Philosophy
Explore our collection of philosophy books at our online bookstore, featuring the best books on philosophy, philosophical novels, and famous works on stoicism and political philosophy. Discover must-read and best-selling titles that offer deep insights into the world of philosophy.
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The Fall of SleepPhilosophers have largely ignored sleep, treating it as a useless negativity, mere repose for the body or at best a source for the production of unconscious signs out of the night of the soul. In an extraordinary theoretical investigation written with lyric intensity, The...
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?: Volume 38"You are about to enter a new genre, that of scientific fables, by which I don't mean science fiction, or false stories about science, but, on the contrary, true ways of understanding how difficult it is to figure out what animals are up to."...
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Adorno in America"For those inclined to dismiss Adorno's take on America as the uncomprehending condescension of a mandarin elitist, David Jenemann's splendid new book will come as a rude awakening. Exploiting a wealth of new sources, he persuasively shows the depth of Adorno's engagement with the...
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Thinker on Stage: Nietzsche's Materialism Volume 56Author: Peter SloterdijkPublisher: University of Minnesota PressPublished: 06/30/1989Pages: 136Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.07w x 0.42dISBN: 9780816617654This title is only available via back order
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Reverence for Life: The Ethics of Albert Schweitzer for the Twenty-First CenturyThis collection of essays builds on the contributions of Albert Schweitzer's philosophy of "Reverence for Life" as it pertains to our world today.Author: Marvin MeyerPublisher: Syracuse University PressPublished: 10/01/2002Pages: 368Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.42h x 6.22w x 0.90dISBN: 9780815629771Review Citation(s): Library Journal 09/15/2002 pg....
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An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays by Leo StraussA reissue of the 1975 edition, with four added essays, this collection offers a clear introduction to Strauss' views regarding the nature of political philosophy, its chief contemporary antagonists, its classical forms, and its modern version. It gives the reader Strauss' thoughts on what...
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System of Transcendental Idealism (1800)System of Transcendental Idealism is probably Schelling's most important philosophical work. A central text in the history of German idealism, its original German publication in 1800 came seven years after Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre and seven years before Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit.Author: F. W. J. SchellingPublisher:...
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Climate Trauma: Foreseeing the Future in Dystopian Film and FictionEach month brings new scientific findings that demonstrate the ways in which human activities, from resource extraction to carbon emissions, are doing unprecedented, perhaps irreparable damage to our world. As we hear these climate change reports and their predictions for the future of Earth,...
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Lineages of European Political Thought: Explorations Along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to HegelThis book examines some of the salient historiographical and conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the nature of the medieval contribution to modern Western political ideas. On the one hand, scholars who subscribe to the "Baron thesis" concerning civic humanism have asserted...
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Saint Thomas Aquinas: The Person and His WorkHighly acclaimed as the most reliable, thorough, and accessible introduction to Thomas Aquinas, this first volume in Jean-Pierre Torrell's set of books on the great Dominican theologian has been revised to include a new appendix. The appendix consists of additions to the text, the...
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The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest InventorsA wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schr dinger's Cat In this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of...
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The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy: A Womb of One's OwnIn The Handmaid's Tale and Philosophy, philosophers give their insights into the blockbuster best-selling novel and record-breaking TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. The story involves a future breakaway state in New England, beset by environmental disaster and a plummeting birth rate, in which the...
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Dune and Philosophy: Weirding Way of the MentatFrank Herbert's Dune is the biggest-selling science fiction story of all time; the original book and its numerous sequels have transported millions of readers into the alternate reality of the Duniverse. Dune and Philosophy raises intriguing questions about the Duniverse in ways that will...
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Nature, the Artful Modeler: Lectures on Laws, Science, How Nature Arranges the World and How We Can Arrange It BetterHow fixed are the happenings in Nature and how are they fixed? These lectures address what our scientific successes at predicting and manipulating the world around us suggest in answer. One--very orthodox--account teaches that the sciences offer general truths that we combine with local...
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Liberty and Nature: An Aristotelian Defense of Liberal OrderAristotle's way of thinking has normally been understood as hostile to any liberal, pluralistic, or commercial society. In Liberal Nature, Rasmussen and Den Uyl set out to show that the Aristotelian approach to ethics supports the natural rights which form the most secure basis...
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Ethics and ProfessionalismJohn Kultgen explores the ways morality and professional ideals are connected. In assessing the moral impact of professionalism in our society, he examines both the structure and organization of occupations and the ideals and ideology associated with professions. Differing from standard treatments of professional...
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Forms of TalkForms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned him in his work on frame analysis. This...
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Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and NegativityGregor Moder's Hegel and Spinoza: Substance and Negativity is a lively entry into current debates concerning Hegel, Spinoza, and their relation. Hegel and Spinoza are two of the most influential philosophers of the modern era, and the traditions of thought they inaugurated have been...
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Thinking and the I: Hegel and the Critique of KantWhat is the relation between thinking and the I that thinks? And what is the relation between thought and reality? The ordinary view shared by modern philosophers from Descartes to Kant, as well as by common sense, is that there is only thought when...
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The Planetary Turn: Relationality and Geoaesthetics in the Twenty-First CenturyA groundbreaking essay collection that pursues the rise of geoculture as an essential framework for arts criticism, The Planetary Turn shows how the planet--as a territory, a sociopolitical arena, a natural space of interaction for all earthly life, and an artistic theme--is increasingly the...
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