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Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
Thomas Cathcart, Daniel Klein
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Penguin (Non-Classics)
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 authors—and born...
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Seinfeld and Philosophy: A Book about Everything and Nothing
Open Court
Open Court
Designed for philosophers as well as readers with no particular philosophical background, the essays in this lively book are grouped into four amusing acts. Act One looks at the four Seinfeld characters through a philosophical lens and includes...
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A Secular Age
Charles Taylor
Belknap Press
Belknap Press
What does it mean to say that we live in a secular age? Almost everyone would agree that we--in the West, at least--largely do. And clearly the place of religion in our societies has changed profoundly in the last few centuries. In what will be a...
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The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences
Michel Foucault
Vintage
Vintage
"The work numbers among those outward signs of culture the trained eye should find on prominent display in every private library. Have you read it? One's social and intellectual standing depends on the response." -- Michel de Certeau
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Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Daniel C. Dennett
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection,...
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers
Leszek Kolakowski
Basic Books
Basic Books
Can nature make us happy? How can we know anything? What is justice? Why is there evil in the world? What is the source of truth? Is it possible for God not to exist? Can we really believe what we see? There are questions that have intrigued the...
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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky (P.S.)
Paul M. Johnson
Harper Perennial
Harper Perennial
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman,...
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The Universe Next Door: A Basic Worldview Catalog
James W. Sire
InterVarsity Press
InterVarsity Press
When The Universe Next Door was first introduced nearly thirty years ago, it set the standard for a clear, readable introduction to worldviews. In concise, easily understood prose, James W. Sire explained the basics of theism, deism, naturalism,...
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Philosophy for Dummies
Tom Morris
IDG Books
IDG Books
Philosophy at its best is an activity more than a body of knowledge. In an ancient sense, done right, it is a healing art. It’s intellectual self-defense. It’s a form of therapy. But it’s also much more. Philosophy is map-making for the soul,...
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The Consolations of Philosophy
Alain De Botton
Vintage
Vintage
From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. Solace for the broken heart...
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