Softcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 253 pages. Friedrich Nietzsche's work has had a significant impact on the intellectual life of non-Western cultures and elicited responses from important thinkers outside of the Anglo-American philosophical traditions as well. Bringing together thirteen internationally renowned scholars, this is the first collection of essays to address the connection between Nietzsche's ideas and philosphies in India, China, and Japan. The contributors are Roger T. Ames, Johann Figl, Chen Guying, Michel Hulin, Arifuku Kogaku, David A. Kelly, Glen T. Martin, Sonoda Muneto, Graham Parkes, okochi Ryogi, Eberhard Scheiffele, Mervyn Sprung, and Joan Stambaugh.
Softcover. UK, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 298 pages. Friedrich Nietzsche haunts the modern world. His elusive writings with their characteristic combination of trenchant analysis of the modern predicament and suggestive but ambiguous proposals for dealing with it have fascinated generations of artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, and ordinary readers. Maudemarie Clark's highly original study gives a lucid and penetrating analytical account of all the central topics of Nietzsche's epistemology and metaphysics, including his views on truth and language, his perspectivism, and his doctrines of the will-to-power and the eternal recurrence. CLEAN COPY.
Softcover. Chjcago, University of Chicago Press, 2nd pr., 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 240 pages. Nietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplines--philosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicology--and from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributors--Karsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselves--take a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought. Clean copy.
Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 378 pages. The first comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra-an important and difficult text and the only book Nietzsche ever wrote with characters, events, setting, and a plot. Laurence Lampert's chapter-by-chapter commentary on Nietzsche's magnum opus clarifies not only Zarathustra's narrative structure but also the development of Nietzsche's thinking as a whole. "An impressive piece of scholarship. Insofar as it solves the riddle of Zarathustra in an unprecedented fashion, this study serves as an invaluable resource for all serious students of Nietzsche's philosophy. Lampert's persuasive and thorough interpretation is bound to spark a revival of interest in Zarathustra and raise the standards of Nietzsche scholarship in general."-Daniel W. Conway, Review of Metaphysics. Clean copy.
Softcover. Amherst MA, University Of Massachusetts , 1st, 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 205 pages. This study challenges the common view that Nietzsche passed through several discrete periods of thought, each based on a different set of values, and that his work can best be understood as a collection of isolated insights. Through close textual analysis, Robert John Ackermann exposes the underlying unity and consistency in Nietzsche's thought that has long been overlooked. Ackermann is to be highly commended for this clearly written introduction to Nietzsche. Light pencil underlining to several pages.
Hardcover. New York, Sea Star Books, 1st , 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket. Color illustrations by Pinkney and SIGNED BY PINKNEY on title-page.
Softcover. Paris, Hachette Livre, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 1084 pages, text in FRENCH. Clean, fresh copy. M. Pierre Bayle was a French philosopher, author, and lexicographer. Voltaire, in the prelude to his Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne, calls Bayle "le plus grand dialecticien qui ait jamais ecrit": the greatest dialectician to have ever written.
Softcover. Hanover NH, Wesleyan University Press, 3rd pr., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover in pictorial wraps, 343 pages. The focus of this book is the secular cultures of pagan Greece and imperial Rome, and the religious cultures of Judaism and Christianity which, in turn, grew from and influenced them and the modern world. For Momigliano, religion, secular ideology, and politics live in and illuminate the present. Brings together nineteen essays written over five years from sources such as The New York Review of Books, The American Scholar, and the Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Harvard University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 206 pages. Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457) was the most important theorist of the humanist movement. He wrote a major work on Latin style, On Elegance in the Latin Language, which became a battle-standard in the struggle for the reform of Latin across Europe, and Dialectical Disputations, a wide-ranging attack on scholastic logic. His most famous work is On the Donation of Constantine, an oration in which Valla uses new philological methods to attack the authenticity of the most important document justifying the papacy's claims to temporal rule. It appears here in a new translation with introduction and notes by G. W. Bowersock, based on the critical text of Wolfram Setz (1976). This volume also includes a text and translation of the Constitutum Constantini, commonly known as the Donation of Constantine.
