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By: N/A
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Messenger Press: 1973
Seller ID: 2289475
Condition: Good
Wrappers loose but included, a few light stains and spots on wrappers, wrappers lightly toned and lightly creased. 1973 Stapled Binding. Philosophy Today, Winter 1973, Vol. 17, No.4/4. CONTENTS: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, by Robert F. Lechner; The Formation of Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy, by Robert M. Friedman; Merleau-Ponty and the Spirit of Painting, by James Gordon Place; Selected Bibliography on Art and Aesthetics in Merleau-Ponty, by Francois H. Lapointe; Merleau-Ponty and the Husserlian Reductions, by Raymond J. Devettere; For-itself and In-itself in Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, by John M. Morel... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Philosophical Education Society, Inc.: 1966
Seller ID: 2289477
Condition: Good
Binding starting to loosen, wrappers and page edges stained, wrappers lightly toned. 1966 Soft Cover. The Review of Metaphysics, Volume XIX, No. 3, Issue No. 75, March 1966. A philosophical quarterly. CONTENTS: Articles: George Santayana, The Unity and Beauty of the World, Introduction, by Paul Grimley Kuntz; Alvin Plantinga: Induction and Other Minds. Critical Studies: Twentieth Century Philosophers: Stephen A. Erickson, Martin Heidegger; Richard Schmitt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, I; Peter Achinstein, Rudolf Carnap, I. Discussions: Merold Westphal, Temporality and Finitism in Hartshorne's Theism... View more info
By: N/A
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Central Bureau Press, St. Louis / Catholic Central Verein of America: 1941
Seller ID: 2021409
Condition: Very Good
Minor rust to staples, wrappers lightly toned. 1941 Stapled Binding. 30 pp. Stapled binding, printed wrappers. A guide printed by an American Catholic organization for members of the American armed forces, designed to aid them in helping avoid some of the dangers associated with service. Nearly half of the booklet appears to deal with the consequences of indulging sexual appetites, with sections on prostitutes, venereal diseases, etc. View more info
By: N/A
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Peter Pauper Press: 1977
Seller ID: 2270173
Condition: Near Fine
Top edge of jacket front previously mended with tape, front jacket flap clipped, jacket spine very faintly toned. 1977 Hard Cover. 62 pp. Far-Eastern proverbs covering a range of topics including: advice, business, caution, children, contention, education, friendship, honor, house, inclination, justice, labor, learning, opportunity, riches and poverty, satisfaction, sin, speech and silence, strength and power, time, virtue and piety. View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Crocker & Brewster: 1836
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2262521
Condition: Good
First edition. Boards a bit soiled, pages foxed throughout. 1836 Small Hard Cover. viii, 192 pp. 12mo. Green cloth with elaborate blind-stamped design. Includes hand-colored engraved frontispiece of a man, his two daughters, and his wife before a fireplace. An analysis of moral culture and how it relates to the family, the church, and one's neighbors. Abbott made sure to disabuse us all of a misapprehension of happiness by entitling the first chapter Merriment is Not Happiness. View more info
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1944
Seller ID: 2199256
Condition: Good
Pages heavily toned.Jacket edges rubbed, a few small tears to jacket, jacket toned. 1944 Hard Cover. xxiii, 307 pp. Mortimer Adler writes in his introduction: In thinking about war and peace, as in thinking about other basic practical problems, the man who brings general ideas and principles to bear upon particular problems and formulations has a unique advantage. He can make effective contact with the concrete and the immediate without losing a dispassionate vision of the universal and the timeless. He can exercise that critical detachment necessary for a thoughtful, rather than an emotional,... View more info
By: Adler, Mortimer J.; Van Doren, Geraldine
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Collier Books: 1990
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2276231
ISBN: 0020301758
Condition: Very Good
First printing. Minor crease to bottom corner of front wrapper, spine head lightly bumped. 1990 Trade Paperback. xxxiii, 362 pp. Spanning the breadth of his career, from 1939 to 1989, this book is the response from Mortimer J. Adler to the question What can be done about American education? For Adler the best education is one that offers the best education possible for all. View more info
By: Albert, Michael
Price: $6.00
Publisher: Verso: 2004
Seller ID: 2199123
Condition: Very Good
Light rubbing to wrappers. 2004 Trade Paperback. ‘What do you want?’ is a constant query put to economic and globalization activists decrying current poverty, alienation and degradation. In this highly praised new work, destined to attract worldwide attention and support, Michael Albert provides an answer: Participatory Economics, ‘Parecon’ for short, a new economy, an alternative to capitalism, built on familiar values including solidarity, equity, diversity and people democratically controlling their own lives, but utilizing original institutions fully described and defended in the b... View more info
