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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volume 1by: Garber, Daniel/ Ayers, Michael

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volume 1
by: Garber, Daniel/ Ayers, Michael

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 949 pages. Volume 1 only of a 2-volume set. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure corresponds to the way an educated seventeenth-century European might have organized the domain of philosophy. Thus, the history of science, religious doctrine, and politics feature very prominently. Name on front fly leaf, about 12 pages with light pencil markings. Otherwise clean.

Record # 384221

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The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volume 2by: Garber, Daniel/ Ayers, Michael

The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy, Volume 2
by: Garber, Daniel/ Ayers, Michael

Hardcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st, 1998, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a dust jacket with mild fading to spine, 953-1616 pages. Volume 2 only of a 2-volume set. The Cambridge History of Seventeenth-Century Philosophy offers a uniquely comprehensive and authoritative overview of early-modern philosophy written by an international team of specialists. As with previous Cambridge Histories of Philosophy the subject is treated by topic and theme, and since history does not come packaged in neat bundles, the subject is also treated with great temporal flexibility, incorporating frequent reference to medieval and Renaissance ideas. The basic structure corresponds to the way an educated seventeenth-century European might have organized the domain of philosophy. Thus, the history of science, religious doctrine, and politics feature very prominently. Light pencil marking to about a dozen pages. Otherwise clean.

Record # 384222

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The Career of Toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After by: Vernon, Richard

The Career of Toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After
by: Vernon, Richard

Hardcover. Montreal, McGill-Queen's University Press, 1st, 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, gray cloth stamped in black. 164 pages. The Career of Toleration considers the Locke-Proast controversy from the standpoint of political theory, examining Locke's and Proast's texts and tracing their relationship to later discussions of toleration. Vernon reconstructs the grounds of the dispute, drawing attention to the long-term importance of the arguments and evaluating their relative strength. He then examines issues of toleration in later contexts, specifically James Fitzjames Stephen's critique of John Stuart Mill, the perfectionist alternative to contractualist liberalism, and the view that the traditional attachment to toleration must, by the force of its own arguments, move from liberalism to a defence of a much stronger form of democracy. Arguing that Locke's and Proast's exchange marks a turning point in the intellectual history that has helped to structure the terms of modern political debate, Vernon presents a solid case for thinking that the exchange between Locke and Proast is as important for the twentieth century as it was for the seventeenth. Bright, clean copy.

Record # 384423

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The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography by: Arnaldo Momigliano/ Riccardo Di Donanto (foreword)

The Classical Foundations of Modern Historiography
by: Arnaldo Momigliano/ Riccardo Di Donanto (foreword)

Hardcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 161 pages. Here, at last, are the long-awaited Sather Classical Lectures of the great historian Arnaldo Momigliano, In a masterly survey of the origins of ancient historiography, Momigliano captures those features of an ancient historian's work that not only gave it importance in its own day but also encouraged imitation and exploitation in later centuries. He reveals the extent to which Greek, Persian, and Jewish historians influenced the Western historiographic tradition, and then goes on to examine the first Roman historians and the emergence of national history. In the course of his exposition, he traces the development of antiquarian studies as distinctive branch of historical research from antiquity to the modern period, discusses the place of Tacitus in historical thought, and explores the way in which ecclesiastical historiography has developed a tradition of its own. All these lectures illustrate Momigliano's unrivaled ability to combine the study of classical texts and the history of classical scholarship. First delivered in 1962, the lectures were revised during the next fifteen years and then held for annotation that was never completed. They are now published from the author's manuscripts, collated and checked by Momigliano's literary executor, Anne Marie Meyer, of the Warburg Institute, with a foreword by Riccardo Di Donato, of the University of Pisa. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to about 30 pages.

