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  • WITH CHARITY TOWARD NONE
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    WITH CHARITY TOWARD NONE
    WILLIAM F. O'NEILL
    An in-depth and evenhanded examination of Ayn Rand’s philosophy as expressed in her novels and nonfiction writings. In With Charity Toward None, William F. O’Neill addresses the fundamentals of objectivism and the full meaning of an objectivist point of view. He delves into the social implications of putting such a philosophy into action. Neither fawning nor dismissive, O’Neill...

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  • THE TALMUD OF JERUSALEM
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    THE TALMUD OF JERUSALEM
    DAGOBERT D. RUNES
    An in-depth introduction to the ancient work of Jewish law and theology. One of the world’s supreme works of religious literature, the Talmud has been unjustly neglected by a civilization that is rightly proud of its Judeo-Christian heritage. In The Talmud of Jerusalem, Dagobert D. Runes offers a fascinating and scholarly overview of its evolution and the rabbis who taught and ...

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  • AN ESSAY ON CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
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    AN ESSAY ON CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHY
    JACQUES MARITAIN
    This important essay by the French Catholic philosopher articulates the foundation for his influential interpretations of Thomas Aquinas. Known for his influential writings that brought fresh relevance to the work of Thomas Aquinas, Jacques Maritain was one of the most important Catholic philosophers of the twentieth century. Although An Essay on Christian Philosophy is not gen...

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  • FROM MY WRITINGS AND MY EVENINGS
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    FROM MY WRITINGS AND MY EVENINGS
    DAGOBERT D. RUNES
    A scholar embarks on a journey into the philosophical issues that concern him most in this profound and deeply personal essay collection.   It is late in the evening and a philosopher wants to get words on paper. No grand project or treatise, just an attempt to get some things off his chest. Certain phrases become touchstones for his thoughts: the nature of man, the art of livi...

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  • ART AND POETRY
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    ART AND POETRY
    JACQUES MARITAIN
    The French philosopher’s treatise on the nature of art and poetry includes enlightening critiques of major painters and dialogues with notable writers. Originally published in 1935 with the title Frontières de la Poésie, this work by Jacques Maritain explores the nature and subjectivity of art and poetry. As a philosopher, Maritain attempts to define the two concepts, describ...

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  • KARL MARX DICTIONARY
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    KARL MARX DICTIONARY
    MORRIS STOCKHAMMER
    This accessible and comprehensive reference volume covers the concepts, terminology, and writings of the towering political philosopher.   The detailed, authoritative entries of this volume, written in clearly understandable terms, extract the essential ideas from Karl Marx’s voluminous and historically important works. As the three volumes of Das Kapital are the main source of...

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  • THE HEBREW IMPACT ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION
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    THE HEBREW IMPACT ON WESTERN CIVILIZATION
    DAGOBERT D. RUNES
    This wide-ranging anthology examines the enduring cultural impact of the Jewish people and their many contributions to the creation of modern society. Edited by philosopher and intellectual historian Dagobert D. Runes, The Hebrew Impact on Western Civilization is a scholarly and authoritative account of the many spheres in which the Jews have impacted Western civilization. A di...

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  • THE SERBIAN FOLK EPIC
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    THE SERBIAN FOLK EPIC
    KRSTIVOJ KOTUR
    This scholarly study explores the moral and religious philosophy of Serbian folk poetry and makes its literary treasures available to English speakers.   This thorough and well-documented study examines the theology and anthropology of the Serbian folk epic. The book opens a new field in Slavic folklore and offers scholars material previously unavailable in English. The work al...

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  • THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
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    THE PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY
    VOLTAIRE
    The great Enlightenment thinker shares his views on the nature and practice of history in this fascinating critique of historical narratives.   In The Philosophy of History, Voltaire present a radical reinterpretation of the moral, aesthetic, and religious views and the customs and practices that prevailed in ancient civilizations. His critique touches on a range of topics, fro...

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  • UNPUBLISHED LETTERS
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    UNPUBLISHED LETTERS
    FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
    This collection of personal correspondence provides a rare window into the private life of the toweringnineteenth-century philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche was the most iconoclastic philosopher of modern history. He is known to the world as the scathingly brilliant provocateur behind such foundational works as Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil, and Twilight of the Ido...

