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New Arrivals $109.75 Hardcover add to wishlist History of Western Philosophy Karen J. Warren $14.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Phenomenon of Man Pierre Teilhard De Chardin $40.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Theory of the Post-War Periods: Observations on Franco-German Relations Since 1945 (Trace Transmission in Rhetorics, Arts and Cultural Evolution) Peter Sloterdijk $74.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Faith in a Hard Ground: Essays on Religion, Philosophy and Ethics G. E. M. Anscombe $37.25 Hardcover add to wishlist Pragmatism and Reference David Boersema $12.50 Trade Paper add to wishlist Toward 2012: Perspectives on the Next Age Daniel Pinchbeck $70.75 Trade Paper add to wishlist History of Western Philosophy Karen J. (edt) Warren $34.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist The Origins of Humanness in the Biology of Love Humberto M. Rowesin $15.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph A. Schumpeter $34.95 Trade Paper add to wishlist Subjectivity and Being Somebody: Human Identity and Neuroethics (St. Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs) Grant Gillett $24.50 Trade Paper add to wishlist Nature and Landscape: An Introduction to Environmental Aesthetics Allen Carlson $18.75 Trade Paper add to wishlist Josiah Royce in Focus (American Philosophy) Jacquelyn Ann K. Kegley General Zen a Personal Journal by Running Press Publisher Comments A guided journal that introduces diarists to the eight tenets of the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism and encourages them to reflect on their meaning and personal relevance.... (read more) Your Price $2.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Sale Books Edmund Burke by Conor Cruise Obrien Publisher Comments Statesman, political thinker, orator and ardent campaigner, Edmund Burke was one of the greatest minds of the eighteenth century. His ideas and principles were expressed in the great debates over liberty, the rights of man and the American and French... (read more) Your Price $7.98 (Sale - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Sale titles Used Books Leviathan (Penguin Classics) by Thomas Hobbes Publisher Comments Its appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its overriding concern for peace. Its argument that the state of nature, in which life is 'nasty, brutish and short (and patriarchal), is important, but... (read more) Your Price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) Browse more featured Used titles Sign up to get our most recent used additions in Philosophy to your inbox Atheism and Humanism The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Powells.com Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) Your Price $8.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Surveys Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes by Thomas Cathcart Publisher Comments This New York Times bestseller is the hilarious philosophy course everyone wishes they'd had in school Outrageously funny, Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . . has been a breakout bestseller ever since authorsand born vaudevilliansThomas Cathcart... (read more) Your Price $8.50 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Ethics The Ethics of What We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter by Peter Singer Publisher Comments Peter Singer, the groundbreaking ethicist whom The New Yorker calls the most influential philosopher alive teams up again with Jim Mason, his coauthor on the acclaimed Animal Factories, to set their critical sights on the food we buy and eat: where it... (read more) Your Price $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper check for used copies Dictionaries The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy (Oxford Paperback Reference) by Simon Blackburn Publisher Comments The Gambler's Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Pascal's Wager, Buridan's Ass, Wittgenstein's Beetle in the Box--philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to... (read more) Your Price $7.95 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Logic Being Logical : Guide To Good Thinking (04 Edition) by Dennis Q. Mcinerny Publisher Comments Whether regarded as a science, an art, or a skill–and it can properly be regarded as all three–logic is the basis of our ability to think, analyze, argue, and communicate. Indeed, logic goes to the very core of what we mean by human... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your Price $8.00 Used - Trade Paper check for new and sale copies Aesthetics On Beauty and Being Just by Elaine Scarry Publisher Comments In On Beauty and Being Just, Elaine Scarry not only defends beauty from recent political arguments against it but also argues that beauty continually renews our search for truth and presses us toward a greater concern for justice. Taking inspiration from... (read more) Your Price $13.95 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies Anthologies Mapping Ideology by Slavoj Zizek Publisher Comments Essays by Theodor W. Adorno, Peter Dews, Seyla Benhabib, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Michel Picheux, Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill, Bryan S. Turner, Goran Therborn, Terry Eagleton, Richard Rorty, Michele Barrett, Pierre Bourdieu, Fredric Jameson,... (read more) Your Price $23.50 New - Trade Paper check for used and sale copies DVDs Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth Publisher Comments The Power of Myth offers an exhilarating journey into the mind and spirit of legendary teacher Joseph Campbell. In conversations with Bill Moyers, Campbell argues that mythology defines and guides lives and culture, challenging viewers to find the heroic... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your Price $23.83 New - DVD check for used and sale copies Signed Editions Standing in the Light Signed by Sharman Apt Russell Publisher Comments “Everything is connected, and the web is holy.” So wrote Marcus Aurelius, the starting point of Sharman Apt Russell’s wise and haunting new memoir about her life as a pantheist. Perhaps no other religious philosophy is as simple and... (read more) Your Price $25.00 New - Hardcover check for used and sale copies

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