Used, Rare & Antiquarian Religion & Philosophy Books - pg. 10 including Religious Revolt in the Seventeenth Century: The Schism of the Russian Church (SIGNED COPY)by: Lupinin, Nickolas B.
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Kingston Press, Incorporated, The, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, SIGNED BY AUTHOR. 227 pages. Light foxing to top and fore-edge. Minor wear to dust jacket; spine slightly faded. Else a very clean, tight copy.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 482 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, November 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor edgewear to wrappers.
Hardcover. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 185 pages. Hardcover. Red cloth. No dust jacket as issued. Previous owner's signature on front end paper, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Facsimiles-Garland Press, reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 3 volume hardcover set. 428+433+368 pages. Previous owner's signature on front end paper of all volumes. Faint pencil markings to a handful pages of each volume. Overall, a tight clean set.
Hardcover. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 287 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. Leiden, E.J. Brill, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 131 pages. German text. Previous owner's stamp on front end paper. Light wear to blue cloth covers. No dust jacket. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge ; New York, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 234 pages. Laminated boards. No dust jacket issue. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to covers.
Hardcover. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 442 pages. Light shelf-wear to dust jacket with slight sun-fade on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1981, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Volume 13. 420 pages. Dust jacket spine shows sun-fade, light rubbing and some edgewear. Book itself is in very good condition with only minor foxing to the top edge. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Exeter UK, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2006, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 179 pages. Light shelf-wear and scratching to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy. Much of the scholarly attention attracted by Michael Oakeshott's writings has focused upon his philosophical characterisation of the relations that constitute moral association in the modern world. A less noticed, but equally significant, aspect of Oakeshott's moral philosophy is his account of the type of person (or persona) required to enter into and enjoy moral association. Oakeshott's best known characterisation of the persona best suited to moral association occurs in his identification of a 'morality of the individual'. The book argues that Oakeshott's characterisations of religious and poetic experience provide a more detailed account of the type of persona that emerged in response to what it perceived as an invitation to participate in moral association in the modern world.
Hardcover. UK, Imprint Academic, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 208 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. This book examines Oakeshott's political philosophy within the context of his more general conception of philosophical understanding. The book stresses the underlying continuity of his major writings on the subject and takes seriously the implications of understanding the world in terms of modality. The book suggests strongly that Oakeshott's philosophy of political activity cannot be reduced to a branch of conservatism, liberalism, or postmodernism or a theory or set of doctrines which fit neatly into any conventional school, like that of Idealism or Skepticism. Rather, Oakeshott's philosophy of political activity is a provocation to all of the currently dominant schools of political theory and political practice. It questions their presuppositions and exposes as ambiguous, arbitrary, or confused all of the supposed certainties which they take for granted. It does all this by offering profound insights into the character and limits of both political activity and political theory in the modern world.
Softcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 2nd Ed., 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 715 pages, b&w illustrations. A comprehensive survey of the Hindu tradition, the book deals with the history of Hinduism, the sacred writings of the Hindus, the Hindu worldview, and the specifics of the major branches of Hinduism-Vaisnavism, Saivism, and Saktism. It also focuses on the geographical ties of Hinduism with the land of India, the social order created by Hinduism, and the various systems of Hindu thought. Klaus K. Klostermaier describes the development of Hinduism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including present-day political Hinduism and the efforts to turn Hinduism into a modern world religion. A unique feature of the book is its treatment of Hinduism in a topical fashion, rather than by chronological description of the development of Hinduism or by summary of the literature. The complexities of Hindu life and thought are thus made real to the reader, and Hindus will recognize it as their own tradition. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Amherst NY, Prometheus Books, 1st, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 554 pages. More than one hundred years ago Western scholars began to investigate the origins of Islam, using the highest standards of objective historical scholarship of the time. Their aim was to determine what could be known about Muhammad and the rise of early Islam quite apart from the pious and totally unobjective traditions preserved by the Muslim religious community. In some ways this research was inspired by a similar investigation of Christianity made famous by Albert Schweitzer's Quest of the Historical Jesus. Today although much has been learned about early Christianity, little comparable progress has been made in the field of Islamic Studies. Here objective historical research has long been severely handicapped both by the resistance of Muslim societies to Western analysis of their sacred traditions and by the apologetic approaches of many Western scholars, who have compromised their investigations for fear of offending Muslim sensibilities. It is in this context that Ibn Warraq presents this important anthology of the best studies of Muhammad and early Islam ranging from the very beginnings of Islamic Studies in the nineteenth century to contemporary research. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 3rd pr., 2017, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 316 pages. David Hume is widely regarded as the most important philosopher ever to write in English, but during his lifetime he was attacked as "the Great Infidel" for his skeptical religious views and deemed unfit to teach the young. In contrast, Adam Smith was a revered professor of moral philosophy, and is now often hailed as the founding father of capitalism. Remarkably, the two were best friends for most of their adult lives, sharing what Dennis Rasmussen calls the greatest of all philosophical friendships. The Infidel and the Professor is the first book to tell the fascinating story of the friendship of these towering Enlightenment thinkers-and how it influenced their world-changing ideas. The book follows Hume and Smith's relationship from their first meeting in 1749 until Hume's death in 1776. It describes how they commented on each other's writings, supported each other's careers and literary ambitions, and advised each other on personal matters, most notably after Hume's quarrel with Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Clean copy.
Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 496 pages. During the second half of the twentieth century, the Arab intellectual and political scene polarized between a search for totalizing doctrines-nationalist, Marxist, and religious-and radical critique. Arab thinkers were reacting to the disenchanting experience of post-independence Arab states, as well as to authoritarianism, intolerance, and failed development. They were also responding to successive defeats by Israel, humiliation, and injustice. The first book to take stock of these critical responses, this volume illuminates the relationship between cultural and political critique in the work of major Arab thinkers, and it connects Arab debates on cultural malaise, identity, and authenticity to the postcolonial issues of Latin America and Africa, revealing the shared struggles of different regions and various Arab concerns. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, University of Chicago, 1st, 2012, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. Richard Sorabji presents a fascinating study of Gandhi's philosophy in comparison with Christian and Stoic thought. Sorabji shows that Gandhi was a true philosopher. He not only aimed to give a consistent self-critical rationale for his views, but also thought himself obliged to live by what he taught--something that he had in common with the ancient Greek and Christian ethical traditions. Understanding his philosophy helps with re-assessing the consistency of his positions and life. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 201 pages. Four major subthemes in Heidegger's thinking are explored in the book's four parts: the fundamental ontology developed in Being and Time; the "lighting and clearing" of Being, understood as "unconcealment"; the history of philosophy-with emphasis on Heraclitus, Hegel, and Nietzsche-interpreted as the "destiny" of Being; and the poetics of Being, explicated as the "fundamental experience" of mortality. Neither an introduction nor a survey, this book is a close reading of a wide range of Heidegger's books, lectures, and articles-including extensive material not yet translated into English-informed by the author's conversations with Heidegger in 1974-76. Each of the four subthemes is treated critically. The aim of the book is to push its interrogations of Heidegger's thought as far as possible, in order to help the reader toward an independent assessment of his work and to encourage novel, radically conceived approaches to traditional philosophical problems. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1st, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth covers, Gilt title on spine, top edge gilt, 211 pages. The book explores the concept of freedom, its meaning, and its significance in human life. Palmer examines the different philosophical and ethical theories surrounding freedom and its limitations, including determinism and the role of the state in regulating individual freedom. He also discusses the relationship between freedom and morality, and the importance of individual responsibility in the exercise of freedom. The text results from a course of lectures delivered in 1909 before the Lowell Institute of Boston. Delivered without notes, they were carefully reported and subsequently much revised. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, 1st UK, 1930, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, orange cloth, gilt lettering on spine, 249 pages. Science had explained the world and, in the explaining, emptied it. By 1929 the educated mind could account for the body, the emotions, even love and grief -- and found, in the accounting, that the things it most valued had no standing in the universe that science described. Published in January 1929, months before the Crash that ended the decade's prosperity, Joseph Wood Krutch's The Modern Temper: A Study and a Confession became the defining diagnosis of that crisis: a clear-eyed reckoning of what the modern mind had gained in knowledge and forfeited in meaning. Krutch's incisive examination of the dilemmas faced by modern man has proved remarkably prophetic. This book stands as an unflinchingly honest examination of the major moral questions of our era. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Liveright Publishing, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering, 418 pages. In this important and challenging book, Wolfgang Kohler's subject is value, or what he calls the "requiredness" of an object or activity. Starting with a descriptive account of values as we become aware of them, he finds that, inside certain contexts, parts of such structures do not appear as indifferent facts. They are experienced as belonging there intrinsically or, also, as being out of place in their contexts. Kohler's closely reasoned analysis, drawing on the fields of psychology, biology, and physics, centers around this concept of requiredness. Clean copy. No dust jacket.
