Category: Philosophy

Decentering the Center: Philosophy for a Multicultural, Postcolonial, and Feminist World (A Hypatia Book)

Price: $10.95

Publisher: Indiana University Press : March 2000

Seller ID: 80353

ISBN-13: 9780253213846

The essays in this volume bring to their focuses on philosophical issues the new angles of vision created by the multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminisms that have been developing around us. These multicultural, global, and postcolonial feminist concerns transform mainstream notions of experience, human rights, the origins of philosophic issues, philosophic uses of metaphors of the family, white antiracism, human progress, scientific progress, modernity, the unity of scientific method, the desirability of universal knowledge claims, and other ideas central to philosophy.

The Human Condition, 2nd Edition

By: Arendt, Hannah

Price: $15.95

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press : December 1998

Seller ID: 85590

ISBN-13: 9780226025988

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Condition is in many respects more relevant now than when it first appeared in 1958. In her study of the state of modern humanity, Hannah Arendt considers humankind from the perspective of the actions of which it is capable. The problems Arendt identified then--diminishing human agency and political freedom, the paradox that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions--continue to confront us today. This new edition, published to...
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The Basic Works of Aristotle (Modern Library Classics)

By: Aristotle,

Price: $18.95

Publisher: Modern Library : September 2001

Seller ID: 85702

ISBN-13: 9780375757990

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Edited by Richard McKeon, with an introduction by C.D.C. Reeve Preserved by Arabic mathematicians and canonized by Christian scholars, Aristotle's works have shaped Western thought, science, and religion for nearly two thousand years. Richard McKeon's The Basic Works of Aristotle--constituted out of the definitive Oxford translation and in print as a Random House hardcover for sixty years--has long been considered the best available one-volume Aristotle. Appearing in paperback at long last, this edition includes selections from the Organon, On the Heavens, The Short Physical Treatises, Rhetor...
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Key Writings (Bloomsbury Revelations)

By: Bergson, Henri

Price: $39.95

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic : June 2014

Seller ID: 85591

ISBN-13: 9781472528018

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The twentieth century - with its unprecedented advances in technology and scientific understanding - saw the birth of a distinctively new and 'modern' age. Henri Bergson stood as one of the most important philosophical voices of that tumultuous time. An intellectual celebrity in his own life time, his work was widely discussed by such thinkers as William James, Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell, as well as having a profound influence on modernist writers such as Wallace Stevens, Willa Cather and Wyndham Lewis and later thinkers, most notably Gilles Deleuze. Key Writings brings togeth...
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Cases in Ethics and the Conduct of Business

By: Boatright, John R.

Price: $11.95

Publisher: Pearson : September 1994

Seller ID: 24999

ISBN-13: 9780131206014

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

For courses in Business Ethics or Business and Society.

A collection of 30 cases on major ethical issues in business.

The Sociology of Economic Life: Theory and Practice

By: Bottomore, Tom

Price: $13.95

Publisher: Guilford Press : January 1990

Seller ID: 84380

ISBN-13: 9780745001197

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Weighing Lives

By: Broome, John

Price: $34.95

Publisher: Clarendon Press : July 2006

Seller ID: 52653

ISBN-13: 9780199297702

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

We are often faced with choices that involve the weighing of people's lives against each other, or the weighing of lives against other good things. These are choices both for individuals and for societies. We have to choose between the convenience to ourselves of road and air travel, and the lives of the future people who will be killed by the global warming we cause. We make choices that affect how many lives there will be in the future: as individuals we choose how many children to have, and societies choose tax policies that influence people's choices about having children. How should we we...
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Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

By: Brusseau, James

Price: $29.95

Publisher: SUNY Press : January 1998

Seller ID: 48714

ISBN-13: 9780791436721

Binding: Trade Paperback

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By extending Gilles Deleuze's philosophy through diverse literary tracts, this book develops an account of what it means to be different and enters important contemporary debates about identity and the nature of solitude. At the same time, the book elaborates a limited philosophy. From unusual writings and rare human experiences, James Brusseau forges compelling understandings that scrupulously preserve his subjects' irregularities. The resulting philosophic narrative remains strictly localized; it elucidates narrow bands of experience and refuses broadening generalizations. The book's first s...
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Meetings: Autobiographical Fragments

By: Buber, Martin

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Publisher: Routledge : October 2002

Seller ID: 48730

ISBN-13: 9780415282673

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Meetings sets forth the life of one of the twentieth-century's greatest spiritual philosophers in his own words. A glittering series of reflections and narratives, it seeks not to describe his life in its full entirety, but rather to convey some of his defining moments of uncertainty, revelation and meaning. Recalling the question on the infinity of space and time which nearly drove Buber to suicide at the age of fourteen, his adolescent 'seduction' by Nietzsche's work, his hero-worship of Ferdinand Lassalle and his love of Bach's music, Meetings has no equal as a portrait of an unique intelle...
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A Kant Dictionary

By: Caygill, Howard

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell : July 1995

Seller ID: 85701

ISBN-13: 9780631175353

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this new lexical survey of Kant's works, Howard Caygill presents Kantian concepts and terminology in terms that will introduce and clarify his ideas for students and general readers alike.
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Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals

By: Code, Lorraine, Mullett, Shelia, Overall, Christine

Price: $14.95

Publisher: University of Toronto Press : May 1988

Seller ID: 40758

ISBN-13: 9780802066688

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Expressionism in Philosophy: Spinoza

