A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality
By: Donald W. Sherburne
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaph…
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1. An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books)
By: Alfred North Whitehead
3.90
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
This distinguished little book is a brisk introduction to a series of mathematical concepts, a hist… read more
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"Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child - it grows to be a man."-Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books)
"The study of mathematics is apt to commence in disappointment... We are told that by its aid the stars are weighed and the billions of molecules in a drop of water are counted. Yet, like the ghost of…"-Alfred North Whitehead, An Introduction to Mathematics (Galaxy Books)
2. Nietzsche and Philosophy
By: Gilles Deleuze , Michael Hardt , Hugh Tomlinson
4.20
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
Praised for its rare combination of scholarly rigor and imaginative interpretation, Nietzsche and P… read more
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"Not a theodicy but a cosmodicy, not a sum of injustices to be expiated but justice as the law of this world; not hubris but play, innocence."-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"The death of God has as many meanings as there are forces capable of seizing Christ and making him die; but we are still waiting for the forces or the power which will carry this death to its highest…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
"It is a serious mistake to think that irrationalism opposes anything but thought to reason - whether it be the rights of the given, of the heart, of feeling, caprice or passion. In irrationalism we a…"-Gilles Deleuze, Nietzsche and Philosophy
3. Adventures of Ideas
By: Alfred North Whitehead
4.11
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
The title of this book, Adventures of Ideas, bears two meanings, both applicable to the subject-mat… read more
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"But some closeness of status, such as the relation of parent to child or the relation of marriage, can produce the love of self-devotion where the potentialities of the loved object are felt passiona…"-Alfred North Whitehead, Adventures of Ideas
4. In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower (In Search of Lost Time, #2)
By: Marcel Proust , Christopher Prendergast , James Grieve
4.35
Format: 26 pages, Paperback
In the Shadow of Young Girls in Floweris Proust's spectacular dissection of male and female adolesc… read more
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5. Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "Sex"
By: Judith Butler
2.60
Format: None pages, Paperback
In Bodies That Matter, renowned theorist and philosopher Judith Butler argues that theories of gend… read more
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6. The Consolation of Philosophy
By: Boethius , None
4.27
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek … read more
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- nonfiction
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7. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
By: Jane Bennett
3.83
Format: 216 pages, Paperback
In Vibrant Matterthe political theorist Jane Bennett, renowned for her work on nature, ethics, and … read more
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8. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language
By: Michel Foucault , None
3.95
Format: 161 pages,
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . Madness, sexuality, power, know… read more
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9. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology
By: Mary Catherine Bateson , Gregory Bateson
3.98
Format: 480 pages, Paperback
Gregory Bateson was a philosopher, anthropologist, photographer, naturalist, and poet, as well as t… read more
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10. Ubik
By: Philip K. Dick , Manuel Espín , None
4.11
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Glen Runciter está muerto. ¿O lo están todos los demás? Lo que es seguro es que alguien ha muerto e… read more
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"Hey,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"One of these days,"-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"Ubik ... Safe when taken as directed."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
"My father told me what it used to feel like, waiting in the dentist's office. Every time the nurse opened the door you thought, It's happening. The thing I've been afraid of all my life."-Philip K. Dick, Ubik
11. Deleuze's Difference and Repetition: An Edinburgh Philosophical Guide
By: Henry Somers-Hall
3.50
Format: 296 pages, Paperback
The essential toolkit for anyone approaching Deleuze for the first time. When students read Differe… read more
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12. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.25
Format: 387 pages, Paperback
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestio… read more
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"... “Dangerous!"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Freedom is never very safe."-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Who do you think is lying to us?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
"Where does your soul go when you die in Hell?"-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
13. Rocannon's World
By: Ursula K. Le Guin
4.32
Format: 318 pages, Paperback
Adapted & expanded from the short story "The Dowry of Angyar". A world shared by three native human… read more
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14. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
15. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari , Brian Massumi
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII. He is a key… read more
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16. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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17. Critique of Pure Reason
By: Immanuel Kant , Allen W. Wood , Paul Guyer
3.96
Format: 785 pages, Paperback
'The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old … read more
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"The great mass of people are worthy of our respect."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."-Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
18. Modes of Thought
By: Alfred North Whitehead
3.14
Format: 54 pages, Paperback
Six lectures delivered at Wellesley College, Massachusetts, & two at the University of Chicago Pref… read more
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19. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
By: Silvia Federici
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
Literary Nonfiction. CALIBAN AND THE WITCH is a history of the body in the transition to capitalism… read more
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20. Meeting the Universe Halfway: Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning
By: None
3.50
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
Meeting the Universe Halfwayis an ambitious book with far-reaching implications for numerous fields… read more
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21. Art as Experience
By: John Dewey
4.83
Format: 266 pages, Paperback
Based on John Dewey's lectures on esthetics, delivered as the first William James Lecturer at Harva… read more
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22. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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23. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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24. On Being and Essence
By: Thomas Aquinas , Armand A. Maurer
3.62
Format: None pages, Paperback
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25. Difference and Repetition
By: Gilles Deleuze
4.07
Format: 154 pages, Paperback
Difference and Repetition, a brilliant exposition of the critique of identity, has come to be consi… read more
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26. Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay on Hume's Theory of Human Nature
By: Gilles Deleuze , Constantin V. Boundas
4.15
Format: None pages, Paperback
At last available in paperback, this book anticipates and explains the post-structuralist turn to e… read more
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27. Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything (Pelican Books)
By: Graham Harman
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Mass Market Paperback
We humans tend to believe that things are only real in as much as we perceive them, an idea reinfor… read more
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28. Process-Relational Philosophy: An Introduction to Alfred North Whitehead
By: C. Robert Mesle
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Process thought is the foundation for studies in many areas of contemporary philosophy, theology, p… read more
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29. Nietzsche
By: Gilles Deleuze
3.97
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
Filósofo umas vezes enaltecido e outras tantas amaldiçoado, Nietzsche é um pensador a redescobrir. … read more
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30. A Key to Whitehead's Process and Reality
By: Donald W. Sherburne
4.23
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Whitehead's magnum opus is as important as it is difficult. It is the only work in which his metaph… read more
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31. Five Texts on the Mediaeval Problem of Universals: Porphyry, Boethius, Abelard, Duns Scotus, Ockham
By: Paul Vincent Spade
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
New translations of the central mediaeval texts on the problem of universals are presented here in … read more
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