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  • THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN RUSH
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    THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF BENJAMIN RUSH
    DAGOBERT D. RUNES
    This volume of letters, articles, and speeches displays the deep wisdom and varied concerns of this influential yet little-known Founding Father.   A physician and humanitarian from Pennsylvania, Benjamin Rush was both a learned intellectual and a radical revolutionary. He was a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and a Continental Congress attendee. And unlike many of...

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  • PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYMAN
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    PHILOSOPHY FOR EVERYMAN
    DAGOBERT D. RUNES
    This sweeping history of philosophy by the author and founder of the Philosophical Library ranges from the pre-Socratics to existentialism.   In this historical survey, Dagobert D. Runes introduces readers to the major developments in philosophical inquiry that began with the ancient Greeks. In clear and accessible prose, he traces the progression of thought through influential...

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  • DICTIONARY OF SATANISM
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    DICTIONARY OF SATANISM
    WADE BASKIN
    A comprehensive A-to-Z reference guide to the terms, concepts, influential figures, and key events associated with Satanism.   Dictionary of Satanism is a concise yet wide-ranging reference guide for the casual reader or student of satanic practices. It features essential information on the important concepts, issues, people, places, and events associated with Satanism, as well...

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  • LEGEND OF A MUSICAL CITY
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    LEGEND OF A MUSICAL CITY
    MAX GRAF
    A personal history of the world capital of classical music, written by the renowned Viennese musicologist and author of Composer and Critic.   Max Graf shares his recollections of life with Anton Bruckner, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, Arnold Schoenberg, and other immortals of the music world. The influential musicologist, critic, and composer enjoyed intimat...

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  • ZEN AND SHINTO
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    ZEN AND SHINTO
    CHIKAO FUJISAWA
    This history of Japanese philosophical traditions underscores the importance of Zen and Shinto to the development of Japanese culture. How do the Japanese talk about their native philosophy, Shinto, so many years after the Western Allies abolished it as a state religion? What is its relationship to Buddhism, and particularly to Zen? How modern can this very ancient creed ever b...

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  • DICTIONARY OF HYPNOSIS
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    DICTIONARY OF HYPNOSIS
    RALPH B. WINN
    A comprehensive A-to-Z guide to the fascinating field of hypnosis, covering its history, concepts, vocabulary, and significant figures.   The first of its kind, Dictionary of Hypnosis has been an essential text on the subject since its first publication in 1965. Written by psychology professor and hypnosis expert Dr. Ralph B. Winn, this wide-ranging reference book presents comp...

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  • NUCLEAR PHYSICS
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    NUCLEAR PHYSICS
    W. HEISENBERG
    The Nobel Prize–winning physicist offers a fascinating popular introduction to nuclear physics from early atomic theory to its transformative applications. Theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg is famous for developing the uncertainty principle, which bears his name, and for his pioneering work in quantum mechanics. A central figure in the development of the atomic bomb and a...

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  • DICTIONARY OF MYSTICISM
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    DICTIONARY OF MYSTICISM
    FRANK GAYNOR
    More than 2,200 terms defined in an essential reference on religious mysticism, esoteric philosophy, occultism, and more.   Dictionary of Mysticism provides concise definitions for more than 2,200 terms used in many philosophies, religions, and doctrines which relate to the influence of the superhuman and supernatural on man’s everyday life. Terms relating to esoteric philosoph...

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  • ARISTOTLE DICTIONARY
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    ARISTOTLE DICTIONARY
    THOMAS KIERNAN
    At long last, a comprehensive tool in English for a better understanding of the most basic terms in Aristotle’s philosophy. Interested readers, students, and scholars of philosophy and of the general intellectual background of Western culture need no longer be handicapped by a lack of knowledge of Greek and Latin. A careful comparison of the original Greek, Medieval, and Renais...

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  • CRIMES OF PASSION
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    CRIMES OF PASSION
    MARQUIS DE SADE
    Originally published in 1800, Crimes of Passion contained eleven stories and an essay on the novel. The present book contains three abridged tales. In “Florville and Courval” we find not only a reinterpretation and elaboration of the Oedipus myth, but an unforgettable illustration of Donatien Alphonse François de Sade’s artistic creed. He was not simply an eccentric aristocrat ...

