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  • The Smile of Tragedy

    Nietzsche and the Art of Virtue

    by Daniel R. Ahern ...
    Series series Literature and Philosophy
    In The Smile of Tragedy, Daniel Ahern examines Nietzsche’s attitude toward what he called “the tragic age of the Greeks,” showing it to be the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the Socratic era but also for his overall critique of Western culture. Through an interpretation of “Dionysian pessimism,” Ahern clarifies the ways in which Nietzsche sees ethics and ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • The Critique of Practical Reason

    by Immanuel Kant ...
    Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is considered to be the father of modern philosophy. Kant’s writings continue to influence the philosophy in many fields including metaphysics, ethics, and political theory. This edition of The Critique of Practical Reason includes a table of contents. ... Read more

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  • Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy

    The Porpoise Driven Life

    by Erin McKenna, Scott L. Pratt ...
    Series series Popular Culture and Philosophy
    Jimmy Buffett and his music have touched the lives of millions of people around the world, spanning generations and genres. But is Buffett's music just a good time, or is there a deeper level to it? Jimmy Buffett and Philosophy shows the philosophical side of this self-proclaimed non-philosopher's work. The articles in this book provide an accessible approach to thinking about Buffett's music ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Of Myth and Magic

    by M.E. Brines ...
    A comparison of religion, philosophy and magick throughout history. Are all religions basically the same? What are the similarities between the New Age, Catholicism, Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism and the Jehovah's Witnesses? What do paganism and Gnostic Christianity have in common? Is secular humanism really superior to "mere religion" or just another means to the same end? Is there any truly ... Read more

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  • Futilitarians

    Our Year of Thinking, Drinking, Grieving, and Reading

    by Anne Gisleson ...
    A memoir of friendship and literature chronicling a search for meaning and comfort in great books, and a beautiful path out of grief: "Moving and complete and very much worth reading" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Anne Gisleson had lost her twin sisters, had been forced to flee her home during Hurricane Katrina, and had witnessed cancer take her beloved father. Before she met her husband, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • On Generation And Corruption

    by Aristotle ...
    The original works of foreign classics, including the most representative literary masters and the most influential representative works. ... Read more

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  • Politics, Metaphysics, and Death

    Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sace

    by Thomas Carl Wall, Peter Fitzpatrick, Erik Vogt, Andreas Kalyvas ...
    The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben is having an increasingly significant impact on Anglo-American political theory. His most prominent intervention to date is the powerful reassessment of sovereignty and the politics of life and death laid out in his multivolume Homo Sacer project. Agamben argues that in both the modern world and the ancient, politics inevitably involves a sovereign decision ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Locke

    by Edward Feser ...
    Thought by many to be the quintessential philosopher of the modern age, John Locke’s ideas are the key to understanding society and politics in the West. In this accessible introduction, Edward Feser explores Locke’s works and looks critically at his legacy. In this, the author argues, we find the origins of many of the conflicts that dominate modern politics. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Nature, Contemplation, and the One

    A Study in the Philosophy of Plotinus

    by John Deck ...
    Series series Heritage
    Plotinus has been so highly regarded as a mystic that his importance as a philosopher has sometimes been thrown into eclipse. Yet neoplatonic philosophy lives in and through his works; indeed, his original development of Platonic and Aristotelian themes stands as a kind of summation of Greek philosophy as it first came to be known in the Christian West. In Nature, Contemplation, and the One, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Personal Identity: Unity of Mind and Sameness Over Time

    by Michael Brulotte ...
    Unlike many philosophical debates, the discussion about personal identity is not paralleled outside the domain of philosophy. In everyday life, there would be no disagreement about the sameness of identity over time. Children can understand that they were once babies, would-be criminals weigh the consequences of their actions, young adults put money away for retirement, and students pore over ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche's Epic of the Soul

    Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    by T. K. Seung ...
    Thus Spoke Zarathustra is Nietzsche's most problematic text. There appears to be no thematic connection between its four Parts and numerous sections. To make it even worse, the book contains a number of thematic contradictions. The standard approach has been a method of selective reading, that is, most critics select a few brilliant passages for edification and ignore the rest. This approach has ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • Nothingness and the Meaning of Life

    Philosophical Approaches to Ultimate Meaning Through Nothing and Reflexivity

    by Dr Nicholas Waghorn ...
    What is the meaning of life? Does anything really matter? In the past few decades these questions, perennially associated with philosophy in the popular consciousness, have rightly retaken their place as central topics in the academy. In this major contribution, Nicholas Waghorn provides a sustained and rigorous elucidation of what it would take for lives to have significance. Bracketing issues ... Read more

    $153.89 USD