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The Big Questions: A Short Introduction to Philosophy

Product Description: Solomon and Higgins's engaging text covers philosophy's central ideas in an accessible, approachable manner. You'll explore timeless "big questions" about the self, God, justice, and other meaningful topics, gaining the context you need for an understanding of the foundational issues, as well as the confidence to establish your own informed positions on these "big questions...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins

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9781133610649 | 9 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, February 12, 2013), cover price $185.95 | About this edition: Solomon and Higgins's engaging text covers philosophy's central ideas in an accessible, approachable manner.

9780495595151 | 8 edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, February 8, 2009), cover price $204.95 | About this edition: It's time for an introduction to philosophy textbook that you can relate to and enjoy reading!

Introducing Philosophy: A Text With Integrated Readings

Product Description: Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered. The authors combine substantial selections from significant works in the history of philosophy with excerpts from current philosophy, clarifying the readings and providing context with their own detailed commentary and explanation...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins

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9780199764860 | 10th edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 2, 2011), cover price $89.95 | About this edition: Introducing Philosophy: A Text with Integrated Readings, Tenth Edition, is an exciting, accessible, and thorough introduction to the core problems of philosophy and the many ways in which they are, and have been, answered.

Breve Historia De La Filosofia

Product Description: Alejada tanto de la aridez academicista como del alarde expositivo o recopilatorio que a menudo tiende mÃ¡s a mostrar el conocimiento que a transmitirlo o estimularlo, esta BREVE HISTORIA DE LA FILOSOFÃA estÃ¡ concebida para todo aquel cuyo interÃ©s por aproximarse a este Ã¡mbito se ve enfriado por la vastedad del mismo o acas...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins and Robert C. Solomon

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9788420635361, titled "Breve historia de la filosofia / Brief History of Philosophy" | Poc edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Alejada tanto de la aridez academicista como del alarde expositivo o recopilatorio que a menudo tiende mÃ¡s a mostrar el conocimiento que a transmitirlo o estimularlo, esta BREVE HISTORIA DE LA FILOSOFÃA estÃ¡ concebida para todo aquel cuyo interÃ©s por aproximarse a este Ã¡mbito se ve enfriado por la vastedad del mismo o acaso

Aesthetics In Perspective

Product Description: Reissued for 2003! This comprehensive anthology offers a vast collection of classic and contemporary readings in aesthetics from both western and non-western sources. It is organized topically into four parts: Art and the Nature of Beauty, Interpreting and Evaluating Art, Challenges to the Tradition and Beyond the West...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins

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9780155014527 | Harcourt College Pub, July 1, 1995, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: Reissued for 2003.

Paperback:

9780534642105 | Wadsworth Pub Co, August 11, 2003, cover price $188.95 | About this edition: Reissued for 2003!

From Africa to Zen: An Invitation to World Philosophy

Product Description: In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins (editor) and Robert C. Solomon (editor)

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9780742513495 | 2 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 1, 2003), cover price $111.00

9780847677740 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: In this collection, 12 scholars of non-Western philosophy aim to provide an introduction to some of the great and often neglected philosophical traditions of the world.

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9780742513501 | 2 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, August 1, 2003), cover price $41.00 | About this edition: In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world.

9780847677757 | Rowman & Littlefield Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: In this collection, 12 scholars of non-Western philosophy aim to provide an introduction to some of the great and often neglected philosophical traditions of the world.

The Age of German Idealism

Product Description: German Idealism was one of the most fertile and important movements in the history of Western philosophy. This volume includes eleven chapters on all aspects and the period's most influential philosophers, including Kant and Hegel. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kathleen M. Higgins (editor) and Robert C. Solomon (editor)

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9780415056045 | Routledge, November 1, 1993, cover price $242.00

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9780415308786 | Routledge, May 1, 2003, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: German Idealism was one of the most fertile and important movements in the history of Western philosophy.

What Nietzsche Really Said

An assessement of Nietsches's life and work unravels the myths surrounding the philosopher's politics, sexuality, and state of mental health, emphasizing the views actually expressed in his writing. (view table of contents)

By Kathleen M. Higgins and Robert C. Solomon

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9780805241570 | 1 edition (Schocken Books, February 1, 2000), cover price $23.00 | About this edition: An assessement of Nietsches's life and work unravels the myths surrounding the philosopher's politics, sexuality, and state of mental health, emphasizing the views actually expressed in his writing.

