Philosophy:

The Essential Writings of Rousseau

Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

Format: eBook, 560 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $13.99

Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
 
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more >

The Essential Writings of Rousseau

Written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edited by Leo Damrosch
Translated by Peter Constantine

Format: Trade Paperback, 560 pages
On Sale: March 26, 2013
Price: $18.00

Newly translated by Peter Constantine
Edited and with an Introduction by Leo Damrosch
 
The Essential Writings of Rousseau collects the best and most indispensable work of one of the world’s most influential writers. A towering figure of Enlightenment thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau was also one of that movement’s most passionate and... Read more >

What Nietzsche Really Said

Written by Robert C. Solomon and Kathleen M. Higgins

Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: November 7, 2012
Price: $11.99

What Nietzsche Really Said gives us a lucid overview -- both informative and entertaining -- of perhaps the most widely read and least understood philosopher in history.


Friedrich Nietzsche's aggressive independence, flamboyance, sarcasm, and celebration of strength have struck responsive chords in contemporary culture. More people than ever are reading and discussing... Read more >

One-Dimensional Man
Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
Written by Herbert Marcuse

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 11, 2012
Price: $21.00

Originally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse scholar Douglas Kellner, presents Marcuse's best-selling work to another generation of readers in the context of contemporary events.


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The Archaeology of Knowledge

Written by Michel Foucault

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: July 11, 2012
Price: $11.99

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Nonduality
A Study in Comparative Philosophy
Written by David Loy

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 29, 2012
Price: $12.99

Many Western philosophers are poorly informed about the issues involved in nonduality, since this topic is usually associated with various kinds of absolute idealism in the West, or mystical traditions in the East. Increasingly, however, this topic is finding its way into Western philosophical debates. In this "scholarly but leisurely and... Read more >

Theology for the Third Millennium
An Ecumenical View
Written by Hans Kung

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: September 21, 2011
Price: $14.99

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Lying
Moral Choice in Public and Private Life
Written by Sissela Bok

Format: eBook, 368 pages
On Sale: April 27, 2011
Price: $13.99

A thoughtful addition to the growing debate over public and private morality. Looks at lying and deception in law, family, medicine, government.


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Public Enemies
Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy and Michel Houellebecq
Translated by Miriam Rachel Frendo

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $17.00

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.
 
In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the... Read more >

Public Enemies
Dueling Writers Take On Each Other and the World
Written by Bernard-Henri Levy and Michel Houellebecq
Translated by Miriam Rachel Frendo

Format: eBook
On Sale: January 11, 2011
Price: $9.99

The international publishing sensation is now available in the United States—two brilliant, controversial authors confront each other and their enemies in an unforgettable exchange of letters.
 
In one corner, Bernard-Henri Lévy, creator of the classic Barbarism with a Human Face, dismissed by the media as a wealthy, self-promoting, arrogant do-gooder. In the... Read more >

For Common Things
Irony, Trust, and Commitment in America Today
Written by Jedediah Purdy

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: November 24, 2010
Price: $9.99

Jedediah Purdy calls For Common Things his "letter of love for the world's possibilities." Indeed, these pages--which have already garnered a flurry of attention among readers and in the media--constitute a passionate and persuasive testament to the value of political, social, and community reengagement. Drawing on a wide range of literary... Read more >

Science, Culture, and Free Spirits
A Study of Nietzsche's Human, All-Too-Human
Written by Jonathan R. Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback, 305 pages
On Sale: September 15, 2009
Price: $36.95

In this insightful study, Nietzsche specialist Jonathan R. Cohen argues that Human, All-Too-Human (1878) represents the crucial watershed for Nietzsche’s philosophical development, the moment at which he "becomes who he is." Here Nietzsche breaks his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner by offering acute criticisms, which often are diametric reversals of... Read more >

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work
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Written by Alain De Botton

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 2, 2009
Price: $13.99

We spend most of our waking lives at work—in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us.

