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Physics & ontology

Hardback. This book defends a new interpretation of Hegel's theoretical philosophy, according to which it has a single organizing focus, giving philosophical force to his arguments in his central Science of Logic, and undercutting prominent worries. The focus is not epistemology or skepticism, but the metaphysics of reason in the world. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPCD1; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 243 x 27. Weight in Grams: 534.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780190204303
ISBN
9780190204303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 136.51

Hardback. Explores the theories of democratic individualism articulated in the works of the American transcendentalist writer Ralph Waldo Emerson, pragmatic philosophers William James and John Dewey, and African-American novelist and essayist Ralph Ellison. Series: American Philosophy. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823242092
ISBN
9780823242092
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.78

Hardcover. Argues that meaning, truth, impossibility, natural necessity, and our intelligent perception of nature fit together into a distinctly realist account of thought and world. This title intends to offer an analytically and historically respectable alternative to the prevailing positions of various British-American philosophers. Num Pages: 280 pages, music. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040567
ISBN
9780268040567
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 108.31

Paperback. Argues that meaning, truth, impossibility, natural necessity, and our intelligent perception of nature fit together into a distinctly realist account of thought and world. This title intends to offer an analytically and historically respectable alternative to the prevailing positions of various British-American philosophers. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268040574
ISBN
9780268040574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. A clearly-written, brief introduction to philosophic thinking that guides the reader through an exploration of sense perception, ordinary knowing, scientific knowing, and philosophic knowing. This philosophic journey culminates in a justification of philosophy itself as a genuine form of knowing and thus is a natural prelude to metaphysics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268028794
ISBN
9780268028794
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.51

Paperback. Combines elements of Thomas Aquinas' metaphysics, especially its deep ontology, with Alfred North Whitehead's process philosophy to arrive at a new possibility for metaphysics. This work is an experiment in constructive metaphysics a project in modern philosophy. It is suitable to those interested in contemporary conceptions of metaphysics. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780268029012
ISBN
9780268029012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.79

Paperback. This book provides an overall interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy alongside a critical introduction to one of the most important unifying ideas in his work: the construction of new and important philosophies of time. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 330. A Critical Introduction and Guide. 216 pages. This book provides an overall interpretation of Deleuze's philosophy alongside a critical introduction to one of the most important unifying ideas in his work: the construction of new and important philosophies of time. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: HPJ. Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight: 330.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748638543
ISBN
9780748638543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.75

Paperback. 'What is real?' has been one of the key questions of philosophy since its beginning in antiquity. But it is not just a question that philosophers ask. This Very Short Introduction discusses what reality is by looking at a variety of arguments, theories, and thought-experiments from philosophy, physics, and cognitive science. Series: Very Short Introductions. Num Pages: 136 pages, 15 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 112 x 7. Weight in Grams: 110.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199594412
ISBN
9780199594412
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Translator(s): Soderstrom, Lukas. Num Pages: 352 pages, 7 tables. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 500. From Parmenides to Levinas. 352 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPCF7; HPJ. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 20. Weight: 458. Translator(s): Soderstrom, Lukas.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231148443
ISBN
9780231148443
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 30.78

Hardback. A study of the word pair "action and reaction" embracing philosophy, semantics, literature, and science. Translator(s): Hawkes, Sophie. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 880.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Zone Books United States
Number of pages
468
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890951207
ISBN
9781890951207
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.49

Paperback. This volume presents a close reading of Kant's "Critique of Judgment" looking specifically at the complex paragraphs 23-29: "The Analytic of the Sublime". Editor(s): Lyotard, Jean-Francois. Translator(s): Rottenberg, Elizabeth. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 213 x 14. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804722421
ISBN
9780804722421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.60

hardcover. Over the past decade, radical questioning of the grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of the aesthetic experience can be viewed as a general, yet necessarily open, model for human understanding. This book is a rigorous explication de texte of a central text for this thesis, Kant's Analytic of the Sublime. Translator(s): Rottenberg, Elizabeth. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5499 x 3564 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804722414
ISBN
9780804722414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Paperback.
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
230
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739757
ISBN
9780804739757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. The central problem posed in these essays, collected from over a decade, is how in the wake of Western ontologies to conceive the coming, the birth that characterizes being. The author discusses being and representation in relation to Hegel, Schlegel, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger. Translator(s): Holmes, Brian. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
440
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804721899
ISBN
9780804721899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 33.91

Hardback. Features a dense and powerful essay on the notion of identity and national identity, and on how they play in our contemporary world. In contrast with the various attempts to cling to established identities, or to enclose identity within dubious agendas, the author shows that an identity is always open: to alterity and its transformations. Translator(s): Raffoul, Francois. Series: Commonalities (FUP). Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPS; JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 198 x 7. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Fordham University Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780823256105
ISBN
9780823256105
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 70.95

Paperback. This collection of philosophical essays interrogates key notions and preoccupations of the phenomenological tradition. While using Heidegger's "Being and Time" as its point of reference and dispute, the book also confronts other philosphers, such as Kant, Nietzche and Derrida. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF3; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 19. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780804739016
ISBN
9780804739016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.01

Hardback. This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence. Translator(s): Richardson, Robert; O'Byrne, Anne E. Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPC; HPJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804739740
ISBN
9780804739740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Hardcover. We differ from things without minds in two main ways. First, we are conscious: we instantiate phenomenal properties. Second, we represent our world as being certain ways: we instantiate representational properties. Jeff Speaks explores the nature of phenomenal properties and of representational properties, and the relationship between them. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPJ; HPK; HPM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 243 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198732556
ISBN
9780198732556
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 120.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 34, 34 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: HPJ; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 158 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801480560
ISBN
9780801480560
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 245 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
North Atlantic Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
245
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781556431883
ISBN
9781556431883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.00

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