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Hardback. We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry - not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the unceasing improvement of self and society? This title examines moral, political, and economic treatises of the period. Translator(s): Gage, Jennifer Curtiss. Num Pages: 168 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691149271
- ISBN
- 9780691149271
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€ 53.05€ 42.15
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Hardcover. Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property - a true counter revolution, says the author, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674724594
- ISBN
- 9780674724594
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€ 48.99€ 41.09
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Paperback. Argues that the West has rejected the laws of God and of nature in a quest for human autonomy. This book contends that, in declaring ourselves free and autonomous, we have, paradoxically, lost a sense of what it means to be human. It offers an analysis of the confusions and contradictions at the heart of the modern condition. Translator(s): LePain, Marc A. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPS; HRC; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691050256
- ISBN
- 9780691050256
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Condition: New
€ 54.99€ 39.83
€ 54.99
€ 39.83
Paperback. Translator(s): LePain, Marc A. Series: New French Thought Series. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691125671
- ISBN
- 9780691125671
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Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.52
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€ 27.52
Paperback. Translator(s): Ruddick, Susan M. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816677412
- ISBN
- 9780816677412
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 29.82
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€ 29.82
Paperback. Translator(s): Cisney, Vernon W.; Smith, Daniel W.; Morar, Nicolae C. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472508591
- ISBN
- 9781472508591
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.16
€ 26.99
€ 20.16
Paperback. In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, which also serves as an introduction to Pierre Hadot's more scholarly works, Hadot explains that for the Ancients, philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. Translator(s): Djaballah, Marc. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 330. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748360
- ISBN
- 9780804748360
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€ 29.99€ 27.51
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Paperback. In this book of brilliantly erudite and precise discussions, which also serves as an introduction to Pierre Hadot's more scholarly works, Hadot explains that for the Ancients, philosophy was not reducible to the building of a theoretical system: it was above all a choice about how to live one's life. Translator(s): Djaballah, Marc; Chase, Michael. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804775434
- ISBN
- 9780804775434
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Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
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Paperback. Nearly twenty-five hundred years ago the Greek thinker Heraclitus supposedly uttered the cryptic words 'Phusis kruptesthai philei.' Drawing on the work of ancients and later thinkers such as Goethe, Rilke, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, this book traces successive interpretations of Heraclitus' words. Translator(s): Chase, Michael. Num Pages: 432 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 29. Weight in Grams: 534.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674030497
- ISBN
- 9780674030497
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Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 29.74
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Paperback. In this work, Hadot examines Plotinus' views on the self, existence, love, virtue, gentleness and solitude. He shows that Plotinus, like other philosophers of his day, believed that Plato and Aristotle had already articulated the essential truths, and so his purpose was to live philosophically. Translator(s): Chase, Michael. Num Pages: 144 pages, 1 halftone, chronology, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- 61519th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311944
- ISBN
- 9780226311944
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Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.06
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Paperback. This book presents a history of spiritual exercises from Socrates to early Christianity, an account of their decline in modern philosophy, and a discussion of the different conceptions of philosophy that have accompanied the trajectory and fate of the theory and practice of spiritual exercises. Editor(s): Davidson, Arnold. Num Pages: 320 pages, 2. BIC Classification: HPCA; HRK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631180333
- ISBN
- 9780631180333
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€ 40.99€ 39.77
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Paperback. The "Meditations" of Marcus Aurelius is regarded as one of the three most important expressions of Stoicism. Pierre Hadot here uncovers levels of meaning and expands the understanding of its underlying philosophy through what he argues are the deceptive clarity and ease of the work's style. Translator(s): Chase, Michael. Num Pages: 368 pages, 1 line illustration. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 156 x 22. Weight in Grams: 638.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007079
- ISBN
- 9780674007079
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Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.80
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Hardback. This title explores the seemingly unorthodox alliance of the arts, management and marketing. Using case studies of successful art managers, the author illustrates the creative role - so central to value-making in contemporary economies - performed by aesthetic play in art firms. Num Pages: 408 pages, 39 figures, drawings, photographs, references, index. BIC Classification: AB; HP; KCA; KJMV7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 726.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804748131
- ISBN
- 9780804748131
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Condition: New
€ 73.22
€ 73.22
Hardback. The first of its kind, A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics presents a synoptic view of the arts, which crosses traditional boundaries and explores the aesthetic experience of the ancients across a range of media oral, aural, visual, and literary. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 552 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: ABA; HB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 251 x 181 x 32. Weight in Grams: 996.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444337648
- ISBN
- 9781444337648
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 211.56
€ 211.56
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784786243
- ISBN
- 9781784786243
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Condition: New
€ 10.22
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Paperback. aeo An excellent introduction to Bourdieua s work on the sociology of culture, this collection of interviews and lectures is exceptionally clear and readable. aeo Discusses the development of Bourdieua s views, from his early work in philosophy and anthropology to his most recent work on the sociology of culture. Num Pages: 240 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFC; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745606590
- ISBN
- 9780745606590
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€ 25.88
€ 25.88
Paperback. This book is an important and timely contribution to the debate concerning the relation between Heideggera s philosophy and his political affiliations to Nazism. But it is more than that: it is also a study, by the leading sociologist in France today, of some of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745617145
- ISBN
- 9780745617145
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Condition: New
€ 23.30
€ 23.30
Paperback. aeoA major new work by Bourdieu containing one of his most important and systematic theoretical statements. aeoThe book develops a powerful critique of scholarly reason, as a form of thought which is rooted in the special conditions of scholasticism. Num Pages: 264 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCD; JH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 153 x 228 x 15. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745620558
- ISBN
- 9780745620558
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Condition: New
€ 27.08
€ 27.08
Paperback. aeo Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most influential social thinkers of the late twentieth century. aeo This book provides an excellent and in--depth introduction to his work and to the principles and assumptions which underlie it. Num Pages: 168 pages, 0. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHBA; JHM; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745616254
- ISBN
- 9780745616254
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Condition: New
€ 23.30
€ 23.30
Paperback. Illuminates the social pretentions of the middle classes in the modern world, focusing on the tastes and preferences of the French bourgeoisie. This book argues that the social world functions simultaneously as a system of power relations and as a symbolic system in which minute distinctions of taste become the basis for social judgement. Translator(s): Nice, Richard. Series: Routledge Classics. Num Pages: 640 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JFSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 37. Weight in Grams: 874.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415567886
- ISBN
- 9780415567886
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.41
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201033
- ISBN
- 9780872201033
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.53
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Paperback. Editor(s): Kilcullen, John. Num Pages: 639 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 152 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1080.
- Publisher
- Liberty Fund, Inc.
- Number of pages
- 639
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865974951
- ISBN
- 9780865974951
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.61
€ 14.99
€ 12.61
Hardback. A Geometry of Approximation addresses Rough Set Theory. It focuses mainly on its logic-algebraic interpretation. The theory is embedded in a broader perspective and this is the first book to place Rough Set Theory in a broad historical and applied setting. Series: Trends in Logic. Num Pages: 704 pages, 39 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPL. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1270.
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2008th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402086212
- ISBN
- 9781402086212
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 359.49
€ 359.49
Hardback. Pierfrancesco Basile looks at myths: where they came from and why Whitehead rejects them. In doing so, Basile makes it possible to grasp the main concepts of Whitehead's process metaphysics - especially the crucial notion that being and power are one and the same - and how it is rooted in the modern philosophical tradition. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ; HPS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474404143
- ISBN
- 9781474404143
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.09€ 102.41
€ 106.09
€ 102.41