Record # 386610

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The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and Their Friends, 1642-1684 by: Nicolson, Marjorie Hope/Hutton, Sarah

The Conway Letters: The Correspondence of Anne, Viscountess Conway, Henry More, and Their Friends, 1642-1684
by: Nicolson, Marjorie Hope/Hutton, Sarah

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, Revised Ed., 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 592 pages, b&w illustrations. Lady Anne Conway was a remarkable woman who became a philosopher in her own right at a time when most women were denied even basic education. The Conway Letters is the record of her friendship with the Cambridge Platonist, Henry More, which began when he acted as her unofficial tutor in philosophy and lasted until her death. The letters cover a wide range of topics - personal, philosophical, religious, and social. They give a detailed picture of the More-Conway circle, including such figures as Jeremy Taylor, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, and Francis Mercury van Helmont, as well as Lady Conway's Quaker associates, George Keith and William Penn. The letters are thus a valuable source for mid-seventeenth-century history, and especially for the intellectual history of the period. Revised from the 1930 printing with new material and introduction by Sarah Hutton. Name on front fly leaf, small chip/tear to top spine of the dust jacket.

Record # 386350

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The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (Two Vols.)by: Thomas Hobbes/ edited by Noel Malcolm

The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes (Two Vols.)
by: Thomas Hobbes/ edited by Noel Malcolm

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press , 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Two hardcovers in bright dust jackets, 1008 pages total. Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) is one of the most important figures in the history of European thought. Although interest in his life and work has grown enormously in recent years, this is the first complete edition of his correspondence. The texts of the letters are supplemented with explanatory notes and full biographical and bibliographical information. Although best known for his political theory, he also wrote about theology, metaphysics, physics, optics, mathematics, psychology and literary criticism. All of these interests are reflected in his correspondence. Some small groups of his letters have been printed in the past (often in inaccurate transcriptions), but this edition is the first complete collection of his correspondence, nearly half of which has never been printed before. All the letters have been transcribed from the original sources, and all materials in Latin, French and Italian are printed together in modern English. The letters are fully annotated, and there are long biographical entries on all of his correspondents, based on extensive original research. Noel Malcolm is the author of "De Dominis (1560-1624): Venetian, Anglican, Ecumenist and Relapsed Heretic". This second of two volumes contains the letters of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), supplemented with explanatory notes, and full biographical and bibliographical information. This publication sheds new light on the intellectual life of a major European thinker. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise a bright, clean set. DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 386143

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The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers- 2 Volumesby: Van Bunge, Wiep & Henri Krop, Bart Leeuwenburgh, Han van Ruler, Paul Schuurman,

The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers- 2 Volumes
by: Van Bunge, Wiep & Henri Krop, Bart Leeuwenburgh, Han van Ruler, Paul Schuurman,

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes , 1st, 2003, Hardcover set, two volumes complete, black cloth with red and gilt titles on spine, 1116 pages, ribbon bookmarks. No slipcase. In this Dictionary, more than four hundred biographical entries encompass all the Dutch thinkers who exercised a major influence on the intellectual life of the Golden Age, as well as those who developed their ideas and beliefs through interaction with other scholars. Additional entries describe foreign philosophers who lived in the country temporarily and whose work was influenced by their stay. These include John Locke, Rene Descartes and Pierre Bayle. Ther is some pencil marking to the endpapers, mostly in Vol. 1. Otherwise clean, tight copies. PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO WEIGHT, DOMESTIC SHIPPING ONLY.

Record # 384253

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The Eclipse of Humanity: Heschel's Critique of Heidegger (INSCRIBED COPY)by: Perlman, Lawrence

The Eclipse of Humanity: Heschel's Critique of Heidegger (INSCRIBED COPY)
by: Perlman, Lawrence

Hardcover. Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue boards, 205 pages. INSCRIBED BY PERLMAN on the front fly leaf. Abraham Heschel believed that the Holocaust was an "Eclipse of Humanity." In the philosophical and historical context in which it occurred, Heschel saw this eclipse as embedded in the phenomenological approach of Heidegger. Focusing on their respective phenomenological methods, attitudes toward being, Heschel's view of Adam and Heidegger's notion of Dasein, this book is an analysis of Heschel's critique of Heidegger and the postmodernism that followers of Heidegger espoused. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 384223

