On Revolution (Pelican)
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1977. Soft Cover. Inked name on leading edge. More
Penguin (Non-Classics), November 1977. Soft Cover. Inked name on leading edge. More
University of California Press, September 1990. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1966 and now recognized as a classic, Norman O. Brown's meditation on the condition of humanity and its long fall from the grace of a natural, instinctual innocence is available once more for a new generation of readers. Love's..... More
Cornell University Press, April 2012. Trade Paperback. In this book, the noted intellectual historian Frank Ankersmit provides a systematic account of the problems of reference, truth, and meaning in historical writing. He works from the conviction that the historicist account of historical writing, associated primarily with Leopold von Ranke and..... More
Penguin Books, March 2024. Paper Back. The New York Times bestseller - One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 - A New York Times Notable Book "A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important, readable and worth reading . .... More
Da Capo Press, February 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Everyman Paperback Classics, March 1995. Trade Paperback. For centuries, Stoicism was virtually the unofficial religion of the Roman world The stress on endurance, self-restraint, and power of the will to withstand calamity can often seem coldhearted. It is Epictetus, a lame former slave exiled by Emperor Domitian, who offers by..... More
Penguin Group USA Inc, November 1991. Trade Paperback. "Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a one."--The Christian Science Monitor. More
Harper Perennial, September 2001. Trade Paperback. Love him or hate him, you certainly can't ignore him. For the past twenty years, Australian philosopher and professor of bioethics Peter Singer has pushed the hot buttons of our collective conscience. In addition to writing the book that sparked the modern animal rights..... More
Vintage, November 1988. Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to..... More
Pushkin Press, September 2012. Trade Paperback. The Struggle with the Daemon is a brilliant analysis of the European psyche by the great novelist and biographer Stefan Zweig. Zweig studies three giants of German literature and thought: Friedrich Holderlin, Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Nietzsche - powerful minds whose ideas were..... More
Verso, January 2012. Trade Paperback. The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'human inclination' such as love, sympathy or fear. In attempting to interpret such a revolutionary proposition in a more 'humane'..... More
Verso, January 2012. Trade Paperback. Originally published in 1962, when Lefebvre was beginning his career as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Strasbourg, it established his position in the vanguard of a movement which was to culminate in the events of May 1968. A classic analysis of the..... More
Oxford University Press, September 2015. Trade Paperback. The unifying motif of Bimal Krishna Matilalas work is the study of rational traditions in Indian philosophical thought. With his ability to span the divide between the Indian and Western intellectual traditions, he brought contemporary techniques of analytical philosophy to bear upon the..... More
The MIT Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. "The Principle of Hope" is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has rejected the doctrine on which..... More
The MIT Press, May 1995. Trade Paperback. "The Principle of Hope" is one of the great works of the human spirit. It is a critical history of the utopian vision and a profound exploration of the possible reality of utopia. Even as the world has rejected the doctrine on which..... More
Stanford University Press, March 2005. Trade Paperback. Why are we interested in history at all? Why do we feel the need to distinguish between past and present? In this book, the author argues that the past originates from an experience of rupture separating past and present. Think of the radical..... More
Stanford University Press, January 2002. Trade Paperback. This book fully recognizes the aestheticism inherent in historical writing while acknowledging its claim to satisfy the demands of rational and scientific inquiry. Focusing on the notion of representation and on the necessity of distinguishing between representation and description, it argues that the..... More
University of Chicago Press, June 2016. Trade Paperback. The Kamasutra is best known in the West for its scandalous celebration of unbridled sensuality. Yet, there is much, much more to it; embedded in the text is a vision of the city founded on art and aesthetic pleasure. In Foucault and..... More
Quartet Books, January 1993. Trade Paperback. More
Interlink Publishing+group Inc. Trade Paperback. More
Routledge, October 1998. Trade Paperback. Since the death of Jacques Lacan, Jean Laplanche is now considered to be one of the worlds foremost psychoanalytic thinkers. In spite of the influence of his work over the last thirty years, remarkably little has been available in English. Essays On Otherness presents for..... More
Gestalt Journal Press, May 2013. Trade Paperback. A crisp, clean, seemingly unread copy. More
Indiana University Press, April 2001. Trade Paperback. Explores the dynamic relationship between bodies and the world around them.What if we lived across and through our skins as much as we do within them? According to Shannon Sullivan, the notion of bodies in transaction with their social, political, cultural, and physical..... More
Oxford University Press, August 2015. Trade Paperback. While gender and race often are considered socially constructed, this book argues that they are physiologically constituted through the biopsychosocial effects of sexism and racism. This means that to be fully successful, critical philosophy of race and feminist philosophy need to examine not..... More
John Benjamins Publishing Company, July 2011. Trade Paperback. This expanded second edition carries forward the initial insights into the biological and existential significances of animation by taking contemporary research findings in cognitive science and philosophy and in neuroscience into critical and constructive account. It first takes affectivity as its focal..... More