Hardcover. Grand Rapids MI, Baker Books, 2nd pr., 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover, illustrated in color by Richard Jesse Watson. SIGNED WITH A COLOR SKETCH on front endpaper. Large, beautiful Christmas book written by Mrs. Billy Graham. Retells the Christmas story in a contemporary setting, beginning with Creation & ending with Christ's resurrection. Clean, bright copy in a dust jacket.
Hardcover. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a very good dust jacket with fading to spine and spine edge, 138 pages. "With thematic trajectories pointing both toward and beyond Being and Time, this translation ...is of enormous significance for students of the development of Heidegger's early thought." - Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University. First published in 1988 as volume 63 of Heidegger's Collected Works, "Ontology" follows Heidegger's lectures at the University of Freiburg during the summer semester of 1923. In these lectures, Heidegger reviews and makes critical appropriation of the hermeneutical tradition from Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine to Schleiermacher and Dilthey. Other important themes that are taken up are his turn to the facticity and everyday world of Dasein, his interpretation of human existence in the present historically and philosophically, his understanding of phenomenology, and his repeated insistence on the temporal dimension of interpretation and significance. Students of Heidegger's thought will find initial breakthroughs in his unique elaboration of the meaning of human existence and "question of Being," which received mature expression in Being and Time. Name on front fly leaf, light pencil notations to rear endpapers, 3 pages.
Softcover. Belgium, Brepols Publishers, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 76 pages. INSCRIBED BY RICHTER on front fly leaf. Light pencil marks to several pages.
Hardcover. Gloucester MA, Peter Smith , reprint, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 342 pages. Beige cloth with black lettering on spine. Light underlining to about 10 pages, otherwise clean.
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.
Softcover. Tucson, University of Arizona Press, 3rd pr., 1997, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 325 pages with index. The devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe, based on the story of apparitions of the Virgin Mary to Juan Diego, an Indian neophyte, at the hill of Tepeyac in December 1531, is one of the most important formative religious and national forces in the history of Mexico. It has variously been interpreted as the source of Mexican national identity, a means of continuity between the Indian past and Spanish domination, a symbol of national liberation, and a way of evangelizing and pacifying the Indians. The aphorism "Mexico was born at Tepeyac" aptly summarizes its importance. In this, the first work ever to examine in depth every historical source of the Guadalupe apparitions, Stafford Poole traces the origins and history of the account, and in the process challenges many commonly accepted assumptions and interpretations. Small corner clip to front fly leaf, otherwise a clean, tight copy.
Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st pbk., 2020, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 649 pages. Collects twenty-six newly commissioned, original chapters on the philosophy of the English thinker Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Best known today for his important influence on political philosophy, Hobbes was in fact a wide and deep thinker on a diverse range of issues. The chapters included in this Oxford Handbook cover the full range of Hobbes's thought--his philosophy of logic and language; his view of physics and scientific method; his ethics, political philosophy, and philosophy of law; and his views of religion, history, and literature. Several of the chapters overlap in fruitful ways, so that the reader can see the richness and depth of Hobbes thought from a variety of perspectives. The contributors are experts on Hobbes from many countries, whose home disciplines include philosophy, political science, history, and literature.
