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  • Damned to Fame: the Life of Samuel Beckett

    by James Knowlson ...
    _______________'A triumph of scholarship and sympathy... one of the great post-war biographies' - Independent'A landmark in scholarly criticism... Knowlson is the world's largest Beckett scholar. His life is right up there with George Painter's Proust and Richard Ellmann's Joyce in sensitivity and fascination' - Daily Telegraph'It is hard to imagine a fuller portrait of the man who gave our... ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Universal language schemes in England and France 1600-1800

    by James Knowlson ...
    Series series Heritage
    For centuries Latin served as an international language for scholars in Europe. Yet as early as the first half of the seventeenth century, scholars, philosophers, and scientists were beginning to turn their attention to the possibility of formulating a totally new universal language. This wide-ranging book focuses upon the role that it was thought an ideal, universal, constructed language would ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

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  • Letters from the Underworld

    by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...
    Translated by Constance Garnett ...
    Series series Food For Thought
    Unlike most people, who typically act out of revenge because they believe justice is the end, the Underworld Man is conscious of his problems and feels the desire for revenge, but he does not find it virtuous; the incongruity leads to spite towards the act itself with its concomitant circumstances. He feels that others like him exist, but he continuously concentrates on his spitefulness instead of ... Read more

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  • Ethics - The Original Classic Edition

    by Spinoza Benedictus ...
    Ethics is a towering work by an absolute genius, a mathematical definitive explanation of God, the universe and mans place in it. Read it not because you think you must fight through `great philosophy, but for its beautiful symmetry of ground breaking rational thought. I eagerly recommend this work to anyone interested in exploring their thoughts on philosophy, religion and psychology. If anything ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

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  • Alcibiades I

    by Plato ...
    The First Alcibiades is a conversation between Socrates and Alcibiades. Socrates is represented in the character which he attributes to himself in the Apology of a know-nothing who detects the conceit of knowledge in others. The two have met already in the Protagoras and in the Symposium; in the latter dialogue, as in this, the relation between them is that of a lover and his beloved. But the ... Read more

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  • Aristotle: Eudemian Ethics

    by Brad Inwood, Raphael Woolf ...
    Series series Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
    Aristotle's Eudemian Ethics has been unjustly neglected in comparison with its more famous counterpart the Nicomachean Ethics. This is in large part due to the fact that until recently no complete translation of the work has been available. But the Eudemian Ethics is a masterpiece in its own right, offering valuable insights into Aristotle's ideas on virtue, happiness and the good life. This ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • All Things Natural

    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Ficino's commentary on Plato?s Timaeus offers the English reader, for the first time, an opportunity to share the insights of this highly influential Renaissance philosopher into one of Plato's most important and controversial works. Here are discussed the perennial questions which affect us all: What is the nature of the universe? How did it begin? Does it have a cause outside itself? What is our ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Evermore Shall Be So

    by Ficino Ficino ...
    Translated by Arthur Farndell ...
    With the publication of Arthur FWith the publication of Arthur Farndell’s Gardens of Philosophy (Shepheard Walwyn 2006), there remained only four of Ficino’s commentaries on Plato’s dialogues which had not yet been translated into English. With the publication of this volume there remain only three. Farndell’s translation of the commentaries on the Republic and the Laws will comprise the third ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Electra

    by Sophocles, Anne Carson ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Under the general editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro, ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Philosophy Bites Back

    by David Edmonds, Nigel Warburton ...
    Philosophy Bites Back is the second book to come out of the hugely successful podcast Philosophy Bites. It presents a selection of lively interviews with leading philosophers of our time, who discuss the ideas and works of some of the most important thinkers in history. From the ancient classics of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, to the groundbreaking modern thought of Wittgenstein, Rawls, and ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Plays For The Poor Theatre

    The Saliva Milkshake; Christie in Love; Heads; Skinny Spew; Gum and Goo

    by Mr Howard Brenton ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a small cast and minimal set, yet yields maximum theatricality.Christie in Love, Gum and Goo, Heads and The Education of Skinny Spew, were all first staged ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD