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Aestheticby Benedetto CroceISBN 0879232552 (0-87923-255-2)
Softcover, David R Godine Pub
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Aesthetic: As Science of Expression & General Linguisticby Benedetto Croce, Douglas AinslieISBN 1560008180 (1-56000-818-0)
Softcover, Transaction Pub
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 1416500308 (1-4165-0030-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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- Candide: ISBN 1853260630 (1-85326-063-0)
Softcover, Wordsworth Edition - Candide: ISBN 1593081782 (1-59308-178-2)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc - Candide: ISBN 0140440046 (0-14-044004-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Candide: ISBN 0143039423 (0-14-303942-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Candide: ISBN 0198323727 (0-19-832372-7)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0300119879 (0-300-11987-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0486266893 (0-486-26689-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - Candide: ISBN 0553211668 (0-553-21166-8)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Candide: ISBN 0812972015 (0-8129-7201-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc - Candide: ISBN 0808509551 (0-8085-0955-1)
Hardcover, Bt Bound - Candide: ISBN 0939495600 (0-939495-60-0)
Hardcover, North Books - Candide and Other Stories: ISBN 0192817302 (0-19-281730-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Candide: ISBN 0312851901 (0-312-85190-1)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan - Candide: ISBN 0804901171 (0-8049-0117-1)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co - Candide: ISBN 2010028813 (2-01-002881-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Candide: ISBN 2010178750 (2-01-017875-0)
Softcover, Ideal Foreign Books - Candide: ISBN 2038715505 (2-03-871550-5)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Candide: ISBN 2040280111 (2-04-028011-1)
Softcover, Schoenhofs Foreign Books - Candide: ISBN 2038717001 (2-03-871700-1)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Candide: ISBN 2266029266 (2-266-02926-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Candide: ISBN 1416500308 (1-4165-0030-8)
Softcover, Pocket Classics
- Candide: ISBN 1853260630 (1-85326-063-0)
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
Candideby VoltaireISBN 0394605225 (0-394-60522-5)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Political satire doesn't age well, but occasionally a diatribe contains enough art and universal mirth to survive long after its timeliness has passed. Candide is such a book. Penned by that Renaissance man of the Enlightenment, Voltaire, Candide is steeped in the political and philosophical controversies of the 1750s. But for the general reader, the novel's driving principle is clear enough: the idea (endemic in Voltaire's day) that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and apparent folly, misery and strife are actually harbingers of a greater good we cannot perceive, is hogwash.
Telling the tale of the good-natured but star-crossed Candide (think Mr. Magoo armed with deadly force), as he travels the world struggling to be reunited with his love, Lady Cunegonde, the novel smashes such ill-conceived optimism to splinters. Candide's tutor, Dr. Pangloss, is steadfast in his philosophical good cheer, in the face of more and more fantastic misfortune; Candide's other companions always supply good sense in the nick of time. Still, as he demolishes optimism, Voltaire pays tribute to human resilience, and in doing so gives the book a pleasant indomitability common to farce. Says one character, a princess turned one-buttocked hag by unkind Fate: "I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our most melancholy propensities; for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one's very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"--Michael Gerber [via]
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Candideby Burton Raffel, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0300106556 (0-300-10655-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]In this new translation of Voltaires Candide, distinguished translator Burton Raffel captures the French novels irreverent spirit and offers a vivid, contemporary version of the 250-year-old text. Raffel casts the novel in an English idiom that--had Voltaire been a twenty-first-century American--he might himself have employed. The translation is immediate and unencumbered, and for the first time makes Voltaire the satirist a wicked pleasure for English-speaking readers.
Candide recounts the fantastically improbable travels, adventures, and misfortunes of the young Candide, his beloved Cunégonde, and his devoutly optimistic tutor, Pangloss. Endowed at the start with good fortune and every prospect for happiness and success, the characters nevertheless encounter every conceivable misfortune. Voltaires philosophical tale, in part an ironic attack on the optimistic thinking of such figures as G. W. Leibniz and Alexander Pope, has proved enormously influential over the years. In a general introduction to this volume, historian Johnson Kent Wright places Candide in the contexts of Voltaires life and work and the Age of Enlightenment.More editions of Candide:
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Candideby Gita May, Henry Morley, Francois M. Voltaire, Alan Odle, Lauren WalshISBN 159308028X (1-59308-028-X)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:[via]Candide, by Voltaire, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:All editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.
