Beyond Good and Evil - prelude to a Philosophy of the Future by Friedrich Nietzsche; Oscar Levy (ed.)

$35.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche Volume Five | Reading Level: good

Leviathan or the Matter, Forme & Power of a Commonwelath, Ecclesiastical and Civill by Thomas Hobbes; A R Waller (ed.)

$15.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

The Greatest Minds & Ideas Of All Time by Will Durant; John Little (ed.)

$8.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

$7.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good

As a diplomat in turbulent fifteenth-century Florence, Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) knew how quickly political fortunes could rise and fall. The Princeis his controversial handbook about the dynamics of power, leadership and strategy. Machiavelli's shrewd argument that sometimes it is necessary to ab andon ethics to succeed made his name notorious. Consequently, The Princehas been read by strategists, politicians and business people ever since. ...Show more

Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche

$1.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

$10.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good

Boethius was an eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, and an exceptional Greek scholar. When he became involved in a conspiracy and was imprisoned in Pavia, it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned. "The Consolation" was written in the period leading up to his brutal execution . It is a dialogue of alternating prose and verse between the ailing prisoner and his 'nurse' Philosophy. Her instruction on the nature of fortune and happiness, good and evil, fate and free will, restore his health and bring him to enlightenment. "The Consolation" was extremely popular throughout medieval Europe and his ideas were influential on the thought of Chaucer and Dante. ...Show more

Isaiah Berlin - Personal Impressions by Isaiah Berlin; Noel Annan

$10.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

This enthusiastically received collection contains Isaiah Berlin's appreciation of seventeen people of unusual distinction in the intellectual or political world - sometimes in both. The names of many of them are familiar - Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Chaim Weizmann, Albert Einstein, L. B. Namier, J. L. Austin, Maurice Bowra. With the exception of Roosevelt he met them all, and he knew many of them well. For this new edition four new portraits have been added, including recollections of Virginia Woolf and Edmund Wilson. The volume ends with a vivid and moving account of Berlin's meetings in Russia with Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova in 1945 and 1956. ...Show more

Conversations with Isaiah Berlin - recollections of an historian of ideas by Ramin Jahanbegloo

$10.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: good

In these conversations Isaiah Berlin, one of the most renowned thinkers of our time, discusses the development of his ideas and political philosophy, interspersing it with many personal reminiscences. He talks about Machiavelli, Marx, Vico, Herder and Herzen to name but a few of those who have influence d him. ...Show more

Sartre - Romantic Rationalist by Iris Murdoch

$10.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Series: Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought | Reading Level: good-very good

Enquiries Concerning Human Understanding and Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume; L. A. Selby-Bigge (Editor); P. H. Nidditch (Editor)

$20.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Reprinted from the posthumous edition of 1777 and edited with introduction, comparative tables of contents, and analytical index by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Third edition with text revised and notes by P. H. Nidditch.

The Nietzsche Canon - A Publication History and Bibliography by William H. Schaberg

$75.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good

Although the past several years have witnessed an outpouring of scholarship on nearly every aspect of Nietzsche's thought, a portrait of Nietzsche as author has been conspicuously lacking. Here, William H. Schaberg presents a detailed publication history and biography of Nietzsche as author and an equal ly comprehensive annotated bibliography of his work. Schaberg describes how and why Nietzsche's books were written, when and by whom they were published, and how many copies were printed and sold, a story set against the background of publishing practice in nineteenth-century Germany. Schaberg establishes a genealogy of Nietzsche's works and clarifies the relationships between those works, an understanding of which is essential to any informed opinion of his philosophy. Included for the first time in any language is an extensive account of Nietzsche's finances and his relationships with his publishers. Schaberg reveals a man who was obsessed with money, fought bitterly with his publishers, complained about his readers, and all the while continued to produce more and more books that went unread. He also reveals the influential role of Nietzsche's sister Elizabeth, who provoked disputes between Nietzsche and his publisher during her brother's lifetime and deliberately falsified information after his death. ...Show more

The Magus of the North - J G Hamann and the origins of modern irrationalism by Isaiah Berlin; Henry Hardy (ed.)

$14.00 NZD

Category: Philosophy | Reading Level: very good