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Philosophy: metaScience & Technology
Paperback. This revised text covers Merleau-Ponty's early work on the philosophical significance of the human body to his later ontology of flesh. Dillon's general thesis is that he developed a genuine alternative to the ontological dualism seen in Western philosophy. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 299 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810115286
- ISBN
- 9780810115286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.72
€ 38.72
Hardback. M C Dillon (1938-2005) was widely regarded as a world-leading Merleau-Ponty scholar. This book offers a highly original interpretation of Nietzsche's ontology of becoming. It also offers a ethical theory based on Merleau-Ponty's account of carnal intersubjectivity. Editor(s): Hass, Lawrence. Series: Series in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780821419991
- ISBN
- 9780821419991
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 87.41
€ 87.41
Paperback. Examines arguments for belief in God and finds them all untenable. This book lays down reasons for atheism. It looks at the differences between agnosticism and atheism, and explores the common criticism that atheists dismiss the wrong god. It clarifies why proofs for God fail. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ; HRAB; HRQA5. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551119625
- ISBN
- 9781551119625
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 40.28
€ 45.99
€ 40.28
hardcover. Beginning with a definition of the pre-rational meaning of "truth" in archaic Greece, Detienne traces the lineage of the concept. Its distinct difference from the logic of the western philosophers is discussed and a movement from a religious to a secular thought about truth is identified. Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Num Pages: 231 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 476. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. DJ has some minor nicks and tears, remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Zone Books – MIT
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0032568
- ISBN
- 9780942299854
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.65
€ 5.65
Digital (delivered electronically). Marco Altamirano critiques the modern concept of nature to chart a new trajectory for the philosophy of nature. He goes on to deploy conceptual resources excavated from Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault and Leroi-Gourhan to show how technology, which bypasses the nature-artifice distinction, is an essential dimension of the philosophy of nature. Series: Plateaus New Directions in Deleuze Studies Eup. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474425797
- ISBN
- 9781474425797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.90
€ 33.99
€ 30.90
Hardcover. Brings Deleuze and Guattari's work into conversation with the philosophy of nature. As the spatial orientation of the philosophy of nature is critiqued, this book shows that a philosophy of time is a more adequate guide to nature. It reformulates the philosophy of nature in terms of time and technology. Series: Plateaus - New Directions in Deleuze Studies. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748691579
- ISBN
- 9780748691579
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.45€ 114.39
€ 119.45
€ 114.39
Paperback. Suitable for moral and political philosophers, social scientists, and those who reflect seriously on the twentieth century's heavy burden of war, genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other evidence of people's desire to harm one another, this title brings together the essays that reexamine evil in the context of a 'postmetaphysical' world. Editor(s): Lara, Maria Pia. Num Pages: 314 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520226340
- ISBN
- 9780520226340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.75
€ 36.99
€ 26.75
Paperback. Marina Warner's study of the products of fantasy deepens our understanding of the supernatural in relation to self and society. This surprising story explores the metaphors and media that have been the stock in trade of poets, scientists, magicians, and visionaries, including wax and cloud, smoke and mirrors, ether, ectoplasm, and celluloid. Num Pages: 496 pages, 8pp color plates, numerous halftones. BIC Classification: DSB; HPJ; HRQ; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 40. Weight in Grams: 742.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199239238
- ISBN
- 9780199239238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.01
€ 26.01
Paperback. Bunge proposes a clear definition of the concept of emergence to replace that of supervenience and clarifies the notions of system, real possibility, inverse problem, interdiscipline, and partial truth that occur in all fields. Series: Toronto Studies in Philosophy. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781442628212
- ISBN
- 9781442628212
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 41.83
€ 46.99
€ 41.83
Paperback. What is the meaning of 'being' - or, rather, 'existence' - and how does that concept relate to the totality of what there is? This title presents an ontology based on the concept of fields of sense. Series: Speculative Realism. Num Pages: 424 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748692897
- ISBN
- 9780748692897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 28.96
€ 33.99
€ 28.96
Paperback. Explicates Descartes's aim to provide a metaphysics that would accommodate mechanistic science and supplant scholasticism. This text includes discussion of central differences from, and similarities with the scholastics and how these discriminations affected Descartes's defence of body. Num Pages: 304 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: HPCD; HPJ; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 143 x 19. Weight in Grams: 381.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674009684
- ISBN
- 9780674009684
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 38.26
€ 45.99
€ 38.26
Paperback. Contains some of Heidegger's most crucial statements about temporality, ontological difference and dialectic, and being and time in Hegel. This title is suitable for students of Heidegger and Hegel and of contemporary Continental philosophy. Translator(s): Emad, Parvis; Maly, Kenneth. Series: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253209108
- ISBN
- 9780253209108
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.08
€ 23.99
€ 22.08
Paperback. Features a revised and expanded translators' introduction and an updated translation, as well as the English versions of author's draft of a portion of the text and of his later critique of his own lectures. Translator(s): Fried, Gregory; Polt, Professor Richard. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300186123
- ISBN
- 9780300186123
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.02
€ 23.99
€ 18.02
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 402
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253214294
- ISBN
- 9780253214294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.49
€ 29.99
€ 26.49
Paperback. Heidegger's innovative dialogue with Kant's transcendental philosophy. Translator(s): Taft, Richard. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 256 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253210678
- ISBN
- 9780253210678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.07
€ 23.99
€ 22.07
Paperback. Includes Heidegger's lectures, which review and makes critical appropriations of the hermeneutic tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey in order to reformulate the question of being on the basis of facticity and the everyday world. Translator(s): Van Buren, John. Series: Studies in Continental Thought. Num Pages: 152 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 158 x 12. Weight in Grams: 247.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253220219
- ISBN
- 9780253220219
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Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.87
€ 21.99
€ 20.87
Paperback. To look into the darkness of the human soul is a frightening venture, yet here Mary Midgley does so with her customary brilliance and clarity - to read Wickedness is to understand her reputation as one of the great moral philosophers. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415253987
- ISBN
- 9780415253987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.72
€ 19.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156639
- ISBN
- 9780231156639
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.67
€ 26.99
€ 20.67
Hardback. Num Pages: 360 pages, 12 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 27. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231156622
- ISBN
- 9780231156622
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.02
€ 31.99
€ 25.02
Paperback. Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called Singularity when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person something that might be known as soul or spirit? As this book makes clear, the .." Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM; HRAB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 13. .
- Publisher
- Lutterworth Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718894924
- ISBN
- 9780718894924
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.85
€ 51.85