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The Excellencie of a Free-State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealthby: Marchamont Nedham

The Excellencie of a Free-State: Or, The Right Constitution of a Commonwealth
by: Marchamont Nedham

Softcover. Indianapolis, Liberty Fund, reprint, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 211 pages. Edited and with an Introduction by Blair Worden. This edition brings back into print, after two and a half centuries, the pioneering work of English republicanism, Marchamont Nedham's The Excellencie of a Free-State, which was written in the wake of the execution of King Charles I. First published in 1656, and compiled from previously written editorials in the parliamentarian newsbook Mercurius Politicus, The Excellencie of a Free-State addressed a dilemma in English politics, namely, what kind of government should the Commonwealth adopt? Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386606

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The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thoughtby: Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter

The Janus Faces of Genius: The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Thought
by: Dobbs, Betty Jo Teeter

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 359 pages. In this major reevaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy. Professor Dobbs argues that to Newton those several intellectual pursuits were all ways of approaching Truth, and that Newton's primary goal was not the study of nature for its own sake but rather an attempt to establish a unified system that would have included both natural and divine principles. She also argues that Newton's methodology was much broader than modern scholars have previously supposed, and she traces the evolution of his thought on the intertwined problems of the microcosmic "vegetable spirit" of alchemy and the "cause" of the cosmic principle of gravitation. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386158

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The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts by: Kraus, Karl; /Ungar, Frederick(Ed.) /Wright, E Sue (transl.)

The Last Days of Mankind: A Tragedy in Five Acts
by: Kraus, Karl; /Ungar, Frederick(Ed.) /Wright, E Sue (transl.)

Hardcover. NY, Frederick Ungar, 1st thus, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 263 pages. 1st American Edition of this Abridged Translation. This is Kraus's masterpiece, with half of Europe as its stage. It is presented here in English for the first time, in an abridged version that preserves the essence of the 800-page original. Its influence on Brecht, Ionesco, and other playwrights is acknowledged. Mingling actual quotations, news reports, and government orders with Kraus's own satiric dialogue, this immense drama (never meaning to be performed) offers a vast fresco of events at the front and at home during, as it prophesied, the last days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Indeed, Kraus anticipated the development of atomic warfare and its threat to all mankind. Some of Kraus is untranslatable, but, as Stanley Kauffmann wrote in his New Republic review, "Ungar has done us a benefit at least by bringing us a bit closer to this sharp-eyed, angry, prickly, lover-hater of mankind." INSCRIBED BY FREDERICK UNGAR, the editor and publisher on the half-title page. He also wrote the 14 page introduction. Clean copy.

Record # 397630

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The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Traditionby: Passannante, Gerard

The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition
by: Passannante, Gerard

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 2011, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 250 pages. With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this strain of ancient Greek philosophy survived and was transmitted to the Renaissance primarily by means of a poem that had seemingly been lost--a poem insisting that the letters of the alphabet are like the atoms that make up the universe. Name and date on front fly leaf, light pencil marginalia and a few underlinings.

Record # 386558

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The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine: Essays in Honour of Maurice Wilesby: Coakley, Sarah, /Pailin, David A. (Editors)

The Making and Remaking of Christian Doctrine: Essays in Honour of Maurice Wiles
by: Coakley, Sarah, /Pailin, David A. (Editors)

Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, 1st, 1993, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, Maurice Wiles was Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 1970-1991. To celebrate his seventieth birthday, a group of distinguished friends and colleagues have written this important series of original and perceptive essays on the twin themes of making and remaking Christian doctrine. The topics covered in this thought-provoking collection range from the notion of divine action in Hebrew Wisdom literature to reflections on the nature of the ministry, from the concept of God and the doctrines of Christology and of the Trinity to the character of theological reflection, and from revelation and tradition to the "lex orandi," the nature of interpretation in religion and the historical basis of theological understanding. Clean copy.

