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History of Western philosophy
Routledge History of Philosophy Volume IV: The Renaissance and Sevente...
(Edited By G.H.R. Parkinson)
hardcover. This volume covers a period of three hundred and fifty years, from the middle of the fourteenth century to the early years of the eighteenth century: the birth of modern philosophy. Editor(s): Parkinson, G. H. R. Series: Routledge History of Philosophy. Num Pages: 474 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 953. Volume IV only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Cloth covers, no dj as issued, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034564
- ISBN
- 9780415053785
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hardcover. Mary Louise Gill presents a bold new explanation of the fact that the dialogue which Plato promised to write on the Philosopher, complementing the Sophist and the Statesman, is missing. Gill argues that he left it unwritten in order to stimulate his readers and encourage them to work out, for themselves, the portrait it would have contained. Num Pages: 304 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HP; HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 165 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 610. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
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- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034557
- ISBN
- 9780199606184
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hardcover. C. D. C. Reeve develops a powerful new account of the age-old argument over whether the just are happier than the unjust, drawing from a new understanding of Plato's conception of philosophy. Num Pages: 230 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 474. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- OUP USA
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- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034511
- ISBN
- 9780199934430
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hardcover. Why is there a material world? Why is it fundamentally mathematical? Matter Matters explores a seventeenth-century answer to these questions as it emerged from the works of Descartes and Leibniz. Kurt Smith establishes the claim that mathematics is intelligible if, and only if, matter exists. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 684. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
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- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034510
- ISBN
- 9780199583652
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hardcover. This edited volume examines the ways in which theological considerations have figured in natural law theorizing, from Plato to Spinoza. Editor(s): Jacobs, Jonathan A. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS; HRAB; HRQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 165 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034507
- ISBN
- 9780199767175
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Measuring Heaven: Pythagoras and His Influence on Thought and Art in A...
Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, 61. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACK; HPCA; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 642. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034478
- ISBN
- 9780801474095
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paperback. This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly and commercial circles of his day. Series: Massachusetts Studies in Early Modern Culture. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 424. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University Massachusetts Press
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- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034465
- ISBN
- 9781558490703
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paperback. Traces Plato's depiction of how the most basic forms of human functioning and social justice contain the seed of their evolution into increasingly complex structures, as well as the seed of their degeneration. This passage-by-passage analysis also traces Plato's tendency to begin an investigation with models based on rigid distinctions. Num Pages: 408 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS; JPHC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 590. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Lexington Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034458
- ISBN
- 9780739111888
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paperback. Benjamin and Scholem are regarded as two of the most influential Jewish thinkers of the 20th century. With material dating from 1918 to 1923, this text aims to make their more obscure work accessible to a wider audience. The topics discussed include messianism, language and divine justice. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJG; DNF; DSBH; DSK; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 635. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034451
- ISBN
- 9780231126571
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paperback. An examination of the philosophical origins of discourse ethics through the prism of Karl-Otto Apel's thought. It finds that Apel fundamentally transformed German philosophy, which had become stagnant in the years before World War II, and influenced later thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas. Series: New Critical Theory. Num Pages: 256 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJ; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034445
- ISBN
- 9780742512214
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hardcover. Argues that the Socratic paradoxes are best understood as Socrates' way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 185 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034704
- ISBN
- 9780226891729
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hardcover. Through a study of Plato's Gorgias, this title shows that contemporary conceptions of shame are far too narrow. It develops an account of a different kind of shame, which the author calls 'respectful shame' and argues that this type of shame is just as important to contemporary democracy as it was to its ancient form. Num Pages: 240 pages, 5 tables. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 476. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034359
- ISBN
- 9780691128566
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paperback. Written by a former student of Heidegger, this book examines the relationship between the philosophy and the politics of a celebrated teacher and the allure that Nazism held out for scholars committed to revolutionary nihilism. Editor(s): Wolin, Richard. Translator(s): Steiner, Gary. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; BGH; HPCF; JPFQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034330
- ISBN
- 9780231084079
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paperback. Focuses on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - the extraordinary period of intellectual flourishing that begins, very roughly, with Descartes and his contemporaries and ends with Kant. This work is of interest to specialists within the discipline, philosophers and intellectual historians. Editor(s): Garber, Daniel; Nadler, Steven. Series: Oxford Studies in Early Modern Philosophy. Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 460. Volume III only. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034329
- ISBN
- 9780199203932
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paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034310
- ISBN
- 9780809329007
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Paperback. This book offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: Longinus, Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324. This book offers a survey of the teachings of, and relations between, four leading figures in third-century Platonism: Longinus, Plotinus, Porphyry and Iamblichus. Num Pages: 198 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 157 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 324. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duckworth
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034282
- ISBN
- 9780715635636
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paperback. A collection of dovetailing essays which together interpret and assess the chief arguments and texts which make up Plato's cosmology. It is critically sympathetic to the Platonic project, at least to the extent that it argues that many features of the Platonic cosmology are more intelligible and coherent than usually supposed by critics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 151 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 438. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Parmenides Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034279
- ISBN
- 9781930972018
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paperback. Translator(s): Sandler, Lorna. Series: Enlightenment source texts. Num Pages: 218 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 296. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Clinamen Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034268
- ISBN
- 9781903083055
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hardcover. Engaging in style and substantive in analysis, Barbour's John Selden will add considerably to the limited body of work on this important seventeenth-century savant. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; BGH; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034242
- ISBN
- 9780802087768
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hardcover. A 2001 reinterpretation of early modern German intellectual history, treating the civil and metaphysical philosophers as rival intellectual cultures. Series: Ideas in Context. Num Pages: 426 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 816. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0034217
- ISBN
- 9780521792653
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