Hardcover. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1st, 1892, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt stamping. Black endpapers, title page states 1892 with only "Richard Clay and Sons, Limited/London & Bungay" on copyright page. A commentary on the biblical book of Revelation, also known as the Apocalypse, which describes the end of the world and the return of Christ. Throughout the book, Rossetti offers her insights and reflections on the various chapters and verses of the Apocalypse. She provides a devotional perspective, emphasizing the spiritual lessons that can be gleaned from the text. The book is divided into chapters, each of which covers a different section of the Apocalypse. Rossetti provides an overview of the text, followed by her commentary. Her last and perhaps most audacious volume, she found the Tractarian emphasis on emotional and imaginative freedom particularly helpful in her need for a woman's response to a 'masculine' text. Rear hinge cracked, 13 line quote from text written in ink on the half title page, otherwise clean.
Softcover. London, Verso, 3rd Ed., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 279 pages. Paul Feyerabend's globally acclaimed work, which sparked and continues to stimulate fierce debate, examines the deficiencies of many widespread ideas about scientific progress and the nature of knowledge. Feyerabend argues that scientific advances can only be understood in a historical context. He looks at the way the philosophy of science has consistently overemphasized practice over method, and considers the possibility that anarchism could replace rationalism in the theory of knowledge. The third edition of this classic text contains a new preface and additional reflections at various points in which the author takes account both of recent debates on science and on the impact of scientific products and practices on the human community. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 207 pages. Clean copy.
Hardcover. NY, Doubleday and Co., 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in green cloth with black cloth spine, gilt lettering on spine. 108 pages, green endpapers. "I shall reconsider human knowledge by starting from the fact that we can know more than we can tell," writes Michael Polanyi, whose work paved the way for the likes of Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. The Tacit Dimension argues that tacit knowledge--tradition, inherited practices, implied values, and prejudgments--is a crucial part of scientific knowledge. A bright, clean first printing of this classic, lacking the dust jacket.
Hardcover. NY, S.A. Russell, 2nd Ed., 1956, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, chipped dust jacket, 390 pages. Winspear's volume on Plato's thought traces, in a realistic fashion, the deep-reaching social and economic roots of Plato's concept of the state and society. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Boston, David R. Godine, 1st, 2018, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 260 pages. See more clearly, live more wisely, and bear the burdens of this life with greater ease-here are the greatest insights of the Stoics, in their own words. Presented in twelve lessons, Ward Farnsworth systematically presents the heart of Stoic philosophy accompanied by commentary that is clear and concise. A foundational idea to Stoicism is that we appear to go through life reacting directly to events. That appearance is an illusion. We react to our judgments and opinions-to our thoughts about things, not to things themselves. Stoics seek to become conscious of those judgments, to find the irrationality in them, and to choose them more carefully. Clean copy.
Hardcover. London, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, navy cloth, gilt spine lettering. B/W frontispiece. 174 pages with index. Owner's name to front fly leaf, light spotting to rear cover, clean otherwise. Kierkegaard reflects on his lifetime of writing and understanding of his varied works. The work was written in 1848, published in part in 1851 (as On my Work as an Author), and published in full posthumously in 1859. This work explains his pseudonymous writings and his personal attachment to those writings.
Hardcover. NY, Thomas Y Crowell, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, two-color cloth covers, 465 pages. Brown spine with white lettering. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. No dust jacket.
Softcover. NY, Doubleday, 1st, 2004, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 866 pages. In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together biblical and literary scholarship, sociology, history, and philosophy. A renowned scholar, Segal examines the maps of the afterlife found in Western religious texts and reveals not only what various cultures believed but how their notions reflected their societies' realities and ideals, and why those beliefs changed over time. He maintains that the afterlife is the mirror in which a society arranges its concept of the self. The composition process for Judaism, Christianity, and Islam begins in grief and ends in the victory of the self over death.
Softcover. Lanham, University Press of America, 1st, 1983, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 311 pages. INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR ON FRONT ENDPAPER. Light foxing to edges and covers. Clean, unmarked copy.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 387 pages. Black cloth covers slightly bowed. Some light notes in pencil. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows light wear.
