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History of Western philosophy

Hardcover. Although he has long been known primarily as the object of Soren Kierkegaard's disdain, Hans Lassen Martensen (1808-84) was a celebrated figure in his own time. The authors demonstrate that the problems critically addressed by Martensen in the Danish Golden Age are still very much with us today in the twenty-first century. Editor(s): Stewart, Dr. Jon. Num Pages: 369 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 149 x 26. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
Number of pages
369
Condition
New
SKU
V9788763531696
ISBN
9788763531696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 58.77
€ 46.96

Paperback. Series: Routledge Critical Thinkers. Num Pages: 198 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415493093
ISBN
9780415493093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.27

Paperback. Translator(s): Bartlett, A. J.; Bartlett, Adam; Clemens, Justin. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474275538
ISBN
9781474275538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.87

Hardback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPDF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 145 x 14. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172400
ISBN
9780231172400
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.30

Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPDF; HPQ; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231172417
ISBN
9780231172417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.82

Hardcover. From Plato to the present, Western philosophers have debated the meaning of "happiness". Arranged chronologically, this study explores the development of Rabbinic thought and Jewish philiosophy, and the connections between the various perspectives. Series: Monographs of the Hebrew Union College. Num Pages: 500 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPM; HRJ; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1084.
Publisher
Hebrew Union College Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Edition Unstated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780878204533
ISBN
9780878204533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.14

Paperback. Separated by millennia, Aristotle and Sigmund Freud both offered disparate pictures of the human condition. This book analyzes these thinkers' theories of human behaviour in terms of a higher principle - whether happiness or death, and concludes that neither can govern "the remainder of life". Series: The Tanner Lectures on Human Values. Num Pages: 202 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 138 x 13. Weight in Grams: 270.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
202
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674006744
ISBN
9780674006744
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.58
€ 47.63

Paperback. Presents an approach to a debate about Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: whether it coherently argues that the best life for humans is one devoted to a single activity, namely philosophical contemplation. This book argues that in Aristotle's view, we may act for the sake of an end not just by instrumentally bringing it but also by approximating it. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691126265
ISBN
9780691126265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.92

Hardcover. Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing. Series: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118357385
ISBN
9781118357385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.93

Paperback. Happy-People-Pills for All explores current theories of happiness while demonstrating the need to develop advanced pharmacological agents for the enhancement of our capacity for happiness and wellbeing. Series: Blackwell Public Philosophy Series. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118357477
ISBN
9781118357477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.40

Hardback. Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and advisor to the emperor Nero, all during the Silver Age of Latin literature. This is a series of new English-language translations of his works helps restore Seneca to his rightful place among the classical writers most widely studied in the humanities. Translator(s): Fantham, Elaine; Hine, Harry M.; Ker, James; Williams, Gareth D. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 219 x 26. Weight in Grams: 538.
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226748320
ISBN
9780226748320
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.22
€ 79.61

Paperback. Translator(s): Fatham, Elaine; Hine, Harry M.; Ker, James; Williams, Gareth D. Series: The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Num Pages: 348 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 215 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226748337
ISBN
9780226748337
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 32.72

Hardcover. This volume on classical philology includes, among others, the following contributions: Francis Cairns, "Virgil Eclogue 1.1-2: A literary Program?"; John Hunt, "Readings in Apollonius of Tyre"; Alexander Jones, "Geminus and the Isia"; and Peter Knox "Lucretius on the Narrow Road". Editor(s): Segal, Charles; Henrichs, Albert; Higbie, Carolyn; Jones, Christopher; Nagy, Gregory. Series: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology. Num Pages: 426 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2AHA; CF; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 145 x 33. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
426
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674379473
ISBN
9780674379473
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.41

Hardback. In Hating Empire Properly, Sunil Agnani produces a novel attempt to think the eighteenth-century imagination of the West and East Indies together, arguing that this is how contemporary thinkers Edmund Burke and Denis Diderot actually viewed them. This con Num Pages: 320 pages, 7 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: HBTQ; HPCD; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 234 x 29. Weight in Grams: 536.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823251803
ISBN
9780823251803
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 87.25

Paperback. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 336 pages, colour illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JFC; JFSJ1; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. 336 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JFC; JFSJ1; JMAF. Dimension: 149 x 223 x 22. Weight: 492. Translator(s): Herman, Jeanine.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231143257
ISBN
9780231143257
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Jean Baudrillard meets Cookie Mueller in this gathering of French theory and new American fiction. Editor(s): Kraus, Chris; Lotringer, Sylvere. Series: Semiotext(E) Journal. Num Pages: 430 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
430
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350125
ISBN
9781584350125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.03

Hardback. Why do the dead return? Do they remain part of the world of the living? This book examines these questions as they emerge in areas as diverse as film, Holocaust testimony, and the works of Jacques Derrida, Nicolas Abraham and Maria Torok. The book suggests it may be as difficult for the living to get rid of the dead as it is to live without them. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230507821
ISBN
9780230507821
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.24

paperback. This book addresses recent interest in ghosts and the return of the dead through examination of key theoretical texts as well as films and literary works. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; DSBH; HPC; JFC; JMAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Edition
1st ed. 2007
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349353682
ISBN
9781349353682
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

Paperback. Editor(s): Frowen, Stephen F. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; KCA; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 453.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349259939
ISBN
9781349259939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 194.08

Hardback. This volume provides a critical assessment of the wide spectrum of Hayek's celebrated work as economist and social philosopher. Included are papers on Hayek's early writings in the field of monetary economics. Editor(s): Frowen, Stephen F. Num Pages: 350 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 37. Weight in Grams: 599.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333600900
ISBN
9780333600900
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 195.04

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