Record # 386743

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The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophyby: Cees Leijenhorst

The Mechanisation of Aristotelianism: The Late Aristotelian Setting of Thomas Hobbes' Natural Philosophy
by: Cees Leijenhorst

Hardcover. Leiden/Boston, Brill, 1st, 2002, Hardcover, pictorial cloth, 242 pages. An acclaimed study - now available for the first time in English - investigates the relation between Thomas Hobbes? natural philosophy as represented in his Prima Philosophia (the second part of De Corpore (1655)) and the various currents of Renaissance and early modern Aristotelianism. Although Hobbes presents his mechanistic philosophy of nature as an outright replacement of Aristotelian physics, he continued to use the vocabulary and arguments of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Aristotelianism. Leijenhorst shows that while in some cases this common vocabulary hides profound conceptual innovations, in other cases Hobbes' self-proclaimed "new" philosophy is simply old wine in new sacks. Leijenhorst's book substantially enriches our insight in the complexity of the rise of modern philosophy and the way it struggled with the Aristotelian heritage. Clean copy.

Record # 384109

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The Philosophical Canon in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton by: Rogers, G. A. J.; Tomaselli, Sylvana (eds.)

The Philosophical Canon in the 17th and 18th Centuries: Essays in Honour of John W. Yolton
by: Rogers, G. A. J.; Tomaselli, Sylvana (eds.)

Hardcover. Rochester NY, University of Rochester Press, 1st, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 224 pages. 10 Essays, ranging from Locke, Berkeley, and Hume to Foucault's Critique of the Enlightenment, with an Introduction by Sylvana Tomaselli. Contributors include Richard H. Popkin, Peter Laslett, and Michael Ayers.

Record # 387395

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The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'by: Dunn, John/John Locke

The Political Thought of John Locke: An Historical Account of the Argument of the 'Two Treatises of Government'
by: Dunn, John/John Locke

Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 290 pages. This study provides a comprehensive reinterpretation of the meaning of Locke's political thought. John Dunn restores Locke's ideas to their exact context, and so stresses the historical question of what Locke in the Two Treatises of Government was intending to claim. By adopting this approach, he reveals the predominantly theological character of all Locke's thinking about politics and provides a convincing analysis of the development of Locke's thought. In a polemical concluding section, John Dunn argues that liberal and Marxist interpretations of Locke's politics have failed to grasp his meaning. Locke emerges as not merely a contributor to the development of English constitutional thought, or as a reflector of socio-economic change in seventeenth-century England, but as essentially a Calvinist natural theologian. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384278

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The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 1: The Glorious Revolution Defended, 1690-1704by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 1: The Glorious Revolution Defended, 1690-1704
by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 369 pages. Vol. 1 ONLY of a six volume set. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386764

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The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 2: Patriarchalism, the Social Contract and Civic Virture 1705- 1760by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 2: Patriarchalism, the Social Contract and Civic Virture 1705- 1760
by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 377 pages. Vol. 2 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy, no markings.

Record # 386755

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The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 3: The Age of the American Revolution 1760-1780by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 3: The Age of the American Revolution 1760-1780
by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 384 pages. Vol. 3 ONLY of a six volume set. Name and date on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386754

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The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 4: Poitical Reform in the Age of The French Revolution 1780-1838by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 4: Poitical Reform in the Age of The French Revolution 1780-1838
by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 448 pages. Vol. 4 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy, no markings.

Record # 386757

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The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 5: The Church, Dissent and Religious Toleration, 1689-1773by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

The Reception of Locke's Politics Vol 5: The Church, Dissent and Religious Toleration, 1689-1773
by: Goldie, Mark (Ed.)

Hardcover. London, Pickering & Chatto, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth, spine with maroon title block and gilt lettering, 385 pages. Vol. 5 ONLY of a six volume set. Clean, bright copy, no markings.

