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Stanford University Press, 2020. Softcover. Near Fine. 6x0x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Arnold, Jeremy. "Across the Great Divide: Between Analytic and Continental Political Theory." Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2020. English language. Softcover. 9 x 6 x 0.5 in. 23 x 15 x 2 cm. 14 oz. vii, 218 pp. Front cover slightly bows out. Price in pencil on half title. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9781503612143. "The division between analytic and continental political theory remains as sharp as it is wide, rendering basic problems seemingly intractable. Across the Great Divide offers an accessible and compelling account of how this split has shaped the field of political philosophy and suggests means of addressing it. Rather than advocating a synthesis of these philosophical modes, author Jeremy Arnold argues for aporetic cross-tradition theorizing: bringing together both traditions in order to show how each is at once necessary and limited.

The Davies Group Publishers, 2010. Paperback. Good. 9x6x0. LEAHY, D. G. "Beyond Sovereignty: A New Global Ethics and Morality." The Davies Group Publishers; Aurora, CO, 2010. English language. Softcover. 354 pages. Crease in front cover. Ink and marker marginalia. Dog-earring. Text and black and white illustrations. Use and wear evident. Fair. ISBN: 9781934542194. "Within the context of a careful critique of the relevant thinking of Alain Badiou and Giorgio Agamben, the writer articulates an understanding of ethics and morality alternative to the otherwise highly creative extensions of modern consciousness embodied in the works of these authors. Opting for direct quotation rather than paraphrase, he shows in fine detail the limits of these most recent forms of self-referential thinking, contrasting them at every step with what he calls "the thinking now occurring for the first time." The exposition of the new ethics, developed in contrast to Badiou's "ethic of… Read More

Avebury, Gower Publishing Company Limited; UK, 1988. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good. 0x0x0. Hardcover. Former library copy. Sticker on spine. Card-pocket on inside back cover. Stamp on title page. Ex-libris plate on inside front cover. ISBN: 9780566056680.

Editions Bernard Grasset: Paris, FR, 1975. Softcover. Very Good Plus. 0x0x0. [PHILOSOPHY]. Nemo, Philippe. "L'Homme structural." Paris, FR: Editions Bernard Grasset, 1975. French language. Softcover. 8 x 5 x 0.5 in. 20 x 13 x 1.5 cm. 10 oz. 250 pp. Sticker residue on front cover. Front cover slightly bows out. Price in pencil on first page. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 2246001846.

London, New York: Routledge, 2016. Hardcover. Fine. 6x1x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Ed. Malcolm Murray. "Liberty, Games and Contracts: Jan Narveson and the Defence of Libertarianism." London, New York: Routledge, 2016. English language. Hardcover. 9 x 6 inches. 19 oz. xiii, 273 pp. Text clean. No issues. Fine. ISBN:9780754656814."Jan Narveson is one of the most significant contemporary defenders of the libertarian political position. Unlike other libertarians who typically defend their view with reference to natural rights or an appeal to utilitarianism, Narveson's main contribution has been to offer a philosophical defence of libertarianism based on a Hobbesian individualist contractarian ethic. Critiques of Narveson's contractarian libertarianism fall into three categories, those that reject contractarian moral theory, those that reject any link between contractarianism and libertarianism and those that accuse libertarians of conflating liberty with property. In this book Malcolm… Read More

Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. 6x2x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Domenico Losurdo, Harrison Fluss. Translator: Gregor Benton. "Nietzsche, the Aristocratic Rebel: Intellectual Biography and Critical Balance-Sheet (Historical Materialism 200)." Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2019. English language. Hardcover. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 62 oz. xxi, 1054 pp. Text clean. Like New. ISBN: 9789004270947."Perhaps no philosopher is more of a conundrum than Nietzsche, the solitary rebel, poet, wayfarer, anti-revolutionary Aufklärer and theorist of aristocratic radicalism. His accusers identify in his 'superman' the origins of Nazism, and thus issue an irrevocable condemnation; his defenders pursue a hermeneutics of innocence founded ultimately in allegory. In a work widely regarded as the most important contribution to Nietzschean studies in recent decades, Domenico Losurdo instead pursues a less reductive strategy. Taking literally the ruthless… Read More

Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Softcover. Near Fine. 7x1x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Zoltan Gendler Szabo, Richmond H. Thomason. "Philosophy of Language (Cambridge Textbooks in Linguistics)." Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. English language. Softcover. xii, 327 pp. 19 oz. 9 3/4 x 7 inches. Crease in front cover. Text clean. Near Fine. ISBN: 9781107480629."This unique textbook introduces linguists to key issues in the philosophy of language. Accessible to students who have taken only a single course in linguistics, yet sophisticated enough to be used at the graduate level, the book provides an overview of the central issues in philosophy of language, a key topic in educating the next generation of researchers in semantics and pragmatics. Thoroughly grounded in contemporary linguistic theory, the book focus on the core foundational and philosophical issues in semantics and pragmatics, richly illustrated with historical case studies to show how… Read More

