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Journal of the History of Philosophy - Volume XIII January 1975 no. 1
USA
Journal of the History of Philosophy
1975
Soft Cover
Fair to Good
Covers are rather chipped and rubbed, interior fine. In addition to several book reviews, contains in depth articles as follows: The Stoic Oikeiosis and Sartre's Situation by Philip Merlan, The Infinite Sphere : Comments on the history of a Metaphor by Karsten Harries, Descartes on Re-Identification by Alan Hart, Existentialism, Idealism and Fichte's Concept of Coherence by Walter Wright, Trois penseurs du delaissement: Eckhart, Heidegger, Suzuki, Ekhard and the later Heidegger: The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought.
034312
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Ayer, A.J.
Wittgenstein
Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
Random House Inc
1985
0394543475 / 9780394543475
First Edition
Hard Cover
Good
Fair to Good
Hardcover 1st edition - Some shelf and edgewear, otherwise a good clean solid copy. Dust jacket is slightly rubbed, chipped, torn & price clipped, otherwise still a fair solid copy
NS18404
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8.99 USD
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Batens, Diderik; Boyd, Richard; Cartwright, Nancy; Chomsky, Noam; Field, Hartry; Friedman, Michael; Glymour, Clark; Grandy, Richard; Hintikka, Jaakko; Kelly, Kevin; Massey, Barbara; Massey, Gerard; Putman, Hilary; Sneed, Joseph
Inference, Explanation, and Other Frustrations: Essays in the Philosophy of Science
Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
Univ of California Pr
1992
0520075773 / 9780520075771
Soft Cover
Very Good to Good
Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy. These provocative essays by leading philosophers of science exemplify and illuminate the contemporary uncertainty and excitement in this changing field. The papers are rich in new perspectives, and their far-reaching criticisms challenge arguments long prevalent in classic philosophical problems of induction, empiricism, and realism. By turns empirical or analytic, historical or programmatic, confessional or argumentative, the authors' arguments both describe and demonstrate the fact that philosophy of science is in a ferment more intense than at any time since the heyday of logical positivism seventy years ago.
NS17536
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Baudrillard, Jean;R
The Transparency of Evil: Essays on Extreme Phenomena
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Verso Books
1993
0860915883 / 9780860915881
Soft Cover
Very Good
Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy - Former professor and French author Jean Baudrillard contemplates post-1960's Western culture. He argues that the sexual revolution led not to liberation but to confused sexual identity; the revolution in art has resulted in indifference; the cybernetic revolution has blurred the distinction between man and machine; and the political revolution has led to pseudo politics. So, what is real?
NS17541
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Bencivenga, Ermanno
Logic & the Case Other of Anselm Nonesense & His God
U. S. A.
University Press Book
1993
0691074275 / 9780691074276
First Edition
Hard Cover
Very Good
Very Good
Illlustrated
Hardcover 1st edition - Some shelf and edgewear,a minor spine lean, otherwise a good clean solid copy. Dust jacket is rubbed, otherwise still a good copy - Logic is often seen as the bedrock of intellectual life. It aims to be straight-forward, true, clear. But in this provocative book of postmodern philosophy, Ermanno Bencivenga presents an extended reflection on the subversive nature of logic--logic that is not stable and certain, but deceptive and tortuous. The author uses Anselm, the Archbishop of Canterbury at the end of the eleventh century, as his case study to show how human reason can be devious. In Anselm's famous texts, his beliefs are not at stake, he is sure of them--he only seeks to under-stand his faith, not to prove it. But by looking at Anselm's writings as a whole, Bencivenga argues that they undermine Anselm's own interpretation. Not only can reason be more effective than force in fighting the unorthodox, but it can also be a subtle way of undermining orthodoxy. Bencivenga demonstrates how reason plays different roles at the different levels of Anselm's project. For its authoritarian subject, reason imposes a limit on its rebellious character. For its subversive subject, reason opens up an infinite arena for experimentation whose end will never be reached. Ultimately, Logic and Other Nonsense asks hard questions about the nature of philosophy in Anselm's world, as well as our own.
NS19057
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Borges, Jorge Luis
The Book of Imaginary Beings
New York, New York, U.S.A.
