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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Eros and Thanatos. Love across Civilizations'Eros and Thanatos' is about the deadly nature of love. It is remarkable that literary critics have paid so little attention to the combination between love and death in literature. This book seeks to address this significant scholarly lacuna by exploring key literary texts...
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Diogenes the Cynic: The War Against the WorldFor over eight hundred years, philosophers--men and women--who called themselves Cynics, literally "dogs" in their language, roamed the streets and byways of the Hellenistic world, teaching strange ideas and practicing a bizarre way of life. Among them, the most important and distinctive was Diogenes...
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Dante: A LifeAn insightful biography of Florence's famous son Acclaimed biog rap her R.W.B. Lewis traces the life and complex development? emotional, artistic, philosophical?of this supreme poet-historian. Here we meet the boy who first encounters the mythic Beatrice, the lyric poet obsessed with love and death,...
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Comradely Greetings: The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj"We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search ... Two years of prison for Pussy Riot is our tribute to a destiny that gave us sharp ears, allowing us to sound...
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Claiming to Answer: How One Person Became the Response to our Deepest QuestionsWe need a coherent picture of our world. Life's realities won't let us ignore its fundamental questions, but with so many opposing views, how will we choose answers that are reliable? In this series of books, David Gooding and John Lennox offer a fair...
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CHI Kung for Radiant Skin: Taoist Secrets for Inner and Outer BeautyTechniques and practices for skin renewal and ageless vitality - Explores ancient Taoist wisdom and Chi Kung methods to restore the skin's ability to renew itself by regenerating your skin's chi, or vital energy - Presents easy step-by-step instructions for detoxifying techniques, circulation-enhancing activities,...
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Art and Multitude: Nine Letters on Art, Followed by Metamorphoses: Art and Immaterial Labour"Metamorphoses: art and immaterial labour" talk given at the Tate Britain, 19 Jan. 2008.Author: Antonio NegriPublisher: Polity PressPublished: 04/19/2011Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.40h x 4.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9780745649009About the AuthorAntonio Negri, Formerly Professor of State Theory, Padua UniversityTranslated by Ed EmeryThis title is...
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A Modest ProposalPossibly Swift's most well-known essay, A Modest Proposal is a satirical essay and a humorous read for those interested.Author: Jonathan SwiftPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 02/16/2014Pages: 34Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.07dISBN: 9781495966866This title is not returnable
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A Guide to the Guide to the Perplexed: A Reader's Companion to Maimonides' MasterworkIn this volume, noted philosopher Lenn E. Goodman shares the insights gained over a lifetime of pondering the meaning and purpose of Maimonides' celebrated Guide to the Perplexed. Written in the late twelfth century, Maimonides' Guide aims to help religiously committed readers who are...
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W.L.Wilmshurst - The Ceremony of Initiation: Revisited by Robert LomasThe Ceremony of Initiation was originally written for the instruction of the members of the research lodge, known as the Lodge of Living Stones, founded by W.L.Wilmshurst in Leeds. Walter Leslie Wilmshurst was born in 1867 in Sussex. At the age of fifteen he...
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Trans Figured: On Being a Transgender Person in a Cisgender World'I was four and three-quarters when I asked my mother if, from now on, I could please go to school as a girl instead of as a boy ...' In this extraordinary new book, renowned philosopher Sophie Grace Chappell combines personal memoir, philosophical reflection,...
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Touching the Source: A Remarkable DisclosureTouching the Source is a spiritually captivating and mesmerizing true story. After numerous direct encounters with what humans refer to as a higher power or a god, Eugene Dickerson accepted that his life would never be the same again and vowed to share his...
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The Zen Understanding of ManWhat distinguishes human beings from other animals and creatures, and what does religion-in particular, Zen Buddhism-have to do with human nature ?In this book, Richard DeMartino (1922-2013), the pre-eminent Western Zen thinker of the 20th century presents the Zen understanding of man and his...
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The Virtue of HopeWhat is hope? In the history of western philosophy to the present day, there is tremendous disagreement about the answer to this seemingly simple question. Contemporary philosophical literature on the subject is robust, complex, and full of interesting debates. Whether hope is good or...
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The Self: A HistoryThe Self: A History explores the ways in which the concept of an 'I' or a 'self' has been developed and deployed at different times in the history of Western Philosophy. It also offers a striking contrast case, the 'interconnected' self, who appears in...
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The Power of Karma Yoga: Decoding Ancient Wisdom for Lasting SuccessUnderstand the essence of Karma Yoga. Master the subtle art of letting go while leading a purpose-driven life.There's a lot of buzz around being purposeful, but hardly anyone seems to know how to get there. The answer is in the Bhagavad Gita. The Gita's...
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The Enchaf?d Flood: Three Critical Essays on the Romantic SpiritPut simply, The Enchaf?d Flood is an "attempt to understand the nature of Romanticism through an examination of its treatment of a single theme, the sea." Auden focuses his Christian existentialist eye especially on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, though he draws widely from works as...
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The Age of Reason - Thomas Paine (Writings of Thomas Paine)The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century British deism, and challenges institutionalized religion and...
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Spinoza, Life and LegacyA biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which examines the man's life, relationships, writings, and career, while also forcing us to rethink how we previously understood Spinoza's reception in his own time and in the years following...
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Speaking for Others: The Ethics of Informal Political RepresentationA political philosopher dissects the duties and dilemmas of the unelected spokesperson, from Martin Luther King, Jr., to Greta Thunberg. Political representation is typically assumed to be the purview of formal institutions and elected officials. But many of the people who represent us are...
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