One of the finest satires ever written, Voltaires Candide savagely skewers this very optimistic approach to life as a shamefully inadequate response to human suffering. The swift and lively tale follows the absurdly melodramatic adventures of the youthful Candide, who is forced into the army, flogged, shipwrecked, betrayed, robbed, separated from his beloved Cunégonde, and tortured by the Inquisition. As Candide experiences and witnesses calamity upon calamity, he begins to discover thatcontrary to the teachings of his tutor, Dr. Panglossall is perhaps not always for the best. After many trials, travails, and incredible reversals of fortune, Candide and his friends finally retire together to a small farm, where they discover that the secret of happiness is simply to cultivate one's garden, a philosophy that rejects excessive optimism and metaphysical speculation in favor of the most basic pragmatism.
Filled with wit, intelligence, and an abundance of dark humor, Candide is relentless and unsparing in its attacks upon corruption and hypocrisyin religion, government, philosophy, science, and even romance. Ultimately, this celebrated work says that it is possible to challenge blind optimism without losing the will to live and pursue a happy life.
Gita May is Professor of French at Columbia University. She has published extensively on the French Enlightenment, eighteenth-century aesthetics, the novel and autobiography, and women in literature, history, and the arts.
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Candideby O. R. Taylor, Francois M. Voltaire, Haydn MasonISBN 0631004009 (0-631-00400-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Candideby Shane Weller, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0486276252 (0-486-27625-2)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Voltaire's brilliant satire, in the original French, with a new and exacting English translation on the opposing page. Through the adventures of Candide, we experience life's most crushing misfortunes, see the redeeming wisdom those misfortunes can bring all the while enjoying Voltaire's witty burlesque of human excess.[via]More editions of Candide:
Candide and Other Talesby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0460019368 (0-460-01936-8)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd
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Candide and Related Textsby Voltaire, David WoottonISBN 0872205460 (0-87220-546-0)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide and Related Texts'Book summary:This lively new translation of Voltaire's satiric masterpiece is accompanied by a short selection of writings of each of the most prominent optimists to whom Voltaire was responding -- Leibniz, Bolingbroke, Shaftesbury, Pope, Wolff, Rousseau, and Malebranche -- and thus offers a better perspective of the intellectual context in which Candide was written, and of its place in Enlightenment though, than does any other edition. [via]
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Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticismby VoltaireISBN 0393960587 (0-393-96058-7)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism'Book summary:Robert M. Adams's superlative revised translation of Candide provides the basis for this widely adopted Norton Critical Edition.
The accompanying apparatus has been revised in accordance with recent biographical and critical materials. The Backgrounds and Criticism sections provide important essays that shed light on major critical issues relevant to Candide and to the intellectual climate of the period. In addition to the reports of five English visitors to Ferney, essays by Haydn Mason, Erich Auerbach, Ernst Cassirer, and Robert M. Adams are included. The final section of the edition, "The Climate of Controversy," summarizes the debate surrounding Voltaire's works and includes essays by Peter Gay, Raymond Naves, Gustave Lanson, and John Morley. Also included are a series of quotations about Voltaire by such prominent figures as Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, and Stendhal, as well as the text of "Pangloss's Song," a ballad from the 1956 Candide-based operetta by Richard Wilbur. [via]More editions of Candide or Optimism: A Fresh Translation, Backgrounds, Criticism:
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Candide : Or, Optimismby Peter Constantine, Voltaire, Diane JohnsonISBN 0679643133 (0-679-64313-3)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide : Or, Optimism'Book summary:In this splendid new translation of Voltaires satiric masterpiece, all the celebrated wit, irony, and trenchant social commentary of one of the great works of the Enlightenment is restored and refreshed.
Voltaire may have cast a jaundiced eye on eighteenth-century Europea place that was definitely not the best of all possible worlds. But amid its decadent society, despotic rulers, civil and religious wars, and other ills, Voltaire found a mother lode of comic material. And this is why Peter Constantines thoughtful translation is such a pleasure, presenting all the books subtlety and ribald joys precisely as Voltaire had intended.
