Penguin Group USA Inc, October 1964. Mass Market PaperBack. Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote his famous "Meditations" during his campaigns against the barbarian invaders. Composed among the reeds and mists of the swampy Danube, his private journals record the passing thoughts, maxims, and musings on life and death of a...... More
Penguin Classics, September 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his..... More
Penguin Books, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. A new edition of a highly regarded translation of one of the most influential achievements in the Western philosophical-literary tradition and the work that gave rise to the genre of utopian fiction. More
Penguin Classics, August 1976. 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 to..... More
Open Court, January 1999. Paper Back. To many, a Nietzschean defense of democracy may seem oxymoronic, but Hatab squarely confronts the staunchly antidemocratic tendencies in Nietzsche's writings and offers a surprisingly convincing critique of them based on other aspects of Nietzsche's thought. All who are indebted to Nietzsche for their..... More
Humanities Press, 1980. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with curled edges, marginal darkening and foxing/darkening of verso. Blue-grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Heavy dust staining top textblock edge. Quite faded rubber stamp to fore-edge. [317 pp.]. More
University of Chicago Press, February 1979. Hardcover. No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Oriental religions. . . . Everyone who cares about the human adventure will find new information and new angles of vision.--Martin E. Marty, New..... More
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, June 1983. Trade Paperback. De Amicitia includes an introduction that places the work in historical perspective, full vocabulary, biographical index, notes, and illustrations. More
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., May 2017. Trade Paperback. On Old Age examines the universal challenges of aging. The text includes Latin text, vocabulary, and notes. As is. A bend in the print block, else a very clen copy. More
St. Martin's Essentials, August 2022. Hardcover. An illuminating introduction to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir and its relevance to modern life In an age of self-exposure, what does it mean to be authentic? "Authenticity" has become attenuated to the point of meaninglessness; everyone says to be yourself, but what..... More
Mit Pr, October 1992. Soft Cover. Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of..... More
Cornell University Press, March 2004. Trade Paperback. Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish..... More
Carlton House. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. No dustjacket. Gold lettering & decorations on spine and front panel. Top of spine there is a large chip. Else there is wear to cloth edge in small discreet spots, most visible at the four corners. Otherwise the condition is of cloth covered boards is..... More
Modern Library, 1950. Cloth. 12mo. Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering within black rectangles on spine and front panel. Kent end pages with previous reader's name in ink ffep upper right hand corner. Dark grey textblock top stain. Dust stained to textblock edges top and fore-edge..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, June 1971. Trade Paperback. For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the..... More
Penguin Classics, May 1986. Trade Paperback. Provides a brief biographical sketch of the Roman consul and orator, and gath his selected correspondence, in which he discusses social and political life the Roman Empire. More
Penguin Classics, October 2006. Trade Paperback. A leading translation of Stoic philosophy in wise and practical aphorisms that have inspired Bill Clinton, Ryan Holiday, Anna Kendrick and many more. Written in Greek by an intellectual Roman emperor without any intention of publication, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius offer a wide..... More
Penguin Classics, July 1969. Trade Paperback. It is philosophy that has the duty of protecting us...without it no one can lead a life free of fear or worry. For several years of his turbulent life, Seneca was the guiding hand of the Roman Empire. His inspired reasoning derived mainly from..... More
Open Court Pub Co, September 1985. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name; a bit of underlining in first few pages. More
Prometheus, June 1984. Hardcover. "Wittgenstein was capable of profound insights into academic, reasoned philosophy, insights that can lead to the explanation of its central enigma: the intrinsic irresolvability of its disagreements which attaches to every one of its claims . . . There can be no room for doubt that..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, August 2022. Paper Back. The body is a source of pleasure and of pain, at once hopelessly vulnerable and radiant with power. In her ambitious, brilliant sixth book, Olivia Laing charts an electrifying course through the long struggle for bodily freedom, using the life of..... More
Penguin Books, June 2021. Paper Back. The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity..... More
Random House Inc, December 1984. Trade Paperback. Selections of the noted philosopher's work from each of the disciplines that he has influenced - ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. More
Verso, April 2011. Trade Paperback. There should no longer be any doubt: global capitalism is fast approaching its terminal crisis. Slavoj ?i?ek has identified the four horsemen of this coming apocalypse: the worldwide ecological crisis; imbalances within the economic system; the biogenetic revolution; and exploding social divisions and ruptures. But..... More
Northwestern University Press, 1983. Trade Paperback. The Visible and the Invisible contains the unfinished manuscript and working notes of the book Merleau-Ponty was writing when he died. The text is devoted to a critical examination of Kantian, Husserlian, Bergsonian, and Sartrean method, followed by the extraordinary "The Intertwining--The Chiasm," that..... More
