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  • Authority, History, and Political Theology

    Collected Works and Correspondence of Alexandre Kojève and Gaston Fessard

    Edited by Dr. Isabel Jacobs, Dr. Jacob Saliba ...
    Series series Political Theologies
    For the first time, this volume brings together the writings, lectures, and correspondence of two of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century French thought: Alexandre Kojève (1902–1968) and Gaston Fessard (1897–1978).Kojève is widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in France. His Hegel seminars of the 1930s shaped an entire generation of intellectuals, including ... Read more

    $93.19 USD

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  • Alexandre Kojève

    A Man of Influence

    by José María Carabante, Bryan-Paul Frost, Isabel Jacobs, Jeff Love, Waller R. Newell, Massimo Palma, Luis J. Pedrazuela, José Daniel Parra, Alexei Rutkevich, Igor Shoikhedbrod0, Trevor Wilson1 ...
    This edited volume addresses Alexandre Kojève's work from different perspectives, emphasizing the continuity between his early reception of a set of non-philosophical and philosophical influences and that which he might have sought himself to exercise in a pedagogical and practical manner. The first part of the book comprises six essays in which their authors explore Kojève's understanding of art, ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues

    The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life

    by André Comte-Sponville ...
    An utterly original exploration of the timeless human virtues and how they apply to the way we live now, from a bold and dynamic French writer.In this graceful, incisive book, writer-philosopher André Comte-Sponville reexamines the classic human virtues to help us under-stand "what we should do, who we should be, and how we should live." In the process, he gives us an entirely new perspective on ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Time and Narrative: Volume 1

    by Paul Ricoeur ...
    Translated by Kathleen McLaughlin, David Pellauer ...
    Series series Time and Narrative
    The first volume in the eminent philosopher's three-part examination of time and narrative, exploring their relationship in the context of historical writing.Time and Narrative builds on Paul Ricoeur's earlier analysis, in The Rule of Metaphor, of semantic innovation at the level of the sentence. Ricoeur here examines the creation of meaning at the textual level, with narrative rather than ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Little Book Of Philosophy

    by Andre Comte-Sponville ...
    Translated by Frank Wynne ...
    In this remarkable little book, Andre Comte-Sponville introduces the reader to the western philosophical tradition in a series of sparkling chapters on the 'big questions'. In doing so he reveals the essential bones of philosophical thought and shows why philosophy is relevant in our day-to-day lives.In his brilliant and concise writing on morality, politics, love, death, knowledge, freedom, God, ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Spinoza's Religion

    A New Reading of the Ethics

    by Clare Carlisle ...
    A bold reevaluation of Spinoza that reveals his powerful, inclusive vision of religion for the modern ageSpinoza is widely regarded as either a God-forsaking atheist or a God-intoxicated pantheist, but Clare Carlisle says that he was neither. In Spinoza’s Religion, she sets out a bold interpretation of Spinoza through a lucid new reading of his masterpiece, the Ethics. Putting the question of ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The Use of Bodies

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Translated by Adam Kotsko ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer was one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. It was also the beginning of a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope, investigating the deepest foundations of Western politics and thought.The Use of Bodies represents the ninth and final volume in this twenty-year undertaking, breaking considerable new ground ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The Crooked Timber of Humanity

    Chapters in the History of Ideas - Second Edition

    by Isaiah Berlin ...
    "Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."--Immanuel KantIsaiah Berlin was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century--an activist of the intellect who marshaled vast erudition and eloquence in defense of the endangered values of individual liberty and moral and political plurality. In The Crooked Timber of Humanity he exposes the links between ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dictionary of Untranslatables

    A Philosophical Lexicon

    Edited by Barbara Cassin, Emily Apter, Jacques Lezra, Michael Wood ...
    Series series Translation/Transnation
    Characters in some languages, particularly Hebrew and Arabic, may not display properly due to device limitations. Transliterations of terms appear before the representations in foreign characters.This is an encyclopedic dictionary of close to 400 important philosophical, literary, and political terms and concepts that defy easy—or any—translation from one language and culture to another. Drawn ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Jacques Lacan, Past and Present

    A Dialogue

    by Alain Badiou, Elisabeth Roudinesco ...
    Translated by Jason E. Smith ...
    In this dialogue, Alain Badiou shares the clearest, most detailed account to date of his profound indebtedness to Lacanian psychoanalysis. He explains in depth the tools Lacan gave him to navigate the extremes of his other two philosophical "masters," Jean-Paul Sartre and Louis Althusser. Élisabeth Roudinesco supplements Badiou's experience with her own perspective on the troubled landscape of the ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Omnibus Homo Sacer

    by Giorgio Agamben ...
    Series series Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
    Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer is one of the seminal works of political philosophy in recent decades. A twenty-year undertaking, this project is a series of interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse.This single book brings together for the first time all nine volumes that make up this ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • A History of Philosophy

    The Condensed Copleston

    by Anthony Carroll, Frederick Copleston ...
    A history of philosophy from the origins of reason in Ancient Greece to the most influential philosophers working today, this long-awaited single volume companion to Frederick Copleston's historic 11-volume series is a must-have for any aspiring philosopher.Frederick Copleston's 11-volume A History of Philosophy has been the go-to reference for philosophers and students for decades. It is ... Read more

    $25.89 USD