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Eichmann in Jerusalem
A Report on the Banality of Evil
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt’s stunning and unnerving report on the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
In the words of Bertrand Russell, “Because language is misleading, as well as because it is diffuse and inexact
Minima Moralia
Reflections from Damaged Life
Theodor Adorno
A reflection on everyday existence in the sphere of consumption of late Capitalism, this work is Adornos litera
The Wealth of Nations
Books I-IIII
Adam Smith
Originally delivered in the form of lectures at Glasgow, Adam Smiths The Wealth of Nations Books I-III laid the
Past And Present
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish historian, critic, and sociological writer. was born in the village of Ecclefechan, Du
Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy
Edmund Husserl
The first essay can be said to represent Husserl early in his career, when he was seeking to gain a hearing for
Discourse on Method and The Meditations
Rene Descartes
René Descartes was a central figure in the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. In his Discourse
Derrida
On Deconstrunction
Barry Stoker
Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. Derrida
Moral Philosophy
An Historical and critical survey of the great systems
Jacques Maritain
T. S. Eliot once called Jacques Maritain the most conspicuous figure and probably the most powerful force in co
Fear and Trembling
Soren Kierkegaard
Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher, theologian, and religious author interested in human psychology. He
The Grundrisse
Karl Marx
Written during the winter of 1857-8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaborati
The Biographical History of Philosophy
v1 c1
George Henry Lewes
The philosopher and critic George Henry Lewes (1817 78) published this work in two volumes in 1845 6. This is a
The World as Will and Representation
Volume 1
Arthur Schopenhauer
Arthur Schopenhauers Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical works of the
aesthetics, ethics, german, idealism, metaphysics, psychology
Colonialism and Neocolonialism
Jean-Paul Sartre
Neocolonialists think that there are some good colonists and some very wicked ones, and that it is the fault of
The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx
Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and in
The History of Philosophy
Three Millennia of Thought from the West and Beyond
A C Grayling
The story of philosophy is an epic tale: an exploration of the ideas, views and teachings of some of the most c
An Introduction to Philosophical Analysis
John Hospers
This book provides an in-depth, problem-oriented introduction to philosophical analysis using an extremely clea
The Society of the Spectacle
Guy Debord
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debords The Society of th
The Disordered Mind
What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves
Eric R Kandel
Nobel Prize recipient Eric R. Kandel investigates The Disordered Mind to uncover what brain disorders reveal ab
The History of Sexuality
Volume 3: The Care of the Self
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault takes us into the first two centuries of our own era, into the Golden Age of Rome, to reveal a
The Complete Romances of Voltaire
Voltaire
In 1694, Age of Enlightenment leader Francois-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire, was born in Paris. Jesuit-educat
Socratic Dialogues
Plato
The Greek philosopher Socrates lived by the tenet that the path to truth was built on questions. When conversin
ancient, classical, epistemology, greek, platonism, socratic
Language and Symbolic Power
Pierre Bourdieu
This volume brings together Pierre Bourdieus highly original writings on language and on the relations among la
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds
Charles Mackay
In this book, Charles Mackay discusses the irrational behaviors of crowds in the economy, war and magic. He giv
Obedience to Authority
Stanley Milgram
In the 1960s, Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram famously carried out a series of experiments that fo
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
Michel Foucault
In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the
Communism and Philosophy
Contemporary dogmas and revisions of Marxism
Maurice Cornforth
Maurice Cornforth established himself over the past thirty-five years as on of the leading writers on Marxist p
The Perennial Philosophy
Aldous Huxley
The Perennial Philosophy is defined by its author as The metaphysic that recognizes a divine Reality substantia
Living In The End Times
Slavoj Žižek
There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj Žižek
Philosophical Dictionary
Voltaire
Voltaires Philosophical Dictionary is a series of short essays, hortatory and propagandist, over an enormously
The English Face Of Machiavelli
A Changing Interpretation 1500-1700
Felix Raab
In inventing modern political science, Machiavelli challenged the time-honoured preconceptions of Christendom,
The Anatomy of Fascism
Robert O Paxton
What is fascism? Many authors have proposed definitions, but most fail to move beyond the abstract. The esteeme
The New Science of Giambattista Vico
Giambattista Vico
