W. W. Norton & Company, May 2021. First Edition. Hardcover. 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..... More
Modern Library / Random House, 1956. Cloth. 12mo. In heavily chipped/torn, foxed & darkened dustjacket. Front flap is not clipped. 348 Modern Library titles printed on verso of jacket. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering framed in green rectangles along spine and on front board. [577 pages plus one..... More
Prentice Hall, January 1978. Soft Cover. Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Pages free of markings; An excellent copy. More
Ungar Publishing, 1957. Paper Back. 11th printing, 1972; Covers mild to moderately worn from handling; Spine gently worn from use; Previous owner initials present at title page along with previous seller stamp; Text free of markings; An excellent reading copy. More
Harper Torchbooks, June 1964. Trade Paperback. Considered one of the most profound, influential, and important works of philosophy, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals introduces the famous Categorical Imperative and lays down a foundation for all of Immanuel Kant's writings. In it, Kant illuminates the basic concept that is central..... More
Bradford Books, March 1987. First Thus. Paper Back. The abstract structure of inquiry - the process of acquiring and changing beliefs about the world - is the focus of this book which takes the position that the pragmatic rather than the linguistic approach better solves the philosophical problems about the..... More
Penguin Press, March 2023. Hardcover. The bestselling author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores seven hundred years of writers, thinkers, scientists, and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural..... More
Cambridge University Press, August 2007. Trade Paperback. Unlike those who view Heidegger as an idealist, Taylor Carman asserts that Heidegger is best understood as a realist and offers a new interpretation of his major work, Being and Time. Among the book's distinctive features are an interpretation explicitly oriented within a...... More
State University of New York Press, July 2010. Trade Paperback. The publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and Time has long been recognized as..... More
Routledge, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Martin Heidegger's impact on contemporary thought is important and controversial. However in France, the influence of this German philosopher is such that contemporary French thought cannot be properly understood without reference to Heidegger and his extraordinary influence. Tom Rockmore examines the reception of Heidegger's thought..... More
Cambridge University Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. Published in 1785, Immanuel Kant's Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals ranks alongside Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics as one of the most profound and influential works in moral philosophy ever written. In Kant's own words, its aim is to identify and..... More
Hackett Publishing Company, March 2009. Trade Paperback. Werner S. Pluhar's masterful rendering of Kant's major work on religion is meticulously annotated and presented here with a selected bibliography, glossary, and generous index. Stephen R. Palmquist's engaging Introduction provides historical background, discusses Religion in the context of Kant's philosophical system, elucidates..... More
Cambridge University Press, January 2000. Trade Paperback. This entirely new translation of Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment follows the principles and high standards of all other volumes in The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. This volume includes for the first time the first draft of..... More
Cambridge University Press, February 1999. Trade Paperback. This is the first English translation of all of Kant's writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As well as Kant's most famous moral and political writings, the Groundwork..... More
Hackett Publishing Company, October 1998. Trade Paperback. This new edition is the product of a collaboration between a Germanist and a philosopher who is also a Nietzsche scholar. The translation strives not only to communicate a sense of Nietzsche's style but also to convey his meaning accurately--and thus to be..... More
Modern Library, 1939. Cloth. Octavo in jacket with edgewear and large tear top edge of front panel with clear tape 'repair'. Front flap has cut out corner. Blue cloth covered boards with small silver lettering on spine and decorations in a darker blue. On Front boards gold stamped torchbearer colophon..... More
Doubleday Anchor, No publication date. Mass Market 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..... More
Simon & Schuster / Touchstone, June 1961. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Trade paperback. 7th printing. Mild darkening of spine. [737 pages]. More
W. W. Norton & Company, December 2022. Paper Back. Stoicism, the most influential philosophy of the Roman Empire, offers refreshingly modern ways to strengthen our inner character in the face of an unpredictable world. Widely recognized as the most talented and humane writer of the Stoic tradition, Seneca teaches us..... More
Other Press, August 2017. Trade Paperback. Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live Sarah..... More
Verso, December 2017. Paper Back. Exploring how neoliberalism has discovered the productive force of the psyche Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault's biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche..... More
Little Brown & Co., January 1988. Hardcover. 3rd printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Previous owner inscription present at front free end-page; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very Good, mildly edge-worn w/ no significant flaws to disclose; An excellent copy. More
Random House Inc, May 1995. Trade Paperback. A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the..... More
University of Notre Dame Press, March 2007. Trade Paperback. When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially controversial critique of contemporary moral philosophy. Newsweek called it "a stunning new study of ethics by one of the foremost moral philosophers in the English-speaking world."..... 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
