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History of Western philosophy

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History of Western philosophy

Paperback. Rejecting the current conflation of distraction with diversion, this book presents the first genealogy of the concept from Aristotle to Kafka, Heidegger, and Benjamin's early twentieth-century use of distraction to revolutionize the humanities. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804786874
ISBN
9780804786874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.52

Hardback. The great American thinker Ralph Waldo Emerson and the influential German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche both praised the individual's wish to be transformed. This volume examines the argument, as well as the affinity, between these two philosophers. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 661. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821414965
ISBN
9780821414965
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.51

Hardback. Draws on developments in hermeneutic phenomenology and other programs in hermeneutic philosophy to inform an interpretative approach to scientific practices. This book offers a critique of postmodern tendencies in the philosophy of science, and sets out arguments for a feminist hermeneutics of scientific research. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821419762
ISBN
9780821419762
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.51

Paperback. In this capstone work of his career, Bruce W. Wilshire builds on William James's concept of the much-at-once to develop a holistic philosophy of the experiencing body, giving special attention to the importance of music, and engaging a rich array of thinkers and composers ranging from Jefferson and James to Beethoven and Mahler. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 32. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823268344
ISBN
9780823268344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.99

Paperback. This textbook attempts to fill a gap in the growing area of discourse analysis within the social sciences. It provides the analytical tools with which students and their teachers can understand the complex and often conflicting discourses across a range of social science disciplines. Num Pages: 160 pages, 19figs.9tabs. BIC Classification: HPCF5; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 164 x 228 x 9. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The Policy Press
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861344397
ISBN
9781861344397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 37.14

Hardback. Num Pages: 64 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBLA; HPCA; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 152 x 50. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Diaphanes AG Switzerland
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9783037345443
ISBN
9783037345443
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.12

hardcover. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, this study reveals that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Beginning with the collapse of the medieval world, it argues that from the very beginning, moderns sought not to eliminate religion but to support a new view of religion and its place in human life. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRCM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 27. Weight in Grams: 656.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226293455
ISBN
9780226293455
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 90.20
€ 75.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812696172
ISBN
9780812696172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.75

Paperback. 'Hume on Causation' is dedicated to Hume's views on causation. It places Hume's interest in causation within the context of his theory of the mind and his theory of causal reasoning, arguing that Hume's conception of causation derives from his conception of the nature of the inference from causes to effects. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 15. Weight in Grams: 362.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415591713
ISBN
9780415591713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.31

hardcover. The Sarah Kofman Reader is a comprehensive anthology of significant essays and book excerpts by the postwar French philosopher and theorist Sarah Kofman (1934-1994). Editor(s): Albrecht, Thomas. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; HPCF. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804732963
ISBN
9780804732963
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.60

paperback. This collection of essays investigates the relevance of Stanley Cavell's work to political philosophy. Editor(s): Norris, Andrew. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 549.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804751322
ISBN
9780804751322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.82

paperback. Presents Baudrillard's key concepts and examines his contribution to the analysis of specific domains, such as postmodernism, feminism, technology, art, war, time and politics. Series: Modern European Thinkers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JH. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Pluto Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745316352
ISBN
9780745316352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 30.29

Paperback. This insightful selection, features four discourses from The Idea of a University: Knowledge Its Own End; Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning; Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Professional Skill; and Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion. Series: Crofts Classics. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 188 x 126 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1948
Publisher
Harlan Davidson
Condition
New
SKU
V9780882950631
ISBN
9780882950631
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.77

paperback. Jacques Derrida and an international group of philosophers of religion discuss Augustine in the light of postmodernism Editor(s): Caputo, John D.; Scanlon, Michael J. Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 280 pages, 3 b&w photos, 1 index. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253217318
ISBN
9780253217318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.37

Paperback. In this book, a group of renowned international scholars seek to discern the ways in which Simone Weil was indebted to Plato, and how her provocative readings of his work offer challenges to contemporary philosophy, theology, and spirituality. Editor(s): Doering, E. Jane; Springsted, Eric O. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line drawings. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268025656
ISBN
9780268025656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.99

hardcover. Artificial persons, as conceived by Hobbes, speak and act in the name of others. In modern institutions examples include: politicians, brokers, bureaucrats, and military personnel. This text focuses on the moral issue of how we can locate responsibility for the actions of artificial persons. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 176 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 16. Weight in Grams: 375.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804720342
ISBN
9780804720342
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.60

hardcover. Over the past decade, radical questioning of the grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of the aesthetic experience can be viewed as a general, yet necessarily open, model for human understanding. This book is a rigorous explication de texte of a central text for this thesis, Kant's Analytic of the Sublime. Translator(s): Rottenberg, Elizabeth. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804722414
ISBN
9780804722414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.45

Hardcover. The Edinburgh Companion to Critical Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the changing role of critical theory in the new century. Taking note of new theoretical and socio-political developments, this volume demonstrates critical theory's continuing relevance across disciplines ranging from the arts through to the hard sciences. Editor(s): Sim, Professor Stuart. Series: Edinburgh Companions to Scottish Literature. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 172. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748693399
ISBN
9780748693399
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 183.55

paperback. This is an analysis of how Heidegger, Brecht, Habermas, Adorno, and other German thinkers came to terms with the proliferation of technologies - technologies of bureaucratic democracy, of surveillance and military conquest, and those that affect the human psyche and soul. Editor(s): McCormick, John. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3J; HPC; HPS; JPA; JPHV; PDR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 153 x 28. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822327882
ISBN
9780822327882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.81

Paperback. Suitable for beginning students, this book presents an overview of Aristotle's entire system of thought. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: BG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
130
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872203143
ISBN
9780872203143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.88

Paperback. Immanuel Kant was one of the most influential philosophers in the whole of Europe, who changed Western thought with his examinations of reason and the nature of reality. This book investigates human progress, civilization, morality and why, to be truly enlightened, we must all have the freedom and courage to use our own intellect. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 116 x 9. Weight in Grams: 92. 121pp. Translated by H B Nisbet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
9780141043883
ISBN
9780141043883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.18

paperback. This volume contains the speech given by Derrida at Emmanuel Levinas's funeral on December 27, 1995, and his contribution to a colloquium organized to mark the first anniversary of Levinas's death. Translator(s): Naas, Michael; Brault, Pascal-Anne. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 204 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780804732758
ISBN
9780804732758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 17.57

paperback. This edition of "Prolegomena" includes Kant s letter of February, 1772 to Marcus Herz, a momentous document in which Kant relates the progress of his thinking and announces that he is now ready to present a critique of pure reason." Translator(s): Ellington, James W. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hacket Pub.
Condition
New
SKU
9780872205932
ISBN
9780872205932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.93

Paperback. In this new book Paul Ricoeur - one of the greatest contemporary philosophers - offers a personal reflection on his life and on the themes which have preoccupied him over the course of his career. Num Pages: 206 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 155 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Polity Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
206
Condition
New
SKU
V9780745620015
ISBN
9780745620015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.86

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