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by Carl L Becker  Publisher Comments Here a distinguished American historian challenges the belief that the eighteenth century was essentially modern in its temper. In crystalline prose Carl Becker demonstrates that the period commonly described as the Age of Reason was, in fact, very far... (read more)  List Price $14.00 Your price $3.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Ted Honderich Publisher Comments Philosophy can be intriguing--and at times baffling. It deals with the central problems of the human condition--with important questions of free will, morality, life after death, the limits of logic and reason--though often in rather esoteric terms. Now,... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price $29.96 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by A J Ayer Publisher Comments With extraordinary concision and clarity, A.J. Ayer gives an account of the major incidents of Betrand Russell's life and an exposition of the whole range of his philosophy.... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments In the months after September 11, titles like 'The End of the Age of Irony' abound in our media. Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides.<P>Zizek argues... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Rouse Publisher Comments One of the world's most respected classical scholars offers translations of the complete texts of "The Republic, Apology of Socrates, " "Crito, " "Phaedo, " "Ion, " "Meno, " and "Symposium."... (read more) Your price $1.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by John Gray Publisher Comments The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel Clement Dennett Publisher Comments An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future. For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $16.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jaegwon Kim Publisher Comments The philosophy of mind has always been a staple of the philosophy curriculum. But it has never held a more important place than it does today, with both traditional problems and new topics often sparked by the implications of modern psychology, cognitive... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Lewis Petrinovich Publisher Comments In the first volume of his ambitious trilogy, Petrinovich brings concepts from evolutionary biology, neurophysiology, and cognitive science to bear on such controversial issues as contraception, abortion, infanticide, new reproductive technologies, and... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $2.58 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Jowett Publisher Comments (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) <BR>Toward the end of the astonishing period of Athenian creativity that furnished Western civilization with the greater part of its intellectual, artistic, and political wealth, Plato wrote "The Republic," his... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Emmanuel Levinas Publisher Comments Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1996) has exerted a profound influence on 20th-century continental philosophy. This anthology, including Levinas's key philosophical texts over a period of more than forty years, provides an ideal introduction to his thought, and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Judith P Butler Publisher Comments The author considers the way in which psychic life is generated by the social operation of power, and how that social operation of power is concealed and fortified by the psyche that it produces. Power is no longer understood to be 'internalized' by an... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas More Publisher Comments Preeminent More scholar Clarence H. Miller does justice to the full range of More's rhetoric in this new translation of "Utopia", one of the most important works of European humanism. Professor Miller includes a helpful Introduction that outlines some of... (read more) List Price $8.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Locke Publisher Comments The Everyman Paperback Classics series offers the latest scholarship on the works of the world's greatest poets, writers and philosophers. Each edition includes a comprehensive introduction, chronology, notes, appendix, critical responses, and a text... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Virilio Publisher Comments The "genetic bomb"marks a turn in the history of humanity.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Jacqu Rousseau 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 $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Charles Montesquieu Publisher Comments Richly evocative novel. Translated by C.J. Betts.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alec Finlay Publisher Comments There Where You Are Not illuminates Wittgenstein's life-long search for his vocation, for his place in the world. A biographical collage by Michael Nedo, a photographic sketch by Guy Moreton, and a poetic album by Alec Finlay illustrate Wittgenstein's... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Ignatieff Publisher Comments Isaiah Berlin was witness to a century. Born in Riga in the twilight of the Czarist empire, he lived long enough to see the Soviet state collapse. The son of a Jewish timber merchant, he became a presiding judge of Western intellectual life on both sides... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Barry Smith Publisher Comments This is the only systematic introduction to the full range of Searle??'s work.... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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