Modern Renaissance Books


Pensees (Penguin Classics)Pensees (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $6.49
I have read Pascal's Pensees 2 times now - and cannot but marvel at his depth and Truth. I have...
Montaigne: EssaysMontaigne: Essays
Best Price: $4.01
In 1580, Michel de Montaigne dedicated this "honest book" to his family and friends. ...
Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)Michel de Montaigne - The Complete Essays (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $14.89
What's not to like about Montaigne? Everytime I pick through parts of his essays [and it does...
When Species Meet (Posthumanities)When Species Meet (Posthumanities)
Best Price: $14.98
“When Species Meet is a breathtaking meditation on the intersection between humankind...
Utopia: Thomas MoreUtopia: Thomas More
Best Price: $4.20
I bought this book because it is a revered "classic". While I am sure More's intent...


A Dialogue on Personal Identity and ImmortalityA Dialogue on Personal Identity and Immortality
Best Price: $2.99
I ordered a book from this seller, I received it in a timely manner and had no issues with the...
The Portable MachiavelliThe Portable Machiavelli
Best Price: $8.95
A useful compendium of Machiavelli's works that reveals a breadth of views not typically...
Humanism, What's That?: A Book for Curious KidsHumanism, What's That?: A Book for Curious Kids
Best Price: $7.33
This book is excellent for explaining humanism and separation of church and state to kids 9-15.
The Complete Essays of MontaigneThe Complete Essays of Montaigne
Best Price: $22.95
Michel de Montaigne was and is a very special benchmark in the history of Western civilization....
History of Philosophy, Volume 3History of Philosophy, Volume 3
Best Price: $8.99
One could almost say that volume 2 was a buildup to volume 3. In volume 2 Scholasticism and...


Oration on the Dignity of ManOration on the Dignity of Man
Best Price: $7.37
In the great humanist Pico Della Mirandola's work, "Oration on the Dignity of Man,"...
Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)Machiavelli: The Prince (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)
Best Price: $1.96
Machiavelli's "The Prince" is a guide of morality-void techniques for acquiring and...
The Selfhood of the Human PersonThe Selfhood of the Human Person
Best Price: $8.98
This is a brilliant essay on the human person following the personalist/phenomonological line of...
Readings in Classical Political Thought (Hackett Publishing Co.)Readings in Classical Political Thought (Hackett Publishing Co.)
Best Price: $23.00
Designed to include all of the texts from presocratics through Machiavelli likely to be read in...
Selected Political WritingsSelected Political Writings
Best Price: $5.97
The Prince is a book everyone should read in order to understand how many kings and rulers who...

The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge Classics)The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age (Routledge Classics)
Best Price: $11.90
Although she probably did not intend the work to serve such a purpose, Dame Frances Yates' book...
Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic TraditionGiordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition
Best Price: $19.97
This is not a review of Ms. Yates's writing. Instead, I am awarding the single star to the...
The Essays (Penguin Classics)The Essays (Penguin Classics)
Best Price: $7.25
Francis Bacon is one of the authors whose ideas pervade society, but whose work very few of us...
PenseesPensees
Best Price: $10.00
Roger Ariew masterfully renders the oddities of 17th-century French vocabulary and syntax in...
Bacon to Kant : An Introduction to Modern Philosophy, Second EditionBacon to Kant : An Introduction to Modern Philosophy, Second Edition
Best Price: $28.95
I've been teaching Modern Philosophy to undergraduates for a number of years. As anyone who has...

The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives (Phoenix Books)The Renaissance Philosophy of Man: Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico, Pomponazzi, Vives (Phoenix Books)
Best Price: $15.00
Renaissance is French for "re-birth." But what, exactly, was reborn? The human person...
Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta (Guenon, Rene. Works.)Man and His Becoming according to the Vedanta (Guenon, Rene. Works.)
Best Price: $17.96
Coomaraswamy called this work the best account of the Vedanta in any European language....
Case Studies in Information Technology Ethics (2nd Edition)Case Studies in Information Technology Ethics (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $40.00
Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)Giordano Bruno: Cause, Principle and Unity: And Essays on Magic (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
Best Price: $24.49
Giordano Bruno is not only a writer of marvelous wit and virtuosity, and the only one since...
Renaissance Thought and its SourcesRenaissance Thought and its Sources
Best Price: $36.54
This is one of the most important books in the study of Italian Renaissance (14th-16th century)....

What Is Secular Humanism?What Is Secular Humanism?
Best Price: $4.63
There are few American philosophers better qualified to write on secular humanism than Paul...
Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 5Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses : Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol. 5
Best Price: $42.80
There is much to be learned philosophically from this volume, but philosophical instruction was...
Living Without Religion: EupraxophyLiving Without Religion: Eupraxophy
Best Price: $10.16
Kurtz coined the word "eupraxophy" to distinguish Secular Humanism from belief systems...
The Acting Person: A Contribution to Phenomenological Anthropology (Analecta Husserliana)The Acting Person: A Contribution to Phenomenological Anthropology (Analecta Husserliana)
Best Price: $56.80
Anyone who desires a deeper understanding of the thought of Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II)...
The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)The End of Modernity: Nihilism and Hermeneutics in Postmodern Culture (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)
Best Price: $25.00
This book is important to understand postmodernism. However, i don't image american readers...

