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  • The Barbarism of Reason

    Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment

    Edited by Asher Horowitz, Terry Maley ...
    Series series Heritage
    The recent renewal of interest in Max Weber evidences an attempt to enlist his thought in the service of a renewed dream of Enlightenment individualism. Yet he was the first twentieth-century thinker to fully appreciate the pervasiveness and ambiguity of rationalization which threatened to undermine the hopes of the Enlightenment.Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley present a collection of essays ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    by Christopher Hitchens ...
    From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreementIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, bestselling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of “contrary positions”—from noble dissident to ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • What Would Nietzsche Do?

    How the greatest philosophers would solve your everyday problems

    by Marcus Weeks ...
    What Would Nietzsche Do? uses the key ideas of more than 80 philosophical thinkers, past and present, to shine new light onto today's everyday problems.Ever wondered if Schopenhauer could fix your broken heart? How Heraclitus might help you if you lost your phone? Given the chance, would Foucault leave the toilet seat up?With sections on Relationships, Self and Identity, How to Live, Art and ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Edge of Reason

    A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World

    by Julian Baggini ...
    An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues: "A timely masterpiece."—Patricia S. Churchland, author of Touching a NerveReason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired faculty. Rationality ... Read more

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  • The Rationalists

    Descartes: Discourse on Method & Meditations; Spinoza: Ethics; Leibniz: Monadology & Discourse on Metaphysics

    by Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm Vo Leibniz ...
    Founded in the mid-17th century, Rationalism was philosophy's first step into the modern era. This volume contains the essential statements of Rationalism's three greatest figures: Descartes, who began it; Spinoza, who epitomized it; and Leibniz, who gave it its last serious expression. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Language As Disclosure

    by Carolyn Norman Slaughter ...
    Written in the 1980's, heyday of Deconstruction in university English Departments, Carolyn Norman Slaughter's study probes the ways that language "works" in the literature of a few American modernist authors. Slaughter's purpose is not to prove the futility and "meaning"lessness of language, as Deconstruction was striving to do at the time, but instead to recover the first-order importance and ... Read more

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  • Walter Benjamin's Concept of the Image

    by Alison Ross ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    In this book, Alison Ross engages in a detailed study of Walter Benjamin’s concept of the image, exploring the significant shifts in Benjamin’s approach to the topic over the course of his career. Using Kant’s treatment of the topic of sensuous form in his aesthetics as a comparative reference, Ross argues that Benjamin’s thinking on the image undergoes a major shift between his 1924 essay on ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Personal Identity and Buddhist Philosophy

    Empty Persons

    by Mark Siderits ...
    Series series Ashgate World Philosophies Series
    Since the publication of Mark Siderits' important book in 2003, much has changed in the field of Buddhist philosophy. There has been unprecedented growth in analytic metaphysics, and a considerable amount of new work on Indian theories of the self and personal identity has emerged. Fully revised and updated, and drawing on these changes as well as on developments in the author's own thinking, ... Read more

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  • I Think You're Totally Wrong

    A Quarrel

    by David Shields, Caleb Powell ...
    An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art—beers included.Caleb Powell always wanted to become an artist, but he overcommitted to life (he’s a stay-at-home dad to three young girls), whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art (he has five books coming out in the next year ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • A Cultivated Reason

    An Essay on Hume and Humeanism

    by Christopher Williams ...
    As Plato’s tripartite division of the soul, Descartes’s criterion of clear and distinct ideas, and Kant’s notion of the categorical imperative attest, philosophy has traditionally been wedded to rationalism and its “intellectualist” view of persons. In this book Christopher Williams seeks to wean his fellow philosophers away from an overly rationalistic self-understanding by using resources that ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Volume 20: The Auction Catalogue of Kierkegaard's Library

    by Katalin Nun, Gerhard Schreiber ...
    Series series Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources
    This volume is a revised and improved edition of the auction catalogue of Kierkegaard’s private library. The catalogue has long served as one of the most valuable tools in Kierkegaard studies and has been actively used by commentators, translators and researchers for tracing the various sources of Kierkegaard’s thought. With the catalogue in hand, one can determine with some degree of probability ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • An Interpretation of Nietzsche's On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life

    by Anthony K. Jensen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
    With his An Interpretation of Nietzsche’s "On the Uses and Disadvantage of History for Life", Anthony K. Jensen shows how 'timely' Nietzsche’s second "Untimely Meditation" really is. This comprehensive and insightful study contextualizes and analyzes a wide range of Nietzsche’s earlier thoughts about history: teleology, typology, psychology, memory, classical philology, Hegelianism, and the role ... Read more

    $68.99 USD