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Acts of Religionby Jacques Derrida, Gil Anidjar, Ecole Des Hautes EtudesISBN 0415924014 (0-415-92401-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Acts of Religion'Book summary:Acts of Religion, compiled in close association with Jacques Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on religion and questions of faith and their relation to philosophy and political culture. The essays discuss religious texts from Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions, as well as religious thinkers such as Kant, Levinas, and Gershom Scholem, and comprise pieces spanning Derrida's career. The collection includes two new essays by Derrida that appear here for the first time in any language, as well as a substantial introduction by Gil Anidjar that explores Derrida's return to his own "religious" origins and his attempts to bring to light hidden religious dimensions of the social, cultural, historical, and political. [via]
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Another Roadside Attractionby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553349481 (0-553-34948-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Roadside Attraction'Book summary:It's clear that when Robbins sits down to write, he has one thing on his mind: having himself some fun. I read Another Roadside Attraction, years ago, then immediately went back to the beginning of the book and read it again. Robbins holds nothing back in this, his first novel. It's a perfect introduction to the Robbins oeuvre of oddness. [via]
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Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophyby Douglas J. SoccioISBN 0495007072 (0-495-00707-2)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy'Book summary:Philosophy doesn't need to be set in stone. ARCHETYPES OF WISDOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY brings philosophy to life and sets you on a course to search for your own wisdom. With this philosophy textbook, you'll get the best readings from the best philosophers and the explanation you need to understand them. Plus with End-Of-Chapter self-testing questions and other review study tools, ARCHETYPES OF WISDOM: AN INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY is the one you need for the test, too. [via]
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Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy: ISBN 0534524435 (0-534-52443-5)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Archetypes of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy: ISBN 0534566596 (0-534-56659-6)
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Archetypes of Wisdom With Infotrac: An Introduction to Philosophyby Douglas J. SoccioISBN 0534566553 (0-534-56655-3)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Aristotleby David RossISBN 0416681506 (0-416-68150-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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As a Man Thinkethby James AllenISBN 0529059061 (0-529-05906-1)
Hardcover, Nelson Incorporated, Thomas
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Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson: An Objectively Impartial Criticism Life Man All and Everythingby G. I. GurdjieffISBN 0670841250 (0-670-84125-0)
Hardcover, Arkana
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The Book of the Courtierby Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte, Leonard Eckstein OpdyckeISBN 0486427021 (0-486-42702-1)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Book of the Courtier'Book summary:For centuries, Catiglione's perfect courtier provided a model for the educated classes of Europe; but its colorful dialogues explore vital ethical issues: Should the courtier consciously use "image-management" or rely on natural talents to gain attention? Should he obey the orders of an immoral prince? Sexual equality, modesty and the province of wit are contemplated by nineteen men and four women in this work which influenced Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and later Yeats. [via]
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The Cambridge Companion to Nietzscheby Bernd Magnus, Kathleen M. HigginsISBN 0521367670 (0-521-36767-0)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Chaosby James GleickISBN 0670811785 (0-670-81178-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Chaos'Book summary:Few writers distinguish themselves by their ability to write about complicated, even obscure topics clearly and engagingly. James Gleick, a former science writer for the New York Times, resides in this exclusive category. In Chaos, he takes on the job of depicting the first years of the study of chaos--the seemingly random patterns that characterize many natural phenomena.