Ramus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of ReasonRamus, Method, and the Decay of Dialogue: From the Art of Discourse to the Art of Reason
Best Price: $19.59
Even though this book is not easy to read, it is essential reading for understanding modernity...
Feminist Philosophies: Problems, Theories, and Applications (2nd Edition)Feminist Philosophies: Problems, Theories, and Applications (2nd Edition)
Best Price: $79.69
This anthology of 40 readings combines both an extensive discussion of the major problems...
Machiavelli's The Prince: Bold-faced Principles on Tactics, Power, and PoliticsMachiavelli's The Prince: Bold-faced Principles on Tactics, Power, and Politics
Best Price: $5.61
the book is small it fits into the palm of my hand. and it really isn't a hard back it's more...
The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (Feminist Constructions)The Subject of Care: Feminist Perspectives on Dependency (Feminist Constructions)
Best Price: $26.39
With anlytic precision and moral vision, a roster of excellent authors explore the moral,...
Wild and Robust: The Adventures of Christian HumanismWild and Robust: The Adventures of Christian Humanism
Best Price: $20.36
In response to the first reviewer's use of the term "Father," Mr. William McNamara was...

Renaissance Thought and the ArtsRenaissance Thought and the Arts
Best Price: $23.35
"Renaissance Thought and the Arts" presents a brilliant introduction into Renaissance...
Heidegger: Off the Beaten TrackHeidegger: Off the Beaten Track
Best Price: $12.67
Originally published in German under the title Holzwege, this collection of texts is Heidegger's...
Humanism: An IntroductionHumanism: An Introduction
Best Price: $11.66
Introductory books are difficult to pull off. On the one hand, you want to present the subject...
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Best Price: $23.52
The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Philosophy provides an introduction to a complex period...
The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary ServitudeThe Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude
Best Price: $15.98
Before MLK, Gandhi, Tolstoy, or Thoreau, there was the brilliant Etienne de La Boetie, who...

The Cambridge History of Renaissance PhilosophyThe Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy
Best Price: $67.86
The Cambridge History of Renaissance Philosophy offers a balanced and comprehensive account of...
The Humanistic Tradition, Book 6: The Global Village Of The Twentieth CenturyThe Humanistic Tradition, Book 6: The Global Village Of The Twentieth Century
Best Price: $3.00
I have had to study this book over the course of the past year as a required text for my college...
Love's PhilosophyLove's Philosophy
Best Price: $21.96
Love comes in many forms. From friendship to parenthood, from the lover to the altruist, it...
Affirmations: Joyful And Creative ExuberanceAffirmations: Joyful And Creative Exuberance
Best Price: $2.45
In some sense, this book is 123 pages long. But that is a shame for the forests of the world,...
The Paradox of Intention: Reaching the Goal by Giving Up the Attempt to Reach It (American Academy of Religion, Studies in Religion, No. 48)The Paradox of Intention: Reaching the Goal by Giving Up the Attempt to Reach It (American Academy of Religion, Studies in Religion, No. 48)
Best Price: $27.64
This funny little book is an excelent book for those interested in many types of philosophy....

At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II (Michael J. Mcgivney Lectures of the John Paul I)At the Center of the Human Drama: The Philosophical Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II (Michael J. Mcgivney Lectures of the John Paul I)
Best Price: $15.94
Discourse on the Origin of InequalityDiscourse on the Origin of Inequality
Best Price: $19.99
This book was pretext for Karl MARX idea of communism. Rousseau blamed inequality among people...
On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series)On the Revolutions of Heavenly Spheres (Great Minds Series)
Best Price: $8.40
Copernicus puts the sun in the center of the universe. This is a great achievement not on...
The Practice Turn in Contemporary TheoryThe Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory
Best Price: $39.15
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory is the first book to provide an exciting and diverse...
The Enlightenment TraditionThe Enlightenment Tradition
Best Price: $3.99
This synoptic survey examines critically the origins, development, decline, and historical...

Christianity: The True HumanismChristianity: The True Humanism
Best Price: $14.49
Shadow of the Absolute: An Anti-materialismShadow of the Absolute: An Anti-materialism
Best Price: $14.26
Covering an area where philosophy, religion, and mysticism overlap, this book focuses on...
Who's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-TheistsWho's Who in Hell: A Handbook and International Directory for Humanists, Freethinkers, Naturalists, Rationalists, and Non-Theists
Best Price: $53.00
This is a thick heavy book, good enough to knock some sense into a Right Winger, Jesus Freak...
More: Utopia: Latin Text and English TranslationMore: Utopia: Latin Text and English Translation
Best Price: $52.00
Thomas More's Utopia is one of the supreme achievements of Renaissance humanism. This is the...
What Is Man?: And Other Irreverent EssaysWhat Is Man?: And Other Irreverent Essays
Best Price: $11.53
Mark Twain is sometimes envisioned as a kind of 19th-century American offshoot of Voltaire. Like...

A Celebration of Humanism and FreethoughtA Celebration of Humanism and Freethought
Best Price: $19.49
I think the other reviewer missed the point of the whole book. It presents the philosophy of...
    
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
See also for Modern Renaissance Books
Book store. Illustrated catalog of books on different categories
Modern Renaissance Books: