Louisiana State Univ Pr, March 1991. First Edition. Cloth. First edition with full number line. Bound in half burgundy cloth lettered in gold with heathered grey boards. Very clean copy. Mylar wrapped to preserve. More

Vintage, March 1997. Trade Paperback. David Abram draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician to reveal the subtle dependence of human cognition on the natural environment. He explores the character of perception and excavates..... More

Harvest Books, March 1973. Trade Paperback. "How could such a book speak so powerfully to our present moment? The short answer is that we, too, live in dark times, even if they are different and perhaps less dark, and "Origins" raises a set of fundamental questions about how tyranny can..... More

Oxford University Press, USA, April 1998. Paper Back. The Politics is one of the most influential texts in the history of political thought, and it raises issues which still confront anyone who wants to think seriously about the ways in which human societies are organized and governed. By examining the..... More

Compass Press / The Viking Press, 1963. Paper Back. Edgeworn cover. Previous owner's name inked with ballpoint. Liberally underlined in light pencil (with side-notes & marginal ticks) through first 40 pages or thereabout. (265 pages plus three page list of Compass titles.). More

Verso, July 2009. Hardcover. Pocket Pantheon is an invitation to engage with the greats of postwar Western thought, such as Lacan, Sartre and Foucault, in the company of one of today's leading political and philosophical minds. Alain Badiou draws on his encounters with this pantheon - his teachers, opponents and..... More

Pluto Press, October 1990. Trade Paperback. Jean Baudrillard is arguably one of the most central figures in the current debate on postmodernism, and this book is a selection of previously untranslated writings spanning his earliest works of the 1960s, through to his most recent. The book covers the major developments..... More

Verso, July 2021. Paper Back. A classic collection of Walter Benjamin's essays, including some of his most celebrated writing Walter Benjamin is one of the most fascinating and enigmatic intellectual figures of this century. Not only was he a thinker who made an enormous impact with his critical and philosophical..... More

Penguin Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. More

W.W. Norton, January 1928. Hardcover. Second printing. More

Vintage, 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More

Brill, 1988. First Edition. Paper Back. Some wear to the cover and spine. More

Dover Publications, June 1955. Trade Paperback. "An excellent, discerning introduction. It should prove a real boon to the student of Peirce." -- The Modern Schoolman Charles S. Peirce was a thinker of great originality and power. Although unpublished in his lifetime, he was recognized as an equal by such men..... More

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., December 1991. Hardcover. Small tear at the top edge of dust jacket. Previous owner name in front pastedown. More

Viking Press, May 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition in very good dustjacket. Not price clipped. Original U.S. price on jacket flap, $4.95. Quarter bound: black cloth covered spine with foil stamped lettering in turquoise & cerulean blue & carolina blue paper cover board lightly faded at edges. Boards..... More

Routledge, May 1989. Paper Back. Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of culture. By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting..... More

Pocket Essentials, October 2006. Hardcover. This text examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem, before moving onto the current interest in the..... More

State University of New York Press, May 2005. Hardcover. This original contribution to the ethical and political significance of philosophy addresses a number of major themes--identity, violence, the erotic, freedom, responsibility, religious belief, globalization--and critically engages with the work of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Derrida, and Levinas. It promotes a unique..... More

Doubleday Anchor, 1972. First Edition. Magazine. Sunned spine & mild wear. Previous owner's name inked in 3 colors of ballpoint half title page.330 pages. More

Zone Books, March 1991. Trade Paperback. In his stunning essay Coldness and Cruelty Gilles Deleuze provides a rigorous and informed philosophical examination of the work of late nineteenth-century German novelist Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Deleuze's essay, certainly the most profound study yet produced on the relations between sadism and masochism, seeks..... More

Routledge, September 1994. Trade Paperback. Specters of Marx is a major new book from the renowned French philosopher Jacques Derrida. It represents his first important statement on Marx and his definitive entry into social and political philosophy. "Specter" is the first noun one reads in The Manifesto of the Communist..... More

Cambridge University Press, September 1995. Hardcover. This book is concerned chiefly with theories about learning in the history of philosophy, especially ancient philosophy. One of the main questions is: does our knowledge arise just out of experience or do we have some innate knowledge as well? The book is original..... More

Bristol Classical Press, January 1989. Hardcover. Spine slightly cocked. Small tear on rear fold of dust jacket. Previous owner name on front pastedown. More

Harper Perennial, September 2002. Trade Paperback. On October 25, 1946, in a crowded room in Cambridge, England, the great twentieth-century philosophers Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper came face to face for the first and only time. The meeting -- which lasted ten minutes -- did not go well. Their loud..... More

Penguin Books, August 2021. Paper Back. A grand narrative of the intertwining lives of Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Ernst Cassirer, major philosophers whose ideas shaped the twentieth century The year is 1919. The horror of the First World War is still fresh for the protagonists of Time..... More

Routledge, April 2009. Trade Paperback. When it was first published in France in 1961 as Folie et Déraison: Histoire de la Folie à l'âge Classique, few had heard of a thirty-four year old philosopher by the name of Michel Foucault. By the time an abridged English edition was published in..... More

Image Books, February 1962. Mass Market PaperBack. Damp stained top of spine within an area of about an inch from corner along top edge and one inch down spines starting at top corner. Stain effects the cover and textblock. Mild wear to wrapper with rubbing and creased lower right corner..... More

Oxford Univ Press, January 1969. Paper Back. Some marginal markings, tick marks and side notes. Toning and mild soiling. 314 pages. 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

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

Penguin Press, January 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. From renowned classicist Edith Hall, ARISTOTLE'S WAY is an examination of one of history's greatest philosophers, showing us how to lead happy, fulfilled, and meaningful lives Aristotle was the first philosopher to inquire into subjective happiness, and he understood its essence better and..... More

HarperCollins Publishers, January 1983. Trade Paperback. Edges of the print block heavily tanned. Light shelf wear. More

Harper Perennial, December 2013. Trade Paperback. Poetry, Language, Thought collects Martin Heidegger's pivotal writings on art, its role in human life and culture, and its relationship to thinking and truth. Essential reading for students and anyone interested in the great philosophers, this book opens up appreciation of Heidegger beyond the..... More

Liberty Classics, August 1978. Paper Back. A work that includes statement on the role of the state. More

Columbia University Press, July 2016. Trade Paperback. Blossoming from a correspondence between Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder, Through Vegetal Being is an intense personal, philosophical, and political meditation on the significance of the vegetal for our lives, our ways of thinking, and our relations with human and nonhuman beings. The..... More

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., December 1992. Hardcover. Is there such a thing as three-dimensional space? Is space inert or dynamic? Is the division of time into past, present and future real? Does the whole of time exist all at once? Does it progress smoothly or by discontinuous leaps? Simplicius..... More

Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd., December 1991. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. More

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2018. Hardcover. A stimulating book about combating despair and complacency with searching reflection. --Heller McAlpin, NPR.org Named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR. One of Lit Hub's 15 Books You Should Read in September and one of Outside's Best Books of Fall A revelatory..... More

Harper Torchbooks / The Cloister Library / Harper & Row publishers, 1960. First Thus. Trade Paperback. Octavo. Mild wear to paperback cover. Stains, darkening & remnants of Episcopal Church rubber stamp. Inside half title book marked as church library discard. Previous owner's name written in green ink long hand verso..... More

Doubleday Anchor, January 1960. Mass Market PaperBack. Clean, sound, creases on spine. (455 pages plus six page list of Anchor titles.) Check marks on some titles in list at end of book. More

Doubleday Anchor, 1960. First Thus. Magazine. This is a paperback original. Stated, First Edition. Darkening at spine and less obviously to cover margins. Heavy ink underlining and tick marks scattered through text. Also there is an inked note on last blank page.Light dust stains to textblock edges. Decent reading copy..... More

Oxford University Press, August 2008. Trade Paperback. Why does agency -- the capacity to make choices and to act in the world -- matter to us? Why is it meaningful that our intentions have effects in the world, that they reflect our sense of identity, that they embody what we..... More

Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1937. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition (U.S.); Brown cloth covered boards with gold lettering & decorative device (beginning to fade) on spine and author's initial in gold front panel. Spine and edges darkened. End pages heavily darkened/tanned fanning out from gutter front and back. A...... More

Vanderbilt University Press, February 2003. Trade Paperback. In this new contribution to moral theory, Todd Lekan argues for a pragmatist conception of morality as an evolving, educational, and fallible practice of everyday life. Drawing on the work of John Dewey, Lekan asserts that moral norms are neither timeless truths nor..... More

Cambridge, November 1988. Trade Paperback. This is a new revised version of Dr. Laslett's standard edition of Two Treatises. First published in 1960, and based on an analysis of the whole body of Locke's publications, writings, and papers. The Introduction and text have been revised to incorporate references to recent..... More

Columbia University Press, February 2013. Paper Back. The margins of philosophy are populated by non-human, non-animal living beings, including plants. While contemporary philosophers tend to refrain from raising ontological and ethical concerns with vegetal life, Michael Marder puts this life at the forefront of the current deconstruction of metaphysics. He..... More

Indiana University Press, April 1997. Hardcover. Reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg, devoted to an interpretation of Plato's Sophist and Aristotle. The lectures approach Plato through a detailed reading of the Nichomachean Ethics, providing one of Heidegger's major interpretations of Aristotle. More

Harvard University Press, July 1967. Paper Back. This reader consists of 90 selections illustrating the history of Rome from the myth of Aeneas to the founding of the Augustan Principate. The selections have been chosen with three aims in mind: gradual increase in length and difficulty, continuity of subject matter..... More

Princeton University Press, November 2013. Trade Paperback. The story of one of the most important--and incendiary--books in Western history When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published--godless, full of abominations, a book forged in hell . . . by the..... More

State University of New York P, January 2006. Trade Paperback. Virtue ethics has been a major focus in contemporary moral philosophy since the publication of Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue. Here, in The Virtue of Nonviolence, Nicholas F. Gier argues that virtue ethics is the best option for constructive postmodern..... More