The Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Copy 953 of 1500. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin and signed by him. Clean, tight and square. Top front corner is a bit crumpled. Spine is tanned. In slipcase. Slipcase has damage, especially at top of opening where boards are separating from each other. Copy.....
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Balance, November 2023. Trade Paperback. An essential guide to the core texts of Stoic philosophy, featuring a new introduction from Massimo Pigliucci, author of How To Be A Stoic Stoicism is a philosophy, a worldview, and a transformational practice. Throughout the centuries everyone from kings and presidents to Silicone Valley.....
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Penguin Classics, March 2004. Trade Paperback. "One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy" Previously published as Ethics, Aristotle's The Nicomachean Ethics addresses the question of how to live well.....
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Oxford University Press, July 2009. Trade Paperback. A student of Plato and a teacher of Alexander the Great, Aristotle is one of the towering figures in Western thought. A brilliant thinker with wide-ranging interests, he wrote important works in physics, biology, poetry, politics, morality, metaphysics, and ethics. In the Nicomachean.....
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Mariner Books Classics, May 2026. Trade Paperback. The Bestselling Philosophy Book of All Time "Profoundly important. . . . Full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary dilemmas." ?New York Times In celebration of the 250th anniversary of the United States, HarperCollins is proud to present this library of American.....
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Penguin Classics, March 1992. Trade Paperback. Hugely influential upon Western culture, this fascinating consideration of the force of persuasion is a compelling guide to the principles behind oratorical skill. With the emergence of democracy in the city-state of Athens in the years around 460 BC, public speaking became an essential.....
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Vintage, December 1989. Trade Paperback. 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 central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of.....
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Liveright, February 2022. Trade Paperback. Once solely the province of ivory-tower professors and college classrooms, contemporary philosophy was finally emancipated from its academic closet in 2010, when The Stone was launched in The New York Times. First appearing as an online series, the column quickly attracted millions of readers through.....
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Penguin Classics, September 2007. Trade Paperback. Plato's The Republic is widely acknowledged as the cornerstone of Western philosophy. Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, it is an inquiry into the notion of a perfect community and the ideal individual within it. During the.....
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Harper Perennial, December 2011. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER "The most succinct and accessible overview of philosophy I have come across, and perfect for anyone who wants to dip their toe into the waters of philosophy without drowning in intimidating prose." ?Matt Haig, Washington Post From the timeless wisdom of the.....
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Penguin Classics, February 1990. Trade Paperback. "One must be superior to mankind in force, in loftiness of soul--in contempt" In these two devastating works, Nietzsche offers a sustained and often vitriolic attack on the morality and the beliefs of his time, in particular those of Hegel, Kant and Schopenhaur. Twilight.....
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Oxford University Press, January 2009. Trade Paperback. hus Spake Zarathustra is a masterpiece of literature as well as philosophy. It was Nietzsche's own favorite and has proved to be his most popular. In this book he addresses the problem of how to live a fulfilling life in a world without.....
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Vintage, February 2009. Trade Paperback. In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the self-mocking haikus of Zen masters on their deathbeds to the.....
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Verso, November 2014. Trade Paperback. One of the rising stars of contemporary critical theory, Bruno Bosteels discusses the new currents of thought generated by figures such as Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj ?i?ek, who are spearheading the revival of interest in communism. Bosteels examines this resurgence of communist thought.....
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Dover Publications, April 2003. Trade Paperback. Written in response to a book on the origins of morality by his erstwhile friend Paul Rée, the three essays comprising The Genealogy of Morals -- all three advancing the critique of Christian morality set forth in Beyond Good and Evil -- are among.....
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Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., October 2002. Trade Paperback. The second edition of Five Dialogues presents G. M. A. Grube's distinguished translations, as revised by John Cooper for Plato, Complete Works. A number of new or expanded footnotes are also included along with an updated bibliography.
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Tuttle Publishing, September 1999. Hardcover. Learn the ways of the Japanese Bushido Code with this very readable, modern translation of the Bushido Shoshinshu. Code of the Samurai is a four-hundred-year-old explication of the rules and expectations embodied in Bushido, the Japanese Way of the Warrior. Bushido has played a significant.....
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Shambhala, October 1988. Trade Paperback. Here is a seminal work on the philosophy of successful leadership that is as applicable to contemporary business as it is to war. James Clavell has taken a 1910 translation and clarified it for the contemporary reader.
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Twelve, April 2009. Trade Paperback. "If you are a religious apologist invited to debate with Christopher Hitches, decline." -Richard Dawkins A stylish new paperback edition of GOD IS NOT GREAT, Hitchens' devastating critique of religious faith--a #1 New York Times bestseller. With a close and studied reading of the major.....
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Mariner Books, January 2008. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In the seminal text on atheism in the twenty-first centuy, renowned scientist Richard Dawkins examines the irrationality of believing in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society. From the sex-obsessed tyrant in the Old Testament.....
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University of Chicago Press, October 2022. Trade Paperback. The complete surviving works of Epictetus, the most influential Stoic philosopher from antiquity. "Some things are up to us and some are not." Epictetus was born into slavery around the year 50 CE, and, upon being granted his freedom, he set himself.....
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Yale University Press, October 2021. Trade Paperback. Perennial wisdom from one of history's most important but lesser-known Stoic teachers "He knew that all a philosopher could do was respond well--bravely, boldly, patiently--to what life threw at us. That's what we should be doing now."--Ryan Holiday, Reading List email The Stoic.....