This is not a purely technical book. Instead, it focuses as much on the scientists studying chaos as on the chaos itself. In the pages of Gleick's book, the reader meets dozens of extraordinary and eccentric people. For instance, Mitchell Feigenbaum, who constructed and regulated his life by a 26-hour clock and watched his waking hours come in and out of phase with those of his coworkers at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
As for chaos itself, Gleick does an outstanding job of explaining the thought processes and investigative techniques that researchers bring to bear on chaos problems. Rather than attempt to explain Julia sets, Lorenz attractors, and the Mandelbrot Set with gigantically complicated equations, Chaos relies on sketches, photographs, and Gleick's wonderful descriptive prose. [via]
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The Constitution of Libertyby Friedrich August Von Hayek, Irwin M. StelzerISBN 041540424X (0-415-40424-X)
Softcover, Routledge
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Dante's Divine Comedy: 15th-Century Manuscriptby Dante Alighieri, Sergio Samek Ludovici, Nino RavennaISBN 0517282879 (0-517-28287-9)
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The Dark Groundby Gillian CrossISBN 0525473505 (0-525-47350-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science and Loveby Richard DawkinsISBN 0618485392 (0-618-48539-2)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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The Divine Comedyby Dante Alighieri, Stanley AppelbaumISBN 0486411273 (0-486-41127-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:This edition features all three parts of Dante's great poem about the journey of the soul - "Inferno", "Purgatorio" and "Paradiso" - with explanatory notes on each canto. It includes Botticelli's illustrations of "The Divine Comedy", drawn in the 1480s. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby John Ciardi, Dante AlighieriISBN 0451208633 (0-451-20863-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:[via]
Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradisethe sphere of universal harmony and eternal salvation.
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The Divine Comedy: Text With Translation in the Metre of the Original by Geoffrey L. Bickerstethby Geoffrey BickerstethISBN 063112926X (0-631-12926-X)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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The Faith of a Hereticby Walter Arnold KaufmannISBN 0452004829 (0-452-00482-9)
Softcover, Penguin USA
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Fifty Major Philosophersby Diane Collinson, Kathryn PlantISBN 0415346096 (0-415-34609-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Forging of the Blade: Lowthar's Blade Trilogy Book Oneby R. L. LafeversISBN 0525473491 (0-525-47349-1)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Forging of the Blade: Lowthar's Blade Trilogy Book One'Book summary:Written for young fantasy lovers who can't yet tackle Lloyd Alexander's The Chronicles of Prydain or Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising series on their own, The Forging of the Blade introduces Kenric, who stumbles into danger when he goes in search of his missing father. The evil Lord Mordig has been capturing blacksmiths--including Kenric's father--to forge the legendary sword that will ensure his dominion. Kenric's courage takes him to Mordig's fortress to challenge the dark lord himself. Reassuringly concise and brimming with spine-tingling adventure, the Lowthar's Blade Trilogy leads young readers straight to the heart of high fantasy, preparing them for the classic works of the genre. [via]
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Fragments : The Collected Wisdom of Heraclitusby Heraclitus, Brooks Haxton, James HillmanISBN 0670891959 (0-670-89195-9)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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Golden Compassby Philip PullmanISBN 0440238137 (0-440-23813-7)
Softcover, Laurel Leaf
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Golden Compass'Book summary:Some books improve with age--the age of the reader, that is. Such is certainly the case with Philip Pullman's heroic, at times heart-wrenching novel, The Golden Compass, a story ostensibly for children but one perhaps even better appreciated by adults. The protagonist of this complex fantasy is young Lyra Belacqua, a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. But it quickly becomes clear that Lyra's Oxford is not precisely like our own--nor is her world. For one thing, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. For another, hers is a universe in which science, theology, and magic are closely allied:
As for what experimental theology was, Lyra had no more idea than the urchins. She had formed the notion that it was concerned with magic, with the movements of the stars and planets, with tiny particles of matter, but that was guesswork, really. Probably the stars had daemons just as humans did, and experimental theology involved talking to them.