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By: Alighieri, Dante; Musa, Mark
Price: $7.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2003
Edition: 2nd Printing
Seller ID: 2285218
ISBN: 0142437220
Condition: Near Fine
2nd printing. 2003 Trade Paperback. 430 pp. This vigorous translation of the poet's journey through the circles of hell re-creates for the modern reader the rich meanings that Dante's poem had for his contemporaries. Musa's introduction and commentaries on each of the cantos brilliantly illuminate the text. Translated with Notes and an Introduction by Mark Musa. View more info
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Amitabha Buddhist Society of USA:
Seller ID: 1524598
Condition: Very Good
Chinese text. Light wear to edges of pictorial box, pages clean, bindings tight. Complete in two volumes. Released by the Amitabha Buddhist Society of the USA, this is based on research of a collection of the teachings of Chin Kung and other Pure Land Buddhist teachers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Chin Kung, (b. 1927) is a Buddhist monk from the Mahayana tradition. He is the founder of the Corporate Body of the Buddha Educational Foundation, an organization based on the teachings of Pure Land Buddhism. He was born in Lujiang County, Anhui Province, China under the birth name of Hsu Yeh-hong. He spent th... View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $35.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1838
Seller ID: 1523287
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed, spine sunned, pages foxed throughout, ink & pencil marks on endpapers (text unmarked). 1838 Small Hard Cover. 288 pp. A book from the early 19th century meant as a guide to lead the boy into manhood. Includes sections on: Classical learning, industry, The Imagination and the Importance of its proper regulation, A good heart necessary to enjoy the beauties of nature, Filial love, Fraternal love, The want of Decision of Character, On Buffoonery in Conversation, etc. View more info
By: Anonymous
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1838
Seller ID: 2290915
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed, spine sunned, pages foxed throughout, ink & pencil marks on endpapers (text unmarked). 1838 Small Hard Cover. vi, [7]-288 pp. 16mo. A book from the early 19th century meant as a guide to lead the boy into manhood. Includes sections on: Classical learning, industry, The Imagination and the Importance of its proper regulation, A good heart necessary to enjoy the beauties of nature, Filial love, Fraternal love, The want of Decision of Character, On Buffoonery in Conversation, etc. View more info
By: Anscombe, G.E.M.
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Harper Torchbooks: 1965
Edition: 1st Printing
Seller ID: 2287884
Condition: Very Good
1st printing. Faint edge wear. 1965 Trade Paperback. The famous British philosopher takes us on a tour of Wittgenstein's challenging Tractatus. View more info
Price: $8.00
Publisher: Hackett: 1988
Seller ID: 2198198
Condition: Very Good
Minimal highlighting on Table of Contents only. 1988 Trade Paperback. The second edition of Aquinas, On Law, Morality, and Politicsretains the selection of texts presented in the first edition but offers them in new translations by Richard J. Regan--including that of his Aquinas, Treatise on Law(Hackett, 2000). A revised Introduction and glossary, an updated select bibliography, and the inclusion of summarizing headnotes for each of the units--Conscience, Law, Justice, Property, War and Killing, Obedience and Rebellion, and Practical Wisdom and Statecraft—further enhance its usefulness. View more info
By: Arendt, Hannah
Price: $9.00
Publisher: Penguin Books: 2006
Edition: Reprint
Seller ID: 2261578
ISBN: 0143039881
Condition: Good
Reprint. Wrappers rubbed. 2006 Trade Paperback. Sparking a flurry of heated debate, Hannah Arendt’s authoritative and stunning report on the trial of German Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann first appeared as a series of articles in The New Yorker in 1963. This revised edition includes material that came to light after the trial, as well as Arendt’s postscript directly addressing the controversy that arose over her account. A major journalistic triumph by an intellectual of singular influence, Eichmann in Jerusalem is as shocking as it is informative—an unflinching look at one of the most unset... View more info
By: Arendt, Hannah
Price: $12.00
Publisher: Harvest / Harcourt, Inc.: 1985
Seller ID: 2279131
ISBN: 0156701537
Condition: Very Good
New edition with added prefaces. Latest date stated on copyright is 1985, but definitely a 21st century reprint (13-digit ISBN). Single spine crease. xliii, [1], 527, [3] pp. Includes four prefaces, including the original preface from the first edition. Bibliography and index follow text. Generally regarded as the definitive work on totalitarianism, this book is an essential component of any study of twentieth-century political movements. Arendt was one of the first to recognize that Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union were two sides of the same coin rather than opposing philosophies of Right an... View more info
