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
Routledge, August 1991. Trade Paperback. First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. More
State University of New York Press, September 1985. Trade Paperback. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction provides an assessment of two dominant modes of thinking and writing in continental philosophy today. It addresses central issues in the theory of interpretation and in the strategies of textual reading. Placed in the context of contemporary..... 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
Easton Press, January 1995. Leather. Gilt-decorative red leather with raised spine bands. Silk endpapers and ribbon marker. All edges gilt. SIGNED BY MORIMER J. ADLER. More
Easton Press, January 1993. First Edition. Leather. This leather-bound First Edition is personally signed by Mortimer J. Adler. Dark grey leather with gold lettering and design. Moire end pages.Silk ribbon marker. Gold textblock edges with scratch amidst the gilt top edge. (273 pp.). 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
Cornell University Press, March 2004. Trade Paperback. Alfarabi was among the first to explore the tensions between the philosophy of classical Greece and that of Islam, as well as of religion generally. His writings, extraordinary in their breadth and deep learning, have had a profound impact on Islamic and Jewish..... More
Library of America, September 2022. Paper Back. More urgent than ever, two landmark essays by the legendary political theorist on the greatest threat to democracy, gathered with a new introduction by David Bromwich "No one," Hannah Arendt observed, "has ever counted truthfulness as a political virtue." But why do politicians..... 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
Verso, December 2002. Trade Paperback. Alain Badiou aims to explode the assumptions behind the ethical turn in political and academic agendas which serve to reinforce the ideology of the status quo. He demonstrates particularly how an ethics conceived in terms of negative human rights and tolerance of difference cannot underpin..... 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
Other Press, March 2016. Hardcover. A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016" From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot..... 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
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
Yale University Press, January 1966. Paper Back. Moderate shelfwear, Yet heavily underlined with tick marks and side notes in pencil throught the first 120 pages thereabout of this 168 page book. Decent reading copy for those not distracted by the defacement of another reader. [168 pp.]. More
Franklin, January 1984. Leather. Full leather. Gilt edges. Moire endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. 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
