PHILOSOPHY from Chilton Books

London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd, 1936.. Second edition. Foreword and introduction by Jacob Epstein. Contents include: Humanism and the Religious Attitude; Modern Art and its Philosophy; Romanticism and Classicism; Bergson's Theory of Art; The Philosophy of Intensive Manifolds; Cinders. Appendices: A. Reflections on Violence; B. Plan for a Work on Modern Theories of Art; C.… Read more about this item

London: The Fortune Press, nd (c.1925).. Limited edition. This Edition Consists of 1250 Copies, Printed by The Whitefriars Press on Arnold Unbleached Hand-Made Paper; of Which this is Number 823. 18cms x 12cms. Pp.130, rough-cut page edges, foxing to front and rear endpapers but otherwise clean throughout. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. VG.

London: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd, 1911.. Everyman's Library edition.Essays of Francis Bacon with an introduction by Oliphant Smeaton. Top edge gilt. Pp.xxxvi/199, some toning to endpapers, owner's name to inner endpaper, light marginal mark to p.xxxii. Red leather-covered stiff covers, gilt decorated title to spine and to front, tears with small loss to top edge of spine. G+.

New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1935.. 1st edition. The Century Philosophy Series. Historical introduction by Matthew Thompson McClure, with Translations by Richmond Lattimore. Pp.x/218, endpapers toned, slight toning to pages. Blue cloth, title to spine worn, wear to top and tail of spine and corner tips, white speckles to front board. Good.

New York: Julian Press/ Crown Publishers,1977.. 3rd printing. An East-West dialogue on death and rebirth from the world's of religion,science, psychology, philosophy, art, and literature, and from great thinkers of the past and present. This book is the successor to two other works on reincarnation by the same editors. Whilst it incorporates the choicest parts of the previous… Read more about this item

Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion. "Is the gift a matter of the overflowing excess of givenness, as Marion argues, or is it precisely what is never given, as Derrida maintains? Is mystical theology ultimately a higher way of affirming presence, or is it a path beyond the metaphysics of presence? Probing essays… Read more about this item

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.. 2nd impression. "Fiona Ellis draws on a wide range of thinkers from theology and philosophy, and spans the gulf between analytic and continental philosophy. She tackles various philosophical problems including the limits of nature and the status of value; some theological problems surrounding the natural/supernatural relation, the Incarnation, and the concept of myth; and… Read more about this item

London: Routledge, 2008.. Wittgenstein and the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. "Provides the clear and direct exposition that students need, at the same time as conveying a sense of the depth, the importance, and the interest of Wittgenstein's text." Pp.vi/402, owner's name to half-title and final page. Paperback. VG.

London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.. Thomas Sheehan presents his view of the entire trajectory of Heidegger's philosophizing as an investigation of the meaning and source of being (the 'clearing') - that, which allows entities to show up for us as meaningful." (Robert D.Stolorow). Pp.xx/349, owner's details to title page and rear free endpaper. Paperback, creasing to lower front… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.. 1st edition. "A radical new interpretation of the fundamental ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Wittgenstein was essentially an empiricist, and the difference between his early views (as set forth in the Tractatus) and the later views (as expounded in the Philosophical Investigations) lies chiefly in the fact that after 1930 he replaced his version of… Read more about this item

Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1903.. 1st edition. Includes chapters on the Nature of Agnosticism, Erroneous Views, History, Agnosticism of Hume and Kant, Complete or Absolte, Mitigated and Partial Agnosticism and their forms, Agnosticism as to God, to Religious Belief, and to Knowledge of God. Pp.xvi/602/2(publisher's catalogue). Maroon cloth, gilt title to spine, uneven toning to front board,… Read more about this item

Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1992... Who's who in the social theory zoo? This book introduces some of the leading social theorists in short, lively entries by leading Australian scholars. Social Theory covers thinkers from Althusser to Williams, by locals from Alexander to Yeatman." Pp.vi/242, inscribed by the author ("for Paul with salutations, Peter B") to title page. Paperback.… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.. Bouveresse's perceptive and illuminatiing study of Wittgenstein on Freud...is very welccome not just as an immensely readable account of two of the century's most important thinkers, but because it throws a light also on the intelleectual debate in France, where there has been a lively qquuarrel between psychoanalysis andd philosophy." (A.C.Grayling, The… Read more about this item

Bristol: Saros Publications, 1992.. A seminar for bold speculation on our future held at Church House Conference Centre, Dean's Yard, Westminster, London on Saturday 4th July 1992. "What might the future hold in store? What individual and collective changes will be necessary? What lessons can be learnt from history? The development of any living being depends on how… Read more about this item

New York: The Adam Smith Library/ Augustus M Kelley, 1967.. Facsimile reprint. Reprints of Economic Classics. Being an Examination of Several Points of Doctrine Laid Down in His Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations [1776]. 28.5cms x22cms x 1cm. Pp.48. Green cloth, gilt title to front and spine. VG.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1918.. Second edition. Contents: I.Introduction; II.Human Immortality; iii.The Personality of the |Absolute; IV.The Supreme Good and the Modern Criterion; V.Punishment; VI.Sin; VII.The Conception of Society as an Organism; VIII.Hegelianism and Christianity; IX.The Further Determination of the Absolute. pP.XX/293/2(publisher's catalogue, owner's details (Lancelot Mason [Canon Chichester Cathedral] ) to front free endpaper, occasional pencil underlining… Read more about this item

Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1993.. From the Definitive Latin Text, Introduction, and Notes of Gian Galeazzo Visconti. Translated by Giorgio A.Pinton and Arthur W.Shippee, with an introduction by Donald Phillip Verene. "Vico draws liberally on the classical philosophical and legal traditions as he explores the relationship between the Greek dictum "Know thyself" and liberal education. As he… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.. Sirat provides the reader with an interesting and informative survey of the numerous thinkers and schools of thought that shaped the development of Jewish philosophy, particularly during the period from the eighth through the fifteenth centuries..." Pp.x/485. Paperback. VG.

London: Kegan Paul International, 1992.. Revised, paperback edition. "Deals with fundamental problems common to the history of ideas from East and West and sets a new standard for dealing with the history of thought across many cultures....Professor Nakamura analyses the similarities and differences between ideas from China, India,Japan and Europe, considering such key philosophical points as the concepts of… Read more about this item

London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1966.. 1st edition."'He is the mask without the face' , said Henry James of Walter Pater...To many, Pater is simply, but mistakenly, associated with the aesthetic movement, turned by Oscar Wilde into the dandyism which led ultimately with his downfall. In 'Walter Pater: The Idea in Nature', Anthony Ward traces the serious influences on Pater's… Read more about this item