Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire and New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 0230522068 ISBN 13: 9780230522060
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Octavo. Original printed boards; issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 66399
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006
ISBN 10: 0521537150 ISBN 13: 9780521537155
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Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. Octavo. Original pictorial paper wrappers. A very good copy.
Seller Inventory # 69273
Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003
ISBN 10: 0199260168 ISBN 13: 9780199260164
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Trade paperback. Condition: Near fine. Octavo: 382 p. Original paper wrappers. A crisp and clean copy. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 72771
Published by Polity, Cambridge, 2008
ISBN 10: 0745621228 ISBN 13: 9780745621227
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Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. Octavo: 297 p. Original paper wrappers. A fine, unread copy.
Seller Inventory # 73734
Published by The American Philological Association, Ithaca, New York, 1963
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Philological Monographs, Number XXI. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of minor wear to the cornrs and tips; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 57346
Published by Peter Lang, Oxford, 2005
ISBN 10: 0820472077 ISBN 13: 9780820472072
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Trade paperback. Condition: Near fine. Modern French Identities, Volume 34. Octavo: 301 p. Original paper wrappers. A crisp, unread copy. Near fine.
Seller Inventory # 73753
Published by University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis and London, 2007
ISBN 10: 0816648085 ISBN 13: 9780816648085
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Octavo. Original gray buckram binding, with burgundy titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 68321
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1970
ISBN 10: 0691061742 ISBN 13: 9780691061740
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. "Taken together these essays give an illuminating picture of the humanist reaction to the crisis brought about by totalitarianism and World War II." Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A crisp, unread copy. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with some very light browning along the spine.
Seller Inventory # 70489
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2013
ISBN 10: 1443852333 ISBN 13: 9781443852333
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This collection of twelve essays by scholars from the USA, Canada, the UK, and Japan presents fresh perspectives on familiar Sartrean subjects and novel approaches to neglected ones. Divided into four equal parts - Aesthetics, Philosophy, Politics, and Revolt - its chapters reflect both the eclectic scope of Sartre's project and the dynamic attention it continues to attract. Octavo: 209 p. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 73754
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2011
ISBN 10: 1443829498 ISBN 13: 9781443829496
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Celebrates Sartre's polyvalence with an examination of Sartrean philosophy, literature, and politics. In four distinct yet related sections, twelve scholars from three continents examine Sartre s thought, writing and action over his long career. Octavo: 206 p. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 73755
Published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2009
ISBN 10: 1443801615 ISBN 13: 9781443801614
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The centenary of Sartre's birth in 2006 was the primary occasion for many of the essays incuded in this volume. Hosted by the UK or North American Sartre Societies, contributors participating in Sartre's centennial celebrations were asked to address the central themes and overall development of his life and thought. Octavo: 218 p. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 73756
Published by State University of New York Press, Albany, 2006
ISBN 10: 0791466515 ISBN 13: 9780791466513
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 67697
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1999
ISBN 10: 0521382734 ISBN 13: 9780521382731
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Reprint. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 67867
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1989
ISBN 10: 0226765121 ISBN 13: 9780226765129
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Octavo. Original brown cloth binding, with gilt titles. Some mild sun fading along the spine; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 68143
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1991
ISBN 10: 0520073649 ISBN 13: 9780520073647
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The first book in a Western language to elucidate the life and thought of Nishida Kitaro (1870-1945), Japan's first philosopher of world stature and the originator of what has come to be called the Kyoto School. No one is more qualified to write such a book than Nishitani Keiji, whose lifetime coincides with the rise and flowering of the Kyoto School and whose own critical contribution to Japanese thought has also been important. Translated by Yamamoto Seisaku and James W. Heisig, with an introduction by D.S. Clarke, Jr. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. Tiny remainder mark to the bottom edge; else fine in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 73098
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014
ISBN 10: 1107024919 ISBN 13: 9781107024915
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. "Kant's lectures on anthropology, which formed the basis of his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), contain many observations on human nature, culture and psychology, and illuminate his distinctive approach to the human sciences. The essays in the present volume, written by an international team of leading Kant scholars, offers the first comprehensive scholarly assessment of these lectures, their philosophical importance, their evolution and their relation to Kant's critical philosophy." Octavo: xvi, 270 p. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket with just a hint of edgewear.
