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1	Life and Teaching of the Masters of the Far East more books like this by Baird T Spalding add to wishlist Abridged version of volume's 1-3 from Baird Spalding's Far East travels in 1894 that played a ground-breaking role in introducing to the Western world the knowledge that there are "Masters" assisting and guiding humanity. see all copies from £4.49! new only from £4.49! \| first editions
2	The History of Sexuality: An Introduction more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist The author turns his attention to sex and the reasons why we are driven constantly to analyze and discuss it. An iconoclastic explanation of modern sexual history. see all copies from £6.50! new only from £8.08!
3	Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist A history of the development of the science of penology in the West. Foucault, a celebrated French scholar and former professor at the College de France, examines the shift in Western attitudes towards criminal justice and punishment, tracing their shift from an emphasis upon divine justice and retribution in the Middle Ages to the faith in ... see all copies from £7.95! new only from £9.35!
4	Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist This new edition contains Donald Cress's completely revised translation of the Meditations (from the corrected Latin edition) and recent corrections to Discourse on Method, bringing this version even closer to Descartes's original, while maintaining the clear and accessible style of a classic teaching edition. see all copies from £2.50! new only from £2.50!
5	Beyond good and evil: prelude to a philosophy of the future more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist 'What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.' Always provocative, the Friedrich Nietzsche of Beyond Good and Evil (1886) is at once sceptical psychologist and philosopher-seer, passionately unmasking European society with his piercing insights and uncanny prescience. This masterpiece of his maturity considers quintessential ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
6	Simulacra and Simulation more books like this by Professor Jean Baudrillard, Sheila Glaser (Translator) add to wishlist Baudrillard's 1981 work on postmodern theory is concerned with the economic matrix and empty reproducibility of contemporary electronic culture. see all copies from £7.00! new only from £7.00!
7	The portable Nietzsche more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, 'Few writers in any age were so full of ideas', and few writers have been so consistently ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.35! \| first editions
8	Thus Spoke Zarathustra more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche add to wishlist "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," by Friedrich Nietzsche, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Classics"" "series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of "Barnes & Noble Classics": ... see all copies from £3.11! new only from £3.76!
9	Classics of Western philosophy more books like this by Steven M Cahn add to wishlist The seventh edition of Steven Cahn's "Classics of Western Philosophy" features several major additions, including selections from Plotinus' "Enneads", Schopenhauer's "The World as Will and Representation", Husserl's "Paris Lectures", Wittgenstein's "Philosophical Investigations", and a new selection from Hegel's "Phenomenology of Spirit". ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £20.72! \| first editions
10	Human Condition more books like this by Professor Hannah Arendt add to wishlist In this text, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems are identified as diminishing human agency and political freedom - the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions. This ... see all copies from £3.23! new only from £9.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated more books like this by Rene Descartes add to wishlist Many other matters respecting the attributes of God and my own nature or mind remain for consideration; but I shall possibly on another occasion resume the investigation of these. Now (after first noting what must be done or avoided, in order to arrive at a knowledge of the truth) my principal task is to endeavour to emerge from the state of doubt ... see all copies from £1.94! new only from £1.94! \| first editions
12 view cover	Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture more books like this by Claude Levi-Strauss, Professor Wendy Doniger (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from £3.30! new only from £3.30!
13 view cover	Fear and Trembling more books like this by Soren Kierkegaard add to wishlist In this rich and resonant work, Soren Kierkegaard reflects poetically and philosophically on the biblical story of God's command to Abraham, that he sacrifice his son Isaac as a test of faith. Was Abraham's proposed action morally and religiously justified or murder? Is there an absolute duty to God? Was Abraham justified in remaining silent? In ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.49!
14 view cover	Society of the Spectacle more books like this by Guy Debord add to wishlist Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle". From its publication amid the social upheavals of the 1960s up to the present, the volatile theses of this book have decisively transformed debates on the shape of modernity, capitalism, and everyday life in the late twentieth ... see all copies from £3.45! new only from £3.45! \| first editions
15 view cover	Philosophy: The Quest for Truth more books like this by Louis P Pojman (Editor) add to wishlist Praised for its accessibility and comprehensiveness, "Philosophy: The Quest for Truth" provides an excellent selection of classical and contemporary readings on nineteen key problems in philosophy. Louis P. Pojman has carefully organized the essays in each section so that they present pro/con dialogues that allow students to compare and contrast ... see all copies from £4.98! new only from £9.35!
16 view cover	Basic Writings of Nietzsche more books like this by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Walter Kaufmann (Editor) add to wishlist One hundred years after his death, Friedrich Nietzsche remains the most influential philosopher of the modern era. Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy; Beyond Good and Evil; On the Genealogy of Morals; The Case of Wagner; and Ecce ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £9.97! \| first editions
17 view cover	A Theory of Everything: An Integral Vision for Business, Politics, Science and Spirituality more books like this by Ken Wilber add to wishlist How does it all come together? In his efforts to answer this question, Wilber, author of SEX, ECOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY, offers up his "M Theory", in which he crosses lines of thought and discipline to create a holistic philosophy that reveals how everything fits together. A THEORY OF EVERYTHING touches to some degree on, indeed, almost everything, ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.72! \| first editions
18 view cover	Of Grammatology more books like this by Jacques Derrida add to wishlist This is the foundational book for the literary critical movement known as deconstruction. It offers Derrida's most systematic exposition of the linguistic and philosophical principles that have made him one of the century's most talked-about philosophers and literary theorists. see all copies from £3.60! new only from £12.18! \| first editions
19 view cover	Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 more books like this by Michel Foucault add to wishlist Focault interprets his writings about sexuality, politics and punishment stressing the contribution of each to the portrait of society he is compiling. see all copies from £8.42! new only from £9.56! \| first editions
20 view cover	Phenomenology of Spirit more books like this by Georg Wilhelm Friedri Hegel, A V Miller (Translator), J N Findlay (Foreword by) add to wishlist Expounds upon consciousness, self-consciousness, reason, spirit, religion and absolute knowing and also supports Kant, denounces skepticism and hails idealism. see all copies from £9.35! new only from £10.30!
21 view cover	Poetry, Language, Thought more books like this by Martin Heidegger add to wishlist Ostensibly concerned with art, this collection of Heidegger's essays and poetry--including "The Origin of the Work of Art"--is dedicated to understanding the relationship of Being to Dasein. see all copies from £5.73! new only from £9.04! \| first editions
22 view cover	On Certainty more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein add to wishlist Written over the last 18 months of his life and inspired by his interest in G. E. Moore's defence of common sense, this much discussed volume collects Wittgenstein's reflections on knowledge and certainty, on what it is to know a proposition for sure. see all copies from £7.92! new only from £8.93! \| first editions
23 view cover	Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity more books like this by Professor Richard Rorty add to wishlist In this book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, ... see all copies from £7.64! new only from £9.35!
24 view cover	The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1 more books like this by Arthur Schopenhauer, E F Payne (Translator) add to wishlist Volume 1 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought. see all copies from £7.00! new only from £8.97!
25 view cover	The Fourth Way more books like this by P D Ouspensky add to wishlist "The Fourth Way" is one of the most comprehensive statements published of the ideas taught by the late P. D. Ouspensky. Consisting of verbatim records of his oral teaching from 1921 to 1946, it gives a lucid explanation of the practical side of G. I, Gurdjieff's teachings. see all copies from £5.61! new only from £6.80! \| first editions

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