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1	The future of an illusion more books like this by Sigmund Freud add to wishlist Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only one was authorized by Freud himself: The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud under the general editorship of James Strachey. see all copies from £1.73! new only from £7.51! \| first editions
2	Who dies? : an investigation of conscious living and conscious dying more books like this by Stephen Levine add to wishlist While many books have dealt with the 'stages of dying', and particularly the stages of acceptance of death, this is the first to demonstrate how to open the immensity of living with death. 'Who Dies?' shows us how to participate fully in life as the perfect preparation for whatever may come next, be it sorrow or joy, loss or gain, death or a new ... see all copies from £1.55! new only from £9.26! \| first editions
3	Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy more books like this by Joel Feinberg add to wishlist The tenth edition of this topically-organized anthology provides a balance of historical selections and recent material. The text covers reason and religious belief; human knowledge; mind and its place in nature; determinism; free will and responsibility; and morality and justice in five parts, with attention to opposing points of view. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £8.09! \| first editions
4	Age of Reason more books like this by Thomas Paine add to wishlist Thomas Paine, defender of freedom, independence, and rational common sense during America's turbulent revolutionary period, offers insights into religion which ring sharply true more than two centuries later. This unabridged edition of "The Age of Reason" sets forth Paine's provocative observations on the place of religion in society. see all copies from £3.56! new only from £3.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
5	Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy more books like this by William Barrett add to wishlist Widely recognized as the finest definition of existentialist Philosophy, this book introduced existentialism to America in 1958. Barrett discusses the views of 19th and 20th century existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Sartre and interprets the impact of their thinking on literature, art, and philosophy. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £6.13! \| first editions
6	The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World more books like this by David Abram add to wishlist This work of ecological philosophy is the first book from David Abram, who holds a doctorate in philosophy from SUNY at Stony Brook and has been the recipient of fellowships from the Watson and Rockefeller foundations. Abram inquires into the fluid and participatory nature of perception and finds profound interdependence between language and the ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £6.82! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Utilitarianism more books like this by John Stuart Mill add to wishlist In UTILITARIANISM, published in 1863, Mill discusses the nuances of his foundational ethical principal that: "Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness." see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| first editions
8	Philosophical Investigations: The German Text, with a Revised English Translation more books like this by Ludwig Wittgenstein, G E M Anscombe add to wishlist Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations presents his own distillation of two decades of intense work on the philosophies of mind, language and meaning. When first published in 1953, it immediately entered the center of philosophical debate, and achieved a classic status it has retained ever since. This revised German-English edition is ... see all copies from £16.81! new only from £18.24! \| first editions
9	Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals more books like this by John Gray add to wishlist A radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition has been based on arrogant and erroneous beliefs about human beings and their place in the world. Philosophies such as liberalism ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.31! \| first editions
10	The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul more books like this by Douglas R Hofstadter add to wishlist Hofstadter and Dennet have assembled an evocative collection of essays from a wide range of thinkers concerning the self and consciousness. With explanatory afterwords to each essay, this text opens up the concerns of the philosophy of mind to the general public. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £7.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten more books like this by Robert Fulghum (Read by) add to wishlist When asked what he does, Robert Fulghum usually replies that he is a philosopher, and explains that what he likes to do is to think about everyday things and then to express what he thinks by writing, speaking or painting. This is a collection of his favourite observations, written over the years, that reveal simple truths about small lives with ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £3.55! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Philosophy in the Flesh more books like this by George Lakoff, Mark Johnson, Ph.D. add to wishlist What are human beings like? How is knowledge possible? What is truth? Where do moral values come from? Questions like these have stood at the center of Western philosophy for centuries. In addressing them, philosophers have made certain fundamental assumptionsthat we can know our own minds by introspection, that most of our thinking about the ... see all copies from £8.60! new only from £12.67! \| first editions
13 view cover	Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre more books like this by Walter Arnold Kaufmann (Editor) add to wishlist This volume provides basic writings of Dostoevsky, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Rilke, Kafka, Ortega, Jaspers, Heidegger, Sartre, and Camus, including some not previously translated, along with an invaluable introductory essay by Walter Kaufmann. see all copies from £4.95! new only from £7.34! \| first editions
