Meridian Books, January 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Rubbing and scuff marks to cover front and back. First inside page previous dealer's stamp and the names of two previous ownere/. [477 pages and eight page list of Meridian titles then available} Sticker residue front cover. More
Dover Publications, October 2011. Paper Back. Best known for his philosophical novel Candide, Voltaire ranked among the leading intellectuals of the Enlightenment period. His two-and-a-half-year sojourn in England left a profound impression, and these letters -- written as though explaining English society to a French friend -- focus on the..... More
Ballantine Books, April 1993. Paper Back. "[This] magnificent critical survey, with its inherent respect for both the 'Westt's mainstream high culture' and the 'radically changing world' of the 1990s, offers a new breakthrough for lay and scholarly readers alike....Allows readers to grasp the big picture of Western culture for the..... More
Chelsea Green Pub Co, March 2004. Trade Paperback. At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life..... More
Collier Books, January 1962. First Thus. Paper Back. First Collier mass market edition. Previous reader's name written in ink on first inside page. [318 pages]. More
Penguin Books, August 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd printing. Mass market paperback. [331 pages plus three pages of then currently available Pelican titles.}. More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 2010. Hardcover. For centuries, philosophers, theologians, moralists, and ordinary people have asked: How should we live? What makes for a good life? In The Best Things in Life, distinguished philosopher Thomas Hurka takes a fresh look at these perennial questions as they arise for us..... More
Orion Publishing, October 2006. Hardcover. ""Grief and loneliness, depression, despair and failurethose things . . . are the common human lot at least at times in all our lives."" Yet it is philosophy which, while not providing an answer to these problems, can enable us to prepare for them, and..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, February 2004. Hardcover. Lust, says Simon Blackburn, is furtive, headlong, always sizing up opportunities. It is a trail of clothing in the hallway, the trashy cousin of love. But be that as it may, the aim of this delightful book is to rescue lust "from the..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, December 2006. Paper Back. Moral problems do not always come in the form of great social controversies. More often, the moral decisions we make are made quietly, constantly, and within the context of everyday activities and quotidian dilemmas. Indeed, these smaller decisions are based on a...... More
Modern Library, May 1999. Paper Back. Called a 'masterpiece' by 'The Literary Review, ' London, this brilliant yet accessible memoir by an outstanding contemporary philosopher introduces readers to all the major figures of Western philosophy. Previous owner's name. More
Cambridge University Press, July 1994. Paper Back. This is the most up-to-date, brief and accessible introduction to Kant's ethics available. It approaches the moral theory via the political philosophy, thus allowing the reader to appreciate why Kant argued that the legal structure for any civil society must have a moral..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, June 2005. Hardcover. The author of the highly popular book Think, which Time magazine hailed as "the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy," Simon Blackburn is that rara avis--an eminent thinker who is able to..... More
Yale University Press, October 2011. First Edition. Cloth. For readers of E. H. Gombrich's A Little History of the World, an equally irresistible volume that brings history's greatest philosophers to life "A primer in human existence: philosophy has rarely seemed so lucid, so important, so worth doing and so easy..... More
Routledge Kegan & Paul, June 1967. Paper Back. Cover wear; previous owner's name. More
Harper Torchbooks, 1963. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo with worn edges, darkened spine. Creased lower right corner. Previous reader's name in ink half title page. [184 pages]. More
Doubleday, May 2022. Hardcover. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND THE NEW YORKER - A vibrant portrait of four college friends--Iris Murdoch, Philippa Foot, Elizabeth Anscombe, and Mary Midgley--who formed a new philosophical tradition while Oxford's men were away fighting World War II..... More
Princeton University Press, June 1979. Trade Paperback. From one of the major figures of twentieth-century intellectual life, an incisive critique of faith and reason in the secular age Originally published in 1958, Critique of Religion and Philosophy is Walter Kaufmann's luminous appraisal of the orthodoxies of his day. Although he..... More
Yale University Press, September 1959. Trade Paperback. More
Oxford University Press, 1978. Trade Paperback. Reprinted from the original edition in three volumes and edited, with an analytical index, by L. A. Selby-Bigge. Revised by P. H. Nidditch. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. More
Metro Books, January 2011. Flexible Boards. More
Pantheon Books, January 2000. Trade Paperback. More
Northwestern University Press, July 1989. Trade Paperback. This collection of essays on communicative theory and praxis from the eminent Merleau-Ponty scholar and translator John O'Neill explores the thesis that the human body is the exemplary ground of all other communicative processes. A very crisp, clean copy. More
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., December 2006. Trade Paperback. A genuine understanding of Hume's extraordinarily rich, important, and influential moral philosophy requires familiarity with all of his writings on vice and virtue, the passions, the will, and even judgments of beauty--and that means familiarity not only with large portions of A...... More
