University of Chicago Press, September 2007. Cloth. On the surface, stoicism and emotion seem like contradictory terms. Yet the Stoic philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome were deeply interested in the emotions, which they understood as complex judgments about what we regard as valuable in our surroundings. Stoicism and Emotion..... More
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, October 2007. Trade Paperback. The British bestseller Straw Dogs is an exciting, radical work of philosophy, which sets out to challenge our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human. From Plato to Christianity, from the Enlightenment to Nietzsche and Marx, the Western tradition..... 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
Orion Publishing, October 2004. Paper Back. Following the huge success of THE MEANING OF THINGS and THE REASON OF THINGS, a third collection of bestselling essays from Britain's top philosopher. 'Human genius has done much, and promises much, in the way of removing the mystery from many things in our..... More
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, January 2003. Hardcover. A.C. Grayling examines the different ways to live a good life, as proposed from classical antiquity to the recent present. Grayling focuses on the two very different conceptions of what a good life should be: one is a broadly secular view rooted in attitudes..... 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
Penguin Books, May 1990. Trade Paperback. 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
Penguin Books, January 1985. Paper Back. Moderate shelf wear and creasing to cover. 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
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
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
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
University of Nebraska Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. G. W. F. Hegel (1770-1831), the influential German philosopher, believed that human history was advancing spiritually and morally according to God's purpose. At the beginning of Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel writes: What the history of Philosophy shows us is..... 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
Wisdom Library / Philosophical Library, January 1965. Hardcover. 12mo. {4 & 3/4' x 7 & 1/2'}; damp stained, edgeworn dustjacket. Darkening/foxing. 58 pages. More
Doubleday Anchor, 1958. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. A Doubleday Anchor mass market paperback with mild edgewear and flaking. Darkened spine and margins. Binding has been reinforced with tape (browning with age) at gutter of title page. Dust stains to textblock edges. A handful of dark splotches along fore-edge. Some scribbled..... 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
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
Penguin Books, August 1980. Reprint. Paper Back. 3rd printing. Mass market paperback. [331 pages plus three pages of then currently available Pelican titles.}. More
Liveright, April 2013. Trade Paperback. Tackling the darkest question in all of philosophy with raffish erudition (Dwight Garner, New York Times), author Jim Holt explores the greatest metaphysical mystery of all: why is there something rather than nothing? This runaway bestseller, which has captured the imagination of critics and the..... More
University Of Chicago Press, June 1989. Paper Back. Cover a little corner bumped and creased but the binding is tight and all text clean and clear. 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
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