The globe-trotting misadventures of the youthful Candide; his tutor, Dr. Pangloss; Martin, and the exceptionally trouble-prone object of Candides affections, Cunégonde, as they brave exile, destitution, cannibals, and numerous deprivation, provoke both belly laughs and deep contemplation about the roles of hope and suffering in human life.
The transformation of Candides outlook from panglossian optimism to realism neatly lays out Voltaires philosophythat even in Utopia, life is less about happiness than survivalbut not before providing us with one of literatures great and rare pleasures. [via]More editions of Candide : Or, Optimism:
Candide Ou L'Optimismeby VoltaireISBN 0844210765 (0-8442-1076-5)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide Ou L'Optimisme'Book summary:This edition is essentially that of Richard Aldington edited with reference to the French editions by Andr Morize and George R. Havens. Norman L. Torrey's introduction is a brief commentary on Voltaire's central purpose of reducing the doctrine of philosophical optimism to absurdity. Also included are a list of principal dates in the life of Voltaire and a selected bibliography. [via]
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- Candide, Or, Optimism: ISBN 0882951009 (0-88295-100-9)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson - Candide Ou L'Optimisme: ISBN 2266082663 (2-266-08266-3)
Softcover, Presse Pocket - Candide Ou L'Optimisme: ISBN 2070302393 (2-07-030239-3)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc - Candide Ou L'Optimisme: ISBN 0844210765 (0-8442-1076-5)
Softcover, Natl Textbook Co
- Candide, Or, Optimism: ISBN 0882951009 (0-88295-100-9)
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Cliffsnotes Candideby Francois Marie ArouetISBN 0822002833 (0-8220-0283-3)
Softcover, Cliff Notes
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cliffsnotes Candide'Book summary:The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background.[via]CliffsNotes on Candide explores the best known philosophic tale from Voltaire. The tale is a vehicle for his profoundest views on politics, religion, and philosophy. At the same time, it is an adventure tale about a young hero who travels far and wide and experiences great dangers.
With this study guide, youll see why Voltaire is considered among the greatest satirists in literature. Along with detailed explanations of the plot, your understanding will increase with insight into the life and times of the author. Other features that help you study include
- Background on Voltaires contemporaries and influences
- Character analyses of major players
- A character map that graphically illustrates the relationships among the characters
- Critical essays
- Review questions
Classic literature or modern modern-day treasure you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
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The Confusionby Neal StephensonISBN 0060733357 (0-06-073335-7)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.
Meanwhile, back in Europe ...
The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child.
While ...
Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended.
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- The Confusion: ISBN 0060833238 (0-06-083323-8)
Softcover, Harpercollins - The Confusion: ISBN 0060523867 (0-06-052386-7)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - The Confusion: ISBN 0434012386 (0-434-01238-6)
Softcover, Heinemann - The Confusion: ISBN 0434008788 (0-434-00878-8)
Hardcover, Heinemann - The Confusion: ISBN 0060733357 (0-06-073335-7)
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- The Confusion: ISBN 0060833238 (0-06-083323-8)
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The Confusion Ltdby Neal StephensonISBN 0060599340 (0-06-059934-0)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Confusion Ltd'Book summary:In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, a.k.a. King of the Vagabonds, a.k.a. Half-Cocked Jack, lately and miraculously cured of the pox -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues, rife with battles, chases, hairbreadth escapes, swashbuckling, bloodletting, and danger -- a perilous race for an enormous prize of silver ... nay, gold ... nay, legendary gold that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe. Meanwhile, back in Europe ... The exquisite and resourceful Eliza, Countess de la Zeur, master of markets, pawn and confidante of enemy kings, onetime Turkish harem virgin, is stripped of her immense personal fortune by France's most dashing privateer. Penniless and at risk from those who desire either her or her head (or both), she is caught up in a web of international intrigue, even as she desperately seeks the return of her most precious possession -- her child. While ... Newton and Leibniz continue to propound their grand theories as their infamous rivalry intensifies, stubborn alchemy does battle with the natural sciences, nobles are beheaded, dastardly plots are set in motion, coins are newly minted (or not) in enemy strongholds, father and sons reunite in faraway lands, priests rise from the dead ... and Daniel Waterhouse seeks passage to the Massachusetts colony in hopes of escaping the madness into which his world has descended. [via]
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Correspondenceby Roger Ariew, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Samuel ClarkeISBN 087220524X (0-87220-524-X)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern Worldby Matthew StewartISBN 0393329178 (0-393-32917-8)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World'Book summary:A colorful reinterpretation. . . . Stewarts wit and profluent prose make this book a fascinating read. Publishers Weekly, starred review
Philosophy in the late seventeenth century was a dangerous business. No careerist could afford to know the reclusive, controversial philosopher Baruch de Spinoza. Yet the wildly ambitious genius Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who denounced Spinoza in public, became privately obsessed with Spinoza's ideas, wrote him clandestine letters, and ultimately met him in secret.
