History of Western philosophy
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History of Western philosophy
hardcover. Aristotle argues that virtuous conduct is the governing factor in living well. Combining philological precision with philosophical analysis, this book reconstructs Aristotle's defense of these claims and examines his position in response to the prevailing hopes and anxieties of his age. Series: Stanford Series in Philosophy. Num Pages: 356 pages, index. BIC Classification: 3D; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 147 x 27. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804716949
- ISBN
- 9780804716949
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€ 86.34
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Paperback. This work sets the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution in general in the context of a revolution in rhetorical theory and practice that sought to discover a new language, a natural language equivalent to natural law that would permit understanding of public opinion. Num Pages: 288 pages, 28 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804720762
- ISBN
- 9780804720762
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€ 37.99€ 33.91
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Paperback. 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 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
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- New
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- V9780804721035
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- 9780804721035
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€ 30.99€ 27.37
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Paperback. This book argues that instead of the Oedipus complex explaining the myth, the Oedipus myth explains the complex. The author argues that the Oedipus myth is an historical anomaly, a myth of failed royal investiture or of avoided masculine initiation. Translator(s): Porter, Catherine. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 228
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- New
- SKU
- V9780804721714
- ISBN
- 9780804721714
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€ 30.99€ 27.53
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paperback. This is a collection of twenty-three interviews given since the 1980s. It illustrates the extraordinary breadth of Derrida's concerns, touching upon such subjects as the teaching of philosophy, sexual difference and feminine identity, the media, AIDS, language and translation, and politics. Translator(s): Kamuf, Peggy. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 516 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 516
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804724883
- ISBN
- 9780804724883
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€ 40.99€ 36.10
€ 40.99
€ 36.10
Hardback. Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
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- New
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- V9780804727167
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- 9780804727167
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€ 118.43
€ 118.43
Paperback. Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804727280
- ISBN
- 9780804727280
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€ 30.99€ 27.31
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Hardback. This new interpretation of Fichte's Jena system focuses on the problem of the objectivity of consciousness. Series: Studies in Kant & German Idealism. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
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- New
- SKU
- V9780804730006
- ISBN
- 9780804730006
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€ 71.22
€ 71.22
Hardback. 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, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
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- New
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- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780804732673
- ISBN
- 9780804732673
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€ 108.31
€ 108.31
Paperback. In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
- Condition
- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732956
- ISBN
- 9780804732956
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€ 43.99€ 38.32
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Hardback. Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. These four studies carefully consider the history of painting - from classical to contemporary - as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Translator(s): Smith, James K. A. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
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- New
- SKU
- V9780804733915
- ISBN
- 9780804733915
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€ 102.72
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Paperback. This work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of cognition with its complex structure of disciplines, levels of explanation, and conflicting hypotheses. Editor(s): Petitot, Jean; Varela, Francisco J.; Pachoud, Bernard; Roy, Jean-Michel. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 932.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 672
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736107
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- 9780804736107
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€ 51.99€ 46.17
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Paperback. Drawing on Heidegger's corpus, the work of historians and biblical specialists, and contemporary philosophers like Levinas and Derrida, Zarader brings to light the evolution of an impense-or unthought thought-that bespeaks a complex debt at the core of Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736862
- ISBN
- 9780804736862
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€ 32.99€ 29.75
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Paperback. Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736985
- ISBN
- 9780804736985
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Paperback. This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. It shows that many of the book's elements are reminiscent of Nietzsche's earlier revisions of philology and anticipate the later writings. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
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- New
- SKU
- V9780804737005
- ISBN
- 9780804737005
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€ 32.99€ 29.70
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Paperback. Nancy's The Speculative Remark played a significant role in transforming the practice of philosophy away from system building to analysis of specific linguistic detail. Translator(s): Surprenant, Celine. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804737142
- ISBN
- 9780804737142
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Paperback. These twelve essays treat the thought of "deconstructive" philosophers from the perspective of analytic philosophy and relate the works of such thinkers as Davidson, Quine, and Wittgenstein to the writings of Derrida and de Man. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 610.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804737531
- ISBN
- 9780804737531
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Hardback. The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. This book presents his most mature ideas about the history of Western philosophy. Translator(s): Lom, Petr. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738002
- ISBN
- 9780804738002
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€ 128.35
€ 128.35
Paperback. Enthusiasm is Lyotard's most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime. Editor(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 146.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804738996
- ISBN
- 9780804738996
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€ 23.99€ 21.90
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Paperback. This collection of philosophical essays interrogates key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's "Being and Time" as its point of reference and dispute, the book also confronts other philosphers, such as Kant, Nietzche and Derrida. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804739016
- ISBN
- 9780804739016
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€ 37.99€ 34.01
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