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History of Western philosophy

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History of Western philosophy

Paperback. Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 12. Weight in Grams: 331.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804744225
ISBN
9780804744225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.82

Hardcover. This text provides a different way of looking at the development of Western philosophy from Descartes to modern times. Num Pages: 448 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 160 x 45. Weight in Grams: 794.
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009035
ISBN
9780674009035
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 94.30
€ 84.66

Paperback. Looks at the interrelations between models of language in anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, and literary criticism and explores their varied accounts of subjectivity, reference, and narration Num Pages: 392 pages, 3 figures, 5 tables. BIC Classification: CF; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
392
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822320159
ISBN
9780822320159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 37.67

paperback. Series: Rhetoric and Society. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 154 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801483585
ISBN
9780801483585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 42.14

Hardback. The title of this book echoes a phrase used by the Washington Post to describethe American attempt to kill Saddam Hussein at the start of the war againstIraq. Its theme is the notion of targeting (skopos) as the name of an intentionalstructure in which the subject tries to confirm its invulnerability by aiming todestroy a target. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 18. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
164
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823224753
ISBN
9780823224753
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.10

Paperback. Challenges the contemporary critique of ideology, and in doing so opens the way for a new understanding of social conflict, particularly the recent outbursts of nationalism and ethnic struggle. Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 234 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822313953
ISBN
9780822313953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.95

Hardback. Translation of: Il gusto come esperienza. Bra, 2012. Series: Arts & Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPN; JFCV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 149 x 22. Weight in Grams: 346.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231173483
ISBN
9780231173483
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.86

Hardback. An edition of the recently discovered notebook used in the seventeenth-century by John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham, who could not inherit unless he could speak - one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and scientific contexts. Editor(s): Cram, Dr. David; Maat, Jaap. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; CFA; CFZ; HBTB; HPC; PDA; PDX. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199677085
ISBN
9780199677085
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 179.01

Paperback. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own. Translator(s): Beardsworth, Richard; Collins, George. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 316 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
318
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804730419
ISBN
9780804730419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.51

Hardback. Num Pages: 205 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5193 x 16. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823210909
ISBN
9780823210909
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 80.85

Paperback. What makes for a philosophical classic? Why do some philosophical works persist over time, while others do not? The philosophical canon and diversity are topics of major debate today. Editor(s): Schliesser, Eric. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199928927
ISBN
9780199928927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 62.19

Hardback. Translator(s): Scott-Fox, Lorna. Num Pages: 648 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, 1 maps, 7 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HRAB; HRCC7; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 168 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1070.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231149600
ISBN
9780231149600
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.17

Paperback. Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 458.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804772754
ISBN
9780804772754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 38.78

Hardback. Through three different versions of phenomenological discourse (Derrida, Henry, and Levinas), this book explores the notions of excess and the excess of excess relative to conceptions of the self. Translator(s): Barker, Stephen. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804772747
ISBN
9780804772747
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 171.67

Hardback. This first book-length study of what Heidegger called "thinking poetics" expounds the sense of language from the perspective of fundamental ontology. It is based on readings of the pertinent chapters of Being and Time, the lectures on Holderlin, "The Origin of the Work of Art," and On the Way to Language. Translator(s): Plug, Jan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: CFG; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5182 x 3226 x 21. Weight in Grams: 445.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804733748
ISBN
9780804733748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.19

hardcover. This volume provides a critical edition of the original text, an English translation, a substantial introduction, and comprehensive annotation. Editor(s): Limbrick, Elaine; Thomson, Douglas F.S. Num Pages: 324 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 650. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. No dj, as issued, remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0032872
ISBN
9780521350778
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.65

paperback. The cult sci-fi movie, "The Matrix", presented a fake world made of nothing but perceptions. This text contains 20 essays on philosophical problems raised by the film, which focus on the issue, "Can we be sure the world is really there, and if not, what should we do about it?". Editor(s): Irwin, William. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: APF; HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Edition
First Edition
SKU
V9780812695021
ISBN
9780812695021
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.63

Hardback. Including a translation of the "Treatise of the Three Imposters", this book examines the treatise in its literary, political and philosophical context. It shows that the 18th-century satire arose from a reflection on philosophy and history. Essays on the background of the work are also given. Num Pages: 192 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPCB; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847684304
ISBN
9780847684304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 161.95

hardcover. Series: British Idealist Studies, Series 3: Green. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 218 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Imprint Academic United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845400385
ISBN
9781845400385
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.04

Paperback. The three volumes address what Georges Bataille sees as the paradox of utility: namely, if being useful means serving a further end, then the ultimate end of utility can only be uselessness. Translator(s): Hurley, Robert. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 227 x 34. Weight in Grams: 708.
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
460
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780942299212
ISBN
9780942299212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.42

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