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Euthyphro, Apologia Socratis, Crito, Phaedo, Cratylus, Sophista, Politicus, Theaetetus by Plato
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis long awaited new edition contains seven of the dialogues of Plato, and is the first in the five-volume complete edition of Plato's works in the Oxford Classical Texts series. The result of many years of painstaking scholarship, the new volume will replace the now nearly one hundred-year-old original edition, and is destined to become just as long lasting a classic... -
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The Double and The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe award-winning translators Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky have given us the definitive version of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s strikingly original short novels, The Double and The Gambler...Categorized as:
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![Eternal Husband, And Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky]()
Eternal Husband, And Other Stories by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA rich and idle man confronts his dead mistress's husband in this psychological novel of duality. One of the esteemed Russian author's most powerful and accessible tales, it employs his favorite themes of mental torture and neurosis. Captivating and highly revealing, it explores love, guilt, and hatred...Categorized as:
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![La coscienza di Zeno. Senilità. Una vita by Italo Svevo]()
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![The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by Antonin Sertillanges]()
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by Antonin Sertillanges
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratings"Fr. Sertillanges's teachings are as timeless as any truths which describe the genuine nature of things. . . . This book is highly recommended not only for intellectuals, but also for students and those discerning their vocation in life."― New Oxford Review "[This] is above all a practical book...Categorized as:
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One Day at a Time in Al-Anon by Al-Anon Family Groups
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsOne Day at a Time in Al-AnonAl-Anon Family Group... -
![Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein]()
Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIncorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy The extensively revised English translation incorporates many hundreds of changes to Anscombe’s original translation Footnoted remarks in the earlier...Categorized as:
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The Joyous Science by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe 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 most personal and affirmative; in his words, this is a book of 'exuberance, restlessness, contrariety and April showers'... -
![The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche]()
The Portable Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsThe 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 age were so full of ideas," and few writers have been so consistently misinterpreted...Categorized as:
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![The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus' Stoic Classic Enchiridion by Chuck Chakrapani]()
The Good Life Handbook: Epictetus' Stoic Classic Enchiridion by Chuck Chakrapani
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe Good Life Handbook is a rendering of Epictetus' Enchiridion in plain English.It is a concise summary of the teachings of Epictetus, as transcribed and later summarized by his student Flavius Arrian. The Handbook is a guide to the good life... -
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Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsHuman, All Too Human (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner, and establishes the overall framework of his later philosophy...Categorized as:
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![A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran]()
A Short History of Decay by Emil M. Cioran
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratings"In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual you are left... with a foolish grin" -E.M. CioranE.M. Cioran confronts the place of today's world in the context of human history. He focuses on such major issues of the twentieth century as human progress, fanaticism, and science... -
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Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life by Theodor W. Adorno
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsAdorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece, built from aphorisms and reflections.A reflection on everyday existence in the 'sphere of consumption of late Capitalism', this work is Adorno's literary and philosophical masterpiece. Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems... -
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Leisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef Pieper
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsOne of the most important philosophy titles published in the twentieth century, Josef Pieper's Leisure: the Basis of Culture is more significant, even more crucial, today than it was when it first appeared fifty years ago. Pieper shows that the Greeks understood and valued leisure, as did the medieval Europeans...Categorized as:
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![The World As Will And Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer]()
The World As Will And Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsExcerpt:If the intellect were not of a subordinate nature, as the two preceding chapters show, then everything which takes place without it, i.e... -
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Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist by Walter Kaufmann
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis classic is the benchmark against which all modern books about Nietzsche are measured. When Walter Kaufmann wrote it in the immediate aftermath of World War II, most scholars outside Germany viewed Nietzsche as part madman, part proto-Nazi, and almost wholly unphilosophical...Categorized as:
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O Segundo Sexo: Fatos e Mitos by Simone de Beauvoir
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFirst published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration.Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism... -
![The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali by Satchidananda, Patañjali]()
The Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali by Satchidananda, Patañjali
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThis valuable book provides a complete manual for the study and practice of Raja Yoga, the path of concentration and meditation. This new deluxe printing of these timeless teachings is a treasure to be read and referred to again and again by seekers treading the spiritual path...Categorized as:
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The World as Will and Idea 1 by Arthur Schopenhauer
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsMany of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork... -
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The Mythic Image by Joseph Campbell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA paperback edition of Campbell's major study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations over five millennia. It includes nearly 450 illustrations. The text is the same as that of the 1974 edition.Mythologist Joseph Campbell was a masterful storyteller, able to weave tales from every corner of the world into compelling, even spellbinding, narratives... -
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To Have or to Be? The Nature of the Psyche by Erich Fromm
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTo Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psychological revolution to save our threatened planet, this book is a summary of the penetrating thought of Eric Fromm...Categorized as:
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The Lonely Man of Faith by Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsJoseph B. Soloveitchik, the rabbi known as “The Rav” by his followers worldwide, was a leading authority on the meaning of Jewish law and prominent force in building bridges between traditional Orthodox Judaism and the modern world...Categorized as:
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![Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault]()
Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 by Michel Foucault
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMarking a major development in Foucault's thinking, this book derives from the lecture course which he gave at the Collège de France between January and April, 1978... -
![Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 by Søren Kierkegaard]()
Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments, Volume 1 by Søren Kierkegaard
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 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, Concluding Unscientific Postscript is on one level a philosophical jest, yet on another it is Climacus's characterization of the subjective thinker's... -
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![A Secular Age by Charles Taylor]()
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAlmost everyone would agree that the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly over the years. This book takes up the question of what these changes mean—of what, precisely, happens when a society in which it is virtually impossible not to believe in God becomes one in which faith is only one human possibility among others... -
![The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy]()
The Life of the Mind by Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe author’s final work, presented in a one-volume edition, is a rich, challenging analysis of man’s mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging...Categorized as:
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![The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek]()
The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism by Friedrich A. Hayek
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHayek gives the main arguments for the free-market case and presents his manifesto on the "errors of socialism." Hayek argues that socialism has, from its origins, been mistaken on factual, and even on logical, grounds and that its repeated failures in the many different practical applications of socialist ideas that this century has witnessed were the direct outcome of these errors... -
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Escape from Reason (IVP Classics) by Francis A. Schaeffer, J.P. Moreland
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsDespite our obsession with the emotive and the experiential, we still face perennial existential problems anxiety, despair, purposelessness... -
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The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl Popper
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsOne of the most important books of the twentieth century, Karl Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies is an uncompromising defense of liberal democracy and a powerful attack on the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Popper was born in 1902 to a Viennese family of Jewish origin...Categorized as:
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Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority by Emmanuel Levinas
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsInfluenced in part by the dialogical philosophies of Franz Rosenzweig and Martin Buber, Totality and Infinity departs from the ethically neutral tradition of ontology to analyze the face-to-face relation with the Other. First published in English by Duquesne in 1969, this has become one of the classics of modern philosophy. Fully indexed...Categorized as:
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