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By: Barreno, Maria Isabel; Horta, Maria Teresa; Da Costa, Maria Velho
Price: $4.00
Publisher: Bantam Books: 1976
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2263071
1st printing. Pages toned. 1976 Mass Market Paperback. A work by three Woman's Rights activists who were arrested for their shocking literary output. View more info
By: Bjelic, Dusan I.
Price: $18.00
Publisher: MIT Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2269637
Faint edge wear. 2005 Trade Paperback. Pioneering essays on the idea of the Balkan as a body of knowledge and a cultural metaphor.Balkan. Somewhere between a tragedy and a myth, a place and a condition, the term is perhaps best understood as a metaphor. It has been used and abused in academia by proponents of opposing political views. Multiculturalism has appropriated it, as have postmodernism and postcommunism. It is used pejoratively to refer to excessive specializatio... View more info
By: Cappelen, Herman
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing: 2005
Seller ID: 2187031
Ink underlining and marginalia. 2005 Trade Paperback. Insensitive Semantics is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. This work: provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextual... View more info
By: Eribon, Didier
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Harvard: 1991
Seller ID: 2265666
Ink underlining to first 30 pages only. Light edge wear to jacket. 1991 Hard Cover. At the time of his death in 1984, at the age of fifty-eight, Michel Foucault was widely regarded as one of the most powerful minds of this century. Hailed by distinguished historians and lionized on his frequent visits to America, he continues to provoke lively debate. The nature and merits of his accomplishments remain tangled in controversy. Rejecting traditional liberal and Marxist dre... View more info
By: Hill, Leslie
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press: 2007
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2277945
First edition. An exceptional copy. 2007 Trade Paperback. Few thinkers of the latter half of the twentieth century have so profoundly and radically transformed our understanding of writing and literature as Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). Derridian deconstruction remains one of the most powerful intellectual movements of the present century, and Derrida's own innovative writings on literature and philosophy are crucially relevant for any understanding of the future of liter... View more info
By: Pears, David; Kermode, Frank
Price: $5.00
Publisher: The Viking Press: 1970
Seller ID: 2277369
Light stain to edges of wrappers, ink name on half-title page, minor ink marks. 1970 Trade Paperback. 208 pp. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (26 April 1889 – 29 April 1951) was an Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. Described by Bertrand Russell as the most perfect example I have ever known of genius as traditionally conceived, passionate, profound, intense,... View more info
By: [Foucault]; Bernauer, James; Rasmussen, David
Price: $6.00
Publisher: MIT: 1988
Seller ID: 1964944
Minor ink underlining. 1988 Trade Paperback. Michel Foucault left a rich legacy of ideas and approaches, many of which still await exposition and analysis. The Final Foucault is devoted to his last published (and some as yet unpublished) work and includes a translation of one of his last interviews, a comprehensive bibliography of his publications, and a biographical chronology.Foucault was still working on his history of sexuality when he died in 1984, but his main conc... View more info
By: [Nietzsche]; Robinson, Dave
Price: $3.00
Publisher: Icon Books / Totem Books: 1999
Seller ID: 2197442
1999 Mass Market Paperback. 77 pp. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) has exerted a huge influence on 20th century philosopy and literature--an influence that looks set to continue into the 21st century. Nietzsche questioned what it means for us to live in our modern world. He was an 'anti-philosopher' who expressed grave reservations about the reliability and extent of human knowledge. His radical scepticism disturbs our deepest-held beliefs and values. For these reasons... View more info
