philosophy

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. Ithaca, NY, Cornell University Press, 1st, 1978, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 156 pages. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Light pencil markings. Slight rubbing to dust jacket. Otherwise, tight clean copy.

Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 314 pages. Presents a close discussion of each of the several topics arising in the chapter on the Paralogisms in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: the mind's immateriality, simplicity, substantiality, relation to embodiment and the external world, identity, immortality, freedom, and ideality.

Hardcover. Wappingers Falls NY, Kagyu Thubten Choling Publications Committee, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 120 pages. Color illustrations throughout. Clean copy.

Hardcover. London, Jonathan Cape, Reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, 350 pages. Previous owners stamp on front endpaper. Dust jacket shows standard wear. Clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, Lutterworth, 1st UK, 1955, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with faded gilt lettering on spine, 115 pages. A fascinating glimpse into the debate in Scandinavia concerning a number of inter-related Biblical themes focused on the concept of the Messiah, a debate associated with scholars such as Mowinckel, Pedersen, Widengren, and Bentzen himself. The argument traces the development of the Messianic figure from its Old Testament roots, starting with the Messiah of many of the Psalms, which represents a demythologised form of the Oriental conception of kingship, through the eschatologised Messiah of the prophetic thought of Isaiah and Micah, and then to the prophet-Messiah of Second Isaiah, which although still a present and entirely human figure, embodies the insight that the saviour of Israel must suffer and be cast in the role of a Moses Redivivus as leader of a new Exodus. The Son of Man of Daniel 7 carries this eschatologising process even further, until the Christology of the New Testament emerges as a creative synthesis of these Old Testament types. In this synthesis, Jesus is a new Adam, the Messiah present in the flesh and present still in His body the Church, the suffering Prophet playing the part of the new Moses and the once and future Divine King. Bentzen argues that ultimately this figure of Christ the Messiah transcends not only the Old Testament types on which it is based, but also the subsequent historical development of the Christian Messianic tradition.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 338 pages. Hardcover with NO dust jacket. Fading overall to red cover boards, spine heavily faded. Light pencil markings throughout, otherwise, tight copy.

Hardcover. NY, Knopf, 1st, 1929, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with black design. Shows some minor wear but mostly a clean, nice copy. Black & white illustrations by Daugherty. No dust jacket.

Hardcover. Chez Rene' Pean, 1st thus, 1680, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 648 pages. Hardcover. Brown leather bound cover boards (age wear-see images) with faded gilt title on spine and raised bands. Front cover board completely separated from spine with front flyleaf. Previous owner's notes on preliminary page, dated "1694 16 November". Dark brown dyed edges. Tanning to pages (some partially detached from spine) from age. A few stray ink marks on pages. Christian devotions in French text.

Softcover. Paris, Les Impressions Nouvelles, 1st thus, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 540 pages. FRENCH TEXT. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean, tight copy.

Hardcover. London, England, SPCK, 1st Edition, 1950, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 175 pages. Hardcover. Red cover boards, fading to spine and edges, gilt title on spine. Pages unmarked. Binding tight. Spine straight. The Epitome covers a wide range of topics, including the nature of God, the creation of the world, the fall of man, the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, and the end of the world. It also discusses various aspects of Christian morality.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 217 pages. Emotions have long been a central concern in philosophy, psychological and sociological studies. When anthropologists began to study emotion, they challenged many assumptions shared by Western academics and lay persons by exposing the cultural variability of emotional meanings. In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key focus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poetry and song to therapeutic narratives, scholars who have worked in India, Fiji, the United States, Egypt, Senegal and the Solomon Islands show how emotion is tied to politics of everyday interaction. Their arguments and cross-cultural findings will intrigue and provoke anyone who has thought about the relationship between emotion, language and social life. The book will be of special interest to those who find the boundaries between cultural, psychological and linguistic anthropology, sociology, cross-cultural psychiatry, and social psychology too confining. Clean, bright copy.

Softcover. La Salle, Ill., Open Court, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 214 pages. Minor wear to edges of cover. Previous owner's inscription on front flyleaf. A bright and clean copy.

Hardcover. NY, March & Greenwood, 1st, 1938, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, purple cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 23.4*16.3cm, 123 pages. Printed on one side of double leaves, folded once in Chinese style. Now uncommon in commerce, this was the first English translation by a Chinese scholar of the foundational book of Taoism. The enigmatic polymath Dr Sum Nung Au-Young (1893-1942) was an accomplished poet, philosopher, lawyer and economist. There is some faint discoloration but hardly visible unless held at an angle, otherwise a very good hardcover. "Author's edition".

