Harvest Books/HBJ Book, March 1966. Reprint. Trade Paperback. A masterful exploration of Kant's intellectual development, theory of knowledge, politics, and ethics. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Octavo. Shelf wear, scuff marks and rubbing. Dust stains & light soiling top textblok edge. [160 pages]. More
Harvest/HBJ Book / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., March 1966. Reprint. Trade Paperback. From one of the leading existentialists of our times, an insightful study of two titans of Western philosophy, one pre-Christian and one Christian. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim. Octavo. Sunned spine. Tanning of margins..... More
Harper Perennial / Helen and Kurt Wolff Book, October 1974. First Thus. Paper Back. Taken from the Great Philosphers, Volume II. Octavo. Sunned spine ant top edge. First Harvest paperback. Complete number string.[122 pages]. More
Hackett Publishing Company, January 1753. Trade Paperback. Building on the strengths of the first edition, the second edition of the Irwin Nicomachean Ethics features a revised translation (with little editorial intervention), expanded notes (including a summary of the argument of each chapter), an expanded Introduction, and a revised glossary. More
Collier Book, 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Moderate wear & scuff marks. [414 pages]. More
Broadview Press, December 2010. Trade Paperback. With the publication of Leviathan, in the midst of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes alienated himself from both sides of the war, by arguing against the divine right of kings (to the dismay of Royalists) but in favour of absolute monarchy (to the..... More
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Euthyphro/Apology/Crito/Phaedo 'Nothing can harm a good man either in life or after death' The trial and condemnation of Socrates on charges of heresy and corrupting young minds is a defining moment in the history of classical Athens. In tracing these events through four dialogues..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2007. Trade Paperback. A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie..... More
Penguin Classics, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1973. Trade Paperback. One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1977. Trade Paperback. The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few writers in any..... More
Penguin Group, January 2014. Paper Back. The companion book to Beyond Good and Evil, the three essays included here offer vital insights into Nietzsche's theories of morality and human psychology. Nietzsche claimed that the purpose of The Genealogy of Morals was to call attention to his previous writings. But in..... More
Penguin Classics, September 2006. Trade Paperback. From the author of Eichmann in Jerusalem and The Origins of Totalitarianism, "a book to think with through the political impasses and cultural confusions of our day" (Harper's Magazine) Hannah Arendt's insightful observations of the modern world, based on a profound knowledge of the..... More
Penguin USA, November 1983. Soft Cover. Standing at the crossroads of psychology and religion, this catalyzing work applied the scientific method to a field abounding in abstract theory. William James believed that individual religious experiences, rather than the precepts of organized religions, were the backbone of the world's religious life..... More
Penguin USA, March 1990. Trade Paperback. In these two devastating late works, Nietzsche offers a powerful attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols is a 'grand declaration of war' on reason, psychology and theology, which combines highly charged personal attacks on his..... More
Penguin Classics, March 2019. Paper Back. The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization that 'God is dead' and his critique of morality, the arts and modernity give way to an exhilarating doctrine of self-emancipation and the concept of eternal recurrence. Here is Nietzsche at his..... More
Penguin Classics, April 2003. Trade Paperback. 'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael Tanner Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional Western thought with its notions of truth and God, good and evil..... More
Penguin Classics, July 2005. Trade Paperback. 'The noblest and most lovable of the great philosophers ... ethically he is supreme' Bertrand Russell Published shortly after his death in 1677, the Ethics is Spinoza's greatest work - a fully cohesive philosophical system that strives to provide a picture of reality and..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, December 1992. Trade Paperback. In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man of part one, called simply 'A', and the ethical Judge Vilhelm of the second section - Kierkegaard reflects upon the search for a meaningful existence, contemplating subjects as diverse..... More
Penguin Classics, March 2017. Paper Back. 'This world is the will to power - and nothing besides!' One of the great minds of modernity, Friedrich Nietzsche smashed through the beliefs of his age. These writings, which did much to establish his reputation as a philosopher, offer some of his most..... More
Penguin Classics, March 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. 'Enigmatic, vatic, emphatic, passionate . . . Nietzsche's works together make a unique statement in the literature of European ideas' A. C. Grayling Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most influential work..... More
Penguin Classics, December 2014. Trade Paperback. Beloved and contemplated by philosophers, architects, writers, and literary theorists alike, Bachelard's lyrical, landmark work examines the places in which we place our conscious and unconscious thoughts and guides us through a stream of cerebral meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness..... More
Vintage, May 2005. Trade Paperback. "There's no writer alive like de Botton" (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status--a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Hardcover. Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove..... More
University of Chicago Press, October 1985. Trade Paperback. This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style. The accompanying notes provide literary and historical references..... More