By: Deleuze, Gilles

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Zone Books : February 1992

Seller ID: 85320

ISBN-13: 9780942299519

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In this remarkable work, Gilles Deleuze, the renowned French philosopher, reflects on one of the thinkers of the past who most influenced his own sweeping reconfiguration of the tasks of philosophy. For Deleuze, Spinoza, along with Nietzsche and Lucretius, conceived of philosophy as an enterprise of liberation and radical demystification. He locates in Spinoza "a set of affects, a kinetic determination, an impulse" and makes Spinoza into "an encounter, a passion." Expressionism in Philosophy was the culmination of a series of monographic studies by Deleuze (on Hume, Bergson, Nietzsche, Proust,...
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The Philosophical Writings of Descartes: Volume 2

By: Descartes, René

Price: $44.95

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : August 1985

Seller ID: 85678

ISBN-13: 9780521288088

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Price includes Vol 1 and 2 together.
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Dictionary of Chinese Symbols: Hidden Symbols in Chinese Life and Thought (Routledge Dictionaries)

By: Eberhard, Wolfram

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Routledge : July 1986

Seller ID: 85551

ISBN-13: 9780415002288

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This unique and authoritative guide describes more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature and in Chinese customs and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely. An ideal reference book to help one learn and explore further, while simultaneously giving greater insight into many other aspects of Chinese life ... the most authoritative guide to Chinese symbolism available to the general reader today ... a well-researched, informative and entertaining guide to the treasure trove of Chinese symb...
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Why Democracy?

By: Fairfield, Paul

Price: $21.95

Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr : January 2008

Seller ID: 14239

ISBN-13: 9780791473153

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

While much of the world now embraces the democratic idea--that the people must rule--the philosophical case for democracy has yet to be made convincingly. Why Democracy? not only reexamines the current debates in normative democratic theory, but also challenges popular conceptions that tend toward an uncritical idealization of popular rule. It is not enough to call for more extensive public deliberation, or for greater participation and inclusion in the democratic process, or for a radical extension of the scope of the process. Making the case for democracy requires examining its imaginative a...
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In Critical Condition: Polemical Essays on Cognitive Science and the Philosophy of Mind (Representation and Mind)

By: Fodor, Jerry A.

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Publisher: A Bradford Book : January 2000

Seller ID: 52473

ISBN-13: 9780262561280

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In this book Jerry Fodor contrasts his views about the mind with those of a number of well-known philosophers and cognitive scientists, including John McDowell, Christopher Peacocke, Paul Churchland, Daniel Dennett, Paul Smolensky, and Richard Dawkins. Several of these essays are published here for the first time. The rest originated as book reviews in the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books, or in journals of philosophy or psychology. The topics examined include cognitive architecture, the nature of concepts, and the status of Darwinism in psychology. Fodor constructs a vers...
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Avicenna

By: Goodman, Lenn E.

Price: $32.95

Publisher: Cornell University Press : January 2006

Seller ID: 85719

ISBN-13: 9780801472541

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In this updated edition of his classic work, Lenn E. Goodman provides a concise introduction to the life and thought of Abu Ali al-Husain ibn Abdallah ibn Sina, known as Avicenna, who was born in the year 980 C.E. near Bokhara in what is now Uzbekistan and died 1037 C.E. in Hamadan, now in Iran.

The Dream of Reason: A History of Philosophy from the Greeks to the Renaissance

By: Gottlieb, Anthony

Price: $16.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : October 2002

Seller ID: 30642

ISBN-13: 9780393323658

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Already a classic in its first year of publication, this landmark study of Western thought takes a fresh look at the writings of the great thinkers of classic philosophy and questions many pieces of conventional wisdom. The book invites comparison with Bertrand Russell's monumental "History of Western Philosophy," "but Gottlieb's book is less idiosyncratic and based on more recent scholarship" (Colin McGinn, "Los Angeles Times"). A "New York Times" Notable Book, a "Los Angeles Times" Best Book, and a "Times Literary Supplement" Best Book of 2001.
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Being and Time: A Revised Edition of the Stambaugh Translation (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

By: Heidegger, Martin

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Publisher: State University of New York Press : July 2010

Seller ID: 85379

ISBN-13: 9781438432762

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The publication in 1927 of Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, signaled an intellectual event of the first order and had an impact in fields far beyond that of philosophy proper. Being and Time has long been recognized as a landmark work of the twentieth century for its original analyses of the character of philosophic inquiry and the relation of the possibility of such inquiry to the human situation. Still provocative and much disputed, Heidegger's text has been taken as the inspiration for a variety of innovative movements in fields ranging from psychoanalysis, literary theory, e...
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Herakleitos and Diogenes: Translated from the Greek by Guy Davenport

By: Herakleitos, Herakleitos

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Publisher: Wipf and Stock : February 2011

Seller ID: 81392

ISBN-13: 9781610970884

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All the extant fragments of Herakleitos and a collection of Diogenes' words from various sources. Herakleitos' words, 2500 years old, usually appear in English translated by philosophers as makeshift clusters of nouns and verbs which can then be inspected at length. Here they are translated into plain English and allowed to stand naked and unchaperoned in their native archaic Mediterranean light. The practical words of the Athenian street philosopher Diogenes have never before been extracted from the apocryphal anecdotes in which they have come down to us. They are addressed to humanity at lar...
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Category: Philosophy