Seller Inventory # 75755
Published by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1967
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Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Reprint of the 1936 edition, with a new preface by the author. The Greek philosopher and mathematician whom Aristotle called the inventor of dialectic. Zeno of Elea (c.495-c.430 BC) is especially known for his paradoxes that contributed to the development of logical and mathematical rigour and that were insoluble until the development of precise concepts of continuity and infinity. Octavo: vi, 125, [3] p. Original blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. A very good copy.
Seller Inventory # 76220
Published by Verso, London and New York, 1990
ISBN 10: 0860912701 ISBN 13: 9780860912705
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. "Jameson argues persuasively that Adorno's contribution to the development of Marxism remains unique and indispensable." Octavo: x, 270 p. Original black cloth binding, with silver titles. Light smudge to the fore-edge, with some a small crease to the front flap of the dust jacket; else very good or better.
Seller Inventory # 76735
Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1998
ISBN 10: 0226920445 ISBN 13: 9780226920443
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Drawing on the works of continental philosophers, historiographers, cognitive scientists, and filmmakers, Wyschogrod creates a powerful new framework for the understanding of history and the ethical duties of the historian. Octavo: xxi, 280 p. Original black cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 76737
Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1979
ISBN 10: 0520039777 ISBN 13: 9780520039773
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 68160
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1997
ISBN 10: 0521471516 ISBN 13: 9780521471510
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Octavo. Original blue cloth binding, with bright blue and gilt titles. Issued without a dust jacket. A fine copy - as new, still sealed in the original shrink wrap.
Seller Inventory # 68274
Published by Menno Hertzberger & Co, Amsterdam, 1967
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First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. 218 p. First edition, limited to 100 copies printed for private distribution. This collection was described by Lawrence Clark Powell, who helped arrange for its publication, as containing "erudite discussions of Oriental and European philosophy, explicitly footnoted, and was apparently written years before when Brent was undertaking an unfinished Columbia University doctorate in philosophy. What was really unexpected is the inclusion of a short four-act play, a searching morality on adulterous love." Presentation copy, inscribed by Brent to esteemed Southern California historian Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. on the front flyleaf. Octavo. Original green cloth binding, with gilt titles. The dust jacket is a trifle tanned along the spine and folds; else very good or better. Inscribed by Author.
Seller Inventory # 61423
Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990
ISBN 10: 0521384818 ISBN 13: 9780521384810
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Philosophers and historians of the French Revolution have seen Rousseau's influence as the decisive link between the doctrines of the Enlightenment and the practice of its revolutionary disciples. Professor Leigh here addresses the bibliographical foundations of that question, without which all attempts to settle it in the past have lacked authority. Introducing the most advanced techniques to identify variant and pirate editions of Rousseau's writings, he establishes that there were at least 28 separate imprints and an additional 12 reprints of the Contrat Social in collective editions between 1762 and 1783. Professor Leigh shows also that Rousseau's life and thought excited a fascination and interest in the last years of the Ancien Regime which was nursed by the publishers of his Oeuvres, who sought to satisfy an apparently ceaseless demand by extending their editions, while at the same time attempting to ward off both their creditors and their imitators. Tall octavo: 155 p. Original blue cloth binding, with red and gilt titles. A fine copy.
Seller Inventory # 73674
Published by Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1993
ISBN 10: 0804719756 ISBN 13: 9780804719759
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. The first edition in English, translated with an introduction, additional notes, and a bibliography by Duncan Large. This work is credited with setting the tone for the post-structuralist reading of Nietzsche. Octavo. Original gray cloth binding, with silver titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Seller Inventory # 67929
Published by Constable, London, 1935
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Precedes the American edition. A novel of ideas, expressed in the birth, life, and early death of Oliver Alden, the descendant of an old Boston family. The Spanish-American philosopher George Santayana (1863-1952) made important contributions to aesthetics, speculative philosophy, and literary criticism. Octavo. Original rust cloth binding, with gilt titles. Just a hint of foxing along the edges. In the uncommon dust jacket, which is a trifle edgeworn; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 73420
Published by George Allen & Unwin, London, 1973
ISBN 10: 0041110048 ISBN 13: 9780041110043
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. "The Dilemma of Narcissus belongs to Lavelle's ethical works. In it, Lavelle restates the major points of his thought and he shows moreover how, little by little, the human mind can raise itself up to the pinnacle which is the goal of its destiny" (Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review). A volume in the Muirhead Library of Philosophy. Octavo: 194 p. Original burgundy cloth binding, with gilt titles. A bit of mild wear to the corners and tips, with some light rubbing to the dust jacket; else very good or better.
