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Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book,...

Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation....

Can shame become a source of political strength? Faced with injustice, growing inequality and systemic violence, we cry out in shame. We feel ashamed of obscene wealth amid wider deprivation....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does the human mind do with information that was never explicitly provided? Beyond the Information Given presents one of the twentieth century's most...

In Stranger in a Strange Land , Prochnik revisits the life and work of Gershom Scholem, whose once prominent reputation - as a Freud-like interpreter of the inner world of...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Signed with inscriptionAt a time when the world desperately seeks alternatives to violence, Thomas Weber's Conflict Resolution and Gandhian Ethics presents...

Author: Nathaniel Jason Goldberg (Associate Professor of Philosophy, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Washington and Lee University)Format: Hardback, 236mm x 165mm, 513g, 288 pagesPublished: Oxford University Press Inc, United States, 2015This...

For decades, the Dalai Lama has travelled the world, meeting with people from a wealth of countries who differ greatly in their background, social status and viewpoint, bringing them his...

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The author of the celebrated The Dream of Reason vividly explains the rise of modern thought from Descartes to Rousseau In a short period - from the early 1640s to...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Some yellowing visible. Markings: No visible markings. Binding: Binding appears intact. Stickers/Labels: None visible. Part of the prestigious Makers...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the crossroads of language, being, and existence, Martin Heidegger's An Introduction to Metaphysics presents one of the...

In what remains one of his most seminal papers, Freud considers the incompatibility of civilisation and individual happiness, and the tensions between the claims of society and the individual. We...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerWhat happens when the rigorous methodologies of modern science and the transformative power of communicative action are brought...

Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger is a work of cultural history that situates the art works of one of the most important contemporary painters in relation to...

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Fredric Jameson's The Years of Theory introduces the major themes of French theory, including existentialism, structuralism, poststructuralism, semiotics, feminism, psychoanalysis, and Marxism. In a series of accessible lectures, Jameson places...

Edition: First UK ed.Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodWhat does it mean to truly live — to accumulate and possess, or to grow and give? In To Have or...

Author: George W. Barrett And J. V. Langmead CasserleyBinding: PaperbackPublished: LONGMANS, 1955Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis philosophical work presents...

An indispensable analysis of the current challenges in one of the most troubled regions on our planet On Palestine is Noam Chomsky and Ilan Pappe's indispensable update on a suffering...

First complete translation into English of 'Maximem und Reflexionen' Throughout his long, hectic and astonishingly varied life, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) would jot down his passing thoughts on theatre...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the intersection of perception, reality, and the divine stands George Berkeley...

A major new book on today's most pressing human concern, by the author of 9-11 and Profit Over People. A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In his first major book on...

Concentrating on the Centre for the Study of Complex Systems in Los Alamos and the religious beliefs of surrounding communities, Journalist George Johnson explores the new science of complexity, which...

One of the greatest philosophical works of all time, in a new translation for the twenty-first century Widely regarded as one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth...

Hermann Hesse's final and most ambitious novel, The Glass Bead Game: Magister Ludi, is a sweeping work of philosophical fiction set in the distant future within the fictional province of...

The book titled Words of Gilbert and George by the author Hans-Ulrich Obrist. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A collection that includes some of Camus' most brilliant political writing This volume contains some of Camus' most powerful political writing as he reflects on moral responsibility and the role...

Translated with an introduction by Alstair Hannay Writing under the pseudonym of Johannes de silentio, Kierkegaard uses the form of a dialectical lyric to present his conception of faith. Abraham...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: worn/faded; no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding: Intact. No stickers or labels. A landmark work in twentieth-century European literary and cultural criticism,...

**Over 50,000 copies sold** What does real happiness look like? How can we find true purpose, meaning and connection in our finite time on Earth? 105-year-old Professor Kim reveals key...

An essential primer on capitalism, politics and how the world works, based on the hugely popular undergraduate lecture series 'What is Politics?' Is there an alternative to capitalism? In this...

Author: Albert Liebermann Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 Ganbatte (gan-ba-tay) is a Japanese philosophy focused on doing the best you can with what you have. Though there is no...

Author: Nicholas RescherBinding: HardbackPublished: Clarendon Press, 1973Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis academic work scrutinizes the coherence theory of truth, a fundamental concept in epistemology. It...

The book titled Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan by the author Ian Buruma. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: DamagedPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Long tears on dust jacket seams, clipping along edges of jacket, otherwise fineThis seminal work, System And Structure:...

Either/Or is a brilliant exploration of the conflicts inherent in life between living aesthetically, and living morally In Either/Or, using the voices of two characters - the aesthetic young man...

A Seminary Co-op Notable Book "A big picture perspective on the mind, decision-making, and consciousness...Provocative and stimulating." - Philosophical Psychology "LeDoux's aim is to provide a new theory of being...

As the crisis of capitalism unfolds, the need for alternatives is felt ever more intensely. The struggle between radical movements and the forces of reaction will be merciless. A crucial...

Author: Staatliche Kunstsammlung DresdenFormat: Hardback, 225mm x 280mm, 1960g, 360 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Caspar David Friedrich and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov are the most important artists of the Romantic era...

Concerns for the lives of soldiers and innocent civilians have come to underpin Western, and particularly American, warfare. Yet this new mode of conflict faces a dilemma: these two norms...

A brilliant exploration of a significant and understudied aspect of Nietzsche's philosophy. In this groundbreaking work, Christa Davis Acampora offers a profound rethinking of Friedrich Nietzsche's crucial notion of the...