Georgetown University Press, September 2023. Hardcover. This cultural history of humility reveals this lost virtue as a secret defense against arrogance and incivility History demonstrates that when the virtue of humility is cast aside, excessive individualism follows. A person who lacks humility is at risk of developing a deceptive sense..... More
SUNY Press, June 2015. Hardcover. In this original work of philosophy, Andrew Benjamin calls for a new understanding of relationality, one inaugurating a philosophical mode of thought that takes relations among people and events as primary, over and above conceptions of simple particularity or abstraction. Drawing on the work of..... More
Zone Books, April 1988. First Thus. Hardcover. "Since the end of the last century," Walter Benjamin wrote, "philosophy has made a series of attempts to lay hold of the 'true' experience as opposed to the kind that manifests itself in the standardized, denatured life of the civilized masses. It is..... More
Doubleday Anchor, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Dust stains to textblock edges. Cover worn at extremities. Foxing/darkening to wrapper margins.Two sources of Moraltity and Religion first published in France in 1932. The English translation appeared in 1935. (320 pages.). More
Doubleday - Anchor, January 1956. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Edgeworn. creased spine, underlining in pen & pencil scattered here and there within text. Ring stain from a glass or cup verso of front cover. Dark stain top textblock edge. [320 pp.]. More
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
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
Routledge, September 1991. Hardcover. This volume is one of the most remarkable works in the history of economic thought. First published in 1893, its principal significance rests in its argument that economic theory, however technical or pragmatic, is necessarily formed by and derives its meaning from larger moral and philosophical..... More
University of Chicago Press, March 1994. Trade Paperback. In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar," this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the..... More
Wiley-Blackwell, August 1991. Paper Back. The development of a theory of linguistics This study examines how Noam Chomsky developed a linguistics theory that led to new discussions and debates about language. Challenging Chomsky: The Generative Garden Game looks at the role the linguist's theory has had in the study of..... More
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Vintage, June 2010. Trade Paperback. We spend most of our waking lives at work--in occupations most often chosen by our inexperienced younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our jobs mean to us. The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work is an exploration of..... 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
Harcourt Brace & World, January 1962. First Thus. Hardcover. First American Edition; Solid binding, slightly worn at spine; Boards show mild to moderate age wear including some fraying at corners; Text free of markings; Previous owner name stamped at outer edge text block and front free end-page; A good reading..... More