"In refreshingly lucid terms" (Booklist) Matthew Stewart "rescues both men from a dusty academic shelf, bringing them to life as enlightened humans" (Library Journal) central to the religious, political, and personal battles that gave birth to the modern age. Both men put their faith in the guidance of reason, but one spent his life defending a God he may not have believed in, while the other believed in a God who did not need his defense. Ultimately, the two thinkers represent radically different approaches to the challenges of the modern era. They stand for a choice that we all must make. [via]More editions of The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World:
- The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, And the Fate of God in the Modern World: ISBN 0393058980 (0-393-05898-0)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc - The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, and the Fate of God in the Modern World: ISBN 0393329178 (0-393-32917-8)
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- The Courtier And the Heretic: Leibniz, Spinoza, And the Fate of God in the Modern World: ISBN 0393058980 (0-393-05898-0)
Discourse on Metaphysicsby Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr VonISBN 0872201325 (0-87220-132-5)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroqueby Gilles Deleuze, Tom ConleyISBN 0816616019 (0-8166-1601-9)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Great Philosophersby Bryan MageeISBN 019289322X (0-19-289322-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Great Philosophers'Book summary:Bryan Magee discusses the greatest Western philosophers with fifteen leading contemporary writers and thinkers. The book begins with the death of Socrates in 399 BC and the writings of Plato, and brings the story up to date with such recent figures as Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein. [via]
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A History of Philosophyby Frederick J. CoplestonISBN 038523032X (0-385-23032-X)
Softcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Philosophy'Book summary:Here in one convenient volume are Volumes IV, V, and VI - complete and unabridged - of the acclaimed reference work that has dominated the field of phlosophy for two decades. Volume IV discusses the philosophies of Descartes, Pascal, Malebranche, Spinoza, and Leibniz. Volume V covers British philosophy during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, marked by such giants as Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume, as well as other movements of far-reaching significance. Copleston takes up the eighteenth-century continental philosophers in Volume VI - beginning with the French Enlightenment (including Fontenelle, Helvétius, Robinet, Rousseau) and then going to the German Enlightenment (which includes the work of Lessing and Wolff) and finally to an intense treatment of Immanuel Kant. These individual volumes have been hailed as "profound and well organized ... a remarkable accomplishment [marked by] dispassionate objectivity ... a magnificent survey." Now available as a three-in-one paperback, it will be welcomed by students and scholars of modern philosophy as a reference work that no library should be without. [via]
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History of Philosophy: Descartes to Liebnizby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0809100681 (0-8091-0068-1)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr
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History of Philosophy: Fichte to Nietzscheby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0809100711 (0-8091-0071-1)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr
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A History of Philosophy: Modern Philosophy From Descartes to Leibnizby Frederick CoplestonISBN 038547041X (0-385-47041-X)
Softcover, Doubleday
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History of Western Philosophyby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415325056 (0-415-32505-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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History of Western Philosophy: And Its Connection With Political & Social Circumstancesby Bertrand RussellISBN 0415078547 (0-415-07854-7)
Softcover, Routledge
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A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Dayby Russell, Bertrand Russell, 3d EarlISBN 0671201581 (0-671-20158-1)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day'Book summary:Since its first publication in 1945? Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject -- unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy from the rise of Greek civilization to the emergence of logical analysis in the twentieth century. Among the philosophers considered are: Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Anaxagoras, the Atomists, Protagoras, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Cynics, the Sceptics, the Epicureans, the Stoics, Plotinus, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, Benedict, Gregory the Great, John the Scot, Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Occam, Machiavelli, Erasmus, More, Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Utilitarians, Marx, Bergson, James, Dewey, and lastly the philosophers with whom Lord Russell himself is most closely associated -- Cantor, Frege, and Whitehead, co-author with Russell of the monumental Principia Mathematica. [via]