Record # 386763

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The Roots of Evilby: Kekes, John

The Roots of Evil
by: Kekes, John

Hardcover. Ithaca NY, Cornell University Press, 2nd pr., 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 261 pages, previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. "Evil is the most serious of our moral problems. All over the world cruelty, greed, prejudice, and fanaticism ruin the lives of countless victims. Outrage provokes outrage. Millions nurture seething hatred of real or imagined enemies, revealing savage and destructive tendencies in human nature. Understanding this challenges our optimistic illusions about the effectiveness of reason and morality in bettering human lives. But abandoning these illusions is vitally important because they are obstacles to countering the threat of evil. The aim of this book is to explain why people act in these ways and what can be done about it." The first part of this book is a detailed discussion of six horrible cases of evil: the Albigensian Crusade of about 1210; Robespierre's Terror of 1793?94; Franz Stangl, who commanded a Nazi death camp in 1943?44; the 1969 murders committed by Charles Manson and his "family"; the "dirty war" conducted by the Argentinean military dictatorship of the late 1970s; and the activities of a psychopath named John Allen, who recorded reminiscences in 1975. John Kekes includes these examples not out of sensationalism, but rather to underline the need to hold vividly in our minds just what evil is. The second part shows why, in Kekes's view, explanations of evil inspired by Christianity and the Enlightenment fail to account for these cases and then provides an original explanation of evil in general and of these instances of it in particular.

Record # 385519

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The Rosicrucian Enlightenment by: Yates, Frances

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment
by: Yates, Frances

Softcover. London, Routledge, reprint, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 269 pages, b&w illustrations. "In the early seventeenth century two manifestos were published which procaimed, in terms of magic, alchemy and the Cabala, the dawn of a new age of increased knowledge and power over nature. These anonymous documents (reproduced in the appendix to this work) were written on behalf of 'the Fraternity of the Rose Cross'....Frances Yates here reveals the truth about the 'Rosicrucian Enlightenment' and details its impact on Europe's political and cultural history." Clean copy.

Record # 386278

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The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Scienceby: Randall, John Herman

The School of Padua and the Emergence of Modern Science
by: Randall, John Herman

Softcover. Padova Italy, Editrice Antenore, 1st, 1961, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, cream color wrappers with black and blue type, 141 pages with index. Foreword by author. English text. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil marking to 10 pages.

Record # 386632

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The Search after Truth and Elucidations of the Search after Truth by: Malebranche Nicolas; Ed. Thomas M. Lennon & Paul J. Olscamp

The Search after Truth and Elucidations of the Search after Truth
by: Malebranche Nicolas; Ed. Thomas M. Lennon & Paul J. Olscamp

Hardcover. Columbus OH, Ohio State University Press, 1st, 1980, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth, giltlettering on spine.861 pages including index. Pencil underling to a few pages. Name on front fly leaf.

Record # 383978

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The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations by: Goldberg, Jonathan

The Seeds of Things: Theorizing Sexuality and Materiality in Renaissance Representations
by: Goldberg, Jonathan

Softcover. NY, Fordham University Press, 1st, 2009, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 267 pages. The title of this book translates one of the many ways in which Lucretius names the basic matter from which the world is made in De rerum natura. In Lucretius, and in the strain of thought followed in this study, matter is always in motion, always differing from itself and yet always also made of the same stuff. From the pious Lucy Hutchinson's all but complete translation of the Roman epic poem to Margaret Cavendish's repudiation of atomism (but not of its fundamental problematic of sameness and difference), a central concern of this book is how a thoroughgoing materialism can be read alongside other strains in the thought of the early modern period, particularly Christianity. Although English literature is the book's main concern, it first contemplates relations between Lucretian matter and Pauline flesh by way of Tintoretto's painting The Conversion of St. Paul. Theoretical issues raised in the work of Agamben and Badiou, among others, lead to a chapter that takes up the role that Lucretius has played in theory, from Bergson and Marx to Foucault and Deleuze. Name on front fly leaf along with pencil notations.

Record # 386271

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The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders And the Philosophy of Locke by: Pangle, Thomas L.

The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders And the Philosophy of Locke
by: Pangle, Thomas L.

