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
Verso, October 2009. Trade Paperback. Billions of dollars have been hastily poured into the global banking system in a frantic attempt at financial stabilization. So why has it not been possible to bring the same forces to bear in addressing world poverty and environmental crisis? In this take-no-prisoners analysis, Slavoj..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, August 2010. Trade Paperback. A renowned Harvard professor's brilliant, sweeping, inspiring account of the role of justice in our society--and of the moral dilemmas we face as citizens For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport, The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, October 2002. Trade Paperback. Liberals and conservatives proclaim the end of the American holiday from history. Now the easy games are over; one should take sides. i[ek argues this is precisely the temptation to be resisted. In such moments of apparently clear choices, the..... More
Routledge, July 2001. Trade Paperback. Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination of a generation of philosophers. For..... More
Paragon House, June 1998. Hardcover. Traces the life of the renowned Jewish religious philosopher, discussing his youth, his education in turn-of-the-century Vienna, his Zionism, and the impact of world politics on his life and thought. 2nd printing; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Un-clipped dust jacket Very..... More
Dover Publications, June 1955. Trade Paperback. An excellent, discerning introduction. It should prove a real boon to the student of Peirce. -- The Modern Schoolman Charles S. Peirce was a thinker of great originality and power. Although unpublished in his lifetime, he was recognized as an equal by such men..... More
Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2012. Trade Paperback. Introductory collection of writings by a creative and subversive thinker, ranging from the origins of "non-philosophy" to its evolution into what Laruelle now calls "non-standard philosophy." The question "What is non-philosophy?" must be replaced by the question about what it can and cannot do. To..... More
University of Minnesota Press, 2013. Reprint. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Green highlghting on about 8 pages early in text. [250 pages]. More
Routledge, 2004. Trade Paperback. First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. Octavo. Lightly shelf worn. Tan stain to textblock fore-edge. [217 pages]. More
Other Press, March 2016. First Edition. Hardcover. A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016" From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet..... More
Harper Perennial, February 1982. Trade Paperback. "To read Heidegger is to set out on an adventure. The essays in this volume--intriguing, challenging, and often baffling to the reader--call him always to abandon all superficial scanning and to enter wholeheartedly into the serious pursuit of thinking.... "Heidegger is not a 'primitive'..... More
Penguin Classics, June 1982. Trade Paperback. A masterly analysis of how and why power must be used in a market society to preserve peace and prosperity. Written at a time of great political turmoil in England, it has profoundly influenced political thought over the centuries. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with previous owner's name inked half title page. Pencil underlining scattered through text here and there. [314 pages]. More
Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, August 2020. First Edition. Hardcover. The New York Times bestselling author of The Geography of Bliss embarks on a rollicking intellectual journey, following in the footsteps of history's greatest thinkers and showing us how each--from Epicurus to Gandhi, Thoreau to Beauvoir--offers practical and..... More
Continnuum-3pl, April 1998. Paper Back. Essays discuss reason and understanding, interpretation, language, meaning, the human sciences, social sciences, and general hermeneutic theory. Gently used; Covers mildly worn from handling; Spine un-creased; Text free of markings w/ a few pages dog-eared; An excellent reading copy. More
Rowman and Littlefield, January 1980. First Edition. Hardcover. Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards; Text free of markings; Dust jacket mildly edge-worn/rubbed, jacket spine significantly sun-faded w/ title illegible; ; An excellent copy, despite jacket flaws. More
Prometheus, July 1990. Hardcover. Robert G. Ingersoll (1833-1899) was perhaps the most famous American of his day. As an enlightened freethinker and pioneer of humane, rational, and agnostic views, Ingersoll was a tireless advocate of rational thought, who battled superstition and hypocrisy wherever he found it. This dedicated popularizer would..... More
The MIT Press, October 1985. Paper Back. The essays in this collection provide an unusually intense portrait of a society and an age. They offer penetrating insights into past and present developments in Germany, shedding new light on that society and our own. In mid 1978, German philosopher Jürgen Habermas..... More
Prometheus Books, November 1992. Trade Paperback. Leibniz (1646 - 1716) was a true polymath and has been called the most comprehensive thinker since Aristotle. In these two great works by the founder of modern German speculative philosophy, the reader is introduced to Leibniz's metaphysics, including his conception of physical substance..... More