E P Dutton
1979
0525475389 / 9780525475385
Soft Cover
Good to Fair
Edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well some age toning & a tear on the spine, otherwise still a good reading copy
NS19722
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Branden, Barbara
The Passion of Ayn Rand
UK
W.H. Allen
1987
0491031971 / 9780491031974
First Edition
Hard Cover
Very Good
Good
Hardcover - first UK edition - minor shelf and edgewear, some chipping and rubbing of dust jacket with one small tear otherwise a fine clean tight copy
089175
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19.99 USD
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Buber, Martin
Between Man & Man
UK
Fontana
1963
Mass Market Paperback
Good
Edgewear and creasing of spine and covers,as well age toning & some underlined pages, otherwise still a fair reading copy
NS18384
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7.99 USD
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Carlyle, Thomas
Sartor Resartus Latter Day Pamphlets
London
Chapman & Hall
1893
First Thus
Hard Cover
Good
Hardcover, first combined thus - green cloth with gilt titles. Some edgewear, shelfwear, bowing of covers and bumped corners. Light foxing and age toning of text blocks. Despite stated flaws, still a good solid vintage copy. From Wikipedia: Thomas Carlyle's major work, Sartor Resartus (meaning 'The tailor re-tailored'), first published as a serial in 1833-34, purported to be a commentary on the thought and early life of a German philosopher called Diogenes Teufelsdröckh (which translates as 'god-born devil-dung'), author of a tome entitled "Clothes: their Origin and Influence", but was actually a poioumenon.Teufelsdröckh's Transcendentalist musings are mulled over by a skeptical English editor who also provides fragmentary biographical material on the philosopher. The work is, in part, a parody of Hegel, and of German Idealism more generally. However, Teufelsdröckh is also a literary device with which Carlyle can express difficult truths. Because Carlyle had difficulty finding a publisher for Sartor, he began composing it as an article in October 1831.[2] Fraser's Magazine serialised it in 1833-1834 and the text was published as an independent volume in Boston in 1836 and London in 1838.[3] Sartor Resartus was intended to be a new kind of book: simultaneously factual and fictional, serious and satirical, speculative and historical. It ironically commented on its own formal structure, while forcing the reader to confront the problem of where "truth" is to be found. In this respect it develops techniques used much earlier in Tristram Shandy, to which it refers. The imaginary "Philosophy of Clothes" holds that meaning is to be derived from phenomena, continually shifting over history, as cultures reconstruct themselves in changing fashions, power-structures, and faith-systems. The book contains a very Fichtean conception of religious conversion: based not on the acceptance of God but on the absolute freedom of the will to reject evil, and to construct meaning. This has led some writers to see Sartor Resartus as an early existentialist text. This book is extremely famous and discused.[citation needed] Sartor Resartus had a limited success in the USA, where it was admired by Ralph Waldo Emerson, influencing the development of New England Transcendentalism, and by Herman Melville, whose Moby-Dick was strongly influenced by Carlyle. Dwight Eisenhower, who kept this book with him from 1942 through 1945 while Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force, noted “Regarding the second part of this edition, again from Wiki: It is a wise man who has read this masterpiece and acts upon its call. Latter-Day Pamphlets was a series of "pamphlets" published by Thomas Carlyle in 1850, in vehement denunciation of what he believed to be the political, social, and religious imbecilities and injustices of the period. The book, which at one point vindicated slavery, failed to gain the approval of the Victorian public, and is often seen as a negative turning point in Carlyle's career. The best known of the essays in the collection is Hudson's Statue, an attack on plans to erect a monument to the bankrupted financier George Hudson, known as the "railway king". The essay expresses central theme of the book — the corrosive effects of populist politics and laissez faire capitalism. Carlyle also attacked the prison system, which he believed to be too liberal, and democratic parliamentary government. The imaginary figure of "Bobus", a corrupt sausage-maker turned politician, is used to epitomise the ways in which modern commercial culture saps the morality of society.
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Collins, Jeff;Mayblin, Bill
Introducing Derrida
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Totem Books
2001
1840461187 / 9781840461183
Soft Cover
Very Good
Illlustrated
Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy
NS18924
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7.91 USD
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