Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Wiley-Blackwell, January 1996. Trade Paperback. Covers creased; previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Wiley-Blackwell, January 1996. Trade Paperback. Covers creased; previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1991. First Edition. Cloth. First edition with full number line. Bound in half burgundy cloth lettered in gold with heathered grey boards. Very clean copy. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More
Routledge, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of..... More
Routledge, August 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More
State University of New York Press, September 1985. Trade Paperback. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction provides an assessment of two dominant modes of thinking and writing in continental philosophy today. It addresses central issues in the theory of interpretation and in the strategies of textual reading. Placed in the context of contemporary..... More
The MIT Press, April 1985. Trade Paperback. The New Nietzsche offers an important sampling of the rereadings of Friedrich Nietzche's work that have contributed greatly to the development of contemporary European philosophy.The fifteen essays, written by such eminent scholars as Derrida, Heidegger, Deleuze, Klossowski, and Blanchot, focus on the Nietzschean..... More
Columbia University Press, June 2010. Trade Paperback. Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five texts on art written by twenty philosophers. Covering the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays draw on Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and psychoanalytic theory, and each is accompanied by an..... More
Cengage Learning, January 1992. Hardcover. This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show..... More
Easton Press, January 1995. Leather. Gilt-decorative red leather with raised spine bands. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. SIGNED BY MORIMER J. ADLER. More
Easton Press, January 1993. First Edition. Leather. This leather-bound First Edition is personally signed by Mortimer J. Adler. Dark grey leather with gold lettering and design. Moire end pages.Silk ribbon marker. Gold textblock edges with scratch amidst the gilt top edge. (273 pp.). More
Columbia University Press, April 2003. Hardcover. What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience..... 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
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
Harvest/HBJ Book, March 1981. Trade Paperback. The most intriguing...and thought-provoking book that Hannah Arendt wrote (The New York Times Book Review), The Life of the Mind is the final work by the political theorist, philosopher, and feminist thinker.This fascinating book investigates thought itself as it exists in contemplative life. In..... More
Oxford University Press, January 1975. Paper Back. More
Oxford University Press, USA, April 1998. Paper Back. The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. By examining the..... 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
Verso, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of difference cannot underpin..... More
Continuum, May 2005. Trade Paperback. Alain Badiou is already regarded as one of the mostoriginal and powerful voices in contemporaryEuropean thought. Infinite Thought brings together arepresentative selection of the range of AlainBadiou's work, illustrating the power and diversity ofhis thought. More
Verso, February 2012. Trade Paperback. Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical..... More
Gerald Duckworth, June 1979. Paper Back. Shelf wear to the cover. Previous owner's name inked/stamped inside front cover. Underlining on several pages. More
Random House, January 1962. Cloth. Complete four volume set. Octavo. No jackets as issued. Tan cloth with black & silver lettering. Heavy foxing, darkening to margins. Tanning to end pages. Front free end pages on all 4 volumes have inked previous owner's name and a previous dealer's rubber stamped address..... More
Hill & Wang Pub, 1978. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Considerable soiling, dust staining, & marginal darkening. Some moderate curling of pages. Inked notes and unknown fragments of handwritten prose. on verso of back cover and last blank page prior to this. [111 pages]. More
Yale University Press, January 1966. Paper Back. Moderate shelfwear, Yet heavily underlined with tick marks and side notes in pencil throught the first 120 pages thereabout of this 168 page book. Decent reading copy for those not distracted by the defacement of another reader. [168 pp.]. More
Franklin, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More