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by Alan Schrift  Publisher Comments This unique book addresses trends such as vitalism, neo-Kantianism, existentialism, Marxism and feminism, and provides concise biographies of the influential philosophers who shaped these movements, including entries on over ninety thinkers.... (read more)  List Price $32.95 Your price $30.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by George Sher Publisher Comments 'A complex and subtle depiction of a highly irregular conceptual terrain. ...Sher's discussion in sure to play an important part in future thinking about desert. It has many virtues, foremost among them its thoroughness and clarity and its refusal to... (read more) Your price $18.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Hans Sluga Publisher Comments Ludwig Wittgenstein is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the twentieth century, but he is also one of the least accessible. This volume provides a comprehensible guide to his work by a wide range of experts who are actively... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Jean Paul Sartre Publisher Comments Considering the role of the imagination and the emotions, such as disgust, Sartre argues that it is because human beings can imagine or think of things as they are not , that they are ultimately free. The Imaginary is essential reading for anyone... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Soren Kierkegaard Publisher Comments In 'Philosophical Fragments' the pseudonymous author Johannes Climacus explored the question, What is required in order to go beyond Socratic recollection of eternal ideas already possessed by the learner? Written as an afterword to this work... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Will Durant Publisher Comments "Dr. Durant's outline includes not only lucid explanations of the great philosophies, but the careers of the philosophers and interpretations based upon the two-fold view, together with a host of good tales and merry quips by and about famous scholars... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price $5.50 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies
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by P M S Hacker Publisher Comments Focusing on diverse aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy, this volume not only provides a valuable introduction, but also investigates connections between the philosophy of Wittgenstein, other philosophers--in particular, Frege, Frazer, Carnap, and... (read more) Your price $35.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Tunick Publisher Comments A Japanese woman living in California attempts parent-child suicide, an ancient Japanese custom called "oyako-shinju," in order to rid herself of shame upon learning that her husband has a mistress. She survives, but her two children are drowned in the... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $35.00 (Used - Hardcover) 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 David Van Mill Book News Annotation Mills (political science, U. of Western Australia) offers new interpretations of Hobbes' theories of freedom, agency, rationality, morality, psychology, and politics. Throughout, he considers the applicability of these new interpretations to... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arnold Bennett Publisher Comments 1918. Arnold Bennett was an English novelist, playwright, essayist, critic and journalist. By any standards, his output was prolific: thirty novels, almost three thousand articles, ten plays and many other writings. He was a bon viveur who enjoyed to the... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gunter Figal Publisher Comments This first book-length work of the prominent German philosopher Gunter Figal to appear in English offers a radical defense of metaphysical philosophy in the era of postmodern thought. For Figal, metaphysics does not represent an anachronistic and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Walter Benjamin Publisher Comments Walter Benjamin was one of the most original and important critical voices of the twentieth century, but until now only a few of his writings have been available in English. Harvard University Press has now undertaken to publish a significant portion of... (read more) List Price $54.50 Your price $30.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Terry Pinkard Publisher Comments A complete, up-to-date account of his life and an overview of the philosophical concepts in Hegel’s work.... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price $29.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul Cartledge Synopsis From Aristotle to Wittgenstein, from Democritus to Derrida, this series provides a concise survey of philosophers ancient and modern. Each volume is commissioned from an acknowledged expert briefed to address the non-specialist reader.... (read more) Your price $1.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by David J Melling Publisher Comments This incisive book fills the longstanding need for a sound, reliable, and balanced guide to the whole of Plato's philosophical work. Melling describes the different stages in Plato's philosophical development, introduces his different methods and styles... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Mortimer J Adler Publisher Comments For the first time in paperback, the illuminating critique of modern thought from America's "Philosopher for Everyman" (Time).... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Raymond A Belliotti Publisher Comments This introduction to Nietzsche's thought is geared to those who approach his work with grave skepticism. Each chapter examines a broad theme in Nietzsche's writing, raising important questions of interpretation.... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $11.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by J L Bintliff Publisher Comments The theme of this book is the appropriate methodology for the study of the history of life on earth. In particular, it focuses on the interplay between form and structure: the things that we might predict and model and the things we cannot predict -- the... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Scott Cutl Shershow Publisher Comments "The Work and the Gift" considers how working and giving are taken for opposites and revealed as each other's ghostly shadow. We ask ourselves, for instance, to work for a wage and a living, dooming ourselves forever to the curse of daily toil; and yet... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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