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Philosophy In The Flesh: The Embodied Mind And Its Challenge To Western Thought (First Edition)
by George Lakeoff
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- First Edition
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- 1999
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- Hardcover
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- 9780465056736
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Basic Books, 1999. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good +/Near Fine. 7x1x9. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter binding with black cloth on spine and white paper on boards. Gilt lettering on spine. [xiv] 624 pp. Indexed. Pages and covers are clean, only flaw is previous owners name on fly leaf. Light general wear on dust jacket. Full refund if not… Read more about this item Item Price
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History and Utopia (First Edition)
by E. M. Cioran
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- First Edition
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- 1987
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- Hardcover
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- 9780805003918
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New York: Seaver Books, 1987. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good -/Very Good +. 8x5x1. First Edition. Hardcover. bound in quarter black cloth with dark grey paper boards and red foil lettering on the spine. Emil Mihai Cioran was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for… Read more about this item Item Price
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Mindsight: Image, Dream, Meaning
by Colin McGinn
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- 2004
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- 9780674015609
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Cambridge / London: Harvard University Press, 2004. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 5x1x8. Hardcover. Bound in quarter dark teal cloth with light teal paper boards and silver foil text on the spine. How to imagine the imagination is a topic that draws philosophers the way flowers draw honeybees. From Plato and Aristotle to Wittgenstein and Sartre, philosophers have talked and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Soul of the World (First Edition)
by Roger Scruton
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- First Edition
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- 2014
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- Hardcover
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- 9780691161570
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Princeton / Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2014. First Edition. hardcover. Like New/Like New. 6x1x9. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in quarter black cloth with grey paper boards. In The Soul of the World, renowned philosopher Roger Scruton defends the experience of the sacred against today's fashionable forms of atheism. He argues that our personal relationships, moral intuitions, and aesthetic… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Philosophy of No - A Philosophy of the New Scientific Mins
by Gaston Bachelard; Translator: G.C. Waterson
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- 1968
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New York: The Orion Press, 1968. First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Bachelard shows how the 'truths' of the past, many deeply embedded in our subconscious minds, need to be examined, understood and made real rather than remain as undeclared and unrecognized assumptions which block the path of our understanding. vii, 123 pp. <br><br>CONDITION: Brown textured cloth, gold title… Read more about this item Item Price
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Machiavelli: Philosopher of Power (Eminent Lives)
by Ross King
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- Near Fine
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- 2007
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- 9780060817176
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New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007. hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5x0x7. Hardcover. Bound in dark grey paper with gilt text on the spine. In this discerning new biography, Ross King rescues Machiavelli's legacy from caricature, detailing the vibrant political and social context that influenced his thought and underscoring the humanity of one of history's finest political thinkers. Ross King's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Wittgenstein
by A. J. Ayer
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- 1st Thus
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- 1986
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- Paperback
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- 9780226033372
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University of Chicago Press, 1986. 1st Thus. paperback. Fine. 6x1x9. Paperback. 1st Thus Edition. Glossy yellow covers with blue and red accents and white text. Briefly traces the life of the Vienna-born philosopher, examines his major works, and discusses the fundamental concepts of his philosophy. 156pp.<br><br>CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp AND CLEAN. Binding and Text block… Read more about this item Item Price
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John Laws' Book of Irreverent Logic
by John Laws
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- 1994
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Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia, 1994. REPRINT. Paperback. Very Good. Reprint. John Laws is an Australian radio announcer. For 50 years, until 2007, he was the host of an Australian morning radio program combining music with interviews, opinion, live advertising readings and listener talkback. This volume contains his thoughts and comments. CONDITION: Paperback entitled "Censored" on cover and "John… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Art of The Motor (FIRST AMERICAN EDITION)
by Paul Virilio; Translator: Julie Rose
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- First American Edition
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- 1995
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Minneapolis / London: University of Minnesota Press, 1995. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/No Jacket. Paul Virilio was a cultural theorist and urbanist. He is best known for his writings about technology as it has developed in relation to speed and power, with diverse references to architecture, the arts, the city and the military. Notes, Index, 168… Read more about this item Item Price
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Who Are We?: Theories of Human Nature (First Edition)
by Louis P. Pojman
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- First Edition
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- 2005
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- 9780739457689