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the... Read more >

The Hacker Ethic
A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business
Written by Pekka Himanen
Prologue by Linus Torvalds

Format: eBook, 256 pages
On Sale: March 12, 2009
Price: $13.99

You may be a hacker and not even know it. Being a hacker has nothing to do with cyberterrorism, and it doesn’t even necessarily relate to the open-source movement. Being a hacker has more to do with your underlying assumptions about stress, time management, work, and play. It’s about harmonizing the... Read more >

Human, All Too Human

Written by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Format: Trade Paperback, 536 pages
On Sale: December 16, 2008
Price: $15.99

Human, All Too Human (1878) is often considered the start of Friedrich Nietzsche’s mature period. A complex work that explores many themes to which Nietzsche later returned, it marks a significant departure from his previous thinking. Here Nietzsche breaks with his early allegiance to Schopenhauer and Wagner, and establishes the overall... Read more >

Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It

Written by Geoff Dyer

Format: eBook, 272 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99

This isn’t a self-help book; it’s a book about how Geoff Dyer could do with a little help. In mordantly funny and thought-provoking prose, the author of Out of Sheer Rage describes a life most of us would love to live—and how that life frustrates and aggravates him.

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Postmodernism For Beginners

Written by Jim Powell
Illustrated by Joe Lee

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99

If you are like most people, you’re not sure what Postmodernism is. And if this were like most books on the subject, it probably wouldn’t tell you. Besides what a few grumpy critics claim, Postmodernism is not a bunch of meaningless intellectual mind games. On the contrary, it is a reaction... Read more >

Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners

Written by Donald D. Palmer
Illustrated by Donald D. Palmer

Format: Trade Paperback, 160 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2007
Price: $16.99

“In its less dramatic versions,” writes author Dan Palmer, “structuralism is just a method of studying language, society, and the works of artists and novelists. But in its most exuberant form, it is a philosophy, an overall worldview that provides an account of reality and knowledge.” Poststructuralism is a loosely knit... Read more >

Nietzsche and the English
The Influence of British and American Thinking on His Philosophy
Written by Thomas H. Brobjer

Format: Trade Paperback, 474 pages
On Sale: July 17, 2007
Price: $39.99

Friedrich Nietzsche—one of the most read and discussed philosophers of all time—is frequently regarded as a quintessentially German philosopher, yet one who had strong anti-German tendencies and late in his development turned increasingly pro-French. However, his relation to British-American thinking and culture has been largely ignored, although its focus on progress... Read more >

Reason & Emancipation
Essays on the Philosophy of Kai Nielsen
Edited by Michel Seymour

Format: Hardcover, 431 pages
On Sale: April 30, 2007
Price: $64.99

". . . Socialism-from-Above is the conception that socialism (or a reasonable facsimile threof) must be handed down to the grateful masses in one form or another, by a ruling elite which is not subject to their control in fact. The heart of Socialism-from-Below is its view that socialism can be... Read more >

The Essential Marcuse
Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse
Written by Herbert Marcuse
Edited by Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss

Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 1, 2007
Price: $22.00

The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism... Read more >

The Essential Marcuse
Selected Writings of Philosopher and Social Critic Herbert Marcuse
Written by Herbert Marcuse
Edited by Andrew Feenberg and William Leiss

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 1, 2007
Price: $22.00

The Essential Marcuse provides an overview of Herbert Marcuse's political and philosophical writing over four decades, with excerpts from his major books as well as essays from various academic journals. The most influential radical philosopher of the 1960s, Marcuse's writings are noteworthy for their uncompromising opposition to both capitalism and communism... Read more >

On the Principle of Sufficient Reason

Written by Karl Hillebrand

Format: Trade Paperback, 189 pages
On Sale: January 30, 2006
Price: $13.99

"Schopenhauer’s analyses of causation and related concepts ... rival and probably surpass in their depth and brilliance the more celebrated discussions of David Hume. Where Hume grossly oversimplified these problems and left them riddled with paradoxes, Schopenhauer disentangled them and shed light on what had seemed hopelessly dark" – Richard Taylor
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Karl Jasper's Philosophy
Expositions & Interpretations
Edited by Kurt Salamun

Format: Hardcover, 410 pages
On Sale: January 2, 2006
Price: $55.99

Karl Jaspers was one of the greatest European philosophers and humanists of the twentieth century. He demonstrated a broad range of philosophical thinking that makes his work relevant for the twenty-first century. Coming to philosophy from medicine and psychiatry, Jaspers's views encompass a vast and creative range of empirical, philosophical, social... Read more >

An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals

Written by David Hume

Format: Trade Paperback, 176 pages
On Sale: May 1, 2004
Price: $13.99

Judging it to be "of all my writings incomparably the best," Hume accurately assessed this groundbreaking classic, which continues to influence philosophical thinking on ethics to this day through the force of its ideas and its clarity of expression. Among the many insights that Hume expounds in this work is that... Read more >