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  • The Different Modes of Existence

    by Étienne Souriau ...
    Translated by Erik Beranek, Tim Howles ...
    Series series Univocal
    What relation is there between the existence of a work of art and that of a living being? Between the existence of an atom and that of a value like solidarity? These questions become our own each time a reality—whether it is a piece of music, someone we love, or a fictional character—is established and begins to take on an importance in our lives. Like William James or Gilles Deleuze, Souriau ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Experience of God

    Being, Consciousness, Bliss

    by David Bentley Hart ...
    Despite the recent ferocious public debate about belief, the concept most central to the discussion-God-frequently remains vaguely and obscurely described. Are those engaged in these arguments even talking about the same thing? In a wide-ranging response to this confusion, esteemed scholar David Bentley Hart pursues a clarification of how the word God” functions in the world’s great theistic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Existence

    by Karl Jaspers ...
    Translated by Richard F. Grabau ...
    Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures Jaspers, whom the Nazis had already dismissed from his professorship at Heidelberg, knew that he was speaking in Germany for the last time. Jaspers used the occasion to offer an account of the cultural and intellectual situation from which ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Wisdom of Sartre

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    An invaluable introduction to the leading French intellectual of the twentieth centuryThe Wisdom of Sartre offers key excerpts from the eloquent French writer, playwright, and philosopher's masterpiece, Being and Nothingness. From this collection, readers will discover the strongest themes in his early philosophical work: an ontological account of what it means to be human, and the role of ... Read more

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  • Intuitive Thinking as a Spiritual Path

    A Philosophy of Freedom (CW 4)

    by Rudolf Steiner ...
    Translated by Michael Lipson ...
    Series series Anthroposophy
    Written in 1894 (CW 4)"The realms of life are many. For each, specific sciences develop. But life itself is a unity, and the more the sciences busily immerse themselves in separate realms, the farther they move away from seeing the living wholeness of the world. There must be a kind of knowing that seeks, in the separate sciences, the elements that lead human beings back to full life again. A ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • What Is Philosophy?

    by Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari ...
    Translated by Hugh Tomlinson, Graham Burchell ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Called by many France's foremost philosopher, Gilles Deleuze is one of the leading thinkers in the Western World. His acclaimed works and celebrated collaborations with Félix Guattari have established him as a seminal figure in the fields of literary criticism and philosophy. The long-awaited publication of What Is Philosophy? in English marks the culmination of Deleuze's career.Deleuze and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Sovereignty of Good

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    Series series Routledge Great Minds
    Iris Murdoch was one of the great philosophers and novelists of the twentieth century and The Sovereignty of Good is her most important and enduring philosophical work. She argues that philosophy has focused, mistakenly, on what it is right to do rather than good to be and that only by restoring the notion of ‘vision’ to moral thinking can this distortion be corrected. This brilliant work shows ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

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  • Grammars of Creation

    by George Steiner ...
    "A fresh, revelatory, golden eagle's eye-view of western literature." — Financial TimesEarly in Grammars of Creation, George Steiner references Plato's maxim that in "all things natural and human, the origin is the most excellent." Creation, he argues, is linguistically fundamental in theology, philosophy, art, music, literature—central, in fact, to our very humanity. Since the Holocaust, however ... Read more

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  • An Intelligent Person's Guide to Philosophy

    by Roger Scruton ...
    "Philosophy's the 'love of wisdom', can be approached in two ways: by doing it, or by studying how it has been done," so writes the eminent philosopher Roger Scruton. In this user-friendly book, he chooses to introduce philosophy by doing it. Taking the discipline beyond theory and "intellectualism," he presents it in an empirical, accessible, and practical light. The result is not a history of ... Read more

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  • Jean-Paul Sartre: To Freedom Condemned

    A Guide to His Philosophy

    by Justus Streller ...
    Translated by Wade Baskin ...
    J ean-Paul Sartre's most influential existentialist work, Being and Nothingness , broken down into its most fertile ideasIn To Freedom Condemned, Sartre's most influential work, Being and Nothingness, is laid bare, presenting the philosopher's key ideas regarding existentialism. Covering the philosophers Hegel, Heidegger, and Husserl, and mulling over such topics as love, God, death, and freedom, ... Read more

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  • The Great Philosophers:Schopenhauer

    by Michael Tanner ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Schopenhauer 1788 - 1860Western philosophy's most profound and unrelenting pessimist, Schopenhauer hymned the miseries of human existence with a joylessness that was little short of lyrical. Yet he thrilled to the beauties of music and art.How did such deep bleakness and such sublime enthusiasm come to coincide in one man, one mind? Only by squaring these two sides of Schopenhauer can we truly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Being and Having

    by Gabriel Marcel ...
    I hope that this book will be widely read, and I especially commend it to four classes of persons: I. For myself I have come across nothing more important than M. Marcel’s writings here and elsewhere on the problem of metaphysics. I say problem advisedly: for we are all of us these days in the end puzzled as to what exactly metaphysics is. The strict Thomist has his answer: so has the positivist: ... Read more

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