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New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Fine. 9x6x1. First Edition. Hardcover. bound in black paper with gilt lettering on the spine. In Who Are We? Theories of Human Nature, esteemed author Louis P. Pojman explores major theories in Western philosophy and religion, along with several traditions in Eastern thought. The most comprehensive work of its… Read more about this item Item Price
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Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life (First Edition)
by Stanley Cavell
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- First Edition
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- 2004
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- 9780674013360
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Cambridge / London: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 6x1x9. First Edition. Hardcover. Bound in quarter black cloth with textured black paper boards and red foil lettering on the spine. Since Socrates and his circle first tried to frame the Just City in words, discussion of a perfect communal life--a life… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Rhetorical Turn: Invention And Persuasion in The Conduct of Inquiry
by Editor: Herbert W. Simons
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- 1990
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Chicago / London: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Paperback. Like New. Part One: Rhetorics of Science; Part Two: The Politics of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Politics; Part Three: Philosophical Probes and Reflections. xii, Indexes, 388 pp. <br>CONDITION: Like new paperback entitled on cover and spine. Tight binding; free of writing. Full refund if not satisfied. Item Price
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Selfhood And Authenticity (INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR)
by Corey Anton
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- First Edition Paperback
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- 2001
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Albany NY: State University of New York Press, 2001. First Edition Paperback. Paperback. Near Fine. Author Inscription. First Paperback Edition. Winner of the 2004 Erving Goffman Award for outstanding scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction presented by the Media Ecology Association. <br><br> Anton brings phenomenology and existential philosophy to wider audiences and makes complex insights refreshingly lucid… Read more about this item Item Price
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Metaphor & Reality
by Philip Wheelwright
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- Second Printing
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
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Bloomington IN: Indiana University Press, 1964. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Second Printing. The character of language, particularly of poetic language, and its role in the perception of reality are the subject of this study. Introduction, Notes to Chapters, Index, 192 pp. <br><br>Condition: Cream boards entitled on spine. Front endpaper detached, hinge starting. Normal shelf wear. Text… Read more about this item Item Price
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Jean-Paul Sartre - The Pychology of Imagination
by Jean-Paul Sartre
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- Sixth Paperback Printing
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- No date circa 1980-1990
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Secaucus NJ: The Citadel Press, No date circa 1980-1990. Sixth Paperback Printing. Paperback. Very Good +. Sixth Paperback Printing. In this book, the brilliant French existentialist writer examined the function of consciousness in creating a world of unrealities. Sartre revealed a new way of conceiving of consciousness, the nature of the psychic life and the mind's complex relationship… Read more about this item Item Price
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Epictetus - A Stoic And Socratic Guide to Life (FIRST EDITION)
by A. A. Long
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- Near Fine
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- 2002
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Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 2002. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The philosophy of Epictetus offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life. The author offers an accessible study of Epictetus' argumentative and rhetorical methods. A study for anyone interested about how to live our lives. <br><br>CONDITION: Black textured boards entitled in gilt print… Read more about this item Item Price
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On Being Blue - A Philosophical Inquiry
by William Gass
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- Fifth Printing
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- 1979
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Boston: David R. Godine, 1979. Fifth Printing . Paperback. Very Good. Fifth Printing. Of all the colors, blue and green have the greatest emotional range. Blue occurs everywhere: in ice and water, in flames, flowers, overhead and inside caves, blue moves easily and qualifies our states of feeling. CONDITION: Blue textured paper covers entitled in gilt on cover… Read more about this item Item Price
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All Life is Problem Solving
by Karl Popper (Author), Patrick Camiller (Translator)
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- 2002
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- 9780415249928
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London / New York: Routledge, 2002. paperback. Very Good +. 5x0x8. Reprint. Paperback. Blue pictorial covers with white lettering on spine. [xii] 171 pp. Indexed. Previous owners signature on half title page otherwise condition is like new. Full refund if not satisfied. Item Price
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Ideas Have Consequences
by Richard M. Weaver
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- 1984
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- 9780226876801
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Chicago / London: University Of Chicago Press, 1984. Reprint. paperback. Very Good . 6x0x9. Paperback. Reprint. In what has become a classic work, Richard M. Weaver unsparingly diagnoses the ills of our age and offers a realistic remedy. He asserts that the world is intelligible, and that man is free. The catastrophes of our age are the product… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
by Arthur O. Lovejoy
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- Eleventh printing
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- 1976
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976. Eleventh printing. Paperback. Near Fine. Eleventh printing. Paperback. Bound in white paper with black text. From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In… Read more about this item Item Price
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