A pioneering treatise that aroused great controversy when it was first published in 1725, Vicos New Science is
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
John Locke
Part of the Everyman series which has been re-set with wide margins for notes and easy-to-read type. Each title
Kierkegaards Philosophy: Self Deception and Cowardice in the Present Age
An Introduction to the Writings of One of the Worlds Most Important Thinkers
John Douglas Mullen
Some philosophers we read to discover the nature of the universe. Others we read to discover the nature of ours
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a foundational work of Western literature and is widely considered to be Friedrich Ni
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsches position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dr
The Prince
Niccoló Machiavelli
Machiavelli needs to be looked at as he really was. Hence: Can Machiavelli, who makes the following observation
Physics and Philosophy
The Revolution in Modern Science
Werner Heisenberg
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenbergs classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and
The Blue and Brown Books
Preliminary Studies for the Philosophical Investigations
Ludwig Wittgenstein
These works, as the subtitle makes clear, are unfinished sketches for Philosophical Investigations, among the m
Utilitarianism
John Stuart Mill
This expanded edition of John Stuart Mills Utilitarianism includes the text of his 1868 speech to the British H
Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
Written during the chaos of the English Civil War, Thomas Hobbes Leviathan asks how, in a world of violence and
The Art of War
Complete Texts and Commentaries
Sun Tzu
Twenty-Five Hundred years ago, Sun Tzu wrote this classic book of military strategy based on Chinese warfare an
asia, china, chinese, commentary, daoist
The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell
Bertrand Russell
This comprehensive anthology of Bertrand Russells writings brings together his definitive essays from the perio
History of Western Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russells A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaime
The Order of Things
An archaeology of the human sciences
Michel Foucault
With vast erudition, Foucault cuts across disciplines and reaches back into seventeenth century to show how cla
Madness and Civilization
A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason
Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 – from the late Middle
A Short History of Modern Philosophy
From Descartes to Wittgenstein
Roger Scruton
Discover for yourself the pleasures of philosophy! Written both for the seasoned student of philosophy as well
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Kants Critique of Pure Reason (1781) is the central text of modern philosophy. It presents a profound and chall
The Wisdom of Karl Marx
Karl Marx
Well over a century after his death, millions follow Marxs revolutionary social and economic philosophies, and
Main Currents of Marxism
1 The Founders
Leszek Kolakowski
From philosopher Leszek Kolakowski, one of the giants of twentieth-century intellectual history, comes this hig
Will and Circumstance
Montesquieu, Rousseau and the French Revolution
Norman Hampson
The men who made the French revolution derived their ideas about politics from montesquieu and Rousseau.
The Politics
Aristotle
Aristotles Politics is a key document in Western political thought. In these first two books Aristotle shows hi
Masculine Domination
Domination
Pierre Bourdieu
Masculine domination is so anchored in our social practices and our unconscious that we hardly perceive it; it
The Problems of Philosophy
Bertrand Russell
A lively and still one of the best introductions to philosophy, this book pays off both a closer reading for st
The Essential Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains is the dramatic opening line of The Social Contract, published
Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion
Jack D Zipes
The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on childrens lives. But until Fa
Works of Spinoza
Political Treatise, Theologico-politiacal Treatise
Baruch De Spinoza
The Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of
The Philosophy of History
Goerg Friedrich Hegel
Hegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history — a nov
Hegels Phenomenology of Spirit
Goerg Friedrich Hegel
Perhaps one of the most revolutionary works of philosophy ever presented, The Phenomenology of Spirit is Hegels
Being and Time
Martin Heidegger
One of the most important philosophical works of our time, a work that has had tremendous influence on philosop
continental, german, hermeneutics, phenomonology, psychology
Reflections on the Revolution in France
Edmund Burke
This new and up-to-date edition of a book that has been central to political philosophy, history, and revolutio
A Nietzsche Reader
Friedrich Nietzsche
The literary career of Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) spanned less than twenty years, but no area of intellect
The Better Angels of Our Nature
Why Violence Has Declined
Steven Pinker
Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think we live in the
On Platos Statesman
Cornelius Castoriadis
This posthumous book represents the first publication of one of the seminars of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renown