Not that Lyra spends much time worrying about it; what she likes best is "clambering over the College roofs with Roger the kitchen boy who was her particular friend, to spit plum stones on the heads of passing Scholars or to hoot like owls outside a window where a tutorial was going on, or racing through the narrow streets, or stealing apples from the market, or waging war." But Lyra's carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from "gyptians" to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.In The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman has written a masterpiece that transcends genre. It is a children's book that will appeal to adults, a fantasy novel that will charm even the most hardened realist. Best of all, the author doesn't speak down to his audience, nor does he pull his punches; there is genuine terror in this book, and heartbreak, betrayal, and loss. There is also love, loyalty, and an abiding morality that infuses the story but never overwhelms it. This is one of those rare novels that one wishes would never end. Fortunately, its sequel, The Subtle Knife, will help put off that inevitability for a while longer. --Alix Wilber [via]
The Ideology of the Aestheticby Terry EagletonISBN 0631163026 (0-631-16302-6)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Leibniz Philosophical Writingsby Gottfried W. Leibniz, G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0460119052 (0-460-11905-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Letters to a Young Poetby Rainer Maria Rilke, Reginald Snell, Franz Xaver KappusISBN 0486422453 (0-486-42245-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Letters to a Young Poet'Book summary:[via]In 1903, Rilke replied in a series of 10 letters to a student who had submitted some verses to the well-known Austrian poet for an assessment. Written during an important stage in Rilke's artistic development, these letters contain many of the themes that later appeared in his best works. Essential reading for scholars, poetry lovers.More editions of Letters to a Young Poet:
Little Themeby Philip PullmanISBN 0590541781 (0-590-54178-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Little Theme'Book summary:This is the first in a trilogy in which a new universe has been created. A world where daemons swoop and scuttle along the streets of Oxford and London, where the mysterious Dust swirls invisibly through the air, and where one child knows secrets the adults would kill for. [via]
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The Lyotard Readerby Jean-Francois Lyotard, Andrew BenjaminISBN 0631163395 (0-631-16339-5)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Maybe, Maybe Notby Robert FulghumISBN 0449000974 (0-449-00097-4)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Maybe, Maybe Not'Book summary:Bestselling author Fulghum believes that "truth is stranger than fiction" and proves it in this new collection of wise and witty inspirational essays--now available in large print.
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The Medium Is the Messageby Marshall McLuhan, Quentin FioreISBN 0671689975 (0-671-68997-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Medium Is the Message'Book summary:The medium used to be the message. But in the "collide-oscopic" barrage of image and text that resulted from Marshall McLuhan's 1967 collaboration with graphic designer Quentin Fiore, the medium becomes the massage. The basic premise of this playful popularization of McLuhan's theories of the electronic revolution will be familiar to readers of his other works: "Any understanding of social and cultural change is impossible without a knowledge of the way media work as environments." But more than McLuhan's other work, The Medium Is the Massage also reflects the tumultuous decade in which it was produced, the 60s. It was a time when existentialism, the theatrr of the absurd, "happenings," and Eastern religions were all the rage in academic circles. Massage adds to that mix traces of utopianism ("We have now become aware of the possibility of arranging the entire human environment as a work of art"; a hint of radicalism (of electronic circuitry McLuhan says: "Its message is Total Change, ending psychic, social, economic, and political parochialism. The old civic, state, and national groupings have become unworkable."); and a bracing pinch of paranoia ("Electrical information devices for universal, tyrannical womb-to-tomb surveillance" have brought us "to a point where remedial control, born out of knowledge of media and their total effects on all of us, must be exerted."). True to its observation that "information pours upon us, instantaneously and continuously," McLuhan and Fiore shower us with photographs, cartoons, newspaper headlines, backwards and upside-down writing, and other graphical innovations. The book is also packed with quotations from a motley collection of savants (in addition to McLuhan himself, of course): Alfred North Whitehead, James Joyce, Lao Tsu, John Dewey, John Cage, and Bob Dylan. The book's design and content aptly, and palpably, demonstrate the insights that have caused many highly stimulated readers to pronounce McLuhan a visionary, a veritable "oracle of the electronic age." --Russell Prather [via]