By: Aristotle; Jowett, Benjamin & Butcher, S.H.; Kallen, Horace M.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Seller ID: 2285623
Condition: Very Good
Edges and front and end matter lightly foxed. 1979 Full-Leather. xxi, [5], 331, [1] pp. Green full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by Benjamin Jowett and S.H. Butcher, with an introduction by Horace M. Kallen and portraits by Leonard Baskin. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology. Together w... View more info
By: Aristotle; McKeon, Richard
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Random House: 1966
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2292763
ISBN: 0394416104
Condition: Good
Reprint. Lacks slipcase. Faint stain on fore edge, ink marks on first few pages of preface, rear jacket flap split along crease, jacket edges rubbed with several small chips and tears. 1966 Hard Cover. xxxix, [1], 1487, [7] pp. 8vo. The complete text of Aristotle's Physics, On Generation and Corruption, On the Soul, The Short Physical Treatises, Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and Poetics, with selections from several others. Edited with a preface, introduction, and bibliography by Richard McKeon. View more info
By: Aristotle; Roberts, W. Rhys; Bywater, Ingram
Price: $20.00
Publisher: The Franklin Library: 1981
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2265097
Condition: Near Fine
An exceptional copy. 1981 Hard Cover. 244 pp. 8vo. Brown leather spine, brown cloth boards, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers, brown ribbon marker bound in. Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls poetry (a term which in Greek literally means making and in this context includes drama-comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play-as well as lyric poetry, epic poetry, and the dithyramb). He examines its first principles and ... View more info
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By: Aristotle; Thomson, J.A.K.; Tredennick, Hugh; Barnes, Jonathan; Grayling, A.C.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: The Folio Society: 2003
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2276796
Condition: Near Fine
Includes publisher's slipcase. Slipcase lightly scuffed. 2003 Hard Cover. li, [1], 297, [3] pp. 8vo. The ethical philosophy of the famous Greek philosopher and pupil of Plato, often referred to as the Nicomachean Ethics. Translated by J.A.K. Thomson, revised with notes and appendices by Hugh Tredennick, with an introduction and further reading by Jonathan Barnes and a preface by A.C. Grayling, and a frontispiece engraving by Simon Brett. Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC) was a Greek philosopher, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. He wrote on many subjects, including physics, me... View more info
By: Armstrong, Tim
Price: $15.00
Publisher: Polity Press: 2005
Seller ID: 2271044
ISBN: 0745629830
Condition: Good
Pencil underlining and marginalia. 2005 Trade Paperback. The last 20 years has seen an explosion of work on literary modernism and its cultural and historical contexts. In this innovative study aimed at a general audience, Tim Armstrong seeks to define modernism not only by its aesthetics and literary genres but also by its links with broader cultural areas in which the'modern' is implicated and debated, and which inform its representational modes. View more info
By: Augustine, St.; Pilkington, J.G.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boni & Liveright: 1927
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2293266
Condition: Very Good
Very good in good jacket. Jacket edges rubbed with 1 inch chip from spine base, 2 inch tear on rear corner, and some other minor loss, jacket toned. 1927 Hard Cover. l, 414, [6] pp. 8vo. Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo Regius, also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, or St. Austin was a Latin speaking philosopher and theologian living in the Roman Africa Province. Augustine was canonized by popular acclaim, and later recognized as a Doctor of the Church in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII. His feast day is August 28, the day on which he died. He is considered... View more info
By: Augustine, St.; Pilkington, J.G.; Shuster, George N.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1979
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294859
Condition: Very Good
Light spots on top edge, blank publisher's bookplate laid in. 1979 Full-Leather. l, 414, [6] pp. 8vo. Navy blue full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Translated by J.G. Pilkington, with an introduction by George N. Shuster, and illustrations from paintings by Edy Legrand. Augustine of Hippo (November 13, 354 – August 28, 430), Bishop of Hippo Regius, also known as Augustine, St. Augustine, or St. Austin was a Latin speaking philosopher and theologian living in the Roman Africa Province. Augustine was canonized by popular acc... View more info
By: Aurelius, Marcus; Grube, G.M.A.
