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History of Western philosophy

Hardback. Series: Anthem Australian Humanities Research Series. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1MBF; HPCD1; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Anthem Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783082315
ISBN
9781783082315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 132.83

Hardback. This book presents an interdisciplinary reading of Central European dissidence during the Cold War. It argues for a view of dissent as an existential search for mutual understanding and recognition, showing how dissidents' ideas contribute to current conversations in political theory and philosophy about thinking and action. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DV; HBTW; HPCF; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137576026
ISBN
9781137576026
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.91

Hardback. Jacques Derrida's repeatedly stated admiration and professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett are the point of departure for this book's exploration of the relation between philosophy and literature. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754569
ISBN
9780804754569
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.34

Paperback. Explores the late Jacques Derrida's notion of literature, starting with Derrida's self-professed inability to comment on the work of Samuel Beckett. This book also offers an overview of philosophical approaches to contemporary literature and a number of innovative readings of Beckett's work. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 161 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804754576
ISBN
9780804754576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

hardcover. Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation. Editor(s): Donati, Sylvia. Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Edition
Translation
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197266007
ISBN
9780197266007
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 196.64

hardcover. Aspall's commentary on Physics poses questions that discuss crucial issues of Aristotle's natural philosophy: matter, form, nature, change, time, the infinite and the continuum, eternity of the world. This major source for studying the introduction of Aristotelianism to Oxford in the mid-13th century is edited in Latin with English translation. Editor(s): Donati, Sylvia. Series: Auctores Britannici Medii Aevi. Num Pages: 700 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
OUP Oxford United Kingdom
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9780197265994
ISBN
9780197265994
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 246.22

Hardcover. Jean Francois Lyotard was one of the leading French philosophers of his generation. This book presents a series of studies which explain Lyotard's specific interventions in areas such as information theory, new media arts, and the changing nature of the human, and assesses their relevance and impact in relation to other positions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748697243
ISBN
9780748697243
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 124.50
€ 118.91

Hardcover. "The Enneads" has been subject to intense scrutiny for more than 2000 years. But the mystical and abstract nature of these treatises by Plotinus continues to resist easy elucidation. This volume grapples with the great neo-Platonist's conception of the individual. Is the individual free or determined? Num Pages: 397 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 180 x 32. Weight in Grams: 966.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Aarhus University Press Denmark
Number of pages
397
Condition
New
SKU
V9788779340985
ISBN
9788779340985
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.38

Hardback. Exploring what two foundational figures, Plato and Aristotle, have to say about the nature of human awareness and understanding, Aryeh Kosman concludes that ultimately the virtues of thought are to be found in the joys and satisfactions that come from thinking philosophically, whether we engage in it ourselves or witness others' participation. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPM; HPQ; PDA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 165 x 27. Weight in Grams: 642.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674730809
ISBN
9780674730809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.97
€ 58.69

Hardback. The English philosopher Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) is known as a conservative who rejected philosophically ambitious rationalism and the grand political ideologies of the twentieth century. This title presents an original account of Oakeshott's skepticism about foundations, an account that newly reveals the unity of his thought. Series: Princeton Monographs in Philosophy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147178
ISBN
9780691147178
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.36
€ 42.35

Paperback. A selection of Schopenhauer's writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and other themes taken from his last work, "Parerga and Paralipomena". It depicts humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. Translator(s): Hollingdale, R. J. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9780140442274
ISBN
9780140442274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.01

Hardback. One of the philosophers of the nineteenth century, believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This title includes his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes. Series: Penguin Pocket Hardbacks. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 105 x 32. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141395913
ISBN
9780141395913
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 13.73

Paperback. Schopenhauer's two essays On the Freedom of the Will and On the Basis of Morals form his complete system of ethics. Their doctrines are here presented in more accessible, self-contained form than in his larger work, and in a new translation, introduced by Christopher Janaway, that preserves Schopenhauer's style in modern English. Translator(s): Cartwright, David; Erdmann, Edward E. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 196 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199297221
ISBN
9780199297221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Translator(s): Payne, E. F. J. Num Pages: 564 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 690. 564 pages, Illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: HPC. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 26. Weight: 604. Translator(s): Payne, Eric F.J.
Publisher
Dover Publications
Number of pages
564
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1966
Edition
Reprint Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486217611
ISBN
9780486217611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.23

Paperback. Schopenhauer's perception of the importance of art, morality and self awareness in a blind struggle against a Godless, meaningless world radically transformed our understanding of the individual and remains a searing vision of the human condition. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 111 x 10. Weight in Grams: 90.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
144
Publication date
2005
Edition
Rev Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141018942
ISBN
9780141018942
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 694 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 36. Weight in Grams: 734.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486217628
ISBN
9780486217628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.43

Paperback. What is the meaning of life? How should I live? Is there any purpose to the universe? Generations have turned to the great German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer because he tackled the big issues. This title presents a collection of Schopenhauer's work. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061768248
ISBN
9780061768248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. Translator(s): Payne, E. F. J. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
226
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Rep Sub
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872204423
ISBN
9780872204423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.74

Paperback. Examines ethics, religion and psychology. This selection of Schopenhauer's works contains scathing attack on the nature and logic of religion, and an essay on ethics that ranges from the American slavery debate to the vices of Buddhism. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 3JH; HPCD; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 9. Weight in Grams: 82.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191591
ISBN
9780141191591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: DC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1957
Edition
Rev ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811201841
ISBN
9780811201841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.91

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