History of Western philosophy
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History of Western philosophy
Paperback. This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some cliches about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
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- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- V9780804743488
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- 9780804743488
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Paperback. This text explores the relationship between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the "Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus" and the "Notebooks, 1914-1916". The book argues that his views on ethics decisively shaped his ontological and semantic thought. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 159 x 22. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- 2002
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- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- V9780804742221
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- 9780804742221
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Hardback. First published in 1935, On Escape represents Emmanuel Levinas's first attempt to break with the ontological obsession of the Western tradition. In it, Levinas not only affirms the necessity of an escape from being, but also gives a meaning and a direction to it. Editor(s): Rolland, Jacques. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5106 x 3150 x 18. Weight in Grams: 227.
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- Hardback
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- 2003
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- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- V9780804741392
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- 9780804741392
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€ 96.43
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Paperback. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
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- New
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- V9780804741361
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- 9780804741361
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Hardback. Traces, a masterwork of twentieth-century philosophy, is the most modest and beautiful proof of Bloch's utopian hermeneutics, taking as its source and its result the simplest, most familiar and yet most striking stories and anecdotes. Translator(s): Nassar, Anthony A. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 390.
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- Hardback
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- 2006
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- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
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- New
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- V9780804741187
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- 9780804741187
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€ 107.77
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paperback. Concentrating on both widely known and seldom-read texts from a variety of philosophers, writers and critics, this book analyzes the genesis and structure of interruption, a topic of growing interest to contemporary literary studies, continental philosophy, legal studies and theological reflection. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
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- 2002
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- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
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- New
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- 1st Edition
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- V9780804739603
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- 9780804739603
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paperback. In this text, seven eminent authors, all known for their work in deconstruction, address the millennial issue of our futures, promises, prophecies, projects and possibilities including the possibility that there may be no future at all. Editor(s): Rand, Richard. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 318.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804739566
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- 9780804739566
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Paperback. This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays, writings about artworks, and artwork of his own. Editor(s): Sparks, Simon. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 394.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
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- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
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- New
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- V9780804739542
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- 9780804739542
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Paperback. Paola Marrati considers the philosophical sources of Derrida's thought through his reading of both Husserl and Heidegger. Notions such as the contamination of the empirical and the transcendental, dissemination and writing, are explained as a guiding thread that runs through Derrida's early and later works. Translator(s): Sparks, Simon. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 8. Weight in Grams: 367.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804739160
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- 9780804739160
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Paperback. This collection of philosophical essays interrogates key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's "Being and Time" as its point of reference and dispute, the book also confronts other philosphers, such as Kant, Nietzche and Derrida. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804739016
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- 9780804739016
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Paperback. Enthusiasm is Lyotard's most elaborate and provocative statement on the politics of the sublime. Editor(s): Abbeele, Georges van den. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 146.
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- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 104
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- New
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- V9780804738996
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- 9780804738996
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Hardback. The Czech philosopher Jan Patocka (1907-1977) is widely recognized as the most influential thinker to come from postwar Eastern Europe. This book presents his most mature ideas about the history of Western philosophy. Translator(s): Lom, Petr. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 252 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 252
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- New
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- V9780804738002
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- 9780804738002
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Paperback. These twelve essays treat the thought of "deconstructive" philosophers from the perspective of analytic philosophy and relate the works of such thinkers as Davidson, Quine, and Wittgenstein to the writings of Derrida and de Man. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 610.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804737531
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- 9780804737531
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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.
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- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804737142
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- 9780804737142
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Paperback. This book argues that The Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche's first book, does not mark a rupture with his prior philosophical undertakings but is, in fact, continuous with them and with his later writings as well. It shows that many of the book's elements are reminiscent of Nietzsche's earlier revisions of philology and anticipate the later writings. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 286.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
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- New
- SKU
- V9780804737005
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- 9780804737005
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Paperback. Drawing on Nietzsche's prolific early notebooks and correspondence, this book challenges the polarized picture of Nietzsche as a philosopher who abandoned classical philology. It traces the contours of his earliest philological thinking and opens the way to a fresh view of his later thinking. Num Pages: 472 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 636.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 472
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736985
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- 9780804736985
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Paperback. Drawing on Heidegger's corpus, the work of historians and biblical specialists, and contemporary philosophers like Levinas and Derrida, Zarader brings to light the evolution of an impense-or unthought thought-that bespeaks a complex debt at the core of Heidegger's hermeneutic ontology. Translator(s): Bergo, Bettina. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736862
- ISBN
- 9780804736862
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Paperback. This work aims to shed new light on the relations between Husserlian phenomenology and the present-day efforts toward a scientific theory of cognition with its complex structure of disciplines, levels of explanation, and conflicting hypotheses. Editor(s): Petitot, Jean; Varela, Francisco J.; Pachoud, Bernard; Roy, Jean-Michel. Series: Writing Science. Num Pages: 672 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 35. Weight in Grams: 932.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 672
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804736107
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- 9780804736107
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Hardback. Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology. These four studies carefully consider the history of painting - from classical to contemporary - as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility. Translator(s): Smith, James K. A. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: AC; AFC; HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 120
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- New
- SKU
- V9780804733915
- ISBN
- 9780804733915
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Paperback. In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism, the author shows that literary fiction can do the work of philosophy. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 440 pages, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: DSA; HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 604.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 440
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- New
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- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804732956
- ISBN
- 9780804732956
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