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Moby Dickby Herman Melville, Elizabeth RenkerISBN 0451526996 (0-451-52699-6)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick'Book summary:[via]A masterpiece of storytelling and symbolic realism, this thrilling adventure and epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. More than just the tale of a hair-raising voyage, Melville's riveting story passionately probes man's soul. A literary classic first published in 1851, Moby-Dick represents the ultimate human struggle.More editions of Moby Dick:
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - Moby Dick: ISBN 0553213113 (0-553-21311-3)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept - Moby Dick: ISBN 0618265724 (0-618-26572-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin - Moby Dick: ISBN 0671028359 (0-671-02835-9)
Softcover, Pocket Classics - Moby Dick: ISBN 0618265716 (0-618-26571-6)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - Moby Dick: ISBN 0425120236 (0-425-12023-6)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group - Moby Dick: ISBN 0460873075 (0-460-87307-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - Moby Dick: ISBN 0671836706 (0-671-83670-6)
Softcover, Pocket Books - Moby Dick: ISBN 0460871625 (0-460-87162-5)
Hardcover, J.M. Dent - Moby Dick/Moby Dick: ISBN 0606160175 (0-606-16017-5)
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Moby Dick Or, the Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0520045483 (0-520-04548-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby Dick Or, the Whale'Book summary:Including hyperlinked explanatory notes within the ebook-optimized text, introductions by leading authorities, and a wealth of other valuable material, Oxford World's Classics ebooks continue the series century-long commitment to scholarship across a broad spectrum of literature from around the globe.
Moby Dick: This classic story of high adventure, manic obsession and metaphysical speculation was Melville's masterpiece. This edition includes passages from Melville's correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne, in which the two discuss the philosophical depths of the novel's plot and imagery. [via]More editions of Moby Dick Or, the Whale:
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Hardcover, Avenel Books - Moby Dick Or, the Whale: ISBN 0520045491 (0-520-04549-1)
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Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whaleby Herman MelvilleISBN 0451524551 (0-451-52455-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Moby-Dick, Or, The White Whale'Book summary:Avec Moby Dick, Melville a donné naissance à un livre-culte et inscrit dans la mémoire des hommes un nouveau mythe : celui de la baleine blanche. Fort de son expérience de marin, qui a nourri ses romans précédents et lui a assuré le succès, l'écrivain américain, alors en pleine maturité, raconte la folle quête du capitaine Achab et sa dernière rencontre avec le grand cachalot. Véritable encyclopédie de la mer, nouvelle Bible aux accents prophétiques, parabole chargée de thèmes universels, Moby Dick n'en reste pas moins construit avec une savante maîtrise, maintenant un suspense lent, qui s'accélère peu à peu jusqu'à l'apocalypse finale. L'écriture de Melville, infiniment libre et audacieuse, tour à tour balancée, puis hachée au rythme des houles, des vents et des passions humaines, est d'une richesse exceptionnelle. Il faut remonter à Shakespeare pour trouver l'exemple d'une langue aussi inventive, d'une poésie aussi grandiose. --Scarbo [via]
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The Paradisoby Dante AlighieriISBN 0553212044 (0-553-21204-4)
Softcover, Bantam Classic & Loveswept
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:This brilliant new verse translation by Allen Mandelbaum captures the consummate beauty of the third and last part of Dante's Divine Comedy. The Paradiso is a luminous poem of love and light, of optics, angelology, polemics, prayer, prophecy, and transcendent experience. As Dante ascends to the Celestial Rose, in the tenth and final heaven, all the spectacle and splendor of a great poet's vision now becomes accessible to the modern reader in this highly acclaimed, superb dual language edition. With extensive notes and commentary. [via]
