Search Results: Philosophy from Black Sheep Books

Pfafftown, N.C.: Philosophers' Exchange. Soft cover. Very Good-. Introduction by Wayne Teasdale. Book was written as a "celebration of Dom Bede's life and work". interreligious dialogue being the main theme. White soft cover with orange titling and illustration on front, two black & white photos in text, decorative border on each page, 231+ pages. Cover has light shelf wear, a few tiny pale marks on front cover and text block edges, text is clean and tight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover. New. Book "offers an original and comprehensive interpretation of Michel Foucault's analysis of biopolitics - situating biopolitics in the context of embodied histories of subjectivity, affective investments and structures of experience." Blue hard cover with white titling and colourful illustration on front, blue titling on grey spine, 220 pages. Very faint mark on leading text block edge. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Rickmansworth, Hants, England: Veracity Ventures. Soft cover. Very Good-. Chiefly owing to its reliance on original methods of occult research, the life-work of Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) is still ignored by universities and commonly written off as eccentric. This Paper, which was first published, without the final section and the notes, in Twentieth Century Magazine takes the opposite view: that Steiner's work potentially is, and should become, of central importance to our culture." Grey soft cover, staple binding, black titling, 23 pages. Cover has light shelf wear. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Rome: Ex Typographia Polyglotta S.C.de Propaganda Fide, 1884. Half-Leather. Written in Latin. Subtitled.Quas Habebat Camillus Mazzella Soc. Jesu in Gregoriana Universitate Studorum Praefectus et Theologae Professor E Collecio Theologico Urbis Academae Romanae S. Thomae aq. Socius e Decem Urbanis; Editio Tertia. Marbled boards, red leather spine, gilt titling on green spine label, gilt decoration and border. Corners, spine ends and edges have light wear, text block edges darkened and top and leading edges have various small stains, one-inch sticker remnant on front cover, "College N. D. de la Paix, Namur" sticker on end paper, end papers foxed, owner's name in pencil, some pencil underlining and margination in text, otherwise this book is in great shape - clean, bright and tight. 811 pages. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that… Read More

Koln, Germany: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1995. Hardcover. Very Good-/Very Good-. The Passion of Michel Foucault, translated from the American by Michael Busges and Hubert Winkels. A biography of Michel Foucault, written in German. Black hard cover with white titling on spine, black and white image on front, grey end papers, red ribbon marker, publisher's advertising at back, 714 pages. Some negligible smudges on text block edge, and light shelf wear to dust jacket. This is a handsome book, in great condition. Book is overweight. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Hardcover. Very Good-/Good+. A "systematic new conception of knowledge as a fundamental kind of mental state sensitive to the knower's environment." Black cloth with gilt titling to spine, 340 pages. Minor edge wear, light foxing to textblock edge, inside clean and tight. Dust jacket shows light sunning to spine, light shelf wear and light creasing to top edge. It is now protected in a Brodart cover. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1999. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. Edited and with an introduction by Amy Gutmann. This fable was presented as a Tanner Lecture and is followed by responses from different perspectives by thinkers in different fields such as Wendy Doniger, Barbara Smuts, Marjorie Garber, and Peter Singer. Brown cloth, gitl titling to spine, 127 pages. Light edge wear. Dust jacket shows very light sunning to spine and minor shelf wear. It is now protected in a Brodart cover. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Deutscher examines Beauvoir's resources and how she transformed them to her purposes. Her work on women's 'otherness' is examined in the context of a number of contemporary theories of ambiguity. Black cloth, gilt titling to spine, white endpapers, 199 pages plus 9 pages of publisher's advertisement. Minor shelf wear to dust jacket.

Tokyo: Hokuseido Press, 1980. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good-. This study, written originally as a Doctoral Dissertation, is an investigation of one of the frontiers on the field of Buddhist studies, the thought of the Sautrantika-Svatantrika-Madhyamika, Bhavaviveka (ca. 490-570). Black cloth with gilt titling to front and spine. 321 pages. Barely visible scratch to back cover. Dust jacket shows light shelf wear, a 1/4 inch and 1/8 inch closed tear to top, light creasing to top edge. It is now protected in a Brodart cover. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Tokyo: Reiyukai, 1990. Card Cover. Very Good-/-. This booklet was written by members of the Reiyukai staff. The contents themselves prepresent a partial revision of a previous publication, 'The Reiyukai Movement: Buddhism as an Interreligious Philosophy' (The Reiyukai, 1987). Beige card cover, black titling, 32 pages plus 4 pages Appendix. Bump to bottom free corner. For some international orders we will ask you to approve additional shipping charges to cover the cost of tracking and insurance to your country, but no extra charge will apply without your consent. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

1996. Card Cover. The Rise and Fall of Everything: Collected Philosophical Musings of Dan Bruiger. Brown card cover, staple binding, unpaginated. Light sunning to front, card cover shows missing pieces where some little critter chewed off the front edge and the corners, the first two pages are missing a very small piece of the bottom free corner. Otherwise the booklet is clean and good. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Cape Town, South Africa: The Stourton Press, 1954. Hardcover. Very Good-/-. Privately printed as a limited edition of 200 copies. "The text of this book is a reconstruction of things said by P.D. Ouspensky at meetings held bewtween 1930 and 1944." Beige cloth with blue titling to front and spine, tipped in card with quote by Ouspensky to back of half title, 53 pages. Very light sunning to top and to spine, a brown discoloration to top of front cover, a small bump to top of spine, minro edge wear, evenly foxed free endpapers, previous owner's name to ffep. Shipping charges are calculated for a standard parcel under 1 kg. Additional charges will apply for heavier shipments, but not until the customer agrees. Canadian customers, please note that applicable sales taxes will be added. Please contact us with any questions you might have. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall