Catholic Univ of Amer Pr, April 1994. Hardcover. Previous owner's named inked on front pastedown. More

Gerald Duckworth, June 1979. Paper Back. Shelf wear to the cover. Previous owner's name inked/stamped inside front cover. Underlining on several pages. More

Sternberg Press, September 2011. Trade Paperback. Let's be clear about something: it is infuriating that most interesting artists are perfectly capable of functioning in at least two or three professions that are, unlike art, respected by society in terms of compensation and general usefulness. Furthermore, when the flexibility, certainty, and..... More

Brill Rodopi, January 1995. Trade Paperback. More

Bristol Classical Press. Hardcover. Aristotle's Physics is about the causes of motion and culminates in a proof that God is needed as the ultimate cause of motion. Aristotle argues that things in motion need to be moved by something other than themselves - he rejects Plato's self-movers. On pain of..... More

Clarendon Press, November 1991. First Edition. Hardcover. This volume contains papers by a group of leading experts on Aristotle and the later Aristotelian tradition--Neoplatonism. The discussion ranges from Aristotle's treatment of Parmenides, the most important pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, to Neoplatonic and medieval use of Aristotle. There are contributions on physics..... More

Cornell Univ Pr, April 1987. Hardcover. Previous owner's name inked on front pastedown. Some pages lightly soiled. More

The Open Court Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover. More

Vintage, March 2001. Trade Paperback. From the internationally heralded author of How Proust Can Change Your Life comes this remarkable new book that presents the wisdom of some of the greatest thinkers of the ages as advice for our day to day struggles. Solace for the broken heart can be..... More

The MIT Press, April 2020. Paper Back. A short history of cynicism, from the fearless speech of the ancient Greeks to the jaded negativity of the present. Everyone's a cynic, yet few will admit it. Today's cynics excuse themselves half-heartedly--"I hate to be a cynic, but..."--before making their pronouncements. Narrowly..... More

Penguin Classics, August 1976. Trade Paperback. An eminent public figure under the Gothic emperor Theodoric, Boethius was also an exceptional Greek scholar, and it was to the Greek philosophers that he turned when he fell from favor and was imprisoned in Pavia. Written in the period leading up to his..... More

Focus, 2006. Trade Paperback. In this, the fullest attempt in English at a sustained interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics this century, Stephen Halliwell demonstrates that the Poetics, despite its laconic brevity, contains a coherent statement of a challenging theory of poetic art, as well as hints towards a theory of mimetic..... 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

Oxford University Press, USA, July 1998. Trade Paperback. This revised translation of Aristotle's classic treatise contains all ten books of his vastly influential work of moral philosophy. Founded on the famous doctrine of the golden mean, which advocates taking the middle course between excess and deficiency, the book offers an..... More

Franklin, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. More

Routledge, November 1994. Trade Paperback. This collection of Bertrand Russell's essays is available in paperback for the first time since its publication in 1961. Its first section deals with the books which influenced Russell in his youth. The works of Shelley, Turgenev, Ibsen and Gibbon are among those selected for..... More

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

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

Open Court Classics, 1966. Trade Paperback. Sunned spine; foxing to textblock edges. Shelfworn with one small chip bottom edge front wrapper. 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

Consortium Book Sales & Dist, May 2006. Trade Paperback. In this scathingly funny satire, one of France's leading philosophers observes that modern society is burdened by numerous questions of how to care for the elderly. How to pay for their staggering medical bills? How to ensure their conscientious treatment? How..... 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

Harpercollins, March 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. In 1766 Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- philosopher, novelist, composer, educational and political provocateur -- was on the run from intolerance, persecution, and enemies who decried him as a madman, dangerous to society. David Hume, now recognized as the foremost philosopher in the English language, was..... More

SUNY Press, July 1995. Paper Back. Through the skillful use of a great variety of literary genres, this book explores the intimate relation and tension between religion and spirituality, evoking a wide range of responses that may awaken one to various possibilities of spiritual experience. More

The MIT Press, August 2020. Paper Back. A concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, which investigates the experience of experience. This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise and accessible introduction to phenomenology, a philosophical movement that investigates the experience of experience. Founded by Edmund Husserl..... 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

Knopf, October 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Having outlined a theory of bullshit and falsehood, Harry G. Frankfurt turns to what lies beyond them: the truth, a concept not as obvious as some might expect.Our culture's devotion to bullshit may seem much stronger than our apparently halfhearted attachment to truth. Some..... More

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

University of Nebraska Press, January 1994. Trade Paperback. The search for God is dictated not from without but from a profound sense of one's own moral being and worthiness to be happy. The core of Immanuel Kant's argument remains relevant to the experience of ordinary men and women. He wished..... More

Modern Library #181, January 1928. Cloth. Grey cloth with gold lettering in black square. Previous owner's name inked. Edgeworn jacket. More

Presses universitaires de France, January 1995. Paper Back. More

Univ Of Minnesota Press, September 1990. Trade Paperback. Moderate shelf wear on the jacket. As is. Underlining and notes in pen. More

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

Pantheon, November 2020. Hardcover. A thoughtful, eloquent meditation on bringing adventure and exploration into your daily life, from the author of Silence and Walking Erling Kagge is an explorer par excellence. He has accomplished things that most of us can't even imagine--for example: he's climbed Mount Everest and reached both..... More

Princeton University Press, April 1983. Trade Paperback. Presented here in a new translation, with a historical introduction by the translators, Fear and Trembling and Repetition are the most poetic and personal of Søren Kierkegaard's pseudonymous writings. Published in 1843 and written under the names Johannes de Silentio and Constantine Constantius..... More

Basic Books, December 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Lakoff and Johnson show that a philosophy responsible to the science of mind offers radically new and detailed understandings of what a person is. After first describing the philosophical stance that must follow from taking cognitive science seriously, they re-examine the basic concepts..... More

Cambridge University Press, January 1987. Hardcover. This comprehensive sourcebook makes available in the original Latin and Greek the principal extant texts required for the study of the Stoic, Epicurean and skeptical schools of philosophy. The material is organized by schools, and within each school topics are treated thematically. The volume..... More

Cambridge University Press, April 1995. Hardcover. There have been many recent books on Aristotle's theory of substance. This one is distinct from previous efforts in several ways. First, it offers a completely new and coherent interpretation of Aristotle's claim that substances are separate: substances turn out to be specimens of..... More

Cengage Learning, October 1999. Trade Paperback. This brief text assists students in understanding Hobbes' philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the "Wadsworth Philosophers Series," (which will eventually consist of approximately 100 titles..... More

Blackwell Pub, February 1992. Hardcover. The Concept of Time presents the reconstructed text of a lecture delivered by Martin Heidegger to the Marburg Theological Society in 1924. It offers a fascinating insight into the developmental years leading up to the publication, in 1927, of his magnum opus Being and Time..... More

Charles Scribner, 1957. Mass Market PaperBack. More

Humanities Press, January 1995. First Edition. Cloth. This study analyzes the representation of persuasion in pre-Platonic Greek texts, particularly Homer's Iliad. It treats the notion of persuasion in Homer in a detailed and systematic way, including drawing on specific features of contemporary philosophy in order to interpret ancient Greek texts..... More

University Of Chicago Press, June 1989. Paper Back. 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

Thomas Dunne Books, September 2020. Hardcover. A collection of answers to the philosophical questions on people's minds--from the big to the personal to the ones you didn't know you needed answered. Based on real-life questions from his Ask a Philosopher series, Ian Olasov offers his answers to questions such as..... More

Ivan R. Dee, September 1996. Trade Paperback. "Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. "Well-written, clear and informed, they have..... More

BFI Publishing, May 1994. Trade Paperback. More

University Of Chicago Press, February 1994. Hardcover. Since its original publication in France in 1963, Pierre Hadot's lively philosophical portrait of Plotinus remains the preeminent introduction to the man and his thought. Michael Chase's lucid translation complete with a useful chronology and analytical bibliography at last makes this book available..... More