Cambridge University Press, January 1995. Paper Back. Aristotle is one of the greatest thinkers in the Western tradition, but also one of the most difficult. The contributors to this volume do not attempt to disguise the nature of that difficulty, but at the same time they offer a clear exposition..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2023. Hardcover. Western philosophers have long claimed that God, if such a being exists, is a personal force capable of reason, and that the path to a good human life is also the path to a happy one. But what if these claims prove..... More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1991. First Edition. Cloth. First edition with full number line. Bound in half burgundy cloth lettered in gold with heathered grey boards. Very clean copy. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Modern Library, November 2002. Trade Paperback. "Between the earliest and the latest of the works included here, we have two hundred and fifty years of vigorous and adventurous philosophizing," Monroe Beardsley writes in his Introduction to this collection. "If the modern period can be only vaguely or arbitrarily bounded, it..... More
The Athlone Press, January 2003. Trade Paperback. What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time..... More
Routledge, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of..... More
Springer, March 2015. Hardcover. More
Indiana University Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. "The essays in this book make it elegantly clear that there is a vigorous and rigorous Latin American philosophy . . . and that others dismiss it at their peril." --Mario Sáenz The ten essays in this lively anthology move beyond a purely..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Contemporary moral philosophers have produced an enormous amount of rich and varied published work on virtually all the issues falling within the scope of ethics and moral philosophy. Morality and the Good Life is a comprehensive survey of contemporary ethical theory which..... More
Wayne State Univ Pr, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1994. Hardcover. From Plato's Republic and St. Augustine's Confessions through Marx's Capital and Sartre's Being and Nothingness, the extraordinary philosophical dialogue between great Western minds has flourished unabated through the ages. Dazzling in its genius and breadth, the long line of European and American intellectual..... More
Penguin (Non-Classics), January 1977. Trade Paperback. The works of Friedrich Nietzsche have fascinated readers around the world ever since the publication of his first book more than a hundred years ago. As Walter Kaufmann, one of the world's leading authorities on Nietzsche, notes in his introduction, "Few writers in any..... More
Routledge, May 2002. First Thus. Paper Back. Eight outstanding essays, from leading academics, deconstruct perennial problems of rationality, imagination and narrative to trace the influence of myth in our own beliefs, origins, and potential futures. Thinking Through Myths attempts to reconcile the opposed claims of pragmatism and beauty, calling for..... More
Vintage, March 1997. Trade Paperback. David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates..... More
Cengage Learning, January 1992. Hardcover. This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show..... More
University of Minnesota Press, 1989. Trade Paperback. More
Columbia University Press, April 2003. Hardcover. What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience..... More
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Prentice Hall, June 1963. Paper Back. Covers mildly worn from use; Spine un-creased; Foxing/browning present at outer edge text-block; Previous owner initials/previous seller stamps present at inside cover/publisher page; Text free of markings; A great reading copy. More
Rowman and Littlefield, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket mildly edge-worn/rubbed, jacket spine significantly sun-faded w/ title illegible; ; An excellent copy, despite jacket flaws. More
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., August 1990. Paper Back. This anthology of the central writings of the analytical tradition is widely regarded as the most useful such volume for teaching purposes. Clustered around issues in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics, many of the pieces were written in..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 1981. Trade Paperback. This interpretive introduction provides unique insight into Plato's Republic. Stressing Plato's desire to stimulate philosophical thinking in his readers, Julia Annas here demonstrates the coherence of his main moral argument on the nature of justice, and expounds related concepts of education, human..... More
Penguin Classics, September 2006. Trade Paperback. The controversial journalistic analysis of the mentality that fostered the Holocaust, from the author of The Origins of Totalitarianism Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt's authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a...... More
Harvest Books, June 1970. Trade Paperback. An analysis of the nature, causes, and significance of violence in the second half of the twentieth century. Arendt also reexamines the relationship between war, politics, violence, and power. "Incisive, deeply probing, written with clarity and grace, it provides an ideal framework for understanding..... More
Penguin Classics, August 2003. Trade Paperback. Although Hannah Arendt is considered one of the major contributors to social and political thought in the twentieth century, this is the first general anthology of her writings. This volume includes selections from her major works, including The Origins of Totalitarianism, Between Past and..... More
