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Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
An introduction to philosophy organised around problems rather than history, written for readers with no background. Blackburn presents philosophy as reflection on the ideas we already live by,…
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A Room of One’s Own
An extended essay based on two lectures Woolf gave at Newnham and Girton, the women's colleges at Cambridge, in October 1928, on the subject of women and fiction.…
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The Consolations of Philosophy
A short book of popular philosophy in six chapters, each pairing a common source of unhappiness with a philosopher who offers some relief. Socrates consoles for unpopularity, showing…
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The Feminine Mystique
A work of social criticism that grew out of a questionnaire Friedan sent to her Smith College classmates for their fifteenth reunion in 1957. It opens with 'the…
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne
A biography of Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French nobleman who invented the essay, arranged as twenty attempts at an answer to the question of how to live.…
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The Dialectic of Sex
A manifesto of radical feminism, subtitled The Case for Feminist Revolution and dedicated to Simone de Beauvoir. It sets out to do for sex what Marx and Engels…
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At the Existentialist Café
A group biography and history of ideas that tells the story of existentialism and phenomenology through the lives of the people who made them. It opens in Paris…
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Toward a Feminist Theory of the State
A work of political and legal theory that gathers and extends arguments MacKinnon developed through the 1980s. Part One sets feminism against Marxism: as work is central to…
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Philosophy: The Basics
A compact textbook introduction to the main areas of Western philosophy, first published in 1992 and revised through several editions. Warburton's aim is to set out the standard…
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A Cyborg Manifesto
A long essay first published in Socialist Review in 1985 as a contribution to socialist-feminist debate, and revised for Haraway's collection Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (1991). Haraway offers…
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