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Philosophy
Hardcover. A monograph that is dedicated to the work of Valentin Yves Mudimbe. It charts the history of the seminal Congolese philosopher, epistemologist, and philologist from the late 1960s to the present day, exploring his major essays and novels. It highlights Mudimbe's trajectory through major debates on African nationalism, and Panafricanism. Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846318948
- ISBN
- 9781846318948
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.94
€ 190.94
paperback. In this work, Teilhard guides the reader back in space-time to experience the birth of our planet as it emprisons the human future in its globe and motion, then forward, through the emergence of life and the birth of thought and socialization. Num Pages: 282 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press U.K.
- Edition
- 2 ed
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902210308
- ISBN
- 9781902210308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.65
€ 45.65
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 69.63
€ 69.63
Paperback. Translator(s): Tallon, Andrew. Series: Marquette Studies in Philosophy. Num Pages: 265 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Marquette Univ Pr
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780874626551
- ISBN
- 9780874626551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.14
€ 44.14
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 69.35
€ 69.35
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.29
€ 47.29
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.62
€ 31.99
€ 31.62
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.13
€ 25.99
€ 20.13
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 27.27
€ 29.99
€ 27.27
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.50
€ 27.99
€ 25.50
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.62
€ 42.62
Paperback. A magisterial mappa mundi of the terrain that Pierre Hadot has so productively worked for decades, this ambitious book revises our view of ancient philosophy - and in doing so, proposes that we change the way we see philosophy itself. Translator(s): Chase, Michael. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 139 x 26. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674013735
- ISBN
- 9780674013735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 29.59
€ 33.99
€ 29.59
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.16
€ 32.16
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
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631180333
- ISBN
- 9780631180333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 37.31
€ 38.99
€ 37.31
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
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 73.41
€ 73.41
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
€ 253.95
€ 253.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784786243
- ISBN
- 9781784786243
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.79
€ 16.99
€ 16.79
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.62
€ 31.62
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.20
€ 33.20
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.47
€ 27.47
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.41
€ 29.99
€ 26.41
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872201033
- ISBN
- 9780872201033
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 20.45
€ 25.99
€ 20.45
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
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.64
€ 14.99
€ 12.64
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
€ 109.01€ 107.96
€ 109.01
€ 107.96