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- A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: ISBN 0671314009 (0-671-31400-9)
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- A History of Western Philosophy and Its Connection With Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: ISBN 0671314009 (0-671-31400-9)
Home Firesby Margaret MaronISBN 0892966556 (0-89296-655-6)
Hardcover, Grand Central Pub
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Leibnizby Nicholas JolleyISBN 0415283388 (0-415-28338-8)
Softcover, Routledge
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Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealistby Robert Merrihew AdamsISBN 0195126491 (0-19-512649-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Leibniz Philosophical Writingsby Gottfried W. Leibniz, G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0460119052 (0-460-11905-2)
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The Metaphysical Foundations of Logicby Martin Heidegger, Michael HeimISBN 0253207649 (0-253-20764-9)
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New Essays on Human Understandingby Peter Remnant, G.W. Leibniz, Jonathan Francis BennettISBN 0521576601 (0-521-57660-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Essays on Human Understanding'Book summary:Challenging Locke's views in Essays on Human Understanding chapter by chapter, Leibniz's references to his contemporaries and his discussion of the ideas and institutions of the age make this work a fascinating and valuable document in the history of ideas. [via]
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New Essays on Human Understandingby Gottfried Wilhelm Von LeibnizISBN 0521298369 (0-521-29836-9)
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Philosophical Essaysby Garber, Roger Ariew, Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizISBN 0872200639 (0-87220-063-9)
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Philosophical Essaysby Gottfried Wilhelm LeibnizISBN 0872200620 (0-87220-062-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophical Essays'Book summary:Although Leibniz's writing forms an enormous corpus, no single work stands as a cannonical expression of his whole philosophy. In addition, the wide range of Leibniz's work - letters, published papers, and fragments on a variety of philosophical, religious, mathematical, and scientific questions over a fifty-year period - heightens the challenge of preparing an edition of his writings in English translation from the French and Latin. [via]
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Philosophical Textsby Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, R. S. Woolhouse, Richard FrancksISBN 0198751532 (0-19-875153-2)
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Philosophical Writingsby Gottried Wilhelm Leibniz, G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0460875469 (0-460-87546-9)
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Philosophical Writings [of] Leibnizby Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0460109057 (0-460-10905-7)
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Quicksilverby Neal StephensonISBN 0060593083 (0-06-059308-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Quicksilver'Book summary:In Quicksilver, the first volume of the "Baroque Cycle," Neal Stephenson launches his most ambitious work to date. The novel, divided into three books, opens in 1713 with the ageless Enoch Root seeking Daniel Waterhouse on the campus of what passes for MIT in eighteenth-century Massachusetts. Daniel, Enoch's message conveys, is key to resolving an explosive scientific battle of preeminence between Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz over the development of calculus. As Daniel returns to London aboard the Minerva, readers are catapulted back half a century to recall his years at Cambridge with young Isaac. Daniel is a perfect historical witness. Privy to Robert Hooke's early drawings of microscope images and with associates among the English nobility, religious radicals, and the Royal Society, he also befriends Samuel Pepys, risks a cup of coffee, and enjoys a lecture on Belgian waffles and cleavage-all before the year 1700.
In the second book, Stephenson introduces Jack Shaftoe and Eliza. "Half-Cocked" Jack (also know as the "King of the Vagabonds") recovers the English Eliza from a Turkish harem. Fleeing the siege of Vienna, the two journey across Europe driven by Eliza's lust for fame, fortune, and nobility. Gradually, their circle intertwines with that of Daniel in the third book of the novel.
