Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1991. Paper Back. Thomas Nagel's Mortal Questions explores some fundamental issues concerning the meaning, nature and value of human life. Questions about our attitudes to death, sexual behaviour, social inequality, war and political power are shown to lead to more obviously philosophical problems about personal identity..... More
Penguin Classics, February 1969. Mass Market PaperBack. More
Stanford University Press, June 1990. Hardcover. Our usual representations of the opposition between the civilized and the primitive derive from willfully ignoring the relationship of distance our social science sets up between the observer and the observed. In fact, the author argues, the relationship between the anthropologist and his object..... More
Penguin Classics, September 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Collecting the most incisive and influential writings of one of Rome's finest orators, Cicero's Selected Works is translated with an introduction by Michael Grant in Penguin Classics. Lawyer, philosopher, statesman and defender of Rome's Republic, Cicero was a master of eloquence, and his..... More
Penguin Books, January 1965. Mass Market PaperBack. A new edition of a highly regarded translation of one of the most influential achievements in the Western philosophical-literary tradition and the work that gave rise to the genre of utopian fiction. More
Open Court, January 1999. Paper Back. To many, a Nietzschean defense of democracy may seem oxymoronic, but Hatab squarely confronts the staunchly antidemocratic tendencies in Nietzsche's writings and offers a surprisingly convincing critique of them based on other aspects of Nietzsche's thought. All who are indebted to Nietzsche for their..... More
Humanities Press, 1980. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo in dustjacket with curled edges, marginal darkening and foxing/darkening of verso. Blue-grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Heavy dust staining top textblock edge. Quite faded rubber stamp to fore-edge. [317 pp.]. More
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, June 1983. Trade Paperback. De Amicitia includes an introduction that places the work in historical perspective, full vocabulary, biographical index, notes, and illustrations. More
Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, Inc., May 2017. Trade Paperback. On Old Age examines the universal challenges of aging. The text includes Latin text, vocabulary, and notes. As is. A bend in the print block, else a very clen copy. More
Modern Library, 1950. Cloth. 12mo. Dustjacket is missing. Grey cloth covered boards with gold lettering within black rectangles on spine and front panel. Kent end pages with previous reader's name in ink ffep upper right hand corner. Dark grey textblock top stain. Dust stained to textblock edges top and fore-edge..... More
Random House Inc, December 1984. Trade Paperback. Selections of the noted philosopher's work from each of the disciplines that he has influenced - ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. More
Columbia University Press, March 1970. Reprint. Cloth. 3rd printing. Octavo. Black cloth with gold lettering along on spine. Clean, unmarked interiors. Dustjacket is missing. [675 pages]. More
Verso, June 2015. Trade Paperback. A Communist, feminist, and analysand asks what the social function of psychoanalysis should be and condemns what it has become The Weary Sons of Freud lambasts mainstream psychoanalysis for its failure to grapple with pressing political and social matters pertinent to its patients' condition. Gifted..... More
Harvard University Press, November 2017. Hardcover. Living with Robots recounts a foundational shift in the field of robotics, from artificial intelligence to artificial empathy, and foreshadows an inflection point in human evolution. Today's robots engage with human beings in socially meaningful ways, as therapists, trainers, mediators, caregivers, and companions. Social..... More
George Braziller, Inc. / Harcourt, Brace, 1956. Reprint. Cloth. Octavo. 2nd US edition. Rubbed, dustjacket (wrapped in mylar) with moderate wear glued to pastedowns front & back. Tanning to end pages. Blue cloth covered boards. [318 pages]. More
Bobbs-Merrill Library of Liberal Arts (Macmillan), January 1965. Trade Paperback. Faint soiling on the cover. Light toning to the top edge of the print block. All text clean and clear. More
BEACON PRESS @, January 1958. Trade Paperback. Cover has creasing and significant shelf wear. Binding is tight and the text perfectly clean. More
Free Press, February 2004. First Edition. Hardcover. Stating that the world after September 11 is facing a new struggle between America and its allies and the Islamic nations, a controversial argument for brute force contends that America's adversaries cannot be addressed through diplomatic means. First edition with full number line..... More
Vintage, March 1990. Trade Paperback. Why we are so fascinated with sex and sexuality--from the preeminent philosopher of the 20th century. Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze and discuss sex, and of the social and mental mechanisms of power that cause us..... More
Northwestern University Press, April 1993. First Edition. Cloth. To read Working through Derrida is to plunge into the midst of a lively debate on the place of Jacques Derrida and the thought associated with him in today's literary and philosophical consciousness. With essays by major philosophers such as Richard Rorty..... More
Abrams Image, May 2007. Hardcover. This lively crash course in philosophy takes us on a hilarious - and at the same time, profound - tour through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts and thinkers. All with a light touch. As if being led on an intellectual adventure by a brilliant..... More
W. W. Norton & Company, February 1967. Reprint. Paper Back. Octavo. Paperback reprint. Cover is soiled, damp stained with 'tape repairs'. Foxing/staining textblock edges. Internal text without markings. Previous owner's name in ink first blank page. [288 pages plus eight page list of available Norton titles]. More
University of California Press, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Alphonso Lingis is an original among American philosophers. An eloquent and insightful commentator on continental philosophers, he is also a phenomenologist who has gone to live in many lands. Dangerous Emotions continues the line of inquiry begun in Abuses, taking the reader..... More
De Graaf Publishers, 1995. Cloth. Octavo. No dustjacket as issued. Green cloth covered boards with gold lettering along spine. Tightly bound. Internally, clean, without markings. In Latin. Signed & inscribed by (I assume) editor Ralph Keen. On front free end page top right corner, in black ink, 'Dear Walter, Many..... 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