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Philosophical Writingsby Gottried Wilhelm Leibniz, G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0460875469 (0-460-87546-9)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Philosophical Writings'Book summary:With wide format pages to give generous margins for notes, the editor presents the latest Leibniz scholarship in an introduction, and also includes notes, selected criticism and chronology of Leibnitz's life and times. [via]
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Philosophical Writings [of] Leibnizby Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, G.H.R. ParkinsonISBN 0460109057 (0-460-10905-7)
Hardcover, Dent
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Philosophy: A Text With Readingsby Manuel G. VelasquezISBN 0534149944 (0-534-14994-4)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Philosophy: A Text With Readings: ISBN 0534552110 (0-534-55211-0)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning - Philosophy, a Text with Readings: ISBN 0534149944 (0-534-14994-4)
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Philosophy of Space and Timeby Hans ReichenbachISBN 0486604438 (0-486-60443-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Philosophy With Infotrac: A Text With Readingsby Manuel G. VelasquezISBN 0534561810 (0-534-56181-0)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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Philosophy, a Text with Readingsby Vincent E. Barry, Manuel G. VelasquezISBN 0534085261 (0-534-08526-1)
Hardcover, Wadsworth
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0451523997 (0-451-52399-7)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pilgrim's Progress'Book summary:The great religious allegory of Christian's journey, through the Slough of Despond to the Celestial City, in search of the truth. [via]
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Plato's Theory of Knowledge: The Theatetus and the Sophistby Plato, Francis MacDonald CornfordISBN 0486427633 (0-486-42763-3)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Poetics of Reverieby Gaston BachelardISBN 0670562610 (0-670-56261-0)
Hardcover, Viking Pr
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Practical Philosophyby Immanuel Kant, Allen Wood, Mary J. GregorISBN 0521654084 (0-521-65408-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practical Philosophy'Book summary:This is the first English translation of all of Kant's writings on moral and political philosophy collected in a single volume. No other collection competes with the comprehensiveness of this one. As well as Kant's most famous moral and political writings, the Groundwork to the Metaphysics of Morals, the Critique of Practical Reason, the Metaphysics of Morals, and Toward Perpetual Peace, the volume includes shorter essays and reviews, some of which have never been translated before. There is also an English-German and German-English glossary of key terms. [via]
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Preface to Platoby Eric HavelockISBN 0674699068 (0-674-69906-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Preface to Plato'Book summary:Plato's frontal attack on poetry has always been a problem for sympathetic students, who have often minimized or avoided it. Beginning with the premise that the attack must be taken seriously, Mr. Havelock shows that Plato's hostility is explained by the continued domination of the poetic tradition in contemporary Greek thought.
The reason for the dominance of this tradition was technological. In a nonliterate culture, stored experience necessary to cultural stability had to be preserved as poetry in order to be memorized. Plato attacks poets, particularly Homer, as the sole source of Greek moral and technical instruction--Mr. Havelock shows how the Illiad acted as an oral encyclopedia. Under the label of mimesis, Plato condemns the poetic process of emotional identification and the necessity of presenting content as a series of specific images in a continued narrative.
The second part of the book discusses the Platonic Forms as an aspect of an increasingly rational culture. Literate Greece demanded, instead of poetic discourse, a vocabulary and a sentence structure both abstract and explicit in which experience could be described normatively and analytically: in short a language of ethics and science.
