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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780729404341Author Marian HobsonFormat HardbackPage Count 451Imprint Voltaire FoundationPublisher Voltaire FoundationWeight(grams) 1125g

On Germans and Other Greeks Tragedy and Ethical Life Dennis J. Schmidt What Greek tragedy and German philosophy reveal about the meaning of art for ethical life. "Schmidt's investigation of tragedy is a highly significant, powerful work, one with...

One of the most important issues in public and academic debate is the concept of value and the difficulty in defining it. In this new book, the leading social theorist Hans Joas explores the nature of values in relation to some of the leading figures of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982755945Author Corey AntonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Institute of General SemanticsPublisher Institute of General SemanticsWeight(grams) 442g

The Harvard Review of Philosophy has long been a forum for new thoughts in the field this collection includes some of the most important essays from that publication. Exploring the unexpected ways that philosophy impacts our world, this book considers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982755952Author Corey AntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Institute of General SemanticsPublisher Institute of General SemanticsWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804469487Author Edward EricsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312322366Author Professor of Philosophy Mark RowlandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's...

Designed to guide the student or scholar through the maze of books and articles on the philosophy of Marx and Marxism-Leninism, this bibliography should be an essential aid, not only to students of Marxism and to professional philosophers, but also to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988744967Author Frederik StjernfeltFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Docent PressPublisher Docent PressWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Fifty-five years after Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand is more in the news than ever. Ayn Rand Explained is an accurate and riveting account of Rand's life, work, and influence, with the emphasis on her ideas. The book covers Rand's career, from youth in Soviet...

The iPod is transforming the lives of millions, changing their relationship to music and to each other. In iPod and Philosophy, 18 philosophers with diverse specialties and points of view bring their expertise to bear on this international cultural...

George Santayana probably did more than anyone except Alexis de Tocqueville to shape the critical view of American culture. The great philosopher and writer coined the phrase "genteel tradition," introducing it to a California audience in 1911. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780931779671Author David Kyle JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Humanist PressPublisher Humanist PressWeight(grams) 231gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780917930041Author Wilfrid SellarsFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Ridgeview Publishing CompanyPublisher Ridgeview Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, people today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught -- in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780967326528Author Frank MarreroFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint Tripod PressPublisher Tripod PressWeight(grams) 336gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 13mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944350737Author William PennFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Friends United PressPublisher Friends United PressWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595122455Author Eric KnoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint iUniversity PressPublisher iUniversity PressWeight(grams) 231g

From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law...

The present book contextualizes Du Chatelet's contribution to the philosophy of her time. The editor offers this tribute to an Epoque Emiliennee as a collection of innovative papers on Emilie Du Chatelet's powerful philosophy and legacy. Du Chatelet was...

In arguing that Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a philosophical explanation of the possibility of modernism-that is, of the possibility of radical cultural change through the creation of new values-the author shows that literary fiction can do the...

Analysis of the main thinkers who shaped European philosophy, in their historical contextPhilosophy is essentially historical. The element of wonder that drives philosophical inquiry, as well as the timeless nature of questions about humanity and the...

A clear, accessible introduction to modern and American thought by the influentual philosopher, psychologist, educator and author William James. This is a new, compact edition of one the most important pillars of modern philosophy. James' foundational...

The book explains why and how Wittgenstein adapted the Tractatus in phenomenological and grammatical terms to meet challenges of his 'middle period.' It also shows why and how he invents a new method and develops an anthropological perspective, which...

"Steven Smith's lucid and compelling argument for writing Spinoza into the political theory canon is also a profound meditation on the Spinozan theme of religion and republican liberty."-Michael Walzer "An important book, elevating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944529673Author Arthur SchopenhauerFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 1139gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This volume explores the attention awarded in the English-speaking world to German philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Complete with an introductory overview, the book collects fourteen essays that consider Leibniz's connections with his...

In Hegel's Idea of the Good Life, Joshua D. Goldstein presents the first book-length study of the development and meaning of Hegel's account of human flourishing. This volume will be welcomed by philosophers and political theorists seeking to engage with...

Scientia is the term that early modern philosophers applied to a certain kind of demonstrative knowledge, the kind whose starting points were appropriate first principles. In pre-modern philosophy, too, scientia was the name for demonstrative knowledge...

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 37Book InformationISBN 9788772898636Author Finn CollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 220g

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 35Book InformationISBN 9788772897158Author Collin FinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 235g

Danish Yearbook of Philosophy - Volume 42Book InformationISBN 9788763509800Author Finn CollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams) 240g

The Theses of Identity in Z(6) and H(6) of Aristotle's Metaphysics (Morten Hansen); Der Begriff der sittlichen Vernunft bei dem jungen Hegel (Peter Wolsing); Priviliged Access and Two Kinds of Semantic Externalism (Jesper Kallestrup); Quasirealism or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788130700038Author Benjamin RandFormat HardbackImprint Cosmo PublicationsPublisher Cosmo Publications

Although there is a huge literature on Nietzsche's philosophy, this is the first study in English that focuses on his ontology. Before proceeding to that ontology, Addis argues that, contrary to many commentators, Nietzsche defends both the possibility...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782406058397Author Pierre BonneelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 195Imprint Classiques GarnierPublisher Classiques GarnierWeight(grams) 281g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781871551297Author T.E. BurkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 101Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Pascal's Pensees afford a deeply penetrating view of the human condition [or predicament] as a prelude to a luminously reasoned defense of the Christian faith. His Provincial Letters are best remembered as a wickedly funny satire of "obliging and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880405Author Peter KalkavageFormat HardbackImprint Paul Dry BooksPublisher Paul Dry BooksWeight(grams) 644g