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by Hagi Kenaan  Publisher Comments Hagi Kenaan argues that philosophy's concern with abstract forms of linguistic meaning and the objective, propositional nature of language has obscured the singular human voice. In this strikingly original work Kenaan explores the ethical and... (read more)  List Price $35.00 Your price $26.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Lewis Mumford Publisher Comments Discusses the ultimated ethical and religious issues the confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization.<BR>... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Jowett Publisher Comments Atlantis was first introduced by the Greek philosopher Plato in two "dialogues" he wrote in the fourth century B.C. His tale of a great empire that sank beneath the waves has sparked thousands of years of debate over whether Atlantis really existed. But... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Tracy Strong Publisher Comments Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of Transfiguration provides a comprehensive analysis of the politics that are implicit and explicit in Nietzsche's work. Tracy B. Strong's discussion shows that Nietzsche's writings are of a piece and have as their... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douwe Draaisma Publisher Comments Explores the metaphors used by philosophers and psychologists to understand memory over the centuries.... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price $18.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Georg Gadamer Publisher Comments One of this century's most important philosophers here focuses on Plato's Protagoras, Phaedo, Republic, and Philebus and on Aristotle's three moral treatises to show the essential continuity of Platonic and Aristotelian reflection on the nature of the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Plato And Gallop Publisher Comments These new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato's remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events surrounding the trial of Socrates in 399 BC, on charges of irreligion and corrupting the young. They form a... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Phillippe Tretiack Synopsis Agitation: it's a high! This book is a user's guide for everyone who is burning to see, to go, to do. It's a hymn to the intoxication, the thrill, and the inspiration of life in the fast lane. "Agite" is about to become a new household word, replacing... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Julian Baggini Publisher Comments Julian Baggini presents 100 thought experiments: short scenarios which pose a problem in a vivid and concrete way, and invites the reader to think about possible answers for him/herself. Experiments cover identity, religion, art, ethics, language... (read more) Your price $7.90 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Regis Debray Publisher Comments The captivating autobiography of one of France's leading political activists and intellectuals. Regis Debray is one of France's leading contemporary intellectuals and commentators, whose life has intersected with some of the key moments of the... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Henr Popkin Publisher Comments The period I shall treat, 1500-1675, is certainly not the unique period of sceptical impact on modern thought. Both before and after this time interval, one can find important influences of the ancient sceptical thinkers. But, it is my contention that... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Harold Joh Blackham Publisher Comments Includes summary but substantial accounts of the thought of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Jaspers, Marcel, Heidegger and Sartre, and a concluding essay that attempts to interpret the whole Existentialist movement. <BR>This title available in eBook format.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Brogan Publisher Comments What is the seeming oxymoron, American continental philosophy? Continental philosophy was first introduced to America by expatriate Europeans after World War II. During the 1950s and 1960s, American-born philosophers assimilated the thought of Husserl... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $11.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Watson Review "Excellent anthology!"--James Coley, University of North Carolina, Greensboro "An excellent collection."--Susan Sauve, Harvard University "Excellent--exactly what I need for my free will course."--George B. Thomas, University of Virginia "Outstanding and... (read more) Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Baudillard Publisher Comments The whole chaotic constellation of the social revolves around that spongy reference, that opaque but equally translucent reality, that nothingness: the masses. A statistical crystal ball, the masses are 'swirling with currents and flows,' in the image of... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Kirk Ludwig Publisher Comments This is the only comprehensive introduction to the full range of Davidson??'s work.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Daniel N Robinson Publisher Comments At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it might seem that questions about the nature of the mind are best left to scientists rather than philosophers. How could the views of Aristotle or Descartes or Kant possibly contribute anything to debates... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments In order to render the strange logic of dreams, Freud cited the old joke about the borrowed kettle: (1) I never borrowed a kettle from you, (2) I returned it to you intact, (3) the kettle was already broken when I got it from you. Such an enumeration of... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gerald Dworkin Publisher Comments This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy. The notion of autonomy has emerged as central to contemporary moral and political philosophy, particularly in the area of applied ethics. Professor Dworkin examines the nature and value of... (read more) Your price $29.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Deigh Publisher Comments This anthology focuses on emotions and motives that relate to our status as moral agents, our capacity for moral judgement, and the practices that help to define our social lives. Attachment, trust, respect, conscience, guilt, revenge, depravity, and... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.75 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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