Hardcover. Bristol, Thoemmes Press, Reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Hardcover Volumes. Volume 1 - 447 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 519 pages. Previous owners name at top right corner of front endpaper. Approximately 15 pages of light pencil marking/marginalia. Blue cloth covers with gilt title on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, The Free Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover, 615 pages. Previous owners name on front endpaper. Dust jacket with spine fading, standard wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1st, 1903, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 2 Volumes. Blue cloth covers. Volume 1 - 358 pages. Previous owners bookplate on inside front cover. Area of foxing at top left corner of half title page. Light moisture wrinkle to front/back covers at upper right/left corners - this does not effect text block. Title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 330 pages plus 32 pages of ads. Previous owners bookplate on front endpaper. Blue stain along gutter of half title, and title page. Title in gilt on spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Madras, The Adyar Library, Reprint, 1953, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Non-paginated. Hardcover. Text in Sanskrit and English. Previous owners name on front endpaper with brief note opposite. Light, neat notes in pen and pencil on some pages in first section of text. Overall, very good.
Hardcover. Philadelphia, David McKay Company, 1st, 1934, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 135 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations by Willy Pogany. Black cloth with titles and decoration in silver. Black & white paste down on front cover is intact. Clear plastic cover protecting boards. Pages are clean, unmarked. No slipcase. A nice copy.
Hardcover. New York, Abingdon Press, 1st, 1918, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 224 pages. Hardcover. Green cloth with gilt titles. NOT a reprint or print on demand edition. Light wear. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Israel, Yeshivat Kol Yehuda, Reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 264 pages. Hardcover. Black & white illustrations. Dust jacket with light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked pages.
Hardcover. New York, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with light wear. Clean unmarked text.
Hardcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 444 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Light fading to dust jacket front. Light edgewear to dj. Black and white pictures throughout. Clean, tight copy. In 1999 Pope John Paul II proclaimed Our Lady of Guadalupe a patron saint of the Americas. According to oral tradition and historical documents, in 1531 Mary appeared as a beautiful Aztec princess to Juan Diego, a poor Indian. Speaking to him in his own language, she asked him to tell the bishop her name was La Virgen de Guadalupe and that she wanted a church built on the mountain. During a second visit, the image of the Virgin miraculously appeared on his cape. Through the centuries, the enigmatic power of this image has aroused such fervent devotion in Mexico that it has served as the banner of the rebellion against Spanish rule and, despite skepticism and anticlericalism, still remains a potent symbol of the modern nation. In Mexican Phoenix, David Brading traces the intellectual origins, the sudden efflorescence, and the theology that has sustained the tradition of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Brading also documents the interaction of religion and patriotism, and describes how the image has served as a banner both for independence and for the Church in its struggle against the Liberal and revolutionary state.
Hardcover. Boston, William White & Co, 3rd, 1862, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 344 pages. Black boards with embossed pictorial border, gilt titles to spine. Previous owner's signature to front endpaper, light rubbing to covers, top third of outside of front hinge cracked, mild edgewear, pages crisp and unmarked; overall, a very neat, tight copy.
Hardcover. Leiden, Netherlands, E. J. Brill, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 377 pages. Blue cloth, gilt lettering to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light wear and smudges to covers. Clean, tight copy in excellent condition.
Hardcover. Honolulu, HI, East-West Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 251 pages. Translated with an introduction by Robert Schinzinger. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light wear to dust jacket with slight scratch to rear cover and small tear to upper edge of spine. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Cassell, 1st, 1880, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, Unpaginated, 100 b&w illustrations by Dore. Brown cloth covers w/ faded gilt lettering and design. Rubbing, chipping to corners. Hinges and binding cracked. Foxing to end papers. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Else pages clean and crisp
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Antiquarian Religion & Philosophy Books
This section brings together used, rare and out-of-print works in philosophy, theology and religious thought, from primary texts to scholarly studies. Titles include Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, E.R. Dodds's edition of Proclus: The Elements of Theology and H.S. Harris's Hegel's Development: Night Thoughts.
The shelves range across the Western canon and beyond, with volumes such as Jonathan Bennett's Learning from Six Philosophers and dual-language religious texts. Multi-volume sets and antiquarian printings are common, and editions range from student reading copies to fine older bindings, making this a good place to track down scarce and long-out-of-print works.
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