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If you loved Kierkegaard by Josiah Thompson, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Individual Philosophers and Philosophy.

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Gregory B. Moynahan

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The Metaphysical Club — Louis Menand

The Metaphysical Club

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Self-Reliance — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Meditations The Annotated Edition — Marcus Aurelius

Meditations The Annotated Edition

Marcus Aurelius

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Walden and Civil Disobedience — Henry David Thoreau

Walden and Civil Disobedience

Henry David Thoreau

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Know the Theologians — Jennifer Powell McNutt

Know the Theologians

Jennifer Powell McNutt

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Republic — Plato

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Adam Smith’s America How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism

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Within Reason A Life of Spinoza — Margaret Gullan-Whur

Within Reason A Life of Spinoza

Margaret Gullan-Whur

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Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness — Daniel Maier-Katkin

Stranger from Abroad: Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger, Friendship and Forgiveness

Daniel Maier-Katkin

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Wittgenstein and Levinas Ethical and Religious Thought — Bob Plant

Wittgenstein and Levinas Ethical and Religious Thought

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City of Man — Jean-Luc Beauchard

Jean-Luc Beauchard

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Judith Shklar and the Liberalism of Fear — Allyn Fives

Judith Shklar and the Liberalism of Fear

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Marx A Very Short Introduction — Peter Singer

Marx A Very Short Introduction

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Irrational Man A Study in Existential Philosophy — William Barrett

Irrational Man A Study in Existential Philosophy

William Barrett

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Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals Critical Essays — Christa Davis Acampora

Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals Critical Essays

Christa Davis Acampora

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There Is No Other The Way to Harmony and Wholeness — Ram Dass

There Is No Other The Way to Harmony and Wholeness

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Selected Discourses of Epictetus, and the Enchiridion — Epictetus

Selected Discourses of Epictetus, and the Enchiridion

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Kant. (Repr.). — Stephan Körner

Stephan Körner

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Philosophy 101 From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought — Paul Kleinman

Philosophy 101 From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer on the History of Thought

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Plato of Athens A Life in Philosophy — Robin Waterfield

Plato of Athens A Life in Philosophy

Robin Waterfield

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The Sublime and the Beautiful — Edmund Burke

The Sublime and the Beautiful

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Homo Natura Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics — Vanessa Lemm

Homo Natura Nietzsche, Philosophical Anthropology and Biopolitics

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Out of the Tunnel An Epic Tale of Battles, Breakthroughs, & New Beginnings — Marvin Peake

Out of the Tunnel An Epic Tale of Battles, Breakthroughs, & New Beginnings

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