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9780805210941 | Schocken Books, January 1, 2001, cover price $16.00

Comic Relief: Nietzsche's Gay Science

Product Description: This book offers a lively and unorthodox analysis of Nietzsche by examining a neglected aspect of his scholarly personality--his sense of humor. While often thought of as ponderous and melancholy, the Nietzsche of Higgins's study is a surprisingly subtle and light-hearted writer...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kathleen M. Higgins

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9780195126914 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 13, 2000, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This book offers a lively and unorthodox analysis of Nietzsche by examining a neglected aspect of his scholarly personality--his sense of humor.

A Passion for Wisdom: A Very Brief History of Philosophy

A multicultural examination of the three historical movements in philosophical thought and development over a 4000 year period

By Kathleen M. Higgins and Robert C. Solomon

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9780195112085 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 1, 1997, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: A multicultural examination of the three historical movements in philosophical thought and development over a 4000 year period

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9780195112092 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, January 28, 1999), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A multicultural examination of the three historical movements in philosophical thought and development over a 4000 year period

A Short History of Philosophy

Provides a brief history of Western philosophy and philosophers, and provides information on Eastern philosophy and philosophers in such areas as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Jainism. (view table of contents)

By Kathleen M. Higgins and Robert C. Solomon

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9780195086478 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 4, 1996, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Provides a brief history of Western philosophy and philosophers, and provides information on Eastern philosophy and philosophers in such areas as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Jainism.

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9780195101966 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Provides a brief history of Western philosophy and philosophers, and provides information on Eastern philosophy and philosophers in such areas as Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Jainism.

The Cambridge Companion to Nietzsche

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By Kathleen M. Higgins (editor) and Bernd Magnus (editor)

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9780521367677 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1996, cover price $49.99

World Philosophy: A Text With Readings

Product Description: This brief and inexpensive paperback provides an introduction to some of the world's great philosophical traditions through original sources. It can be used as a supplement to a traditional western-oriented textbook, or it can stand-alone...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Kathleen M. Higgins (editor) and Robert C. Solomon

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9780070596740 | McGraw-Hill Humanities Social, January 1, 1995, cover price $52.20 | About this edition: This brief and inexpensive paperback provides an introduction to some of the world's great philosophical traditions through original sources.

The Philosophy of

Product Description: What does philosophy know of love? From Plato on, philosophers have struggled to pin love to the dissecting table and view it in the cold light of logic. Yet, as Arthur Danto writes in the foreword to this volume, "how incorrigibly stiff philosophy is when it undertakes to lay its icy fingers on the frilled and beating wings of the butterfly of love...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins (editor) and Robert C. Solomon

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9780700604791 | Univ Pr of Kansas, March 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: What does philosophy know of love?

The Music of Our Lives

Product Description: Although many of the world's musical traditions recognize the positive value of music for ethical life, the Western philosophical tradition has largely forgotten this idea. The dominance of formalism in musical aesthetics has encouraged this abandonment of the idea that music has an ethical dimension...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins

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9780877227564 | Temple Univ Pr, January 1, 1991, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Although many of the world's musical traditions recognize the positive value of music for ethical life, the Western philosophical tradition has largely forgotten this idea.

Reading Nietzsche

Product Description: Addressing the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents an accessible series of essays for students and general readers on Nietzsche's individual works, written by such distinguished Nietzsche scholars as Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Eric Blondel, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, Hugh Silverman, and Ivan Soll...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins (editor) and Robert C. Solomon

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9780195048582 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 12, 1989, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Addressing the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents an accessible series of essays for students and general readers on Nietzsche's individual works, written by such distinguished Nietzsche scholars as Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Eric Blondel, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, Hugh Silverman, and Ivan Soll.

Paperback:

9780195066739 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 16, 1990), cover price $51.00 | About this edition: Addressing the issue of how to read Nietzsche, this book presents an accessible series of essays for students and general readers on Nietzsche's individual works, written by such distinguished Nietzsche scholars as Frithjof Bergmann, Arthur Danto, Bernd Magnus, Christopher Middleton, Eric Blondel, Lars Gustaffson, Alexander Nehamas, Richard Schacht, Gary Shapiro, Hugh Silverman, and Ivan Soll.

Nietzsche's Zarathustra

Product Description: Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation. It argues that the fictional format is essential to Nietzsche's philosophical message in his work...read more

By Kathleen M. Higgins

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9780877224822 | Temple Univ Pr, November 1, 1987, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation.

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9780739120866 | Revised edition (Lexington Books, July 1, 2010), cover price $36.99 | also contains Nietzsche's Zarathustra | About this edition: Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation.

9780877226871 | Reprint edition (Temple Univ Pr, February 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Nietzsche's Zarathustra takes an interdisciplinary approach to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra, focusing on the philosophical function of its literary techniques and its fictional mode of presentation.

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