Seller Inventory # 76403
Published by Random House, New York, 2008
ISBN 10: 140006435X ISBN 13: 9781400064359
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First Edition Signed
Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near fine. First Edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Bernard-Heni L�vy to Eric Idle on the front flyleaf. In this unprecedented critique, one of the world's leading intellectuals revisits his political roots, scrutinizes the totalitarianisms of the past as well as those on the horizon, and argues powerfully for a new political and moral vision for our times. Translated by Benjamin Moser. Octavo. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with some very light edgewear. From the library of revered English actor, comedian, musician, and writer Eric Idle, accompanied by a letter of provenance. Idle (b.1943) is a founding member of the British comedy troupe Monty Python, as well as the parody rock group The Rutles, and is the writer of the music and lyrics for the hit Broadway musical Spamalot. In a posting for his Eric Idle Online! blog concerning his October / November reading in 2009, Idle wrote: "What is the sound of one hand wanking. The sound of a French intellectual defining his position on the left away from anyone else on the left.".
Seller Inventory # 76335
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. [Oxford: 1916-1917]. Small quarto, three parts in one: 190 leaves. Manuscript in ink on the rectos, with printed outlines inserted where appropriate. The text is very clean and legible. Full blue cloth binding, with gilt titles. The endpapers are foxed. Some minor dampstaining to the rear board, which is bowing a bit. The spine is darkened a touch, with general edgewear to the boards. Hugh Last's manuscript notes on Harold Henry Joachim's lectures on the Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle, delivered at Merton College between Michaelmas Term 1916 and Summer Term 1917. Presented in three parts, the third series of lectures was delivered by Professor Joachim with John Alexander Smith. According to The Classical Review, these lectures "were given regularly at Oxford between 1902 and 1917." Joachim's text was edited after his death by D.A. Rees and published by the Oxford University Press in 1950. Now identified with the later days of the British idealist movement, Harold H. Joachim (1868-1938) "lectured on moral philosophy at St. Andrews University from 1892 to 1894, when he returned to Balliol as lecturer in philosophy under J.A. Smith. In 1897 he succeeded William Wallace as fellow and tutor in philosophy at Merton. In 1919 he was appointed to the Wykeham professorship of logic in succession to J. Cook Wilson, and held the chair until his retirement in 1935 [.] Mr. T.S. Eliot has acknowledged a great debt [.] None of Joachim's contemporaries ranked higher than he either as a Spinozist or as a textual critic and interpreter of Aristotle" (DNB). According to a handwritten note on the front pastedown, this manuscript was given to another scholar at St. John's College, where Hugh Last was appointed a fellow in 1919. His interest in the history of Ancient Rome had been sparked at school by the classical historian T. Rice Holmes, who taught at St Paul's, and continued at Lincoln under William Warde Fowler. His interests broadened into related spheres such as ancient Oriental history. In 1927, Last was appointed as university lecturer in Roman history, and became Camden Professor of Ancient History in 1936, a post that carried with it a fellowship at Brasenose College. During the Second World War, he worked at the British codebreaking center at Bletchley Park. Provenance: from the library of Paul Naiditch, longtime curator of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Seller Inventory # 75763
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1970
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First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. Laid in is a typed postcard from Alan Watts and his third wife, Jano (Mary Jane Yates King), to Dr. Robert C. Macy, as well as an invitation to the memorial services for Alan Watts on February 24, 1974. Macy was a Southern California osteopath who owned a second home in Big Sur, where he befriended Henry Miller, Alan Watts, and other writers and artists. This classic series of essays represents Watts's thinking on the astonishing problems caused by our dysfunctional relationship with the material environment. Here, with characteristic wit, a philosopher best known for his writings and teachings about mysticism and Eastern philosophy gets down to the nitty-gritty problems of economics, technology, clothing, cooking, and housing. Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with black and red stamping. Some mild toning and wear along the extremities of the dust jacket; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 75814
Published by Pantheon Books, New York, 1951
Seller: johnson rare books & archives, ABAA, Covina, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Edition. No statement of printing on the copyright page. Watts (1915-73) draws on the wisdom of Eastern philosophy and religion in this timeless and classic guide to living a more fulfilling life. His central insight is more relevant now than ever: when we spend all of our time worrying about the future and lamenting the past, we are unable to enjoy the present moment-the only one we are actually able to inhabit. Octavo. Original black cloth binding, with silver stamping. Light stain to the bottom corner of the front board (not affecting the contents). The dust jacket is price-clipped, with a bit of toning along the spine and folds, and some minor shelfwear; otherwise very good.
Seller Inventory # 76514