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Library Of Liberal Arts, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Library Of Liberal Arts, January 1965. Trade Paperback. More
Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1979. Trade Paperback. A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield. More
Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1979. Trade Paperback. A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield. More
The Library of Liberal Arts; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955. Paper Back. Damp stained & darkened top right corner. Sunned spine. Smudges along textblock fore-edge. Some side notes here and there, a few times within text. [113 pp.]. More
Macmillan, April 1977. Hardcover. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1976. Trade Paperback. More
Metro Books, January 2011. Flexible Boards. More
Oxford Univ Press, January 1999. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 2005. Hardcover. The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to..... More
The Macmillan Company, January 1968. First Edition. Cloth. First American Edition. Octavo. Dustjacket is missing. Brown cloth covered boards. Gold lettering and small blue foil colophon stamped between title and author's name: both on spine. Boards dust stained and slightly bowed. Topstained faded gold. 305 pages. More
Verso, April 2018. Trade Paperback. "In 1968 we celebrated the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx. We still have reason to hope for a concrete celebration in 2018" With a demonstrably thorough grasp of Marxist thought, and seemingly effortless literary flair, Ernst Bloch provides both..... More
The MIT Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. "The Principle of Hope" is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has rejected the doctrine on which..... More
Stanford University Press, April 2006. Trade Paperback. Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch's interest in showing how attention to "traces"--to the..... More
Stanford University Press, July 1991. Paper Back. Blondel explains how Nietzsche's ideas are reflected in his metaphors and textural devices that build a bridge between literature and philosophy. (Philosophy) A bit of shelf wear, and considerable underlining throughout. More
Cambridge University Press, July 2016. Hardcover. How did Nietzsche the philosopher come into being? The Nietzsche known today did not develop 'naturally', through the gradual maturation of some inborn character. Instead, from an early age he engaged in a self-conscious campaign to follow his own guidance, thereby cultivating the critical..... More
MIT Press, October 1996. Paper Back. This elegant essay exemplifies Blumenberg's ideas about the ability of the historical study of metaphor to illuminate essential aspects of being human. Originally published in the same year as his monumental "Work on Myth," "Shipwreck with Spectator" traces the evolution of the complex of..... More
Cambridge University Press, April 1992. Trade Paperback. Bodin introduced the erroneous notion of indivisible sovereignty which led to an absolutist interpretation of the French and other European monarchies. The first complete translation of his work since 1606 includes a chronology and bibliography. This volume translates four chapters of Bodin's Six..... More
Penn State University Press, September 2008. Paper Back. An English translation of Colloquium of the Seven about Secrets of the Sublime, originally written in Latin in the sixteenth-century by Jean Bodin. Structured as a series of discussions on religion and philosophy. Includes introduction, translation, and annotations. More
Penguin Classics, August 1976. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up..... More
Oxford University Press (UK), September 2014. Hardcover. A New York Times bestseller Superintelligence asks the questions: What happens when machines surpass humans in general intelligence? Will artificial agents save or destroy us? Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life. The human brain has..... More
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, May 2005. Trade Paperback. "There's no writer alive like de Botton" (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status--a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who's ever lost sleep over an unreturned phone..... More
Stanford University Press, June 1990. Hardcover. Our usual representations of the opposition between the civilized and the primitive derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object..... More
Paul Dry Books, August 2016. Paper Back. Philosopher Eva Brann describes the concept of doublethink/doubletalk as "a flanking approach toward comprehending a pervasively duplex world, a world that sometimes flashes fleeting signs of covert wholeness." In this, her second collection of aphorisms and observations, Brann shines a light on our..... More
Bloomsbury Publishing, November 2023. Hardcover. Philosopher Helena de Bres uses the curious experience of being a twin as a lens for reconsidering our place in the world, with illustrations by her identical twin Julia. Wait, are you you or the other one? Which is the evil twin? Have you ever..... More