Duke University Press: Durham, NC, and London, UK, 2003. 2018. Possibly P-o-D. Softcover. Acceptable. 9x5x0. [PHILOSOPHY]. Jacques Ranciere, Andrew Parker. Translated by John Drury, Corinne Oster, Andrew Parker. "The Philosopher and His Poor." Durham, NC; London, UK: Duke University Press, 2003. This copy printed in Middletown, DE, in 2018. English language. Softcover. 9.25 x 5.5 x 1 in. 23 x 14 x 2 cm. xxviii, 247 pp. Front cover bows out. Use, wear, creasing to covers. Tidelines and crinkles on front pages. Pencil underlining and marginalia. Tidelines on back pages. Back cover bows out. Intact. Acceptable. ISBN: 9780822332749."What has philosophy to do with the poor? If, as has often been supposed, the poor have no time for philosophy, then why have philosophers always made time for them? Why is the history of philosophyfrom Plato to Karl Marx to Jean-Paul Sartre to Pierre Bourdieuthe history of so many figures of the poor: plebes, men of iron, the demos, artisans, common… Read More

Palgrave Macmillan; Hampshire, UK; and New York, 2014. Softcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. [PHILOSOPHY]. Meister, Chad. "Philosophy of Religion (Palgrave Philosophy Today)." Palgrave Macmillan; Hampshire, UK, and New York, 2014. English language. Softcover. 158 pages. Price in pencil on title page. Text clean. Looks like it was a POD. Very Good Plus. ISBN: 9780230232914."Philosophy of Religion provides an engaging analysis of the current state of play in philosophy of religion, focusing on several central issues in the field. It is inclusive in its approach and designed for students, but it will also be useful to scholars and others seeking such an evaluation and interpretation of this field.

Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, IN, 1991. Hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Carravetta, Peter. "Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity." West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991. English language. Hardcover in dust jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.25 in. 23 x 16 x 3 cm. 28 oz. xx, 345 pp. Cream cloth boards with black stamped lettering on spine. Jacket has rips, tears, use, rubbing. Stickers on inside front cover and free front endpaper. Price in pencil on half-title. Good Plus in Fair jacket. ISBN: 1557530041."The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the spacetime between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical… Read More

ZKM and The MIT Press:; Karlsruhe, DE, and Cambridge, MA, 2016. Hardcover. Very Good Minus. 7x1x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Eds. Bruno Latour, Christophe Leclercq. Contributors: Donato Ricci, Pablo Jensen, Lesley Green, et al. "Reset Modernity!" Karlsruhe, DE, and Cambridge, MA: ZKM and The MIT Press, 2016. English language. Hardcover. Academic texts with full-color illustrations. 10 x 7 x 2 in. 25 x 18 x 4 cm. 56 oz. 560 pp. Half bound in red cloth. Wear on covers. Corners especially worn. Text clean. Very Good Minus. ISBN: 9780262034593."Modernity has had so many meanings and combines so many contradictory sets of attitudes and values that it has become impossible to use it to define the future. It crashes like an overloaded computer. Hence the idea is that modernity might need a sort of reset. Not a clean break, not a "tabula rasa," not another iconoclastic gesture, but rather a restart of the complicated programs that have accumulated in what is often called the "modernist project.

McGill-Queen's University Press: Montreal and Kingston, CA; Ithaca, NY, 2001. Hardcover. Very Good. 9x6x1. [PHILOSOPHY]. Dainton, Barry. "Time and Space." Montreal and Kingston, Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. English language. Hardcover without jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1 in. 24 x 16 x 2.5 cm. 21 oz. xiv, 386 pp. Black boards with gilt lettering. Corners of boards are stubbed and rubbed. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 0773523022."These are just some of the fundamental questions addressed in Time and Space. Writing for a primary readership of advanced undergraduate and graduate philosophy students, Barry Dainton introduces the central ideas and arguments that make space and time such philosophically challenging topics. Although recognising that many issues in the philosophy of time and space involve technical features of physics, Dainton has been careful to keep the conceptual issues accessible to students with little scientific… Read More

Gothenburg, SE: Daidalos, 2014. Softcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [PHILOSOPHY]. Benjamin, Walter. Ed. Carl-Henning Wijkmark. "Walter Benjamin: Bild och dialektik." Gothenburg, SE: Daidalos, 2014. Swedish language. Softcover. 8.25 x 5.25 x 0.75 in. 21 x 14 x 2 cm. 16 oz. pp. 317. Abrasion on front cover. Front cover slightly bows. Sticker on back cover. Stain at bottom on inside front cover and first page. Price in pencil on half-title. Text clean. Very Good. ISBN: 9789171734303. "The cultural critic Walter Benjamin carried his notebook everywhere and often sat and wrote in cafes. Perhaps that circumstance contributed to the sensuous freshness and improvisational mobility that characterizes even his most intricate and subtle reasoning. Benjamin enjoyed looking where no one else was looking, exposing symbolic dimensions in contexts where such were considered absent or insignificant. He appreciated old toys and old postcards and other kinds of overlooked things and developed a microscopic eye… Read More