History of Western philosophy
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History of Western philosophy
Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 188 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231148306
- ISBN
- 9780231148306
Condition: New
€ 59.48€ 46.87
€ 59.48
€ 46.87
Hardcover. This book offers a new approach to contemporary problems using philosophical perspectives and analyzing practical consequences. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230621206
- ISBN
- 9780230621206
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.47
€ 67.47
Hardcover. As many can attest, the prevalence of sexual imagery has increased in modern society over the past half century. In this timely new study, Kenneth Kammeyer traces the historical development of sexual imagery in America and society's preoccupation with it, all within a firm theoretical and sociological framework Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; JFD; JHBA; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 505.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230609426
- ISBN
- 9780230609426
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Paperback. A step by step illumination of the intricacy, 'logic', and importance of one of Nietzsche's richest and most complex works. In a clear and accessible manner the author explains the interconnectedness of The Gay Science's seemingly unrelated sections. Throughout she provides critical commentary, background information, and translation corrections. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580695
- ISBN
- 9780230580695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 127.76
€ 127.76
Hardcover. A step by step illumination of the intricacy, 'logic', and importance of one of Nietzsche's richest and most complex works. In a clear and accessible manner the author explains the interconnectedness of The Gay Science's seemingly unrelated sections. Throughout she provides critical commentary, background information, and translation corrections. Num Pages: 293 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230580688
- ISBN
- 9780230580688
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.05
€ 128.05
Hardcover. Logic as Universal Science offers a detailed reconstruction of the underlying philosophy in The Principles of Mathematics showing how Russell sought to deliver a death blow to the dominant Kantian view that formal logic is a concise and dry science and unable to enlarge our understanding. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 287 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230577008
- ISBN
- 9780230577008
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.19
€ 67.19
Hardcover. In this excellent book Sebastien Gandon focuses mainly on Russell's two major texts, Principa Mathematica and Principle of Mathematics, meticulously unpicking the details of these texts and bringing a new interpretation of both the mathematical and the philosophical content. Winner of The Bertrand Russell Society Book Award 2013. Editor(s): Beaney, Michael. Series: History of Analytic Philosophy. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPL; PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576995
- ISBN
- 9780230576995
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.88
€ 116.88
Hardcover. The relation between common-sense belief and scientific theory is debated in contemporary philosophy. This book offers a defense of ordinary belief and outlines its contents on the nature of reality, the soundness of ordinary language, and the existence of the mind and its relation to the body. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFA; HPCF5; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576940
- ISBN
- 9780230576940
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This book is the first critical genealogy of Jacques Derrida's philosophy of technology. It traces the evolution of what Derrida calls 'originary technicity' via an appraisal of his own philosophy of technology together with that of key interlocutors including Marx, Freud, Lacan, Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 2011th Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230576926
- ISBN
- 9780230576926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.95
€ 149.95
Hardcover. Based on Nelson Goodman's conception of language and of pragmatically inherited meaning, this book looks at the arts as systems of particular symbols. The author offers an approach to kalology as a metaphysical implication of symbological functioning. Num Pages: 176 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230573550
- ISBN
- 9780230573550
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Paperback. Violence and injustice are two major political problems facing the world today. Offering a fresh, innovative analysis of the concept of violence, this book presents an original insight into the nature of injustice. Addressing three key questions, it forces us to rethink the scope and aims of a theory of social justice. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPS; JFF. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292. 232 pages, illustrations. Violence and injustice are two major political problems facing the world today. Offering a fresh, innovative analysis of the concept of violence, this book presents an original insight into the nature of injustice. Addressing three key questions, it forces us to rethink the scope and aims of a theory of social justice. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPS; JFF. Dimension: 216 x 137 x 14. Weight: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230552968
- ISBN
- 9780230552968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 65.93
€ 65.93
Hardcover. Violence and injustice are two major political problems facing the world today. Offering a fresh, innovative analysis of the concept of violence, this book presents an original insight into the nature of injustice. Addressing three key questions, it forces us to rethink the scope and aims of a theory of social justice. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 166 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230552951
- ISBN
- 9780230552951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. This book is a philosophical examination of the stages in our journey from hominid to human. Dealing with the nature and origin of language, self-consciousness, and the religious ideal of a return to Eden, it has a philosophical anthropology approach. It provides an account of our place in nature consistent with both empiricism and mysticism. Num Pages: 194 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 399.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230552937
- ISBN
- 9780230552937
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.58
€ 66.58
Hardcover. Examining multiple modes of spatio-temporal and geometric figurations of life, the author explores how relationships between space, geometry and aesthetics generate productive expressions of subjectivity, developed through Kant's 'reflective subject' and 'geometric' texts by Plato and others towards Deleuze's philosophy of sense. Series: Renewing Philosophy. Num Pages: 236 pages, biography. BIC Classification: ABA; HPCD; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230552913
- ISBN
- 9780230552913
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardcover. This collection of essays thinks through deconstruction's relation to politics by explicating the text of Derrida in relation to political examples. Neither 'deconstruction' nor 'reading' nor 'politics' is left untouched in the encounters explored in this volume, dispelling the notion of a separation of deconstruction from the everyday. Num Pages: 235 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCF; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 425.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230536951
- ISBN
- 9780230536951
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.77
€ 66.77
Hardcover. Shows that Husserl's Phenomenology and its key concept, subjectivity, is based on a concrete anthropological structure, such as self-affection and the bodily experience of the other. Num Pages: 187 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 226 x 172 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535336
- ISBN
- 9780230535336
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.32
€ 66.32
Hardcover. This book shows that, far from incorporating everything into an all-consuming necessity, Hegel's philosophy requires the novelty of unexpected contingencies to maintain its systematic pretensions. John Burbidge explores how Hegel applied this approach to chemistry, biology, psychology and history, and proposes implications on contemporary science. Num Pages: 229 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1DFG; HPCD; HPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 230
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230527522
- ISBN
- 9780230527522
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.74
€ 66.74
Hardcover. Henri Bergson is one of the truly great philosophers of the modernist period, and his work is undergoing a renaissance of interest. This collection of his essays and lectures from the period 1901-13, features ideas on life and consciousness, soul and body, mind and brain that remain highly pertinent to contemporary work in the philosophy of mind. Editor(s): Ansell-Pearson, Keith; Kolkman, Michael. Series: Henri Bergson Centennial Series. Num Pages: 266 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 268
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230517257
- ISBN
- 9780230517257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.00
€ 128.00
Hardcover. This is the first major response to the challenge of neuroscience to religion. It considers eastern forms of religious experience as well as Christian viewpoints and challenges the idea of a mind identical to, or a by-product of, brain activity. It explores religion as inner experience of the Transcendent, and suggests a modern spirituality. Num Pages: 240 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCF5; HRLK; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230507708
- ISBN
- 9780230507708
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.64
€ 127.64
Hardcover. In the early twentieth century, an apparently obscure philosophical debate took place between F.H. Bradley and Bertrand Russell. The outcome was momentous: the demise of British Idealism and the rise of analytic philosophy. Stewart Candlish examines afresh this formative period in twentieth-cenutry thought and comes to some surprising conclusions. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 223 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230506855
- ISBN
- 9780230506855
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.84
€ 127.84