Hardcover. Chicago, University Of Chicago Press, reprint, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 334 pages. The Spirit of Modern Republicanism sets forth a radical reinterpretation of the foundations on which the American regime was constructed. Thomas L. Pangle argues that the Founders had a dramatically new vision of civic virtue, religious faith, and intellectual life, rooted in an unprecedented commitment to private and economic liberties. It is in the thought of John Locke that Pangle finds the fullest elaboration of the principles supporting the Founders' moral vision. Clean copy.

Record # 384255

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The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony by: Valentinus, Basilius/ commentary by Theodore Kerckringius

The Triumphal Chariot of Antimony
by: Valentinus, Basilius/ commentary by Theodore Kerckringius

Hardcover. London, Vincent Stuart, 2nd pr., 1962, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket., black cloth with gilt stamping. A nice copy of the Second Edition (1962, original published in 1894). Limited to 500 copies. Clean.

Record # 398792

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The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creationby: John Ray

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of Creation
by: John Ray

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1977, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark green cloth with gilt lettering. A facsimile reprint of the London 1717 edition. 405 pages plus publisher's ads. Light pencil notes on front endpapers with owner's name in ink. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 386114

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The Yale Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum Writings on the Continuum Problem 1672-1686by: Leibniz GW; Richard TW. Arthur/ Translator

The Yale Leibniz: The Labyrinth of the Continuum Writings on the Continuum Problem 1672-1686
by: Leibniz GW; Richard TW. Arthur/ Translator

Hardcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2001, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in burgundy cloth boards with gilt lettering to front panel and spine, as issued w/out dj. Short inscription on front fly leaf, otherwise clean. This book gathers together for the first time an important body of texts written between 1672 and 1686 by the great German philosopher and polymath Gottfried Leibniz. These writings, most of them previously untranslated, represent Leibniz's sustained attempt on a problem whose solution was crucial to the development of his thought, that of the composition of the continuum. The volume begins with excerpts from Leibniz's Paris writings, in which he tackles such problems as whether the infinite division of matter entails "perfect points," whether matter and space can be regarded as true wholes, whether motion is truly continuous, and the nature of body and substance. Comprising the second section is Pacidius Philalethi, Leibniz's brilliant dialogue of late 1676 on the problem of the continuity of motion. In the selections of the final section, from his Hanover writings of 1677-1686, Leibniz abandons his earlier transcreationism and atomism in favor of the theory of corporeal substance, where the reality of body and motion is founded in substantial form or force. Leibniz's texts (one in French, the rest in Latin) are presented with facing-page English translations, together with an introduction, notes, appendixes containing related excerpts from earlier works by Leibniz and his predecessors, and a valuable glossary detailing important terms and their translations.

Record # 384007

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Theory of Scientific Methodby: Whewell, William, Editor: Butts, Robert E.

Theory of Scientific Method
by: Whewell, William, Editor: Butts, Robert E.

Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that science discovers necessary truths about nature, and exercises in the epistemology and ontology of science. The book sets forth a coherent statement of a historically important philosophy of science whose influence has never been greater: every one of Whewell's fundamental ideas about the philosophy of science is presented here. Clean, bright copy.

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Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth Century Britain by: Yolton, John W.

Thinking Matter: Materialism in Eighteenth Century Britain
by: Yolton, John W.

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1st, 1983, Hardcover, maroon cloth stamped in gilt, 238 pages. This book, a reevaluation of a major issue in modern philosophy, explores the controversy that grew out of John Locke's suggestion, in the Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), that God could give to matter the power of thought. The concept of "thinking matter," as Locke's notion came to be described, offered a threat to those who held orthodox beliefs, especially to their views on the nature and immortality of the soul. In Thinking Matter,John Yolton traces this controversy from theologian Ralph Cudworth's 1678 manifesto, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein, All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated -- an attack on ancient versions of naturalism--down to the philosophical and scientific studies of Joseph Priestley in the late eighteenth century. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 384424

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Three Critics of the Enlightenment - Vico, Hamann, Herderby: Berlin, Isaiah/Henry Harder (Editor)

Three Critics of the Enlightenment - Vico, Hamann, Herder
by: Berlin, Isaiah/Henry Harder (Editor)

Softcover. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1st Edition, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 382 pages. Softcover in very good condition with full color photo of Isaiah Berlin to cover. Tight copy. Clean & unmarked text.