Hardcover. Ottawa CAN, Dovehouse Editions, reprint, 1996, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped with gilt lettering on spine and decoration to front cover. 379 pages. Originally written in 1645 by the author who was also known as Lord Herbert of Chirbury. Herbert's major work is the De veritate, prout distinguitur a revelatione, a verisimili, a possibili, et a falso](On Truth, as It Is Distinguished from Revelation, the Probable, the Possible, and the False). He published it on the advice of Grotius. In the De veritate Herbert produced the first purely metaphysical treatise, written by an Englishman. Herbert's real claim to fame is as the father of English Deism. The common notions of religion are the famous five articles, which became the charter of the English deists. Name, light pencil notations to front endpaper and about a dozen pages.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1st, 2015, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 354 pages. From the turn of the fifth century to the beginning of the eighteenth, Christian writers were fascinated and troubled by the "Problem of Paganism," which this book identifies and examines for the first time. How could the wisdom and virtue of the great thinkers of antiquity be reconciled with the fact that they were pagans and, many thought, damned? Related questions were raised by encounters with contemporary pagans in northern Europe, Mongolia, and, later, America and China. Pagans and Philosophers explores how writers-philosophers and theologians, but also poets such as Dante, Chaucer, and Langland, and travelers such as Las Casas and Ricci-tackled the Problem of Paganism. Augustine and Boethius set its terms, while Peter Abelard and John of Salisbury were important early advocates of pagan wisdom and virtue. University theologians such as Aquinas, Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine, and later thinkers such as Ficino, Valla, More, Bayle, and Leibniz, explored the difficulty in depth. Meanwhile, Albert the Great inspired Boethius of Dacia and others to create a relativist conception of scientific knowledge that allowed Christian teachers to remain faithful Aristotelians. At the same time, early anthropologists such as John of Piano Carpini, John Mandeville, and Montaigne developed other sorts of relativism in response to the issue. Clean copy.
Hardcover. UK, Sheffield Academic Press, 1st, 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, black cloth with gilt lettering, 167 pages. Panorthosia (Universal Reform) is the essential theme of John Amos Comenius's famous Consultation on the Reform of Human Affairs, and chapters 19-26 represent its climax. In this volume is presented the first English translation of this major work of Comenius, which was lost from about 1672 until 1934 when the Latin scholars of Czechoslovakia had it edited for publication in Prague in 1960. Clean copy.
Softcover. UK, Oxford University Press, reprint, 2010, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 331 pages. This is a revised and expanded edition of a seminal work in the logic and philosophy of time, originally published in 1968. Arthur N. Prior (1914-1969) was the founding father of temporal logic, and his book offers an excellent introduction to the fundamental questions in the field. Several important papers have been added to the original selection, as well as a comprehensive bibliography of Prior's work and an illuminating interview with his widow, Mary Prior. In addition, the Polish logic which made Prior's writings difficult for many readers has been replaced by standard logical notation. This new edition will secure the classic status of the book. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 314 pages. Essays on language, action and interpretation. This is a collection in translation of essays by Paul Ricoeur which presents a comprehensive view of his philosophical hermeneutics, its relation to the views of his predecessors in the tradition and its consequences for the social sciences. The major theme that unites his writings is that of a philosophical anthropology. This anthropology, which Ricoeur came to call an anthropology of the "capable human being," aims to give an account of the fundamental capabilities and vulnerabilities that human beings display in the activities that make up their lives.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 2112, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 270 pages. Since the birth of cinema at the end of the nineteenth century religion and film have been entwined. The Jesus-story and other religious narratives were the subject matter of some of the earliest cinema productions and this relationship has continued into the present. A recent proliferation of texts, conferences and courses bear witness to burgeoning academic interest in the relation between religion and film. In this study, Jonathan Brant explores the possibility that even films lacking religious subject matter might have a religious impact upon their viewers, the possibility of revelation through film. The book begins with a reading of Paul Tillich's theology of revelation through culture and continues with a qualitative research project which grounds this theoretical account in the experiences of a group of filmgoers. The empirical research takes place in Latin America where the intellectual puzzle and central research questions that drive the thesis arose and developed.
 "Nietzsche on Truth and Philosophy by: Maudemarie Clark")
 "Nietzsche: A Frenzied Look by: Ackerman, Robert John")
 "Objects of Thoughtby: Prior, Arthur N./P. T. Geach/A. J. P. Kenny (Editors)")
 "Origen on First Principles. Being Koetschau's Text of the De Principiis Translated Into English, Together With an Introduction and Notesby: De Lubac Henri; Butterwort")