14 view cover	Rights of Man more books like this by Thomas Paine add to wishlist Written in part as a theoretical reply to the stodgy conservatism of Edmund Burke's "Reflections on the French Revolution" (1790), Paine's "Rights of Man" (1791-92) sets forth a manifesto of popular democratic rule in the established tradition of John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. In it Paine offers a discussion of the nature of political man ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Treatise of Human Nature more books like this by David Hume add to wishlist A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), David Hume's comprehensive attempt to base philosophy on a new, observationally grounded study of human nature, is one of the most important texts in Western philosophy. It is also the focal point of current attempts to understand 18th-century philosophy. The Treatise first explains how we form such concepts ... see all copies from £2.04! new only from £4.95! \| first editions
16 view cover	A Simpler Way more books like this by Margaret J Wheatley, Myron Kellner-Rogers add to wishlist Downsizing didn't produce the increase in productivity many companies expected. The reason, the authors of this text argue, is that we are still expecting human qualities from mechanistic structures - the way we develop organizations depends heavily on how we organize our lives. Drawing on the work scientists, philosophers, poets, novelists, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £8.21! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Evolution's End: Claiming the Potential of Our Intelligence more books like this by Joseph Chilton Pearce add to wishlist This book shows how the brain-mind-body is a self-organizing system that constructs our experience of reality. Drawing upon the latest brain research and highlighting the connection to quantum physics, the author traces the development of intelligence from infancy to adulthood and explores the profound biological dynamic between the heart and mind ... see all copies from £5.11! new only from £7.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Undiscovered self. more books like this by C G. Jung add to wishlist In his classic, provocative work, Dr. Carl Jung, one of the world's greatest psychiatrists, reveals how to embrace our own humanity and resist the pressures of an ever-changing world in this still-timely and fascinating work. Revised reissue. see all copies from £2.33! new only from £2.33! \| first editions
19 view cover	All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things more books like this by Robert Fulghum add to wishlist This self-help bestseller struck a note with readers immediately upon publication in 1989. The simple, succinct formulas for everyday living were reminders of things that they had heard before but had let slip. Fulghum enhances his simple wisdom with essays and, in later editions, new material. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £5.57! \| first editions
20 view cover	Being & Nothingness more books like this by Jean-Paul Sartre add to wishlist Published in 1943, "Being and Nothingness" is recognized as a central work of existentialism. This monumental study of the human condition--which many have viewed as a philosophical response to the horrors of World War II--deals with love, hate, sex, anguish, and a great many other themes. According to Sartre, "man is the being by whom Nothingness ... see all copies from £6.81! new only from £10.33! \| first editions
21 view cover	Basic Writings of Existentialism more books like this by Gordon Marino (Introduction by), Gordon D Marino (Editor) add to wishlist Basic Writings of Existentialism, unique to the Modern Library, presents the writings of key nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers broadly united by their belief that because life has no inherent meaning that humans can discover, we must determine meaning for ourselves. This anthology brings together into one volume the most influential and ... see all copies from £8.57! new only from £8.57!
22 view cover	Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings more books like this by David John Chalmers add to wishlist Philosophy of Mind: Classical and Contemporary Readings is an ideal text for introductory, advanced undergraduate, and graduate courses in the philosophy of mind and related areas. The most comprehensive collection of its kind, this volume ranges from the classical contributions of Descartes to the leading edge of the discipline. Three of the ... see all copies from £24.93! new only from £38.61!
23 view cover	Importance of Living more books like this by Lin Yutang add to wishlist "The Importance of Living" is a wry, witty antidote to the dizzying pace of the modern world. Lin Yutang's prescription is the classic Chinese philosophy of life: Revere inaction as much as action, invoke humor to maintain a healthy attitude, and never forget that there will always be plenty of fools around who are willing-indeed, eager-to be busy ... see all copies from £5.04! new only from £10.63! \| first editions
24 view cover	Marx's Concept of Man more books like this by Erich Fromm add to wishlist Presents Fromm's provocative view of Marx. It stresses his humanist philosophy and challenges both Soviety distortion and Western ignorance of Marx's basic thinking. see all copies from £4.39! new only from £12.98! \| first editions
25 view cover	Ten Theories of Human Nature more books like this by Leslie Forster Stevenson, David L Haberman add to wishlist What is our place in the universe? Why are we here? Ten Theories of Human Nature, Fifth Edition, is an introduction to some of the most influential developments in Western and Eastern thought that attempt to answer these and other existential questions. The book compresses into a small space the essence of such ancient traditions as Confucianism, ... see all copies from £5.57! new only from £7.43!

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