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History of Western philosophy

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History of Western philosophy

Paperback. Translator(s): Conley, Verena Andermatt. Series: Theory & History of Literature S. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; 2ADP; DSBF; DSK; HPCF; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 147 x 227 x 10. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
First edition
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816618293
ISBN
9780816618293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.40

Paperback. Introduces the most renowned disciple of Socrates and the theory of Platonic forms before moving to Plato's disciple, Aristotle, whose advance to scientific thinking is detailed. Translator(s): Simson, Frances H.; Haldane, Elizabeth Sanderson. Num Pages: 453 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
453
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803272729
ISBN
9780803272729
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.25

Paperback. This is a succinct and elegant argument for the specificity of a philosophy of tragedy, as opposed to a poetics of tragedy espoused by Aristotle. Translator(s): Fleming, Paul. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 214 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804743952
ISBN
9780804743952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.36

Hardcover. Front Lines documents the literary practices of imperial Spain's common soldiers. The epic poems, chronicles, ballads, and autobiographies that these soldiers wrote at the front provide a critical view from below on state violence and imperial expansion. Series: Material Texts. Num Pages: 320 pages, 12 illus. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSB; HPCB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812248425
ISBN
9780812248425
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.14

Paperback. Offering an introduction to natural law ethics, this book introduces readers to the mainstream tradition of Western moral philosophy. Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis, it links morality to the protection of basic human goods. Num Pages: 168 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Georgetown University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878408856
ISBN
9780878408856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.15

Hardcover. The issue of private property and the rights it confers remains almost undiscussed in critiques of globalization and free market economics. Yet property lies at the heart of an economic system geared to profit maximization. This text describes the specific and self-consciously explicit manner in which it emerged. Translator(s): Griffiths, Elaine. Num Pages: 256 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPC; JFFS; JPVH3; KCA; LN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Zed Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9781842774786
ISBN
9781842774786
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 89.46

Paperback. Argues that Nietzsche tried to create a specific literary character in his writings and discusses the paradoxes of his work. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Edition
Fourth Printing
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674624269
ISBN
9780674624269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 32.68

Paperback. Analyses key aspects of ancient Greek philosophy in their original context of mystery religion, and magic. The author brings to light evidence uncovered about ancient Pythagoreanism and reconstructs the transmission of Pythagorean ideas from the Greek West down to the alchemists and magicians of Egypt, and from there into the Islamic world. Num Pages: 432 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA; HRQX2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA Oxford
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198150817
ISBN
9780198150817
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 85.35

Paperback. Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism. Num Pages: 632 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPDF; HRE. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 173 x 34. Weight in Grams: 946.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
632
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415406109
ISBN
9780415406109
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 56.16

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
Unabridged
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486406633
ISBN
9780486406633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. Introduces readers to medieval life through the experience of Peter Abelard, the master of the Paris schools, whose career included, seducing Heloise, being castrated, accused of treason, condemned as a heretic, as well as writing his memoirs - his "story of calamities". Num Pages: 432 pages, 0. BIC Classification: 3H; BGH; HBJD; HBLC; HPCB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631214441
ISBN
9780631214441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 46.61

Paperback. This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heideggera s philosophy and his political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is also a study, by the leading sociologist in France today, of some of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745617145
ISBN
9780745617145
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.48

Paperback. * Feyerabend was one of the most important philosophers of science of the second half of the 20th century. His most famous book, Against Method, was an international bestseller that sold hundreds of thousands of copies. * This book is based on one of the last texts he wrote, shortly before he died in 1994. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745651903
ISBN
9780745651903
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.28

Paperback. Environmental aesthetics explores the meaning and influence of environmental perception and experience on human life. Arguing for the idea that environment is fully integrated and continuous with us, this book explores the aesthetic dimensions of the human-environment continuum in both theoretical terms and concrete situations. Num Pages: 315 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN; RN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
315
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566393348
ISBN
9781566393348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 41.37

Paperback. This text introduces a new approach to the issue of radical scientific revolutions, or "paradigm-shifts", given prominence in the work of Thomas Kuhn. The book articulates a dynamic and historic version of the conception of scientific "a priori" principles first developed by the Immanuel Kant. Series: Stanford Kent lectures. Num Pages: 150 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
SKU
V9781575862927
ISBN
9781575862927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.12

Paperback. In The Transparent Society Vattimo develops his own distinctive views on postmodernism and its philosophical and cultural relevance. Vattimo argues that the post--modern condition is linked to the development of the mass media and the diffusion of systems of communication. Num Pages: 129 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
129
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745610474
ISBN
9780745610474
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.67

Paperback. Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the most important figures in the history of American thought, religion, and literature. The vitality of his writings and the unsettling power of his example continue to influence us more than a hundred years after his death. This work gives us a portrait of the whole man. Num Pages: 684 pages, 26 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BG; DSBF; HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1004.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
684
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520206892
ISBN
9780520206892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 27.35

Paperback. Translator(s): Gianturco, Elio; Verene, Donald Phillip. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JHBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 145 x 10. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801497780
ISBN
9780801497780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. The fourth and final volume of the analytical commentary on Wittgenstein's philosophical investigations covers 428-693. This volume of exgenesis dissects, develops, clarifies and evaluates Wittgenstein's arguments. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631219866
ISBN
9780631219866
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.83

Paperback. A concise guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated The Story of the Eye. Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages, notes, references, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSBH; HPCF; JFCX; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 255 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745315874
ISBN
9780745315874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.43

Paperback. Explains Cynicism's rise in popularity in the ancient world by exploring the set of attitudes that collectively formed the Greek praise of poverty. The author argues that economic, military, and philosophical thought contains explicit criticisms of wealth and praise of poverty. This is a work of ancient Cynicism and its classical environment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025823
ISBN
9780268025823
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.59

Paperback. Aristotlea s ethical writings are among the worlda s greatest, but are easily misunderstood by the inexperienced. Professor Urmson, after 50 years of study, provides a clear account of the main doctrines in an easily intelligible way and without dwelling on matters of mainly scholarly interest. Num Pages: 144 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 8. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631159469
ISBN
9780631159469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 47.99

Paperback. Focuses and distills the diverse Emerson and puts his central teachings within the scope of the modern reader. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; HPCD; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 165 x 14. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Lindisfarne Books
Condition
New
SKU
KKD0013026
ISBN
9780970109736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bedford/St. Martin's
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312468422
ISBN
9780312468422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.51

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