Philosophy

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerSet against the blazing, mystical backdrop of sixteenth-century Mughal India, The Near and the Far is a profound...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingAt a moment when democracy trembled under the shadow of fascism and totalitarianism, Rex Warner delivered a searing intellectual reckoning...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerIn the century between David Hume's later writings and John Stuart Mill's mature works, British philosophy...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodA towering achievement in twentieth-century critical thought, Herbert Read's Collected Essays in Literary Criticism assembles the most enduring and penetrating writings of one of Britain's foremost...

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