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
Routledge, November 1994. Trade Paperback. Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers surveys the most important figures who have influenced post-war thought. The reader is guided through structuralism, semiotics, post-Marxism and Annales history, on to modernity and postmodernity. With its comprehensive biographical and bibliographical information, this book provides a vital reference work of..... More
Clarendon Press, September 2006. Trade Paperback. A stellar selection of the world's most eminent philosophers give a picture of the current state of their subject, where it is going, and where it ought to be steered. Each offers a penetrating analysis of his or her particular specialism, building a volume..... More
Routledge, August 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More
Oxford University Press, July 2004. Paper Back. Philosophy is a dangerous profession, risking censorship, prison, even death. And no wonder: philosophers have questioned traditional pieties and threatened the established political order. Some claimed to know what was thought unknowable; others doubted what was believed to be certain. Some attacked religion..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, January 1997. Trade Paperback. Contemporary moral philosophers have produced an enormous amount of rich and varied published work on virtually all the issues falling within the scope of ethics and moral philosophy. Morality and the Good Life is a comprehensive survey of contemporary ethical theory which..... More
Oxford University Press, USA, November 1994. Hardcover. From Plato's Republic and St. Augustine's Confessions through Marx's Capital and Sartre's Being and Nothingness, the extraordinary philosophical dialogue between great Western minds has flourished unabated through the ages. Dazzling in its genius and breadth, the long line of European and American intellectual..... More
Cengage Learning, January 1992. Hardcover. This outstanding anthology traces major critical statements from classic theorists like Plato to the contemporary. This standard historical textbook in the field focuses on important individual thinkers, and not particular schools of thought or isms. Current selections bring the anthology into contemporary times and show..... More
Columbia University Press, April 2003. Hardcover. What do we mean when we say time passes? How do contingency and anachronism and other philosophical concepts bearing on time affect the more (seemingly) concrete realities of our political and cultural lives? In ways small and great, personal and cultural, we all experience..... More
Flatiron Books, September 2022. Hardcover. "An INVALUABLE RESOURCE to anyone who wants to think better." --Gretchen Rubin Award-winning YALE PROFESSOR Woo-kyoung Ahn delivers "A MUST-READ--a smart and compellingly readable guide to cutting-edge research into how people think." (Paul Bloom) "A FUN exploration." --Dax Shepard Psychologist Woo-kyoung Ahn devised a course..... More
Frederick Ungar, January 1978. Paper Back. Octavo. Shelfwear. Wear to cover edges. Moderate sunning to spine. First U.S. paperback printing. Originally issued in 1928 as 'Propos sur le Bonheur'. Not common. [252 pages]. More
Oxford University Press, January 1975. Paper Back. 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
OH Editions, November 2022. Unknown. Aristotle is a titan of classic philosophy, and one of the most-recognised thinkers in global history. In Politics, Aristotle examines government, politics and how societies are run - from households to city states - and establishes how successful constitutions can best be initiated and upheld..... More
The Penguin Classics / Penguin Books, 1962. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Mass market paperback with edgewear. Darkened spine slightly leaning. Previous owner's name & a date in ballpoint upper right corner of first inside page. [320 pages). More
The Modern Library, 1947. Hardcover. Grey cloth. Dustjacket clipped; dustjacket has some creasing and chipping along edges. Previous owner's name written in ink on title page; some underlining in ink in back part of book. [667 pages]. More
University Press of Kentucky, June 1983. Trade Paperback. Deconstruction -- a mode of close reading associated with the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and other members of the "Yale School" -- is the current critical rage, and is likely to remain so for some time. Reading Deconstruction / Deconstructive Reading offers..... More
Routledge, November 1997. Trade Paperback. Epistemology, or the theory of knowledge, is concerned with how we know what we do, what justifies us in believing what we do, and what standards of evidence we should use in seeking truths about the world and human experience. This comprehensive book introduces the..... More
Gateway Editions, January 2023. Paper Back. The one book you need to master stoic philosophy! This classic collection, newly revised and with a foreword by classicist Spencer Klavan, includes the famed original introduction by Russell Kirk, the full text of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the complete Enchiridion of Epictetus..... More
Beacon Press, January 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. First printing w/ no additional printings stated; Tight binding; Clean, sturdy boards, mild edge wear present at spine top and bottom; Publisher text mildly faded at spine; Outer edge text block lightly foxed; Text free of markings; Previous owner raised library stamp present..... More
Verso, February 2012. Trade Paperback. Polemics is a series of brilliant metapolitical reflections, demolishing established opinion and dominant propaganda, and reorienting our understanding of events from the Kosovo and Iraq wars to the Paris Commune and the Cultural Revolution. At once witty and profound, Badiou presents a series of radical..... 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
Grove Press, 1965. Paper Back. Second printing; Solid binding, clean text; Some general wear to covers and spine including slight water damage at upper edge; A great reading copy. More
Random House, January 1962. Cloth. Complete four volume set. Octavo. No jackets as issued. Tan cloth with black & silver lettering. Heavy foxing, darkening to margins. Tanning to end pages. Front free end pages on all 4 volumes have inked previous owner's name and a previous dealer's rubber stamped address..... More
University Alabama Press, October 1975. Trade Paperback. Seeks to bring present-day philosophy principles into the history of aesthetics Before the publication of Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present there were three histories of aesthetics in English--Bosanquet's pioneering work, the second part of Croce's Aesthetic in the Ainsle translation, and..... More