Price: $5.00
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company: 1985
Seller ID: 2276785
ISBN: 0915145790
Condition: Good
Spine and wrapper edges lightly toned, ink name on half-title page, faint odor of smoke. 1985 Trade Paperback. xxvii, 143 pp. Translated by G.M.A. Grube. Meditations is a series of personal writings by Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor from 161 to 180 AD, recording his private notes to himself and ideas on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius wrote the 12 books of the Meditations in Koine Greek[1] as a source for his own guidance and self-improvement.[2] It is possible that large portions of the work were written at Sirmium, where he spent much time planning military campaigns from 170 to 180. Some ... View more info
By: Aurobindo, Sri
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Sri Aurobindo Ashram: 1996
Seller ID: 2296330
ISBN: 8170583411
Condition: Very Good
Jacket edges lightly rubbed and lightly bumped, jacket lightly toned. Page ridges lightly bumped. 1996 Hard Cover. 825 pp. The tale of Satyavan and Savitri is recited in the Mahabharata as a story of conjugal love conquering death. But the legend is, as shown by many features of the human tale, one of the many symbolic myths of the Vedic cycle, Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance: Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save: Aswapati, the Lor... View more info
By: Baase, Sara
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Pearson: 2012
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 2283511
ISBN: 027376859X
Condition: Fine
Fourth edition. Still in shrink wrap. 2012 Soft Cover. This book covers subjects ranging from hacking to telecommuting to proper testing techniques and everything in between. View more info
By: Bachelard, Gaston; Frye, Northrop
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Quartet Books: 1987
Seller ID: 2287960
ISBN: 0704300338
Condition: Very Good
Pages lightly toned. 1987 Trade Paperback. 115 pp. The subject of this unusual book is best described by the author. We are going to study a problem that no one has managed to approach objectively, one in which the initial charm of the object is so strong that it still has the power to warp the minds of the clearest thinkers and to keep bringing them back to the poetic fold in which dreams replace thought and poems conceal theorems. This problem is the psychological problem posed by our convictions about fire. It seems to me so definitely psychological in nature that I do not hesitate to speak... View more info
By: Bacon, Francis; Morley, Christopher; Rosenbach, A.S.W.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Seller ID: 2285627
Condition: Very Good
Minor loss of gilt from front board. 1980 Full-Leather. ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially as philosop... View more info
By: Bacon, Francis; Morley, Christopher; Rosenbach, A.S.W.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: The Easton Press: 1980
Edition: Reissue
Seller ID: 2294860
Condition: Very Good
Light spotting on fore edge, a few minor scuffs. 1980 Full-Leather. ix, [3], 190 pp. Tall 8vo. Brown full leather, gilt titles and decorations, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. Introductions by Christopher Morley and A.S.W. Rosenbach. Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount of St. Alban, KC (22 January 1561 – 9 April 1626) was an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, lawyer, jurist and author. He served both as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Although his political career ended in disgrace, he remained extremely influential through his works, especially... View more info
By: Bailey, Samuel
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Ticknor and Fields: 1854
Seller ID: 2204495
Condition: Very Good
No jacket, top edges of a few pages stained. 1854 Hard Cover. xii, 422, [4] pp. Samuel Bailey (5 July 1791 – 18 January 1870) was a British philosopher and writer.His first work, Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions, published anonymously in 1821, attracted more attention than any of his other writings. A sequel to it appeared in 1829, Essays on the Pursuit of Truth. Between these two were Questions in Political Economy, Politics, Morals, &c. (1823), and a Critical Dissertation on the Nature, Measure, and Causes of Value (1825), directed against the opinions of David Ricardo ... View more info