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Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophyby Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-LandauISBN 0495096059 (0-495-09605-9)
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Reason and Responsibility: Readings in Some Basic Problems of Philosophy With Infotracby Joel Feinberg, Russ Shafer-LandauISBN 0534625541 (0-534-62554-1)
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Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy/the Universe Next Door/the Trick Top Hat/the Homing Pigeonsby Robert Anton WilsonISBN 0440500702 (0-440-50070-2)
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Science and Hypothesisby H. PoincareISBN 0486602214 (0-486-60221-4)
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Selected Writings: 1913-1926by Gary Smith, Walter Benjamin, Michael W. Jennings, Howard Eiland, Marcus Paul BullockISBN 0674945859 (0-674-94585-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Writings: 1913-1926'Book summary:A leading German critic of his day and a member of the generation scarred by the First World War, Walter Benjamin's writing career was marked by deep philosophical insights and tumultuous emotional crises. His work has mostly been unavailable in English translations, but this collection marks the first of three proposed volumes of his essays. In his early work, we encounter Benjamin as an idealistic university student and come to see him commenting on the aesthetics of such subjects as morality in children's books, the uses of force and violence, and writers such as Goethe and Dostoyevsky. [via]
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Still Life With Woodpeckerby Tom RobbinsISBN 0553348973 (0-553-34897-3)
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Theory of the Leisure Classby Thorstein VeblenISBN 0486280624 (0-486-28062-4)
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Time And Free Will: An Essay On The Immediate Data Of Consciousnessby Henri Bergson, F. L. PogsonISBN 0486417670 (0-486-41767-0)
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Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1913-1926by Walter Benjamin, Michael W. JenningsISBN 0674013557 (0-674-01355-7)
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A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Riversby Henry David ThoreauISBN 0486419320 (0-486-41932-0)
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Wittgensteinby P.M.S. HackerISBN 041592376X (0-415-92376-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Wittgenstein'Book summary:Bannir l'équivoque, traquer le non-sens, établir une délimitation claire du dicible et de l'indicible : telles sont pour Wittgenstein les principales finalités du travail philosophique. Pour éviter de discuter à l'infini sur de faux problèmes qui ne viennent que de l'imprécision de nos langues, il est en effet nécessaire de décomposer les confusions conceptuelles qui se produisent en vertu d'un mauvais usage des mots. C'est à un tel exercice de clarification que se livre ici Hacker, suivant la méthode prescrite par Wittgenstein. La philosophie ainsi conçue serait donc une sorte de cure contre les maladies de l'intellect. Il s'agirait de défaire les noeuds conceptuels liés au langage, noeuds difficilement extricables dont les problèmes philosophiques ne seraient que les symptômes éloquents.
Comme rien n'est plus difficile que la simplicité et qu'aucun chemin n'est plus escarpé que ceux qui mènent à la clarté, il faudra au lecteur de la ténacité pour s'initier à Wittgenstein par le moyen de ce petit livre abrupt. --Paul Klein [via]
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A World Without Time: The Forgotton Legacy Of Godel And Einsteinby Palle YourgrauISBN 0465092942 (0-465-09294-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A World Without Time: The Forgotten Legacy of Godel And Einstein'Book summary:It is a widely known but little considered fact that Albert Einstein and Kurt Gödel were best friends for the last decade and a half of Einstein's life. The two walked home together from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study every day; they shared ideas about physics, philosophy, politics, and the lost world of German science in which they had grown up. By 1949, Gödel had produced a remarkable proof: In any universe described by the Theory of Relativity, time cannot exist. Einstein endorsed this result-reluctantly, since it decisively overthrew the classical world-view to which he was committed. But he could find no way to refute it, and in the half-century since then, neither has anyone else. Even more remarkable than this stunning discovery, however, was what happened afterward: nothing. Cosmologists and philosophers alike have proceeded with their work as if Gödel's proof never existed -one of the greatest scandals of modern intellectual history. A World Without Time is a sweeping, ambitious book, and yet poignant and intimate. It tells the story of two magnificent minds put on the shelf by the scientific fashions of their day, and attempts to rescue from undeserved obscurity the brilliant work they did together.[via]More editions of A World Without Time: The Forgotton Legacy Of Godel And Einstein:
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Zero : The Biography of a Dangerous Ideaby Charles Seife, Matt ZimetISBN 067088457X (0-670-88457-X)
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Why did the Church reject the use of zero? How did mystics of all stripes get bent out of shape over it? Is it true that science as we know it depends on this mysterious round digit? Zero opens up these questions and lets us explore the answers and their ramifications for our oh-so-modern lives. Seife has fun with his format, too, starting with chapter 0 and finishing with an appendix titled "Make Your Own Wormhole Time Machine." (Warning: don't get your hopes up too much.) There are enough graphs and equations to scare off serious numerophobes, but the real story is in the interactions between artists, scientists, mathematicians, religious and political leaders, and the rest of us--it seems we really do have nothing in common. --Rob Lightner [via]
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