Intelligent Virtue
By: Julia Annas
3.79
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical id…
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1. The Society of the Spectacle
By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord
4.02
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more
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- philosophy
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"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle
2. I and Thou
By: Martin Buber , Walter Kaufmann
4.07
Format: 185 pages, Paperback
An alternate cover for this isbn can be found here. Martin Buber's I and Thou has long been accl… read more
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"All real living is meeting."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Inscrutably involved, we live in the currents of universal reciprocity."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"True beings are lived in the present, the life of objects is lived in the past."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
"Feelings one "has"; love occurs. Feelings dwell in man, but man dwells in his love."-Martin Buber, I and Thou
3. Natural Goodness
By: Philippa Foot
4.00
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
Philippa Foot has for many years been one of the most distinctive and influential thinkers in moral… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
4. Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
By: William James
3.58
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
A profoundly influential figure in American psychology, William James (1842-1910) was also a philos… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
5. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
6. Cloud Atlas
By: David Mitchell
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Cloud Atlasbegins in 1850 with Adam Ewing, an American notary voyaging from the Chatham Isles to hi… read more
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7. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
By: Michel Foucault , Alan Sheridan , None , None , None
3.35
Format: 520 pages, Paperback
Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found . In this brilliant work, the mos… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
8. Sphere
By: Michael Crichton
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
A group of American scientists are rushed to a huge vessel that has been discovered resting on the … read more
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9. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
By: Richard Rorty
3.65
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
"Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature" hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. Richard Rorty, … read more
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10. The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Edna Hatlestad Hong , Howard Vincent Hong
4.06
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
A companion piece to The Concept of Anxiety, this work continues Soren Kierkegaard's radical and co… read more
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11. We Have Never Been Modern
By: Bruno Latour , Catherine Porter
4.20
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever … read more
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12. Early Writings
By: Karl Marx , Rodney Livingstone , Gregor Benton , None
5.00
Format: 36 pages, Paperback
Written in 1833-4, when Marx was barely twenty-five, this astonishingly rich body of works formed t… read more
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13. Philosophical Investigations
By: Ludwig Wittgenstein , G.E.M. Anscombe
3.68
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Philosophische Untersuchungen is, with the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of two major works b… read more
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14. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?"-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
15. The Nicomachean Ethics
By: Aristotle , Jonathan Barnes , None , Hugh Tredennick
3.99
Format: 329 pages, Paperback
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brie… read more
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- philosophy
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"Philosophy can make people sick."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"A man without regrets cannot be cured."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"Freedom is obedience to self-formulated rules."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
"The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole."-Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics
16. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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- nonfiction
"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
17. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None
4.21
Format: 534 pages, Paperback
Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more
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"Scoundrels are always sociable."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
18. What We Owe to Each Other
By: T.M. Scanlon
3.94
Format: 128 pages, Paperback
How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason doe… read more
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19. The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
By: H.P. Lovecraft
3.00
Format: 18 pages,
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations. The eBoo… read more
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20. A Theory of Justice
By: John Rawls , None
4.46
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
Since it appeared in 1971, John Rawls's A Theory of Justice has become a classic. The author has no… read more
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21. An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment?
By: Immanuel Kant
3.67
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed West… read more
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22. The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
By: William Egginton
4.28
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of … read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
23. Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
By: Edmund Conway
4.52
Format: 512 pages, Hardcover
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed… read more
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"You can get anything you want from anywhere in the world at a bargain price, but don't [whatever you do] expect to understand how it was made or how it got to you."-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"Brothers and sisters,’ said the man. ‘I want to tell you this. The greatest thing on earth is to have the love of God in your heart, and the next greatest thing is to have electricity in your house.’…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"To say that concrete is everywhere is hardly an exaggeration. Despite the fact that we only began mass producing this mixture of sand, aggregates and cement just over a century ago, there are now mor…"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
"A few years ago some geologists sifted through the data [and] estimated that the amount of sand, soil and rock we humans mine and quarry and dredge each year is some 24 times greater than the amount …"-Edmund Conway, Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
24. Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
By: Sarah Bakewell
4.03
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years o… read more
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25. Liberalism and Its Discontents
By: Francis Fukuyama
3.93
Format: 178 pages, Hardcover
A short book about the challenges to liberalism from the right and the left by the bestselling auth… read more
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"Нема причин, з яких економічна ефективність має домінувати над усіма іншими соціальними цінностями."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Комуністичні суспільства були схильні цінувати виробництво більше за споживання, що призвело до поганих наслідків: у них були «герої соціалістичної праці», але не було продуктів на полицях магазинів."-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"Низка людей, які працюють у цій галузі, починаючи з таких постструктуралістів, як Лакан і Дерріда, писали в такий спосіб, який, здавалося, навмисне затуманював їхні думки й захищав від відповідальнос…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
"As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente per…"-Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism and Its Discontents
26. Unverfügbarkeit
By: Hartmut Rosa
4.28
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
Ein fundiertes Plädoyer für eine Gesellschaft, die der Verfügbarkeit der Welt Grenzen setzt. Das ze… read more
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"En réalité, j’ai l’impression que la structure fondamentale du désir se situe justement ici : il est propulsé par l’exigence de mettre à portée quelque chose qui ne l’est pas (encore). Et là se trouv…"-Hartmut Rosa, Unverfügbarkeit
27. The Psychology of Totalitarianism
By: Mattias Desmet
4.05
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
The world is in the grips of mass formation—a dangerous, collective type of hypnosis—as we bear wit… read more
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"The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Totalitarianism and technocracy like to present themselves as the pinnacle of rationality and science."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"Dissident speech doesn't have to be primarily tactical or rhetorical in nature, but it should be authentic and honest."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
"When society as a whole is in the grip of anxiety and the accompanying images of illness and death, those images in themselves become a causal factor."-Mattias Desmet, The Psychology of Totalitarianism
28. Technology and the Virtues: A Philosophical Guide to a Future Worth Wanting
By: Shannon Vallor
4.25
Format: 328 pages, Hardcover
The 21st century offers a dizzying array of new technological robots smart enough to take white co… read more
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- nonfiction
29. Autocracy, Inc.
By: Anne Applebaum
4.28
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more
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"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.
30. Intelligent Virtue
By: Julia Annas
3.79
Format: 200 pages, Hardcover
Intelligent Virtue presents a distinctive new account of virtue and happiness as central ethical id… read more
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