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Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction – Second Edition
Literary Theory and Criticism: An Introduction provides an accessible overview of major figures and movements in literary theory and criticism from antiquity to the twenty-first…
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Logic With Added Reasoning
This concise text treats logic as a tool, “generated so that half the work involved in thinking is done for you by somebody else (the…
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Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction
Moral Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction is a compact yet comprehensive book offering an explication and critique of the major theories that have shaped philosophical ethics.…
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Natural Beauty
Natural Beauty was selected for the Choice Outstanding Academic Title list for 2008! Natural Beauty presents a bold new philosophical account of the principles involved…
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Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics is a book of enduring relevance that aims to answer the question of how human beings should live. Much, however, has changed…
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Philebus
The Philebus is the only Platonic dialogue that takes as its central theme the fundamental Socratic question of the good, understood as that which makes…
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Philosophy of Mind: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives – Third Edition
This book introduces students to the principal issues in the philosophy of mind by tracing the history of the subject from Plato and Aristotle through…
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Readings in Ethics
Readings in Ethics offers a vast collection of carefully edited readings arranged chronologically across five historical periods. The selections cover many major Western and non-Western…
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Readings on Human Nature
This anthology brings together 45 selections by a wide range of philosophers and other thinkers, and provides a representative sampling of the approaches to the…
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Socrates’ Children
How do Humans Think? How should we think? Almost all of philosophy and a great deal else depends in large part on the answers that…
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The Alchemist
The Alchemist has long been admired as one of Ben Jonson’s best dramas; its satiric cleverness and metatheatricality have delighted audiences from its first performance…
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The Alexandreis
Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought – Volume 1: From Plato to Nietzsche
This comprehensive volume contains much of the important work in political and social philosophy from ancient times until the end of the nineteenth century. The…
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The Broadview Anthology of Social and Political Thought: Essential Readings
This volume features a careful selection of major works in political and social philosophy from ancient times through to the present. Every reading has been…
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The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy
The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy is a comprehensive anthology that surveys core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion, theories of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics,…
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The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy: Concise Edition
The concise edition of The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy offers 44 historical and contemporary readings on core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion,…
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The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy Volume II: Values and Society
This volume of The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy offers an intriguing selection of readings on ethics, social-political philosophy, and issues of life, death, and happiness.…
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The Broadview Pocket Glossary of Literary Terms
This compact guide covers a wide variety of terms commonly used in academic discussions of poetry, fiction, drama, rhetoric, and literary theory. Definitions are kept…
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The Dimensions of Ethics
The Dimensions of Ethics offers a concise but wide-ranging introduction to moral philosophy. In clear and engaging fashion, the author first examines the scope of…
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The Excellencies of Robert Boyle
Robert Boyle, one of the most important intellectuals of the seventeenth century, was a gifted experimenter, an exceptionally able philosopher, and a dedicated Christian. In…
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The Magic of Unknowing
The Magic of Unknowing is a unique philosophical and literary work. Cast in the dialogue form, it unfolds in the mood of soliloquy. Mervyn Sprung…
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The Odyssey
This new edition of Homer’s epic poem is designed with the needs of undergraduate students in mind. The selections, totalling almost half the full work,…
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Theories of Happiness: An Anthology
Theories of Happiness: An Anthology introduces readers to many difficult philosophical questions surrounding the concept of happiness. With historical and contemporary readings in philosophy, psychology,…
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Theories of Human Nature – Third Edition
This book explores the idea of human nature and the many understandings of it put forward by such diverse figures as Aristotle, Rousseau, Marx, Freud,…