the mind's features that make it unique in nature. This work examines the nature of what... (read more) List Price $62.00 Your price $18.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Kaufmann Publisher Comments 'Since Kaufmann's study is not only well written but also the only existing text combining detailed understanding, sympathy, and criticism of both existentialism and analytic philosophy, it becomes a 'must' for any man's spiritual medicine cabinet. Add... (read more) List Price $20.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Matthijs Van Boxsel Publisher Comments A witty and erudite collection of human folly, foible and acts of stupidity. Illustrated with many unusual and quirky images. Featured in a recent New York Times article. "An illustrated hodgepodge of ruminations, anecdotes, aphorisms, and esoterica, the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arthur Schopenhauer Synopsis Part of the "Everyman" series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title includes a themed introduction by leading authorities on the subject, life-and-times chronology of the author, text summaries, annotated... (read more) Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments Plato is perhaps the most significant philosopher who ever lived and The Republic, composed in Athens in about 375 BC, is widely regarded as his most famous dialogue. Its discussion of the perfect city--and the perfect mind--laid the foundations for... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Shierry W Nicholsen Publisher Comments Most English-language writing on Theodor Adorno has attempted to place him in various contexts and to differentiate him from other thinkers. Such work, while important, marks our failure to appropriate Adorno's ideas imaginatively. In Exact Imagination... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $22.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by James B South Publisher Comments How can Buffy’s religious symbolism be squared with creator Joss Whedon’s professed atheism? Is Buffy truly a Kierkegaardian knight of faith? Do Faith’s corruption and return to the good life demonstrate Platonic eudaimonism? Or do they... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Francois Flahault Publisher Comments This book is about the inner roots of malice. It does not treat evil as a force external to human nature, as some kind of theological mystery. Malice is considered here as an anthropological fact. What stops us from examining this type of fact is our... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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