University of Chicago Press, August 1991. Trade Paperback. The scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural..... More
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
Clarendon Press, March 1971. Trade Paperback. The present reissue of Wallace's translation of Hegel's Philosophy of Mind includes the Zusatze or lecture-notes which, in the collected works, accompany the first section entitled Subjective Mind and which Wallace omitted from his translation. Professor J. N. Findlay has written a Foreword and..... More
The Open Court Publishing Company, 1962. Hardcover. 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
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
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, 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
University of Chicago Press, October 1985. Paper Back. This new translation of one of the fundamental texts of Western political thought combines strict fidelity to Aristotle's Greek with a contemporary English prose style. Lord's intention throughout is to retain Aristotle's distinctive style. The accompanying notes provide literary and historical references..... 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
The Library of LIberal Artsl/Bobbs-Merrill, 1985. Paper Back. 23rd printing. Clean, with minimal shelfwear. Interiors clean & without markings. 315 pages plus 26 introductory pages. 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
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
Telos Press Publishing, June 1981. Trade Paperback. 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
Franklin, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. 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
Doubleday Anchor, 1954. Reprint. Mass Market PaperBack. Dust stains to textblock edges. Cover worn at extremities. Foxing/darkening to wrapper margins.Two sources of Moraltity and Religion first published in France in 1932. The English translation appeared in 1935. (320 pages.). More
Penguin Books, October 1979. Trade Paperback. More
Macmillan, April 1977. Hardcover. More
W.W. Norton, January 1928. Hardcover. Second printing. More
Cambridge University Press, June 1977. Trade Paperback. Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social..... More
Vintage, 1974. Mass Market PaperBack. More
The Modern Library, January 1939. First Thus. Cloth. Stated, First Modern Library Giant Edition in edgeworn jacket with tears, sunned spine, foxed/darkened verso. Flap not clipped. 268 titles listed on jacket verso. Sticker removal residue back jacket panel. Regal blue cloth covered boards with gold lettering in black rectangle on..... More