The book courses with Stephenson's scholarship but is rarely bogged down in its historical detail. Stephenson is especially impressive in his ability to represent dialogue over the evolving worldview of seventeenth-century scientists and enliven the most abstruse explanation of theory. Though replete with science, the novel is as much about the complex struggles for political ascendancy and the workings of financial markets. Further, the novel's literary ambitions match its physical size. Stephenson narrates through epistolary chapters, fragments of plays and poems, journal entries, maps, drawings, genealogic tables, and copious contemporary epigrams. But, caught in this richness, the prose is occasionally neglected and wants editing. Further, anticipating a cycle, the book does not provide a satisfying conclusion to its 900 pages. These are minor quibbles, though. Stephenson has matched ambition to execution, and his faithful, durable readers will be both entertained and richly rewarded with a practicum in Baroque science, cypher, culture, and politics. --Patrick O'Kelley [via]
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The Rationalistsby Rene DescartesISBN 0385095406 (0-385-09540-6)
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The System Of The Worldby Neal StephensonISBN 0060750863 (0-06-075086-3)
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The world is a most confused and unsteady place -- especially London, center of finance, innovation, and conspiracy -- in the year 1714, when Daniel Waterhouse makes his less-than-triumphant return to England's shores. Aging Puritan and Natural Philosopher, confidant of the high and mighty and contemporary of the most brilliant minds of the age, he has braved the merciless sea and an assault by the infamous pirate Blackbeard to help mend the rift between two adversarial geniuses at a princess's behest. But while much has changed outwardly, the duplicity and danger that once drove Daniel to the American Colonies is still coin of the British realm.
No sooner has Daniel set foot on his homeland when he is embroiled in a dark conflict that has been raging in the shadows for decades. It is a secret war between the brilliant, enigmatic Master of the Mint and closet alchemist Isaac Newton and his archnemesis, the insidious counterfeiter Jack the Coiner, a.k.a. Jack Shaftoe, King of the Vagabonds. Hostilities are suddenly moving to a new and more volatile level, as Half-Cocked Jack plots a daring assault on the Tower itself, aiming for nothing less than the total corruption of Britain's newborn monetary system.
Unbeknownst to all, it is love that set the Coiner on his traitorous course; the desperate need to protect the woman of his heart -- the remarkable Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm -- from those who would destroy her should he fail. Meanwhile, Daniel Waterhouse and his Clubb of unlikely cronies comb city and country for clues to the identity of the blackguard who is attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with Infernal Devices -- as political factions jockey for position while awaiting the impending death of the ailing queen; as the "holy grail" of alchemy, the key to life eternal, tantalizes and continues to elude Isaac Newton, yet is closer than he ever imagined; as the greatest technological innovation in history slowly takes shape in Waterhouse's manufactory.
Everything that was will be changed forever ... The System of the World is the concluding volume in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle, begun with Quicksilver and continued in The Confusion. [via]
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Theodicy: Essays on the Goodness of God the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evilby G.W. LeibnizISBN 0875484379 (0-87548-437-9)
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Voltaire: Candideby Haydn Trevor MasonISBN 1853993697 (1-85399-369-7)
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Candideby Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0030801206 (0-03-080120-6)
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Candideby VoltaireISBN 2253098086 (2-253-09808-6)
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Candide: Ou L'optimismeby VoltaireISBN 2070389065 (2-07-038906-5)
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Le Pli: Leibniz Et Le Baroqueby Gilles DeleuzeISBN 2707311820 (2-7073-1182-0)
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La Ricerca Della Lingua Perfetta Nella Cultura Europeaby Umberto EcoISBN 8842042870 (88-420-4287-0)
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Candido, O El Optimismoby VoltaireISBN 140683260X (1-4068-3260-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candido, O El Optimismo'Book summary:The novella begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds".
Desde un punto de vista sardónico, la obra sigue las peripecias del protagonista Cándido en su primer encuentro con el precepto del optimismo leibniziano de que «todo sucede para bien en este, el mejor de los mundos posibles» y en una serie de aventuras subsecuentes que refutan de forma dramática el famoso precepto a pesar del obstinamiento con el que el personaje se aferra a éste.
La novela satiriza la filosofía de Leibniz, y es un muestrario de los horrores del mundo del siglo XVIII. En Cándido, Leibniz está representado por el filósofo Pangloss, tutor del protagonista. A pesar de observar y experimentar una serie de infortunios, Pangloss afirma repetidamente que «tout est au mieux» («todo sucede para bien») y que vive en «le meilleur des mondes possibles» («el mejor de los mundos posibles»).
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