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Philosophy
Hardback. This work uses cross-national and longitudinal empirical research to explain the rise, nature, and impact of science as an authoritative worldwide institution. The authors analyze the ever-increasing investment in science, the diffusion of scientific discourse, and the hegemony of scientific organizations. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; JFFS; JH; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744911
- ISBN
- 9780804744911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 172.63
€ 172.63
Hardback. This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. Translator(s): Evans, Martha Noel. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DSB; HP; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 517.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744485
- ISBN
- 9780804744485
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.74
€ 138.74
Hardback. Readings of Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger trace the role that the discourse on the end of art has played in post-Hegelian philosophical aesthetics. Translator(s): McFarland, James. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744232
- ISBN
- 9780804744232
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.85
€ 117.85
Hardback. Taking on the Tradition focuses on how the work of Jacques Derrida has helped us rethink and rework the themes of tradition, legacy, and inheritance in the Western philosophical tradition. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804744218
- ISBN
- 9780804744218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.31
€ 138.31
Hardback. This book explores the possible relations between Western types of rationality and Buddhism. It also examines some cliches about Buddhism and questions the old antinomies of Western culture ("faith and reason," or "idealism and materialism"). Translator(s): Lloyd, Janet. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HRE. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743471
- ISBN
- 9780804743471
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.17
€ 138.17
Hardback. This book focuses on the extension of realist writing toward alterity, toward otherness, in its ongoing efforts to enable individuals to speak and be heard correctly. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSB; HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743334
- ISBN
- 9780804743334
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 88.92
€ 88.92
Hardback. In the twenty interviews collected in this volume, seventeen of which appear in English for the first time, Levinas sets forth the central features of his ethical philosophy and discusses biographical matters not available elsewhere. Editor(s): Robbins, Jill. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804743082
- ISBN
- 9780804743082
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.40
€ 161.40
Hardback. Completing the translation of Derrida's monumental work "Right to Philosophy", "Eyes of the University" brings together many of the philosopher's most important texts on the university and more broadly, on the languages and institutions of philosophy. Translator(s): Plug, Jan. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; JNMN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 24. Weight in Grams: 558.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742962
- ISBN
- 9780804742962
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.01
€ 139.01
Hardback. This book, written out of Derrida's long-standing friendship with Jean-Luc Nancy, examines the central place accorded to the sense of touch in the Western philosophical tradition. Translator(s): Irizarry, Christine. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 27. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742436
- ISBN
- 9780804742436
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.63
€ 139.63
Hardback. A collection of articles, lectures, and interviews whose apparent variety, touching on social criticism, psychoanalysis, philosophy, poetry and science, among others, is actually strongly focused on one main idea: that of autonomous, creative action at the individual and collective levels. Translator(s): Arnold, Helen. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742344
- ISBN
- 9780804742344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 122.23
€ 122.23
Hardback. This text explores the relationship between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the "Tractatus-Logico-Philosophicus" and the "Notebooks, 1914-1916". The book argues that his views on ethics decisively shaped his ontological and semantic thought. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 703.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804742214
- ISBN
- 9780804742214
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.95
€ 150.95
Hardback. This book represents the first publication of one of the seminars (transcribed) of Cornelius Castoriadis, a renowned and influential figure in 20th-century thought. A close reading of Plato's Statesman is an exemplary instance of Castoriadis's discriminating approach to thinking about and reading a great work. Editor(s): Curtis, David. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPN; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741446
- ISBN
- 9780804741446
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 89.02
€ 89.02
Hardback. This book explores the implications for today's critical concerns of the work of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most powerful and influential thinkers of the 20th century. Editor(s): Richter, Gerhard. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; 3JJ; ABA; DSB; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741255
- ISBN
- 9780804741255
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 184.00
€ 184.00
Hardback. The essays in this volume by Germany's leading social theorist of the late 20th century formulate what he considered to be the preconditions for an adequate theory of modern society. Editor(s): Rasch, William. Translator(s): Schreiber, Elliott; Behnke, Kerstin; O'Neil, Joseph. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741224
- ISBN
- 9780804741224
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 138.61
€ 138.61
hardcover. Addressing a constellation of diverse thinkers including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Michel Foucault and Luce Irigaray, this book proposes a conception of ethics - an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in the context of embodiment and antagonism. Num Pages: 304 pages, index. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804741026
- ISBN
- 9780804741026
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.14
€ 139.14
Hardback. This book explores the uncanny, traumatic weaving together of the living and the dead in art, and the morbid fascination it holds for modern philosophical aesthetics. Beginning with Kant, the author traces how aesthetic theory has been drawn back repeatedly to the moving power of the undead body of the work of art. Series: Atopia: Philosophy, Political Theory, Aesthetics. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739672
- ISBN
- 9780804739672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 160.65
€ 160.65
Hardback. Speech act theory has taught us how to do things with words. "Arresting Language" turns its attention in the opposite direction toward the surprising things that language can undo and leave undone. In the eight essays of this volume, arresting language is seen as language at rest. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 half-tone. BIC Classification: HPCD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739597
- ISBN
- 9780804739597
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.09
€ 162.09
Hardback. This collection of writings by Jean-Luc Nancy, the renowned French critic and poet, delves into the history of philosophy to locate a fundamentally poetic modus operandi there. The book represents a daring mixture of Nancy's philosophical essays, writings about artworks, and artwork of his own. Editor(s): Sparks, Simon. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 499.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739535
- ISBN
- 9780804739535
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.65
€ 149.65
Hardback. Examining Levinas's critique of the Heideggerian conception of temporality, this book shows how the notion of the feminine both enables and prohibits the most fertile territory of Levinas's thought. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804739320
- ISBN
- 9780804739320
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.63
€ 149.63
Hardback. These twelve essays treat the thought of "deconstructive" philosophers from the perspective of analytic philosophy and relate the works of such thinkers as Davidson, Quine, and Wittgenstein to the writings of Derrida and de Man. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF5. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 25. Weight in Grams: 610.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804737524
- ISBN
- 9780804737524
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.37
€ 161.37