History of Western philosophy
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History of Western philosophy
Paperback. Pessimism is thought of as an exclusively negative stance that inevitably leads to resignation. Even when pessimism looks like utter truth, we are told that it makes the worst of a bad situation. This book challenges the received wisdom about pessimism, arguing that there is an unrecognized yet vibrant pessimistic philosophical tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; JFCX; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 154 x 20. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691141121
- ISBN
- 9780691141121
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€ 46.99€ 33.55
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Perspectives on the Philosophy of William P. Alston
. Ed(S): Battaly, Heather D.; Lynch, Michael ...
Hardback. Editor(s): Battaly, Heather D.; Lynch, Michael P. Series: Studies in Epistemology and Cognitive Theory. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 23. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742514249
- ISBN
- 9780742514249
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€ 155.84
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Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 205 x 168 x 15. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268004347
- ISBN
- 9780268004347
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.25
€ 26.99
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Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Dimension: 225 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624661815
- ISBN
- 9781624661815
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€ 54.02€ 43.39
€ 54.02
€ 43.39
Paperback. Translator(s): MacKenzie, Raymond N. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781624661808
- ISBN
- 9781624661808
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€ 20.99€ 17.14
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Paperback. Presents a collection of essays detailing Kant's views on politics, history, and ethics. Translator(s): Humphrey, Ted. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 7. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 162
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1983
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780915145478
- ISBN
- 9780915145478
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Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.78
€ 24.99
€ 18.78
paperback. Treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation. In this book, the author establishes that form permeates society just as it does poetry and the arts. It states that forms of art are not exclusively aesthetic: the cycles of a storm, the gradations of a sunrise, the undoing of Prince Hamlet are all instances of progressive form. Num Pages: 396 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Third Edition, With new Afterword
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520041462
- ISBN
- 9780520041462
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€ 38.99€ 28.62
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Paperback. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HPCA. Dimension: 140 x 197 x 3. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929524122
- ISBN
- 9780929524122
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.65
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Paperback.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780195101164
- ISBN
- 9780195101164
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Condition: New
€ 56.63
€ 56.63
Hardcover. Series: Aquinas Lecture Series. Num Pages: 65 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCB; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 118. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Marquette Univ Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874621792
- ISBN
- 9780874621792
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Condition: New
€ 19.69
€ 19.69
Paperback. Translator(s): Levi, Honor. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540365
- ISBN
- 9780199540365
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€ 14.99€ 12.62
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Paperback. Roger Ariew masterfully renders the oddities of seventeenth-century French vocabulary and syntax in this eloquent and philosophically astute translation -- the first complete English translation based on the Sellier edition of Pascal's manuscript, widely accepted as the version closest to what Pascal intended. Translator(s): Ariew, Roger. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872207172
- ISBN
- 9780872207172
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€ 17.99€ 14.52
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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
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€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Hardback. This collection focuses primarily on Peirce's realism, pragmatism, and theism, with attention to his tychism and synechism. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 19. Weight in Grams: 499.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823216154
- ISBN
- 9780823216154
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€ 109.24
€ 109.24
Hardback. A distinguished panel of essayists address many key issues in Peirce's thought. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 444 pages, facsims. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 32. Weight in Grams: 789.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Fordham University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 444
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780823215539
- ISBN
- 9780823215539
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€ 83.00
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This Reader collects together for the first time extracts of Virilio's work from the entire range of his career. Virilio has produced important 'theory at the speed of light' that can uncannily illuminate the impact of new information and communications technologies in a world which collapses time and distance as never before. Editor(s): Redhead, Professor Steve. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 24. Weight in Grams: 564.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748620029
- ISBN
- 9780748620029
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€ 123.34€ 119.76
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Paperback. Karl Simms also offers a guide to further reading, which offers advice on Ricoeur's work as well as secondary texts. Refreshingly clear and impressively comprehensive, Paul Ricoeur is the essential guide to an essential theorist. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 176 pages, further reading. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415236379
- ISBN
- 9780415236379
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 34.12
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Hardback. Explores the troubled relationship and unfinished intellectual dialogue between Paul Celan and Martin Heidegger. This book centers on the persistent ambivalence Celan, a Holocaust survivor, felt toward a thinker who respected him and promoted his poetry. It describes how the poet and the philosopher read and responded to each other's work. Num Pages: 264 pages, 13, 13 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBH; DSC; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801883026
- ISBN
- 9780801883026
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Condition: New
€ 62.26€ 58.05
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Hardback. Translator(s): Ingram, James D. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Number of pages
- 236
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231146265
- ISBN
- 9780231146265
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.92
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Paperback. An exploration of 'pataphysics, or the science of imaginary solutions. It covers the tangled history of 'pataphysics, discussing the tension between science and poetics, in order to demonstrate that 'pataphysics constitutes an intrinsic, but neglected, cornerstone of postmodernity itself. Series: Avant-garde and Modernism Studies. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810118775
- ISBN
- 9780810118775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.91
€ 34.91