Plume Books, May 2007. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking book that explores how astrology can inform our understanding of the events that have shaped our world--the inspiration for the docuseries Changing of the Gods. In these pages, distinguished philosopher and cultural historian Richard Tarnas traces the connection between cosmic cycles and..... More
Open Court Pub Co, September 1985. Trade Paperback. Previous owner's name; a bit of underlining in first few pages. More
Hackett, 1988. Trade Paperback. As is. Underlining throughout. More
Indiana University Press, December 1989. Paper Back. A well-organized, profound case for the reinterpretation of the creative woman in the nineteenth century. --Carol RavenalFocusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, Louisa May Alcott, Mary Cassatt, Tillie Olsen, and Alice Walker, Van Buren uses present-day critical and theoretical concepts to explore the relations..... More
Duquesne University Press, January 1970. First Edition. Cloth. Octavo in well worn/edgeworn dustjacket with one-half inch closed tear top edge of rear DJ panel. Rubbing & light foxing to jacket recto. Heavy foxing & tanning to jacket verso. Front flap is not clipped. Dijon colored cloth covered boards with black..... More
Mentor Books, May 1956. First Thus. Mass Market PaperBack. Top leading corner of front cover creased; chip at bottom leading cover of back cover. Previous owner's spine label. Else, bright and sturdy edition. 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
Bristol Classical Press, January 1987. Hardcover. Jacket spine creased. Small tear on front fold of dust jacket. Previous owner name inked on front pastedown. Foxing on top and leading edges of text block. More
Bristol Classical Press, June 1999. Hardcover. The first five chapters of Aristotle's De Generatione et Corruptione distinguish creation and destruction from mere qualitative change and from growth. They include a fascinating debate about the atomists' analysis of creation and destruction as due to the rearrangement of indivisible atoms. Aristotle's rival..... More
Liveright, April 2022. Hardcover. During the pandemic, Marjorie Perloff, one of our foremost scholars of global literature, found her mind ineluctably drawn to the profound commentary on life and death in the wartime diaries of eminent philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951). Upon learning that these notebooks, which richly contextualize the early..... More
Exils, June 2002. Paper Back. More
Verso, April 2008. Hardcover. Is global emancipation a lost cause? Are universal values outdated relics of an earlier age? In the postmodern world, ideologies of all kinds have been cast in doubt. In this combative new work, renowned theoriest Slavoj Zizek takes on the reigning postmodern agenda with a manifesto..... More
Verso, May 2012. First Edition. Hardcover. A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as "one of the world's best-known public intellectuals" (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence..... More
Mit Pr, October 1992. Soft Cover. Slavoj Zizek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. Zizek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of..... More
The MIT Press, May 1991. Hardcover. Slavoj ?i?ek, a leading intellectual in the new social movements that are sweeping Eastern Europe, provides a virtuoso reading of Jacques Lacan. ?i?ek inverts current pedagogical strategies to explain the difficult philosophical underpinnings of the French theoretician and practician who revolutionized our view of..... More
W W Norton & Co Inc, December 1989. Trade Paperback. Zizek takes a look at the question of human agency in a postmodern world. Highlighting. Cover soiling. Some damage on spine. More
MIT Press, March 1993. Trade Paperback. "This is a rich and generous book. The wealth of information on twentieth century European debates in aesthetics and cultural criticism is more than matched by the complexity and subtlety of the interpretation of Adorno's aesthetics." -- Thomas Huhn, "The Journal of Aesthetics and..... More
Verso, March 2000. Trade Paperback. Drawing on a wide range of writers from Sophocles to de Sade, the author shows that Kant and Lacan stake everything on a similar ethical enterprise. For both, ethics is a necessary impossibility - impossible because of the infinite and inhuman demands it makes on..... More
