Equality and Partiality
By: Thomas Nagel
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account o…
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1. The Unconsoled
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.58
Format: 535 pages, Paperback
Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he c… read more
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"Leave us, you were always on the outside of our love."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
"One should not, in any case, attempt to make a virtue out of one's limitations."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
"It's nonsense to believe people go on loving each other regardless of what happens."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
"It had occurred to me to follow her through into the next room, visitors or no visitors, and bring her back for a talk. But in the end I had decided in favour of waiting where I was for her return. S…"-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Unconsoled
2. The Remains of the Day
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
4.14
Format: 258 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here. In the summer of 1956, St… read more
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"The rest of my life stretches out as an emptiness before me."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"One is not struck by the truth until prompted quite accidentally by some external event."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
"شاید بهتر بود خداوند مارا هم مثل گیاهان خلق میکرد، یعنی پایمان محکم توی زمین باشد. آنوقت هیچکدام از این کثافتکاری مربوط به جنگ و مرز و این چیزها اصلاً پیش نمیآمد."-Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day
3. An Artist of the Floating World
By: Kazuo Ishiguro
3.77
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art so… read more
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"An artist's concern is to capture beauty wherever he finds it."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Democracy is a fine thing. But that doesn't mean citizens have a right to run riot whenever they disagree with something. #Page: 120"-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"Revolution? Really, Ono! The communists want a revolution. We want nothing of the sort. Quite the opposite, in fact. We wish for a restoration."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
"At times it was almost as it had been years ago, when on a sunny day the family would sit there together exchanging relaxed, often vacuous talk."-Kazuo Ishiguro, An Artist of the Floating World
4. Pale Fire
By: Vladimir Nabokov
3.98
Format: 574 pages,
The urbane authority that Vladimir Nabokov brought to every word he ever wrote, and the ironic amus… read more
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5. The Gay Science
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Walter Kaufmann
4.11
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Nietzsche called The Gay Science "the most personal of all my books." It was here that he first pro… read more
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6. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
By: Thomas S. Kuhn
4.09
Format: 116 pages, Paperback
Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual histor… read more
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7. Reasons and Persons
By: Derek Parfit
3.71
Format: 656 pages, Paperback
Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morali… read more
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8. King Lear
By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe
3.91
Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more
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"Fortune love you."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"She is herself a dowry."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"All dark and comfortless."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
"Nothing can come of nothing."-William Shakespeare, King Lear
9. Justice as Fairness: A Restatement
By: John Rawls , None
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly a… read more
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10. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
By: Michael J. Sandel
4.31
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
"For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport," The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. … read more
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"(...) greed that preys on human misery (...)"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"A philosophy untouched by the shadows on the wall can only yield a sterile utopia."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Outrage is the special kind of anger you feel when you believe that people are getting things they don't deserve. Outrage of this kind is anger at injustice."-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
"Here then is the link between freedom as autonomy and Kant's idea of morality. To act freely is not to choose the best means to a given end; it is to choose the end itself, for its own sake - a choic…"-Michael J. Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
11. Naming and Necessity
By: Saul A. Kripke
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is … read more
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12. Lolita
By: Vladimir Nabokov , Craig Raine
3.88
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Librarian's note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780141182537. Humbert Humbert - scholar, aest… read more
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"There was no Lo to behold."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"My little cup brims with tiddles."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"Don't touch me; I'll die if you touch me."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
"Because you took advantage of my disadvantage."-Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
13. Crossroads
By: Jonathan Franzen
4.06
Format: 592 pages, Hardcover
Jonathan Franzen's gift for wedding depth and vividness of character with breadth of social vision … read more
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"She seemed more pitiable than murderable."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I’m the fat little humiliation he’s married to."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"How like a mental illness a nation’s economy was!"-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
"I think badness is the fundamental condition of humanity."-Jonathan Franzen, Crossroads
14. Equality and Partiality
By: Thomas Nagel
4.05
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Derived from Thomas Nagel's Locke Lectures, Equality and Partiality proposes a nonutopian account o… read more
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15. If You're an Egalitarian, How Come You're So Rich?
By: G.A. Cohen
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
This book presents G. A. Cohen's Gifford Lectures, delivered at the University of Edinburgh in 1996… read more
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16. Knowledge and Its Limits
By: Timothy Williamson
3.74
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Knowledge and its Limits presents a systematic new conception of knowledge as a kind of mental stag… read more
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17. Weighing Goods: Equality, Uncertainty and Time
By: John Broome
4.21
Format: 255 pages, Paperback
This study uses techniques from economics to illuminate fundamental questions in ethics, particular… read more
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18. Justice, Institutions, and Luck: The Site, Ground, and Scope of Equality
By: Kok-Chor Tan
4.50
Format: 222 pages, Hardcover
Kok-Chor Tan addresses three key questions in egalitarian distributive Where does distributive equ… read more
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19. Relational Egalitarianism: Living as Equals
By: Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
4.75
Format: 264 pages, Hardcover
Over the last twenty years, many political philosophers have rejected the idea that justice is fund… read more
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20. Inequality (Oxford Ethics Series)
By: Larry S. Temkin
4.43
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
Equality has long been among the most potent of human ideals and it continues to play a prominent r… read more
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