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Schiller's famous treatise on art, politics and society 'The artist is certainly the child of his age, but all the worse for him if he is at the same time...

Author: Friedrich SchillerBinding: HardbackPublished: Continuum New York, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsFriedrich Schiller's collection Plays: Intrigue And Love And Don Carlos presents two seminal works...

Ideal for students of German as well as crime story enthusiasts, this dual-language edition contains ten short stories. Selections range from eighteenth- and nineteenth-century classics by Friedrich Schiller ("Der Verbrecher...

An excellent companion to our edition of H lderlin's Selected Poems and Fragments, this collection of prose and letters introduces the reader to the man behind the art One of...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: No dust jacket - paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner. A landmark anthology of dramatic literature, The Genius...

Author: Peter BetthausenBinding: HardbackPublished: Henschelverlag, 1985Condition:Book: FairJacket: N/APages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Cover has wear to some corners, previous owner writing inside first pageThis compelling biography, Karl Friedrich Schinkel, chronicles...

A passionately argued work on the philosophy of aesthetics No philosopher has held a higher opinion of art than Hegel, yet nor was any so profoundly pessimistic about its prospects...

This book is a sustained leftist critque of communication conglomeration, and the ways in which corporate think limits public expression and public understanding. As a critic of corporate imperialism, Schiller...

New to Penguin Classics, The Joyous Science is Nietzsche's most personal book - and one of his best The Joyous Science is a liberating voyage of discovery as Nietzsche's realization...

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"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have shaped our...

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In this unique selection popular giants of the Romantic movement - Goethe, Schiller, Schlegel, Heine - are joined by an array of poets who deserve a wider audience in English,...

A captivating collection of Friedrich Nietzsche's seminal works, from his provocative musings on truth and morality to his profound exploration of human existence "In this volume, one may very conveniently...

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Wagner was one of the few major composers who studied philosophy seriously. Bryan Magee places the composer's artistic development in the context of the philosophy of his age, and gives...

Author: Frederich Nietzsche Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman...

New to Penguin Classics, The Will to Power includes some of Nietzsche's most important thoughts on nihilism, metaphysics and the future of Europe Assembled by Nietzsche's sister after his death,...

Penguin Classics brings this seminal work by Engels back in to print, with a new introduction by historian Tristram Hunt The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State...

Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects the tradition of Western thought with its notions of truth and...

Author: Roberto Alejandro Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 In this extraordinary contribution to Nietzsche studies, Robert Alejandro offers an original interpretation of Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophy viewed as a complete...

Edition: 2nd ed.,Condition remarks: Condition:Fair. Jacket: N/A; buckram cloth worn and faded; mild bumping on corners and spine; some stains on boards. Page Condition: Yellowed with signs of aging. Markings:...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive biography Schubert: His Life His Work His Time chronicles the extraordinary yet tragically short life of Franz Schubert,...

Penguin Classics relaunch Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and subversive thinkers in Western philosophy, and Thus Spoke Zarathustra remains his most famous and influential work. It describes how...

Michael Hamburger's distinguished translation of a selection of poems by German poet Friedrich Holderlin Friedrich H lderlin (1770-1843) is now recognized as one of Europe's supreme poets. He first found...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed , price clippedMarkings: No markingsSelected Poems Of Friedrich Holderlin presents a profound collection from one of Germany's most significant Romantic poets. This...

The Times Biography of the Year Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 'A strikingly original portrait of Nietzsche and beautifully written.' Antony Beevor 'Outstanding.' The Sunday Times 'A revelation.'...

Volume 2 of the definitive English translation of one of the most important philosophical works of the 19th century, the basic statement in one important stream of post-Kantian thought Arthur...

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Edition: First UK EditionCondition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: Signed,Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards: Rubbed edges; binding remains tight. Pages: light foxing on the book block. Markings: penned inscription to...

Philosophy Bargain Book Box Daniel Dennett wrote his memoir knowing it would be his last book. It's in here. So is Nietzsche at his most provocative, Sun Tzu still being...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew figures in modern history have cast as long and consequential a shadow as Friedrich Engels — the industrialist's son who became the intellectual architect...

Author: Sven-Eric Liedman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 768 The globalised world of the twenty-first century has many parallels with that of the period running up to the cataclysm of...

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This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918). Plants, natural environments, and townscapes determine the spaces Egon...

Author: Thomas KeneallyBinding: HardbackPublished: Hodder, 1982Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsSchindler's Ark presents a powerful historical narrative, recounting the extraordinary efforts of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist who...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Worn but not faded - jacket still in good condition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Winner of...

Author: Sharon Bolton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'The Buried's undoubted strengths include Bolton's deftly shaded portrayal of the attitudes of yesteryear towards women and the bonds of necessity...

Author: Sharon Bolton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 448 'The Buried's undoubted strengths include Bolton's deftly shaded portrayal of the attitudes of yesteryear towards women and the bonds of necessity...

' The Buried's undoubted strengths include Bolton's deftly shaded portrayal of the attitudes of yesteryear towards women and the bonds of necessity between them' THE TIMES AN OLD ENEMY IS...