The Book Company: New Products - Philosophers

The Last Days of Immanuel Kant

Sat, 25 Jul 2026 21:31:17 +0000

“Those who philosophize correctly practice dying and death.” — Socrates, Phaedo

What does it mean to live a philosophical life until the very end? In this remarkable portrait of Immanuel Kant's final years, Thomas De Quincey explores how one of history's greatest thinkers confronted o..

Price: $18.99

Machiavelli's Labyrinth

Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:41:32 +0000

Niccolò Machiavelli is one of the most misunderstood political thinkers of all time. Subjected to caricature, condemned as an immoralist, and obscured beneath layers of scholarship, he has been imprisoned in a sort of intellectual labyrinth. J. Furman Daniel III and Brian A. Smith seek to lead Mac..

Price: $32.99

Francisco Giner de los Rios (A Spanish Socrates)

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:25:49 +0000

During the nineteenth century, traditional Catholic Spain and its "decadent intellectual climate" was chalenged by liberal Europeanizing influences. It had happened before, but this time the status quo was threatened by Krausism, an idealistic doctrine of universal harmony and rational freedom...

Price: $34.99

The Mother (The Life of Mirra Alfassa, Sri Aurobindo's Spiritual Collaborator and Founder of Auroville)

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 18:46:42 +0000

One of the leading spiritual figures of the 20th century

• Traces Mirra Alfassa’s extraordinary journey from Belle Époque Paris to the heart of modern India’s most influential ashram

• Reveals the personal, cultural, and spiritual forces that shaped her path, includi..

Price: $19.99

Vico's New Science of the Intersubjective World

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 04:00:51 +0000

Among the classics of the history of philosophy, the Scienza nuova (New Science) by Giambattista Vico (1668–1744) was largely neglected and generally misunderstood during the author's lifetime. From the nineteenth century onwards Vico’s views found a wider audience, and today his ..

Price: $69.00

Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters (The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:49:35 +0000

Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters makes available for the first time complete English translations from the works of Michael Psellos (1018–1076?), a key philosopher of the Byzantine Empire. Psellos was not simply a philosopher, he was also a courtier, historian, and monk, and his w..

Price: $34.00

Jacques and Raïssa Maritain (Beggars for Heaven)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:45:20 +0000

This biography of French philosopher Jacques Maritain and his wife Raïssa offers a fascinating story of perhaps the most influential French theologian of the twentieth century.

This award-winning book, written by Jean-Luc Barré at the request of the Maritain Archives in Kolbsheim, ..

Price: $42.00

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain (A Spiritual Life)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:14:16 +0000

The Very Rich Hours of Jacques Maritain is distinguished philosopher Ralph McInerny’s hymn of praise to the spiritual and intellectual life of the great Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain (1881–1973). The structure of this work is modeled on the medieval book of hours, making use of t..

Price: $34.00

Alasdair MacIntyre (An Intellectual Biography)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 02:09:48 +0000

This award-winning biography, now available for the first time in English, presents an illuminating introduction to Alasdair MacIntyre and locates his thinking in the intellectual milieu of twentieth-century philosophy.

Winner of the prestigious 2005 Philippe Habert Prize..

Price: $30.00

The Spirit vs. the Souls (Max Weber, W. E. B. Du Bois, and the Politics of Scholarship)

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 01:40:26 +0000

Despite the extensive scholarship on Max Weber (1864–1920) and W. E. B. Du Bois (1868–1963), very little of it examines the contact between the two founding figures of Western sociology. Drawing on their correspondence from 1904 to 1906, and comparing the sociological work that they produced du..

Price: $50.00