Seabury Press / A Continuum Book, December 1974. Paper Back. {5 & 1/4' x 8 & 1/4'} Octavo. Translation of 1967 collection of three essays, 'Zur Kritik der instrumentellen Vernunft. Aus den Vorträgen und Aufzeichnungen seit Kriegsende'. 'Frankfurt School of Philosophy' member Horkheimer was best known for his early analysis..... More
Duquesne University Press, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn/edgeworn dustjacket with one-half inch closed tear top edge of rear DJ panel. Rubbing & light foxing to jacket recto. Heavy foxing & tanning to jacket verso. Front flap is not clipped. Dijon colored cloth covered boards with black..... More
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. Reprint. Soft Cover. The second volume of Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling contains Part IV of the six parts which will eventually compose Susanne Langer's masterwork. It confronts the crucial issue of The Great Shift from animal to man. Octavo. 4th paperback printing. Clean..... More
Verso, May 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as "one of the world's best-known public intellectuals" (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence..... More
Crown, April 2022. Hardcover. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Sadness is a superpower. In her new masterpiece, the author of the bestselling phenomenon Quiet reveals the power of a bittersweet outlook on life, and why we've been so blind to its value. "Bittersweet grabs you by the heart and..... More
Goldberg Press / Rabbi Kalman Pinski, January 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. {7 & 3/4' x 9 & 1/2'} In heavily edgeworn (chipped/torn) dustjacket with rubbing.& marginal sunning. Blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering. Tanned end pages. Slightly darkened textblock top edge and fore-edge. Sound binding. Darkening of margins throughout..... More
Penguin Classics, April 1965. Turtleback Binding. A story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the..... More
Bedford/st Martins, May 1999. Trade Paperback. The complete text of Sir Thomas More's classic work, one of the most influential books in the Western literary and philosophical tradition. The original 1551 translation by Ralph Robynson is extensively annotated by the editor and other sixteenth century material is included. A comprehensive..... More
Anchor, June 1956. Trade Paperback. Skillful, sophisticated translations of two of Nietzsche's essential works about the conflict between the moral and aesthetic approaches to life, the impact of Christianity on human values, the meaning of science, the contrast between the Apollonian and Dionysian spirits, and other themes central to his..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, March 1994. Trade Paperback. Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir Thomas More..... 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
Routledge, September 2006. Hardcover. Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self. Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating book provides a detailed..... More
A Meridian Book, September 1995. Paper Back. A little over thirteen centuries ago, the prophet Muhammad converted a few Arab desert tribes to the belief in a single god, Allah, thus founding the religion of Islam. Within a century, that belief had created one of history's mightiest empires--and today Islam..... More
Harper Perennial, March 2022. Trade Paperback. New York Times Notable Book of 2018 Library Journal Best Book of 2018 "[2017] saw a profusion of books about Martin Luther to mark the 500th anniversary of his posting the 95 Theses. Massing widens the lens wondrously, bringing in Erasmus, the great humanist..... More
Sterling Publishing, January 1960. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in tattered, torn, spine-sunned DJ with ink scribbled name front cover. Jacket verso is heavily darkened with circular stain. Front flap is not clipped. Jacket is yellow with white & black lettering. Tan cloth covered boards with black lettering and illustrations. Also..... More
Touchstone Books, October 1990. Trade Paperback. As is. Remainder mark and light staining on the edges of the print block. More
Orthodox Church in America, July 1995. Trade Paperback. Light shelf wear and minor creasing on the cover. More
Harpercollins, August 1991. Trade Paperback. More
Columbia Univ Pr, May 1986. Trade Paperback. As is. Highlighting. Bumped corner. More
The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, April 2017. Trade Paperback. Still in shrink wrap. Unread. More
Markus Wiener Publishers, March 2005. Paper Back. Capoeira is a unique music-dance-sport-play activity created by African slaves in Brazil, and Candomblé is a hybrid religion combining Catholic and African beliefs and practices. The two are closely interconnected. Capoeira and Candomblé have for centuries made up a coherent form of Brazilian..... More
Harvest Books, June 1980. Trade Paperback. "I saw well why the gods do not speak to us openly, nor let us answer . . . Why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?" Haunted by..... 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
Allworth Press, November 1997. Paper Back. Out of print for decades, the enchanting classics in this new edition will be welcomed by teachers and students of literature, art history, and aesthetics. Written by an esteemed nineteenth-century scholar of Renaissance art and literature, the "imaginary portraits" are fictionalized accounts of historic..... More
University of Michigan Press, October 1960. Trade Paperback. More
