Philosophy
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Philosophy
hardcover. This is a study of tyranny, statesmanship, and civic virtue in three major linked Platonic dialogues, the "Georgias", "Symposium" and "Republic". It explores eros as the key to Plato's understanding of both the depths of human vice and the heights of human aspirations for virtue and happiness. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847697267
- ISBN
- 9780847697267
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.03
€ 162.03
Hardback. An edition of the recently discovered notebook used in the seventeenth-century by John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham, who could not inherit unless he could speak - one of the most famous cases in the history of deaf education. David Cram and Jaap Maat place the work in its personal, social, and scientific contexts. Editor(s): Cram, Dr. David; Maat, Jaap. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 3JD; CFA; CFZ; HBTB; HPC; PDA; PDX. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199677085
- ISBN
- 9780199677085
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 167.74
€ 167.74
Hardcover. An overview and evaluation of modern psychology's theoretical foundations, this work ranges from Descartes to dynamics in its discussion of such topics as introspectionism, psychoanalysis, behaviorism, and the varieties of contemporary cognitive science. These theories are examined and assessed as attempts to construct a conception of the person. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 148 x 18. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Hackett Pub Co Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872208339
- ISBN
- 9780872208339
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.24
€ 45.99
€ 32.24
Hardback. The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life. While the first two have been subject to intensive historical and philosophical investigation, the latter has largely been neglected. The authors provide the first comprehensive introduction to the morality of money. Num Pages: 263 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230535435
- ISBN
- 9780230535435
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.77
€ 119.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 129 x 204 x 28. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New foreword by Stanley Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691165486
- ISBN
- 9780691165486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.29
€ 26.99
€ 20.29
Hardback. Professional and Ethical Issues in Psychology is an examination of the changing dynamics and ethics of psychology as a profession. Num Pages: 324 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; JM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 670.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780393702859
- ISBN
- 9780393702859
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.89
€ 41.99
€ 36.89
Hardback. This text centres on the assumption that there are aspects of thinking common to all traditions. The author offers a comparative introduction to important East/West philosophical questions and positions, and explores "philosophizing" as expressed, for example, in presuppositions. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333678329
- ISBN
- 9780333678329
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 119.15
€ 119.15
paperback. This text is more than an introduction to comparative philosophy in the East and West. It is also a guide to 'philosophizing' as a thinking process, and in addition to outlining the presuppositions of different traditions, it discusses their methods and techniques for reasoning. Num Pages: 238 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC; HPD; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1997th Edition
- SKU
- V9780333930687
- ISBN
- 9780333930687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 118.21
€ 118.21
Paperback. Addresses the utopian developments of the modern media. This collection tracks the author's observations on the media as they are revealed in essays on the production and reception of art; on film, radio, and photography; and on the modern transformations of literature and painting. Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Doherty, Brigid; Levin, Thomas Y. Translator(s): Jephcott, Edmund; Livingstone, Rodney; Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 448 pages, 22 halftones. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 30. Weight in Grams: 652.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674024458
- ISBN
- 9780674024458
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.18
€ 26.99
€ 23.18
Paperback. Radical critic of a European civilisation plunging into darkness, yet commemorator of the humane traditions of the old bourgeoisie - such was Walter Benjamin in the later 1930s. Part of a four-volume set, this work offers 27 pieces. Editor(s): Eiland, Howard; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 480 pages, 12 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674019812
- ISBN
- 9780674019812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.56
€ 38.99
€ 32.56
Paperback. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings now in paperback in two parts: part 2 ISBN 0674017463. Series Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Eiland, Howard; Smith, Gary. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674015883
- ISBN
- 9780674015883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.56
€ 38.99
€ 32.56
Paperback. Features 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', 'The Task of the Translator' and 'Theses on the Philosophy of History', as well as essays on Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, and Proust. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 2AB; 3JH; 3JJ; DSBF; HPCD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 21. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847923868
- ISBN
- 9781847923868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.00€ 16.42
€ 20.00
€ 16.42
Paperback. In the frenzied final years of the Weimar Republic, amid economic collapse and mounting political catastrophe, Walter Benjamin emerged as the most original practicing literary critic and public intellectual in the German-speaking world. Volume 2 of the Selected Writings now in paperback in two parts: part 1 ISBN 0674015886. Series Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W.; Smith, Gary; Eiland, Howard. Num Pages: 480 pages, 8 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674017467
- ISBN
- 9780674017467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.65
€ 38.99
€ 32.65
Paperback. Even as a young man Benjamin possessed astonishing intellectual range and depth. His topics here include poetry and fiction, drama, philosophy, history, religion, love, violence, morality, mythology, painting and much more. Editor(s): Bullock, Marcus Paul; Jennings, Michael W. Num Pages: 528 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: DNF; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 26. Weight in Grams: 694.
- Publisher
- Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674013551
- ISBN
- 9780674013551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 32.56
€ 38.99
€ 32.56
Paperback. Presented in a new edition with expanded notes, this genre-defying meditation on the semiotics of late-1920s Weimar culture, composed of 60 short prose pieces that vary wildly in style and theme, offers a fresh opportunity to encounter Walter Benjamin at his most virtuosic and experimental, writing in a vein that anticipates later masterpieces. Editor(s): Jennings, Michael W. Translator(s): Jephcott, Edmund. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; DSBB; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674052291
- ISBN
- 9780674052291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.16
€ 20.99
€ 19.16
paperback. Called "the most important critic of his time" by Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin has only become more influential over the years. Suitable for any scholar wrestling with Benjamin's work, this title offers a look at the man behind much of the twentieth century's most significant criticism. Editor(s): Scholen, Gershom; Adorno, Theodor W. Translator(s): Jacobson, Manfred R.; Jacobson, Evelyn M. Num Pages: 674 pages, 2 halftones. BIC Classification: BJ; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 159 x 37. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226042381
- ISBN
- 9780226042381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.67
€ 29.99
€ 26.67
Paperback. Examines Hume's ideas about human reason and intends to clarify Hume's notion of sympathy. This title explains how certain trivial tendencies of imagination are responsible for the unreasonable judgment of fact and the partial judgment of merit. Series: International Archives of the History of Ideas / Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Idees. Num Pages: 184 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 162 x 10. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers United States
- Edition
- Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781402002618
- ISBN
- 9781402002618
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 62.54
€ 62.54
Paperback. In this radical reinterpretation of Aristotle's Metaphysics, Walter E. Wehrle demonstrates that developmental theories of Aristotle are based on a faulty assumption: that the fifth chapter of Categories ('substance') is an early theory of metaphysics that Aristotle later abandoned. Num Pages: 296 pages, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780847681617
- ISBN
- 9780847681617
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.66
€ 64.66
Hardback. Series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning. Num Pages: 643 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; HPS; LAB; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 35. Weight in Grams: 1148.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 643
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319255200
- ISBN
- 9783319255200
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 153.93
€ 153.93
Paperback. Applies fundamental principles to urgent issues and problems facing us today, from immigration to attitudes toward the elderly, from the plight of homeless veterans to the fallout of American globalization. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; HRCX6; JFM; TQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 181.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Orbis Books (USA) United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570755194
- ISBN
- 9781570755194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.97
€ 29.99
€ 25.97