Modern Books


Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison Best Price: $7.75 The historical exegeses are largely superfluous and distract from the points of argumentation. ...	The History of Sexuality: An Introduction Best Price: $5.95 Great introduction in the area of sexuality. Can be an asset to refrencing in academic work. In...	Meditations on First Philosophy: In Which the Existence of God and the Distinction of the Soul from the Body Are Demonstrated Best Price: $2.97 This book was translated from old French. It was in English but I could barely make sense of it...	Basic Writings of Nietzsche (Modern Library Classics) Best Price: $10.00 The Birth of Tragedy-75 Aphorism-Beyond Good and Evil-The Genealogy of Morals (3 Essays)-The...	The Question of God: C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud Debate God, Love, Sex, and the Meaning of Life Best Price: $8.90 In both the book and DVD version, Nicholi presents himself as neutral on the question of the...



Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy Best Price: $16.21 Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy Not being a philosopher, I write...	The Portable Nietzsche (Viking Portable Library) Best Price: $8.24 The five stars are really more for Nietzsche than this particular pastiche. I've had this book...	Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy, 4th Ed. Best Price: $4.98 Rene Descartes can go to a circle in hades for his mathmatics but his discourse on religion was...	Being and Time Best Price: $11.84 Being and Time is not a book you can pick up off the shelf and read unless you have a sufficient...	An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Best Price: $3.50 This review mostly concerns the Enquiry. The Letter is primarily a defense of Hume's earlier...



The Wisdom of Insecurity Best Price: $4.31 This book has changed my life. For anyone that has experienced depression and anxiety, this book...	Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All Best Price: $7.00 I am not educated in philosophy, so I read this book slowly with the help of Sparknotes and...	Beyond Good and Evil (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $6.72 Beyond Good and Evil clarifies much of what is left in the air in Thus Spoke Zarathustra and...	Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason Best Price: $8.00 Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason is one of those books that...	The Human Condition (2nd Edition) Best Price: $10.00 Arendt begins her opus magnum with a proposal: she states that the launch of Sputnik in 1957...

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects Best Price: $5.89 The fact that short essays carried one theme, instead of a lengthy essays with complex nuances,...	The Portable Enlightenment Reader (The Viking Portable Library) (The Viking Portable Library) Best Price: $10.14 The Enlightenment was the turning point that created the World as we know it. The transition...	The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language Best Price: $8.97 Foucault is not a light read - you will spend several hours just trying to interpret this text. ...	Maxims (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $8.27 La Rochefoucauld isn't for everyone. Let's excuse those who are going to be offended right...	Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $6.00 If you want to read a book of significance, look no further. While it may be a difficult read...

The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences Best Price: $8.92 More a curiosity and an exploration in the mental discipline of standing rigor up to total...	Being And Nothingness Best Price: $8.89 If you are up to the task of reading Being and Nothingness then you should read Sartre's earlier...	The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt Best Price: $7.50 I have never read a book by Camus I didn't like, and this series of essays on man's inclination...	Finite and Infinite Games Best Price: $2.79 This is basic philosophy wrapped in a poor metaphor. To sum the book, there are things that we...	Modern Philosophy: An Anthology of Primary Sources Best Price: $35.99 I used this anthology in the late 1990's for a course I was teaching in the history of modern...

Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.67 I'm a student of contemporary art, and I consider myself educated and well read, but I find even...	Walden and Civil Disobedience (Penguin American Library) Best Price: $2.45 This book was delivered in excellent conditions, it was a brand new book and it arrived faster...	Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) Best Price: $18.33 Marxist politics aside, Adorno and Horkheimer's staggering critique of post-enlightenment...	Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private Life Best Price: $8.00 Dissecting Pinocchio: How to Detect Deception in Business, Life, and Love I own this book and...	Thinking Socratically: Critical Thinking About Everyday Issues (2nd Edition) Best Price: $64.98 While an interesting book, if you are not into reading dialogue, and understand the dialogue; I...

Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy Best Price: $7.89 A great introduction to existentialism. Easy to read. I read and re-read various sections for...	French Theory: How Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, & Co. Transformed the Intellectual Life of the United States Best Price: $15.63 I bought this for my mother based on the review, figuring if she didn't like it, I would. She...	The Foucault Reader Best Price: $3.99 The Foucault Reader edited by Paul Rainbow is a selection of writings from, and interviews with,...	Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Post-Contemporary Interventions) Best Price: $14.87 Jameson's book is, if the subject is somewhat redundant some 18 years after publication,...	Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings, 1972-1977 Best Price: $7.95 Excellent preliminary introduction to the thought of French philosopher Michel Foucault, who was...

The History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure (Vintage) Vol. 2 Best Price: $6.72 Foucault's continuation of his impressive History of Human Sexuality looks into the sexual mores...	A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia Best Price: $19.00 To those who attack this for not being philosophy, fair enough, it may not be philosophy. I...	The Essential Kierkegaard Best Price: $17.40 With a dizzying series of pseudonyms, from Climaticus to Anticlimaticus, this book selects from...	On the Genealogy of Morality Best Price: $7.50	Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction Best Price: $5.56 This is a very good introductory book on the philosophie of science. As an inexpert in the area...

Classics of Western Thought Series: Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation, Volume II (Classics of Western Thought) Best Price: $28.46 Originally edited by Thomas H. Greer, this series emanates from the Humanities Department at...	Superheroes and Philosophy: Truth, Justice, and the Socratic Way (Popular Culture and Philosophy) Best Price: $7.89 This one just didn't do it for me. I have enjoyed 2-3 of the authors and some of Morris' work...	The Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ: or How to Philosophize with a Hammer (Penguin Classics) Best Price: $5.99 This was the first Nietzsche I read about 6 years ago at University. I only understood about...	Of Grammatology Best Price: $14.78 Derrida's thought is the primary reason why I inevitably feel an urge to put quotation marks...	The Conquest of Happiness Best Price: $7.89 I bought this book because I wanted to read what an almost contemporary philosopher and...

Descartes: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) Best Price: $4.99 I really am pleased that I read this book because within its pages you can see the birth of our...	Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: All And Everything: 1st Series (All and Everything Series 1) Best Price: $11.97 I don't recommend this book or pursuing this dying philosophy. I read the book and joined the...	Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre (Meridian) Best Price: $7.00 The book is layed out in a way that you can pick and choose which philosopher you want to read...	Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics That Will Be Able to Come Forward As Science With Kant's Letter to Marcus Herz, February 27, 1772: The Paul Carus Translation Best Price: $6.00 Simply put, modern philosophy begins with Kant. If anyone wishes to understand the development...	Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings: Piecewise Approximations to Reality Best Price: $36.16 Analytic philosophers once pantomimed physics: they tried to understand the world by breaking it...

Descartes: Selected Philosophical Writings Best Price: $14.94 This first volume in a two-volume set contains: (1) Rules for the Direction of our Native...	Tractatus Logico Philosophicus (Routledge Classics) Best Price: $8.19 The `Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' is the German monk and philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein's...	The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10) Best Price: $10.09 The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (Theory and History of Literature, Volume 10)...	After Finitude: An Essay on the Necessity of Contingency Best Price: $12.17 Meillassoux's first book is nothing less than a completely original and meticulously argued...

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