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  • ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUPERSTITIONS
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    ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SUPERSTITIONS
    EDWIN RADFORD / MONA A. RADFORD
    “For the expert investigation of the human will to believe, we recommend The Encyclopedia of Superstitions.”—The New York Times Why is it said that breaking a mirror or walking under ladders will bring bad luck and misfortunate? Ever wonder why so many people throw salt over their shoulders after spilling it, or wish on shooting stars? The Encyclopedia of Superstitions holds th...

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  • HASIDISM
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    HASIDISM
    MARTIN BUBER
    Famous Zionist philosopher Martin Buber introduces the Western audience in his modern masterpiece. This book is a result of forty years of study, and Buber interprets the ideas and motives that underlie the great Jewish religious movement of Hasidism and its creator, Baal-Shem. Buber’s interpretation of Hasidic stories and teachings influenced the revival of it’s practices in a...

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  • ESSAYS TOWARDS A THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
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    ESSAYS TOWARDS A THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
    ALEXANDER PHILIP
    An exploration of the fundamental realities of the existence Is this the end? If not; how are we to discover and assure for stricken Humanity the vision and the possession of a Better Land?   In this volume plumbing the depths of human experience, Alexander Philip explores the nature of reality at its most basic level. Examining the ways that time, abstract thought, and physica...

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  • THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
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    THE VARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE
    WILLIAM JAMES
    Harvard philosopher William James’s compiled lectures on religion, considered to be among the most brilliant studies of mankind’s relation to the divine William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience brings together twenty lectures on the nature of religion, delivered at the University of Edinburgh between 1901 and 1902. Renowned at the time for their practical and even-hand...

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  • THE WILL TO DOUBT
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    THE WILL TO DOUBT
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    One of modern history’s great thinkers takes on prejudice, superstition, and conventional wisdom, using wit and insight to argue for a rational way of life. In a brilliant series of essays, Bertrand Russell uses challenging skepticism and sharp humor to attack the obstacles to building a society based on reason. Russell’s thoughts are as lively and pertinent today as when they ...

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  • PILGRIMAGE TO HUMANITY
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    PILGRIMAGE TO HUMANITY
    ALBERT SCHWEITZER
    The dimensions of the central theme are illuminated by Schweitzer’s discussions of his philosophy of culture, the course of his life, his ministry to human needs in Africa, the idea of reverence for life, the ideal of world peace, the significance of liberal Christianity, and the lives, world-views, and contributions of Johann Goethe, J. S. Bach, and Jesus of Nazareth. The page...

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  • THE ART OF PHILOSOPHIZING
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    THE ART OF PHILOSOPHIZING
    BERTRAND RUSSELL
    Three essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from the Noble Prize–winning author of A History of Western Philosophy. The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression a...

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  • REVERENCE FOR LIFE
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    REVERENCE FOR LIFE
    ALBERT SCHWEITZER
    This “little gem of a book” shares the Nobel laureate’s profound insights on ethics, ecology, human rights, and more (Jane Goodall).   The theologian and humanitarian Albert Schweitzer dedicated his life to the betterment of mankind. In 1952, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his philosophy of Reverence for Life—and for the many ways he put that philosophy into action. This vo...

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  • JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
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    JEAN-PAUL SARTRE
    RENÉ MARILL-ALBÉRÈS
    Professor Albérès in this well-ordered volume traces through successive works the elaboration of various concepts now linked to French Existentialism—anguish, nausea, hypocrisy, lucidity, consciousness, conformity, commitment, ethical values, situation, etc.   Translated from the French by Wade Baskin. ...

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  • THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS
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    THE EXPRESSION OF THE EMOTIONS IN MAN AND ANIMALS
    CHARLES DARWIN
    With a foreword by Margaret Mead: Darwin examines genetically determined behavior, combining the science of evolution with insights into human psychology. Published in 1872, thirteen years after On the Origin of Species, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals is devoted to documenting what Darwin believes is the genetically determined aspects of behavior. Together wi...

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