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Highlighted Print Books on Philosophy

Hardcore Zen by Brad Warner
Call Number: BQ 9265.4 .W355 2015
ISBN: 9781614293163
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
Hardcore Zen is both an approach and a departure, leaving behind the soft and lyrical for the gritty and stark perspective of a new generation.
Plato at the Googleplex by Rebecca Goldstein
Call Number: B 395 .G4435 2015
ISBN: 9780307456724
Publication Date: 2015-01-06
Goldstein plunges into the drama of philosophy, revealing its role in today's debates on religion, morality, politics, and science.
Philosophy for Beginners by Richard Osborne
Call Number: B 74 .O82 1992
ISBN: 086316157X
Publication Date: 1992-12-01
Philosophy for Beginners covers 2,500 years of great thinkers and their writings.
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy by Ted Honderich (Editor)
Call Number: B 51 .O94 2005
ISBN: 0199264791
Publication Date: 2005-05-26
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy addresses key concepts, doctrines, schools of thought, discussion of practical issues, individual thinkers and philosophical terms as applied to a fascinating range of current topics.
The Philosophy Bible by Martin Cohen
Call Number: B 72 .C5835 2016
ISBN: 9781770858053
Publication Date: 2016-09-01
This is a concise, comprehensive guide that covers the main schools of thought.
Descartes to Derrida by Peter Sedgwick
Call Number: B 791 .S39 2001
ISBN: 0631201424
Publication Date: 2001-02-16
This volume provides a critical survey of issues in European philosophy from Descartes to the present.
Philosophy and the Human Condition by Joel Feinberg; James M. Smith; Tom L. Beauchamp
Call Number: BD 21 .P47 1989
ISBN: 0136625371
Publication Date: 1988-12-01
An anthology of approximately 100 articles and essays. Features a student-oriented structure, including clear section introductions.
Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre; Hazel E. Barnes (Introduction by, Translator)
Call Number: B 819 .S272 1992
ISBN: 9780671867805
Publication Date: 1993-08-01
A philosophical classic and major cornerstone of modern existentialism
The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir
Call Number: BJ 1063 .B38213 2015
ISBN: 9781480442801
Publication Date: 2015-12-01
The Ethics of Ambiguity is the book that launched Simone de Beauvoir's feminist and existential philosophy. It remains a concise yet thorough examination of existence and what it means to be human.
Heidegger by Martin Heidegger
Call Number: B 3279 .H47 E5 2008
ISBN: 9780061627019
Publication Date: 2008-11-04
Basic Writings is the finest single-volume anthology of the work of Martin Heidegger, widely considered one of the most important modern philosophers.
Basic Writings of Nietzsche by Friedrich Nietzsche; Walter Kaufmann (Translator, Editor); Peter Gay (Introduction by)
Call Number: B 3312 .E5 K3 2000
ISBN: 9780679783398
Publication Date: 2000-11-28
Basic Writings of Nietzsche gathers the complete texts of five of Nietzsche's most important works, from his first book to his last: The Birth of Tragedy, Beyond Good and Evil, On the Genealogy of Morals, The Case of Wagner, and Ecce Homo.
Sick Souls, Healthy Minds by John Kaag
Call Number: B 945 .J24 K33 2020
ISBN: 9780691192161
Publication Date: 2020-03-17
In 1895, William James, the father of American philosophy, delivered a lecture entitled "Is Life Worth Living?" It was no theoretical question for James, who had contemplated suicide during an existential crisis as a young man a quarter century earlier.
In Search of the Soul by John Cottingham
Call Number: BD 421 .C68 2020
ISBN: 9780691174426
Publication Date: 2020-02-11
How our beliefs about the soul have developed through the ages, and why an understanding of it still matters today.

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