Hardcover. Paris, Desaint et Saillant, 1764, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 642 pages, leather bound with spine label and raised bands. FRENCH TEXT. Copy that belonged to children's author Edith Thacher, with her signature, Paris 1929 on front fly leaf (She wrote Goodnight Moon, among many other classics). Marbled end papers, overall very good.

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 218 pages. Students and teachers of Chinese history and philosophy will not want to miss Daniel Gardner's accessible translation of the teachings of Chu Hsi (1130-1200)-a luminary of the Confucian tradition who dominated Chinese intellectual life for centuries. Homing in on a primary concern of our own time, Gardner focuses on Chu Hsi's passionate interest in education and its importance to individual development. For hundreds of years, every literate person in China was familiar with Chu Hsi's teachings. They informed the curricula of private academies and public schools and became the basis of the state's prestigious civil service examinations. Nor was Chu's influence limited to China. In Korea and Japan as well, his teachings defined the terms of scholarly debate and served as the foundation for state ideology. Clean copy.

Softcover. NY, Columbia University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 353 pages. The only available collection of Ricoeur's lectures on ideology and utopia, this seminal collection discusses the work of Althusser, Marx, Habermas, Geertz, Mannheim, and Weber. Clean copy.

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 423 pages. Volume III only. Edited by Peter C. Hodgson. Translated from the German by R. F. Brown, et al. The third volume of philosopher G.W.F. Hegel's LECTURES ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION covers Hegel's philosophical interpretation of Christianity. Taken together, the three volumes establish a critical study, separating the material and publishing it as autonomous units on the basis of a complete re-editing of the sources--a series of actual lectures delivered by Hegel in 1821, 1824, 1827, and 1831. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Berkeley, University of California Press, reprint, 1988, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Sotcover, 552 pages. From the complete three-volume critical edition of Hegel's Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion, this edition extracts the full text and footnotes of the 1827 lectures, making the work available in a convenient form for study. Of the lectures that can be fully reconstructed, those of 1827 are the clearest, the maturest in form, and the most accessible to nonspecialists. In them, readers will find Hegel engaged in lively debates and in important refinements of his treatment of the concept of religion, the Oriental religions and Judaism, Christology, the Trinity, the God-world relationship, and many other topics. Name onfront fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Polity, reprint, 2014, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 231 pages. Few philosophers have left a legacy like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. He has been credited not only with inventing the differential calculus, but also with anticipating the basic ideas of modern logic, information science, and fractal geometry. He made important contributions to such diverse fields as jurisprudence, geology and etymology, while sketching designs for calculating machines, wind pumps, and submarines. But the common presentation of his philosophy as a kind of unworldly idealism is at odds with all this bustling practical activity. In this book Richard. T. W. Arthur offers a fresh reading of Leibniz's philosophy, clearly situating it in its scientific, political and theological contexts. He argues that Leibniz aimed to provide an improved foundation for the mechanical philosophy based on a new kind of universal language. His contributions to natural philosophy are an integral part of this programme, which his metaphysics, dynamics and organic philosophy were designed to support. Rather than denying that substances really exist in space and time, as the idealist reading proposes, Leibniz sought to provide a deeper understanding of substance and body, and a correct understanding of space as an order of situations and time as an order of successive things. Clean, bright copy.

Hardcover. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st Edition, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 350 pages. Hardcover. Previous owner's name on front flyleaf. Blue cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket unclipped, some fading and agewear to spine of dj. This study of the metaphysics of G.W. Leibniz gives a clear picture of his philosophical development within the general scheme of seventeenth-century natural pholosophy.

Hardcover. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, First Edition, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 335 pages. Hardcover. Ivory boards with black printed titles to mustard cloth spine. Dust jacket with moderate toning & light wear to edges. Previous owner's signature to front flyleaf. Illustrations in bw throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Softcover. Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 1st transl., 1944, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 246 pages. Philosophical aesthetics has seen an amazing revival over the past decade, as a radical questioning of the very grounds of Western epistemology has revealed that some antinomies of aesthetic experience-and in particular of the limits of the aesthetical-can be viewed as a general, yet necessarily open model for human understanding. In this revival, no text in the classical corpus of Western philosophy has been more frequently discussed than the complex paragraphs modestly inserted into Kant's Critique of Judgment as sections 23-29: the Analytic of the Sublime.This book is a rigorous explication de texte, a close reading of these sections. First, Lyotard reconstitutes, following the letter of Kant's analysis, the philosophical context of his critical writings and of the European Enlightenment. Second, because the analytic of the sublime reveals the inability of aesthetic experience to bridge the separate realms of theoretical and practical reason, Lyotard can connect his reconstitution of Kant's critical project with today's debates about the very conditions-and limits-of presentation in general.

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.