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History of Western philosophy

Paperback. In this translation of Etienne Gilson's well known work L'esprit de la philosophie medievale, he undertakes the task of defining the spirit of mediaeval philosophy. Gilson asks whether we can form the concept of a Christian philosophy and, second, whether mediaeval philosophy is not precisely its most adequate historical expression. Num Pages: 490 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 682.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268017408
ISBN
9780268017408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804737142
ISBN
9780804737142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.48

Hardback. 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 20. Weight in Grams: 419.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804737135
ISBN
9780804737135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.97

Hardback. This complex and engaging book offers a powerful new explanation of how Enlightenment thinkers came to understand the purposes and the boundaries of rational inquiry. Num Pages: 376 pages, 3, 3 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JD; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 241 x 30. Weight in Grams: 640.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421420523
ISBN
9781421420523
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.85

hardcover. Translator(s): Schramm, Lenn J. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 408 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 712. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804761345
ISBN
9780804761345
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.11

Paperback. Translator(s): Schramm, Lenn J. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 661. Weight in Grams: 680.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804761352
ISBN
9780804761352
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardcover. Analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls 'the fully human soul'. Beginning with Homer's "Iliad", this work lays out the tension within the soul of Achilles between immortality and life. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 472.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226137964
ISBN
9780226137964
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 78.49

Paperback. The understanding of the soul in the West has been profoundly shaped by Christianity. This book analyzes works by Homer, Herodotus, Euripides, Plato, and Aristotle to reveal how the ancient Greeks portrayed and understood what the author calls the fully human soul. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 149 x 13. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226004495
ISBN
9780226004495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.02

Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DN; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801437465
ISBN
9780801437465
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.16

Paperback. Argues that the Socratic paradoxes are best understood as Socrates' way of combating sophistic views: that no one is willingly just, those who are just and temperate are ignorant fools, and only some virtues (courage and wisdom) but not others (justice, temperance, and piety) are marks of true excellence. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 10. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226891736
ISBN
9780226891736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.52

Paperback. For the first time, Guy Debord's pivotal work Society of the Spectacle appears in a definitive and authoritative English translation. Translator(s): Nicholson-Smith, Donald; Smith, Donald Nicholson-. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JFC; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 13. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Zone Books
Number of pages
154
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299793
ISBN
9780942299793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.55

paperback. Rejecting the view that anyone has a natural right to wield authority over others, this title argues instead for a pact, or 'social contract', that should exist between the citizens of a state and that should be the source of sovereign power. From this fundamental premise, it considers issues of liberty and law, as well as freedom and justice. Translator(s): Cranston, Maurice. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD; JPA; JPHC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1968
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140442014
ISBN
9780140442014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.36

Paperback. A collection of three of Jean-Jacques Rousseau's most important political writings - "The Social Contract"; "The First Discourse (Discourse on the Sciences and Arts)"; and "The Second Discourse (Discourse on the Origin and Foundations of Inequality)". There are essays by major scholars. Series: Rethinking the Western Tradition. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JF; HPCD; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300091410
ISBN
9780300091410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.95

Paperback. Often lost in the debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what is being constructed. Ian Hacking looks at the issue of child abuse, and examines the ways in which advanced research on new weapons influences not the content but the form of science. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; HPK; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674004122
ISBN
9780674004122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 36.08

Hardback. Ten times, an elderly grey-haired man gets up on the stage. Ten times puffing and sighing. Ten times slowly tracing out strange multi-coloured arabesques that interweave, curling with the meanders of his speech, by turns fluid and uneasy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF7; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Polity Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509510009
ISBN
9781509510009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 72.21

Paperback. Intervenes in current debates about subjectivity, agency, resistance, creativity, the self-other relationship, and effective political and ethical action Series: Psychoanalytic Interventions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823243150
ISBN
9780823243150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.27

Paperback. Influencing philosophers such as Sartre and Camus, and still modern in its psychological insights, this work explores the concept of 'despair' as a symptom of the human condition and describes man's struggle to fill the spiritual void. Series: Penguin Great Ideas. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 113 x 11. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Publication date
2008
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141036656
ISBN
9780141036656
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 53 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HPCA. Dimension: 128 x 216 x 3. Weight in Grams: 74.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Inc.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929524627
ISBN
9780929524627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.68

Paperback. Presents an array of essays on design by the seminal media critic and philosopher Vilem Flusser. This title includes essays on such ordinary 'things' as wheels, carpets, pots, umbrellas and tents, Flusser emphasizes the interrelationships between art and science, theology and technology, and archaeology and architecture. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: AK; HPCF; HPS. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 200 x 121 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861890559
ISBN
9781861890559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.92

Paperback. In this new edition of the text, Arthur Fine looks at Einstein's philosophy of science and develops his own views on realism. A new afterword discusses the reaction to Fine's own theory. Series: Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. Num Pages: 232 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; PH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226249490
ISBN
9780226249490
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 31.41

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