University of Texas Press, January 1999. Trade Paperback. French theorist Luce Irigaray has become one of the twentieth century's most influential feminist thinkers. Among her many writings are three books (with a projected fourth) in which she challenges the Western tradition's construals of human beings' relations to the four elements--earth..... 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
Purdue University Press, June 1980. First Thus. Paper Back. In this work, Calvin O. Schrag addresses a widespread crisis in the current philosophies and sciences of man. He sees this crisis as resulting from a loss of center within the human sciences. Accelerated developments in the human sciences have produced..... 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
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
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
Columbia Univ Pr, May 1986. Trade Paperback. As is. Highlighting. Bumped corner. 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
Reaktion Books, March 2014. Trade Paperback. We often view emptiness as a negative condition, a symptom of depression, despair, or grief--an assessment furthered by authors like Franz Kafka or the existentialists, Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus. Offering an alternative view, A Philosophy of Emptiness reclaims these hollow feelings as a...... More
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, June 2000. Trade Paperback. This book explores what anyone interested in ethics can draw from Heidegger's thinking. Heidegger argues for the radical finitude of being. But finitude is not only an ontological matter; it is also located in ethical life. Moral matters are responses to finite..... More
Cornell University Press, April 2002. Trade Paperback. Is it possible to apply a theoretical approach to ethics? The French philosopher Catherine Chalier addresses this question with an unusual combination of traditional ethics and continental philosophy. In a powerful argument for the necessity of moral reflection, Chalier counters the notion that..... More
University of Chicago Press, March 1994. Trade Paperback. In this lively look at current debates in American philosophy, leading philosophers talk candidly about the changing character of their discipline. In the spirit of Emerson's "The American Scholar," this book explores the identity of the American philosopher. Through informal conversations, the..... More
Columbia University Press, January 1985. Trade Paperback. More
Routledge, August 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, January 1976. Trade Paperback. More
Anchor Books, January 1962. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Doubleday Anchor Original. Mild edgewear and darkening. Previous owner's name inked first inside page. [365 plus five page list of Anchor titles]. More
Basic Books, December 1994. Trade Paperback. Using newly available documentary evidence in diaries and letters, the authors present a startling new view of one of the legenday sexual and intellectual partnerships of the 20th century--the relationship between the matriarch of modern feminism and and father of existentialism. More
Harper Perennial, October 2006. Trade Paperback. "Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of young starlets who share the bed of one or the other--or sometimes both. Readers will turn..... More
Hackett Pub Co Inc, June 1979. Trade Paperback. A model of what an edition of a philosohic text for an introductory level should be. Introduction does an admirable job of putting Berkeley's thought in the intellectual context of its time. --Gary C. Hatfield. More
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, January 2011. Trade Paperback. Musonius Rufus (c. AD 30-100) was one of the four great Roman Stoic philosophers, the other three being Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, and Musonius' pupil Epictetus. During his life, Musonius' Stoicism was put to the test, most notably during an exile to Gyaros..... More
Harvard Univ Pr, October 2003. Trade Paperback. In this timely book, the first comprehensive study of the modern American public intellectual--that individual who speaks to the public on issues of political or ideological moment--Richard Posner charts the decline of a venerable institution that included worthies from Socrates to John Dewey..... More
Teachers College Pr, June 1971. Cloth. Octavo {6' x 9'} In dustjacket with heavily darkened spine. Edgeworn with 1/4' piece torn & curled top of spine. Darkening/dust staining to cover with sun tanned vertical pattern burnt into front and rear panels. Verso likewise tanned. Dark brown cloth covered boards with..... More
Vintage /Random House, June 1967. Mass Market PaperBack. Nietzche's 1st great book is here with one of his last. Together they sound the themes that remain at the heart of present day philosophical and cultural debates and dilemmas. More
The Library of Liberal Arts; The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955. Paper Back. Damp stained & darkened top right corner. Sunned spine. Smudges along textblock fore-edge. Some side notes here and there, a few times within text. [113 pp.]. 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