Record # 750610

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Unthinkable Swift, The - The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Manby: Montag, Warren

Unthinkable Swift, The - The Spontaneous Philosophy of a Church of England Man
by: Montag, Warren

Softcover. London, Verso, 1st Thus, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 174 pages. Softcover. Light marginal wear to covers. Clean & unmarked.

Record # 750612

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Utopian Thought in the Western World by: Manuel, Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel

Utopian Thought in the Western World
by: Manuel, Frank E. and Fritzie P. Manuel

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Belknap Press / Harvard University Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 896 pages. This masterly study has a grand sweep. It ranges over centuries, with a long look backward over several millennia. Yet the history it unfolds is primarily the story of individuals: thinkers and dreamers who envisaged an ideal social order and described it persuasively, leaving a mark on their own and later times. The roster of utopians includes men of all stripes in different countries and eras--figures as disparate as More and Fourier, the Marquis de Sade and Edward Bellamy, Rousseau and Marx. Fascinating character studies of the major figures are among the delights of the book. 1980 National Book Award winner. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 386761

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Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneidby: Eve Adler

Vergil's Empire: Political Thought in the Aeneid
by: Eve Adler

Softcover. Lanham MD, Rowman & Littlefield , 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 349 pages. In Vergil's Empire, Eve Adler offers an exciting new interpretation of the political thought of Vergil's Aeneid. Adler argues that in this epic poem, Vergil presents the theoretical foundations of a new political order, one that resolves the conflict between scientific enlightenment and ancestral religion that permeated the ancient world. The work concentrates on Vergil's response to the physics, psychology, and political implications of Lucretius' Epicurean doctrine expressed in De Rerum Natura. Proceeding by a close analysis of the Aeneid, Adler examines Vergil's critique of Carthage as a model of universal enlightenment, his positive doctrine of Rome as a model of universal religion, and his criticism of the heroism of Achilles, Odysseus, and Epicurus in favor of the heroism of Aeneas. Beautifully written and clearly argued, Vergil's Empire will be of great value to all interested in the classical world. Clean copy.

Record # 387925

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Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciencesby: Wilhelm Dilthey

Wilhelm Dilthey: Selected Works, Volume III: The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences
by: Wilhelm Dilthey

Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 399 pages. Volume 3 ONLY in the set of his Selected Works. Provides Dilthey's most mature and best formulation of his Critique of Historical Reason. It begins with three 'Studies Toward the Foundation of the Human Sciences,' in which Dilthey refashions Husserlian concepts to describe the basic structures of consciousness relevant to historical understanding.The volume next presents the major 1910 work The Formation of the Historical World in the Human Sciences. Here Dilthey considers the degree to which carriers of history--individuals, cultures, institutions, and communities--can be articulated as productive systems capable of generating value and meaning and of realizing purposes. Hegel's idea of objective spirit is reconceived in a more empirical form to designate the medium of commonality in which historical beings are immersed. Any universal claims about history need to be framed within the specific productive systems analyzed by the various human sciences. Dilthey's drafts for the Continuation of the Formation contain extensive discussions of the categories most important for our knowledge of historical life: meaning, value, purpose, time, and development. He also examines the contributions of autobiography to historical understanding and of biography to scientific history. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 386625

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Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (6 Volumes)by: Robert Boyle

Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle (6 Volumes)
by: Robert Boyle

Hardcover. Bristol UK, Thoemmes Press, reprint, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Six volume complete set. Folios, maroon cloth covers with gilt and dark blue spine designs. Facsimile reprint of the 1772 edition, over 5000 pages. Clean, very good. NOTE: THESE ARE HUGE VOLUMES AND CAN ONLY BE SHIPPED DOMESTICALLY.

Record # 397654

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