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by Georges Bataille  Publisher Comments Tears of Eros is the culmination of Georges Bataille's inquiries into the relationship between violence and the sacred. Taking up such figures as Giles de Rais, Erzebet Bathory, the Marquis de Sade, El Greco, Gustave Moreau, Andre Breton, Voodoo... (read more)  List Price $18.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies 
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by Immanuel Kant Publisher Comments Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words its aim is to search for... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments New chronology and further reading Translated by R. J. Hollingdale Introduction by Michael Tanner.... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by S. Kierkegaard Synopsis This work is a profound exploration of why people fail to gain eternal life through accountability to God and through self-discovery and is written by one of the 19th century's greatest theologians and philosophers.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Will Kymlicka Publisher Comments This important new book provides a critical introduction to the rapidly growing literature on theories of justice and community. Each chapter covers a major school of contemporary political thought--utilitarianism, liberal egalitarianism, libertarianism,... (read more) List Price $53.75 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard N. Bosley Book News Annotation The discussions and debates are as often between a medieval and an ancient Greek philosopher as between contemporaries, and Bosley and Tweedale (both emeritus philosophy, U. of Alberta) think discourse of both kinds is the best framework within which... (read more) List Price $59.95 Your price $45.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ellen Dissanayake Publisher Comments All human societies throughout history have given a special place to the arts. Even nomadic peoples who own scarcely any material possessions embellish what they do own, decorate their bodies, and celebrate special occasions with music, song, and dance... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Alexis De Tocqueville Publisher Comments Alexis de Tocqueville possessed one of the most fertile sociological imaginations of the nineteenth century. For more than 120 years, his uncanny predictive insight has continued to fascinate thinkers, and his writings have continued to influence our... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edmund Burke Publisher Comments The intellectual wellspring of modern political convervatism, Edmund Burke is also considered a significant figure in aesthetic theory and cultural studies. As a member of the House of Commons during the late eighteenth century, Burke shook Parliament... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $2.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Immanuel Kant Publisher Comments ANALYSIS OF THE ARGUMENT Chapter One THE APPROACH TO MORAL PHILOSOPHY Pages I-3.--"The good will." The only thing that is good without qualification or restriction is a good will. That is to say, a good will alone is good "in all circumstances "and in... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Mill Synopsis One of the most important 19th-century schools of thought, Utilitarianism propounds the view that the value or rightness of an action rests in how well it promotes the welfare of those affected by it. This text provides the collected works of the... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ernest Becker Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward P.j. Corbett Publisher Comments "The second edition of The Elements of Reasoning retains the accessible and succinct approach that made the first edition the best treatment of the essentials of argumentation." It presents the principles that govern the composition of effective... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $24.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Sheng Master Yen Publisher Comments As a well-known scholar and meditation master--His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama called him extremely modest, a true spiritual practitioner of deep and broad learning--Sheng Yen is uniquely qualified to guide Western seekers into the world of contemporary... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Donald Palmer Publisher Comments Distilled from Donald Palmer's more than 30 years of teaching experiences, this approachable text exemplifies Dr. Palmer's very successful light-hearted approach to teaching introduction to philosophy. Through the use of humor, drawings, charts, and... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price $33.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by J. L. Ackrill Publisher Comments "Ackrill will probably be the text of choice for undergraduate courses on Aristotle."--"Religious Studies Review"... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Martin Heidegger Publisher Comments Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking, which is translate her, was published in 1959. It comprises a statement of the point of view of his later though. Since Heidegger's later though has evoked so much interest among philosophers and, in the last few... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Friedrich Nietzsche Publisher Comments hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without meaning, in the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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