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  • Russian Philosophy, Volume 2

    The Nihilists; The Populists; Critics of Religion and Culture

    by James M. Edie, James P. Scanlan, Mary-Barbara Zeldin ...
    The second half of the nineteenth century in Russian philosophy sees it more or less definitive triumph of Westernizing currents over the Slavophiles. There is no doubt that both Nihilism and Populism as successive schools of Russian philosophy, are the authentic progeny of the senior Westernizers—though in the development of their philosophical doctrine they owe much less to German Romanticism ... Read more

    $23.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Philosophy, Volume 1

    The Beginnings of Russian Philosophy; The Slavophiles; The Westernizers

    by James M. Edie, James P. Scanlan, Mary-Barbara Zeldin ...
    Russian philosophy begins through the impregnation of the ancient Byzantine tradition of Old Russia by the Western thought of the French Enlightenment, and then by German Romanticism. The first original Russian philosopher, Gregory Skovoroda, the "Russian Socrates," was followed by the early philosophy of history and culture, Alexander Radishchev and Peter Chasadayev. The fateful break of Russian ... Read more

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  • Notes from the House of the Dead

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Boris Jakim ...
    Master translation of a neglected Russian classic into EnglishLong before Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago came Dostoevsky's Notes from the House of the Dead, a compelling account of the horrific conditions in Siberian labor camps. First published in 1861, this novel, based on Dostoevsky's own experience as a political prisoner, is a forerunner of his famous novels Crime and Punishment and The ... Read more

    $33.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Thought After Communism: The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

    The Rediscovery of a Philosophical Heritage

    by James P. Scanlan ...
    An examination of Russia's philosophical heritage. It extends from the Slavophiles to the philosophers of the Silver Age, from emigre religious thinkers to Losev and Bakhtin and assesses the meaning for Russian culture as a whole. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design

    A Practical Approach

    by Andrew J. Keane, James P. Scanlan, András Sóbester, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    Small Unmanned Fixed-wing Aircraft Design is the essential guide to designing, building and testing fixed wing UAVs (or drones). It deals with aircraft from two to 150 kg in weight and is based on the first-hand experiences of the world renowned UAV team at the UK’s University of Southampton.The book covers both the practical aspects of designing, manufacturing and flight testing and outlines and ... Read more

    $100.00 USD

  • Technology, Culture and Development

    The Experience of the Soviet Model

    by James P. Scanlan ...
    Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems. The authors of this volume take precisely this approach in their examination of the "Soviet model" of development. The book surveys the history and current state of science and technology in the USSR and its former satellites ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Story of Philosophy

    by Will Durant ...
    This brilliant and concise account of the lives and ideas of the world's great philosophers—Plato, Aristotle, Bacon, Spinoza, Voltaire, Kant, Schopenhauer, Spencer, Nietzsche, Bergson, Croce, Russell, Santayana, James, and Dewey—is "a delight" (The New York Times) and remains one of the most important books of our time.Will Durant chronicles the ideas of the great thinkers, the economic and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Rebel

    An Essay on Man in Revolt

    by Albert Camus ...
    Series series Vintage International
    By one of the most profoundly influential thinkers of our century, The Rebel is a classic essay on revolution that resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as ... Read more

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Masterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works.On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows Nietzsche using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline.The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On the Genealogy of Morals

    by Friedrich Nietzsche, Robert C. Holub ...
    Translated by Michael A. Scarpitti ...
    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 fact the book does much more than that, elucidating and expanding on the cryptic aphorisms of Beyond Good and Evil and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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  • On the Genealogy of Morals: A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    A Polemic. By way of clarification and supplement to my last book Beyond Good and Evil

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the 4entral values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Will to Power

    by Friedrich Nietzsche ...
    Represents a selection from Nietzche's notebooks to find out what he wrote on nihilism, art, morality, religion, and the theory of knowledge, among others.Nietzsche's notebooks, kept by him during his most productive years, offer a fascinating glimpse into the workshop and mind of a great thinker, and compare favorably with the notebooks of Gide and Kafka, Camus and Wittgenstein. The Will to Power ... Read more

    $14.99 USD