History of Western philosophy
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History of Western philosophy
Hardback. At some time around 200 AD, the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was "The Heavens" (Caelestia). This book contains an English translation of "The Heavens", along with an introduction, notes, and technical diagrams. Translator(s): Todd, Robert B.; Bowen, Alan C. Series: Hellenistic Culture and Society. Num Pages: 238 pages, 25 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AHA; HPCA; PG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 458.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233256
- ISBN
- 9780520233256
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€ 84.25€ 64.67
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Hardback. This text offers a resolution of one of the most vexing problems in Nietzsche scholarship: how can an antifoundationalist philosophy avoid vicious relativism and legitimate its claim to provide a platform for the critique of arguments, practices, and institutions? Num Pages: 286 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520215535
- ISBN
- 9780520215535
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€ 58.15€ 45.45
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Paperback. This anthology presents Aristotle's "Rhetoric" in its original context, providing examples of the kind of oratory whose success Aristotle explains and analyzes. It assesses the role and the techniques of rhetorical persuasion in philosophic discourse and the public sphere. Editor(s): Rorty, Amelie Oksenberg. Series: Philosophical Traditions S. Num Pages: 466 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: CFG; DSBB; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 156 x 25. Weight in Grams: 485.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 466
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520202283
- ISBN
- 9780520202283
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€ 41.99€ 30.11
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Paperback. An introduction to the life and work of Walter Benjamin, the German-Jewish philosopher and literary and cultural critic. The text offers insight into Benjamin's complex relationships with Adorno, Brecht, Jewish Messianism and Western Marxism. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 316 pages, 1 port. BIC Classification: BG; HPCF; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 463.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 316
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520084001
- ISBN
- 9780520084001
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€ 46.99€ 33.59
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Hardcover. Rudolf Carnap and WV Quine, two of the twentieth century's important philosophers, corresponded at length - and over a long period of time - on matters personal, professional, and philosophical. Their friendship encompassed issues and disagreements that go to the heart of contemporary philosophic discussions. This title presents their letters. Editor(s): Creath, Richard. Num Pages: 499 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 230 x 38. Weight in Grams: 944.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 499
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520068476
- ISBN
- 9780520068476
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€ 68.83€ 53.41
€ 68.83
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paperback. Treats human communication in terms of ideal cooperation. In this book, the author establishes that form permeates society just as it does poetry and the arts. It states that forms of art are not exclusively aesthetic: the cycles of a storm, the gradations of a sunrise, the undoing of Prince Hamlet are all instances of progressive form. Num Pages: 396 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HBG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Third Edition, With new Afterword
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520041462
- ISBN
- 9780520041462
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€ 38.99€ 28.26
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Hardcover. The author presents a general theory of justice which makes full use of the Jewish sources, bringing them into a philosophical dialogue with the leading ethical and political texts of the Western tradition. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPQ; JFSR1; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 649.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 306
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9780300049435
- ISBN
- 9780300049435
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€ 61.71€ 48.16
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Paperback. Imagination is unruly. It creates the mind's world, linking the sensory realm to the realm of the intellect by oscillating between mind and body, self and world, ideal and real. This title demonstrates that this ambivalence in conceptions of imagination informs fundamental philosophical and aesthetic projects of European modernity. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 344 pages, n/a bw photos, n/a color photos, n/a line drawings, n/a maps, n/a tables. BIC Classification: DSA; HPC; JFCX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988931
- ISBN
- 9780295988931
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€ 37.25
€ 37.25
hardcover. Examines the discourses of aesthetics and philosophy alongside economic thought, arguing that their domains are not mutually exclusive. Based on readings of canonical literary and philosophical texts, the author explores how this confluence led to a rich cross-fertilization between economic and literary thought in Germany between 1770-1850. Series: Literary Conjugations. Num Pages: 464 pages, 16 illus. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JF; 3JH; DSBF; HPCD; KCZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 38. Weight in Grams: 862.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 464
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780295988368
- ISBN
- 9780295988368
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€ 117.40
€ 117.40
Paperback. Part of series which presents various speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. This volume contains three speeches, by the orator of classical antiquity, that illuminate Athenian law and culture in the fourth century BC. Translator(s): Harris, Edward M. Series Editor(s): Gagarin, Michael. Series: Oratory of Classical Greece. Num Pages: 245 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DNS; HPCA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 245
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292717848
- ISBN
- 9780292717848
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€ 24.99€ 23.03
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Paperback. Translator(s): Edwards, Michael. Series: Oratory of Classical Greece. Num Pages: 263 pages, 11 figures. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 348.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292716469
- ISBN
- 9780292716469
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€ 24.99€ 22.99
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Paperback. Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca 100-30 BCE) is our only surviving source for a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great. This work builds a case for Diodorus' merits as a historian. It offers an estimate of this much-maligned historian. Translator(s): Green, Peter. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 maps, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 528.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292712775
- ISBN
- 9780292712775
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€ 34.99€ 31.96
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Hardcover. Includes fifteen essays presented in honor of one of the premier historians of medieval philosophy, Armand Maurer of the Pontifical Institute for Mediaeval Studies and the University of Toronto. This book demonstrates the importance of Arabic philosophical thought for the Latin West during the scholastic era, which began in the thirteenth century. Editor(s): Houser, R.E. Series: Thomistic Studies. Num Pages: 536 pages, ports. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 680.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 536
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268031039
- ISBN
- 9780268031039
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Condition: New
€ 52.56
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Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 184.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1975
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780268018283
- ISBN
- 9780268018283
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€ 26.99€ 25.20
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Hardcover. The gendered experience of time Editor(s): Schues, Christina; Olkowski, Dorothea E.; Fielding, Helen A. Num Pages: 204 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253356307
- ISBN
- 9780253356307
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€ 76.82
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Hardback. Continental philosophy of religion applied to everyday living and thinking Series: Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253355928
- ISBN
- 9780253355928
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€ 86.25
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Hardcover. Features a biography of the Romanian-born French philosopher E M Cioran that focuses on his formative years as a mystical revolutionary attracted to right-wing nationalist politics in interwar Romania, his writings of this period, and his self-imposed exile to France in 1937. Editor(s): Johnston, Kenneth R. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 b&w photos, 1 maps. BIC Classification: BG; HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 252 x 26. Weight in Grams: 670.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253352675
- ISBN
- 9780253352675
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€ 44.99€ 44.97
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Hardback. A crucial work for understanding the full maturity of Heidegger's thought Translator(s): Mitchell, Andrew J.; Raffoul, Francois. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 416.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253343635
- ISBN
- 9780253343635
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€ 38.42
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Paperback. Elaborates the fundamental project on continental philosophy Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 228 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253223722
- ISBN
- 9780253223722
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Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.31
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Paperback. Continental philosophy of religion applied to everyday living and thinking Num Pages: 392 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 150 x 25. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253222848
- ISBN
- 9780253222848
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.67
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